Hey guys, I really dont post on here too much, but i thought id share one of my latest projects with you. Basically i have been doing custom paint and Autobody for years, and my dad has been building high performance engines/ cars for the last 40+ years and every year we build a few cars for ourselves

I know this is a honda sight, but heres one of my last projects, a 96 Ws6 trans am, and ill be wraping up my 98 Z28 in the next 2 months or so among other projects we have.
http://www.ls1tech.com/forums/appear...aros-more.html

Anyway, Heres our 93 Ex coupe with jackson racing supercharger. Long story short my Co workers son mike had a 84 Porsche 944 non turbo that had broke a timing belt and wiped out some valves on the head and what not. So he went out and bought this coupe that recently had the SC engine swaped in... Well literally 9 miles down the road on the way home, he mashes the gas, and the top motor mount breaks. Motor hits strut tower, breaks timing belt, ect ect, found out later that it Only had 1 bolt in it, other was too short and incorrect and had No lower mount, and loose pass side mount. So now mike had 2 broken cars, so i struck a deal and told him id fix his porsche for the honda. So for under 400 bucks in parts and a few hours later his porsche was ready to go and i had the honda

Here was a run down on the car when i got it, it had 120,xxx miles on the body, Spray painted black 2 tone, standard wheel arch rust, and a bashed driver fender, but no accidents, stock interior and suspension besides springs.. But it did have a new low mile Jdm LSD tranny, and the Jacksonracing unit, so we dug into it

 

wow good luck dude. on the bright side... it does have a s/c.

 

After ripping it down in a bit we saw that we could save the top bolt hole for the side motor mount, but the bottm of the mount was broken off the block, so were gonna have to fab up a bracket and fix that. Seeing the type of work that was done to the car, were gonna have to go though the whole thing so were starting with the engine and the bay.
I hate having wiring in my engine bay so i took all the harnesses apart for a tuck, and a repaint.

 

nice.. good luck on this bnuild

 

You did some damn good work on that WS6. Have fun with the civic and keep us updated.

 

So we basically ripped the whole car apart. The kicker of the whole thing is that this car actually had a Forged, .30 over motor, all balanced with eagle rods, ect ect, and that bought by the kid who had the car last. Im very good friends with the guy who had the motor, and it only had 1 race on it ( was in an SCCA race car, but got teched and had to pull the motor out)

So knowing the shortblock was in good order,we started from the short block up. The head had to be rebuild since the timing belt broke when it hit the shock tower, so i had it all ported and polished, and installed a stage 2 F.i cam

Going through the supercharger and pulley setup, i noticed ALL of the pullies had bad bearings and deep belt groves.. So i threw the pullies on a lathe, and pressed some new bearings into them.. Since the supercharger was off, i also had it ported.

Of course everythign was cleaned, painted/ powdercoated

 

is that you in the pictures?

 

good luck with the build..

 

Very nice! Im sure you have a lot of good things in store for this coupe


LOL @ the previous owner only having 1 bolt hahahahn.

 

With the car on jacks i replaced and detailed the whole front suspension with poly bushings, and skunt 2 adjustible Uppers, h and R springs, and new struts

 

Can we have less pictures with your dad please? Its kinda weird trying to see the pics while hes staring me down.

 

After the wire tuck, i cleaned the whole motor, and shot it, and brackets and pulleys with fresh paint. The smaller stuff like bolts and little brackets i poweder coated with my eastwood gun. Then We re-assembled the engine with a Cometic gasket, New 450CC injectors, and the new pulley setup and i cleaned the whole bay, taped it up, and shot it in some single stage black.. Heres my dad showing the importance of checking your head bolts with 2 diffrent torque wrenches

 

Nope, thats my dad, if you dont like him in the pictures look at another thread hes part of all my builds and together we have built tons of badass show winning rides

The previous owner also deleted the P.s Setup, and just left the lines open. We jumped the lines, and used a Clutch slave Resivour to run fluid to the rack

I also started doing the body work on the doors, trunk, ect ect. I shave all my emblems and antennas on all my cars as well, this one is no diffrent

 

The stock radiator was shot, and the i was feeling the little factory fan.

So we fabbed up some custom mounts and put a Heavy Duty Contunious Duty fan on the radiator. I want to keep that enginebay/ Supercharger as cold as possible.. and let me tell you, this fan is POWERFUL

 

After alot of cleaning, painting, and powdercoating, were finally making some progress

 

Haha! He's quite the model!!!

 

I didnt mean any offense, like I said its just weird having him "stare" at me while im trying to appreciate the pictures and work.

 

With the engine buttoned up, wire tucked, and with all the mounts in place, it was time to fab up a stronger front mount to make up for the 1 side bolt.

Making good headway on the engine and bay, i jumped into the stock interior which was lacking and missing a radio, console, speakers and down right dirty..... Soo i gutted the whole interior... While it was out we replaced the fuel pump with a Walboro 255

 

After Running my new speaker wiring and cleaning and shampooing the carpet a bunch of times ( looks new) i sprayed some left over bed liner on the floors and stuck it back in.

I ended up finding a Mint OEM leather rear seat so i installed that.
I work on alot of race cars, so i got a good deal on some recaros, and we made some brackets and bolted them in

I hated the grey interior, so i took it all out and recovered the headliner, and painted the plastics black

 

nice work so far. i would be weary to put the spark plug wires under the coolant hose and even closer to the exhaust manifold. they are designed to be run closer to the top of the motor and away from the heat. Just my 2 cents.

 

While i was at it i got a brand new Center console, and Audio console, and installed them with OEM honda Type R shift boots. I topped it off with a new sony cd player, and audiobahn ebrake cover

 

Ahh I see he got a hair cut. Do you have any pics of him without the shirt? I want to see what that sexy beast is rocking under that shirt.

 

Nice, keep it up.

 

After all that was in, i made a few more changes to the engine bay, and went full force on the body.

Like i said before all my cars have shaved antennas and emblems, so i shaved them all on this car

I got the car with the lip, it was broken in several places, so i fixed the lip, and molded it onto the bumper

I loved the look of the EK fog lights in the EG, but HATE screws, so i molded those in as well

 

Fog lights = Finally someone does it RIGHT.