Matt's Old School Honda Thread - Bare Metal EB - 12/4/12

[lotusboy]

Wrecked the Yellow Si in the weekend. Holy shit was it rusty.

That's one of the jacking points.

Yes they did fix that massive rust hole with fiberglass
Cheers to everyone that helped out

Camera ran out of batteries, but that's only some of it!

Got a bit done on the Blue one.

-Removed AC System, fitted AC Delete duct (The fan/demister actually work now)
-Fitted the Black dash/door cards, repainted the cluster surround and trip meter cover to match the dash
-Re-wired the stereo so it was a little less of a mess

Also wrecked an EB.

Bought another 1G CR-X too, just couldn't help myself

Front plastic is FUCKED. (Has been fixed with tape lol), but other than that its a mint car. Only done 143,000 kms. Interior is black, and perfect. So will probably swap the door cards and rear interior into the blue on. Then its going down the line to another NZH member.

[XPLOIT]

Nice Matt. Lulz @ rust. Better start keeping mine out of the rain!!

[DbP]

Faaark, yellow one looks like it was audibly rusty!

[d16a7]

and it still had a current WOF!

[AccordB20A]

now on my back lawn, cheers, I hope to have it looking better in a few months. im now the proud owner of a 1g crx

[SLOTEG]

Faaark, yellow one looks like it was audibly rusty!

Held up rather well to my mighty steel pole of doom attacks though

[DbP]

Eeeew, put your "pole" away Marc.

[lotusboy]

Finally got some time this weekend to fit my headers. What should have been a 1 - 2 hour job turned into a bit of a mission. They were D15b headers, now I knew they wouldn't be a straight fit, between ZC and the SOHC D the ports are slightly offset. So I grabbed a dremell and ported the manifold out to suit the ZC gasket. Then heat wrapped them for good measure (The manifold sits about 2mm away from the bottom of the block at one point). Then found the Secondaries were well off, instead of going to meet the down pipe in the tunnel, they were on the completely wrong angle and were jammed up against the steering rack.


All Heatwrapped ready to go (First time round)

Ported Flange



OMGZ JDM y0 Twin pipe OEMZ muffler... is fucked. Straight to the bin.

New Plymouth Spec



Gay old Carby ZC manifold vs new FGK one.


We attempted to heat and bend the secondaries to re-align them, but that failed, So Sean cut and welded them. Turned out perfect. 5 mins on the dremmel at home and I had all the weld spatter out inside.

Will update tomorrow with some more pictures.

Although slow progress was made, did score a few more top secret goodies for the CRX... An Aftermarket ECU and some old school JDM rims

[XPLOIT]

Nice work, would love a set of extractors for the AT. Just hard to find. Custom might be the way, huh?

[lotusboy]

Nice work, would love a set of extractors for the AT. Just hard to find. Custom might be the way, huh?

Reckon it would be hard to get custom ones made, there is fuck all space to work between the motor and radiator. Modifying the D ones isn't too hard. Just would have been helpful to know how different the secondaries are.

[lotusboy]

Finished off the exhaust today, ^ Secondaries now pointing in the right direction. This was the only picture I took all day though. Sounds good, two reso's no muffler, no tinny Honda B16a DA sound, thank god. Cheers to the boys at Repco for the hook ups on gasket goo/cv ties etc, and Sean for the pro job welding!

Picked up a new B16a2 for the Delslow, so that will be this weekends project.

[REZRCT]

Looking good Matt. Will have to come around and let me hear the rawr of your new set up

[lotusboy]

Not much progress on the 1G Crx. Got some cool new bits on their way next week

Got the old motor out of the DelSlow today, will put some pictures up tomorrow. All go for the motor swap/rebuild.

Oh, also picked up these for the 1G.


Old school Rays Engineering / Volk Racing 5/4S (14x6 +38 Honda Specific)

They are in pretty rough condition, but rare as fuck. I've heard conflicting information about them, some say the 4 spokes should be at the front (Reduced unsprung mass), some say 5's should be on the front (Extra strength for the track)

Either way, thought they were something pretty different (I was really after Mugen CF48s, I'm not a fan of the MR5 on the CR-X, they really suit the Civic, so theres not a lot of choice around for period JDM rims), undecided if I will restore them to silver, or paint them something crazy like Orange!

[XPLOIT]

Nice man, are they really a matching set?!?!

CF48's would be awesome. Im hunting some down at the moment.

[P Wizz]

Those wheels are awesome.

[WingIt]

Love the wheels, took me a couple looks to realise they were two different pairs, weird how they did that. A pity they arnt 14x7"

[lotusboy]

^ Cheers guys, found a set for sale in Japan, similar colour to what I was thinking. Opinions?

[SLOTEG]

Dont make the mistake I did, thinking bright wheels would suit, they may not....

Doesn't hurt to try though.

[lotusboy]

Not too sure about it yet. Have another set of old school JDM wheels, 4 Spokes, black with a polished lip, thought I'd try something different with these.

Needs slammage before the little 14"s go on though...

[XPLOIT]

I think they would look best in the current colour, just tidied up

[DRFTIN]

if you're going to get them tiding up anyway just do a couple of test paint jobs with a spray can, test out a few different colours

but personally i think they need to be something plain and boring like silver

[Bananaman]

Here is some nice wallpaper



Larger copy here.
http://speedhunters.com/cfs-filesyst..._5F00_Wide.jpg

[XPLOIT]

Awesome

[REZRCT]

[lotusboy]

Cheers for that, I want some Techno Racing TRV...

Edit: I don't even want to talk about the DelGay at the moment. Forked out almost as much as I paid for the whole 1G CRX just to have the head reconditioned!!!!!


Old Motor

New block

LSD y0

Fresh new turbo goodness

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Today wasn't a total fail though. This fuckiiing sweet 260 came in to have its triple webbers tuned up. My crap photos do NOT do it justice




Car sat under a cover for 13 years I will own it one day *hopefully* lol.. BUY MY DELSOL!