Time to catch up/ need some advice on my eg hatch
Well, I completely forgot about this forum until now because I hit a pretty mean roadblock for what I want, roadblock being $$$. So to follow up on the previous post, I meant **EH2** not ex, wups. (Lil hatch is a CX that came with AC/PS and Electric windows...?) Also my goals kinda, maybe, escalated into bigger things. So this is what I've discovered/done to the poor hatch. (In order ofc <3)
-I decided that the first move was to paint the car... with no experience whatsoever... :/ The car needed alot of bodywork, mostly on the roof (figured out mid-spray that it was pointless because the bondo f****** cracked. I got the front end down and it's beautiful, but I wish I could say the same about the rest of the car. It's a nice *DUPLICOLOR* (didn't want to mix paint bc it seemed really precise in my eyes, realized it's not.) Champ. White, with a good clear from dupli. I think my mistake was doing a single coat of each because it's not great towards the rear. The clear on the rest of the car dripped so I wet sanded but never buffed or polished. It's still like this as we speak.
-FINALLY GOT A NEW-ish TRANS!!! I've been complaining about this crap since I've bought the car so I went ahead and traded a LS for a 2-hour session of installing a full interior and some food for the group. Best deal to this day. Along with the new trans came an eBay STG4 6-puck unsprung clutch. I have no complaints for right now. It grabs really nicely and i got the hang of driving it. It's currently running a ITR ecu so gotta be careful.
-I got new taillights since I got into a little incident with a LEO, big fine right there :/ Not some fully custom leds, just some SI reps with a LED replacement bulb that has some *coolboi flashy stops*. Not mad with it just fitment isnt good. Will be iso some OEM SI taillights in the future.
-I discovered that my front end has damage but not severe damage, meaning that my hood isn't closing. Which reminds me...
-I bought a CF hood from Facebook, 200$ with some cheap-o "cf" mirrors that i had to hack up to fit it on, and a "cf" ducktail, which actually fits nicely and looks nice. Back to the hood, it has holes where the hood latch sits, around 7/16 in diameter, and its two holes. Dunno what thats about but oh well.
-Painted my TSW'S (style unknown, all i know is that its 15x6.5 et0) a nice metallic copper, and got my 2 bald wheels wrapped in some 205/50 Nitto NT05's. Will be buying the last pair in a bit.
Now I'm trying to do some things that I'm not too knowledgable about. I got a goal of a daily that puts down 450-550whp or near that WITH A/C AND P/S. Yikes. I'm also trying to repair that front end fitment, it's a beam that runs straight down the rad. support that cracked and folded in towards the firewall, making the hood latch not engage. If anyone has any idea about wth im talking about, pls help. I'm trying to get a makeover for my interior, red carpet, find black doorcards to match the black interior, find some aftermarket seats that are really nice and have same height to oem, and I'm really digging the Bride ZetaIII. Trying to find a nice single-din touch screen head unit, not one of those flippy old school head units, and get all of the speakers updated (the 6 1/2's and the 5 1/4"s rears, plus get a small sub.) Also trying to decide to go the route of using a AP1/2 cluster as im in love with those things or get some custom gauge faces to make the interior pop more.
As for power, im gonna have to swap or build my b20, since i heard about the b20 sleeve design not being that great for high-ish hp power, maybe 350 on a good tune. So i may build my block and try to sleeve it and get all the bells and whistles for it, including a shorter stroke crank for some more revs (ik, not the wisest thing but i wanna give it a go.) I know GoAUTOWORKS has some nice kits for a/c compatible kits, just wanna find a T/M turbo kit, not a ramhorn. Lastly, i want to get my power steering and a/c back in as the previous owner wanted to go racecar. I'm aware that the blower motor is still in the car, but thats all i know.
I would gladly take all the help I can as im still relatively new to this and my car circle is fairly limited at the moment. Please if you guys have any questions or comments, just put em down below, Ill respond to them.
SPECS OF CAR (should anyone need it)
-1993 Civic CX Hatch, has rear disc conversion, came oem with a/c n p/s, not sure if the windows are oem tho.
-USDM B20B LowComp/ CTR B16B Head, i think its cammed on something else, we got the idle fixed and it's a *bit* choppy.
-98' Teg LS trans, tiny grind on third gear.
-TSW (unknown style) 15x6.5 et0
-1/2 205/50 Nitto NT05, 1/2 Falken Ziex somethin', 205/50
i may have messed some parts up or mistaken things, be patient, im not that great.
So that's about it fellas, im heading out, catch yall next time
-I decided that the first move was to paint the car... with no experience whatsoever... :/ The car needed alot of bodywork, mostly on the roof (figured out mid-spray that it was pointless because the bondo f****** cracked. I got the front end down and it's beautiful, but I wish I could say the same about the rest of the car. It's a nice *DUPLICOLOR* (didn't want to mix paint bc it seemed really precise in my eyes, realized it's not.) Champ. White, with a good clear from dupli. I think my mistake was doing a single coat of each because it's not great towards the rear. The clear on the rest of the car dripped so I wet sanded but never buffed or polished. It's still like this as we speak.
-FINALLY GOT A NEW-ish TRANS!!! I've been complaining about this crap since I've bought the car so I went ahead and traded a LS for a 2-hour session of installing a full interior and some food for the group. Best deal to this day. Along with the new trans came an eBay STG4 6-puck unsprung clutch. I have no complaints for right now. It grabs really nicely and i got the hang of driving it. It's currently running a ITR ecu so gotta be careful.
-I got new taillights since I got into a little incident with a LEO, big fine right there :/ Not some fully custom leds, just some SI reps with a LED replacement bulb that has some *coolboi flashy stops*. Not mad with it just fitment isnt good. Will be iso some OEM SI taillights in the future.
-I discovered that my front end has damage but not severe damage, meaning that my hood isn't closing. Which reminds me...
-I bought a CF hood from Facebook, 200$ with some cheap-o "cf" mirrors that i had to hack up to fit it on, and a "cf" ducktail, which actually fits nicely and looks nice. Back to the hood, it has holes where the hood latch sits, around 7/16 in diameter, and its two holes. Dunno what thats about but oh well.
-Painted my TSW'S (style unknown, all i know is that its 15x6.5 et0) a nice metallic copper, and got my 2 bald wheels wrapped in some 205/50 Nitto NT05's. Will be buying the last pair in a bit.
Now I'm trying to do some things that I'm not too knowledgable about. I got a goal of a daily that puts down 450-550whp or near that WITH A/C AND P/S. Yikes. I'm also trying to repair that front end fitment, it's a beam that runs straight down the rad. support that cracked and folded in towards the firewall, making the hood latch not engage. If anyone has any idea about wth im talking about, pls help. I'm trying to get a makeover for my interior, red carpet, find black doorcards to match the black interior, find some aftermarket seats that are really nice and have same height to oem, and I'm really digging the Bride ZetaIII. Trying to find a nice single-din touch screen head unit, not one of those flippy old school head units, and get all of the speakers updated (the 6 1/2's and the 5 1/4"s rears, plus get a small sub.) Also trying to decide to go the route of using a AP1/2 cluster as im in love with those things or get some custom gauge faces to make the interior pop more.
As for power, im gonna have to swap or build my b20, since i heard about the b20 sleeve design not being that great for high-ish hp power, maybe 350 on a good tune. So i may build my block and try to sleeve it and get all the bells and whistles for it, including a shorter stroke crank for some more revs (ik, not the wisest thing but i wanna give it a go.) I know GoAUTOWORKS has some nice kits for a/c compatible kits, just wanna find a T/M turbo kit, not a ramhorn. Lastly, i want to get my power steering and a/c back in as the previous owner wanted to go racecar. I'm aware that the blower motor is still in the car, but thats all i know.
I would gladly take all the help I can as im still relatively new to this and my car circle is fairly limited at the moment. Please if you guys have any questions or comments, just put em down below, Ill respond to them.
SPECS OF CAR (should anyone need it)
-1993 Civic CX Hatch, has rear disc conversion, came oem with a/c n p/s, not sure if the windows are oem tho.
-USDM B20B LowComp/ CTR B16B Head, i think its cammed on something else, we got the idle fixed and it's a *bit* choppy.
-98' Teg LS trans, tiny grind on third gear.
-TSW (unknown style) 15x6.5 et0
-1/2 205/50 Nitto NT05, 1/2 Falken Ziex somethin', 205/50
i may have messed some parts up or mistaken things, be patient, im not that great.
So that's about it fellas, im heading out, catch yall next time
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