JAP SPEC crx

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Originally Posted by McChook

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Originally Posted by McChook

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Originally Posted by COZMIC

is there a vtec motor that will fit straight in??

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B16a should, the mounts are OEM, shouldn't be hard to buy

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If it is a second generation CRX, then the mounts are not custom, they are OEM, since they had the B16a's in them in Japan, So I don't see how they would need to be custom

Good mate of mine did the conversion last year with a JDM SiR halfcut and used the engine mounts from the halfcut.

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McChook:

It's not the mounts, it's the mounting points on the crossmember and chassis. They do not correspond between the SiRs and the other EFs. That is, you cannot bolt a D series motor into a SiR or a B16A into a non-SiR without using custom mounts.

I've done the measurements sitting my EF9 next to an ED6 (Aussie spec 4th gen) and second gen CRX. The EF8 and 9s are totally different beasts. Mounting points are forward of the ED6 and rex. The only possibility is cutting and shutting the mount points, but crossmembers etc will not swap across and the OEM B16A mounts wont work.

How do I know about the mounts? I had to change mine by sourcing them from Japan as nothing Honda Au had matched, not even the 3rd gen CRX or 5th gen Civic :(

Thanks for the clarification on that.
I had a chat to my mate who did it this evening, and yeah, he had to buy the custom mounts. He already had them before the conversion, ready to go, thats why I didn;t know about them. Sorry to all who believed me, stuffed that one up, and I thought I was right...