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[jjamiemmark]

car
86 CRX DX

I picked this car up in Toronto in the summer of 2005, my 85 CRX was rusted to death.I found this one on RPR
I laugh because he listed the car saying it had no rust,  ya right.

Here is the for sale post
crxzc for sale post

There was no ZC, there was tons of rust, no were close to the ad but still worth the 500$


Here is a pic from the day i picked it up.




i picked the car up for 500 $ and it came with the truck load of parts and a d16a1
that i sold to JDC420.




sorry for the huge pics

[jjamiemmark]

After playing with the car for a week and finding more rust then i wanted to i pulled it apart.




I started this right befor winter so it sat in the garage like this most of the time, I used it to watch tv in the shop.

I used this time to build up the motor and a parts collection. I also strippped my last rex, I had to cut the car in half to fit them both in the garage at once.

[jjamiemmark]

After tearing into the car i found a panel that did not look right, one wack with a chisel and a hammer found lots of pink bondo. I took a hole bunch of it off befor hitting it with a grinder.



After that i cut out any metal with rust on it and sandblasted those areas so it wont come back.

[jjamiemmark]

I also sand blasted the panhard mount for some future work.......






New metal 1991 civic quartes and rockers.




This is going to be a shit load of work

[jjamiemmark]

oooooooohhhhhhhhh new parts ......


fresh fly wheel


new axles...


full gasket set....


new wirring harness...

[jjamiemmark]

well back to the motor, The plan...

p&p head,new valve guides and new valves
colt cam stage three-thanks doddson
header-pacesetter....yes yes i know
new timming belt,tensioner,water pump,
all new gaskets,
new oil pan
new wirring harness
rebuilt carb
rebuilt tranny
full msd setup,6al,blaster coil,msd wires
eldo carb/dizzy mods
fresh paint
make it look hot

the engine only had 180 000 kms on it and ran great so i will leave the bottem alone for now
on to pics i cleaned the motor with simple green and grease and wax remover
it took plenty of time.

[jjamiemmark]

my head back from the shop three new valves, seals, serdi three angle valve job, milled .20 to clean it up.



after a will it looked like this



i filled my mounts too

[jjamiemmark]

Since the car had been sandblasted i thought i might get the motor back in for a test fit and run
I painted the engine compartment black so oil and shit does not show



After that i put the rest of the motor together.




video of me fighting the dowel
tranny video

Me and a couple friends lifted the car over the motor then used the hoist to lift the engine

[jjamiemmark]

After puting the engine in i hooked up all new fuel and cooling lines. Time to start it up.

[crazi-85crx]

Could you make the pics a little smaller? I imagine the 56k guys' modems are having heart attacks by now.

[jjamiemmark]

pics are fixed

[crazi-85crx]

Looks wicked! Any chance you still got that nitrous bottle?

[jjamiemmark]

The first video

Istarted it for a couple of seconds to hear it run and WOW
first start

I started it up again the next day.

second star

This is open header it sounds alot better with the muffler on i will get a new video tomorow

yes i still got the bottle its a full 100 shot setup i have yet to use it though
i think i am going to bolt it on to the next winter beater hahahahah

[jjamiemmark]

hhhhhheeeeeeeeeeeeellllllllllllllllllllllooooooooooooooo
I went and bought my paint today yyaaay. I went with perfomance white and bought 75 grams of pearl to put in it. I also got some pearl silver for the plastics.

Almost everything you will need to paint your own car...






The proper filler, bondo sucks ass....



white paint and pearl

[crazi-85crx]

It'll look good. Could you get pics when it's primered... that's what I'm painting my car.