I just bought this little 89 civic a couple weeks back for $500 running and driving it just had a new clutch cv axles and battery drove it home 60 mile trip no problems and it only has 157k on it so I couldn't pass it up. The perfect excuse for me to my first mpfi conversion. Other than the coil over sleeves and unknown fender markers I don't believes they're jdm lol car is totally stock under the hood and inside down to the factory radio which still works lol



Yes the hood is tilted I'll deal with that later lol



I was planning on using the d15b2 but plans went out the window when I found this at the local pick n pull in a wrecked ef si.


So far I've got the si throttle cable zc (d16a6 equivalent) complete motor and pm6 just need a resistor box

I'm gonna completely rebuild the motor then its going in the car within the next month

That's it for now :-)

 

Wow no rust on that sedan. This is a great start!

 

Thanks the block is going to the machine shop next week nothing appears in bad shape but I want a fresh motor so I can run it for a good bit without any issues

 

Nice! Not bad for $500. Twice what I paid for mine tho ! Looks like a great base to start from tho!

 

Haha less than a quarter of what I paid. Got ripped off.

 

You should work out why your front wheels sit so far back in the wheel arch, hopefully it's not something too major.

 

Well its not wrecked front what I can tell it drove fantastic no weird noises or shakes I'll take a look after I pull the wheels

Zc is in the machine shop block has to be bored but crank was perfect got a bunch of parts ordered I'll post back with more progress soon

 

looks like a great deal for $500, ive always wanted a sedan but they seem to be hard to find in my area and when i do find one they want an arm and a leg for it, btw is it just the way your picture was taken or does the front wheel really sit that far back on the passenger side?

 

looks like u got a good building block now go crazy!?!?!lol sweet u found a zc so easy

 

Yeah im not real sure I'll have to look at that when I get home the only one of these I took was the block I got the ones of the car from the po

Funny thing was I wasn't looking for a zc I was looking for a z6 or y8 top end to slap on my stock d15 (didn't find one anyway lol in hind sight glad I picked it up got it with everything block head dizzy and complete intake tb

Got about half my mpfi wiring done

Got all my dpfi garbage out

Feee injector harness from a spare prelude harness and free resistor box from buddy who also gave me a brand new radiator for free also

Already have pm6 ecu as well

 

Nice. God luck with the sedan!!!

 

nice dude.
you should re spray the bay while the motor is out!

 

Wow no rust on that sedan.

 

What's rust this is Texas sir

I looked at that wheel is pretty far back on the passenger side hope its nothing bad hopefully I can get the wheel pulled off today and check it out the body panels appear to all be the original Cardinal red

 

Couple of goods came in today nothing big but important items none the less

 

The wheel appears to be slightly turned and it has ditch witch tires.

 

For sure something to get sorted out before building commences!

 

After futher inspection of the passenger side suspension as far as I can tell everything looks ok but it has been from what I can tell run up on to something at one point in time no structural damage like I said the panels are all original

Here's some pics lmk what you guys think



Front bumper pass side

Looks like the wheel got slapped again the wheel arch hmmm

 

Just pulled the motor and trans last night all the wiring is done and more parts cane in :-)

 

what you going to do with b2 block? how much you pay for that zc?

 

What's your radius rods like? They connect the hub assembly to the front cross member, and control front/back movement of the wheels. There's a bushing in the front crossmember, maybe that's worn/missing?

 

I'll sell the b2 if anyone wants it but its going to need to be rebuilt smokes quite a bit lol gave 150 for the zc

I'll have to check em out they seem to be straight but I didn't get too good of a look at the bushings wouldn't the car shake if the radius arm bushing was missing?

 

What part of TX are you in? I'm down in H-Town.

 

Far... waco tx lol

 

looks like the control arm is bent back. see how the sway bar mounts to it at an aggressive angle? the end links should be perpendicular to the crossmember.