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[Aren D.]

Well I was wondering around the shop and relized I need to get a crx that runs and that I could actully drive on the street.

So I hit up craigslist and found a 1985 crx si, black with 220,000 miles on it he wanted $1500 I got it for $1300. Perfect!

This is just going to be my little street car beater that I can enjoy. It gos something like this so far.

Here she is May 29:



It seems to have really crapy seats that are blue. So I swaped in one of my old 85 dx seats that is grey.


Thats better, at least for the passenger, not sure what I will be doing for a seat yet.

[Aren D.]

Then may 30th. I decided to make it look cool.


Pulled the front bumper, check out this sweet bolt.


Weird nothing holding down the wiper shroud...

Score! a sunglass case! and some broke wiper arms!




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[Aren D.]

So with the fenders off, some cleaning was in order:


There was so much muck, it could not even drain

After scrubing for 5 min, and then I applied a light coat of wd-40 for crosion prevention.


Here is the sweet air horn that I removed:


Upgraded headlights and painted the headlight sroud black:

pass-old, driver-new


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[Aren D.]

ok I put the ebay special fenders on that I was going to use for my other crx... but just a waring the fenders dont fit well at all if I was building a nice car I would not use these they suck, but because its just a $1300 crx I don't really care.


I guess I'll just throw the race bumper on, I mean I allready took the fenders...

back side pic of the roadracegear lip

but really the old bumper was all bent and crap


I was going to use the late si side skirts but after installing them I decided not to and keept the old side skirts.

Then the pass door came off.




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[Aren D.]

and I missed a few pics but a strait door with out a super dent in it went on.
June 1st
I came this far... light weight rear bumper with air releaf on.


This rear bumper has the alluimn support that I built for the other car it it.....


Reverse lights cleaned so the now light up my plate.


Whats this? a crack it the driver side door plastic? yep change that door out with a spare also.



Some tape....

That trim went bye bye.


there was a little bit of rust under the "honda" elemblem I sanded it out and my old freind bondo helped out.


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[Aren D.]

So any way after a day of sanding and scuffing.

before we go on, just remember this is only a beater thats why I painted it out side in the wind and had to dodge rain twice... only a beater thats all.



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[Aren D.]

so moving on.
choped header panel

and rusty mount for it that I could not put my bolt into.

repaired...



that door....

the old interrior had this tear on both sides. lucky for me I had some spares.

pesky window roller thingy, this door really took me 5 hours to put together




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[Aren D.]

rpr owns


pass mirrior delete.

little pice of allumininlluinmin

cut to shape, painted, installed




So this is a street car... I dont even have any CD's just my ipod, this thing would not work.

the wire job... I suck



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becaus my new head unit dose not have cd crap.

installed!


Time to lower this thing.
Rear 375lbs


and front 27.5mm

index blue would be stock, purple is the reindex. looking at the front of drivers side


making sure its lined up on install is very helpful.


Looking better...



omg next post!

[Aren D.]

Front strut install.

I also barrowed these from my other car becasue I wanted to test the set up I was planing on using with it.


The plan is to use these koni spacers inverted for extra suspension travel.





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ok, its over.

[Aren D.]

ok the posting for tonight ends!
That took awile.

[ChrisF-dude]

Wow, a lot of work to look badass for a beater car. Looks cool. Even had the black trim stripe, cool.

[ef91]

Nice beater... looks mean..

[1stgenfan]

awesome work man, you made that crx clean up really nicely

[Aren D.]

Thank you guys, and I slaped on a few more parts just now...

maxxed out rpr parts list with this rpr rear panhard bar.


and my tried and true 1g integra front bar used for the rear went on.

custom mounts that replace the tie downs







pass side clearance

Driver side