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[jay_blu1983]

Cost of car from junkyard $500
HF gauge cluster $30
Fuel Pump $60
Rear Brakes (drums/shoes/hardware/cylinders) ~$100
Sold running engine/transmision to a friend $ -100
4 good all season tires (kuhmo) Free
88 D16A1 swap Free
91 Si Front Brakes with 60% Porterfields Free
Rear crossmember repair + fixed rust hole in cargo area $360

Total cost $950 (minus vintage Sony/Alpine sound system)

Car gets about 37 MPG when I drive 70 or under and I have a 60 mile commute (each way) from school

<{POST_SNAPBACK}>

I bought an 85 si $200 crashed it crappy body stron engine 120k on it
84 dx mint body no rust blown head gasket warped head $300 over 200k on it
Swaped si engine into 84 dx maby $50 in verious conectors and junk yard parts.
89 acura integra 220k on it roasted clutch $550 very littel body damage mint interior.

curently working on rebuilding blacktop then i will swap it in with the whole harness.

[crxls]

86 crx HF $50 (title issues that nobody wanted to deal with)
bought everything to do the B18B swap ( 2 times ) $2300 (approx.)

so for just under $2400 i got a decent looking, really quick car that nobody expects to be beat by.

most current pic of it from 3 weeks ago...
the green 5G hatch is my brothers car. the VX wheels on his car are now mine.

Edited by crxls, 26 March 2005 - 02:40 AM.

[BacksideOlie]

my first crx was an si cost $600 a year later i rusted to death but engine and interior amazing. then i got a 87 si for $100 and all the work it needed was replace the pedel brachet becase the small metal piece the held the clutch cable in place was busted off and the shift linage, because that was messed up(by the area where it conects to the trans).

best part about this is that the total cost include everthing even oil changes is around $800 and i have a garage filled with extra crx parts, and a perfectly fine si engine and trans

[3gencivic]

well i got my 86 dx hatch off a friend for 100bucks it what a piss of shit.
headlights had holes the engine was blowen, boh bumpers foer falling off. the back bumper saports were rusted off, front winndow was smashed,interior was a mess( growing trees in the trunk) but had new tires on it. since then its got over 4000 in to it interior and exterior and 2 engines.

my 86 si hatch i bought for 2000 and i have about 1700 in to it now.

[c25ahatch]

$5500 for the car. I would have to add up my receipts for the rest. The only real parts I have put on it are EDM corners, Cibie H-4 conversion headlights, Magnecore 8.8mm wires, and various tune up/maintainance bits. Spent some dough on dyno time and alignment though. Oh, and $37 for a black RPR shift knob.

[smashfascism]

$250 for the car with front end damage. $50 for fender,$4,500 for B16 swap with LSD, and 1,200 for wheeles and tires. more money than I should have I guess.

[85c-rex]

holy crap...i'm scared to add this up...
1985 CRX DX (100,000 miles, good shape, little rust) Free
900 in stereo, 100 14"rims with tires, 100 paint and body work, 300 in mechanical crap, 75 in minor things, not too bad, but in the next 2 months, 200 for windshield, new tires, new cd player, new rear speakers, tint, maybe new rims....who knows..it'll be a ton.
1500+whatever i spend coming up...

[pwr_crx]

1400 for the car.
300 for exhaust
30 for intake
80 for headers
50 for headerpanel
100 for rear upper wing
65 for red rear panel
500 for d16a1
180 for shocks
50 for springs
200 for rims and tires
100+ for sound equiptment
50 for fog lights
100 for new headlights
50 for new corners

Total of...$3255 There is probably more that i have forgotten about but this is what comes to mind.

[Hollowman]

Too much.... But I wouldn't trade it for anything.... It's been too much fun and I learned alot....

[jay_blu1983]

I forgot about the $100 for my title issues, it got stolen the first week that i bought it.

[JDN14]

85 CRX Si: $850 with bad alternator
$80 alternator
$120 springs
$140 header
$200 KYB-GR2's
$180 panhard bar
$100 exhaust
$250 wheels/tires
$60 oil PSI/water temp gauges
$85 intake
$225 torsion bars/rear sway bar
$240 auto-x tires
$20 uncracked header panel

so $2550...not quite as bad as i thought.

86 CRX Si: $400 with broken panhard mount
$80 for someone to weld said mount

total: $480

overall CRX total: $2950

[cbstdscott]

$900 for the car. About $1500 each year for the last 6-7 years since I bought it. So the total investment is approaching US$10K.

BUT: Beating the crap out of Yuppie scum in their US$35K BMW's at the autcross in my battered little Honda- Priceless.

This is not an investment, I do not expect to see a tangible return on my money. This is a lifestyle choice, a hobby, a diversion from all of life's petty BS.

I have created a monster. It is low, loud and uncomfortable. But it howls when I ask it to. And that is all I ask of it.

Scott

[unusualcivic]

current crx-

250 for car
~1200 for system
so far, 600 in the motor (check my other thread)
and thats pretty much it... still under HEAVY construction, i have to do the interior, paint, tint, wheels, and petty stuff that all adds up big time.

so $2050 and growing.

but it will be oh-so-worth it.

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cbdtscott- i seem to remember you mentioned having your flywheel lightened, could i get some feedback from the operation? i have a flywheel that i put on a serious diet, will i lose a lot of driveability? gain much of anything? etc.
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[AudioCra-Z]

I would post how much I have spent on my CRX, but the last time I totaled it, it was around $9,000. Oh, well, it was worth it.

[RETROCRX]

GOOD GOD!! I have you all SO beat!!

Car is appraised at $17,500.00 Canadian and I have probable spent closer to $20K on it to get it to where it is now.

I was looking through some stuff yesterday and found the reciept for the wheels! $1600 for the wheels and then an additional $800 for the tires, that's $2400 on rollers alone!! That's all Canadian dollars.

Rob