Honda CRX vs. Civic - Battle Of The Budget Builds
Watch Us Take Project Car Down In An Ef Shootout You Won't Want To Miss
After I'd spent a few weeks with the company, Jonny said, "Hey, I found this really clean EF. Do you think you guys can build it for me?" Once again, this sounded like a good idea, as we were desperately in need of a car. Unfortunately when Jonny showed up with his dented rust bucket, I knew I just made my second mistake. We were now faced with the challenge of building Jonny's "bucket" into a JDM masterpiece while still finding a way to build two other cars with whatever time and money might be left over.
After getting stepped on too many times, we came up with the perfect plan to get even. No blackmail or hitman for hire here. Instead, we decided to beat him at his own game-with his unwanted motor in a busted CRX. That's right, we salvaged his old D16A6 from the trash and decided we'd use what little money he left behind to build something capable of spanking his Easter Bunny blue EF. The objective was simple: embarrass the Super Street crew by not only beating them, but doing so with they're unwanted parts on a budget they'd blow on one designer outfit, as seen in their Paris Hilton-approved "Style Issue." "That issue was sooooo hotttt," Paris Hilton said.
Our build will consist of nothing more than a junkyard T-25 turbo, mounted on a $35 HF/STD factory manifold through the use of a BMC Racing adapter plate. For fuel management, we can only afford an FMU coupled with a Walbro fuel pump. If that isn't ghetto enough, we are also planning to rely on a $100 eBay intercooler to harness our intake temps. If our OG turbo kit ain't capable of smoking these guys, we have a few other surprises in store, but nothing that can be discussed while Jonny is prancing nearby.
No matter how you gut it, this is the classic rich kid/poor kid showdown. Not having the budget to build the internals of our engine is a serious limitation. But to even the playing field, we've limited Jonny to a stock B16 SiR swap. Despite the stock-spec limitations to the B16, his power-train should prove to be much more reliable than our 310,000 mile ticking time bomb. The only thing we have going is the fact that we are the underdogs. We'll save the trash talking 'til after we make his $30K EF look like the rust lurking under all that baby boy blue paint. Peace,
Gary Narusawa, Project Car
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