September 13th, 2008 drummingpariah
I searched around on Craigslist for a bit today and found a few deals that I decided to jump upon. First up is a freshly tuned ZC package for $600, pictured to the right. It came with the following goodies:
- front crossmember
- DC sport ceramic header
- shift linkage
- new axles
- Si transmission + intermediate shaft
- AEM ram air intake
- motor mounts (with polyurethane inserts)
- virgin pm6 ecu (now I have two, I suppose I could tune one specifically for smogging)
- tuned (fuel map and raised redline) pm6 which probably won’t tune worth dirt
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September 8th, 2008 drummingpariah
If you haven’t already heard of it, the 24 hours of lemons race is a parody of the 24 Hours of Le Mans race. I have decided to participate next year, and will most likely be sporting a 2nd-gen CRX. I need an inexpensive 2nd-gen CRX though (something under $500 total).
The basic rules I have to abide by are:
- The cost of the car combined with the cost of parts to get the car running and racing cannot exceed $500 (not including safety gear like seats, roll cage, and safety harnesses). That means getting receipts,
- The car that “wins” the “People’s Curse” award gets their car crushed halfway through the race. Congratulations.
- The car must survive all 13 hours of racing (it’s over a course of 24 hours). If it doesn’t, you’d better hope that some other kind driver is willing to push you the last few laps.
Now, the search begins for a damaged (salvage, possibly damaged frame) CRX that comes with an engine or two for under $500. Since I can recoup initial costs by selling parts from the car, I’ll probably be selling the fenders and interior. Read the rest of this entry »
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July 25th, 2008 the Mad Scientist
At long last, the b18a1 -> CRX vacuum diagram is here! This version may be difficult to read (it’s a draft, and I took the picture with my cellphone) but please bear with me.
This is a diagram on how to hook up the b18a1 vac lines using the stock CRX map sensor cluster (mounted to the firewall). If there are any questions/comments for future revisions, leave a comment!
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March 3rd, 2008 the Mad Scientist
Tales are told around the campfire on moonless nights about the dreaded bitch pin. If you haven’t heard of this terrible monster before, gather ’round and I’ll tell you about it.
There will come a day when you find that your engine must come out of your car, and while your breaker bar will get those motor mounts, and your old rotting rubber hoses can be cut and replaced, the bitch pin is there to stay. Every swap is fraught with danger, but none so great as the bitch pin. It’s an impossible hydra-like beast, meaning every time you hit it it gets stronger and embeds itself further. You may find that perfect punch and a big mini-sledge, but the bitch pin still refuses to move. Never fear, though! This bitch pin has a great weakness to be exploited.
After I had already screwed my bitch pin into a pulp of metal that refused to move, I looked around on the internet to find that everybody else just whacked it with a hammer. Eventually it’ll come out, right?
Wrong. Actually, using physics for dynamic force and using only enough pressure to move it is the key. Experimenting with a c-clamp and a wooden dowel yielded positive results, but I came across a better way. This article gives nice pictures and a good walkthrough of what needs to be done:
bitch pin removal
Add this “bitch pin removal kit” to the budget of any swap you tackle.
- C-clamp
- sockets (deep and shallow) that fit the bitch pin inside
- small drill bit set (for putting pressure on the bitch pin itself)
There’s definitely a science to it, but hopefully this will help you work that thing out.
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December 14th, 2007 the Mad Scientist
Some of you may have followed my thread on SHO
regarding the long and laborious swap that was supposed to be the “easy” b-series swap. Since hindsight is 20/20, I’m going to offer this post as a writeup to prevent others from running into the same problems I did. You’re all big kids, I’m sure you can come up with your own original problems on your own. No need to repeat mine.
Here are my personal recommendations to anybody planning to go from this:
to this:
in their CRX.
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December 4th, 2007 calicab
- When you know exactly how many CRX’s are within the surrounding area, and all their owners by name.
- When you visit/browse Ebay/ and other car selling websites looking for CRX’s even though you have one, and are not planning to buy another one.
- If you laugh when people describe a 2600 pound car as a “light” car.
- When your friends pull a prank of you on april fools by picking up the car and moving it around a corner, and making you think the car was stolen (it was like 10 of them but still)
- When nobody else understands what attracts you to a the car.
- When you consider the EF hatches a redheaded stepchild of the CRX.
- When you think manhole covers should come with “No U-Turn” signs.
- When your rear end comes out and you do nothing to stop it, because you know that once it goes, its gone, and you just pray for it to comeback.
- When you consider modern features like power windows and power door locks unnecessary heavy weight adding features.
- When you know that something is wrong if your car isnt making any noices.
- When you know each noise your car makes and where its coming from.
- When a weight of a deck (CD unit) is one of the things you consider when purchasing one.
- When you start to notice good things about the cooper mini.
- You know every other car model with similar weight
- You truly appreciate the Weight/HP ratio
- You laugh at your buddies when they say that S2000 was the best honda ever made
- You turn your head around completely whenever another CRX passes you even if its a rusted out POS
- You wave fanatically to other CRX owners/drivers on the road
- You make lists of what to do to your car next
- Most of your “To Do” list consists of things to do to the CRX
- You have more money into the CRX that what you bought it for
- You have more money into the CRX then what it cost brand new 15 years ago
- When you know what Y-49 means, and the affiliation it has with luck
- When someone says “that’s cute” and you blow the fuck past them
- You can park two cars in one parking spot.
- Your spare tire well doubles as a swimming pool every time it rains.
- The miles on your odometer and the miles on your engine have nothing to do with each other.
- Everything you want to do to your engine has to be followed up with the, “Do I have enough room under the hood?” question.
- Your climate control is cracked near the temp knob.
- You load every option / engine imaginable into your car and it still only weighs 2300lbs.
- Every other part you try to order from Honda is discontinued.
- You get zero traction off the line.
- Threshold trail braking requires Gods approval or else you will spin out.
- your doors weigh 60% of the entire weight of the car. (90-91 and some 89s)
- People look at you with a confused open mouth stare when they here how much money you dropped on it.
- When 2100lbs just doesnt seem light enough so you go on a diet.
- When your seats are worth more than the whole car itself - Si only.
- When you do everything thing you can to get in and out of the driver’s seat as carefully as possible so not to do any more damage to the bolster.
- When you use the process of entering/exiting of your car as an excuse to diet.
- When NO FAT CHICKS stickers are meant to be taken seriously in your car
- When you have to pick up a bunch of drunk friends from a bar ONE AT A TIME
- When you add the weight of you and one of your random friends and your close if not over the posted weight limit in you glove compartment.
- When you’ve owned the car for years and still aren’t sure what the little square pocket just left of your steering wheel is for…
- When people complain about gas milage,you laugh and tell them, ten dollars worth and you could drive across the state
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I searched around on Craigslist for a bit today and found a few deals that I decided to jump upon. First up is a freshly tuned ZC package for $600, pictured to the right. It came with the following goodies:
