Said id start one of these now,since i can.
Bought my civic in Early Febuary due to someone crashing into my previous car and making S**t of it.
Make: Honda
Model: Civic E-EF1 (facelift Model)
Milage: 82,000km Approx.
Colour: White
As it was in Febuary:



Was more or less standard

Picked This Up For Free:
5Zigen Miracle Fireball :D

Then after months of trying to track one of these
I finally got one cheap and handy :D
SiR Rear Lip
**** quality Pic

Rear Lip Fitted:

Picked up this fella for €10 :D
And a boss for €20

 

Found a set of these in pritty bad nick..
'Work Rsb'
So i gave €100 for them
Currently im refurbing and spraying these..

Got these for free too



Engine bay was clean but the engine looked aged..
So i sprayed up the rocker cover..
And degreased the whole bay
Pic of the cover : :D


Wheels:
Before:

After: (Stripped with 'Nitromors' and wet sanded with 180,280,400,600,800,1000,1200)

Primed:

Black Centres:

Black W/Polished Lip:


Sneak Peak at Them in Black :
Front : Before
Rear : After

Pic From RR Day (Thanks Brendan)

Went At Some Wiring Today:
*Cd Player Was Hardwired and was staying on when the keys
were taken out (so solving that)
*Pushstart button was the same..
Would swing (but wouldn't start) when keys were out..
(Will only turn now if the ignition lights
are on)
*Wiring the sensors for the Gauges

Went At Cleaning The Engine Bay Today:

Quick 50/50:

After




More to follow..

 

15/01/2010
Not much done really
Have a D14A1 Engine here which im experimenting with lately
Heres a few recent pics:

 

clean

 

real clean. keep it up. stayin sohc?

 

looks good!

 

Nope..
Saving the cash for a B18c

Thanks everyone ..
I have more up to date pics here somewhere..

 

very nice, very clean. wish mine looked that clean lol. mines all primer but no rust props tho on a clean hatch

 

mmmmmmmmmm carbs ftw!!! lol i had that can on a parts car that i bought, sounded loud but mean for a single slam. no rasp but nice. are we talkin b18c gsr or b18c-R?

 

B18C-R Dude..
Should be fun

 

Updates In Second Post

 

I waited for every pic to load just to see the background. Love Ireland dude. Part of my family comes from Ireland. Visit one day ..

nice car bro..

 

Thanks dude
Irelands recent condition :D



And just said id throw in 2 pics i took of random meets we have



Enjoy

 

Looks good man. Love the SiR rear lip. The car has come a long way in a short amount of time. It's cool to see that there are thriving import scenes overseas.

 

Thanks man,
Have a drag day coming up but wont have my current b16 in on time..

Researching at the moment a few things for the D14

 

Wow havent updated here in a while

Swapped the works for a set of rays engineering group nr-s


Right the garage started nice and clean this week:

Then after a bit of shopping... it ended up like this:






Updates : :D
Brought the car into the garage and went at this

Going for the sleeper look .. Steelies 8)

Rear Drilled & Grooved Discs + Steelies = WIN lol


Anyway Heres how it looked going in:



And Now : 8)

 

UPDATE:
Test Fitted The Cage Today:
Because its a rally cage its not made to fit interior...which is a problem
so ill be cutting the rear legs to sit onto the wheel wells!!


Pics of the s4c box (Cheers Kenny)



Dash Out

Engine Ready To Come Out




Got paint for my wheels



These arrived finally



dunlop sp's




So was loading the car on the trailer..
And heard a bang..
Couldnt figure it out for a while..

Then i looked closely in the car and noticed something was missing..
Looked under the car to find this ..



Anyway
Pulled off the wings,bonnet and front filler bar..
Must take out the rear subframe to change for the VT one



Today, I got out the petrol tank,lines and handbrake cables

And cleaned behind the wings as i never had arch plastics
F**king tar :facepalm:

 

Hubs gone



Front subframe and tow hooks removed

These are the brackets being removed





Whats this??

8) 8)


Also went at cleaning the engine today


Engine Ready to be stripped




Ek9 Tank And Pump


Well took the head off this morning and doesnt look too good








Collets,Springs,Valves And Oil Seals Out




Well got the head back
Heres the before pics for those who didnt see them



Few Updates
Valves Before & After

Headset

Headgasket

Head Skimmed

After Dipping

Regrinding Valves

Exhaust Valves Cut And Grinded




Got a few bits :
Full Obd0 Loom

Solid Rear Trailing Arm Bushes

Fuel Lines

JDM EF9 Dash Clocks


Bit of a change of plan..

My original intension was to rebuild the head and that be it..
But a change of plan for the better so here are the updates





Been a few set backs lately bud money is pritty tight and trying to find people to do the harder jobs is a pain :not top:







And the damage :





And pistons are off the rods and there gone for a bit of milling
Anyone want some pr3's cause i wont be needing them

Cusco front strut brace
Megan racing rear

 

Cool build so far. I am not gonna lie, I would kill for that carb'd sohc. Too bad you are not stateside!

 

sick build.

 

Nice build man keep up the hard work.

 

Carb'd sohc
I have 4 in my garage
There so common over here

Thanks guys more updates coming soon

 

That funny, I know a few old school heads that would love to get their mitts on them. You just don't see that very often on ED's here in the states.

 

Most ED/EF's here , 1300/1400/1500/1600's are carb
Unless there vtec