All Motor CRX Build Thread: pics/vids/racing [Archive]

mikesrex

10-05-2010, 10:29 AM

with all these elaborate build threads I figured I would make one for one of my latest projects. It has been a long time coming, as I have had to do a lot of shit to this thing to get it straight. I still need to button up a few things, but all is finally going well now. I'll see what kinda of pics I can dig up later when I have time, but for now here is a vid cranking the car. I'm hoping to tune it and get some shakedown runs later this month, time permitting.

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this car went 12.3@108 with a head/cams/intake stock ITR bottom end setup putting down 209 WHP, so hopefully it will get a lil bit faster with a freshened up motor and better intake/header. I might actually put the car on a diet to lighten it up 100 lb or so.

mikesrex

10-05-2010, 10:59 AM

btw here is the first startup vid I made. It sounded kinda quiet and after shutting it off I noticed only the #1 and #4 injectors were plugged in LOL. I guess this motor wants to run.

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tehcodeman

10-05-2010, 11:38 AM

Looks good Mike. I wish I had some motors to tinker with. :(

Justin

10-05-2010, 12:30 PM

Why'd you swap valve covers?

babietuan323

10-05-2010, 01:02 PM

MNP Racing ftmfw!1111

91 240sx(paden)

10-05-2010, 01:55 PM

sounds pretty good!

mikesrex

10-05-2010, 02:12 PM

Why'd you swap valve covers?

the green valve cover will ultimately go on the car, but I just put one on that had the gaskets and stuff on it for now. Once we clean up and possibly repaint the green one then it will be on there.

mikesrex

10-18-2010, 01:59 PM

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another vid showing a lil bit of noise

Justin

10-18-2010, 06:36 PM

My ears were ringing for about a minute and I was like 15 feet away.Jamie's ass is standing about 3 inches from the side exit,fuck that.lol

mikesrex

10-18-2010, 08:50 PM

traction bar setup done, radiator coming in tomorrow, fittings for the side exit bought from watson, almost done!

mikesrex

10-18-2010, 08:54 PM

PS Justin you have only heard the car rev up to around 3-4k rpm LOL. Wait til you hear it for real

Fordtrucktexan

10-18-2010, 09:32 PM

For the way the exhaust is ran, it's really not that loud, at least for the rpm's I've heard it at. I'm sure at 9k it's a whole different story

Justin

10-18-2010, 09:49 PM

What kinda radiator are you gonna run?The vdub one?

mikesrex

10-18-2010, 10:07 PM

yeah we ordered it from oreilly so it should be here tomorrow evening.

Justin

10-18-2010, 10:08 PM

Very nice.Racekars always have parts off other cars on em.

seth

10-18-2010, 10:21 PM

and there supposed to end with the letters gt...according to alvin.

mikesrex

10-18-2010, 10:24 PM

This is pretty much a street car, no race car here hehe. It runs on 93 octane pump gas, has full interior, all stock glass and body panels.

mikesrex

10-26-2010, 09:50 PM

starting to get the rex into drivable condition now. so far I need to do an alignment, decide how I ultimately want to do the radiator cap and do some other minor stuff like make an intake for it. Here's a lil vid showing the engine bay and somewhat how the car sounds:

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Justin

10-26-2010, 10:02 PM

Very nice.Did you finish mounting the radiator?

fag

10-26-2010, 10:05 PM

i don't know anything about hondas, but i do love me some cock on the windshield. especially if the windshield is my glasses.

mikesrex

10-26-2010, 10:13 PM

Very nice.Did you finish mounting the radiator?

it's done, but I want to redo it lol

mikesrex

10-26-2010, 10:19 PM

http://i52.tinypic.com/zmb5hf.jpg

http://i52.tinypic.com/15z5slf.jpg

http://i52.tinypic.com/30djip2.jpg

mikesrex

10-26-2010, 10:20 PM

i don't know anything about hondas, but i do love me some cock on the windshield. especially if the windshield is my glasses.

I knew you would appreciate it homie

Justin

10-27-2010, 11:57 AM

I knew you would appreciate it homie

You took that pic of Daniel's ass just for fag too didn't you?

mikesrex

10-27-2010, 12:48 PM

You took that pic of Daniel's ass just for fag too didn't you?

I actually didn't even notice he was over there until I was tagging people in the pic on fb. I see it was the first thing you noticed though ZING!!!:rotfl:

killa_D

10-27-2010, 01:17 PM

wow its so pretty... what color is that vc?

Justin

10-27-2010, 02:20 PM

I actually didn't even notice he was over there until I was tagging people in the pic on fb. I see it was the first thing you noticed though ZING!!!:rotfl:

Ouch.lol

trollin

10-27-2010, 02:23 PM

mikesrex

10-27-2010, 04:10 PM

nice, what is it: craftsman, snapper, club cadet? Im guessin john deere since its green :D

it's a lil bit smaller motor than I had in my white teg, but this one is a wee bit higher compression and has a better intake and header.

mikesrex

10-30-2010, 07:55 PM

today I got a chance to tune the car a little more. Crome Pro has autotune, and today I found out it puts way too much fuel in parts of the map lol. Took a few pics while Jamie and I were cruising around.

http://i52.tinypic.com/2z3vtps.jpg

we run across a 240sx that was scared to run lulz

later I put some different suspension on it so it would have a better stance. Looks like I still need to lower the front a wee bit.

http://i54.tinypic.com/who393.jpg

http://i56.tinypic.com/2vjt0zr.jpg

mikesrex

10-31-2010, 05:59 PM

you'd think there would be more interest in a car that actually runs and is fully built rather than a car that was stock and got stripped/gutted/washed LOL

Justin

10-31-2010, 07:30 PM

you'd think there would be more interest in a car that actually runs and is fully built rather than a car that was stock and got stripped/gutted/washed LOL

Let's strip the del sol and wash it and make a build thread.

mikesrex

10-31-2010, 07:35 PM

Let's strip the del sol and wash it and make a build thread.

one thing for sure is when you have the motor out of the car be sure to clean clean clean (and even touch it up with paint if needed) the engine bay. It's a lot easier while empty.

Justin

10-31-2010, 07:46 PM

one thing for sure is when you have the motor out of the car be sure to clean clean clean (and even touch it up with paint if needed) the engine bay. It's a lot easier while empty.

What should I use to clean it?If I ever did clean it,since it'll be a very long time before the car ever gets a swap :D

mikesrex

11-01-2010, 09:25 AM

well I got the tune pretty close on the street with a filter over the throttle body. I still need to figure out exactly how I want to do a ram air intake for it to get that extra bit of umphh while rolling out at the track. Right now datalogs show like 0.1-0.2 lb of boost on the street even with a cone filter on the throttle body. I can't wait to see what it does at the track with a ram air hehe.

mikesrex

11-02-2010, 09:47 AM

we got to get the dust off and tune the car some more

http://i51.tinypic.com/281ripc.jpg

http://i56.tinypic.com/20a3tqe.jpg

http://i51.tinypic.com/a1lnjq.jpg

I guess I need to get some pics of this thing in the daylight. The color seems to look different with each lighting condition lol.

and meh it's no gutted cavalier but perhaps someone will find this car worthy of a thread on this forum.

stillmatick

11-02-2010, 09:59 AM

This the infamous white rex? And whats up with the 5.0?

trollin

11-02-2010, 10:07 AM

Why do you lift the back of the hood like that? Cheap version of a cowl induction?

mikesrex

11-02-2010, 10:27 AM

This the infamous white rex? And whats up with the 5.0?

yeah this is my old rex. I gave it to Jamie for him to have some all motor fun for a while. It's a wee bit faster than the stock 1.8 bottom setup LOL

Why do you lift the back of the hood like that? Cheap version of a cowl induction?

without raising the hood the engine will really smack the underside of it. and yeah it moves some air to keep the engine bay cool.

stillmatick

11-02-2010, 01:45 PM

when is this car gonna hit the track?

mikesrex

11-02-2010, 05:18 PM

when is this car gonna hit the track?

hopefully this friday or saturday. I also want to bring it out to Ennis to run all motor and watch the gambler's race for the turbo FWD class.

mikesrex

11-03-2010, 08:57 AM

I made a custom way to control the idle on the rex so I dont have to use the throttle body base setting to control the idle. At low idle settings without an IACV, the car had a difficult time going back to idle after being run. Now it runs like a normal car hehe. If you saw what I did you would call me crazy LOL.

Fordtrucktexan

11-03-2010, 10:00 AM

Hey it works, so its not that crazy. And people doubted...

stillmatick

11-03-2010, 10:53 AM

pics/video?

mikesrex

11-03-2010, 11:23 AM

pics/video?

sorry no vids other than the ones I posted. It's impossible to get a vid while driving, and when I get Jamie to drive I am too busy trying to hold on to the laptop and pay attention to the engine's running parameters while making a pass. I guess for now this is one of those things that you got to be here at the shop to see how it does lol.

Can you see the pics and vids I posted in this thread?

stillmatick

11-03-2010, 11:28 AM

Yeah i can see those..you gonna have some get vid of you when you go to track this weekend?

mikesrex

11-03-2010, 11:37 AM

Hey it works, so its not that crazy. And people doubted...

yeah I was even worried the heat from welding would melt the plastic on the IACV even with those two little tacks. Worst case scenario I would just get another IACV and use epoxy to glue something in lol. Too bad I didn't get a pic of the MNP IACV mod to use on the BMF intake manifold haha

mikesrex

11-03-2010, 11:37 AM

Yeah i can see those..you gonna have some get vid of you when you go to track this weekend?

yeah I will try my best. If we can make it, we are gonna try HRP on Friday or maybe Evadale on Saturday. Evadale is preferred, but they have a big race this weekend. Test and tune at big races is very limited.

IDriveABaseRSX

11-03-2010, 12:44 PM

HRP track prep was pretty decent last friday....

Justin

11-03-2010, 05:16 PM

yeah I was even worried the heat from welding would melt the plastic on the IACV even with those two little tacks. Worst case scenario I would just get another IACV and use epoxy to glue something in lol. Too bad I didn't get a pic of the MNP IACV mod to use on the BMF intake manifold haha

MNP ftw.:thumbsup:

mikesrex

11-03-2010, 07:51 PM

two computer-generated videos uploading on youtube right meow....

mikesrex

11-03-2010, 08:00 PM

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seth

11-03-2010, 09:06 PM

so who actully won? it seemed neck and neck for the most part. either way thats badass.

mikesrex

11-03-2010, 09:13 PM

so who actully won? it seemed neck and neck for the most part. either way thats badass.

crx won. I decided to leave it on regular all season radials just for fun since the 240 has traction problems too. I know while driving it after the alignment was done earlier today it would spin both tires in 3rd lol. do you have sound?

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seth

11-03-2010, 09:24 PM

theres sound in both for me. damn rex pulled out on the second one. impressive!

Justin

11-03-2010, 09:36 PM

I want to see both cars on slicks racing.

IDriveABaseRSX

11-03-2010, 10:12 PM

The 2nd vid looks like the rex jumped the gun... Iuno if its just me.

seth

11-03-2010, 10:23 PM

maybe tons booost lag? :)

stillmatick

11-03-2010, 10:45 PM

Awesome vids.

mikesrex

11-03-2010, 11:39 PM

The 2nd vid looks like the rex jumped the gun... Iuno if its just me.

all motor is just instant raw power. we can repeat the race at the track hehe

mikesrex

11-03-2010, 11:59 PM

random pic when we were hanging out lol

http://i51.tinypic.com/2nisn4g.jpg

91 240sx(paden)

11-04-2010, 07:15 AM

looks like fun.lol

mikesrex

11-04-2010, 11:03 AM

yeah it was fun to see some action. both cars have a lot of potential, but a street tire race was like a drift competition lol. I'm not sure if the 240 had problems with traction, but on one run the CRX was smoking the tires in 3rd wanting to veer off to the left no matter what way the car was steered lol

Speedy

11-04-2010, 03:35 PM

maybe tons booost lag? :)

It has the stock mini-me twins. Theres not much lag to it.

seth

11-04-2010, 07:33 PM

i was being sarcastic.

BoostinGC

11-07-2010, 11:49 PM

Impressive build Mike...Damn thing rolls hard out the hole, even spinning balls...Vincent's car sounds amazing and looks as if its running pretty damn good too.

mikesrex

11-08-2010, 10:30 AM

Impressive build Mike...Damn thing rolls hard out the hole, even spinning balls...Vincent's car sounds amazing and looks as if its running pretty damn good too.

thanks man. I've put a lot of hard work in this thing. it's the same CRX I had my stock ITR bottom end in. we have got fresh paint on it, cleaned it up a lot and now it has a new motor. Jamie is supposed to have a transmission with shorter gears for it, but I haven't gotten it yet. So in the meantime I put my transmission/mounts in and made a new wiring harness to get the thing moving around.

As for spinning, I couldn't even tune it on the street on those all season street tires lol. I had to put my MH DOT street slicks on and do 3rd and 4th gear pulls to get the tune down. I want to get the tune down more at a dyno where I can see what changes in timing do to power, and I also want to finish it off at the track since I'm gonna have a ram air setup that should make some more boost hehe.

BoostinGC

11-08-2010, 12:16 PM

Haha nice sneaky bastard...saw you and the delsol on college a while back when I was turning off of dowlen. Half asleep and dazed I jumped when I heard you rev up to turn on that side road near dowlen.

Justin

11-08-2010, 01:04 PM

lsvtechatch

11-08-2010, 02:33 PM

wish i had a car to race (ninja)

mikesrex

11-08-2010, 02:45 PM

wish i had a car to race (ninja)

you getting into the AWD game this time around?

mikesrex

11-14-2010, 01:11 PM

yesterday, while the internet warriors were furiously switching tabs on their browsers between redtube and the forums to see who posted what in their internet fantasy land, we decided to go to the track where real shit happens.

in true OG style we drove the car to and from the track without a trailer and proceeded to drive the living shit out of it on slicks and skinnies. I even made a pass on the all season radials, spinning them all the way down the track to run a 14 sec pass at 103 while pedaling the throttle. The car managed to pull off a few mid 12 sec passes at 108mph, and our goal was to see how it drove down the track. I left a little more pressure than normal in the slicks, and it was already cutting 1.7 60's, so I decided to leave it high like that for the day. We were wanting shakedown passes anyways just to see how the car tracks, so that was fine with me. I noticed some sort of shaking under hard acceleration on the big end of the track, so we called it a night early. Not bad for having a bunch of tools and crap in the car, full interior, and an old ass air filter covering up the throttle body lol.

Here is a vid of one of the passes:

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mikesrex

11-14-2010, 01:20 PM

here's the CRX next to stickers

http://i51.tinypic.com/53k48g.jpg

a lil glimpse of what was going on with the timeslip. the short track was pretty crappy, with the car not even getting a 7 sec 1/8th mile ET, but it still managed to crack out a mid 12 sec pass.

http://i51.tinypic.com/2d9a13p.jpg

trollin

11-14-2010, 01:35 PM

lmao, is that the 15 sec mustang?

mikesrex

11-14-2010, 01:42 PM

lmao, is that the 15 sec mustang?

nope he usually runs high 13's

on that run it seemed like he put it on "kill mode" and went 13.4 lol. I guess he may not like getting drug by ricers all the time hehe.

Justin

11-14-2010, 01:43 PM

lmao, is that the 15 sec mustang?
Actually the mustang was running high 12's-low 13's. The del slow couldn't get traction for nothing and kept running 16's.

mikesrex

11-14-2010, 01:45 PM

Actually the mustang was running high 12's-low 13's. The del slow couldn't get traction for nothing and kept running 16's.

oh wow was he getting some 12 sec passes out of it that day? that would be pretty awesome considering he used to run high 13's at 96 mph the last few times I was out at Evadale getting some runs in. Still no match for the stock 1.8 bottom end though hehe.

Justin

11-14-2010, 01:49 PM

Yeah Mike I'm pretty sure he ran a 12.9x.I just need more practice with a fwd car,especially on Dr's.Oh well at least I had fun.lol

mikesrex

11-14-2010, 01:55 PM

Yeah Mike I'm pretty sure he ran a 12.9x.I just need more practice with a fwd car,especially on Dr's.Oh well at least I had fun.lol

you know that back in the day when my LS hatch had an old worn out motor in it (120 compression across the board) it would run mid 16's on motor and 13.0@110 on the bottle lol. I was spraying a wee bit more than a 75 shot though. The best it ever run on motor was like a 15.1 if I remember correctly.

IMO the track is the funnest place to go play with cars. You get to run without the worries of getting pulled over or in an accident. And when it comes time to talk shit, at least the guys who go race in real races at a real racetrack have substance to back up the talk instead of vivid memories of a bunch of youtube and redtube clips:rotfl:

FB_RX-Seven

11-14-2010, 02:05 PM

mikesrex

11-14-2010, 02:35 PM

The ole trex got second fastest import of the day with a blistering 16.07 at 85 mph hahaha... where's my trophy??? No doubt woulda been in the 15s easily with a welded diff. Peg leg burnouts and launches were killing me with 2.27-2.4 60 foots even with these yokohama dr's

yeah you for sure got some 15 sec passes coming in the trex. It was fun to have other import cars at the track hehe. I don't care what anyone says I have the most fun bringing the ole riceburners to the track.

FB_RX-Seven

11-14-2010, 02:44 PM

If it wasn't for the small possiblility of having to daily the rx7 if I sell my truck when I go to school id go ahead and pull the motor and do a bridgeport. Would be good for 220 to 240 hp depending on freshness of the motor. Just worried about drivability incase it does end up being the daily. Would be happy with just running low 13s in the future though with the bridgeport then possibly adding a small 75-100 shot. Did have a lot of fun though and we need to get more people out there for some grudge races. Maybe alvin can bring his "racecar" lols