I own(ed) 4 Hondas in the last, i'd say, 3 years, but have worked on other people's cars and Nissans and Toyotas
These are the cars I had in order and mods(I actually had a 88 DX HB first, but deal fell through and I gave it back):
1. 88 CRX DX(blue) this is my first car and my mom bought it for me for $1000-stripped rear interior, short ram intake with "foil pan" airbox, milled head, mild port work(just clean up and port match), a6 cam with y8 cam gear, mpfi conversion, straight pipe with ebay muffler, z6 header, bm shifter w/ es bushings. the car never ran 100% because of the blown rings...i never had a chance to fix it because i wrecked it(it was just simple front end body damage, but cost $1500 to fix). anyways, scrapped that car and engine(sold the shortblock)...the head got messed up somehow from sitting outside.
2. 88 CRX DX(red). I bought this for $200 because it had front rear subframe damage. fixed all of that, put in new tie rods and swapped stuff from my old CRX. swapped in the D15B VTEC(z6 equivelent), ebay header, p28 ecu(later to be socketed and hooked up to an Ostrich), MSD rotor, cap, coil, and wires, DOHC ZC transmission, 92-95 EX differential with CRX Si countershaft, Neuspeed short shifter, engine bay converted to OBD1, and ghetto rigged ITBs made from GSXR1000(old manifold now scrapped), miata wheels. after i swapped in a new front crossmember/subframe, i noticed one side was still higher than the other, etc. i thought it was just bad alignment. went to the shop, found out the car has bent frame...scrapped it but kept the engine and various other stuff
3.1990 Accord LX, paid $340 for this car and was told it needed a new clutch. after installing clutch then new flywheel(2 weekends), i found out it was just an axle. this is my current daily driver
4.RICED 88 Civic STD HB- paid $300 for it; had a bent valve. came with ghetto two-toned primer/paint job and alot of stickers, and point less bondo'ing. later found out it has blown wheel bearing on the driver side(looks like they thought it was ball joint, since there's a new one in there). Swapped in 90-91 Civic EX knuckles and some rebuilt DA integra calipers. Swapped in the old D15B VTEC from the CRX, with all the old mods(the stock STD exhaust has the cat built on the header, so right now I have no cat), added "Crower stg. 3" cam(not sure since Crower said it's not theirs), Hayame cam gear, Miata wheels, CRX dash/GSR cluster/black interior(not fully in yet) Future mods: bushed ITR rods, PMS pistons, mild port work, new ITBs(better manifold with CBR injectors), Isky valve springs with Ti retainers, DC 4-1 header, ZXi 4.437 FD, CRX front end, Si rear brakes, GSR booster and MC, Toyo T1R tires, primer it black then after some more money, Frost White paint, Bilsten shocks with stock integra springs, lightened, etc. Should be done by end of winter(depends on how lazy I am).
Pic of the D15B with stock mani before it was removed from the CRX..check out my awesome obd1 conversion!!! lol:
