my 95 civic hatch project.
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my 95 civic hatch project.
My 95 civc hatch project.
after being into hondas for a while i sold my yellow hatch
to build my datsun 240
,
after the datsun was done i started missing my honda so i searched and found a mint condition low mileage 95 hatch.
it had a few tasteful mods done to it and it was extremely clean. i put the car in storage until i was ready to do some thing with it. when the drag racing season started i was racing my datsun but was having allot of problems with being consistent with the clutch so i decided to convert the datsun to a automatic and in the mean while i got the civic out and signed up for points in the sport compact series and started racing it instead. the normally aspirated b18c was peppy managing to run in the mid 14s and in the mid 90s mph but if you know me that wasnt fast enough so i put some rods and pistons in it and turbo'd it
and the video on how i did it can be seen here
how to turbo your honda over the weekend - YouTube.
it ended up making 426 to the front wheels and that was good enough to run a best of 12.8 on street tires and 11.488 on some 6 inch dot slicks. i went on to win the champion ship in the compact class but being back in a high power fwd quickly reminded me why i sold my yellow one and went rwd, the dreaded spin spin shift spin spin shift and then hook syndrome. so i spent a couple weeks doing some research on different hondas made over the years and found that with some fabrication and lots of creativity i could use a 99 honda cr-v awd transmission in place of my gsr tranny since i was a b series and the 99 cr-v also came with a b series.
so first thing was to make some custom mounts for the transmission.
using a old block as mock up we got the transmission all sorted out.
the next thing was to convert the car from the rod shifter to the cr-v cable shifter
we then bolted the tranny to the motor and put it in.
with the transmission all installed and the shifter done it was time to do the rear of the car. i decided to not use the cr-v rear end parts for a couple reasons but the primary reason was the cr-v is not a full time awd it has clutch packs in the rear diff that only engage when the front tires are spinning. i wanted a more full time awd set up so i looked into the 1991 rt4wd civic wagons these used a beefier rear end and axles then the cr-v and they used a viscous coupler in the center of the drive shaft to bias the power between the front and rear. the wagon rear axles are two different lengths and since the eg hatch is wider i had to use two left side axles.
the fuel tank had to be removed and relocated to the trunk.
it was connected up as if it was still under the car so it can still be filled from the oem location all wires and lines were extended. we then made a false floor to hide the tank and still have some sort of trunk.
with the tank out of the way a mount was made to fasten the wagon diff into the car.
next custom rear arms that were made by grafting eg civic and awd wagon arms together were installed so the axles could power the rear tires. here you can see the custom arm next to a stock one.
next the 3 peice wagon drive shaft using the viscous coupler had to be mounted using custom mounts and a adapter to connect the wagon flange to the cr-v transfer case had to be machined.
the last order of business was to cut up the exhaust and reweld it together in such a way that it came out the drivers side rear instead of the oem location on the passenger side due to it not being able to cross over past the drive shaft. lastly we tested the awd in the garage. very first test of awd .MOV - YouTube
i have since put about 100 miles on this set up and done many full throttle launches and the result is now i have so much traction i cant even spin a tire on cold roads, the car dead hooks and and no longer spins a bit in first and second gear.
after being into hondas for a while i sold my yellow hatch
to build my datsun 240
, after the datsun was done i started missing my honda so i searched and found a mint condition low mileage 95 hatch.
it had a few tasteful mods done to it and it was extremely clean. i put the car in storage until i was ready to do some thing with it. when the drag racing season started i was racing my datsun but was having allot of problems with being consistent with the clutch so i decided to convert the datsun to a automatic and in the mean while i got the civic out and signed up for points in the sport compact series and started racing it instead. the normally aspirated b18c was peppy managing to run in the mid 14s and in the mid 90s mph but if you know me that wasnt fast enough so i put some rods and pistons in it and turbo'd it
and the video on how i did it can be seen here
how to turbo your honda over the weekend - YouTube.
it ended up making 426 to the front wheels and that was good enough to run a best of 12.8 on street tires and 11.488 on some 6 inch dot slicks. i went on to win the champion ship in the compact class but being back in a high power fwd quickly reminded me why i sold my yellow one and went rwd, the dreaded spin spin shift spin spin shift and then hook syndrome. so i spent a couple weeks doing some research on different hondas made over the years and found that with some fabrication and lots of creativity i could use a 99 honda cr-v awd transmission in place of my gsr tranny since i was a b series and the 99 cr-v also came with a b series.
so first thing was to make some custom mounts for the transmission.
using a old block as mock up we got the transmission all sorted out.
the next thing was to convert the car from the rod shifter to the cr-v cable shifter
we then bolted the tranny to the motor and put it in.
with the transmission all installed and the shifter done it was time to do the rear of the car. i decided to not use the cr-v rear end parts for a couple reasons but the primary reason was the cr-v is not a full time awd it has clutch packs in the rear diff that only engage when the front tires are spinning. i wanted a more full time awd set up so i looked into the 1991 rt4wd civic wagons these used a beefier rear end and axles then the cr-v and they used a viscous coupler in the center of the drive shaft to bias the power between the front and rear. the wagon rear axles are two different lengths and since the eg hatch is wider i had to use two left side axles.
the fuel tank had to be removed and relocated to the trunk.
it was connected up as if it was still under the car so it can still be filled from the oem location all wires and lines were extended. we then made a false floor to hide the tank and still have some sort of trunk.
with the tank out of the way a mount was made to fasten the wagon diff into the car.
next custom rear arms that were made by grafting eg civic and awd wagon arms together were installed so the axles could power the rear tires. here you can see the custom arm next to a stock one.
next the 3 peice wagon drive shaft using the viscous coupler had to be mounted using custom mounts and a adapter to connect the wagon flange to the cr-v transfer case had to be machined.
the last order of business was to cut up the exhaust and reweld it together in such a way that it came out the drivers side rear instead of the oem location on the passenger side due to it not being able to cross over past the drive shaft. lastly we tested the awd in the garage. very first test of awd .MOV - YouTube
i have since put about 100 miles on this set up and done many full throttle launches and the result is now i have so much traction i cant even spin a tire on cold roads, the car dead hooks and and no longer spins a bit in first and second gear.
Last edited by boosted91crx; Dec 9, 2011 at 06:12 PM.
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Re: my 95 civic hatch project.
i upgraded the cams and springs and went back to the dyno. saw some nice gains. had to tune with the drive shaft unhooked since they dont have a awd dynapack
450 whp dyno pull. - YouTube
broke the rear mount that we made so the motor rocks a bit will fix that asap.
dark lines are new cams faint are gsr cams .
450 whp dyno pull. - YouTube
broke the rear mount that we made so the motor rocks a bit will fix that asap.
dark lines are new cams faint are gsr cams .
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Re: my 95 civic hatch project.
You are a brave man to do that. For me, I don't ever think or want to buy my old car(s) back. I just know the person I sold it to will not take care of it as well as I did. Your red hatch grabs pretty well with the AWD setup.