QUOTE (Wagovan @ Jan 11 2005, 05:46 AM)
So what would be the easiest/best motor Upgrade? i would like to do one before summer and I really dont want to mess around too much with motor mounts and...well you get the picture..I would also like to convert it to standard...Automatic is driving me nuts
(1) You really are in the wrong place. This forum is dedicated to 84-87 models. Some choice places for 88-91 information:
http://www.hondacivicwagon.com/ and
http://autos.groups....ndacivicwagons/...dedicated wagon boards. One of them appears down at the moment.
http://www.d-series.org/...all d-motors, all the time
http://honda-tech.com/zeroforum?id=3...good search tool/archives
http://crx.honda-perf.org/forums/...CRX performance(good engine/suspension info)
Not that you won't get help here, but it's like standing in the post office and asking about UPS pickups.
(2) You never said if you had 4wd or 2wd. The 2wd are DPFI, 4wd are MPFI.
To get any real performance the DPFI needs to be converted to MPFI. Here's a good MPFI conversion article:
http://www.fourthgen...h.com/mpfi.html. THis swap alone will give you 8-10 hp.
You have several choices for engines, it really all depends on how much you want to spend. Look at dohc zc, sohc zc, d16z6 or d16y8.
(3) As far as the automatic transmission...I've read several times about someone doing the conversion and their summation was "it's nice but not worth the work. It probably would be smarter to sell the auto and buy a model that came equipped with a manual". I thought that was horseshit.
Then my buddy did an auto CRX DX conversion. He did the auto-to-manual conversion and MPFI all at once. Not to scare you, but he's done 1/2 dozen MPFI conversions and double that in engine swaps...and he had a hard time making it all work. Easily put in 30 man hours. Just watching was painful.
And he had a whole donor car to canibalize from...trying to source it all by pieces probably would have broke the project.
Come and see the violence inherent in the system! Help! Help! I'm being repressed!