I just want to take a moment to wish anybody who reads this (and others, I guess…) a happy whatever-your-religion-allows holiday.  I guess it boils down to:

see friends and family, have good food, maybe exchange some meaningful gifts.

Your electrical system is only as strong as the weakest link, so keep those terminals clean! They’re the most likely part of the electrical system to corrode, so pick up a terminal cleaner and hit them monthly (at least). Even if you don’t see anything wrong, corrosion is building up.

A good fix to ward off corrosion temporarily is to smear the terminals with petroleum jelly( vasaline). it will slow the corrosion process down and still maintain a good connection so your car will start consistently.

Some of you may have followed my thread on SHO here regarding the long and laborious swap that was supposed to be the “easy” b-series swap. Since hindsight is 20/20, I’m going to offer this post as a writeup to prevent others from running into the same problems I did. You’re all big kids, I’m sure you can come up with your own original problems on your own. No need to repeat mine.

Here are my personal recommendations to anybody planning to go from this:

to this:

in their CRX.

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1. When you know exactly how many CRX’s are within the surrounding area, and all their owners by name.
2. When you visit/browse Ebay/ and other car selling websites looking for CRX’s even though you have one, and are not planning to buy another one.
3. If you laugh when people describe a 2600 pound car as a “light” car.
4. When your friends pull a prank of you on april fools by picking up the car and moving it around a corner, and making you think the car was stolen (it was like 10 of them but still)
5. When nobody else understands what attracts you to a the car.
6. When you consider the EF hatches a redheaded stepchild of the CRX.
7. When you think manhole covers should come with “No U-Turn” signs.
8. When your rear end comes out and you do nothing to stop it, because you know that once it goes, its gone, and you just pray for it to comeback.
9. When you consider modern features like power windows and power door locks unnecessary heavy weight adding features.
10. When you know that something is wrong if your car isnt making any noices.
11. When you know each noise your car makes and where its coming from.
12. When a weight of a deck (CD unit) is one of the things you consider when purchasing one.
13. When you start to notice good things about the cooper mini.
    
14. You know every other car model with similar weight
    
15. You truly appreciate the Weight/HP ratio
    
16. You laugh at your buddies when they say that S2000 was the best honda ever made
    
17. You turn your head around completely whenever another CRX passes you even if its a rusted out POS
    
18. You wave fanatically to other CRX owners/drivers on the road
    
19. You make lists of what to do to your car next
    
20. Most of your “To Do” list consists of things to do to the CRX
    
21. You have more money into the CRX that what you bought it for
    
22. You have more money into the CRX then what it cost brand new 15 years ago
23. When you know what Y-49 means, and the affiliation it has with luck
24. When someone says “that’s cute” and you blow the fuck past them
25. You can park two cars in one parking spot.
26. Your spare tire well doubles as a swimming pool every time it rains.
27. The miles on your odometer and the miles on your engine have nothing to do with each other.
28. Everything you want to do to your engine has to be followed up with the, “Do I have enough room under the hood?” question.
29. Your climate control is cracked near the temp knob.
30. You load every option / engine imaginable into your car and it still only weighs 2300lbs.
31. Every other part you try to order from Honda is discontinued.
32. You get zero traction off the line.
33. Threshold trail braking requires Gods approval or else you will spin out.
34. your doors weigh 60% of the entire weight of the car. (90-91 and some 89s)
35. People look at you with a confused open mouth stare when they here how much money you dropped on it.
36. When 2100lbs just doesnt seem light enough so you go on a diet.
37. When your seats are worth more than the whole car itself - Si only.
38. When you do everything thing you can to get in and out of the driver’s seat as carefully as possible so not to do any more damage to the bolster.
39. When you use the process of entering/exiting of your car as an excuse to diet.
40. When NO FAT CHICKS stickers are meant to be taken seriously in your car
41. When you have to pick up a bunch of drunk friends from a bar ONE AT A TIME
42. When you add the weight of you and one of your random friends and your close if not over the posted weight limit in you glove compartment.
43. When you’ve owned the car for years and still aren’t sure what the little square pocket just left of your steering wheel is for…
44. When people complain about gas milage,you laugh and tell them, ten dollars worth and you could drive across the state