Haha "American HiFi!" I don't think they even sell that brand here. That does look EXACTLY like some of the decks that Sony was selling for a while. I put one in my Dad's Civic. Except the CD slot wasn't blocked off.
Sucks about the overheaty motor. The new one sounds like it will be a bit better anyways!
You need this!!!
http://www.abchobby.com/productpage/ballade.htm
nice pics
Ive now completed the complete carb de vac on it, the motor runas great but still overheats somehow so its going to be converted really soon.
haha well the engine is dead, ran it out of water and decided to keep driving cause i had no more water on me, so it now has no compression,
Next up, the engine swap
righto chaps this weekend is efi swap time
last night i picked up a EW5 engine from a 3g civic the cars loom and pump ecu etc.
just spend this morning de looming the civic loom to make a stand alone pgm-fi loom for the crx which i will tuck the wires into their factory locations with the carb car loom.
heres the pics so far, ill post more pics later when the swaps done
FUckin wires everywehre!!! :-o :-o
Nice carpet too! I wanna put that in my car!
carpet is gay i reckon! anyways i got called into work so i did not get the swap completed
heres some pics of what i did today
new motor:
lift the front of the car up to remove axles etc
readying to remove
look at these gay brakes, upgrade required!!
anyways out with the old shitbox motor
remove auto box from EV
install auto box onto EW5
install my headers i got from pick a part years ago
lowered her into the hole
and thats all i did today, tomorrow ill try to fire her up
shit yeah son nice work. I love your engine-swap-in-a-day threads!
okay righto what i did next was hook up the fuel lines and pump and filter, since the car used to be carbed and i didnt swap the fuel tank and lines im going to use the carb ones and mount the efi pump in the engine bay, so i did that and test started the engine with the wiring just hanging out in the engine bay
and when i eventually got the timing right it fired up, no error codes but ran rich as fuck and idled like a ported rotary bap bap bap..
i was like thats good enough for me then i did the hard job, Tucking the wires into their factory locations up under the dash and through the firewall etc...
Next it was time to hook up the remaining water lines for the radiator fill it with water and slap on the front end, the pre facelift popup light header panels fucked so i decided to install the facelift front that came with the car, i had to uglyfy the bumper to make the lights fit, but here it is
so it starts and drives, no error codes but it runs like complete ass, dont know why it pours out black smoke out the back. im going to look into it tomorrow, swap out the dizzy and injectors and ecu with my mates spares and see if i can fix the issue
Mint! I miss the pop ups, but I do like the facelift front end!
yeah it looks good, just need to iron out the miss aligned panels etc
looks good!! should paint that header panel black au
1988 Honda Accord LX-i Coupe 123k miles.
whats with the passinger strut tower?
u didn't try steeling alex's ballad front end?
whats wrong with the strut tower??
The car will get painted completely someday
you don't notice all the weird dents in it?
looks like some one has taken to the strut towers with a ball pein hammer eh
thats factory spot welding, theres no chassis damage their, i did scratch some paint off the firewall tho trying to get that motor in there haha
its factory to have it bulging with all those dents when the other one does not have that? i just thought it was weird thats all
yeah i have a eye to notice things wrong with a car when i open the bonnet and nothing looked wrong to me so it has to be factory.
still havent got this car working, its now decided to run on only three cylinders and the fucking left rear drum brake leaks all the fluid out, i went to drive it yesterday and the brakes didnt work , FUCKFUCKit all
i got a brake cylinder from an ef so im hoping it will fit the crx drums , havent done anything on the car lately as i have not ben bothered and the weather has had fail lately
Great work for so little time, NICE. Take some pic's inside your house toolooks cool with the carpet. Good work.
well tonight 9pm i went to mums to put this new motor into the crx, just got home its 1am and the swaps almost complete just need to install the fluids/radiator/plug in the wires and it should be mint, pics and maybe a video tomorow
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