Alright so here's the situation:
1) When I first got the car, it was from my dad since he bought it a while ago (had around 80,000 miles on it at the time) and it is around 109,000 as of right now. The car's exterior and interior are in amazing shape, like there are no rips anywhere and the body is pretty much flawless besides some paint chips here and there.
2) After owning it for a while I realized that this thing was incredibly slow, so we changed the intake manifold, throttle body, fuel rail, intake, and a few other minor things. This helped it out quite a bit since the old tb was incredibly small and the new one seemed huge compared to it. After we did all this, the car gods decided that I should have kept it stock and so the problems started.
3) While some of these problems were caused by us, some of them just appeared due to the fact when something goes wrong, it takes it to the max. The brakes on the car weren't that great to begin with and right now they're awful, the suspension is incredibly stuff, the catalytic converter isn't sealed right and wisps of exhaust and/or other stuff come out of it from time to time and it doesn't smell all that great, the CV joint in the front knocks pretty bad when I turn the car, the idle is unstable since while the new intake manifold had a place for the IAC it either quit working or doesn't like the setup, and the most major thing that just happened a few days ago was that I was backin the car up in school and I put it in reverse and it didn't do anything when I slipped the clutch so I put it back in 1st and it still didn't do anything, it just acted like it was in neutral. So I sat there for a while and then eventually I just stuck my foot out and pushed the car back cause it's so light. This is a re occuring problem now and we think it's due to the fact that the differential and/or axle decided to break in some spot and if I catch that car in that spot it won't go, but if the car rolls, Im fine.
4) So I come here to ask you fellow AT'ers if I should just keep the car and do an engine swap for a B16 (complete drivetrain, not just engine), fix the other stuff, and continue using the car since the body is great and that would fix most the problems, or should I see what I could even get for it and buy a different car.
Information on the car: 1991 Honda CRX (originally HF but has a DX head, D15B2, 5spd, 109,000 miles). We replaced a lot of stuff on it already like the windshield and the panels for the doors and some stuff in the engine bay and other things, and it looks great. The car handles fine in the winter with the snow tires and in the Summer it's great to drive around.
Cliffs:
1. CRX has problems
2. Body is in great shape, numerous parts replaced
3. Is it worth it to do a drivetrain swap?
1) When I first got the car, it was from my dad since he bought it a while ago (had around 80,000 miles on it at the time) and it is around 109,000 as of right now. The car's exterior and interior are in amazing shape, like there are no rips anywhere and the body is pretty much flawless besides some paint chips here and there.
2) After owning it for a while I realized that this thing was incredibly slow, so we changed the intake manifold, throttle body, fuel rail, intake, and a few other minor things. This helped it out quite a bit since the old tb was incredibly small and the new one seemed huge compared to it. After we did all this, the car gods decided that I should have kept it stock and so the problems started.
3) While some of these problems were caused by us, some of them just appeared due to the fact when something goes wrong, it takes it to the max. The brakes on the car weren't that great to begin with and right now they're awful, the suspension is incredibly stuff, the catalytic converter isn't sealed right and wisps of exhaust and/or other stuff come out of it from time to time and it doesn't smell all that great, the CV joint in the front knocks pretty bad when I turn the car, the idle is unstable since while the new intake manifold had a place for the IAC it either quit working or doesn't like the setup, and the most major thing that just happened a few days ago was that I was backin the car up in school and I put it in reverse and it didn't do anything when I slipped the clutch so I put it back in 1st and it still didn't do anything, it just acted like it was in neutral. So I sat there for a while and then eventually I just stuck my foot out and pushed the car back cause it's so light. This is a re occuring problem now and we think it's due to the fact that the differential and/or axle decided to break in some spot and if I catch that car in that spot it won't go, but if the car rolls, Im fine.
4) So I come here to ask you fellow AT'ers if I should just keep the car and do an engine swap for a B16 (complete drivetrain, not just engine), fix the other stuff, and continue using the car since the body is great and that would fix most the problems, or should I see what I could even get for it and buy a different car.
Information on the car: 1991 Honda CRX (originally HF but has a DX head, D15B2, 5spd, 109,000 miles). We replaced a lot of stuff on it already like the windshield and the panels for the doors and some stuff in the engine bay and other things, and it looks great. The car handles fine in the winter with the snow tires and in the Summer it's great to drive around.
Cliffs:
1. CRX has problems
2. Body is in great shape, numerous parts replaced
3. Is it worth it to do a drivetrain swap?
