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Old 12-20-2012, 09:07 AM   #4 (permalink)
Ryland
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A CRX's engine is not going to give you a boost in mileage over the stock civic VX engine, people have put VX engines in CRX's and gotten a boost in mileage but I don't think you will see that by taking an older engine from a light weight car and putting it in a newer heavier car.

There are a lot of the engines around partly because they are less likely to wear out then to have the rest of the car rust out, so finding a good shell without an engine does happen but is rare and most of the time that it does happen it's had so much of the wiring and everything else stripped out of it to make it in to a race car that you are going to spend a bunch of money just to get it running.

So there is a good chance that when you find a car that you want to put an engine in to, that it will already have an engine in it that will outlast the body.
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