[crxlvr]

well give the car a test drive and see how everything is, rust is a major crx problem, so check that too, see if you can get the car to a trusted mechanic so he can give it a thoruogh looking over and tells ya the situation.

Any engines will fit into the crx with some type of modification, but good luck going smog-legel in SoCal, im sure the Socal peeps here can help ya with that tho.

Your starting on a good platform, so you shouldnt have that much trouble in your project.