my detailed rhd restoration project.

[demon_camber]

well im on here agian. i posted in my old ef sedan build a few weeks ago saying that i got the car back after selling it to re build it, but things didnt go as planed and ive decided to start fresh with a new car and a new build.


about 3 weeks ago my buddy came across someone that was selling a 1991 tahitian green si hatchback shell. i really didnt want to buy a si trim 88-91 civic but this one was cheap so i had to pick it up. the guy wanted $550 for it but he needed money bad so i ended up getting it for $300. it had most important interior trim. but didnt have seats. (i took these pics when i went to go look at it)






i towed the car to my place a few days later and i was kinda upset when i looked at it. the car was missing the carpet, si trunk garnish, and rear mud gards. but i looked past it and was happy to have the car in my hands.






it has the typical honda rust. driver side rear quater has a rust spot, as well does the lower rocker. and the pass side has rust at the lower rocker. whats kinda funny about the "filler job" that was done to cover it up is that it is 150% horrible looking.it looks like they mixed up the cheap filler in there hand a slapped it on the car. i do NOT want to deal with there "work". so plans for oem honda panels are in the works as well as a new si roof skin.

my first buy for the project car came before the car itself. lol i went to elite jdm in philly to see if they had any ef7/8/9 rhd conversion clips. and they had one 1991 ef8 crx sir clip left. the clip is super clean. it came with full uncut car harness, uncut carpet, door/trunk locks, cluster, and auto aircon! $1600 later and it was mine.







once i got the car i started to rip the clip and car apart carefully.






for the car i started to take off anything that was not going to get used. everthing from the dash under will not be used. but i did put the usdm main harness aside just in case i might have to use it.







as for the clip everything might be used so i took it apart as carefully as i could and set it aside.

chipping off the seam sealer, finding and marking the spotwelds and drilling through them was not fun at all. 2 napa spotweld cutters did the job and well.





my buddy jake wilson (ourbloodykisses) came by to take a few pics and help out with the clip. he will be taking pics of the build from time to time and will be one of the main people involved with this build.







and after 3 days of working on the clip after work we finally got it apart. next im going to prep the firewall for the install and plan out which way im going to be putting it in the car.



after we pulled the clip apart i desided to put on a window banner of a small crew me and jake desided to start.





i have alot of plans for the car which im not gunna list lol. but i have usdm 32mm 5x114.3 integra type r front and read hubs that should be here next week along with 11' rotor conversion caliper brakets, rotors, calipers and stainless steel hardlines with rusell an fittings for a brakeline tuck.

ideas will be posted up on here for time to time and i will post prgress regularly. more to come.

[SovXietday]

Hmm, this is interesting. My dad has the exact same car, so I'm kinda lovin this.

[demon_camber]

i got alittle done today. droped the usdm subframe and removed the rest of the in bay brake lines. tomorrow ill be cleaning up the bay and getting ready to start working on removing the lhd firewall. more pics to come. -chris

[jesse096]

Nice project!

-Jesse

[itwillboost]

Nice good luck, and if that is a ny redbulls shirt nice lol. Also jw, what end color are you going with for the car ?

[demon_camber]

Originally Posted by itwillboost

Nice good luck, and if that is a ny redbulls shirt nice lol. Also jw, what end color are you going with for the car ?

lol its a 199 travis pastrana shirt but i do have a ny rb shirt even though i dont watch soccer lol. as for a color im not to sure yet but im 100% set on using a color out of the house of color catalog.

[itwillboost]

Originally Posted by demon_camber

lol its a 199 travis pastrana shirt but i do have a ny rb shirt even though i dont watch soccer lol. as for a color im not to sure yet but im 100% set on using a color out of the house of color catalog.

Nice lol. And house of color paint jobs coming out beautifully any time table to be done with this ?

[demon_camber]

Originally Posted by jesse096

Nice project!

-Jesse

thanks!

Originally Posted by itwillboost

Nice lol. And house of color paint jobs coming out beautifully any time table to be done with this ?

they have alot of diffrent colors i would like to paint the car but im not sure if i want the car to stay a certian type of teal. and im going to take my time with this. theres alot of things that i want to change. 100% new fuel and brake lines being one of them. i dont plan on using knockoff parts at all. so trying to find most jdm/edm exterior and interior parts is going to take sometime also. but my plans are to have it somewhat ready by this time next year.

today im getting a few things done. i was planning on having the window pulled without breaking it......but........ i made a stupid move with a flat head causing the window to crack all over the place, so i just pulled it and removed all the seal myself. ( another part adding to the list oem honda glass with seals -.-). i also wanted to spot out the areas on the body that had rot.
there not tooo bad. but they deff can use so work. im gunna order oem honda panels tonight. i need both rockers and the usdm driver side quater just for the piece near the bumper.








the inside of the car is covered with filler powder, its getting cleaned out in a few so i can finally remove the sealer.




more pics to come later on tonight.

[ourbloodykisses]

this is very exciting, really glad to be apart of this.

[demon_camber]

Originally Posted by ourbloodykisses

this is very exciting, really glad to be apart of this.

jakeeeeeeee!


well i havent got too much done in the past few days due to an injured leg. i did start on grinding off all the undercoat/seam sealer off the car i plan on taking 100% of this crap off from the underbody for some seamwelding to be done to the chassis.






after going over what i wanted to finally do with the car. i decided on going for a road race/time attack/street car build. i wanted to build a oem + car with all factory options and what not, but i really wanted to build a car to have fun with, so thats how its going to stay. lol

the first part i wanted to adress was the passenger side transmission mount. it was beat to hell, bent up, and stripped out. so instead of fixing it i started to drill it off. it will be replaced with a nice new hasport efk motor mount. just waiting for them to show up at my door step.





for this year im just gunna get the chassis ready with eveything it needs then early next year ill start working on the engine side of things.

ive been looking at a few items that i want to buy for the car. a tilton floor pedal box. is at the top of my list. since the car is being kswapped i wanted to convert the car 100% hyrdo and not use that silly cable to hydro linkage. so the box is good for that and i also wanted to keep the brake lines out of view from the engine bay and the cabin so this allows me to plan out and do so.


and air jack system is next for the car after the pedal box. its alittle pricey and not really needed but i want the setup on the car lol.



this is the over all look i plan on having by the end of the year. simple yet affective.




but thats it untill tomorrow ill have the whole weekend to work on the car and make more progress. thanks for reading and if you guys have any input let me know. -chris

[Errly Dabbin]

Not bad man can't wait to see the final product. Just don't use that wing lol

[itwillboost]

This is awesome. If you need a hand with anything let me know. I have spent awhile studying fwd track cars.(not 1/4 but track track) This thing definitely has so much potential though if you those parts.