Awd Civic?

[oompahlumpa]

Is it possible to have an awd civic? if yes what would be the advantages over fwd civics? if any?

was just wondering about this...

[oompahlumpa]

alright I just made myself sound really stupid... (well more stupid than I normaly sound) ok let me refrase it... I know awd civic is possible and I know what the benifit is, but now I guess what i really would like to know is what would it take to do this?

[estebones]

arent those 5th or 4th gen funny looking wagons 4wd???

if so I would say its jst a matter of an engine swap and some hacking to get the axles, drive shafts and the tranny from the wagon into another hatch or sedan from that same year...
Im sure someone has to have done it or planned it out at some point or another.

that would be cool at those ghey solo or sts whatever road races IMO

[CeeReX]

Honda made an AWD Civic as well as an AWD Integra.Obvislouly the US never got the teg but they do exist.I think they were called the XSi or the RSi.The AWD civic was a 4th gen civic.
My guess would be,and i think some magazine was trying to make an AWD ITR,but anyway,they were using parts from The AWD Civic,Integra and CRV.It would def be a frankenstiein project,mixing,matching and fabricating,parts such as axels,driveshatfs motor mounts Etc....

[Buck]

Yeah it's not something you could do in a weekend or anything. The biggest problem is running the drvieshaft back to the rear axle because you would have to cut a place for in thought your floor board.

CivicHB is right one of the mags was working on AWD teg and if I remember right they were using CRV rear axles and tranny.

[oompahlumpa]

hmm... sounds like it might be too much work with not enough result

[Buck]

yeah I don't think it would justify the work and money you would have to put into it to make it work.

[adictionbass]

I was seriously considering doing this a few months ago. I put a good amount of time into trying to figure out the best way to go about doing it. Heres the link to the old thread:
http://www.civicland.com/forums/inde...wtopic=536&hl=

here is my main post:
Ok, heres the deal. I want to make one of the first, if not the first AWD civic. As of right now im just trying to plan it out and figure out wheat I will need. I know a guy that can get me a crv rollover so I plan to start with that. Im not to sure of what year I should look for though. I was thinking a 98 since its compression is 8.8 and I do plan on boosting later. In 99 the compression switched over to 9.6 (still good for boost, but debatable).
Right now I have a 95 civic ex which im planning to use as the body. (Going to get all the dings out and a decent paint job).
Now, things to worry about. The civic fuel tank is right in the way of the drive shaft for the rear wheels. So that tank is out of the question. I’m not sure where/how the tank is place in the crv so I figure I will either have to modify that, or use something like a 12 gal. fuel cell in the trunk.
Transmission. The gear ratios of the crv pretty much fall right between and LS and a GSR, excluding the first gear which is 3.5 in the crv, 3.23 in the ls and 3.307 in the gsr. The final drive is def. a little high (4.562 in the crv compared to 4.266 of the ls) and im not really sure how that will translate into power to the ground.
As for axels, im guessing the crv’s will work. Since theres a transfer case on the end of the tranny, the axels have to be a shorter/longer.
Shift linkage. Not sure weather the crv shift linkage will line up with the body of the civic, or maybe I will need the SI shift linkage?
I plan on using the crv brakes and hubs (everyone will think I got a 5 lug conversion )
Theoretically I just want to take the body off the crv frame, and replace it with a civic body, but I know its not that simple.
This is all just what im thinking right now, and obviously still need to look into it a little further, but I wanted to get some opinions/suggestions before I went any further. Any comments or thoughts would be a great help. Sorry for the long read. Thanks again.
josh

hope this helps...
josh

[oompahlumpa]

I dont think I am going to do this, it was just a possibility that was running threw my head. But if you deffinatly get this done PLEASE post up about it and let us know how it turned out the diffuculty how much it costed etc etc....

[dubcac]

Those CRV rear axles are like toothpicks.