Hi, I have been browsing the forums here and decided to register.
I own a 88 Civic Hatchback, green with black side skirts and back bumper. Suspension and engine is from a 91 CRX which I purchased at the same time for parts since it had been severely wrecked.
Both cars didn't run when I got them, the owner before took everything apart in the Civic and left the tranny along with other parts in the back of it. Good thing everything was there, all I had to buy was a clutch and radiator.
The engine still ran in the both cars but one day going down the highway the engine blew up in the Civic with out any warning. The car still ran with a hole in the side of the engine running on 3 cylinders with the forth one laying in the oil pan, which I still have under a tarp outside of my house.
Me and my uncle had to go out of town the next day though. So we took the engine out of the civic. No cherry picker or A frame used, we picked up that thing by hand and removed the one out of the CRX the same way and installed it in the Civic in the same manner.
I have no idea the mileage of the engine, all the instruments in the CRX where taken out, but it is working and for $200 USD for both cars with working engines and trannys isn't too bad of a deal.
I don't have the CRX anymore though. We stripped it completely out and had it sent off to a scrap metal yard. I do have parts I will probably never use though. A automatic tranny from the CRX. I prefer standard so I will probably never use it. All the suspension, just dropped it all at once. Gas tank, harnesses, etc. It was just a plain body once I got rid of it.
Will now I'm hoping the weather clears up. I need a garage , I have to craw under there ON A SUNNY DAY preferably, and check the tie rods and steering gear box. I'm getting a little vibration in the steering wheel and I think it is coming from there.
I own a 88 Civic Hatchback, green with black side skirts and back bumper. Suspension and engine is from a 91 CRX which I purchased at the same time for parts since it had been severely wrecked.
Both cars didn't run when I got them, the owner before took everything apart in the Civic and left the tranny along with other parts in the back of it. Good thing everything was there, all I had to buy was a clutch and radiator.
The engine still ran in the both cars but one day going down the highway the engine blew up in the Civic with out any warning. The car still ran with a hole in the side of the engine running on 3 cylinders with the forth one laying in the oil pan, which I still have under a tarp outside of my house.
Me and my uncle had to go out of town the next day though. So we took the engine out of the civic. No cherry picker or A frame used, we picked up that thing by hand and removed the one out of the CRX the same way and installed it in the Civic in the same manner.
I have no idea the mileage of the engine, all the instruments in the CRX where taken out, but it is working and for $200 USD for both cars with working engines and trannys isn't too bad of a deal.
I don't have the CRX anymore though. We stripped it completely out and had it sent off to a scrap metal yard. I do have parts I will probably never use though. A automatic tranny from the CRX. I prefer standard so I will probably never use it. All the suspension, just dropped it all at once. Gas tank, harnesses, etc. It was just a plain body once I got rid of it.
Will now I'm hoping the weather clears up. I need a garage , I have to craw under there ON A SUNNY DAY preferably, and check the tie rods and steering gear box. I'm getting a little vibration in the steering wheel and I think it is coming from there.