This site is no longer active

The K swapped 91' Civic described on this website was sold some years ago. The project started around 2007 in the early K-swap days. We are leaving the site up as it still has useful information, although some is dated and a lot of links etc. will be broken. The car started as a "Tuner" project and got us into the world of racing. This car was primarily an Autocross car and won something like 5 SCCA National championships and a number of ProSolo championships as well as countless National and local events. We stopped updating the site around 2013 but the car still continued to be developed until it was sold in 2019. I don't think the car competes anymore and is likely sitting in a garage somewhere in Ohio. We hope you find the site useful and perhaps entertaining.

2012 upgrades include OS Giken LSD, Electro Hydraulic Power Steering, and "The Wing"
Bullet Proof the K-Series Transmission with Aussie made straight cut gears Build 3
See the Supercharger Dyno plot and Dyno Video, FINALLY!!!
Follow our Build 2 as we Update our CRX with a Rotrex Supercharger and more...
Pick up the Feb 2010 issue of Honda Tuning Mag to see our car in a Feature Article, "333 Days"!

The Beast at 2012 SCCA Nationals in Lincoln, NE takes 1st and 3rd in Street Mod FWD and 2nd in Street Mod FWD Ladies.

2012 Toledo Pro Solo 1st place best runs

Intro

My son and I were looking for a project car. The driving force was my fond childhood memories of performing an engine swap and restore on a 1955 Ford Thunderbird. The engine was from the junkyard, a Pontiac 350ci HO, I think from a firebird (see pics). I worked at it with my Father and older brothers and I thought it would be a good way to get my son (more) interested in cars. Of course, this was now 2007, not 1971 and things have changed a bit. We started to look around to see what might be fun to work with. We have both grown to like Honda's (in the past I have not been a big fan) after having recently owned a few (Pilot for my wife and Civic SI for me) so we pretty much focused on them. The next question was what year/model and what could we find on the used market and what exactly would we do with it?

We went through the normal list of Civics, the Del Sol (I was intrigued, for a while), but we were both finally really drawn the the CRX. Why? Simple, it's a nice looking car, a popular target for swaps, sporty, fun to drive with good handling, and it was light (HP + Light weight = GO!). I came across one on my normal running route that was always parked in the same place in someone's driveway, a white 91 SI with a body kit. I thought it might be available so one day I knocked on the door and asked if it might be for sale. Turns out it had a B16, headers, and some rust, and a bunch of other mods. I made an offer, and I was all set to close the deal the next day. That night, a friend called and my wife answered the phone. My wife mentioned we were looking to buy a CRX. My friend asked to speak to me and mentioned that another mutual friend had one sitting in his garage, and was looking to get rid of it. We went over to take a look (he lives less than a mile away), a 91 DX (oh well I thought) with automatic (bummer), and the bad blue-turquoise color. The good news was it was his brothers first car, and he pampered it, mostly garaged, no rust, a few dings, ran pretty well, only 140K miles, bone stock and he was happy for us to take it off his hands for $1.00, yup, a buck. Check it out...

The owner actually lives down in NJ, and just could not stand to get rid of the car so his older brother, my friend, drove it up to New Hampshire for him to get rid of it. But he never got around to it and it sat in his garage for a year or two. Scary, eh, it almost sounds like destiny to me. So that's how we got started. On this site we will tell the story of 333 days of labor (including through the winter in an unheated garage, in New England!) and then finally, the fun we have been having driving and racing the "blue car". There is a lot of good, and bad, information out there on CRX swaps, and I will reference many of these sources on this site. The plan is to go into some detail to show what we did, how we did it, what we would do different, what works, and what doesn't. As we continue to add to this site, please feel free to comment and give your input.

Picture Copyright 2009 Source Interlink Media (Honda Tuning Magazine). Photo by Henry Dekuyper.  

See Feb/March 2010 issue of Honda Tuning (333 Days) or go to the Honda Tuning website.

91 Honda CRX (DX) fully restored with JDM K20A Type R engine, upgraded suspension and lots of other goodies. For Spec summary click here for the picture gallery click here.