11/08/2026
What started as a standard timing chain, guide, and tensioner replacement quickly turned into a much bigger job on this Honda CRX.
First up, a massive oil leak led us to a PCV block held on by just ONE bolt out of four. To fix that properly, the supercharger had to come off... which opened up a whole new can of worms.
Once the charger was off, we spotted a crack in the manifold. We got that welded up and faced flat before any rebuild could begin.
But after eating our vegetables, we got to move on to dessert: fabricating a full custom 3-inch exhaust, including modifying the manifold collector to a full 3-inch!
Safe to say this supercharged setup is going to breathe a lot better now. We gained 22bhp from.all this work the car is leaving us with 283 bhp .
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