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Q Mike
Im after some imfo on a crx si as ive been offered one at a very silly price from a close friend who has owned it since new.
The car it self was bought in canada and is on an f plate.
It also has diplomatic plates for australia/Malasia/italy and many other places as dew to her husbands job they move around alot.
They were going to take the crx with them this time but are not sure weather they are coming back or not so offered it to me as they wanted it to go to a good home.
It is like the one in the picture its also a lhd but it has one owner from new 60k miles on the clock and only a little carpark scuff on the rear quater.
Any imfo about these cars would be great as they are moving in two weeks so need to know asap to make my mind up.
The nova is going nowere but this could be a good little toy lol.
I will get some pic's but it is as the one in the pics.
Thanks for reading all this.
ps yes its yellow but not fadded.
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v617/chunny01/crx/CRX.jpg
Southie
31-03-09, 08:22 AM
I know bugger all about them personally but here is a link :D
Honda CRX - yoooo (http://www.hondacrx.co.uk/)
Also has a PDF of a workshop manual :thumb:
id love one as a track toy. very capable toys even with all the slating hondas get
i slag them of every day as i used to work for the factory in swindon lol.
Pistol Pete
31-03-09, 09:54 AM
Mate of mine had 2 vtec models (the vti i think). Well specced cars and for a 1600, a rocket ship IMO.
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v310/Pete_58/adzside.jpg
i dont get why they get such a hard time. the handling is awesome and the engines are much better than any of our vaux ****
My best mate had both a non vtec and vtec model, both were very fast in standard form, he used to upset alot of people off the lights. The back seats are pointless but your used to that with the nova.
GRUNT 16V
31-03-09, 12:32 PM
1.6 16v 150bhp Pocket Rocket Had Uber Fun In These Things Years Ago !! Me Cousin Had A Silver Crx Vtec With Black Leather Ooooooooooo
guy round here had one a while back, was very quick, good little cars but rust/rot seems to atck them ime
fit a saab engine ?
Pistol Pete
31-03-09, 01:01 PM
^ lol whats your name, sloth??!!
somebody mention saab? lol
in all seriousness, theyre good cars. rear calipers seize and are expensive, cv joints go, and the vtec valves die. tho youll know bout that stufff being ex honda.....
Pistol Pete
31-03-09, 01:27 PM
As i said before my mate had 2 of them (the first one he wrote off) and neither if them missed a beat. And they were driven hard aswell. Yorkshire back roads are very unforgiving IMO!
id like a 1.6 vtec one with a turbo.......
Pistol Pete
31-03-09, 01:55 PM
Very popular conversion. My friend looked into doing it, but got tempted by a 200sx S14 instead!!
yer, and the kit is cheap as chips over in the u.s....
/me goes to ebay for a peruse....
dj_wudgey
31-03-09, 02:55 PM
not had too much experience with them one off my mates big brothers had one but it got nicked!! always been very fond off these though if i do admit!
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v617/chunny01/crx/011-1.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v617/chunny01/crx/012-1.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v617/chunny01/crx/013.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v617/chunny01/crx/009.jpg
Not mine yet but working on it as she has to speak to her husband first gggrrr
Pistol Pete
31-03-09, 11:30 PM
Import, i'm guessing (hence the rear fog?) Its the standard 16v non v-tec. Shame. Looks tidy though!
it says in my first post that it is a lhd Burgo
Pistol Pete
31-03-09, 11:36 PM
What would be your plans for it (if you manage to get it!) Ernie?
L33 LEG
31-03-09, 11:41 PM
i dont know much about them but i LOVE them. always been a car that i keep meaning to buy. and out of all the cars out there, a black vtec one is in my top 3 cars.
i will own one soon.
love the crx - almost bought an H reg one recently - theyre like novas in many ways - rust around rear arches and so on but are sexy as!
How much do they want for it? Personally i'd buy it, hondas arent bad its just the idiots they buy/ chavify them.
All im waiting on is for her husband to agree on a price.
The reason she is selling it cheap is beacuse we have know them for many years and that i would look after it.
She has seen that i can keep novas going so this would be easy lol.
The money that she gets for it is going strait to her nephew to get a cheap first car to take to uni as she doesnt want him to have the crx as he would kill it.
it says in my first post that it is a lhd Burgoahh you see you assume i actually read posts properly. my time is far to important or that lol
Get it bought! There fantastic little cars, mega capable FWD Jap veteran!! Much more power from a small engine then any of this Vaux/GM sheet!!
As some ones already said, turbo it up and your looking towards 280bhp & 9k-rpm wheel spin in 4th styleee!
Only thing Im not keen on about the vehicle mentioned is obviously LHD, I fecking hate driving left hookers (Just my personal opinion obviously).
dj_wudgey
01-04-09, 04:14 PM
loving the yellow one shame its a left hooker!!
Oh yeah, just bear in mind LHD cars are blaady hard to sell on in the UK :thumb: so there may be an issue here if you come to re-sell it.
Saying that, this car would break on eBay for around £2k in parts alone IMO.
Cheers Mike i knew i could come up trumps once you had seen the thread.
The good news is they have come to an agreed price of £500.
They need the car for a few more days before they fly out then its mine woop woop.
I just want to get it home and give it a good clean up.
Well take it to my mate who is a bit of a bufty boy and let him clean it lol.
Cheers mate
Another toy to the fleet lol.
At this rate im going to need a show room soon.
http://www.cepolina.com/freephoto/f/nature.fruits.food/banana.jpg
so are you up for jap fest RJ as it could be a laugh lol.
well the day has come.
Im picking this up this afternoon.
Just hope it stops raining so i can give it a good clean.
dj_wudgey
15-04-09, 11:12 AM
so have you got this now then dude???
so are you up for jap fest RJ as it could be a laugh lol.
FLOL oh my days, we seriously need a PNG stand at Japfest. That would be genius!
well here it is
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v617/chunny01/crx/006-1.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v617/chunny01/crx/014-2-1.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v617/chunny01/crx/007.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v617/chunny01/crx/008.jpg
I think Dar is the only person who could fit in the back seat.
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v617/chunny01/crx/009-1.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v617/chunny01/crx/010-1.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v617/chunny01/crx/011-2.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v617/chunny01/crx/013-1.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v617/chunny01/crx/015.jpg
Now for the bad bits.
It need 2 new tyres on the front and the rear arch's looking at.
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v617/chunny01/crx/016.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v617/chunny01/crx/017.jpg
But for a 20 yr old car it aint bad.
Dan popped round today to get some bits and i wanted him to do the
"I live my life a 1/4 mile at a time" (Vin Diesal style) but he didnt want to get the car dirty.
Well that or he was scared of getting stuck lol.
Nice to see you earlyer and the pic's of your car are going nowere but it looks sweet as.
Thats looks really clean, besides the odd bit of rust. And nice and original, that tape player is a beauty! lol
Cheers steve i think that is the first bit to come out.
I will save it for best tho lol.
chimp007_uk
15-04-09, 10:00 PM
Loving it... I've always wanted a CRX V-tec VTI, but could never find one for reasonable money in resonable condition and sensible to insure... Honda's were rediculous for quotes.
euro sbd
15-04-09, 10:23 PM
there an awsome car. my mate built a awsome crx running a k20 engine and box (civic tyre-r engine) it was so unbeliveable fast and had a set of tein coilovers. it stuck to the road like glue. if i can get the build pics ile show you them
dj_wudgey
15-04-09, 10:26 PM
looks good mate!! also not very many bad points to wory about!! you can have that sorted straight away!
Cheers all.
Ive got a mate who restore's vw splitscrean campers so he should be able to work his magic with this as very use to working with rust lol.
Wow banana flavoured vtec y0 lol
How many more needed till you got one for everyday then?
dj_wudgey
15-04-09, 10:34 PM
Cheers all.
Ive got a mate who restore's vw splitscrean campers so he should be able to work his magic with this as very use to working with rust lol.
yea if he restores those he will know about it as you say!! that will be a god send for him that lol
Wow banana flavoured vtec y0 lol
How many more needed till you got one for everyday then?
its a
"V-TEC No"
As it is a none v-tec engine as far as i know lol.
yea if he restores those he will know about it as you say!! that will be a god send for him that lol
This would be a 5 min job for him lol.
Ooh i thought they all had a mild version of the vtec, hell even CRV's and FRV's have baby vtec lol
Yes i used to work for a honda mainstealers haha!
Pistol Pete
15-04-09, 10:39 PM
Aye non vtec. Looks very tidy indeed Ernie! Will have to pop over and have a butchers in the flesh!
feel free pete it will get a good hoover out tomorrow and a bit of a polish if it dont rain.
dj_wudgey
15-04-09, 10:46 PM
This would be a 5 min job for him lol.
yea he will also most probrably enjoy not needing to use a welder on it lol
D series boooo! Netec lol
Nice one though dude, lovely condition and colour. Can't be robbed at that price :)
Drives nice apart from ive gone to the wrong door twice already.
carla doesnt even know about this car yet so should be a giggle when she gets in the wrong side lol.
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v617/chunny01/crx/013.jpg
Haha, its class when you get pulled by the feds if you stay in the car lol
Is that a 1600 lump as it looks to be the same as my old (r)over 216:thumb:
Ah the days before Rover ditched Honda and were fisted royally by BMW lol
Haha, its class when you get pulled by the feds if you stay in the car lol
Is that a 1600 lump as it looks to be the same as my old (r)over 216:thumb:
So if thats as so how hard was it to do the cambelt as without going through the bin bag of paper work that came with the car im unsure wether it has been done or not.
JohnNova
15-04-09, 11:42 PM
Nice motor! Btw Thanks for the trip in "New" stick other day, muchos fun!
If you need any "newer" racing type parts for it, I'm sure I could help.
I know we have a couple of NOS type-r engine's in the workshop.
I'm sure they wouldn't notice one going missing, last count was five! lol!
i will drop it round lol.
I only had my rover/honda lump about three months so i naturally never did the belt on it tbh dude, sorry cant help on that one lol
L33 LEG
16-04-09, 01:30 AM
i want that crx :( when you come to sell it drop me a pm!
sorry mate not for sale.
If it was then your about 10th inline since i asked a few questions about it on a crx forum
he should be able to work his magic with this as very use to working with rust lol.
I have some rust on the celica, can he fix that? :D
I will drop some hints to him.
So now back to japfest with the png lol.
woohoo :D
who else on here drives jap? lol
"once youve had jap you wont look back" lol.
Ive only driven it across town lol.
woohoo :D
who else on here drives jap? lol
Me if I can ever get the rust bucket running again. Why did I buy an old toyota :cry:
Pistol Pete
16-04-09, 09:48 AM
woohoo :D
who else on here drives jap? lol
No, but i build jap lol well, i will when i return in June!
L33 LEG
16-04-09, 09:49 AM
i went jap for a few months and then went back :eek:
scott.parker
16-04-09, 10:39 AM
Chris thats a nice looking car, i like them allot, theres a guy round the corner who has a White v-tec one, often wonder how fast it would be compared to standard xe nova.
Scott
I love this, an old skool CRX is something i have always wanted. I had a Civic Sport and although it was quite boring to drive you always knew it wasnt going to break
I thought i best update this.
Also could somebody move it to projects so i can find it easyer please thank you admin x x.
After picking up an exhaust i thought i best fit it before the old one fell off.
First off i got her up in the air and took the old exhaust off.
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v617/chunny01/crx/018.jpg
This was going ok untill the bolts snapped.
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v617/chunny01/crx/008-2.jpg
I got around this by drilling out the old bolts and fitted some new ones.
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v617/chunny01/crx/020.jpg
Once the old exhaust was off i noticed it was an orriginal Honda item so may of been on since new ?
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v617/chunny01/crx/006-2.jpg
Once off tho i could see were it has been fixed in the past.
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v617/chunny01/crx/005.jpg
And were it was blowing i think :lol: .
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v617/chunny01/crx/004-1.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v617/chunny01/crx/007-2.jpg
Wile under the car i had a quick poke around but found no holes.
Happy days.
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v617/chunny01/crx/011-4.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v617/chunny01/crx/015-1.jpg
Once the new bolts were fitted aswell as the pipe trims i gave her a quick wash and took her for a spin.
She is so quiet now and i think i bit more nippy lol.
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v617/chunny01/crx/026.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v617/chunny01/crx/027.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v617/chunny01/crx/031.jpg
saloonwoody
26-07-09, 01:23 PM
just seen this thread , i had one ofthese aaaaaaggggeeesss ago , proper little pocket rocket:) is that a mk1 pajero exeed in the background ?
dj_wudgey
26-07-09, 01:24 PM
nice work matey!! that old exhaust is pretty funked like mate lol you leaving it standard then mate??
cheers mate and yep that my mums tow truck for her caravan and horse box.
nice work matey!! that old exhaust is pretty funked like mate lol you leaving it standard then mate??
Its worth more as it is bud.
saloonwoody
26-07-09, 01:27 PM
cheers mate and yep that my mums tow truck for her caravan and horse box.
see if you can wip the arches off without her noticing lol im after some for mine ;)
dj_wudgey
26-07-09, 01:27 PM
Its worth more as it is bud.
yea i supose but it would look cool as fu*k with some rims and a nice jap style back box lol
i will leave that to you.I still have scar's from a battered child life lol.
saloonwoody
26-07-09, 01:29 PM
bugger , back on egay to find some then lol
yea i supose but it would look cool as fu*k with some rims and a nice jap style back box lol
I know what your saying and i to would like it lowered on coilovers with a nice set of black multispoke wheels with a chrome lip but it gets noticed at shows as it is so why spend any money when people like it better as a standard car.
Its the same as getting a mint sr then changing it you just wouldnt if you know what i mean.
bugger , back on egay to find some then lol
There is one with the same kit in a breakers yard in wantage called haynes of challow if that helps mate.Its a gold one aswell.
I was only there the other week and see it.
saloonwoody
26-07-09, 01:33 PM
cheers m8 ill get hold of them :)
dj_wudgey
26-07-09, 01:39 PM
I know what your saying and i to would like it lowered on coilovers with a nice set of black multispoke wheels with a chrome lip but it gets noticed at shows as it is so why spend any money when people like it better as a standard car.
Its the same as getting a mint sr then changing it you just wouldnt if you know what i mean.
yea i know what you mean matey may aswell leave it!!
a turbo conversion could be a laugh tho lol.
dj_wudgey
26-07-09, 01:52 PM
it would be more than just a laugh!!
16v Nova Kev
26-07-09, 02:13 PM
we have a v.tak engine in work for sale
Lovely, there defo is something sort of American looking about it, maybe the front indicator lenses...
What power is the 16 non vtec? Be about 110 hp? Wee bit more?
Lovely, there defo is something sort of American looking about it, maybe the front indicator lenses...
What power is the 16 non vtec? Be about 110 hp? Wee bit more?
Should be american dew to it coming from canada lol.
Its not the quickest car in the world but aint bad for a toy.
Should be american dew to it coming from canada lol.
Its not the quickest car in the world but aint bad for a toy.
yeah I read the start but was just saying that there must be some subtle differences in UK models and ones from over there...aprt from obvious LHD... health to drive
no probs mate.
The uk ones have a clear indicator were as mine has the yellow and clear setup.
i used to have a crx vtec.
great little cars, even managed to get 4 people in it (very uncomfortably) lol
was a great car, there so fast for what they are as well. little weapons.
looks cool as fook in yellow dude, good buy.
stevie-p
26-07-09, 10:19 PM
i must say it was extremly clean and a lovely little motor
i want!!!!!!!!
this is what i plan to get as my next car once the estate is gone. really cant wait, soooo excited
You wont regret it mate as there such fun to drive.
Also very rare now.
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