Giopawa
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Okay, so of course there is A LOT of hate for Civics out there.
Cannot say I care one way or another, it is just the car I chose to work on vs my 95 Grand Am, which I of course sold because it was a P.O.S.
Given if I had the money, you better believe I would be working on a 71 Chevelle, but ******** it.
So anyways, not really "ricing" my car up or planning on racing it, just going to make it a fun car.
I purchased this guy 2 years ago and it sat for a year before I even touched it other than to get it inspected by the insurance guys.
Here is how she looked then.
J/K! That was a friend on our trip to the scrap yard.
Here she is.
That is how she sat, next to my house for a year.
Summer showed the paint for its "true" colors so to say. It was so sun damaged words could not describe. I didn't give a ********, a 91 Civic with such little rust, WHAT A TREAT! That was gold to us Indiana folk. Especially one so close to bone stock, I mean if anything were wrong I wouldn't have to figure out someone else's mess!
During the Summer I decided I was going to sand her down and paint her.
Well I sanded her down and well by god I got ******** over at my job and money became no more. So I rode her for awhile like this.
Then a friend gave me an idea, "rattle can" her up. I was like.... ******** it, anything would look better than this mess.
So that turned into this.
I had 17's on it for awhile until the tire popped up and did to the fender what you see.
The car in the background was a 91 Civic that I picked up, it was all "turbo'd and riced" as you would say. I scrapped it for some parts then sold it for just as much as I paid lol.
Here is an example of how clean I keep my interior.
Shortly before I decided to "really" do some work to her I wrecked her into a Dodge that was stopped in the road. I hit that ******** doing 50. That sucked. Luckily for me there was no rail or frame damage, just a bruised ego and radiator.
That and the hood was thrashed as was the fender, more so than it was.
I do have a new hood coming to me Wednesday though. 5$, cannot beat that lol.
Then recently I decided to go through and do a wire tuck, MPFI Swap, put on some headers, new battery, clean up the engine, blah blah blah small stuff.
So here is how she is sitting now, rain delay.
Before my start of the tuck, but with headers and battery.
Tuck started, re did all of this because I hated how I was doing it, so it looks different than this pic.
Driver side wires to be soldered and tucked through the fender.
The interior (mess)
Have to de pin and re pin the new ECU in a different order to get the MPFI to work. I mean 4 points of fuel injection definitely is superior to 2 points. I have the brand new Dizzy to put in, Resistor Box, ECU, Intake Manifold, Fuel Rail and Si Harness to splice and fit into my DX Harness. What fun!
THUMBS UP FOR THE TUCK!
As I said, the car isn't being worked on this week because the weather man decided to ******** me and hand me rain until Saturday. What a gentleman.
She is sitting with a D15B2 on DPFI.
She soon will be sitting with an A6 Intake Manifold/Fuel Rails.
I do have the stuff to convert it entirely to OBD1 but I don't plan on doing that until it gets a full engine swap. Which only god knows when that will happen. (A real engine swap I mean, not just another SOHC)
I have a D16A6 with around 100k miles coming to me vs my current bundle of joy with 250k miles.
I am going to rebuild the A6 before I put it in though, only makes sense.
Someday I plan on dropping an Z6 into it or a B18 or DOHC ZC, undecided but that isn't until winter time when I can just park her in the garage and do that through a season.
Things currently coming to me are a Stage 2 Exedy Clutch which will go in the car.
A D16A6 which will not go in the car until a bit later.
So this is my build thread.
I will be updating it as I update my car.
Tell me if I am doing anything wrong or something I can improve on.
Give me idea's.
I am no mechanic, I am learning everything as I go. Like I said, this is a project and spare time.
Cannot say I care one way or another, it is just the car I chose to work on vs my 95 Grand Am, which I of course sold because it was a P.O.S.
Given if I had the money, you better believe I would be working on a 71 Chevelle, but ******** it.
So anyways, not really "ricing" my car up or planning on racing it, just going to make it a fun car.
I purchased this guy 2 years ago and it sat for a year before I even touched it other than to get it inspected by the insurance guys.
Here is how she looked then.
J/K! That was a friend on our trip to the scrap yard.
Here she is.
That is how she sat, next to my house for a year.
Summer showed the paint for its "true" colors so to say. It was so sun damaged words could not describe. I didn't give a ********, a 91 Civic with such little rust, WHAT A TREAT! That was gold to us Indiana folk. Especially one so close to bone stock, I mean if anything were wrong I wouldn't have to figure out someone else's mess!
During the Summer I decided I was going to sand her down and paint her.
Well I sanded her down and well by god I got ******** over at my job and money became no more. So I rode her for awhile like this.
Then a friend gave me an idea, "rattle can" her up. I was like.... ******** it, anything would look better than this mess.
So that turned into this.
I had 17's on it for awhile until the tire popped up and did to the fender what you see.
The car in the background was a 91 Civic that I picked up, it was all "turbo'd and riced" as you would say. I scrapped it for some parts then sold it for just as much as I paid lol.
Here is an example of how clean I keep my interior.
Shortly before I decided to "really" do some work to her I wrecked her into a Dodge that was stopped in the road. I hit that ******** doing 50. That sucked. Luckily for me there was no rail or frame damage, just a bruised ego and radiator.
That and the hood was thrashed as was the fender, more so than it was.
I do have a new hood coming to me Wednesday though. 5$, cannot beat that lol.
Then recently I decided to go through and do a wire tuck, MPFI Swap, put on some headers, new battery, clean up the engine, blah blah blah small stuff.
So here is how she is sitting now, rain delay.
Before my start of the tuck, but with headers and battery.
Tuck started, re did all of this because I hated how I was doing it, so it looks different than this pic.
Driver side wires to be soldered and tucked through the fender.
The interior (mess)
Have to de pin and re pin the new ECU in a different order to get the MPFI to work. I mean 4 points of fuel injection definitely is superior to 2 points. I have the brand new Dizzy to put in, Resistor Box, ECU, Intake Manifold, Fuel Rail and Si Harness to splice and fit into my DX Harness. What fun!
THUMBS UP FOR THE TUCK!
As I said, the car isn't being worked on this week because the weather man decided to ******** me and hand me rain until Saturday. What a gentleman.
She is sitting with a D15B2 on DPFI.
She soon will be sitting with an A6 Intake Manifold/Fuel Rails.
I do have the stuff to convert it entirely to OBD1 but I don't plan on doing that until it gets a full engine swap. Which only god knows when that will happen. (A real engine swap I mean, not just another SOHC)
I have a D16A6 with around 100k miles coming to me vs my current bundle of joy with 250k miles.
I am going to rebuild the A6 before I put it in though, only makes sense.
Someday I plan on dropping an Z6 into it or a B18 or DOHC ZC, undecided but that isn't until winter time when I can just park her in the garage and do that through a season.
Things currently coming to me are a Stage 2 Exedy Clutch which will go in the car.
A D16A6 which will not go in the car until a bit later.
So this is my build thread.
I will be updating it as I update my car.
Tell me if I am doing anything wrong or something I can improve on.
Give me idea's.
I am no mechanic, I am learning everything as I go. Like I said, this is a project and spare time.
