You can make it Rear Wheel Drive doing an All Wheel Drive conversion from the CRV then just remove the front axle. It's not a plug and play requires a lot of fabrication and modification. A lot of guy's who has Honda Civic hatchback like the EF and EG they do All Wheel Drive conversion.
So it can be done. Youre just going to need to make it a tube frame front and rear and make the car a rear wheel drive car or 4 wheel drive, but trick the front into not receiving any power as i believe honda awd is front bias. ORRRRRRRRR swap in a S2000 drive train