Upon my return from my tour of duty in Kandahar Afghanistan, I was almost certain to find myself a newer car and sell the old EF.

But something in my mind said "NO! Rebuild the EF!"

I've made my decision to rebuild the EF from scratch... and an apology was made to my car for even thinking about selling her.


Here's some before pics:




My buddies shop where the overhaulin' took place:


A nice EK happend to be in the shop so I snapped a pixor:


It took me and my buddy a few days to totally gut the car, but after we were done:












Ahh yes... Great Canadian Winter roads and their GOD DAMN SALT!!! I wasn't surprised to find this and more rust on this car:


Well, there is no turning back now. The appointment for full vehicle sand blasting is in 2 days.

I will try to update this thread daily or as much as I can.

 

nice

 

I love these threads!!! Way to keep it alive. I'll have one of these thread soon, just not as extensive.

 

Looking good!

 

Excellent thread, I love seeing cars like this that are literally started from scratch. What are you going to do about the heavy rusting on the bottom? Weld new metal panels in or something?

Welcome back from Afghanistan

 

nice dude ef up!!!

 

Thanks all around.

Yes I plan to cut and weld new metal in many spots on this car. Hopefully after sand blasting I can tell exactly where to cut and weld.

 

SWEET! Do it right bro!

 

for a nice car. rust is never a problem if fixed right

-melloman

 

for rebuilding the EF and keeping old Honda's alive, can't wait to see this beast done

 

Cool project, i have one of those teal Canadian hatchies too. Mines in the body also, should be hitting the paint booth on Wednesday

 

im in to watch this one!

 

for a dedicated EF'er

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very nice, My ride also need rebuilding,
How much will it completly cost you,?


Modified by salman at 12:15 PM 9/19/2006

 

thank you for your service. glad your home!

 

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x3 nice build for bringin back the ef, keep us updated

 

Welcome back and so glad yo see you're restoring the EF

 

for you
for serving
for this rebuild

 

first welcome home second gl on the build. and just a question the canadain government is also in iraq and the war on terror??? jsut asking because i thought it was just the us there. either way it's goo to here your home

 

good god..is it just me or we've been gifted with more and more of these complete overhaul/rebuild from the chassis up lately...hehe... but our cars are after all getting old and things like these need to be performed!

p.s. can you keep an eye on the expense report and let us know exactly or approximately how much this process of sandblasting..then primer ..then painting from scratch migh cost? i know its an awful lot..but us poor college kids gotta start saving sometime for projects like these

 

Nice buildup. Can't wait to see the finish. That is one rusty trunk floor, I really can't wait to see how that is addressed.

 

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Looks more like the driver floor then anything else...yikes...mine's like mint compared to that one.

 

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Mine is mint! HAHAHAH LOL

 

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Oh yeah you are right. That is crazy. I bet your carpet got soaked in the rain. You were probally about 1 winter from being in a flintstone mobile.