efhondakid

If you go yellow you gotta make it look like a piece of cheese, thats how my LS valvecover was painted and it looked really cool.

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Valve Cover Color Choice!
I call it, "rustic yellow"
It's a light coat of yellow with a touch of red to resemble rust, then a clearcoat. (happened to be high gloss... ehh...)



New gaskets and I'm ready to roll!


What do you guys think? I'll match the intake piping....

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wow.

Ehhh not really feeling the engine bay color. Just looks weird with the white. You did a good job painting it though.You know, sometimes i really think you like spending money tinkering with that car more than you enjoy driving it. i thought you were getting out of it?

Dont take this the wrong way but you do realize that you have spent about double what i payed for my lsvtec on the ''tinkering'' to get both of you motors to run right. And yet you still cant break into the 13's.

I got to give it to you though. You have made alot of us realize that we can do alot of little custom here and there by ourselves. With all that tinkering you have done i'm pretty sure you know every trick there is to know on tearing down a crx.

good luck homie. Keep doing what you love.

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Well, I actually don't spend too much money when I don't have to... But I think your right actually. I like working on the car just as much as driving it! It's not all about the drag times to me, man. Or the money. I'm just having fun making the car look/be like I want it to! Thats what it's all about to me. Yeah I messed up when I built a D16 (lol), but it's all just live and learn. I guarantee you that the next car I mod or whatever will have a much more EXPERIENCED, thought out set of upgrades. I've learned a LOT from working on all of these different engines. Not to mention what Aviation mechanics has done to me (oh my what a difference in my mechanic'ing practices!).

Most of my tinkering has been with the cosmetics. Wire tucking, making the harness, keeping everything as clean as possible, etc. Thats whats eating up all the time. But hey! Thats why I have the car! To do cool stuff like this! I've got all the time in the world (whats left of it) to work on my car. I don't feel ANY pressure to get this done. OR to get into a certain time-class, and that is way more satisfying to me than to be overly-concerned about hitting 13's, 12's, 9's whatever.

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Dude, I like the VC color! I would have liked ot see a pretty crinkle red in that bay.. Man it would have stuck out good.. But the yellow looks nice.

BrutalB83

I'm digging the valve cover, looks vintage! You're truly an artist with the spray paint!

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IDK about all that... just have an imagination

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I'll be getting all of my fluids in today as well as getting my ECU programed with the D16Z6 map, soo.... today might be startup day!

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Hi andrew, i just sat and read the entire thread. Its nice to see another "panda" CRX owner staying with the D. I too have a 90 CRX si I see your debating boost or NOS, I think you should go boost and never look back. if you dont mind i can post a few links to pics and videos of my D16z6 at the track and what not. and if you have any questions or want to talk about boosting your rex with a DIY turbo set up like i did feel free to contact me.
here are a few pics and some vids. By the way the turbo used in most of these videos is sitting behind me and it is for sale, i ran a best time of 12.37@ 116 with it. it has no shaft play and has less then 10k miles on it. I recently upgraded to a different turbo and was going to keep the old one as a spare but if you want it and it will help get a fellow panda CRX owner into the 12s i would sell it to yah. any way pics and vids




this is with the old turbo the one i am selling

and this is with the new turbo

you can browse my you tube account and see more if you wish. Boost is what your D needs!! My car is full weight street car with stereo system, the head is bone stock the intake is bone stock EVERY thing is bone stock except the pistons and rods and i have a cometic head gasket and ARP head studs. any way I will be sure to follow your build.

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get_nick

i like following this build. not really feeling the valve cover though. looks like you just spilled a bunch of mustard and ketchup on it.

i think a nice black or gold would look great. props on the build though. i wish i had as much time as you do to put into cars.

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Thanks a lot for sharing man! Awesome times, and a nice looking car! (Love those wheels. D2's?)
What size turbo is the one your selling? What is it?
I definitely plan on turboing "the CRX," but it'll probably be on the B, Cause right now the Z6 is sitting at about 11:1 compression(forged pistons, 75.5mm bore). But I have the Cometic headgasket to drop it down to 10:1 almost exactly. So. Idk what I'm gonna do. I just want to drive it at this point Not too worried about drag times right now.

BTW I laughed SO hard when you honked your horn!!! LMAO

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the turbo is a big 16g I payed 700 for it and the o2 housing brand new about 7-8 months ago, i would sell it and the o2 housing for 300 plus shipping oh and i used DSM 450 cc injectors which you can get at any pick and pull or refurbished for like 100 bucks. let me know it would be perfect for the d if you lowered that compression a tad with that gasket. course i was running 20 psi with just under 9 -1 with 10-1 you will have to run less, closer to the the factory waste gate setting which is around 12 psi i would say to be safe. yeah i honked because they was bragging up how fast his GSR swap was and even with a 2.2 second head start the SOHC caught him pretty easy.

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JustinSane

here is another video to give yah a idea on how it pulls on the street with the big 16g turbo.

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JustinSane

yeah its the name of the pizza place. they are one of the sponsors and the winners of the friday night street races always get a free pizza along with the other prizes.
oh and andrew the street rims are 16 inch rota slips gunmetal with polished lip, the front drag rims are bogarts.

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JustinSane

thanks, i like the panda rex thats why i sat and read every page of andrews thread lol took me a while. any way andrew i will be back on here a little later let me know about that turbo.

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Andrew

Yeah man. Will do. Thanks again
So that ~290hp was with the 16G? Same engine setup as in your sig?
What are you tuned with?

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Whoa!

It's kinda cool, cause I know what that feels like and then some , to go that fast I mean.

It makes you happy in t3h pants

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JustinSane

yes and same set up cept with dsm 450 cc injectors, and i am tuned on hondata s300.
The only upgrades aside the injectors are the scat rods and srp pistons and cometic head gasket the rest is OEM honda.
yeah i know exactly what you mean, I have grown up in the drag racing scene and always been into RWD and muscle cars, its only been since last year i stopped building RWD toys and switched to FWD, i really wanted to see if i could make a reliable daily driver that got over 30 mpg and ran low 12s high 11s on the weekends. besides my brother and father still build RWD projects so any time i want to go real fast i just leave my car home and borrow one of theirs for the event.
let me know andrew as of right now i dont have any one else lined up on buying it so your first in line. but now that people see its for sale i suspect its only a matter of time until i start getting bites on it.

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daveholiday

till you get pulled over by a state boy, and get a speeding ticket of 113 in a 55.

not so happy in t3h pants.

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Naa Terrance ONLY 'speeds' at the track. He drives like an absolute grandma otherwise.... :P

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QFT.

It takes me about 45 seconds to 1 minute to get to 55 mph

I love it when pple fly past me.. then later on I putt putt past them filling up at a gas station.. and in some cases I'll pass em 2 times at a gas station before I have to fill up

35+ mpg FTW

I'm actually 1000000000% agaisnt high speeds on the highway.. I don't even like goin 80mph sustained. But 110+ mph romps (at a track) in 11 seconds is OK by me

Though, I'm not agsint a lil spirited driving from time to time: Gotta keep the carbon from building on top of my pistons
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Side note: Devin said he had some 14's: Do they have tires? If so.. I have a favor to ask...

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BigZeke5

Dam Andrew, its been a while!! I see your still playing with you Rex! Keep it up!! Go turbo man. I'll be B16 turbo in June!! DO IT!! BUY THAT TURBO!! You won't regret it!