This all started back in 2009 when I had bought the car for $1200. It's an 89 Si came with the standard Si accessories (Sunroof, D16A6, etc). I was told the tach was off another car so the mileage was off. I drove the thing for about a year and had purchased an hks dual tip exhaust and had to swap the motor out for another A6, previous one blew up at an intersection and barely got me to my friends house. LOL



Then life happened and I had it parked under a tree for a good 8 months and it was getting in pretty bad shape. The reverse and 1st gear were out on the tranny and alternator was out and I couldn't afford the repairs.

 

Two weeks ago I things started straigtening out and I actually had time and money to work on this thing at a leisurely pace and do it right the first time. This is my first actual build I would say but throughout the years I have become more mechanically inclined then I was before. I feel very confident in this build and taking this thing in the right direction with of course a little bit of my taste

My plans are to swap out the A6 motor and go B series. I did pick up a B20B4 in that time period a while back. Next is to strip everything down to a bare shell. I want to give this thing a fresh coat of paint and have been leading towards either a green or dark grey color, undecided at the moment. In the mean time I'll be getting rid of the 88-89 style corners, new windshield, throw on my jdm front bumper cover (only the cover for now), new wheels, a nice clean wire tuck and possibly tuck the brake lines. I will continually search for some JDM parts in the near future depending on what I can get my hands on. All in all I'm going for a straight all-around clean car.

To start off I began to pull the motor




Followed by the completely stripping down the car







I still have some of the harness to take out followed by the rest of the climate control, then I'll do some research but I'm thinking of giving the body some attention by myself. If I start to feel uncomfortable on how it looks I'll just farm it out to someone else. As far as paint, I'll have someone else be doing that as well. I have none of the proper equipment and plus I would feel better doing it to my jeep that I dont care to much about lol.

More soon to follow.

 

Good luck with your build.You have alot of work to do.

 

Was able to get around to the civic today FINALLY. Tore out the rest of the climate control, harness, rear bumper, rear filler and the hatch. Plus some other little things here and there. Goal is to have the pressure washer sometime this week if not weekend at the latest and deep clean everything. Afterwards will be some body and paint prep

 

looks like my ek lol . Goood luck with your build !

 

Finally got around to getting more work done on whitey. Borrowed my works pressure washer and began pressure washing the whole body inside and out. Took about 3 hours cause of the low water pressure here and busted O-ring into the process but it came out WAY better. Afterwards pulled her inside and began pulling the fuel tank and lines. Went to start on getting the brakes off and lost my flare wrench set. SO I'll be grabbing that from work tomorrow .





And some after









I'll be focusing on getting the fuel lines out tomorrow as well as finishing up the brakes. In the mean time I'll be saving up for body work to be done. Unfortunately I have no skills in fabrication and auto body. The bulk head on the passenger side is slightly bent as well as some surrounding pieces. Passenger door doesn't line up and to fix the hole in my floor pan. I'll be attempting some prep such as sanding and filler with help from a friend. Stay tuned!

 

Got around to removing all of the suspension components off today after work. Looking to get ready and remove all the undercoating and apply a fresh coat to everything underneath. Unfortunately I'll have to skip a couple spots, one of them being the hole in my floor pan. I suspect it was T-boned at one point in time as you can see in the pics. I don't have a welder or any fabrication experience as I said before so.....in the mean time!

 

I like this kinda build keep it up man

 

complete restore, love it! what wheels you goin with?

 

Heres an update finally, with work catching up to me and all I just haven't had as much time the last few weeks to work on the project. But in the mean time I was able to finish sanding down all the undercoating from the wheel wells and undercarriage. There will be more pics to follow but for now....


Heres the before



and the after



Also picked up my rear disc conversion and began tearing it down for paint and rebuild.



Thats all for now, more to come soon.

 

So I'm being forced to move out Which means the civic has been put on hold the last couple of weeks. I worked out a deal with my folks so I can still continue wrenching on her, but no more shop

Here she is now sitting back on her old suspension, I have the rear discs torn apart at the moment. Will be cleaning those up, just purchased caliper rebuild kits, new pads, rotors, hardware kits, and wheel bearing/hub assemblies.

My final day in my shop is this Sunday. Heres how she is now ready to move to another home...AGAIN.

The build must go on, these things don't just happen over night.

Stay tuned.

 

So small update, finally got everything moved in to my new place. Started scraping off all the old sound tar. Didn't take to long, it was very brittle and just came right off with the help of the dry ice. Also began grinding away at the sealant that was around the plugs and seams of the floor pan. Some of it was pretty exposed and so I figured just re-do it all. I have OCD slightly and have always been a Might-as-well-since-its-out kind of guy lol. Here some pics.

 

keep up the good work man!

 

thanks man, ive been enjoying every minute of it thus far. Next plans are to start resealing up all the joints and seams in the car. Got some 3M Autobody Seam Sealer today and plan on scrubbing down the inside a little and laying some down.

 

Yesterday I spent some more quality time with whitey To start off I went and purchased some seam sealer. This is all I could find when I was out and about, but through word of mouth this stuff does the job.



I began doing some more prep work making sure all the old crud was off and spent about 20 mins making sure all the plugs and seams were clean and free of any oil and debris. I than began masking off everything leaving myself a little more than a 1/4 in to work with on the plugs and about 1/2 in on the seams of the floor pan.



When applying this stuff you wanna make sure that it is being 'forced' into the gaps of where your sealing. I did whats called feather-edging. (At least I believe thats what its called LOL) When I applied sealer I worked it in with a thin paintbrush and began brushing in towards the lip as you can see here.



Repeated this process for all the plugs as well as parts of the pan.




Here was how it came out, still drying of course




This was my first time doing this and I think it came out good Now I have absolutely NO skills in Autobody and Paint. I'm learning as I go, doing research, asking questions, and will be asking for help from friends. But slow and steady wins the race

As far as sealing I'm done, luckily didn't need to do ALL the seams on the pan as the sides were still looking good. Next step will be to primer everything inside and look into some spray on sound/heat insulation

Till next time

 

Looks good, glad to see with a few bumps in the road you're still finding a way to do what you want to do with it. Can't wait to see it in the future! EF love!


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Yea there is no doubt she has had it rough LOL. Figure a little bit at a time and I will see everything start falling into place. My goal is to have this thing ready for the HT meet up in Seattle this next summer.

 

Nice work man!

 

So to start off, I made a mistake while putting on the sealant I forgot to primer the metal before I applied all the sealant. Reading up on some things I found out that the sealant is waterbased and if sealed to bare metal, it can cause some rusting in the future and lead to worse problems in the long run. SSSOOOO that meant taking off the new crap. In the process I went ahead and primered everything in the interior in prep for some sound deadening/insulation. Reading up on crxguy406's build, I'm leaning towards spraying on lizard skin as well. Looks like it turned out good on his end and the results looked promising. Also began touching up the gas tank, I flushed it out to remove any possible sediment and such. Covered up some bare spots and finished it off with some undercoating. Not many pictures of the process, but you get the idea.










Also picked up some more parts for the swap. Thanks to a friend for hooking up the intake manifold and my buddies uncle for the axles and some brackets.

 

Build looks awesome and I'm taking notes on the work you've done.

Do you remember how you removed the rear metal trim above the rear bumper?

I'm stuck on that.

 

I'M BACK!

It's been awhile since I have updated this, but I have been staying busy on the project. For Christmas my parents helped buy me an air compressor which so far has proven to be a very nice investment. Still lacking in the air tools but they will come in due time.



First thing I got to test out was my new sandblaster. I used medium grit soda blast for my media and began blowing down the engine bay. It took me about an hour to get it all cleaned up. SO happy to own a sandblaster

Here were some before shots.





And here is the after.



Sorry the pictures dark and hard to see. It was getting late and I took the pic after I cleaned up everything. The only problem I have with the blaster is the media goes EVERYWHERE!!

 

Wow! Looking great! Top to bottom re-do ... I love seeing these. Congrats on taking the time to do it right.