My 1995 Phantom Grey Civic Hatchback

First of all, this car was originally bought to be my daily driver. I bought it for $1300 from a local used car lot. When I bought it, the poor 1.5 SOHC was knocking and it was an automatic car. But it had a decent body, and more importantly NO RUST! I decided to put another single slammer together and convert it to a 5 speed to daily while I built a motor on the side. While I had the engine out, I decided to respray the engine bay. One thing led to another and that puts me where I am today...

Used parts collected on sites/locally:
d15b7 bottom end (Thanks Steven)
DX 5 speed trans
shift linkage
shifter
clutch master cylinder
brake/clutch/gas pedal assemblies
EDM Civic VTi gauge cluster

New Vatozone parts:
intake manifold gasket
exhaust manifold gasket
valve cover gasket w/ grommets
NGK spark plugs
failsafe thermostat
oil pan gasket
upper/lower radiator hoses
timing belt
goodyear gatorback accessory belts

New OEM Honda parts:
optional center console
cylinder head gasket
antenna block off
clutch slave cylinder
brake light switch
water pump

Here are a few pics via my point and shoot...

side shot


daily engine together


It had gray interior, so I decided to take it all out and use the duplicolor interior rattle can paint and make it black. Here's how the dash came out.



Got a good deal on this VTI cluster from another H-T member, so I picked it up.


While I had the interior out painting it all black, I noticed how disgusting it was underneath the panels...So I couldn't leave it like that. Spent a whole day cleaning the interior.

Before:





After:


The transmission I bought from a friend was pretty nasty. Got a bottle of Simple Green and went to town. I also mocked up the shift linkage as much as I could without having the motor in the car. After that, put the dash/cluster back in.



I called up a friend of mine that works at the local Honda stealership, and asked him to get me an audio console. I wont tell anyone how much I paid for it, don't want to break any hearts. It was cheap, I'll say that.


I finished most of the engine bay, and started painting the interior underneath the panels. I still need to remove a few things, like the charcoal canister and hide/remove a few things. I plan on relocating the under hood fuse panel to the glove compartment, and relocating my battery to the hatch area. Here are a few quick pics I took of the engine bay and the trunk area. Neither are finished in the pictures, so don't give me too much grief.






As of right now, I'm done with the interior/engine bay as far as paint goes. I'm still waiting on my ECU, engine harness and Innovative auto/manual trans mount to arrive. I've been looking around at some daily wheels, like a set of SI's or LS mesh. I'm also looking at some OEM fitment black carpet. I'm kind of at a stopping point until I receive my parts. I will post up pictures of how it looks now later today...can't find my camera cord.

 

Here are a couple up to date pictures I took this morning.

finished interior...


exterior..the dents will be taken care of when it gets painted.

 

Come on guys...100+ views and no replies! I know I'm not ballin...but let's get some thoughts.

 

looks good, rust sucks so you lucked out, keep up

 

Looking good man. Did you just use rattle cans to spray the interior/bay?

 

Yep. I did several coats of primer, then followed with 2 coats of duplicolor engine enamel gloss black. I think it came out nice...not perfect, but nice.

 

rattle can ftw lol

 

Looks good so far. Dash came out real nice.

 

i did my dash, and panels as well. also did my carpet with same paint, came out perfect. looks good, i LOVE charcoal grey, i miss mine, lol.

 

Looks pretty good so far. Your build is probably similar to what I whanna do to my 95 hatch next summer, so I'm in for the updates.

 

Thanks for the comments guys. I will post more updates when the parts start coming in. I'm currently waiting on harness/ecu/conversion mount.

 

I finally got my conversion mount and ECU yesterday...I will update this weekend.

 

i picked up a dx just like this one a month ago. same color, auto chassis and everything. going thru the pictures, it looked just like the one i have. lol.

 

Got the motor in today...after running to get hardware about 10 times. I started connecting hoses/misc crap and decided to call it a day. Also hung the new bumper for the picture. I will finish most of it tomorrow. I do however need a clutch line. I'm probably going to either order it from honda or have a shop make me a SS braided one.

 

Lookin good so far. Keep it up man

 

Loves the DIY interior black!

 

Couple more pics with the bumper on.






And this one...just for fun. hehe

 

keep up the progress!

 

looken good lol i like the pic wit the phone^^

 

u should throw a vtec head on it and do full exaust and intake

 

Nah. This motor is just to make it move for the time being. I am going to build an LS-T.

 

Nice man, keep us posted!

 

Ill subscribe to this.

 

haha i knew this looked familiar saw it on nwa forum.
bump for local

 

Here's a little side project I'm going to work on during the course of the build.



I also ordered an Earl's SS braided clutch line kit. Got it for cheap on ebay, and decided it was the cheapest/smartest choice. OEM lines would be about $110, and making a line would just be a PITA