osu s2k

good price, wish i didnt have the 01 in the garage, i would replace it with a cr.

red93.5mkiv_tt

nice car! congrats.....140sum odd miles on it, thats sweet!

Popeye

Is Timmy's old car for sale ?

Mocky

Kind of wondering the same thing.... but in my case, an '05... not having a top would be my only concern...


..I know JDM CR has a soft top, but does it have the same bracing as the USDM verison? If so, I wonder if that's how it would fit.

Mchester

Well, there is no actual JDM CR. The Type S looks the CR part, but is missing most of the chassis tuning bits, including the rear brace.

Over the next couple months, I'll be trying to engineer a way to keep the brace AND add a soft top back into the car, so we'll see how that goes. Should be fun...

Mocky

My friend would be very interested in knowing if that's possible. His '04 is up so if that's feasible, I bet he'd be interested in knowing how it's done. I thought the type s had the rear brace but yeah, if it doesn't, digging up one of those wouldn't work either..


Keep us posted!

Mchester

I will try very hard to document as I go. I think it will help "move" some CRs if people were sure a soft top could be added and what it would take to do it.

I'm sure it isn't going to be simple, but I think it can be done.

Mocky

Yah.... I would love to have a CR but the unavailability of a soft top would be an issue for me..

David1

You wouldn't even need to do the electrics, just the frame and top. It would be like a manual top. It would save weight. From what I have read, all you need to do is remove the bracing and bolt the vert top unit in.

Mchester

I considered the manual route... Still might try it and see how difficult it will be to move manually. I hope I can mofify it so ithe frame sits just low enough to still use the cowl when I want to... That may not happen, but we'll see.