Other people have been doing this. Since we noow have an automotive thread, and i'm bored, i'm going to do one up too.
How I got my honda:
I was 15 and looking forward to getting my license in 6 months and starting to think about looking for a car. One day my dad came home and said there was a car at his work that i could have for $100. It was a red 1993 honda civic 4 door. The reason it was so cheap...the original owner was someone who had been working with my dad for years now and they had recently passed the car on to their daughter as her first car. She didn't get the oil changed and blew the motor in it...So, what I had was basically a shell with a blown motor.
First things first, I needed a motor. At this point I wasn't really planning on doing much to my car, so the motor was almost a direct replacement. The new motor however was imported from japan, out of a jdm civic, it came with twin side draft carburators, but i opted for putting the stock fuel injection system from the old motor on it. Here's the engine right after completing the swap:
Now I had a running machine!
I got my license in June and spent the the summer and next winter driving it like this:
The next spring though, I decided to start adding some modifications.
First came some rims and tires: Enkei DM5 16x7 wrapped in BFgoodrich g-force sport 205/45/16R
I know these tires aren't the best out there, but they were affordable for me at the time and I've been satisfied with them for the most part.
Bolt on engine modifications and clean up came next.
Cleaned engine bay a little and bought k&n filter and aluminum cold air intake.
Replaced the plugs with NGK plugs( i don't remember which ones exactly) and bought some Accel 8mm wires
Did some more cleaning, painted the heat sheild and got a new valve cover and painted it.
Bought a front upper strut bar. The engine bay sat like this for quite a while.
Next I bought the exhaust i have grown to hate, so i won't put a picture of it. It's going away soon anyways.
Paint! It took me about 2 months of my summer to prepare and paint it while working around my work schedule. I also bought an OEM spoiler and did that too.
At this point i had also bought some ugly seat covers and some really ugly tail lights (this was the extent of my ricer stage)
2 days after painting:
A few months later i decided i hated those tail lights and seat covers and did away with them and bought the tail lights i love.
Then i got some subwoofers for $20 a piece from a friend and built my sound system. I love the sound quality of it, and no i don't play it so loud you can hear me coming from a mile away. I use my system for music, not loud noises. But i'm thinking about stepping it down to just 2 subs this summer to lighten it up and bring back some trunk space.
Next 2 things i got, my bumper lips and coil overs and kyb struts.
She now sits like this
Then i finally got my headers which changed the sound of the car quite a bit and actually made it run a bit smoother.
[img]http://memimage.cardomain.com/ride_images/3/678/241/26692620148_large.jpg[img]
Next i pulled some seats out of a 2003 Honda insight and made up some brackets and mounted them.
Finally, this is where i'm at now...last fall I was offered a b18b1 integra ls motor and transmission for $500. I took action right away and scrapped together the money.
And a brand new aluminum dual core radiator I picked up
Right now, i'm working on figuring out what I'm doing with this engine. I'm planning on building it up for high compression NA and just need to get together some money for it, but college payments are hitting on that pretty hard.
its nice to see a civic thats not so rice out
love the color needs to be lowered and the rims suck lol
It's as low as I can go with the roads I have to drive on a daily basis right now. And the rims I got for $200 and can't afford others right now because my main focus is building my engine and getting the swap done.
i would keep these rikms, they look good :/
rest looks nice, but i would have kept the bumper lip black but it's my taste
man, i love the lip when it was black.. nice build so far!
Nice build so far!
Since your building the b18 to N/A specs might as well turbo the Dirty D for the hell of it
(waits for ppk to come in here and start hatten*
^Hey Kev, go f**k yourself for me
yea, I gotta say the lip looked better black... and don't be a pussy and drop that s**t all the way down and remove a collar on each one. Then get spacers and roll the fenders.
I was gonna say I've got a powdercoated D-series valve cover I'm tryin to get rid of right now, but it looks like you have a B goin in it now lol
No wai! I'm updating something.
2 weeks ago, I went to a small meet. It was the first of its kinda in my town, so the turnout wasn't very good. Last week was the second, we had about twice as many cars, but i forgot my camera that week.
I'm going to attempt to do these in order.
-I got a nice Tachometer and installed it on my steering wheel. I couldn't find any pictures of it though, so i'll have to do that later.
-Some high output LED fog lights.
I feel like they piss people off some times.
-Then 2 days ago I made this replacement for my stock deck lid.
I don't have a before pic of this, but the stock one had a center brake light that was sun-damaged pretty bad, and 2 speaker covers.
-Then I finally got around to finishing the switch for the fog lights. ( I had just a mess of wires and a switch hanging from my dash for a few weeks)
Now just a few random shots
Earlier today, dropped it another inch, cleaned the insides of my wheels and cleaned up my break calipers.
Machining parts on our manually operated machining mill
And...all done for the day
it's looking naice :
dont tell me u own a nova
That looks to be ether a Monte, Cutlass, or GNX(regal) or the Red One lol Witch one?
By the looks of the Tails Light it seems to be a Nova.
the red one? thats a 70,71 nova
The Red car in the pics with the seat is my dad's '72 Nova. 402 Big Block.
The Dark Green one is a '82 Buick Regal with a 350 small block chevy and a few grand nation trim pieces.
Neither are as fast as my camaro
And here comes some Updates
Started working on getting the engine clean so that I can start bringing in parts and rebuilding this thing to the beast it will be. With the set up I've decided to go with I'll be getting about 11:1 to 11.5:1 compression. I'm going to Have a set of crower 403 cams in the head. I've got to find a top end header and I'll be fabricating my own full exhaust and probably a flowmaster or magnaflow high flow muffler. And much more. Should be fun.
Before and after. Just some industrial de-greaser, foaming de-greaser, and simple green so far.
And here's most of the old parts. Most of them are going to be replaced with new aftermarket parts.
I love when ppl care about their cars , keep improving it and dont crash it
402 bigblock? that a 396 bored out?
Yep. 402 is a 396 Bored.
i'm a noob if it comes to engineblocks, but that looks damn neat man
i beg you , put ITB's on the B18B , the sound'll be heavenly!!
stock ECU or aftermarket management?
(looks naice btw)
ITB's Cost way too much.
I would love to have them, but I can't afford them.
Maybe Down the road I will.
Good lad
keep us updated.
Actually. After you mentioned that, I've put more thought into the ITB's. They are becoming more and more of a possibility. I can get a OBX ITB set up for about $650. Where Going the other route, getting a good aftermarker intake manifold $300-400 probably, a high flow fuel rail another $100 and other bits and pieces. The cost will come out close to the cost of ITB's.
On another note. Got my rear shocks finally. Already had the rear coilovers but was waiting to install them. Hopefully they'll all be in by the end of the day tomorrow. No more rake
^cool
cool
u are going to slam the mugen rims right?
slam a cf hood and paint all lips black and i will love u more than i love u now :U
I no want carbon fiber hood.
I don't have Mugen rims. Those ish are expensive. I have Enkei rims. I wish I had Mugen RNR's those rims are
Repainting things isn't cheap or quick or fun.
If you can take the Financials, ITB's are the way to go.
little Honda ITB Anecdote...
I went to Zolder ( the track in belgium) the other week , with a friend of my dads who's got a brand new Cayman S with a tech art exhaust.
he took me out for a couple of hotlaps and allof sudden a Ek Civic Absolutley left us for dead on a straight. session over , the guy pulls in , and when he lifted the hood It was epic... ( btw my dad's friend has a International Racing license and a offical VLN drivers certificate so it wasn't his driving)
spec :
1998 JDM B18C-R
Jenvey ITB's
Titanium 4-2-1 exhaust
motec Management
and lots more
The sound : Well... let's just say i still get the spine tingle
Hi guys
I haven't fully ordered them yet because I don't know what bore size I'm going to go with. Since I'm going to bore it over a little bit to make sure the cylinder walls are in good shape most likely. I'm thinking about boring it from 81mm to 83mm. It will take the engine from 1.833L to 1.925L
The pistons will make the compression ratio 11.4:1
Other than that, this update is basically to say that I've pretty much spec'd out almost all the stuff i'm going to do to my engine for the swap. And I'm planning on trying to completely do the swap this summer.
Some of the parts I've spec'd the build for:
Crower Stage 2 Cams.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SQuL1yVr%78%44g
It will sound kind of like that. But I will have a muffler or 2 to keep it quieter. But that's the general rhythm the engine will have.
Crower Dual valve springs and titanium spring retainers.
Stainless tri-y headers with stepped and tuned pipes.
Full custom 2.5 inch exhaust. most likely with 1 glass pack baffle in the middle and then a performance muffler at the end. maybe a mugen twin loop.
Chip the ECU for a 9.2k Redline
and a few more details type stuff.
Jeeze man, your going all out! lol
So all these mods would make your car what? About just as fast as mine?
@ Mike
I won't have any turbo lag.
I'm hoping to get around 175 wheel HP when it's all said and done.
And my car weighs around 2300 lbs.
Yours weighs what? around 3500 lbs?
I believe that would put mine right around or higher than yours for hp to weight ratio
Plus, just a shot in the dark, but mine probably handles better
@Ben. Idk, i haven't really kept tabs on my total spendings.
I bought it for $100.
Paint ran me about $700
Rims $200(used)
Tires $450
Lips/spoiler/lights/exterior mods probably around $300
Suspension about $600 in total i would guess
the d15 that's in it now was around $600 Gonna sell that once it's pulled. should be able to get about half or more back
My sound system has about $1000 into it. But i'm planning on selling most of it when I finish my swap.
d series headers $100. those are being sold when the b series goes in.
idk, i would guess i'm somewhere between $4000 and $5000 right now.
wut wut in the but
^ I\'m getting dem tires off the ground next summer when I get new rear tires
Maybe... I do have awd and 18 inch wheels so the handling may or may not be about the same. I want me coilovers! At the moment, there is only one person running coilovers on a ralliart and they aren't really made for it! they are just generic ones that happen to fit, but still not that great, you have to ghetto rig them a bit. :sadface:
Anyways, The real reason I'm not doing too much to my car is because its still under warranty. Right now I'm only getting stuff that won't interfere with that or if I find something for a really good price.
fixed
Mine being like 1100-1200 lbs lighter kinda helps the handling bit
And my tires are directional performance street tires. And they've got reinforced sidewalls for less deflection while cornering, which allows for higher force turns.
OH YEAH! WELL
half of my tires are some cheap falkens and the other half are Yokohama Advans. lol
Swap meets. I love them.
$50
Starting to get together the parts for my swap.
Very nice.
visions a off spring of tein
looking good dawg
Oh, herro.
Got the block back from the machine shop. Bored .5mm over. Also, on top is the old stock piston vs my new ceramic coated p73 b18c piston. 11.5:1 compression
sexy
s**ts clean. I want to put my d**k in it. Not really. It wouldn't fit.
^ ^ TMI
sexy block dude cant wait to see it build up and running
awwww
those are cute little pistons you have
what do they want to go in when they grow up?
lol, wtf ian
Hes a Honda hater, I know first hand. lol
Finally got it back out of winter storage
Still shiny!
Question for you though. I know there's a whole bunch of noobs doing it and you may not wanna be "conformist" or what have you, but why don't you just boost the damn thing? lol
because of torque steer lol
looks good man. comming together rather well
I ain't never seen a Civic like that. Awesome dude.
Keep it up.
I'm not boosting it because I'm doing an engine swap. And I'm building the engine for high compression, cams, etc. I should be able to take it over 9k no problem when I'm done. If I were to ever boost it, I would want to do it in a way that would last and actually hold boost. I would have to re sleeve the block, probably replace the whole rotating assembly, hone the head, and get a turbo kit. Basically, if I wanted boost done the way I would like it, it would run me upwards of $4000 or more added to the cost...
By going high compression, I can actually afford to finish the basic build before I get out of college, and I'll still probably be able to outrun a lot of the boosted ones around me, since they all slap ebay kits on stock engines.
shoulda just bought a GSR lol
my friend daily's his stock GSR at 8psi and runs high 13's spinning through 3rd gear
GSR's aren't easy to find around here.
Besides, the LS has a bigger stroke and with the boring that I had done, it's at 1.9L now. And the cams I'm getting are more aggressive than the vtec cam profile of a gsr. And with the gsr pistons in my LS, I'll be at 11.4:1 compression compared to the GSR's 10:1.
And, I *could* boost it on stock internals. With the low compression of the LS when stock, they're pretty awesome engines to hold boost, I know people that run 11-14psi on stock internals in the LS. But I'd rather have high compression. This isn't being built to be a drag car, that's what my camaro is for. This is being built for my personal tastes.
wait, they make honda civic gsr's?
he he he
Swap in a V6. Yeeeeahhhh!
(Yeah, I know it costs way more, but hmmm...)
lips need black!!!
kool look
We had some nuts weather up here in the north
i'd say give it a candy red and get new rims, the rims u got now jared, i atleast see once a day... saw them on a minivan before
new rims and paint aren't anywhere close to my priorities right now.
The snow is now up to my lip :(xx
u cant make higher by lowering it
dude your lip is common too
^Yea man listen to this guy. He obviously knows what he's talking about.
Oh and your car is red, that color is too common. You should paint it teal.
And while your at it, cars are to common so get a unicycle.
then you will be cool.
honestly, i don't give a s**t if anything is common or not. I do things to my car because I want to. It's my car. I modify it to my own personal tastes.
And no, I'm not going lower for the time being. I don't live in vegas. Roads are not flat here. I have much worse things to worry about than lane dots.
In other news. I really hate this weather. 5 days ago it was 70 degrees F and sunny.
stupid japan, knocking the earth off its axis
How many feet is that?
Yesterday was 30 and today it was 85 in the dirty south lol
they arent the same anyways, the yelow ones lip is yello, the blue one lip is blue and jreds is red, so they arent the same
quit whining about your roads and learn how to drive.
my roads are perfect, and i am learning to drive, so, trolololol
tookded some piktars.
your ride is so damn awesome dude
got any engine/exhaust sound virals?
did you just finish washing it after you went mudding
Kevin, I can't find any. I must have lost them when my hard drive took a crap.
I think you should invest in some new wheels. That my least favorite part of your car.
engine before wheels.
Down the road, I definitely plan on new wheels. I've got a few in mind that I haven't decided yet. But right now, I'm still going to college for another year and a half at about $25000 a year... All my money pretty much goes towards that, and what doesn't has been going towards my engine.
Enkei J Speed
Enkei RPF1
Mugen RNR
Mugen M7
Mugen MF10L
But all those cost money which I don't have right now.
look at this guy he's so cute with his racecar wheels. awwwwwwwwww
^ look at this guy, he's embarrassed that his car isn't low enough so he makes fun of others
anyways, I like the J Speeds
needs carbon lip, hood and trunk <3
carbon lips are useless, you smack one thing one time and it's trashed.
@Mike, since you brought it up lol
I'm over trying to be the lowest guy ever, I'm super super happy with the height my car is at right now. laid out and still useful
and my vote is also for J-speeds. <3
I love the last ones but I don't think they would fit your car very well lol
In for RPF1s when you get the bank roll
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@Mike, since you brought it up lol
I'm over trying to be the lowest guy ever, I'm super super happy with the height my car is at right now. laid out and still useful
I think this is the wisest thing you've ever said. lol
EDIT: s**t, quote fail. I'm not gonna bother trying to fix it. lol
kevin, here's an idea of what those ones would look like.
^that lip>Jared's lip
that lip = stock lip for coupe/hatch
I would most definitely go for the Mugen M7s
carbon lips rule, and i don't think he's that low to hit s**t
Roads, parking lots, everything sucks in michigan. My lip scrapes all the time. There are too many streets and drives that have rapid angle changes.
You should see if you can get Laguna splitters in the US somewhere
Rubber so scraping is not an issue, long as it's mounted properly
ian, my bumper won't fit that lip.
M7s or J speeds
If you wanted to do that kind of lip, you could do the garage door liner lip. If you don't know what I'm talking about I could find a write up on it.
I like my lip the way it is. I was just saying that lip came on coupes/hatches. Sedans didn't have that style of lip.
i thought body mods were ricy nowadays anyways.
you guys obviously have NO taste in cars.
enjoy your boring, not low, ugly, stock, econoboxes and let all of the guys with taste talk cars.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Odht3eLEBvk&feature=related
what if that was jared's civic in the future
prolly because that is a multi thousand dollar, drag prepped, civic on steroids versus a completely stock lamborghini.
sideways is the way
this isn't a thread about Ian's car. So leave that and any other s**t that isn't on topic out.
y u mad tho?
because I don't want my thread filled with useless off topic spam. I have nothing against your car personally.
man just deal with it, the whole point of a build thread is to go off topic so you have motivation to not be a lazy f**k and do something on your s**tbox to get it back on topic!
Okay, no one has asked yet and I figure this will be a good way to get back on topic while still being motivational...
whats next in your plans?
lol
Finishing my engine build/swap.
man. if only i had a civic. the things i'd do to it..
So, I got out of work today and went to open my door and the rear b pillar trim caught on the front door as it opened and peeled back. IDK how the heck it happened though. It's never showed any signs of catching like that before and the top 2 clips that held it on are completely destroyed. Now I've got to find some new trim, which is hard as hell to find apparently.
maybe some idiot was fiddling with your car man.
trip to the junkyard?
These civics should be plentiful
i know this is off topic but its funny that people make facebooks for their cars
why would you post that in here? It's not even the least bit related. I don't have a facebook for my car.
remeber who posted that
dude! the slight gold hue on your wheels in the vid gave me an idea, make your wheels gold!
http://img12.imageshack.us/i/jarooas.png/
your car sounds so nice compared to mine it's un-fair. but you inspired me to make a new zaust video
hopefully, it won't sound like that for long though
holy crap jred your car sounds alot better than i thought! really sweet car mang
vtak kicked in yo
lol it sounded abit tin'y in the high rpm
I'm going to be taking my valve cover in to get powder coated soon. Ideas for color?
cam gears are anodized red. and will be visible fyi.
black metalic maybe?
edit: yeah contgrats to being a mod man.
red !
thanks bud. i don't really want to do black. it's too generic imo. and they came wrinkle black stock.
I was kind of thinking like a dark bronze. like this but darker.
or gold.
also considered yellow a few times.
edit: i'm not doing red because i won't be able to get powder coat red in the same color as my car from their catalog. and i don't want mismatched colors of red like i do now.
go bronze or go home
rust it.
white? or checkerboard.
idk. i thought about white for a long while back when i got the engine. But i feel like white would be kind of hard to pull off. It's basically got to be super clean to pull it off. And the original owner of the car had the engine bay sprayed with rust proofing way back whenever. I've been removing it as much as I can, but it's still going to show up a little. in other words, i don't really think i can pull off white.
The place is only good at single tone powder coats.
...and no, i hate rust. plus the valve cover is aluminum.
bronze looks good, or do it dark red and pinstripe it
paint some boobs on it.
Dark bronze 100%
Brush the aluminion
Paint the letters bright green-yellow
just paint it red that your car is
He can't.
Let there be dark red
I mean maroon.
Mugen teal?
it's in for powder. bronze + clear coat.
was close to going with copper vein when i was looking through their colors catalogue
but decided against it.
bronze <3
now you need bronze wheers
took the head completely apart tonight. It's being put in a dunk tank tomorrow to clean it good. Then i'll be painting it to match the engine block.
Working on putting together a fixture so that i can weight and balance my connecting rods. once i balance them i'm sending them to the machine shop to have them resized with ARP bolts.
Once that's done, I should be able to put together my bottom end.
Cams and Valve springs are on back order...
YAY u got sum stikaz!
really nice jared
i recommend you paint them orange yourself next time
I believe they're marked orange as they pass inspection.
in other news. Just bought more engine parts. OEM water pump and a b18c oil pump for better oil pressure.
Dark bronze powdercaot + letters sanded + clear powder coat.
wow, thats a cool colour man, you intake pipe seems abit small
I love it, it's looking awesome. Keep it up!
Not bad at all, although it's not as loud of a color as I would have used.
Subtlety is the best, I like that, nice work.
*you're
its just an act.
dont worry. lol
possible exhaust option for the swap.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KOqi0jLHwJY&feature=channel_video_title
still totally undecided about exhaust though. Plus the price is on the extremely high side for that one.
then ur civic sounds like rally car or JM car...cool
Sounds mean as hell, get it done
buddyclub exhausts sound nice.
sounds really good, but u have a diff engine right
will it fit ur next swap?
the exhaust is pretty universal.
that's a b18c. i am building a b18b. the difference is mostly in the head. he has vtec, i don't. but still, they actually would bolt the same headers up. But that's just the exhaust from the header back i believe. the header i choose as well as the cams i have will make a difference in how it sounds too. My cam is more aggressive than that, so i should actually have a more...burly idle. He also has a straight pipe (no catalytic converter).
and MT, have you ever actually been to a pro rally. I have. The cars don't sound like that. A car's sound depends entirely on the build. My car will sound like it's a built N/A I4. And that's what it will be.
I dig it, buddy club is cool.
I can see where MT is coming from to be fair, it has a similar raspy note to a rally car. Just without the pops aand bangs and illegal stuff
in essence, rally cars are just highly tuned street cars. And a good number of them are four cylinders. So it does make a little sense that the sound should be a little similar. but why would that be a bad thing?
its not at all, he was complementing you for it. also, less forum time, for fitting badmans exhaust
the way he said it seemed sarcastic to me. especially with the
sorry
ugly color if you ask me dude
it's a lot darker than what the pictures make it look. the pictures make it look pale
I'm a fan of the sound of the Tanabe Tuner Medalion on Hondas
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5M7Crnws_gI
Its what I was gonna get when I had my Civic.
Other good ones are Apexi N1 and anything with a glasspack resonator really
Apexi:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h_lcLIOSzgY
Buddyclub spec II
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z0pHcIlIADc
friend of me is going to do this exhaust, you should to!
No offense but that sounds terrible
are you kidding me?! that sounds amazing!
i have a friend that just ordered the spec II for his h22 swapped civic. I'll see how that sounds in person and go from there.
It might be too loud for what I want. Being that this is still going to be a daily driver.
do a c's garage and ripp the glass wool out of the muffler and put a straight pipe through. instant noise.
booooooooooooorrrrrrrrrrrrrrrraaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa
aaaaa bwwooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo bwaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa NINNOINININININ kathishshhhhhhhhhhhhh bwwooooooooooooooooooooo brrrrooooooooooowwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa
aaiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiNINNINININNNINNINNINNINNIINNINNIIN cracktshssssssssssshhhhhhhhhhhBOOM
OH NO
long time no update because of school...
Working on trying to get the engine together before I leave again.
Crank set. It was a complete pain to get the crank clean. Hours of spraying it in a parts washer and brake cleaner. Finally got all the old crusty oil out of the passageways in the crank.
Pistons were hung. ARP Rod bolts.
And pistons are in the block now.
Need to get my torque wrench so that I can torque everything down. Then I should be able to put the rest of the bottom end together and start working on the head.
Damn dude, really nice. Glad to see you working on it again.
More work.
Bottom end is pretty much complete with only a few minor things still to clean up or buy.
sooooo cleannnn
<3
How long till its dirty
i like it, im thinking maybe do an EG bumper after everything is done? and remember...stickers add 25hp EACH lol
http://a5.sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-ash4/321179_2260524392697_1236030601_32178238_1673093612_n.jpg
Lol eg bumper for what? His car looks hella clean the way it is.
my car is an eg8. so it already has an eg bumper.
I know nothing about Honda's
omg, awesome
I just love watching threads like these
might have just found a set of these for $75
dat curb rash :[
What are the specs compared to your current wheels?
yours are cooler anyway. but those you just found are pretty cheap I guess?
that's not an actual picture of them. That's just a picture from google.
They would have been 14"x5.5" Which is small I know, but they would have let me get more tire and they're OEM si alloys and are much lighter than the ones I have now. So they basically would have been for track use. But ideally I want 15s for the track.My current ones are 16"x7.5" and stock on my car was 13"
But they were already sold to someone else, so not happening.
what I really want are some enkei j speeds 15x8
I think your current wheels are a pretty good size. They just need a lower offset.
I prefer 15s on EGs. And I don't really need a bunch of dish. the car doesn't really have the set up for that. And I'm definitely not going for hellaflushfullysickstance. I plan to track this car in the future. Likely going to get some light 15" wheels or some 16" rpf1s
in other news. free oem parts.
antenna delete.
mud guards.
nah man, if you're not going lower, keep 16s. less than that you would need phat tires, and those aren't much useful (also not so beautiful really) if you don't have tons and tons of power.
I will be lower than what I'm at right now. I had to lift it up because I blew out some bushings in my suspension from bottoming it out on the s**tty roads. I need to get some higher performance shocks though. All that gap in the fender use to be non-existent before. Couldn't fit a finger between there before i had to raise it.
gave the dirty girl a bath.
nice ,, how many cylinders
those are some nice holes
yeah nice v12
I want one of these in my life at least once.
Is that a teg block or just from a newer civic?
It's a b18b1 from an Integra LS, I think it's rom a 94, but I'm not sure on the year exactly.
Do you have a power target or are you just going to see what happens?
I'm not going to have it dyno'd. at least not any time soon, so I don't really have any numbers I'm aiming for and I'm not really going to claim any either. I just want to build it. The biggest thing I'm building for I guess is the increased compression and the 9k redline.
mmmm suspension upgrades
Honda internals are like legos
you pick a block
you pick a head
snap em together and hope vtec goes BWAAAAA
spend the money and time rebuilding my engine please
this engine won't need vtec to go bwaaaaa
but it will have vtec... so, bwaa without the need for vtec, plus bwaa as a result of vtec, equals ultimate bwaabwaa?
nope. It's a non-vtec engine.
Vtec mode cams then for perma-bwaaa?
You can bwaa for an inch, or you can bwaa for a mile, but if you aint bwaa, then you can't call yourself a JDM HOBA FANB0I, y0!
I like where this is going
Oh and where did you(or your buddy) get the antenna delete from? Was it hard to remove the antenna?
I got it from the local honda dealer. like $5. But the guy at the parts department let me have it for free because I showed up at 5:30 and the cashier wasn't there. lol
You can't just get vtec cams and BAM vtec. You need an entire vtec head and the vtec solenoid as well as a few extra oil passages.
I have crower stage 2 cams. Not quite race cams. They're high performance street/strip cams. Should put out more than vtec. And it will give me a nice low lumpy idle that I love.
i'm just screwing with you, vtec isn't what makes a honda.
wether you bwaa for an inch, or bwaa for a mile, bwaa'ing is bwaa'ing, and your not bwaa'ing
Enough with the Bwaaing guy its getting old lmao its like them guys with the Civic and a Fart Can ahhhhh
so the engine doesnt have vtec
does it have ivtec?
enough with the vtec stuff. my engine is non vtec. deal with it.
in other news...
finally got paid yesterday, that means honda part buying commenced today.
Just put in an order for a rmf narrow tube replica header.
My car has more vtec than your car
MiVec... sounds like crap, I hate it. lol
Well, vtec generally sounds amazing.
But mine will sounds amazing too.
I love the sound of a nice N/A engine. I'd have that over the sound of a turbo car any day.
Looking for ideas where to put them. They're about 8 inches long.
side quarter windows orrrrrr bottom of rear and front
Maybe on the front door
don't use them, your car looks so clean atm. the only place they would look good was in the top/middle of the front window though
my girlfriend's vagina
oh wait that's for something else that's 8" long
put them down the side of the front and rear window on the right side.
would look legit.
It's a 4 door. those windows roll down. the seals could damage the decal.
that was to cooper.
and I'm not putting it on my paint.
along the bottom of the headlight.
Nahh you could put them vertically along the side of the front and rear windows?
Inside the car? Like in the trunk, or somewhere where it's not visible at first sight but still a cool place, maybe in the hood, or the bottom of the center console.
I'm not sure how big 8 inches is, but if it's what josh's d**k's size is, it should fit anywhere
Put them on the dash-passenger side above the glove compartment!
The engine bay is looking clean! You may have covered this but what kinda cam/camshaft are you running?
I will be running crower stage 2 (aka 403) cams in my b18.
They're window decals. won't stick on my dash. They work best on a smooth surface. aka glass or paint. but like I said, i'm not putting them on my paint because it's too hard to get them off without messing up the paint.
look what came today.
for the sticker, diagonally along the top of the rear glass? that way you could add some smaller ones above it if you want. either that, or put one on each side rear window, on the bottom
Had to make sure the header clears everything.
Just about ready to clay the engine. Just have to clean the cam caps in the wash tank at my dad's work tomorrow.
mmm...
mmmm so shiney, Jred you should give me your old motor
This looks like fun ill be having to do the same as well rebuild a motor <.< yours looks so clean and fresh probably go like a bat out of hell when all button up
You probably don't want my old motor. It's a d15b7.
can't wait to hear/see this when its built
Primered my intake tonight.
smooth as butter man, what color are you painting it?
OH and it wouldnt hurt to lug around an extra d15
It'll be silver. Just wanted to clear up the corrosion and have it look nice until I can afford a new manifold or itb's.
i would chrome em, i love the way they look
Chrome is heavy and not something you would ever want to do to a cast aluminum piece.
high polish?
Have you ever polished a casting like that?
It would take ages of sitting there sanding it. I'd probably have to start at 150 grit and work all the way up to 2000 for a shine.
I work full time. I don't want to spend that many hours on my intake. Time I would much rather spend doing things that actually contribute to the swap.
Plus, it wouldn't really match. I'm not really going to have anything else polished.
I was thinking about saving it and finding a crx or hatch shell to have a fun little project with. Mount the motor as a mid engine rwd. turbo it. Take it to the drag strip and kick the s**t out of all the sti's, evo's, str-4's and what nots.
now kiss!
LULZ
red tags. red tags everywhere.
post vids when you fire it up pl0x!
still a few weeks out from that. but I will be recording the first start up.
boner
pretty sweet bro have you bought nebulators yet?
Beautiful engine.
Attractive cambelt is attractive
probably going to get this exhaust
so jealous about your car dude! congratulations!
Ended up going with a different exhaust for now. That one didn't have big enough piping. I don't like the muffler on the one I got, but I'll replace that down the line. I just needed to make a budget call since I still have to pay for school come August.
also. Now just a few parts left to get. Crank pulley and some motor mounts.
thats gonna be so sexy.
s**ts tidy too haha
Just ordered my radiator hoses and shift boot/knob
lalalala. More stuff put together.
i just f**king love this header.
mmmmmmmmmmmmmmm
looks,tasty dude
f**k im jelly!
finally got rid of this.
And put in a full 2.5 inch in preparation for le swap.
Sounded soooooooooooooooooooooooooooo sick like this before I put the muffler on.
After seeing all this I'm tempted to get something Honda bases
But I'd like something RWD so my heads a bit here and there
rwd is over rated. especially if you're moving to canada and have to put up the snow in it. I've driven many cars, fwd, awd, and rwd and this is still my favorite to throw into corners at high speed.
jred, what about some videos? like when you got the exhaust on, could have put it on film! this car gonna be a beast
Don't have a decent video camera :/
And anyways, a video at this point would be pretty pointless. I plan on cutting off the muffler that came with the exhaust and welding a new one on and it will sound totally different in a few weeks when i swap engines.
muffler options so far. which looks best?
second.
first or second one I guess
I think I may have found my muffler.
a little more expensive than I was hoping. But it's not a 4" tip like the middle one in the other post.
I like it.
is it your car already? looks good dude
no, that's not my car.
idk, i like the 2nd one you posted...it looks like it will be just big enough to give it a nice rumble but still small enough to keep it clean. might even look really nice tucked up against the body with just enough room to not melt the body. idk im just a fan of a nice sized tip on civics...but no loud exhausts...
Loud exhausts can be done correctly though, and with that future swap, mmmm.
so basically you got the second one but with a smaller tip?
congrats if you got it!
Get whatever one you like the sound of best and just change the tip. Buying an exhaust just for the tip is stupid.
I've already got the exhaust. I just want to replace the muffler. And that last one I posted is pretty much exactly the muffler and tip combo I want.
Okay good, the way you mentioned it made it seem like you just wanted it for the tip
This arrived today. Didn't get a chance to test it out because I had already begun taking things apart by the time it arrived.
This marks the beginning of the death of the d15.
And this is just because I dig the way it looks without a bumper.
Best part about today was that this was the first time I've had the bumper off, and I'm very pleased to say that I found a completely straight radiator support behind it.
And this is what I have to put up with driving while I work on the swap.
lol, "put up with" a regal(maybe?,lol). I envy you. G bodies kick ass.
and the subaru you had? got rid of it?
this car gonna be a beast man, can't wait to see it finished!
Why drive the subaru when the buick is sitting there just wanting to be driven.
And yeah, zwaag, it's a 82 regal with a mildly cammed 350 small block swapped in.
because gasoline isn't something cheap? lol it's a v8 man... well, nevermind.
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