The story so far
I promised I would start a thread on this car once I began making progress, and that day is here. What follows is a brief run down what the car and I have been doing since I bought it and I'll post up some updates on where I am at afterward.
I had known for a long while that I wanted to build a slightly more brisk Honda than the DC5R, something that I could use at the track with less fear of damage and a car I could make some silly modifications to, things that I wouldn't do to the DC5. Enter the CR-X.
Purchase
I looked for some time for a suitable car for my project but decent CR-Xs aren't as easy to find as they once were. After a couple of foiled attempts (I nearly had a complete SiR rolling shell from Queensland but was beaten to the PM by mere minutes), I ended up buying this car from South Australia early last year and driving it back to the lair.
The car had a lot of roadworthy issues and a few reliability issues that needed sorting, so it was unregistered for months until I finally got everything fixed. Once I had it registered I drove it straight up to Shepparton the next day for a motorkhana with the EXE crew where the story continues..
EXE DECA
For those unfamiliar with it, DECA is a facility on the north side of Shepparton that hosts various things from driver education, to car clubs hooning around cones and a section of closed roads. I was pretty nervous heading into this day, as the reliability of the CR-x up to this point was at best uncertain. The car went well though, and after the first full pace course I knew I had made the right decision in buying the CR-X.
The car immediately felt lighter than the hefty DC5, the brakes were great and the power from the stock B16A was pretty adequate, the only major letdown was the worn out stock suspension.
Photo thanks to Senk9
Honda Nationals
Less than two weeks after the EXE event I headed up to Honda Nationals to do a few laps of Wakefield. The good reliability of the CR-X at DECA had encouraged me, maybe too much as it turned out.
Again the car proved to be a pretty enjoyable drive, but what I later determined to be a blockage in the radiator meant that I could only do 3-4 full pace laps before the car would start to get too hot. So I limited my laps and brought it home.
Photo thanks to Flippit
Where to go from here.
So after 8 months of effort I was left with a pretty unreliable, dented old car. Basically where I started. So I stopped doing anything at all with the car, and waited until I was ready to begin preparing the car in earnest. That time is upon me:
Photo thanks to DCW of EXE fame.
I promised I would start a thread on this car once I began making progress, and that day is here. What follows is a brief run down what the car and I have been doing since I bought it and I'll post up some updates on where I am at afterward.
I had known for a long while that I wanted to build a slightly more brisk Honda than the DC5R, something that I could use at the track with less fear of damage and a car I could make some silly modifications to, things that I wouldn't do to the DC5. Enter the CR-X.
Purchase
I looked for some time for a suitable car for my project but decent CR-Xs aren't as easy to find as they once were. After a couple of foiled attempts (I nearly had a complete SiR rolling shell from Queensland but was beaten to the PM by mere minutes), I ended up buying this car from South Australia early last year and driving it back to the lair.
The car had a lot of roadworthy issues and a few reliability issues that needed sorting, so it was unregistered for months until I finally got everything fixed. Once I had it registered I drove it straight up to Shepparton the next day for a motorkhana with the EXE crew where the story continues..
EXE DECA
For those unfamiliar with it, DECA is a facility on the north side of Shepparton that hosts various things from driver education, to car clubs hooning around cones and a section of closed roads. I was pretty nervous heading into this day, as the reliability of the CR-x up to this point was at best uncertain. The car went well though, and after the first full pace course I knew I had made the right decision in buying the CR-X.
The car immediately felt lighter than the hefty DC5, the brakes were great and the power from the stock B16A was pretty adequate, the only major letdown was the worn out stock suspension.
Photo thanks to Senk9
Honda Nationals
Less than two weeks after the EXE event I headed up to Honda Nationals to do a few laps of Wakefield. The good reliability of the CR-X at DECA had encouraged me, maybe too much as it turned out.
Again the car proved to be a pretty enjoyable drive, but what I later determined to be a blockage in the radiator meant that I could only do 3-4 full pace laps before the car would start to get too hot. So I limited my laps and brought it home.
Photo thanks to Flippit
Where to go from here.
So after 8 months of effort I was left with a pretty unreliable, dented old car. Basically where I started. So I stopped doing anything at all with the car, and waited until I was ready to begin preparing the car in earnest. That time is upon me:
Photo thanks to DCW of EXE fame.
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