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thebigsleaze

Member Since 27 Oct 2018
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New Guy, 85 Crx Dx, Burnt Valve

30 October 2018 - 10:03 PM

Hello RPR.

Been lurking about this forum off and on for years. Great place, not so much activity as other forums but a lot less BS and drama. A lot of Canadian content in this forum, too. Cheddaj is just a nice drive down the road...

Had an 87 civic sedan with like 385,000km on it oh, about 12 years ago. I got to appreciate the simplicity and reliability of these little cars.

Fast forward to last summer. The car that turned my former apprentice (electrician, not sith) into a "Honda guy" (long story) is offered to me. As I didn't really have a pile of money sitting around or need another project I lowball the guy (the owner, not my apprentice) and pick it up for $300 canadian dollars.

Car ran like a bag of $h*+ all the way home, but it ran. After the nuclear winter that resulted from bringing home another car, I changed the spark plugs as two of 4 had been rendered inoperative by the center electrode's porcelain condom coming loose and completely shrouding the plug gap. No sparky. I still have them kicking around somewhere as I had never seen this before, let alone two in 1 motor.

Was hoping that the remaining running issue was due to a hung valve, but after adjusting the valves twice I found that one of the exhaust valves was burnt. Can't remember for the life of me which it is. Not that it matters. Still drove the car for the rest of the 3 months of insurance I paid for. Sucked to drive in town but was a blast on the highway (98% of my driving, lucky me).

As my employment situation has changed, I'm finding I have very little spare time but more money than I used to have, rather than no spare time or money.

The CRX is going to be a bit of a budget project, but I think it will be a fun little unit and still have the OEM look and feel to it.

Going to keep it EW2, carbureted. Not going to put on a CAI or anything like that in order to keep the engine bay looking factory as it is all there, even if I'm not.

Planning on shaving the head about .050", a colt tri-flow stage 3 cam, and an adjustable cam sprocket. Going to put some ARP rod bolts in as that 8K rpm bit sounds like fun to me. Replace the clutch with something civil, tidy up whatever needs attention and have it ready to go for the spring. Obviously going to replace the burnt valve. Maybe all of them. Possibly a bit of homebrew porting in the head to help with the CFM factor.

It already has Tokiko dampeners all around (Honda guy said so), almost new 185 r13 tires, and a crazy tribal-splash decal right up both sides of the car. Somebody put a bit of time and effort into the aesthetics. I'll post some pix when I figure out how.

The plastic is cracked, the nose piece (I know there is a word for it, but it escapes me) is missing a big chunk, and there is a bit of rust in the floor pan and kanjo-kut area behind the front quarters that will probably be fixed over winter but the car is in fair shape otherwise.

145,000km on it and nothing I have found has been bastardized save for one of the main fusible links under the hood being replaced with some 14AWG house wire. Gotta fix that...

If you have managed to read to this point, congratulations! Any questions/comments/hate for any of these ideas would be welcome.

Steve.