My first civic

[Matts96HB]

btw thats like the worlds smallest stock intake pipe lol.

Well it is stock and it is on a D Series.. what'd you expect? lol

 

[D16SiHatch]

Well it is stock and it is on a D Series.. what'd you expect? lol

i suppose it may be smaller cause its a y7. i'm almost certain the y8 intake is larger..

Anyways. I just went past your pics again and totally spotted your cheapy train horn lol

 

[packardbell]

What is power without control is my theory.

Koni Yellow sports, Blox LCA, ASR and CTR rear swaybar

 

[packardbell]

radiator

calipers

ceramic pads

10.5" rotors and Integra spindles

 

[FLounder]

looks like you are really getting down to business with your first civic. nice start for sure!

 

[packardbell]

looks like you are really getting down to business with your first civic. nice start for sure!

thanks
picked up a used Y8 that I'm going to rebuild.
do it once and do it right
i don't know how some people can just slap in a used motor?

 

[fionntan]

Those brakes look good. I should have thought about painting the dust guards on my brakes. Did you get any springs for those struts?

 

[kricket3000]

i like your airhorns

 

[|Chaz|]

Heh, I'm liking this new guy already. Looks good man

 

[packardbell]

Those brakes look good. I should have thought about painting the dust guards on my brakes. Did you get any springs for those struts?

Those brakes are just for the winter. I have AEM big brakes that I will be using for the summer. The dust shields are not painted but I bought them new from Honda as the old ones were rusted. At the same time I put in new wheels bearings into the spindles.
Yes I have H&R sport springs.

i like your airhorns

The OEM horn was dead so I wired up some air horns to use. lol!!

cleaned block with garden hose hooked up to the hot water tank.

crankshaft before pic

crankshaft after pic

bearing marks before

after polishing at home

the rods

now i find there is one busted bolt i have to extract.

i drilled the bolt but still it will not budge

I sent out the cylinderhead to get rebuilt and once i got it back it was time for my disassembly and installation of a Competition cam, competition HD springs and titanium valve retainers.

ports were ported and polished

off it came

 

[packardbell]

now to remove the springs

titanium retainers

HD springs

 

[packardbell]

new bearings

old bearings

cleaned oil pan going to get drilled and modified

some JB weld for the oil return

temporary plug for the oil return so I can drive the car still as the turbo kit will be installed in spring

head installed on to the block with ARP head bolts. ARP is used for flywheel and pressure plate too.

new oil pump installed too

plug so nothing gets inside

ARP grease

 

[packardbell]

nightmare now broken bolt head.

 

[packardbell]

some more work before the powertrain swap.

disconnect both O2 sensors

argh rust

heat shield prevented even more rust on the nuts

the two nuts that holds the downpipe was rusted and seized. I had to use a dremel and cut off disc

the two bolts that held the flanges together just snapped off when trying to remove them.

to separate the catalytic from the downpipe looked labourous so I decided to cut the pipe instead.

general pic of the undersides

new stainless headers installed

free flow megan racing catalytic

some 12.9 grade socket caps bolts

montreal winters sigh

both O2 sensors are still good and going to be reused.

rusted out rear lower control arm

since i was underneath i notice the shifter bushing was loose and installed the prothane poly ones.

another issue i had was the freaking mounting points for the hangers was no positioned good and the line hangs a bit. Got to figure something up to lift it higher so it doesn't drag.

need to weld a hanger underneath the floor so I can use this hanger on the exhaust line.

I changed this worn bushing with the prothane one since I was under the car. LOL!!:wrench:

wanted to change this bushing and slap on the short shifter as well but seeing so much rust. I looked like it will take more than 30 minutes to do so I sprayed with it with some loose nut.

here is the bushing i needed to get to.

I will need to get shorter bolts.
as long as it does the job.

 

[packardbell]

now some transmission goodies

diff bearings and all carbon synchros are in.

OBX LSD

here is my rebuilt gearspeed B001 Si transmission where the LSD and synchros will be going into.

 

[disableddan]

Dude!!! Your car is coming along very nicely! Best of luck man!

 

[austin20110]

and to think you were just some noob... good work so far bro

 

[Matts96HB]

Hahaha, lol @ the person(s) that was/were hating on this car at first..

nice build mang

 

[kricket3000]

holy batman thats alot of pics, good so far!

 

[D16SiHatch]

amazing work thus far man keep it up. sounds like its going to be beastly