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82 Honda CVCC

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#1 ·
Just wondering if anyone has any ideas about these things like where to get good street trip parts? or how hard it would be to drop a VTEC engine in one?

If anyone has any ideas or thoughts please PM me.. thanks
 
#5 ·
DONT YOU EVER MENTION VTEC IN THIS FORUM AGAIN BUDDY! Kidding. As for your answer, id say check out a honda message board out. Someone is gonna move this thread or lock it anyways eventually.
 
#7 ·
Here's a good first and second gen Civic site.

http://www.civic1200.com/

And yes - it can be done, and yes it's a ton of work. I used to have a 1979 Civic and there is not much room in that engine bay. The '82 came with a 1.5 liter engine, I belive. My '79 had a 1.2 liter.

And, would someone please move this to Pit Stop?
 
#11 ·
I saw a magazine a month or so ago that had an old school CVCC with a new VTEC engine in it. I can't for the life of me remember which magazine it was, but the car was INSANELY COOL!

The guy's wife even owned a convertible CVCC with some funky engine in it as well. Damn, it's going to bother me until I remember which magazine it was.
 
#12 ·
Look he can post whatever he wants, maybe it should be in off topic if thats what you guys think but you have to know that hondas dont come ricey from the factory, people make them ricey. if you have a true appreciation for cars you shouldnt have a problem with "rice" cars. as a matter of a fact i like a lot of japanese cars, but it was a throwup between a civic and a focus, and i wanted the better looking car (being it was a 2004 civic) and i also wanted the bigger engine, better handling, and i wanted torque. anyways i would have taken a ek hatch with a crv bottom end any day.
 
#18 ·
Hmmm... Sounds like my kind of swap. I do believe a great deal of fabrication will be involved, but as some other valuable advice suggested, talk to the Honda folks.

yes, there is a great deal of fabrication involved. As I said, it'd been done before, but it's a lot of work.

Somone mentioned a two-speed transmission.Yes, the first-generation Civics had the "Hondamatic" option. That's the tranny I had in my '79. It wan't a true automatic, though. You had first and second gears. At a certain speed (40?\mph?) you had to manually move the shifter into the "2" position. There wasn't a clutch - it was like shifting an auto, but you had to move it into "2." For ultra-slow performances, you could just leave the car in 2 all the time which is what we did in the the deep snow. Grated, it was nearly impossible to spin the tires even in the snow, but this assured the fact you weren't going to loose any precious traction from the 145/80/12 M+S tires. Honestly, this was the best snow car I've ever driven. We could keep up to 4x4s in snow up to 4" deep! Dead serious.

BTW, I think this whole "rice" thing is way out of hand. Just because a car isn't from an American-based auto maker doesn't make it "rice" IMHO. And putting a different engine in a car doesn't make it "ricey," but that's just what I think. Just remember, most Foci are made in Mexico, while my my last three Civics were made in either Marysville, OH or Canada ... but that's a whole 'nother thread.
 
#20 ·
My point is that just because it's a Civic, doesn't mean a VTEC will bolt right up and mate with the tranny, which seems to be some kind of popular opinion.

I saw that car in Super Street, and I totally loved it. My first car was an 83 Civic 1500 and I had that thing apart several times, including dropping the transmission twice, once to replace it, once to fix it and put it back together.

BTW, it doesn't look like anything will easily swap in except some older prelude engine, and I found this tidbit about 'CVCC' that I have always wondered about.

CVCC stands for Compound, Vortex, Controlled Combustion, ergo three valves per cylinder, extra valve performs pre combustion, meeting with 'much room to spare', emission rules of the 70's.