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What I love about going back home to Charlotte......is that it also means coming back to this:
This is where she's been sitting for the past 2 and half years. The car cover hadn't been removed since the summer of 2005. It was my first car, and I spent countless high-school afternoons wrenching on it. Here she is in her glory days (around freshman year of college...2004):
Back to the present... look ma no tranny! (and one rusted to shit flywheel)
The transmission blew while I was visiting Charlotte for the weekend sometime sophomore year. I didn't want to have her towed to Greensboro since I still lived in a dorm at the time (no tools, no decent parking spot, etc...)
Anyways, I learned to live without a car for about 6 months, then I managed to snag a running CRX for free off of a CRX forum I post on. 
Drove it around for about 2 years until I got the 92x... meanwhile, the Si had been sitting in Charlotte unloved that entire time... 
So now I'm home for about 5 or 6 days, with nothing else to do but watch my brothers dogs while he's on vacation. I've had the following parts just sitting and waiting to be put on...I suppose I should finally get off my ass 
Those flywheel bolts are gonna suck, but luckily I've come prepared:
Also discovered a hornets next 
...but its ok, I've come prepared:
Anyways, on to teh goodz:
My friend and I completely rebuilt my transmission... all new Honda-OEM seals, bearings, synchros. Oh, added a brand new torsen LSD too 
Every bushing on the chassis is getting replaced with either polyurethane or OEM-Honda:
Motor mounts
Racing (11lbs IIRC) flywheel:
Also have a set of these wheels ready to go on...
We'll see how much of this shit actually gets done...
I took care of the hornets today... before I decided that I just wanted to drink beer instead 
Maybe the transmission will go in tomorrow... 
Last edited by chet90si (2007-07-26 02:48:56)
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Love the Rota GT3s.
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My second car ever was a Flint Black Metallic 1990 Honda CRX Si. My most favoritist car to date. Nothing I have driven handled as nicely as that car did.
Until it got whacked by a Nissan 4x4.
Oh, and have fun with those rear control arm bushings, I did the urethane ones on my '94 Civic. Not fun to get out. Pretty easy to install, though.
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Well... 4 hours, 2 broken wrenches, 3 broken sockets, a bike rack (leverage FTW), and 6 beers later
...the last of the flywheel bolts are off
Memo to self: never leave the side of motor exposed to the elements for over 2 years 
Last edited by chet90si (2007-07-26 17:53:27)
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ouch.
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Just realized that both of the ricey corner-lenses are aquariums... they're both about 1/3 full with water.
They were on the car when I bought it in 2001... just one of things I just never got around to replacing.
We'll I guess its about time... I just bought this set off eBay:
I've always wanted the amber corners, and I think the smoked bumper lights will look sweet with the black GT3s. 
Last edited by chet90si (2007-07-26 02:46:47)
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....that makes me want to show off my first car I ever owned.....but....then again....it could fit your CRX in the trunk.
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Sweet project 
Now turbocharge it...
I'm glad someone is still modifying cars on this forum.
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eqlized_aero wrote:
Sweet project
I'm glad someone is still modifying cars on this forum.
Seriously... this site is full of a bunch of pansies 
kiasyd wrote:
....that makes me want to show off my first car I ever owned.....but....then again....it could fit your CRX in the trunk.
What'd you drive? A Jeep of some sort?
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Sooo....
Hit another bump in the road.
I had double checked to make sure I had every part that I needed...but somehow I completely forgot about the pilot bearing!
Anyways, I went to the Honda dealership where they said they'll hopefully get it in tomorrow... I'm a moron...
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Will it be ready before Race Wars? 
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Update:
:No pics yet...I left my camera up at school!
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Ok, so I never really followed up with how my end-of-summer resurrection went...
Basically, the transmission was a bitch to put in! There was NO room to work under there, and working on a slanted driveway didn't help either... Several hours passed, and it was finally back in. I bolted the suspension/shift linkage/wheels/starter/etc. back up, put oil in the the transmission, and... "oh hey, is that oil on your driveway?". Hmmm...maybe a trans. seal is bad. Nope, its just a tiny (1/2 inch) hairline crack at the bottom of my transmission case.
So the transmission I had spent the past year and a half rebuilding (I was learning, give me a break) formed a crack during the install process... I was happy. 
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After spending a couple of months figuring out what I wanted to do with the project (and even considering selling it all together), I decided to move to the dark side and get a B-swap. Its getting a B16A2 from a 92-95 Civic SiR, and a hydraulic LSD transmission (which means I'm converting my car from OBD0 to OBD1, and from cable-trans to hydro-trans).
Last edited by chet90si (2008-01-09 00:40:38)
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yay engine swaps. sounds like it should be a fun project
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Also, the valve cover on my swap is probably gonna be in bad shape (just like all Honda motors) so I'm gonna get a powdercoated one. Which color do you guys think I should go with?
This?
or
Its going to be paired with a CF sparkplug cover...
And ofcourse, heres what the motor looks like in a car (not mine)...
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Charcoal
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Gilldoht wrote:
Charcoal
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Neither. 
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That's because you want him to put an Audi engine in it
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