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Hello all, I've Owned 2 different Crx's over the last 4 years and i honestly must say Its one of my favorite cars. I picked this thing up a few weeks back, and after playing catch up with my new job and bills i am finally ready to begin building this thing!

Currently done :
D16z6, Completely rebuilt (bottom and top end mostly to OEM spec)
p29 pistons,
D15b Cam (slightly more aggressive)
Wire tuck (first time doing it was not as hard as i thought!!)
New suspension - tokico + GC's
Chase Bays Engine harness

To be done :
Replace ALL Bushings and Ball joints Throughout suspension.
New LCA's
New Intake + Throttle body
Full Si Interior swap (if i can find a nice set, if not going to Dye / SEM paint my current interior)
New Seats - OEM or s2k's
Integra GSR rear disc assembly's
Upgrade Front Rotors
last but not least after getting this car back to tip top shape handling wise, i already have a spare z6 long block ready to be built for boost!!

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pretty messed up seats :( wtb a clean pair if anyone has em?
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THIS MOTOR.... i have no words to express how rigged this thing was when i got this car... it had a b18 dizzy, only 1 bolt matched up ahha, the guy has a Vtec wire running through the car for a Hand switch.... i just cut it, i didnt feel like bothering with it, its a d15b Z6 head. and they never swapped to the y8 sprocket so the timing is off, between that and the dizzy... you could only image how bad it was.

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New motor, its a d16z6, The guy i got it from i didnt believe him but he said it had about 200 miles on it, so i went drove it and it pulled hard for what it is, so i was like ok ill buy it, pulled the motor last friday, then sat outside all saturday and Toothbrushed the hell out of this thing.

Here are my results :
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More pics to come, Still gotta pull the motor all the way out, and clean the Bay, Possibly this week i will pick up some Interior Semi gloss and repaint it Black, i am pretty partial to my blue that i have right now, and I loved the Black and Grey my SI came with.
 
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Dang! still no love haha!
I have been working hard to clean everything up here are some updated pictures!
Its really hard working about 50-60 hours a week and such, but all i can think about at work is getting **** done on the car lolol.

Started cleaning up the motor bay a bit more after pulling the motor out,

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Lol had a whole tree full of leaves in the cracks behind the suspension near the firewall...

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Starting to look clean again!

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Lots left to do, i picked up some sand paper going to sand the motor bay down a bit, clean it out check for anything else i may have missed. May go ahead and pull my fenders off tonight and begin tucking my wires,

But one of my main things is trying to Get this stupid thing sold.....so i can buy Krix's interior!!!

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Nice car man looks like your making it really clean I like that... I like my blue interior lol
 
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Thanks man, id post up new pics from last night, I covered all my lines and such that i didnt wanna pull out with tinfoil and tape. pulled the fenders, and did the first coat after sanding 1 last time to make sure i had a good base. Going to mock up my Lights tonight and begin extending my wires and such tonight. new pics soon.
 
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yea This is my first honda tear down im learning alot. My first rebuild was a 1970 camaro that i restored while i was in highschool, quite the difference in between these 2! Its got a ways to go thats for sure. When i was pulling the motor i noticed i gotta replace quite a bit of bushings and ball joints up in the front. Just doing things in between pay checks!!
 
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STill no pics :( my camera charger just up and disapeared...

any how, update!

I tucked the driver side last night at first i was really intimidated by the "wiring" as i have never done this to a honda. I did my research pulled up a OEM wire chart and printed out a few booklets i made myself @ work while working (lol<3graphic design) Any how i extended all the wires out and such. Now to tack the passenger side which is similar but has about 2x the amount of wires.

Hopefully ill have pics up soon enough.
 
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I haven't had the time or spare $ to pick up a new charger for the camera (special order it due to it being a battery that isnt all too common..)

So i will apologize for the crappy quality.

Any how I tucked both sides,
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And This is What the Motor bay is looking like after many hours of sanding/prep, primer and paint!
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REXzAcTLy904 said:
coming along nicely sir... your garage setup is awesome... just sayin'... :)b
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yea matt ;) I'll let ya use it for those seats! haha,

but any how i got the motor in, minus the head which is still at the shop come to find out had a few BARELY bent intake valves so i went ahead and replaced all my intake valves as well,

Last night i cleaned up under my dash shortened the wires that needed to be adjusted after the tuck and such, I wanna keep it clean as possible :bounce: and im starting to put my front end back together, Got a guy coming out saturday if it cranks up to street tune it so i can drive it to southern florida for a proper tune.
 
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hmm new to the site as far as posting! and yet to see a welcome as far as the more seasoned vets go, just wondering if maybe i have my thread in the wrong sections :/ if so lets get it moved.

any how, Lots of work has been done, just did not have a camera charger, got that solved here ya go.

old engine bay
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NEW!
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My tuck,
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Went to a honda meet last saturday in Ocala, and we had to stop at a friends shop on the way due to the Del slo's clutch pressure dropping ended up being 1 bolt had worked its way out in my friends car.

While at the shop i noticed this was sitting in the shop in a tire, it looked pretty clean i asked what happened, they said it was blown up JUST after being rebuilt but the guy driving it was revving to like 9 grand racing AS SOON as he got it out of the shop haha, didnt even let it break in. and i can tell!

I got this bad boy for free, came with ARP head studs which i will be putting onto my current daily motor and this motor will be pulled apart degreased and then coated with a thin coat of oil to sit in my garage for a month or 2 till i can begin building my Ibeam\vitara setup on the bottom end. and sending off my head to have it worked over.

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I have used this poor tooth brush on EVERYthing haha.
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I also took the old valve cover, sanded the piss out of it, and came out with these results,

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And started cleaning up and then tested the color of this paint to see if its what i wanted for my Intake mani,

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And i was a retard, and did not even think to grab my mounting arm off my old motor before i sold it, the guy was going to meet up with me yesterday i called him and his phone is now disconnected FML! lol lesson learned,

currently sits with a EG mount arm. (on a side note, this pic shows that my efforts prepping the bay my rattle can job came out smooth!)

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The Toto said:
Looking good man! Thats a wicked tuck job. Valve cover looks great too. :)b Poor poor toothbrush... :shock:
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haha it was my first ever. just researched the hell out of it! I have done 2 now, (did a friends) and alot of people are asking me to do it so im thinking about charging a small fee with their materials to make some side $ to fund my rex :bounce:

ps where in florida do u live?
 
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yeah that is a lesson learned. And I CAN'T FIND ONE in my shed bro. Sorry. Might have to be an O'Reilly's or HONDA parts trip. I don't see what i'm supposed to get jealous about though homie. Ha :)b but its coming along great.
 
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REXzAcTLy904 said:
yeah that is a lesson learned. And I CAN'T FIND ONE in my shed bro. Sorry. Might have to be an O'Reilly's or HONDA parts trip. I don't see what i'm supposed to get jealous about though homie. Ha :)b but its coming along great.
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lol i got that mount today thank god
 
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Did quite a bit of work last night, got my Head back from the shop had it rebuilt to oem spec. all new gaskets seals etc. (forgot to get a pic of it b4 i put it in haha was excited to try and get her to crank last night)

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remember this ugly thing!?
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Took a quick break snapped a shot.
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And a Few when we finally broke off at 2 am,

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Basically need to re pin and extend a few wires still in my harness, my harness is actually really bad condition already searching for a new one. once every thing runs ill probably tuck the subharness aswell.

Also just a side note this is my FIRST honda build ever, so sorry if i get picture happy etc, over small details trying to make her clean the first time around still got a longgg ways to go but im pretty proud of my work to never have worked on one of these things before.
 
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nylumiro24 said:
great progress man, keep it up... :)b
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KOTUS said:
nice save!
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thanks guys! yea i been hard at it, just sent my engine harness off to a pal in Indiana who does really good work. i was going to wait a bit to tuck the harness but decided why not just do it now haha.

Also got my dry cell battery, and 1/0 gauge wire kit from stinger in, ill have pics of soon... some will say that 0 gauge wire is overkill id like to agree, but i have a friend who owns a sound shop and we sat down did the math, the number difference was HUGE in comparison from 4g to 2g to 0g. And he only charged me house costs so hah why not :mrgreen:
 
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