Canadian_EF

Leather wrapped steering wheel? That's intense!

Not thread-jacking, but here's the Si interior in my DX (Plus the teg console)
Same seats eh? My driver side cover has two tears, and the foam is failing slowly....



The 90 Si my father bought is basically an Si with all the Si-ness of it removed sadly...

Also, have you ever seen this link for seat restore?
http://www.scribd.com/full/27871052?...2zv69bwhjcyq9v
it's from this thread: https://honda-tech.com/forums/showth...eat+repair+crx
But I guess it doesn't help that you're done repairing now anyways...

road_VIXEN

I really want to know which civics came with the leather seats???

Deetz

Europe had them in the CRX VT, and Japan got them in an Exclusive model CR-X....i don't think any civic ever came from factory for the EF generation

road_VIXEN

ohhhh wow thats kewl.
i have two friends & both of their hatches have leathers.
[theyre pretty torn up tho :/ ]
but neither of them knew why or from where lol.
thanks!

jdmboyef9

It's likely Vinyl stock seats or Integra leather. As Deetz pointed out, the Civic's never came with leather seats in North America, or to my knowlegde the rest of the world for these years.

James89DX

Very clean car but I still don't understand why you keep saying it's a one year only car. Isn't every model year is a one year only car..? I mean it's not like you can have a 1970 '69 Camaro or something.

Not trying to nitpick but you keep saying this in all of your threads for some reason.

Anyway, again, very clean car. Are you not going to keep all this stuff in one build thread? You have like 4 threads going on :p

jdmboyef9

The fourth generation civic was a split into two styles, 88-89/90-91. In 1989 they launched the Civic Si for this generation. In 1990 they gave the entire car a facelift changing bumpers, moldings, lights, seats, interior, ect.

That means that the 1989 Civic Si is a one year only for both styling, and looks. This can also be related to the 1997 usdm ITR. Although the Si had more differences between the year split it is still a limited production style.

K7-1Ktrevor

also its the only civic si without the gay *** seat belts. 67 bugs are also a one year only car. its a common term.

blue91EF

ef's with anything but Si cloth is lame. unless its recaro or something.

jdmboyef9

Sad but true.

90v-tecHATCH

I got some Si seats i'm gonna have recovered black leather with read cloth inserts and stitching. Look like recaros sort of then lol

road_VIXEN

ooo. ill take a better look at them next time is see them.
probably take a pic too

93grayeg

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I have a white 89 si as well. 100& rust free. My seats are mint. They look brand new, I had a guy offer me 500$ for my front seats because there so rare. Nice find man , better hold on to that .

JeffBro

The stock seats are Recaro actually. I believe they were designed by Recaro.

JeffBro

to OP:

Btw that foam that you replaced isn't really that bad. I could repair that in minutes I completely restored my clapped out 88' Dx seats in a day and it only cost be $200. Man I should start buying Si seats and restoring them and selling them for 500 a piece lol

Deetz

Leather wrapped steering wheels were in higher models in most countries outside of the US. Even in Canada, we got it with the crx se. I have one in my 89 crx

KINGVEM^^ED6

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looks good bruh

PizzaAssasin

Nice seats brother!!!

99_Taco_Supreme

Nice job on the seats, and also nice find on a clean 89, very nice.

Since you seem to know a bit about seats, I was wondering if you know whether the si seats in the 90-91 are side specific? I have a 90 si and my seats are pretty clean, not perfect, but no tears. But I noticed that the wear marks on the bolsters are all wrong. The most wear is on the left bottom bolster on the passenger seat, as if the person before me may have switched the driver and passenger seats. Would you be able to feel the difference from sitting in them if they were switched? Cause it doesn't feel quite right sitting in the drivers seat, I can't pinpoint what it is, it just doesn't feel right.

Btw, your red si was pretty nice, I remember seeing it a few times in person.

jdmboyef9

when you do a pan swap between 88-89 and 90-91 the sides switch. In 90-91 they swapped the location of the recliner. Even though they used the same foam part numbers they use the RH foam for the drivers side LH.
Aside from that I have heard of people swapping driver and passenger fabrics and maybe foams with some modification.

Canadian_EF

For whatever reason, I've never been able to really see the difference between 88-89 and 90-91 seat rails or even recliner levers. Was it to do with the auto seatbelts? If so, that's probably why I've never noticed... I've never seen auto seatbelts on a car here.

ThatRicerDaniel

Are you anti vacuum cleaner? Good lord..

jdmboyef9

That is because the Canadian 90-91's don't have the USA rails and recliners. They are all the 88 style just like JDM models. I found out when I looked at a canadian 91' si to buy.

As far as anti-vacuum, these pictures are from just after I purchased the car and the snow had just melted. I don't drive the car in the snow or rain so it had been sitting for a while. The car is much cleaner now.

DCRB

gah those floor mats are MINT!!! where'd you find those? and that leather wrapped steering wheel? i'd love to have a leather steering wheel for my hatch.

Canadian_EF

makes a little more sense. ha ha.
I guess we're lucky that way. =P
nice restoration project!