tony_2018

This is how you don't waste a tech thread, post only with progress. Gotta love the determination.

f15Civic

It came out good Marcos! Your build/restoration have been nice to follow. Cant wait to see how it currently looks.

eghatch9295

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glad to hear a wetsand is coming. plenty of orange peel in the finish in the last few pics.

Ohmega

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The holes for the front towing apparatus are barely visible! If you were to throw some paint on them to match the car, and you wouldn't even know they're there.

Looking good. Excited to see pics of it out of the garage, lol.

eghatch9295

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i rattle can constantly as well. my only criticism is not masking off the grille in the bumper cover to break up some of the red. otherwise looks good

jellybeanx

awesome build!

tony_2018

For some reason the driver side fender looks dark, like the black primer is still showing through.

Ohmega

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Wow, these updates sure went fast. Love the new white color. Thanks bringing us along for the ride. This thread will definitely stay in my Subs

f15Civic

Thats wonderful, man! Sorry to hear it got in a fender bender but glad to see you where able to get back up like nothing happened. It looks great in white.

Marcos Barrios

it happens
and thank you all for watchen

my future plans for the car
when my cousins driving skills get better

I plan to upgrade the motor to one with more tourge
a B20 out of the crv is what im looking at
and then bore it out to a 2.2 litre

but that might not happen for a while
my cousin still has a long way to go

my last recorded lap time on my home course was 9 min 47 seconds

and as of last week my cousins at 11 min 38 seconds

the b20 might take a few years haha

f15Civic

Why your cousin does not get his own, Project car lol.. I mean I am sure he can follow your steps and get a clean roller or even one running in need of attention. And do a full restoration like you have done. Civics are cheap so I am sure he can pull this off for less than $3000 as long as you guys are doing the work.

And it can even be favorable for him if you do swap the B20, he can use your current engine on his car if the engine is still good.

SolTrain92

Hey I'm Kora. I drive a 93 Del Sol and looking to set her up for rally cross. All the other Sols I have seen use coilovers. For daily driving I do like her a little lower then stock. So for me this is the best of both worlds. I have seen a lot of Tein set ups but I ant find details on what coilovers they actually got. Do you guys have any advice?

Marcos Barrios

well part two of the build is in the making
and sadly my team has found my thread and has asked me to put it down

if you have read it all and seen all the pics good keep everything that you can remember
or copy

it will all be deleted and part two will start on page 3
coming soon

eghatch9295

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wtf kind of "team" is that? donkey punches all around.

eghatch9295

iTrader: (1)

alright dude, i think you're accidentally uploading pics. there is a burnt *** in the middle of this page, and prior to an edit there used to be a hairy vagina.

My single cam

This is a pretty awesome build thread you've got going, keep it up!

Marcos Barrios

well ive got good news and bad news for you guys

first my cousin will no longer need my civic for his training

the good news is that my civic will now become my teams new rally car
so its going to go threw a big transformation
and the team will take the car to london where most of the future mods and races will take place

the bad news
is that our teams race car builds can not be on the internet where all the teams secrets are being shown to the public
so i guess thats a wrap for this build

the team will start to take action on the car in two months so in this time i will give the last 5 updates and then that will be it...


lets start where i left off
update 75

this was a christmas trip out to my inlaws place in Benidict Maryland






gave the car its first hand car wash down at an old friends shop
you can see his fd in the back



the wheather was nice down in MD
but then after new years we came back to nebraska and the weather was more like this



the MD trip was a 44 hour round trip drive
car didnt burn a drop of oil
i dont mean to toot my own horn or anything haha


stay tuned

Marcos Barrios

alright guys update 76 here we go
this is not a team secret but its one that very few members of the honda nation know about
you see most tuner car people remove the stock air box and replace it with a different type of filter
and its fine i do it too theres nothing wrong with that

but im going to show you a different way to have that high flow air filter and make it look stock

first things first you need to go and get your old filer box



this is kinda like an arts and crafts thing
you see your stock air filter that you get at the parts store will have this hard plastic shell on it
what you need to do is cut out the white paper filter thats on there and only leave yourself the shell
this will become our houseing for our new filter



going to drill two holes on each side and zip tie it all in place to hold our cage together




this is what our cage is going to be made out of

you can get this at home depot for 5 bucks




open her up and cut yourself two peaces for your filter cage


i always cut it a tad to big and then make small cuts on it so that it fits tight in the shell



tight enough that it scratches the shell going in




then you secure the cage to the shell with two zip ties



next step is to cut out our new filter to fit this cage

the guys down at UNI have hooked me up with there best foam filter



this is a sheet of filter foam that you cut to fit what ever kind of filter your making




its 5/8 s thick is what the bag says but really its 3/8 s thick



so now we cut out our peace




always cut it big not short




fitment in the airbox houseing



you cant see it in the picture but your second cage goes on the bottom on the filter




then you install your top cover and sqeeze that foam down and you are done






installed oh and also by doing this i just switched over from a short ram intake to a cold air






one thing i forgot to take pictures of was the oiling


i bought a gallon of K And N air filter oil and i oiled the foam air filter before putting it in the car
oiling your foam filters make them work beter because all the dust will stick to the oil and making the filter filter better
if you dont oil it
sure it will still work, just not as good cus without the oil some dust will find its way threw and thats what makes your throttle bodys dirty

total cost of this is 30 bucks and youll never have to buy another air filter again ^_^

anyway thats enough of that for today

stay tuned

copy all of this before it gets deleted ^_-

Marcos Barrios

update 77

lets get dirty

this update was my broken wheel stud repair

on my driver side front im only rolling with 3 wheel studs





now the proper way to fix this is too remove the axle nut and pull the hub out a bit to make room for your new stud to fit
threw the hole
but this will also shorten the life of that brand newish wheel bearing i have on there

and so here is the race team way of doing it

were going to remove the brake caliper and rotor
and with a grinder were going to take some metal away to make room for our new wheel stud to fit threw


you grind nice and smooth until your new stud can fit in nicely


just make sure that your new stud has a straight shot into the hole



i drive my new studs in with the washer and nut methed
when i was done i hit the grinded areas with some paint i had laying around



some greese on the grinded surface will also work for keeping the rust away

stay tuned

Marcos Barrios

update 78

this was an upgrade to my autozone car ramps

to me they were always too short hight wise
so i went down to home depot and bought some 2x8 stats and cut and bolted them
to the ramps



they give me 2 more inches of clearence when im under the car
and the more clearence the better

i named them MUR "Marcos upgraded ramps" ^_^





stay tuned

Marcos Barrios

final update
its been 6 months
the car has been in 4 races top 5 each time
im so proud of the hatch
but last week this french guy that was at one of the local car meet ups on a friday night
saw my team mates and brought up the idea of buying the white hatch
they had it sitting at there shop
and at 2 am after my team mates and this fench dude they had just met a few hours ago
talked cars for a few hours and got to know eachother
they ended up selling him the car after he took it for a run on our london course my team has
they sold it for 5000 pounds witch is roughly about 6.300 bucks american

so now the build is truly over
thank you

CX-Adam

Damn.... All that effort and the car was sold. I'm kind of bummed out. I enjoyed reading your build updates.

~$6,300 USD is a lot of money for a Civic nowadays so, that's awesome. Congratulations on our successes. Hopefully you'll come back with a new project.

Marcos Barrios

they gave me 2.500 for the car when they took it off my hands
and they added two race seats and a rollcage and some off road tires and then hit the races
anyway from here you just grow and use what you learned on this build and
pass it on to the next

you know...if your interested in updates, i have started a new project
its in the ef section named marcos new work car 90 sedan

but this build isnt a rally one it really is my new work car
the white hatch was used for work also thou part time
so my new build will have the same type of updates if your interested
but because this one isnt a race car the updates will stay on hondatech forever without haveing to worry
about revilling race team secrets ^_-

CX-Adam

Cool. I'm never in the EF section because I don't own an EF. I'll go check it out.