Hey guys, I've been around here on and off for about 5 years now which is pretty amazing now that I think about it.
Anyway, thought I'd start up an "official" build thread for my ride.
It all started
here.
I needed a new daily driver and I told my friend that I wanted something simple, fun, low cost, and easy to get parts for and that I had come up with a word to describe exactly that. I told him I would call it a Honda.
Anyway, sillyness aside, I always wanted a CRX so I hunted down an 88 Si with 183k miles on it. It ran and drove, came with some extra parts, and I bought it for $200.
A friend had researched D-series motors before and turned me on to the ZC. So I ordered one up, we stripped down the Si, and got the whole thing knocked together. It worked out easy because we found that
the 88 Si chassis side wiring harness perfectly matched the ZC engine wiring harness that I happened to get fully intact on my ZC engine.
We replaced all the front suspension parts and threw an Energy Suspension bushing kit at it. The car ran great and was a complete blast. But after a year and a half or so the rust was so bad that the State of Rhode Island decided it didn't like me driving around like that. The CRX got parked for about 6 months.
Then,
REBIRTH! I scored a decent 91 HF chassis and literally swapped everything but the gas tank from the 88 Si to the 91 HF, including the full electrical harness. It was about 2 full days worth of work but it started right up and ran like a champ.
I got a set of winter snows and then ran Falken Azenis RT-615s in the summer on the HX wheels. The car has been wonderful to drive but then this last year started to show some clutch slippage. Not surprising as I installed the ZC engine/trans combo without opening it up to check the clutch when I first bought it 5 years and 50k miles ago. I was limping it along and even took it up to the track when I friend of mine decided to take his 12 second Nova up.
With 200lbs of junk in the back and a slipping clutch it wasn't pretty but we had fun.
Best time of the night was a 16.1 @ 88.72mph with a 2.615 60ft time. If you tried to launch at torque peak the tires would hold but you'd slip the clutch and have to back off in 1st and baby it in 2nd. If you launched anywhere near HP peak you'd just one-leg it off the line and still have to baby 2nd.
A friend of mine borrowed the CRX for 2 weeks until we could weld up the frame on his Jeep (TJ Wranglers have a frame design that just doesn't make sense to me) and when I got it back the clutch was completely gone. But after playing at the track with it I was ready to do some part hunting and bring it to the place I always wanted to.
So, now I have an
unidentified ZC cluth-type LSD high ratio transmission and a
ZC JRSC to throw at it. The goal now is to get the trans in and running with a decent clutch and flywheel. Then she will go back up to the track to see what she could actually do in mild form. Immediately after that I'll grab some larger injectors (probably the DSM 450s) and get it running cleanly on those because I'd rather not use JRs "solution" for fueling the SC but would rather tune it outright on Turboedit. The JRSC will then go on and then we will see what breaks first at the track.
Anyway, that's the story so far and I'll keep you guys updated as I go along. None of this could have been possible without all the help I've gotten here so thanks a bunch guys. The technical information and general niceness around here makes it a great place and I hope it continues to stay that way.
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