garthjenkins

so this weekend I acquired my newest project
1990 honda civic dx hatchback
170k 4spd manual transmission
d15
here are the pics, the car came with a full set of integra da seats that were just sitting in there because they didnt fit, but i had some old civic seats laying around my shop so i pan swapped em and whalla full front and rear integra seats in a ef

here are the pics so far

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osbunjosh

i love how your buying and selling and making profit on cars you love. best thing to do. I like the teg seats in the hatch. makes it look nice. Good luck and keep us updated!

garthjenkins

thank you
for me its also about putting my favorite cars back on the road again for others to enjoy as well

this car has been sitting in a field for five years
I drove it homethe car pulls really hard and the trans is so tight there is no shaft play at all i cant even wiggle the stickshift, feels awesome to drive. But she smokes like a bitch
the guy told me it needs new piston rings but when i remove the oil cap it really blows hard out of it, could that mean that rings are not my problem?
any help would be appreciated since I am going to go into my garage tonight and pull the pistons, rods, rings and crankshaft out of an engine I have from an ef i wrecked as a teen, I have a good head I could put on if needed but gasket kits are kinda spendy

also that is my 94 sedan in the pics, I picked it up for 400 and replaced the broken windows and crushed door, I pounded out the rear quarter panel almost to flush and and going to do the bond and paint soon, i know its not an ef but its a honda civic lol

garthjenkins

also I am surprised more people aren't saying anything about my da rear seats with perfect fit, I looked for a long time on how to do it an everyone said they wouldn't fit

pan swap is how I did it
ps it was a cake walk thats why i didnt take any pics

netfreak

At first I thought your other honda was able to fly but then I realized it's probably just on a jack.

boosted.CRX

Do you find more or less headroom with the DA front seats over stock?

garthjenkins

I think that there is slightly less head room but i didnt notice since i am only 5'11 and i like my seat leaned back lol

yeah and my other honda is actually sitting ontop of a railroad tie, hit a pothole and smashed my rim a couple days ago......ehhhh dam shitty roads

90efzc

Please no bondo.

lazlong

Man, those seats look nice. That looks exactly like the one I had in high school. I drove that car to hell and back. Places some trucks wouldn't go. I didn't even have a rear seat, removed it to make room for subs. The back window would flex 3-4 inches. lol. Ah, those were the days.

garthjenkins

yeah i had one in high school too, it was my first one i had it slammed so low it would go under alot of logging gates back then also had tweed integra seats up front and no backseat cuz of subs lol
highschoolers so funny

also why no bondo?
i was thinking i might glass it instead but wasnt sure how it would turn out

garthjenkins

so what does everyone think about a black hood? the paint is hella faded on the red one,

ricey?

osbunjosh

i just built my motor and got it running and it was smoking and shooting oil out of the exhaught. everyone told me i had bad piston rings. Nope. Go buy some seafoam from autozone. Dump it all in your oil. Go run the **** out of it. Come back and let it idle till all the smoking stops. Works every time. Let me know if you try it. and if it stops.

90efzc

It looks alot better in the long run to just go out to a junkyard and get a clean panel. Bondo is not to professional looking either. If youre just going to daily your car then whatever but I sure would never use bondo. Basically runs down to a matter of opinion.

I hear positive and negative reviews of seafoam, some say it makes it worse some say it doesn't do anything and some say it works. I again would probably not take the risk as I feel I hear more negative reviews of it than anything. I'd rather pull the engine apart and check it out either way.

4drEF

Dang lucky you are.
Just like doing a motor flush or any other detergent you don't want to drive hard on the engine.
Maybe idle for 15!30 min and then the oil should be broken down.
Drain it and it should run out like water. You don't want to drive on it or put any load on it.

Sounds to me like you had piston rings that were stuck.
You probably could have just ran the sea foam through your intake or fuel and had the same result.

garthjenkins

seafoam eh?
never heard of it
what would it do?
also I have an extra engine in my garage its a d15 dual point, I am wondering if i can just drop the crankshaft with rods and pistons out the bottom or what?
if so it would make my life alot easier
let me know please asap thanks

garthjenkins

oh yeah and about he bondo, its not for the ef its for the eg
the rear quarter panel is in pretty bad shape and i think bondo or glassing it is my only option besides cutting another quarter panel and welding it on, which i do not have the resources readily available to do

garthjenkins

so i have read a lot about people thinking that their rings are bad when its really just bad valve seals. does anyone know how to check this?
I have a perfect d15 head that I had rebuilt ten years ago then crashed the car a week later, the engine has been sitting in my shop since then and i pulled the head off last month to put on a different car, then decided the car wasnt worth my time and had the junk man come get it. So the head is in great shape and since it only had about 100 miles since the rebuild the gasket came off clean, figured it might be ok to reuse

the cam and rockerarm assembly has some rust on it, so i will prob use the cam/rockerarms from the engine already in the car and swap the heads,

since none of the gasket stuck to the block and appears to have no blown spots is it ok to reuse?

I am trying to not spend alot of money here

209Car Shows

thats a steal for 150 bucks!!

EK-ek

super steal! so lucky man, hopefully this build is dope

DCRB

i am very interested in some more pix of your back seat if you could post them

lazlong

I think you should be ok on the gasket. Just watch it real good.

garthjenkins

so as requested here are the pictures of the rear seat installed
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the seats are not 60/40 or 50/50 though they are bolted together and fold down as one piece
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garthjenkins

anyone about he valve seals vs rings>??

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Clean91Crx

sweet buy man, just rebuild the motor. cost for parts on that isnt that bad and you will be happy in the long run.

garthjenkins

ok, well this week I will try to find the time to take off the head, should be able to do it fairly quickly so long as I dont break any bolts or nuts, lol always seams to happen to me