I figured I would share this with you guys...

1. this build doesn't feature an amazing wire tuck
2. it doesnt have a sick motor build either
3. this is about my 1994 civic cx that I have owned for 5 years, its been through hell and back and I would appreciate if the negativity was left out of this thread. The car is far from done...

Alot of you know me...I dont cut corners but I'm not a baller...I take my time and do things right when I have the money and time.

Lets start with how I bought this thing when I was 14. My aunt and uncle were in the process of moving into a mountain cabin in New Hampshire, they owned 2 suv's and a 1994 civic cx...it was my uncle's commuter car. He was meticulous with maintenance and it was always kept clean. It needed a timing belt and radiator so I towed it home for $500.

This is the day I put an aem cai on the stock d15b8....why?...because I was 15.




This is 6 months later




Fast forward to my freshman year of college...swirlies, d16y7, oem lip...buncha little stuff that made me love it




Then some dbag stole it, I got it back looking like this






Yeah, they stole my single cam. Broke *** mother****ers. I bought a coupe after that, threw a motor in real quick...it was kind of a half assed constantly being fixed car that never ran right...




After replacing a wheel bearing, ruining 2 sets of tires, changing a blown headgasket, losing a slave cylinder in drivers rear and having no brakes...the motor finally started knocking. 15 minutes later the entire exhaust fell off, was not my best day. My original plan was to collect a mass amount of parts for my hatch, cage it, swap it and road race it. That went out the window and I had to make it run in 2 weeks.

Step 1: clean it out. Gourley and KaytiPi helped me vacuum/clean the interior, take out my dash and change my steering column. The thieves cut every pigtail off of the dash harness and mainharness....so I took out the heater core/blower motor and ripped the entire harness out.







Step 2: brakes. Those broke *** mother****ers stole my stock cx f/r brakes...yeah 9" fronts and small rear drums. Lowlifes. I picked up 99-00 si front knuckles and 2000 ls rears. I pressed new oem bushings into the lca's/uca's.



Step 3: motor. I didn't have any time to pick up something with 2 cams...luckily I found a complete d16y8 in a wrecked 2000 ex fs, I went and pulled it from the car myself, snaked the radiator, axles, linkage, all hoses, heater core valve and some more goodies for a steal of a price. Dude was super cool. I traded my 14's for an apex n1, picked up an aem sri, got an obd2 ls harness to be plug and play with an obd2 motor n an obd1 car, took the mounts from my coupe. The only picture I have of the motor before it went in the car is a shitty camera phone picture...you can also see the n1



Step 4: suspension. I had brand 1 week old omni power sport coilovers on my coupe when I blew it up...so I transfered them over. The car rolled out of the garage like this:



Step 5: cosmetic bullshit. This is where I am lacking...the paint was royally ****ed by the thieves, dents everywhere, it started rusting out of nowhere while it was missing...some bottlecaps, an old cracked lip, mudflaps made me feel slightly less trashy driving this thing.



My old wheels painted white...







Bodywork/paint are next...for now it's my dd commuter car and unfortunately I have to park the car 5 days/week exactly where it was stolen from....so I dont see me putting any money into it until I have a dd.

 

looking good bro

 

damn man, props to you. I stopped halfway through the pic with the empty engine bay and was like "damn they stole a d16"??. Then I saw when you wrote the same thing under the pic. That's crazy and the whole brakes thing...it's just sad. You have heart though. You should get an alarm or wheel club or something. You said that you didn't want to put any money in it but you didn't the first time and they jacked it. You get me?

 

bump id get ravelco

 

thanks dood

lol yeah...low life scumbags...the car was always a commuter so it was aimed at reliability. the d16y7 was fresh, i had a fresh z6 trans w/ an exedy clutch, itr f/r sway bars, asr plate, omni control arms, omni coilovers, edm cluster that went to 230km/h, oem fogs...it was a whole bunch of little **** and a lot of meticulous maintenance...i bet you couldnt tell that the car had 250k miles on it in the pic with the swirlies

i have security...i just prefer not to talk about it

 

good job man just keep your head up and keep working

 

Thieves FTL

Good job putting it back together.

 

They probably stole it thinking you had a decent swap, seeing how clean the body/stance was.

Props for bringing it back to life Most people would of just sold the shell.

 

Came a long way.
Keep up the good work.

 

I remember your build on JDMC. Nice comeback.

 

clean build **** a thief!!
I got a JDM heart!

 

x2

 

i wish i had this kind of drive man!! alot of hard work i get in over my head alot and lose intrest when stuff happens like that!! and with the stuff you say is throw together it really looks good

 

way to stick in there and get the peanut up and running...







agian.

 

they popped my hood before they stole it...scumbags

i still kick it on that site

 

wow your car looked good before! theives ftl..but are you planning to paint it red again? (maybe i missed it)

 

Time for some better security!!!

Good of you to bring it back to life though!

 

wow car looks good glad to see u bring it back man enjoy it

 

Love the white wheels on it, lookin good. Glad to see it being rebuilt.

 

Wow really nice work bro sorry for the stolen car issue but you sure do deserve a tap on the shoulder for your hard work bringing it back to life . Nice work .

 

Really good work man, don't ever let theives stop you from doing what you really want.. Good luck with the rest!!

 

lol, how do you know they popped your hood before they stole your car?

 

i did a whole bunch of crap when I had the main harness out...the only way they'll ever get it is by flatbed

thanks bro...hows your car doin?

the dudes rotting in jail

 

They obviously need just the drivers side suspension too.

Good job on the resurrection!

 

lol there was an odd combo of parts when i got it back...1 ek rear strut that was sitting on the metal of the lca, 1 da front strut, 1 2x4 notched to sit in place and 1 eg rear strut, 1 eg rear lca and 1 da rear lca