derek_k

Hello hondatech, I am pretty new here as I've never really posted anything before, but I have used the site for years. I have recently started a new build of my rhd eg6. I purchased the car for a pretty damn good deal but the body is in pretty rough shape. I previously built a k20a type r eg hatch in the past about 3 years ago, but I traded that car for an s2000 and was pretty disappointed with my decision on trading, my eg was much better in my opinion. But time has gone by, I got a house of my own with a deadly garage and have aquired 2 eg's this past year and I want to completely restore my rhd one to perfection. It has a Jdm b18c type r engine in it, whale dick intake, type r header, and one noisy exhaust, between my two civics I am sure I will be swapping parts back and forth, but as of right now I do have a decent little selection of parts inside and out that I can put on either car, I would like to keep this rhd civic pretty simple and clean, I want to do a complete wire tuck with a milspec harness, and a complete paint job and rust repair and much more. I will be doing everything myself in my garage, and plan on making this one clean eg. There are rumors that a race track might be opening right by my house, so I may be making this a little bit built towards tracking it, but we will see, I would like to keep this car for a very long time.

Here are some pictures from my last build for my k20a eg.







This is what I found under an inch of bondo































And then I sold that car for an s2000, which I'll post one picture of lol



And now I will go on to the present, this is my rhd eg



And this is my green eg hatch



This is the garage I now own



Fixed it up and painted a bunch, still have one wall left to do



Parked the cars



I put the rims from my rhd eg on my green one, my phone was fucked with dust, I got a new one after I saw this pictures







And now onto the build, I have started to strip the car apart to begin bodywork and all the other stuff that needs to happen to restore a car lol









Close up of the rims, I am not done polishing all of them





Rust, it was in an accident













Traction control to keep those tires from spinnin lol





It's pretty mangled here, gonna need to replace a nice chunk of metal





Gave it a quick sandblast, it's pretty bad



Rocker panel is fine, just dirty



Quarter panel is rusted through





Rear end is gutted



These parts are all cleaned inside and out and ready to be reinstalled when the time comes





These parts need replacing, but will prolly be kinda hard to find



Some of the front end off



And this is where I have got to so far, I have lots of work left to do, but I am in no rush to finish this as I want it to be perfect. Thanks for looking and hope to have an update soon.

j-r_rida

i'm in for this one... makes me want my own garage lol

toyomatt84

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Wow... this will be cool to see develop. Nice work restoring a good shell to its former glory!

slowDB7

your brown hatch looks alot like j.reds hatch. weird

and i cant wait to see the blue hatch when finished

derek_k

I built the brown hatch in 2010, I miss that car almost every day lol

slowDB7

think it could be it? https://honda-tech.com/forums/appearance-build-threads-122/revive-rebuild-k-swap-eh2-3164902/

derek_k

Nope not it, my paint was darker, I know who currently owns it but it got parted out, I'll build another one some day

USDM as fuhh

in for more on this one! Man I want that garage so bad.. Can't wait to get into my new place and have a spot to work on the car that isn't a 25 mile drive outta town.
Keep up the good work!

TomsEF

i like where this is going!

derek_k

Hello hondatech, I have been slowly working on the car and have made some progress, I have some more of the wiring harness removed on the drivers side, I have the fuse panel and charge harness removed, as well as the abs fuse box. I have the fenders off and the wheel wells stripped down a little bit, side skirts are removed and I have found quite a bit of rust on the rocker panels, not too excited about that cause it's gonna need to be replaced, I have been looking at the floor pan of this car and every seat is sagging where the feet go, I am going to need to figure something out to repair that. There are spots of rust everywhere on this car, there is going to be lots of sandblasting and repair work needed to get this back in the shape I want it to be. I have found a set of rims I want to purchase, I can't bite the bullet on buying them though, although I would like them for when I fit my quarter panels, the offset is pretty retarded, but when you are replacing all the panels on the car it's pretty easy to make them fit any rim size. I don't like cars that rub lol. Anyways here's some pics, I'd like to get this engine out soon, I drained the oil and coolant and removed the rad.





For a before comparison





Still lots to remove over here



More wiring removed from inside



And that's about it for now, I have cleaned up some more random parts before they go away, I am in no speedy rush to do this, I am trying to keep all the clips for now, although I'll barely be using any of them seems I need to remove all the wiring I am no longer using in the car,so I'm sure I'll have to cut all the oem ones.

Hope to have some more progress soon

bks84

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thumb ups!

derek_k

Hello hondatech, I have been working on my car a little more than I thought I'd be able to and have got the front almost all disassembled. I would have to say I am about 75% there to having the car stripped, but I have the engine out, the ac system removed, the power steering system mainly removed, I plan to be getting a manual steering rack or deleting the power steering, I am not a fan of it. The abs system will be removed completely including the wiring for it, as for traction control, I still don't know where the system lives or if it's even In here, all I have found is the module, I have no clue how it would "stop" the tires from spinning, but that will prolly be removed as well. The battery bracket that holds it was giving me a huge pain in the *** during the whole engine removal, the two bolts that are deep down in the bracket that go into the frame were hella seized and stripped, no chance of getting it off without cutting the bolts, so I bent the bracket up to get the wiring and lines I needed out for the ac system from underneath it, once the engine was out and I could remove the brake line that was resting on it where I needed to cut, I could then remove it, but man what a pain in the *** it was the whole time. I will continue removing the front end before I move to the rear end, no too much left besides the firewall and drop the subframe, anyways here are some pics

The damn battery bracket





Suspension and brakes out, fluids drained



Ready to be removed



Firewall almost stripped



I undid my exhaust, and the only hangers holding it were the mufflers hanger and the header lol, some people haha



Pulling it out



Out and pissing fluids lol



Yes, my favorite stage of an eg lol



So I cut the bracket in half to access the bolts, cut them off and ground down the rest of the bolt in the frame





Abs module removed, front brake lines, charcol box and line has been snipped so far, prop valve removed and maybe a couple other random things









Kinda messy, but you get the point lol



Anyways I think that's it for now, I'll update soon with more progress, I can't wait to get to the body work.

j-r_rida

locked in

lzylst

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I like this! Awesome color too.... CBP.

Could you tell me how the rear seat backs are fastened to the floor? It appears to have threaded holes, but I can't see it that well.

derek_k

They were quite confusing to remove for the first time, they really are wedged in there good, you almost need to remove it all at once due to space inside, as well the bottom needs to be removed first. There were two bolts on each backrest, and it was locked by a little rod like the usdm rear seats in the center. Here are some pics

Right side



Left side

LSVTEC96HB

I love your old brown EG hatch and I can't wait to see what's in store for this one!

Boosted_Yota

very cool, in4this

d@_b3st

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bump for rhd and resto work color is great on these you respraying same color?

derek_k

I think I might be spraying it Lausanne green, I am still trying to pick a color but so far that one is winning, I want to keep it an oem color.

HatchVX

What color brown was on your first hatch? This one is coming along good. cant wait to see the final product.

d@_b3st

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Lausanne green does look nice but that captiva blue is awesome plus you already have one in green lol pretty sure whatever color you choose will still be a hot build glwyb

deschlong

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Hey - I've got an RHD shell which I don't need a lot of parts from (mostly just the interior) which you could buy stuff from me for totally reasonable prices. That battery bracket, for example. Though I do recall having some trouble with mine too, hah. I'm in Sask.

And although I love Lausanne Green also, I'm going to vote you keep it the original OEM Captiva Blue.

lzylst

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Thank you for the rear seat upper attachment areas. Exactly what I was looking for. I was curious if the factory used studs or bolts. Now we all know.

egk205lug

nice egs I love it

derek_k

Yup they are bolts, I will dig them out and take a picture of the bolts if you would like and tell you the specs of them?