Check out this sweet civic I picked up today

Its has 122xxx original miles and is near flawless inside and out,

Check out my 1988 civic wagon build aswell

https://honda-tech.com/forums/honda-crx-ef-civic-1988-1991-3/my-1988-wagon-washington-love-2865434/

Came with black hood.


Painted it silver,




It didn't have tach. so I replaced the cluster.


new cluster


Decided to paint my bumper today.

TAPE!


Not bad for a rattle can job





Also I was super bored so I decided to do amber corners.





Painted and cleared



Before.



After.

 

nice hope to see more build pics soon.keepin it ol school

 

Nice car man and love the price lol i got an 82 civic for $400 myself lol an i like the amber lights looks good

 

Very creative bumper work, it is a very nice design.

Which engine do you have? Time to hit the junkyard to get some spare mirrors..... the hatchback is getting scarce and the mirrors from the 4 doors does not fit unless you bore some of the holes a tad.... at least I managed to get one spare for the passenger side, and did the same thing for the cluster, got one with the tach..... with almost the same mileage 140.

 

I have the 1.3 carb. haha

I just picked up the side mirror and dash clock today for it haha now I need the si center console

 

True classics..

 

Nice EA. Keep it up.

 

nice ride. plans for it?

 

nicee

 

takes me back to the old days when i had my '86 and '87 hatch. good luck with your build!

 

needs a k swap. lmao. good **** tho.

 

Typical HT ricer boy, K swaps arnt the answer for everything. Way overkill. Swap it over to a 1.5 Si or a ZC swap. Thats plenty of power for these small cars.

 

very nice built

 

Looks pretty good I was thinking about picking up an old school hatch

 

Sweet civic. Looks fresh. I was gana buy an 87 civic wagon but i gots too many cars all ready.

 

Do you know if its pretty hard to go from carbed to EFI? I wanted to do the z6 swap. I heard something about swapping over fuel lines and fuel pump and the whole harness from an si or teg.

I did a dpfi to mpfi and obd0 to obd1 swap in my wagovan for a d16z6 all the wiring I did myself. If its as easy as that I will be stoked.

 

Since I bought it for a daily so I can do a bunch more stuff to my wagon I probably won't be touching the motor.

But I do plan on painting it olive green pearl. Putting in hids and I wanna lower it. Just kinda stumped in the pre 88 suspension right now.

probably getting some ls webs or putting my sportmax 501's on it haha

 

Join "red pepper racing" online for all your swap and suspension needs and ideas.

 

I will join I was on there and I couldn't find any threads on pre 88 suspension for 3rd gen civic noobs haha

 

hey man i was just wondering how hard was it to replace the tach? did you have to rewire or anything?

 

I did the same thing, find the same vintage, 84-87 without the fuel injection, and it is a plain swap, the plugs matches. I have an 85 on the 86, I was even lucky to find a vehicle with only 2000 extra miles.

 

Great find! (And good paint work, too!)

I love that generation, all angles and pyramids.

How much did you pay for it (if you don't mind my asking)?

 

to drop the car, you will need to use 1st gen teg torsion bars and re-index the bar to the height you need. There is an adjustment bolt that will give you plus or minus 1/2" height adjustment.

As to rears, you can try and find an old pair of jackson racing or lightspeed springs. You would be better off finding a set of lowering springs off an EF and lop off a couple coils..

Struts and shocks are no problem..

 

the corners look awesome ! imma try lol

 

Had an 86 civic si ..it was a great car..Billbert