GENONE - still alive

**SINISTR** · 05-07-2005 11:19 AM

hey Yall,

in case you're wandering wats happening with the old bucket of CRX history? haha

Its been garaged for the last couple years - driven maybe 2-3 times a year.

well - about 3-4 months ago a rusted ol pipe that goes into the intake manifold decided to simply Rust away and break! meaning i couldnt start the car cos of water pissing out everwhere...

so on the weekend i decided the time has come to replace the intake manifold - give her abit of a clean up and yeah - took me all weekend with painting and cleaning.
I worked till sunday 7pm putting it all together but didn't crank her over until tonight... and yeah - she's alive but barely...

All the plugs are getting fouled up, she spits and puffs, idles at about 200-400rpm...

I checked plugs, dissy, injectors... i believe the suspect part is my Cold Start Valve -- the Choke being stuck open... so tomorrow nite it will be slightly dismanlted again and hopefully will fire up well and without hesitation...
But its alive -thats the most important thing.... shes going into Perth CABIN (9th-10th July) next weekend and i thought id drive her around rather than push - so will have to wait and see now!

Mike

**seihoa** · 05-07-2005 12:05 PM

hope everything goes well = ]

**SINISTR** · 05-07-2005 12:07 PM

thanks mate

**jackosimm** · 05-07-2005 12:26 PM

lol tidy stuff!

**egSi** · 05-07-2005 12:34 PM

thats some OG shit right there man,

hope it works out, remember to post some pics

**SINISTR** · 05-07-2005 12:36 PM

Ive repainted the 'PGM-FI' throttle body and also the intake manifold - rest is still fairly dirty - but yeah - i'll post some pics up.

Go the little EW5

**CONAN** · 05-07-2005 03:45 PM

what is done to your crx?

**SINISTR** · 05-07-2005 04:41 PM

Originally Posted by CONAN

what is done to your crx?

You mean to say whats 'NOT DONE'??? hehe

Reason why im doing as little modifying as I can to the CRX - beyond the necessary repairs - is because in my eyes as well as many other CRX owners - this little beast is becoming a small piece of history in the CRX World.

Simply put - As far as I have reasearched - this could very well be the ONLY street driven CRX within the #1000 build - the actual build # is 29. Hence why I keep it stock and as close to original spec as possible.

To many That particular fact doesn't mean much - but if you look at the overall picture... the 1983 CRX started the 'SPORTY' image of Honda hatches, after which the Integra took over.... and this is one of the very 1st ones - still on the road (to an extent). Came optioned with sunroof, Auto gearbox, Aircon, little weather shields, rear speaker pods...

What I did change on the car is: seat retrim - old trim gave up and fell apart - and because I searched the 'World' for thesame trim and couldn't find it - I had to settle on a custom red/black combination. Stock Steel Rims gave way to lighter 'CRX' alloys and Mild Steel Extractors substituted the heavy cast iron exhaust manifold.
Original 'AM' stereo still sits in my garage - i needed some CD music hehe

so yeah... hope that kinda explains why there isn't much modifications happening...

Mike

**Steer^Gimic** · 05-07-2005 07:08 PM

mike your genone is simply beautiful. i can see this being in concours events in about 10 years when this becomes a real classic
good job and keep it up.

if only people followed the same trend...

**newbie** · 05-07-2005 08:05 PM

dam classic and dam sexy with heaps of style!..

love it.. all the best with it and hope evrything turns out just like it came out of the showroom.

**JEZ83L** · 05-07-2005 10:13 PM

NICE nice nice car...

Best of luck at cabin, Sinistr... you got my vote!

More pictures would be great too if you can manage, love to see more of it!