92-95 Civic Radiator in CRX
 

Hello

Maybe you 92-95 Civic owners can help me on this one.

What are the dimensions of the 92-95 Civic radiator? Will this fit into a CRX? If so is it a royal pain in the ass to adapt? Would it be of any value or benefit using this radiator to free up space for a turbo setup.

Thanks
Jon Black

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well its like half of what a CRX radiater has... the dimensions are like 15in wide x 17.5in high x 2in wide. Im pretty sure it would fit a CRX.. just measure everything uP.. The thing that is gonna suck is mounting it on the car securely... and geting the hoses for it... because im not sure if they will line up right... so just measure where they go and go to your local autoparts store and ask to see their hoses or for them to find you one that will fit... but you might find yourself running a little hotter than usual... because my car (94 civic) runs a bit bellow halfway) and my bros CRX runs colder than ---- all the time... (except in traffic)but thats about it... but you will definatly have more room for the turbo... intercooler piping and all that good stuff....

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yes that radiator will work... im about to do the same to my crx just gotta change the brakets... then you will have mad room for pipping...

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i remeber reading somthing about a neon radiator going right in, mounting points and all.

it is also small like the 92 civic rad

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The 92-95 civic radiator will most certainly NOT bolt in... not even changing the top mounting brackets will make it work. I have this radiator in my car, and it took a lot of time/fabrication to get it to work right. As for hoses, a long as you have the radiator mounted in there, the standard hoses should pretty much line up.

Is it worth it to have a half radiator? Yep... i know for certain that my turbo setup would not fit at all without a half radiator. However, i'm having a custom radiator being made at the moment so that i can get rid of the current setup, because the bottom of it sits too low for my tastes...

-J

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John, we are also figure we are going to need a new radiator setup for my Ls/Vtec crx, Beau is working on the manifold, and clearence issues are going to be tight, I am pretty sure I am just going to hack the stock member up, since its already "Modified" to get it to fit. Is your radiator sitting at an angle? or straight up and down?

Jeff

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Hey Jeff, here is a pic for ya...

Figure that the radiator cap is "level" with the radiator... so if the rad was literally straight up and down, the top of the cap would be perfectly flat with the ground... or so... LoL. If you can pull angles from your sscreen, the camera was perfectly flat when taking this shot, and the mag-tray is sitting on the rad cap, so it's straight with it:

http://www.rpiracing.com/composimo/Rad_Angle.jpg

I didn't touch (cut) the front crossmember to make this fit by the way (other than welding to it for a bracket).

-J

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Man, about a year ago beau bought one for his car, and we did a bunch of test fits, and everything was looking ugly. I thought the only way to get it to fit in their nice was hacking the x-member up a little bit, so you can let it sit down just a bit more.. I don't remember.. lol, maybe I will do that neon radiator swap, who knows?

Jeff

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Well, if you can visualize what you have to cut, place the radiator juuuust in front of the front crossmember... the lower rad hose on my setup just barely grazes the crossmember. Of course everything in front of the front crossmember had to be cut. I kept the right half of all that stuff up there, but the left half where the radiator is sitting is pretty much completely gone. (one of these days i'll take the bumper off and shoot ssome pics of the carnage.. LoL.

I'd go for the Neon rad by the way if i did it over again AND had more time... which both will be coming true shortly ;)

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my roommate crashed his del sol, and his new radiator had a tranny cooler in it (for the Auto?) this could be used for an oil cooler too, if you can find one.

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john can you post some pics of the brackets you made please ;D

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its just his new radiator, in his repaired car, nothing custom, but i mentioned it because it might be a good part for someone to use

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"john can you post some pics of the brackets you made please ;D"

I would, but i'm embarrased about them... they are nowhere near as clean as i'd like to show, because they were rushed (big time).. maybe the next iteration of them ;) However, i'm likely going to be at the track on the 16th (just got the Quaife installed today... Woo Hoo!!), and you can check it out then if you'd like in person... hehe.

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hehehe, i know what you mean man.... by the way the track opens the 15th and my crx will make its way out there, tomorow im throwing it on the dyno to see what it pulls unless we got people scheduled to use it.... so i should be out there wednesday making some non belivers belive the dseries power ;D

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John what track do you go to?
You ain't heading down to Moroso are you?
if you are, we should hook up

-Henry

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I just ordered my Z10 crossmember for the zc rex yesterday. What I'm hoping to rig up is a half size rad AND half size AC condenser. That way they can be side by side leaving better airflow behind the FMIC, instead of having them one right after the other. I'll need to find a decent thin push fan to mount in front of the rad and behind the fmic. I wonder if the width is going to be enough. Anyone with civic know the width of the rad and ac condenser side by side?

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hehehe, i know what you mean man.... by the way the track opens the 15th and my crx will make its way out there, tomorow im throwing it on the dyno to see what it pulls unless we got people scheduled to use it.... so i should be out there wednesday making some non belivers belive the dseries power

Ahhh... the 15th. Yea, i was a tad off... LoL. Ok, i'll be there the 15th then ;) You should have dyno'd by now, right? so how'd it do?


John what track do you go to?
You ain't heading down to Moroso are you?
if you are, we should hook up

Henry, i run up at "Bithlo"... http://www.speedworlddragway.com I may go down to Moroso one of these days... but i need to make my car a tad bit more reliable before then. First i break my axles, then replace them with racing axles, then i bust my diff, and have replaced with with a Quaife, so i gues naturally, the next thing to go is my engine, right? LoL...

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Well be careful there John! You're pushing some power with that beast (obviously)

but yeah, if you do head down this way, gimme a ring, did I give you my new number yet?

-Henry

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Speaking of the quaife can that be installed on a ZC tranny? Or is that just silly talk.

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alan, I'm pretty sure that it can be... since you can put an Si diff into a ZC trans, why couldn't you put a quaife in there...

*shrug*

-Henry

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It seems to me there was a discussion on the performance page about this but it's gone now. I'm thinking that there might be a reason it won't fit. I am actually going to pick up a KAAZ 1.5 way lsd that's installed on a Si tranny. But I am still thinking that I want the ZC for it's equal length axles and gearing. I guess I'll try the kaaz si tranny for awhile but it sure would be great if it would fit in a zc tranny.

you still lovin Florida Henry? I guess you're not missing the ice N snow at all!

Re:92-95 Civic Radiator in CRX
 

Well be careful there John! You're pushing some power with that beast (obviously)

but yeah, if you do head down this way, gimme a ring, did I give you my new number yet?

If you're not braking parts, you're not making enough power, or going fast enough ;D haha. And no, i do not have your new number.

-J