I picked up a stock 1988 wagon and started going to work, here are a few pictures
Dirty




Cleaned up nicely


Shaved the plate mounts and painted the bumpers with bumper coating.

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5. Ending result I also bought a Volvo lip then sanded, painted, cleared, wet sanded and polished with spray paint.


So I didn't like the stock wagon seats, they were ripped and unconfortable so I bought some blue 1990 integra seats from a wrecking yard for 60 bucks which match my dash perfectly lol soon after setting the stock wagon seat and the Integra seat side by side. I realized that the rails were completely different as well as the seat pans. So I took one rail off the stock wagon seat and welded it onto the teg seat. to my surprise it turned out awesome and the seats don't just fit amazing they work! haha
heres some pictures!
start!

teg seats

Wagon seat rail.

I took a picture of the wrong side haha sorry! think backwards haha

started welding

Wagon rail getting tacked on.

Ending result

 

Painted the Side Skirts and Trim

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During:


After:


I decided to do black housing headlights on an EF becouse I have never seen it before. So my Buddy brian came over and we do it in like an Hour.


Headlights out:


Used a Heat gun to seperate Glass and housing:


Found this strange box in there, Didn't like it so we took it out, haha (Wee Part):


Much Better:


Masking off glass:


Masked Housing:


Both Painted:


Assembled:


Both Black housing headlights in Wagon:














Some stuff I ordered arrived in the mail today

















GodSpeed type RS full race suspension. (thanks for the recomendation 1991KA8)
Went to like 3 different places to get an alignment but no one will do it!
Front lip is literally an inch from the ground.
Rides really amazing.










All in a days work!

dragging flaps!!!!





Sportmax 501's 205/45/r16 +15 offset



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New roof rack and front rear tow hooks



Just got back from tour after being gone for 28 days finally getting on my swap. i just ordered all the parts and cleaned up the motor! here are some pics!

























Thought it was apart time to take the worthless slow abomination of honda d15b2 out and swap it with an engine not much faster! haha here are some pictures of my progress so far

















Look closely at my mounts. Homemade solid mounts I used high strength urethane







almost done!!!!!

 

nice progress...i don't quite understand the purpose of that ricer tow hook though...!!!

 

What kind of bike do you ride?

 

Its actually I snowboard rack idk why I said bike rack haha!

 

Justin Justin Justin, now that your Z6 is in, I have to come over and figure out wtf you did to the wiring lol.

 

nice wagon bro keep it up

 

haha alright DAD! jkjk but seriously that would be sick im so lost.

"wouldn't have that problem with a v8" haha

 

You gotta know what you're doing before you do it dumb dumb lol. But seriously, put the DX harness back in and we'll go from there. That's the only way to do it. You should NEVER use a harness from another car and use it on yours just for a swap, you should always modify the stock harness to be compatible with the motor you're running.

 

well **** man!!! that's what I did first then it didn't run haha alright! haha I will have to wire the main plugs back on again.

 

what kind of paint did you use to paint your corner lights? build is looking good! i love wagovans!

 

By far one of the cleanest wagons i've seen. Keep it up!

 

i believe the Hellasunk crew would reaaaaaaaally appreciate this car...

 

Nice wago man, looks super clean.

 

i also wanna know what kind of paint that you used for the corner lights and bumper lights, also for the motor. but what part of washington are you from i live in tacoma

 

He and I both live in the 360 area

 

wow, love the color! (same as mine)

 

you sir get my washington love lol. I like youre wagon you got there, too bad its not awd. But i also like the black housing headlights you have goin on there, i might adopt youre idea for my build. Cant wait to see this thing done!

 

haha thanks for the reply but 360 is all over the place what city, and what paint is that for the corners and bumpers

 

very clean wagon, don't take this the wrong way but they initially look so ugly and yet nice at the same time. what you've done to yours makes it all look nice. definitely an awesome transformation

 

Not gonna give our specific city but lets just say we live in thurston county.

 

nice wagon
Happy Thanksgiving BUMP!

 

awesome wagon..keep up the good work

 

i think i may want to black my headlight housings.
what type of paint did you use, and did removing that box affect anything.