Midious 91 CRX/// BOOM goes the b16

[midious]

The skunk 2 or thermal?

[midious]

Some small updates

Put the CRX into storage for the winter


Decided to go charcoal grey on the wheels! Drop em off for powdercoat in the next couple days

Had a small fender bender with my winter crasher, Volvos are built solid, no injuries but her vehicle was total loss



Had the body shop pull the bumper support straight and replaced the light housing, good as new

Got some new parts to add to the storage unit


Got a good deal on some 2000 ITR cams as well

[midious]

Just picked my wheels up!!! what do you guys think?





Spring cant get here fast enough

[Rexmen]

The thermal. Its way loud! looking good man keep up the good work!

[midious]

The thermal. Its way loud! looking good man keep up the good work!

I got the thermal stealth system. Supposed to be quieter I guess. Can't be worse then what I'm running now haha

[vanrij]

The color on the wheels looks gooooood. Seems like a fast turn around too. Last set I did they sat on them for four weeks. What did they charge you by the way? I'm looking forward to seeing them mounted. What tires are you putting on them?

[midious]

The color on the wheels looks gooooood. Seems like a fast turn around too. Last set I did they sat on them for four weeks. What did they charge you by the way? I'm looking forward to seeing them mounted. What tires are you putting on them?

A friend of a friend charged me $350 for the set of 4 including prep and turned them around in like 3 days

As for tires I'm just gonna use the Yokohamas I have on there now still have 7-8/32 tread left, Just waiting for my lug nuts to arrive this thursday then I'll mount everything up

Started throwing some parts on the car, Installed the new struts and alignment


Also installed the new parking brake cables (Worst job EVER such a PITA to sneak the passenger side cable in)!!

Picture of my new lip, factory si lip

[midious]

My buddy took a couple pics outside of work. His GTP and the CRX

[Cloud Eleven]

My buddy took a couple pics outside of work. His GTP and the CRX

Good ol Torrington Toyota on east main.. A friend of mine lives around the corner from there like 2 mins from the BJ's..

Nice work with your rex.. Ill have to keep an eye out next time were out that way visiting family..

[midious]

So last week I was driving around when I started to smell my brakes burning, brake pedal was rock hard and car stopped for crap. Had a frozen front caliper and the other one was very sticky. So I figured what better time then now to upgrade the front brakes a little

Contacted Brian at fastbrakes and he overnighted me the front brake kit, he was very easy to deal with even though I called kinda last minute



My lug nuts finally came in, only took forever.....



And now onto the work

Old worn out front brakes


Busted up old wheels


Painted up the new calipers


New wheels lugs and 11' front brakes


Kit was VERY easy to install. If you can change brakes, calipers, a prop valve and bleed brakes this shouldnt take more then 2 hours. During the process I found my left front knuckle is bent, probobly from an accident at some point in her life.

Finish one job find one or two more that need doing. Its a rule of crx ownership haha

And lastly


I like the new look

[mugendreamsickle]

do you have da fronts and rear disc conversion? i'm having problems with mine.

[midious]

do you have da fronts and rear disc conversion? i'm having problems with mine.

Yes on the rear, No on the front. Front is a fastbrakes conversion kit no knuckle replacement required

[sleeper17]

your car is sooooo sweet. good job

[vanrij]

Wow, put together that looks really really good. Any first impressions on the fastbrakes kit? I bet its a huge improvement. The kit uses a bigger calipers right? Any need to move up from the stock 7/8" master cylinder?

I hear ya on the "rule" you mentioned. Every time I turn a wrench on my CRX I find something that needs work!

[midious]

your car is sooooo sweet. good job

Thank you! Always nice when other enthusiasts like your work


And I ended up going to the 7/8 mc from the 13/16 due to failure of the old one. Pedal travel is good, Braking power is insane, the only thing limiting brake force is the amount of grip, even with cheapo aftermarket pads. Kit I got from fast brakes was just the bracket and hardware. I purchased 91 teg calipers and 91 vw corrado g60 rotors no redrill required

[midious]

WOW been 7 months since an update, Guess ill sum up 2012 in a post.

Aside from regular wear and tear fixes



The only big upgrade was finally getting the YS1 disassembled refreshed Quaife differential installed








Also put a new clutch ect in with the trans, Wiked Innovations zero play linkage, trans feels amazing. Didnt get a chance to track it before the tracks closed around here

Here are some vids from the local drag strip with the old trans, If you listen closely you can hear 2nd 3rd and 4th all grind on the in car video



And one from outside




Both are cell phone videos sadly

Ended up breaking a spring and perch retainer



Enjoying some twisties



And the final wash and wax of 2012 hate winter

[vanrij]

What a great 2012 summary. In for more in 2013!

[midious]

In the parts ordering process. Got my gc coil overs and springs. Looking for valve springs and obd1 conversion stuff now. I hate winter lol

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[midious]

Well so far this year I had the cams springs ect installed as well as having the car tuned.

Had some oil leak issues thay were remedied.

And dropped a rod tonight driving around... guess its time to source a gsr block and rebuild.

May put some pics up when I don't feel so mad at her :p

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[vanrij]

Sucks about the rod dropage. Carry on man, carry on.

[sicknick]

I see a GTO in one of the pics

[midious]

Yeah spun a bearing but didn't wreck the block. I need some more torque in my life so gonna go gsr and maybe next year some mild boost

And yeah the GTO belongs to one of my master techs. Hes owned it since he was a teen. Hes about to get it on the road again. Cant wait

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[midious]

Dropped the block and crank off at the machine shop. Now to wait lol

[midious]

Dropped off my new internals at the machine shop. With any luck I'll have an assembled lower end by next weekend... then the fun begins