CRX + NSX = originally thought to be epic

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Old Feb 3, 2012 | 12:45 PM
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CRX + NSX = originally thought to be epic

A group on Facebook posted this image of a CRX with a full NSX swap.



Here is a link to that group, https://www.facebook.com/pages/New-Y...36219456416709

I don't have any other info about the build. Has anyone else heard about this build?
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Old Feb 3, 2012 | 12:51 PM
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Two things:

1) I'll bet that CRX will be VERY fast when this is all done;

2) The donor NSX had better have been wrecked or someone deserves a serious wedgie.
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Old Feb 3, 2012 | 01:01 PM
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I can't get FB at work, but here's the car from original build to present. The pic above was from 2009.

http://www.mahdavimotorsports.com/im...rnsx/crnsx.htm
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Old Feb 3, 2012 | 01:01 PM
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Originally Posted by Sly Raskal
A group on Facebook posted this image of a CRX with a full NSX swap.



Here is a link to that group, https://www.facebook.com/pages/New-Y...36219456416709

I don't have any other info about the build. Has anyone else heard about this build?
Sly, ask Honda. They supposedly had a CRX test mule with a prototype NSX motor in it in the mid 80's

I'll see if I can find the references on that.
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Old Feb 3, 2012 | 01:04 PM
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Originally Posted by Bdog
I can't get FB at work, but here's the car from original build to present. The pic above was from 2009.

http://www.mahdavimotorsports.com/im...rnsx/crnsx.htm
Oh good heavens...that body work is horrendous.
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Old Feb 3, 2012 | 01:05 PM
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This should be criminal.
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Old Feb 3, 2012 | 01:05 PM
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Originally Posted by Bdog
I can't get FB at work, but here's the car from original build to present. The pic above was from 2009.

http://www.mahdavimotorsports.com/im...rnsx/crnsx.htm
Looks like it was built up on for drag racing. I would have been more impressed if they could have turned into an autocross car.
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Old Feb 3, 2012 | 01:07 PM
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Originally Posted by Ken1997TL
Sly, ask Honda. They supposedly had a CRX test mule with a prototype NSX motor in it in the mid 80's

I'll see if I can find the references on that.
I didn't know about this. Hmmm, makes you wonder what Honda was hoping to do with it. Wonder why they scraped it.
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Old Feb 3, 2012 | 01:07 PM
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You all don't think this is hot?

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Old Feb 3, 2012 | 01:08 PM
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Originally Posted by Sly Raskal
I didn't know about this. Hmmm, makes you wonder what Honda was hoping to do with it. Wonder why they scraped it.
I don't think it was ever for the CRX itself, just to have a vehicle to use the motor and test the engine.
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Old Feb 3, 2012 | 01:10 PM
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Originally Posted by Bdog
You all don't think this is hot?

Sure...if it was a prefab concept for a Raptor on Battlestar Galactica. But, since it wasn't....
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Old Feb 3, 2012 | 01:12 PM
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Originally Posted by Ken1997TL
I don't think it was ever for the CRX itself, just to have a vehicle to use the motor and test the engine.
Gotcha. Imagine if they had kept going with it. It may have been the Juke-R of the 80's.
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Old Feb 3, 2012 | 01:45 PM
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Great idea...horrid execution.
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Old Feb 3, 2012 | 01:47 PM
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You all don't think this is hot?

Only with gasoline and matches.
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Old Feb 3, 2012 | 01:56 PM
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This thread was like a Facebook pic, the close up shot looks good then you see the whole picture.
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Old Feb 3, 2012 | 02:17 PM
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Fail....on a grand scale.
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Old Feb 3, 2012 | 02:17 PM
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Thread title should be changed: just add the word "Fail"
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Old Feb 3, 2012 | 02:47 PM
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i see a turbo
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Old Feb 3, 2012 | 02:52 PM
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This concept had the potential to be so great... unfortunately the bodywork ruined it
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Old Feb 3, 2012 | 03:03 PM
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Thread title corrected for accuracy.
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Old Feb 3, 2012 | 10:51 PM
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Originally Posted by ttribe
Sure...if it was a prefab concept for a Raptor on Battlestar Galactica. But, since it wasn't....
lmfaoooo
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Old Feb 3, 2012 | 11:29 PM
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Originally Posted by Bdog
You all don't think this is hot?

Car should be put in the "WTF Car of the Day" thread.
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