Hello~ who wants my CRX+Insight project & parts?
 

Hey Kids,

Looks like things haven't changed much, except I can't get my old login back.

My favorite "smilie" is still here though.

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I hope everyone is doing well.

Benjamin

I remember a similar handle. Can you see your old posts*?

Welcome back.

*If I do an advanced search on 'SVO...' it offers four possible matches but three are not found.

Not allowed to link to my old account it seems. Username SVOboy.

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Hey everyone, it's Ben!

(Long lost EM co-founder.)

I'll update your old account with your current email & send you the login info.

... in exchange for that cheap Honda Beat you promised to send me. :P

Google knows it's there, but vBulletin says no.

A glitch in the Matrix?

Access restored.

Word, thanks.

Actually, I have two non-running Beats now (one was running but I left it sitting for too long, the other is a parts car which runs when it has been dry out for a few days).

I was thinking when I finish have the overhaul done and fixing up the first, I could send the shell of the second over to you to mess around with. What do you think?

The more pressing reason I've suddenly reappeared is I'm back in the US briefly to deal with some bothersome family stuff, including the need to clean out my mom's garage. So I was hoping to find someone to take the IRX project or maybe some engines / parts etc off my hands.

Do you want them, Darin?

Hopefully not too troublesome.


I bet you'll find someone who'll be interested. EG. the Aerocivic just changed custodianship from one EM member to another for a major refurbishment. I'll be surprised if someone isn't interested in your CRX / Insight bits 'n' bobs.


Not me! Too many UFO's. (Un Finished Objects)

I highly recommend you take the beat shell off my hand and turn it into something electric.

If you weren’t in NH I might take it, is it a rolling chassis or ????

How complete? :0

I'm in Missouri actually, at my mother's place.

Well, I haven't tried rolling it, but I assume it rolls!

I was driving it for a good while with no interior (no heating, a/c, blower, dash etc) and completely exposed wiring and it worked fine.

However, I never got the hybrid regen braking working properly due to wiring issues. I recall feeling at the time that my attempts to mate the wiring harnesses were likely the cause, and I should have instead used the stock insight harness and and made custom adapters for the car side (lights, fuel tank, etc), so I was looking for a fresh harness for a while.

Car itself has had the old mounts out and custom ones welded in (by me) so it wouldn't be very easy to swap back in typical Honda stuff.

Let me know!

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I don’t remember a project here for that, was it an insight motor swap?

Is the original interior in the trash or still somewhere?

Hey, welcome back SVOboy. I remember you. Post up photos/details of what you're selling.

Here's the build thread:


Thread: Project IRX: CRX-Insight Renaissance Experiment

To be honest, there's probably more value in the CRX parts these days. Those cars are going up, up, up in price. Collector car.


Surprisingly, there are two rolling around in my little rust belt city. One year-round (shockingly), the other summer only.

Ah I thought it was a Honda Beat swap

I don't think there's enough room in a Beat chassis for more than a handful of double-A's!

Hey Ben! Nice to see ya.

Good luck getting rid of the IRX project. It was a great idea, and I hope someone else runs with it.

Yes, I almost never see CRXs around Japan, and they're super expensive. If I ever planned to move back to the US I'd hold on to it, but there you have it!

Beats get terrible mileage! You should probably also measure them in MPQuartsOfOil.

Well, small engine and batts in the back and then the front bonnet could be filled with more batts, would balance well anyway!

I do have a real old hybrid battery pack laying around as well if you want it?

I am waiting for Gasoline Fumes to notice this thread.

Does he want either an insight drivetrain or a beat up crx shell?

Any idea how I can actually get rid of all these random parts in my garage?

He has been known to adopt the occasional almost-finished CRX-based drivetrain swap project.

PS: I can't reply to PMs! Point taken though.

Well..

You know what they say...

More than a handful is wasteful...


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Now, now. :P


I thought you were going to post that someone had already done a Beat EV conversion.


And you would have been right!


"Electro Beat" Diary of an Electric Vehicle conversion

Don't encourage me! :D

He's a Honda hoarder and wants it all, but has no way to get it home. It's in Missouri?

Hi, Fumes!

Yep, central mo just off I70 and RT63

That's 1,000 miles from me. :(

Only 1000! Wow!

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Sometimes I wish I could've saved one that I used to see at a junkyard in my hometown.

I added some info to the title to get you some more eyeballs. Maybe!


How quickly do you need to get rid of it? Seeing as you're a co-founder, we could put a notice in this month's e-mail newsletter and reach ~18,000 members.

I leave in 4 days! So I imagine not much will happen with it. Just wondering if I might get a very rare hit. No need to bother the mailing list.

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I bet there are half a dozen people who are thinking, "if that were only closer to me..."


(I'm one of them.)

Such is the nature of things!

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