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. D15B2 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 cat, 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

 

not bad keep us posted

 

nice project dude,keep up the good work man

 

did you seriously spraycan that black?? or are you actually gonna get it painted?? no offense or anything, just wondering.

 

ya i rattle canned it. doesn't look to bad. and yea its gonna get a good paintjob eventually

 

The bodyshop is gonna love you for using rattlecan paint.

 

props on doing yourself!

 

just a question...how do you have a new cat, and a straight pipe at the same time...dummy cat?

 

HAHA ur car got knifed

 

<TABLE WIDTH="90%" CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 ALIGN=CENTER><TR><TD>Quote, originally posted by Mr_Si-R &raquo;</TD></TR><TR><TD CLASS="quote">just a question...how do you have a new cat, and a straight pipe at the same time...dummy cat?</TD></TR></TABLE>

right after the header i have about 3 inches of pipe, then a new cat, then more straight pipe after the cat...

whats a dummy cat?

 

You said cheap header. Is it one of the many for sale on ebay that claim to be "jdm" and "stainless steel" that sell for like .99 and then the shipping is $65?

 

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.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.

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you got own3d by some ninja
jk good job on the car

 

<TABLE WIDTH="90%" CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 ALIGN=CENTER><TR><TD>Quote, originally posted by douglaslovin &raquo;</TD></TR><TR><TD CLASS="quote">right after the header i have about 3 inches of pipe, then a new cat, then more straight pipe after the cat...

whats a dummy cat?</TD></TR></TABLE>
a dummy cat it just when u unbolt the cat, then hollow it out and put it back on. its the same concept as a straight pipe(no cat just piping in the middle). i dont know about where you live, but here in texas no cat=no inspection sticker. i had to go to some shaddy *** place in the hood do get it passed.

 

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Would like to know the same thing also.

 

<TABLE WIDTH="90%" CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 ALIGN=CENTER><TR><TD>Quote, originally posted by Jonathan_ED3 &raquo;</TD></TR><TR><TD CLASS="quote">Would like to know the same thing also. </TD></TR></TABLE>

it was just some cheap *** headers of ebay.. one of those 9.99 and 40$ shipping. my friend Ricky is a mechanic, he said it shouldn't be to bad.

The welds were all really good. The metal is in great condition. It fits perfectly.

It didn't claim to be JDM or Stainless Steel. Im not sure what it is lol. Works good enough for me.

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And nah its not a dummy cat. its a new one. not hollow or anything.

Muffler shops are not even allowed to do an exhaust system with out a cat on there. If you have a used one, they say go home and put the used one on then they can finish.. if you don't have one at all.. you buy theirs or you don't get your **** worked on.

its a big *** FINE for doing an exhaust job w/o a cat.