Hondas are new to me. I've owned nothing but GM since I have had my license. My friend has a 95 coupe with a D15 swap and a few other mods. The car is a member's on here, Erod. I'll be searching around when I have more time. But any quick info is appreciated. It will be my younger brother's car, and I'm trying to get him set in the right direction. I understand the search button, so no need to rip into me on that lol. But any info you can pass my way would be appreciated. The motor swap and honda in general is a whole new ball game to me and is a lot to take in from my quick 10 min lurk around this section. What potential is in the D15?

The car can be seen here: http://erod.com/erodscivic.htm

1995 Honda Civic EX

About This Car: Bought this car totally stock from a local dealer. Its a one owner car that was bought new at the same dealership. Its a 5-speed with every option, except the automatic transmission and ABS....

Update 10/25/04: Put on my new Rota's tonight, love em so far, picts upcoming.

Update 12/27/03: Car had been gone for about 10 days getting a new JDM motor. Its a D15B VTEC. Just slightly more hp and torque, but its got around 35k miles on it. Runs great so far! Thanks Chris for the install, and zerodragtuning.com for the motor.

Body Style: Coupe
Color: Red
Engine: JDM D15B 1.5L (12-24-03) --Good article on the D15--
Transmission: Manual
Interior: Black
Purchase Date: 7/1/03
Purchased From: Shenango Honda

Engine:

* JDM D15B 1.5L VTEC
* Pacesetter 4-2-1 header
* Flowmaster 2-chamber
* 3" angle cut polished stainless tip
* AEM short ram
* Short throw shifter
* Sachs stage 1 clutch

Suspension/Wheels/Brakes:

* Tein S-Tech springs
* KYB GR-2's
* 17" Limited 445's (summer)
* Black Gorilla spline drives
* 14" Sacchi S12's (black/polished. winter)
* 185/60/14 Blizzak WS-50's

Exterior:

* Sylvania super white headlights
* Tint
* Amber city lights
* JDM amber corners
* Mugen-replica front lip
* Type-R rear lip
* Depo JDM replica foglights
* "Crystal clear" red/clear tails (NOT altezzas)
* Silver/Red two tone paint scheme

Interior:

* Changed cluster/climate controls to amber lighting
* OEM JDM Honda center console/armrest

Audio:

* Alpine CDA-7839 head unit
* Alpine 3527 4-channel
* Phoenix Gold Octane R 6.5"
Phoenix Gold Octane R 5.25"/1" tweeters
* Bazooka 8" BTA8200
*

Miscellaneous:

* Alpine alarm
* Honda-Tech.com stickers
* Removed EX stickers & pinstriping

 

Looks good
I mean the girl, the car is...clean.

 

I currently have a JDM D15B (I'm pretty sure the "v-tec" is implied...) in my EJ2... Its the fifth engine that's been in this car. I read an article somewhere that said that in terms of "HP to Litres ratio", its second only to the engine in the S2000. I didn't know anything about it when I bought it, I was supposed to be getting a B16; but my local Honda dealer who was doing the install screwed up in more ways than I can count. That being said, I've been pleased with it. Its not super powerful or anything like that, but it hasn't died yet either... and I'm sadistic to my car. The only mod's that I've put into it (because I'm swapping it again in the Spring) are an AEM cold intake and iridium +4 plugs. Though there's also a pin-hole somewhere in the manifold that makes it sound nice.

Once you get it up over 3k RPMs it drives pretty nice; though getting to 3k (especially up a hill) can sometimes be embarrassing. Seriously though, I think the engine has a lot more potential than I will ever take advantage of, God knows it can take a beating....

 

well...
the d15b (1.5) don't have the after market surport that say the 1.6 has
so finding internals will be more difficult
ie rods pistons
yes there are options just not as many
that is why i switched to th d16a

but the car looks clean... price?

 

Car has 28k miles, and is selling to my bro for $3,400. Clutch installed less than 2k miles ago. I'm not the least bit worried about the car lasting for him.

I'm not certain he is going to be boosting it. I would lean towards not, simply because he'll be a college student this fall and doesn't need to be throwing 3-4k into a car (pistons/rods/turbo kit/install parts). Of course, if he does, he's got me for the labor part.

Then again, I bet next summer I'll be tearing it down lol.

 

looks clean...I was just in dayton yesterday for a job interview

 

So is this a good car to start from? I think so, but again, I'm not a Honda guy

 

This would be an excellent starting point.

 

is that 28k on the moter or the chassis?
big differance between the two

 

well neither actually lol. Correction: 38k to chassis not 28. There is 37k on the motor

 

38k on a eg? well damn... that sounds like a world record or something?? I thought all eg's had like 200-1mil miles..... geez. Very unlikely I'm sure. The car is old enough so the title doesn't need to count mileage, and maybe the cluster has 38k but most definitely not the car

 

the girl is amazing the car is alright lol jk clean car

 

 

^^Are you dense or something?

 

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