First off. THANK YOU GUYS SO MUCH. Yall have put up with my stupid *** questions and have helped me so much.

I would honestly be lost without the honda-tech.com guys.

Well Lets begin.

Just my 89 Civic Hatch Daily Driver. D15B1 stock nothing special.

The blue car was an 88. Blew the engine on it. Used it as spare parts.

That is how I bought the car. It even had cute butterfly seat covers.

.Wreck #1. Had an anxiety attack, ran into a creek.

.Got that at a junk yard for 400$ and drove it home.

.Just a pic of both cars

.Hitting 250k miles on the engine

.Some ******** put my wooden practice ninja sword through my window at a party. never found out who did it. It got glass all in my seats and carpet.

.Ripping out the blue car's interior and body. both doors, one fender, the hood.

.preparing to gut my daily driver

.whats left of the blue one

.the reason i used the blue one as parts. Notice the hole in the block.

.More pieces of the blue one.

.As of today. My car sanded and primered up w/ the new body from the blue car.

.Another side of my car. Notice where I had started to bondo up the holes from the old molding. Gonna do the rest like that when I am not so lazy. I'll do it tomorrow

.My new window and interior

.Another interior shot. Notice the shiney black center console area. The dash has one coat of flat black on it. Soon I will do the coat of glossy black. I like it better than the old brown ****.

.Rebuilt Heads from the shop, and the timing belt I broke doing it

.Right before I started to put the new timing belt on. Notice how I gotta clean, sand, reprimer, wet sand, and then cry b/c my arm hurts. Damn grease.

some cheap but actually quite good headers. the chrome plating already almost gone in just a few days :/ but they fixed my exhaust leak and i can Definetly feel the difference in driving

Bottom of the headers, new cat. converter, 2.5 inch straight pipe from the shop, sounds loud and raspy, i love it

Part of my shiney black spraycan paint job with baby blue fin. i love it too

Baby blue trim.. don't ask me, i like it tho. to each his own

New front shiney black bumper.



So from when I got it... Rebuilt heads, two new timing belts, all new belts, all new gaskets, new 4-2-1 headers.. some offbrand crap *shrug*, new car, straight pipe, two new CV joints, new plugs, cleaned intake, new EGR valve <-- 200 ****** dollars, Clean Used interior. All of it... painted interior shiney black with blue pleather seats and blue carpet.

body work.. new hood, fenders, doors, front bumper... sanded, primered, sanded again, base coat black, sanded, shiney black gloss, still needs a clear coat, needs the side molding.

final completed pics coming soon


Modified by douglaslovin at 9:45 PM 10/1/2005

 

lookin pretty good...so u swapped everything from the gold one to the blue one right?
u plannin on swapping a different motor in there, or u gonna keep it stock...i personally like the way it looks with moldings but its pretty clean without em...
lol well at least next time u will do all ur mechanical work before u do the body...
nice project..
good luck

 

WOW, that blue one was ******* CLEAN.

How did you throw a rod? thats just crazy.

 

The engine in the gold one was running fine. the blue one blew up. I got the heads from the blue one cleaned and put those on the gold one. The rest of the gold one is the same.

The gold car is the one that is sanded and primered.

I got side molding coming in the mail already. After I paint it I am just gonna stick the molding on.

Hopefully I won't need any more mechanical work. I won't be swapping in any engine. Its my daily driver. I am not experienced enough to even consider a swap.

 

<TABLE WIDTH="90%" CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 ALIGN=CENTER><TR><TD>Quote, originally posted by LaFawnduh &raquo;</TD></TR><TR><TD CLASS="quote">WOW, that blue one was ******* CLEAN.

How did you throw a rod? thats just crazy.</TD></TR></TABLE>

Yea it was clean. I was pissed it blew. I don't know how. Thats probably why the junk yard sold it for 400... *******. anyway i got way over 400$ in parts off of it

 

<TABLE WIDTH="90%" CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 ALIGN=CENTER><TR><TD>Quote, originally posted by douglaslovin &raquo;</TD></TR><TR><TD CLASS="quote">Yea it was clean. I was pissed it blew. I don't know how. Thats probably why the junk yard sold it for 400... *******. anyway i got way over 400$ in parts off of it</TD></TR></TABLE>

yah, **** dude, GLASS alone is worth some cheese. 1\4 panels. WIRING. Dash. whatever, just part the rest out, 400 will come back easy.

 

not bein a dick but what the **** is wrong with you...that blue one is way cleaner than the gold one...would u rather have a clean original body or a clean bondod up body...i think the choice is pretty clear....do u know how easy it will be to put the motor from the old one into the new one?u would need an 88 engine harness to make it work...thats about it...the 88 harness is differet than the 89-91

 

I would kill for my 88std model to be that clean. Actually I don't like you now because you striped a clean *** 88 that I would kill for. WTF!

 

those are some nice Ef's ya got there. I am shocked that there is no visable rust on either of them.

keep up the good work.