Many of you have seen it…most of you not in a real long time.
Ill slowly start adding pictures of my build, but to understand where im going with it you should know where its been:
I bought this about 5 years ago:
I attempted to clean it up a bit but in the first month driving it a wheel popped off due to a shop not tightening the lugs properly :wtf
result was a fiberglass front and fenders and a paintjob. I went back to black to match the bay and jams.
Soon after I was hit by the power bug and pieced together a low budget “junkyard” turbo kit. It worked pretty well and cost less than $1k. I actually put a lot of time into making it look clean too.
Then on a long road trip it all went to shit, the small turbo spooling all the time next to the tiny stock radiator basically boiled the oil. The result was this:
The rebuild was equally a disaster. Three shops and a full YEAR later I ended up with something more like what I wanted:
However I couldn’t get the head to stay on the thing. It repeatedly popped on the dyno despite switching out the new headgasket and ARP studs with a new new head gasket and studs.
By this point I was more confident in my own work and ready to tackle the project on my own.
Welcome to the board, I remember you goofing around with that car half a decade ago, and I see you still have it. At this point in time, you’re simply associated with that car, when I think you, I think the Sol, which isn’t a bad thing, and I would hate to see it in somebody else’s hands.
Is the OEM color black or silver as featured in the first pic?
I’m glad you went with the OBX diff just like me, have you gone in, and done a full field strip on it yet?
And are you staying SOHC or going DUAL can’t tell?
Maybe one day you’ll get a real CRX instead of the fake 3rd gen :tong
PS: you used the same picture for the cleaning of engine mounts.
Im staying single cam, thats just how it worked out… Its kinda stupid at this point, a B series would simply be better. However, a FWD car is kinda stupid at this point. Regardless whether its stupid or not, its a lot of fun.
The OEM color was black, painted silver by the last owner.
Nice work on everything- have you had any probs with that OBX lsd yet? Just wondering how well it holds up under power (however much you’re putting down)… there’s all kinds of negative remarks floating around about how bad they are, but from what I’ve read, the majority of it was due to bad shim clearance.
Goals: 350hp with the quickest spool I can get. This might be tough to hit with my turbo… I am aware I might end up somewhere around 330-340hp.
The car will be street driven often, will be taken to lime rock, the glen, auto crosses, and hopefully a time attack at beaver run. The goal is reliability, I want to prove that a turbo’d honda can be tracked without melting the paint off your hood.
OBX lsd: As soon as I got it I did the full teardown and rebuild. Checked the shims and all that. This is absolutely required, when I got it some bolts were stripped and it had a few metal shavings inside. If I had just tossed it in I would have had problems.
next up was the transmission I again had to get this in myself, NOT something I would recommend or ever do again:
some more shots of the fit of wheels/tires… This car is not to be “slammed” as you can see in the picture in my first post of the car autocrossing under hard braking I need to be able to have the wheel turned with out any rubbing. I later raised up the back as well to prevent rubbing there:
while waiting for the next bunch of parts to come in I decided to remove the last piece of rice on the car:
The next step was to do the wiring. The wiring on this car already sucked and at this point I was adding:
PLX wideband
greddy EBC
the 3 gauges
turbo timer
my labeling system was my attempt at keeping crap organized:
I keep being more and more amazed with each post. It is a very quality build and it seems like nothing is being left out or cheaped out on. (Except well maybe OBX Diff, :tong but I can’t talk).
Are you hollowing out the AC condenser box, or just getting a heat duct replacement that came in non-AC models?
I hollowed out my AC box. As far as the OBX diff… I couldnt really justify putting a $900 diff into a $150 transmission. If this one takes a shit I might build a gearspeed tranny or something and put a good diff in.
The next phase was mockup. Checking my clearances and making sure all the crap I bought would fit.
By this time I had actually bought oil cooler #3 It was a great looking piece but simply was too long to mount behind my bumper upright.
forgot to mention, new valve cover too:
The only real problem to be found with the mockup other than that the oil cooler didnt fit was that the wastegate actuator was where the front engine/AC mount was. A little chop took care of that:
Also, the muffler was a bit too big for my taste (kinda what I expected) But since I got it for 20 bucks and people seem to say its one of the quietest brands I decided to make it work:
the fix:
The mockup allowed me to make my oil and water lines:
