better yet, just rig it up in your room and turn it on for the ladies...
then it will actually impress girls (like you thought it would under your car!)
haha, no hate im just messing around. Do it if you want, but just know my opinion!

 

p.s. im oficially following this thread.

 

hahaha i work full time @ uhual making 9 bux an hour, i live w my parents (makes rent HELLA cheap!) and i hit up the j/y, friends and ebay for EVERYTHING that i feel i can safely get away with.

misha - there is when bolts are rusting to the insides of the bushings of them, and the bushings are shredded to bits!! I know blox doesn't make the best lca's (atleast from what all i've read on HT from all the searching i've done)

Under glows are no longer going to be installed, they way too much lolz. plus it looks like it'll take too much to install them. I'm no fast and the furious foo!

I try not to get TOO overwhelmed w parts and what not, i still need like ALL the parts (accessories) to put my motor together, but things work out nicely for the most part, as i don't have much time to work on my car so i buy some parts, and while waiting for them to arrive i find something else to work on while i wait for the parts to arrive. about the time one batch of parts get here it's usualy payday so i order more parts while i work on installing the ones i just got.... you guys get the idea.

hey p j, thanks for the shout out, and thanks for this:

I know it's an auto cluster, but i like it better than the stock clusters for our years.

Oh, and these too:

better than no fogs, eh? they're kind of a clear yellow now... but i'm going to try to find either some yellow h3 bulbs, or just get some 3000k HID's for them

...hook up the underglows in the bedroom? You mean like this sub is? lol .



As far as the orange car goes... I'm feelin a DOHC ZC swap w auto trans would do nicely for it, as well as paint (keeping it orange) with a small drop, dual tip muffler clear corners and bumper lights w amber bulbs, and some HX's and it'd look SICK imo. I'm thinking of looking for some LS webbs for my ride for now. I want sportmax 002's, but i'm not wanting to roll and flare my fenders just yet... what do you guys think?

 

go ryan! yeah those fogs are sexy when i had them, i actually got another set yesterday for free lol

 

you dont have to lie! we all know you chose not to do the underglow because we talked you into it!
why do you want an auto zc?? i like the sub in your room, is it gonna go in the car?? Fog lights are a pain in the ***. My jdm fogs stopped working after i drove around in the rain with the bumper off and the harness exposed. The fogs weren't on the car, but they dont work now. so sad

have you heard of the fifty dollar paint job?? if not i suggest you search it because with any real budget it is a banksaver. Dont just ignore it because its fifty dollars! ive heard (and seen) good things about it

 

are you kidding? i've looked into the 50 dollar paint job hella! I'm probably going to go that route due to ease (even tho some have said that it sometimes turns into a 150 dollar paint job, but that's still wayyyyyyyyyy cheaper than having a shop do it).

So far i installed my passenger side ex knuckle, and half bolted on my front sway bar (i some how managed to lose one of the brackets to mount them to the frame...). going to work on it more later tonight after i get my girl put to bed.

why the zc auto? the orange car (aka pumpkin pie or the pumpkin) was bought as a first car from a shady dealer on 82nd ave. here in portland for 600 bux w no paper work other than a title (which some how is clean, even though it has core support damage). it ran great, ac blows SO COLD but had a blow hg. plus carfax only goes back to like 01. it was transfered back and forth from here to washington a couple times, possibly brought down from canada. long story short, it seems like it's been abused and neglected most of it's life, and it's time to make it a new car w a fresh start, just like the blue car i'm working on now(although i belive i'm the third owner of the blue car). plus a zc would be fun to mess with, but isn't something i want in my car (d series for now, and later either lsvtec or crvtec)

 

I still dont understand why you want auto! whatever, your choice. Im just gonna say that hondas with auto trannys suck if your trying to modify/drive fast. With stick you can rev it as high as you want, launch it at high revs (were all the power is) and downshift to get to high revs. The problem with auto trannys is that hondas are meant to be fuel efficient and therefore to operate at lower revs so to get it to the high revs when you want to is hard. Also they rob hp and aren't fun to drive and if your planning to go aftermarket for the exhaust its gonna sound hella crappy with an auto. Hit up youtube if you dont know what I mean.

 

sunroom? must be spacious looks like a good build!

 

now that he points it out, what the hell is a sunroom doing on a civic?? did you mean sunroof??
dammit! im trying to do chem hw and now im procrastinating again!

 

lol yes i meant sun roof lol. picked up a new ex sedan steering wheel and the clockspring piece, as well as the other bracket for my front sway bar. and what looks to be either an lx/ex or si cluster out of a sedan (redlines up to 8gs like the si one's do, but the red line part is cross hatched, not solid

 

ryan isnt getting the auto tranny, the auto tranny is going into his girls pumpkin. haha he was driving a focus the other day and ws all "man i just love driving a clutch. but its not worth it in down town where you stay in first gear and move four feet a minunte" hahaha. Hey junk yard run sunday? or you too busy?

 

ha i wish, no money till thursday, and as usual, i work 9-5 (well more like 8-6)... i wish i worked at upull it, i'd snag **** sooooo often and sell it on here! lol

i'm down for thursday tho.

thought about working on it today... but grabbed the focus and tried to hit up crown point w my buddy gary in his mkIII gti vr6.... but had to change plans and go to rocky bute instead cuz of fog. bs'd about work a lil bit... listened to the mexi's BLAST their beats(sounded pretty good) in a newer accord, then came home and got on here. meh :-(

 

where'd you get a focus?

 

not his focus lol hey dude, ill send some pics your way once the thing runs, i got a few friends helping me tomorrow. oh you still getting those skirts off that wagon? you know ill owe ya one for that, and if you can try to get the bolts off the wiper motors....i lost the ones i got some how...lol! anyways, get the **** to work on this biatch lol let me know when you need help, when the honda runs ill stay later than normal to help ya, lol couldnt let the ranger cool down or my mpg would kick the bucket

 

lol yeah that's my sister inlaw's car... it's all right, rev out to 7g's, drop it in second and it brakes loose on dry pavement, same thing in third too. and its BONE stock w like 17's on it lol. but that went by by. why an auto? cuz i'm a bitch and don't wanna burn out my clutch on the rare ocasions i gotta go down town... it won't be auto forever, just till the summer, naw mean? hopfully will get some work done on the pumpkin tomorrow.

more updates commin tonight on the blue berry tonight, going to get some more ish done. p j, how you get so much work done w your girl always wanting to kick it? mine always gets all pouty when i say i'ma work on it.

 

haha cause i kept the pimp hand strong and said car first and you after. dont forget the realy tomorrow, ill check the wires when i get home from school....battery is still charging, it was DEAD after you left....god im so pissed that it didnt start. thinking of skipping school so i can start her tomorrow.

 

w00t! update! So i got my wire tuck ALMOST fully done. should have a battery in it so i can atleast bump some jams w/o using a power converter. recently installed my ex knuckles, front sway bar, and tonight i almost finished my wire tuck... just gotta finish looming up a couple wires and it'll be goooood. managed to snag a pair of rear door handles from a sedan, and an si cluster from an 89 dx sedan so i don't have to re wire my dash harness for either my teg cluster or my 91 cluster. it's even within 5,000 miles of the actual mileage on my car! that's pretty good too. oh yeah, i also finaly got my coilovers installed on all 4 struts. will have more updates tomorrow. here's some pix:

rear door handles:


ex knuckles installed:


sway bar installed:


coil overs installed:


si cluster:

 

yeah i love the 88 to 89 cluster over that of the 90 to 91....just like the way they look lol

 

Yeah it's pretty cool. i don't really care much either way, if anything i'd just make my own dash w my own gauges that i choose if i really cared (spendy, but why not?)

picked up some stuff today from the auto store, a ground strap, connectors for my 4g to the fuse box, a battery tie down piece and a rubber bottom for it, and some projector fog lights that SUPPOSEDLY are verry much so similar to si-r's, only smaller. dunno. i like them better than the brick style one's tho. just bought a ps9 ecu for my orange hatch... i ALMOST have all the parts to put it back together. might be getting the dizzy for it today too.

p j - I'll get the side skirts tomorrow. i'll have more updates tonight

 

thanks for helping with the cap and coil bro, i owe ya one. and i might need those plug wires man, ;mine are just weird and such. ;but i think tonight i can get her running right if rich comes and lends me a hand.

 

small update:

I just completed my first dpfi-mpfi engine harness (to obd1, no resitor box needed! w00t) since my car didn't come w an engine harness, but needed one, i picked up a std engine harness off a 91 hatch @ teh j/y yesterday. the intake manifold i have (d16z6 i belive) came from one of those j/y's where you walk up to the counter, ask for something and they go out to the car and get it, so it has everything on it and the harness as well. so that went smoothly. it also helps that i had purchased an si engine bay harness (it finaly paid off!).

edit: this write up helped me a TON:
http://www.angelfire.com/d20/hcivic88/dx-siwiring.html.

no so detailed, but still helpful one's are also these two:
http://www.geocities.com/teampimports/fuelinj.html
http://www.geocities.com/c_rexboy/mpfi.html

all three were found doing the search feature.

for whomever it may concern, i de-pinned and re pinned as much as i could. it may interest some to know that the dpfi dizzy plug (once depinned and removed) works great for a firewall plug so the engine bay harness can be completely removed. here's some pix of the final work (yes i used butt connectors, they work fine for me, don't hate, i have no solder and don't know where my solder gun's at):

finished harness:


the plug i added for injectors 2&4, and the crank angle sensor. for this i used some pre loomed (rubber loomed) wire that has four wires in side of it (red, yellow, green and brown) that i got from work.

here's the plug:


just gotta snag the other end off of a dpfi dizzy and then wire it up. tomorrow i'll be finishing the swap @ the ecu plug.

 

damn! i hope that wiring harness works out! thats some pretty intense stuff your doing!

 

meh it's really not THAT hard to do, the hard parts is making sure you're cutting the right connectors. I'm leaving the hard part to rywire (i'm going to be purchasing an obd0-od1 conversion harness w 4wire o2 sensor and vtec sub harness) so i can rock my z6 head in its natural obd status. lol

 

lol nice ryan and thanks for getting me that wire. still not sure if the ecu is bad or not yet...im hopin its the wiring. I put the turbo parts on CL and said ill trade for a header and test pipe and cash or a vtec head with solenoid and EVERYTHING. so we may be the same **** haha. I think that with the wiring being redone to NEAR how your doing your injector wiring i should be golden tomorrow afternoon for the start up...you going to be there? I may drive it to eds mufflers monday and try to take my dads credit card so i can have them make a test pipe for me to sue for now...but i would rather have the new header and test pipe instead. peace bro

 

check that first link. you'd know if your ecu was bad, as far as i know it would just be a solid red light. double check this stuff:

I'm thinking you may have these wires switched up. if you wait till after 5 for start up i can be there, other wise nope cuz i gotta work