Help A Newbie

ait now i'm gonna start by coming straight out. yes i am a nissan owner but that has nothing to do with anything. i love cars not just nissans and want to prove that honda's aren't crap to nissan owners by owning my 240sx along with a 2nd gen crx. right now i'm looking for one in the ny area for real cheap and in good body condition and i wanna make the car full race but the only thing is i don't know a damn thing about hondas and their engines/trannys/ecu's and chassis' any help would be great thanks

rob

A good way to gain tons of knowledge would be to spend some time and read through some of the old threads that are posted here already. There are tons of threads full of good information on just about everything, and if there's something that isn't mentioned, just make a new thread about it.

wasaaap ROB-O!!!!! Hey everyone, this is one of my HRC Homies :) Well, i am glad he is getting into HONDA's now, he's a Nissan Junkie..... Well, Rob has deffinatly come to the right place! So, everyone, help his poor soul and make him a Honda Junkie, i could help him, but he's just so damn wierd its so hard not to laugh when you look at him:

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well since you want to maek it a full race crx try really hard to get an 88. out of all the 88-91 88 are the lightest (i think.. it may be 89) it you plan on doing an engine swap dont worry about what model you get ie hf or Si... (i have heard of a Si running 10's with the stock a6 motor) the D16a6 is the Si engine that came in the 88-91 crx/civic. your best swap (in my opinion) if you are gonna do nothing but run on the track would be an H22. (the H22 is the the stock engine out of the newer preludes, however this engine is HUGE and literally has to be shoe horned in to fit in the engine bay. you will lose almost all your turning ability due to the weight of the motor).... ok i'll let you soke that up and ask more questions before i ramble some more. :rolleyes:

Originally posted by travis_118
ok i'll let you soke that up and ask more questions before i ramble some more. :rolleyes:

lol...... nuff said :D :smoker2: :smoka: :bandit: :flipa: :finger:

yes, an 88 is the lightest. HF if i remember correctly is liek 1800-1900 lbs... but i could be wrong.

wat makes it the lightest? if its the engine it's not gonna matter cuz thats gonna be yanked

not only because of the engine but also it has like NO options, so you dont have to worry about taking everything out. Also the HF was MPFI which makes it a lil easier for swapping engines.

yeah get the HF. it is a whole lot lighter than the DX and SI. The H22a requires a good bit a massaging from a sledge hammer to fit into a CRX.... If youre going straight race with the car do you want to go all motor, turbo or NOS? this would help us in answering what kind of setups to consider.

i'm looking to make a good powered n/a engine and then eventually down the line turbo that engine so i'm looking for a honda engine thats good when it's n/a and has all it's internals built up for a turbo but then takes even better when its fed with a turbo. also i'm looking to do all the work myself so h22 is out of the question theres no way i'm going to stand in an engine bay with a sledge hammer

hmmmm in my opinion it sounds liek a b18a/b is in order there, its def. the best to be turbo and is pretty great n/a

b18c would even be a better option for the na setup and when you go turbo it will help also so i would say get a b18c but not a b18c5

b18's are vtec right?

some are and some arent. the b18a/b's are non-vtec, but the b18c's are vtec motors. the B18a/b's came out of 90-2000 ls's and the b18c1 is the Gsr motor, whereas the b18c5 is the type-r motor!

now what exactly is vtec i no it's variable timing ..... ..... i dunno but i'm always hearing about vtec controllers and vtec switches and shit like that so put me up in the light so i know what the hell is going on here

Great web-site... has a decent explanation of VTEC:

http://www.howstuffworks.com/question229.htm

thanks bro so wat are vtec switches and vtec controllers

Basically vtec switches and controllers both turn the VTEC solenoid on and off. The switch is really cheap (compared to controllers), and just works off the RPM. As soon as the RPM gets to a certain point, it puts power to the VTEC solenoid. A controller does the same thing, but I think that the advantage is that it allows you to adjust the RPM setting much easier than the switch... Most VTEC controllers also have controls for Air/Fuel as well (I think), but they're pretty spendy. You can also just use an ECU from a VTEC, and it has the VTEC controller built in (but once again, the switch is cheaper than a whole ECU, and the controller is more versatile). That's my understanding of them.