kcmofirehatch90

Ok so ive wanted to start a build thread for a while now..so here it go's!!

I've bought,built, and sold many of my projects due to some legal troubles, bills, credit card debt, buying my first house, and of course the bad economy!! but one day I happend to stumble across this mint 1988 Honda Civic DX Hatchback and I knew right then an there this was the hatch I wanted to keep an build for a long time!! so I sold my 99' F-150 DD and went an bought this for what I think is a good/fair price...I've had numerous EF's before but not one that looked this good..I also had a EF9 front end conversion for it, but I had to sell it to get out of credit card debt..I was sad to see it go but somtimes you gotta do what you gotta do..now for the mods/pics!!

MODS:
**bought it freshly built all parts have 5K miles on them**
-New alternator belt
-All new hoses
-oreilly alternator
-optima yellow top battery
-custom made aluminum battery tray with battery tie down
-Del Sol 2 row radiator (slim)
-spal electric fan
-Jegs overflow can
-Hazport billet motor mounts (race)
-Hazport shift linkage
-Panosonic CD player
-Pioneer door speakers
-EF 4 door guage cluster (has tach)
-auto meter shift light
-DC sports short shifter
-Energy suspension shifter bushings
-R1 shift ****
-Tenzo race seats (custom made seat brackets to bolt to factory sliders)
-VIS US/SiR carbon fiber hood (bottom is cut to clear a turbo set up)
-OEM SI front spoiler (Front lip)
-front bumper cut for full race back door intercooler
-rear bumper has hole for battery shut off switch if you mount the battery in the trunk
-New OEM fender liners
-New windshield
-New fuel tank
-wire tucked

BLOCK:
-B16 block honed
-B16 pistons
-New OEM Honda rings
-New OEM Honda main bearings
-New OEM Honda rod bearings
-ARP head studs
-All new gaskets OEM Honda
-New OEM Honda timing belt
-New OEM Honda water pump
-New OEM Acura Type-R oil pump

HEAD:
-B16 head ported and polished
-fresh valve job and resurfaced
-New OEM Honda valve guide seals
-New OEM Acura Type-R valve springs
-New OEM Acura Type-R retainers
-stock B16 cams
-2 layer head gasket
-B16 intake manifold port matched to head
-EBAY cold air intake
-vibrant crankcase evac to exhaust

TRANS:
-B16 cable trans
-New OEM Honda diff bearings
-Quiafe differential (LSD)
-Acura Type-R flywheel
-Exedy pressure plate
-ACT clutch disc

EXHAUST:
-DC Sports header
-Invidia test pipe
-Tanabe hyper medallion exhaust (sounds real good! people say it sounds like a street bike)

SUSPENSION/BRAKES:
-Energy suspension bushing kit in front and rear
-Skunk2 pro-s full coilovers
-89-91 CRX SI rear control arms
-92 Acura Integra front and rear sway bars
-92 Acura Integra front and rear disc brakes
-92 Acura Integra brake booster/master cylinder/Ebrake cables
-New axles
-New rotors
-New brake pads
-New wheel bearings
-New wheel studs
-New front brake backing plates (dust shields)

WHEELS:
-Drag DR-20 15x7 black with machined face and lip
- on Falken ZE-512 205/50R15

FUEL SETUP:
-Walbro fuel pump
-(-6) stainless steel fuel feed line
-Aeromotive fuel filter
-fuel pressure gauge
-Aluminum fuel return line
-AEM fuel pressure regulator
-New Acura Type-R throttle cable and bracket

ECU/IGNITION SETUP:
-Accel DFI Gen 7 (just updated to newer board design and flashed with newest updates) alot of time spent installing the computer!
-factory check engine light is still hooked up to it
-IAC option
-O2 option
-MSD ignition coil
-MSD ignition wires
-MSD ignition cap and rotor
-MSD ignition 6AL ignition box
(distributor is gutted other than the cps and runs completely off the MSD and Accel to fire)
-2 step switch mounted but not hooked up

THE BADS:
-roof has hail damage
-passanger quarter panel is just now starting to rust
-no heat (came with car though)
-no ps or ac (im used to it, all my hondas were that way)
-no radio antennae (custom made plate put over it)
-tint is messed up

Sorry I know its alot but it's an awsome start!! theres prolly some I'm forgetting but for the most part I'm sure I got it all..I listed everything because I'm going to reuse alot of these parts in this build!! I've put about 6k miles on it since I bought it and it runs/drives flawlessly! It is very fun to drive, it gets alotta looks and compliments..I wish I could have done it myself to say I did it but the guy I bought it from saved me alot of blood sweat an tears lol an now its time to build it the way I want it! Now for the pics!!

88HATCH(:

beautiful bro !

kcmofirehatch90

Thanks man just got my income taxes back so I figured id start a build thread an get to building!

EVIL EF9 RHD

iTrader: (4)

great job bro. great work

Shaunathan

holy ****, this one of the cleanest ef hatches i've seen... how much did you pay for it?

trashyhatch

super clean and not overly done. awesome car man!

kcmofirehatch90

$4000 i thought it was a good/fair deal for everything that was done to it...

thanks man i plan on making it into hontuner or some sort of magazine some day after i finish restoring it an building a beast for it!!! but for now its just a fun dd!

Oasisqc

gold crest ?

kcmofirehatch90

That's what I said...but they kinda grew on me..whenever I get around to paint/body work they'll be removed

jlk16188

its so simple...i love it

kcmofirehatch90

Did some research on them an the gold crests are a rare JDM piece!

facciol93

dafuq is a gold crest?
i don't get it

super clean btw!
love it

cn_bb

nice!
love the Engine !

kcmofirehatch90

K so after a year of having fun dd this gem the motor would have had about 15-18k miles on it..i thought i blew the head gasket but in roughly 5 hours i pulled the motor and completely disassembled everything..(upon disassembly some bolts were real tight, some were kinda loose and some i could just do by hand so my guess is, they either vibrated loose or the previous owner didnt torque down to spec) causing this: well come to find out it wasn't the head gasket, some how i managed to crack a piston in cylinder 4..prior to cracking the piston i was having issues on cylinder 4, the car wasn't running right so i started checking over everything and i had a dead spark plug so i changed all my spark plugs then not long after the piston gave way! thank god i was only a block away from my house when it had happend..while i dd the hatch I built a 93 s10 to get me around in the winter and something to drive while I start building the beast! I decided to go FULLY BUILT LSV TURBO! Here are some more up to date pics!

-first I custom made a spare tire cover since the car didn't come with one


-this is how the hatch currently resides



-and these are all parts I've been collecting to build the beast!


-81mm JE piston (I believe there 9-1) & ACL main/rod bearing with thrust washers


-golden eagle cam gears


-golden eagle LSV kit


-new valve cover



-moroso oil pan


-eagle H-beam rods with ARP rod bolts



-GE fully sleeved B18A1 (I bought it as a bare block)



-ASR bar with BEAKS lower bar on Skunk2 LCA's


-no name front strut tower bar painted wrinkle black came with^^(idk if I want to use it or not..been thinking about goin with a nice 3point bar)


-EF9 wing that I didn't sell with the old EF9 front end I had..


-EF9 vin plate I found in one of my old parts car


That's all I've got for now..until tomorrow..lol, I'm buying a turbo kit..I will post pics ASAP!

mtflyboy25

iTrader: (2)

freaking clean

BLU CIVIC

no name strut bar is a Neuspeed. weird that you but the grill being cut out and a hole in the rear bumper as a mod

kcmofirehatch90

I know neuspeed makes theirs like that but there's other brands out there that make them like that too..and as for the front bumper and rear bumper as a mod I had just copied and pasted the list the guy I bought the car from had sent me

BLU CIVIC

i doubt that...mostly b/c neuspeed would sue them for copyright

not sure i would have went with a moroso pan, mostly b/c of the oil return location. one of those things that depends on what turbo and manifold you go with. would suck to have to weld another fitting to it

kcmofirehatch90

Yea I'm sure it'll be alright..if not ill have a tapped ls oil pan im gettin in the turno kit im buyin tomorrow..i'm getting a lovefab ram horn and I haven't decided with what turbo I'm going with..I'm looking to be in the 4-500hp range

BLU CIVIC

i went with a cast manifold and small turbo so i could keep my full radiator. there's lots of threads in the FI section that'll point you in the right direction. don't forget to post your set-up here
https://honda-tech.com/forums/showth...ghlight=lsvtec

nepsGD3

Very nice ride man

kcmofirehatch90

Just bought Brian crower dual valve springs and titanium retainers!


Just got my head back from the machine shop!!
-head was already fully ported and polished so they cleaned it up
-resurfaced it
-installed new ferrea valves
-with new bronze valve guides
-3angle valve job
-installed new BC springs and retainers

kcmofirehatch90

Just got my turbo kit! Pics comming soon!

kcmofirehatch90

K so here's the turbo kit!
-lovefab ram horn
-tial 44mm waste gate
-greddy bov
-turboworks backdoor intercooler
-down pipe/dump tube/ic piping



Also some more parts came in today!
-gsr oil/water pumps
-eagle fuel rail with fittings and gauge
-dsm style precision 780cc injectors
-arp flywheel/pressure plate bolts

kcmofirehatch90

sorry i havent been on here lately, been busy with work but just wanted to post an update on some progress...


i traded a friend of mine my b16 gears for some DA, LS long gears and reused my S1 case with my LSD



Edelbrock Victor X intake manifold


Taylor aluminum battery box (going to relocate my battery to the trunk)


cleaned and painted the lovefab ramhorn


also did the intercooler piping (still debating on if i want to do the intercooler or not)


TURBO!!! k so this wasnt cheap but im sure it will be well worth it!!
so its a turbonetics ceramic ball bearing HP-76mm compressor wheel 4''/2.5 non ported shroud. F1-68mm turbine wheel T4 0.96 A/R turbine housing with 3'' v-band----HP RATING 650-750


i also decided to go with some AEM gauges (still have a couple more i need to get)


greddy turbo timer