I will start off by saying that i always wanted a civic hatch and i finally got the opportunity to get one.

my car was a 1993 accord lx, stock with 195k miles and a very bad hesitation when accelerating.




i put the car up for sale and started looking for another car. I found the civic that i have now and decided to take a look at it.

1992 civic dx, 135k miles dcsport 4-2-1 header, unkown wheels and cat back (mabey you guys could tell me what they are)

shitty camera phone pics of when i test drove it



The guy offered to trade me cars and throw in an extra 500 for repairs on the civic. so i took it.

Now, this might have been a dumb thing, trading a car as clean and reliable as my accord for a riced out civic hatch that needed some hard loving, but what the hell right?

now for progress and higher res pictures.








Yay all the old interior is out, the hatch leaks so carpet was ruined and the car has ANTS!!!!!!! time to bomb it


And here is a picture of all the pointless wiring to pointless crap that needed to be removed from this rice bucket.




Only issues it has is.

no front bumper and bumper cover
no rear bumper cover
hatch leaks alot (swimming pool anyone?)
wheels are ugly and beat up
painted interior pieces (cluster bezel and the two rear panels where speakers would go)
dash lights go on and off at random, but they are mostly off
projector headlights
z3 fenders

other than that it runs excellent, no smoke, hesitations, overheating or anything.

thanks for looking, all comments accepted. And if someone could tell me what exhaust and wheels it has (if you can tell from the pics)

 

and photo bucket does it again with random pic resizing

 

damn that looks like a headache X2324. Damn thatt accord is looking pretty hot right about now. Best of luck to you

 

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i get really bored and have to have something to work on.

the accord was a and i never shoulda bought it

the headache is the wiring that is in this thing, oh man, and the projectors OMG WTF

 

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the headache is the wiring that is in this thing, oh man, and the projectors OMG WTF</TD></TR></TABLE>

Some people can actually pull them off.




Not my car, if the owner wants me to take it down I will.

 

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then mabey someone will trade me for some oem ones so i can blackhouse them

 

that hatch is sick

 

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Hell, if you are going to throw them away, ship them to me.

 

i think those wheels are TSW. shitty, good luck on that. got major plans yet?

 

cool project, after you derice some things

 

yeah, im getting rid of the z3's projectors, riced interior pieces, wheels.

probably gonna put some gsr blades on it, cut off the muffler and weld another one on, undecided on the one i want, mabey a dual loop muffler.

this thing used to be slammed on some no name coilovers and the underbody shows it.

but other than those little things, this has to be the best running car ive gotten (will be my 4th honda)

 

&lt;~~~~~~~~~~~~ Hates wiring!!!! GL!

 

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yeah i just went through from the inside and found every wire that went to nothing, or a switch that did nothing and cut it out.

if the wire was spliced into something else in the dash i left it there, and im gonna just cut and repliece the two originals back together.

the only things that dont work is the horn and dash lights.

only problem is, inspection ends this month, and i cant pass a safety inspection with no horn

im friends with a guy that is brother with the owner of the local maaco. he said if i prep the car myself, then for 100 bucks i can get it painted and they will even wetsand it

i know its maaco, but they have a "custom red metal flake" that looks like they sprayed it with a spray can and tossed some glitter on it lol

 

in for updates. not a bad trade actually, those $500 can take you a long way...

 

Good luck man, its always fun to tear down and rebuild a car.

 

i gotta get some bug spray, i got in and had ants all over my leg

im looking in my shop manual now to see where one wire goes, its part of the stock wiring, but its cut, runs on drivers side towards the rear of the car....

and if ound out he has the wrong amp fuses in the wrong place.

the backup fuse 7.5 amps he has a 20!!!!!!!!

off to advance i go will update as i go

 

I'd buy a pack of fuses and replace all the fuses on that car. Even if they are fine, chances are something is ghetto on it.

 

give TLC on that hatch and it should be all good... good luck on the build

 

mine was really bad when i first got it, now its gold

 

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yeah, it had 3 blown fuses, and he just put gum wrapper to connect the two points bypassing the fuses. he had that one the ECU FUSE!!!!!1

i just replaced them and going through all of them and testing them

 

the rims are tsw vx1 i have the same ones, yours have been colored obviously mine came in the aluminum color.

 

thanks for the info on the wheels.

i fixed all the wiring today, the dimmer switch wires were grounding out from where he installed his tach to it, and the horn is wired in with the SRS system, so it worked after i put in the airbag.

hopefully weds after i install a new axle i will get some bumpers for it

until then thanks for the comments guys

 

holy crap that is quite a project... lolx talk about alot of wires!

 

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yeah good thing most of them ran to NOTHING, the only one that i cut and caused something to stop working was the little light that tells me my seatbelt isnt connected, as if i didnt already know