ThePooh

Hello all! This will be a thread mainly for me to document the progress of my dd, a 1996 Honda Civic Hatchback Dx (in Midori Green). A little about my car experiences, my first car was a 1996 Honda Civic Ex coupe back in 2003. I LOVED that car but unfortunately had it taken away from me by a drunk driver. Since then I have been working my way up the car ladder, but felt in someway, I was never truly happy like I was with my first. From my first civic I went to a 2004 Honda Civic Si, to a 2002 Honda S2000, to a 2003 Infiniti G35, to a 2012 Subaru WRX STi, to a 2003 Ford Mustang Cobra (still have), to a Lexus IS300, to a Nissan 370Z (still have), my truck (still have) and now my newly acquired baby. I now finally feel that "feeling" again! (BTW, I love to use parenthesis and quotation marks) ANYWAYS, here's Misty's story.

So here it goes!
I picked her up two months ago off of a craigslist ad. She had a gnarly dent on the passenger side that went from the beginning of the door all the way back to the rear quarter panel, a broken passenger taillight, extremely foggy headlights, a loose front bumper (and grill), drivers side window was stuck in the down position, torn up sun visors, and some other small miscellaneous things that were broken or torn. Did I mention this was on initial inspection? Yeah... Anywho, drove it around and it felt pretty good for a car that was almost 20 years old and definitely looked like it had been neglected but I didn't care, I wanted the car. He told me he had replaced front and rears brakes, full tune up, blah blah blah and I believed him. He also told me the tach worked sporadically and it had a crack on the header but he mentioned to me that he had it welded (shitty I might add) but it did the job and there were initially no CELs, so naively I believed him. I was so wrapped up in the fact that I could potentially have a Midori Green civic, that I was blinded and didn't ask more questions. DON"T DO THIS.
Anyways, signed the paper work, handed over the clams and boom, I was off. About 20 miles in, CEL pops on (remember ask questions) so I pull over at the Autozone close to my house and pull the codes. I can't remember the codes right off hand but I do remember it being the famous DTC 20, 41, 17 thing. After doing some searching on here I found Ron's thread about how to remedy this and sure enough, wires were exposed. Fixed up the wires real nice and went to the local junkyard and found a couple of ELDs and brought them home along with a new VSS (just in case). BAM! Worked like a charm! While I was under there I checked for what else could possible be wrong and boy did I find some ****! Upper and lower ball joints were toast, nasty oil pan gasket leak, ABS cv axles (I dont have ABS), pretty much all bushings were toast, and the rotors had a hard core lip to them. So with my first small inspection out of the way I had a beginners list.
-Tune up
-Oil change (Autozone)
-Brakes (Autozone)
-Master bushing set from Energy Suspension
-New sun visors (OEM)
-New floor mats (Ebay)
-New tail lights (Ebay)
-New Head lights (Ebay)
-New Window Regulator (OEM)
-New Bumper support with head light brackets(OEM)
-Oil Pan Gasket (OEM)
-Tie rod ends, upper and lower ball joints (Autozone)

Edit 4/6: I got stupid busy this weekend and couldn't really do anything to Misty So here are some pictures of the day I got her. Ill be updating throughout the day today when ever I'm not busy with some pictures of the little bit of progress I have made. Cheers!

chrysler kid

Sounds like a fun project! I have the same background hence my join date, and still have my 98 z28. These civics have held up extremely well and are very fun to work on.

ChadB

Can't wait to see the pics and updates of the ek.

messy.

subbing for another ek hatch!

ThePooh

Thanks guys, I appreciate the nice feedback! Ill be updating in a little bit!

StreetLethaleg6

LOVEEEEEE midori eks! Awesome pick up!

joey1320

Nice clean hatch