Noel L Eguia

Keep it original.

robs1stcrx

nice ride

bob78cvcc

Looks like I'll be keeping my engine (rebuild) and quite possibly upgrading to a 5 speed. When the engine is pulled I plan to fully refinish the engine bay. To be continued....

HondaNINE

damn that is cool.

Stretch7

Anything?

bob78cvcc

At a standstill. I should get to pulling the engine soon. Still trying to figure out if I should ship it off to an experienced rebuilder or deal with it locally.

bob78cvcc

Finally pulled the engine out. Going to have it rebuilt and swap in a 5 speed. In the meantime, the engine bay will get a much deserved makeover.

Charlie Moua

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how hard is the D swap?
Mounts would be welded in but what about axles/spline and lenght?

bob78cvcc

There's pretty good info on the 1stgencivic site if you're looking to do a D swap into a 1stgen. As for me, I'm staying OG.

Charlie Moua

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I actually didn't find much on it.
They just gave general outline but nothing really detailed or no pictures.

Honda_B20B

nice car dude keep it up

vtecn8ive

Charlie, I remember reading up on doing one of those swaps years ago. Pretty sure you just need to have axles made and mounts. I forget subframes/frame work though.


To keep it on topic, nice ride. I was looking to pick one up for the last 6 years I had one in sight for 5 years. Finally decided to go ask this guy if he would sell it... and it was already gone

How is your front subframe/mount? I know they had a recall for it, it was always rusting.

Keep it og for sure!!

bob78cvcc

The front mount needs a little work. There's some minor rust to treat. They are very difficult to find. I'll have to keep looking for a spare in good shape.

As far as a swap goes, depending on the swap there's some slight cutting or massaging needed. You need to go to the 1stgen site and look through the various projects. You will find exactly what you need - you just need to make the time and look.

vtecn8ive

Would it be difficult or worth it to just fabricate a new one? I believe Honda cleared there last one in stock about 4 years ago

I'll be sure to keep checking your thread!

bob78cvcc

Engine chained down, shrink wrapped and palletized for a trip to the rebuilder. Time to get moving on refinishing the engine bay.

CountDracura

How exciting, she'll be better than new when all is said and done. Cheers!

crxmansir

These things passed the clean air act without a cat.

Blackbullet

The mounts dont look bad at all, just light surface rust. Glad to see your moving the project on.

DOHCIVIC

Love the car... Still on hold for the rebuild on my 77... Waiting until I get it back out of storage and to the new house

I have a 81 civic if anyone is interested(complete car)

bob78cvcc

Looks like I'll be going with an EF bottom and keeping the ED head. This should keep things pretty OG and bring up the torque and HP a bit.

Bobby Vomit

Amazing. if hasport made a motor mount for it a J series would be immaculate in there.

bob78cvcc

Things are coming along slowly. The engine is still being built, many of the engine bay parts have been undercoated and slowly getting the engine bay prepped for paint.

bob78cvcc

The lower firewall and rear X-member are now refinished. The motor is still at the rebuilder. The car is now back at the bodyshop to have the metal work done and the engine bay sprayed.

enemy no1

I'm glad you decided to keep your motor and rebuild it even though you're still changing the bottom end. The more original you keep the better imo.

uchinanstyle

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Love it! I'm with everyone else,,, keep it original and good luck.