Honduh's Hatchcrap - Daily budget build...wait, what?

[Honduh]

So I got this hatchcrap.

My friends wife was going to trade it in for practically nothing so I offered her a little more and now I'm going to make it into my new daily driver.

My plan right now is a clean, reliable, DD. In the future I'd really like to swap in a hx motor and make it a high mpg gasoline car. Lean burn mode FTW.

I already ordered some stuff. I bid on a armrest but got outbid by a dollar. I picked up a new fender and two new trailing arm bushings since I noticed they are SHOT today. If its not raining too bad tomorrow I'm going to try to hit the junkyard and find a head light and whatever else I can find, maybe stuff for the integra. I plan to order a timing belt/water pump kit for it too. And I need to investigate the noise the clutch is making, either the throwout/input shaft bearing (i hope) or a input shaft bearing.

One thing I really want to get to ASAP is the rust on the driver side 1/4 panel. Its certainly rot I stuck my finger through it today. Luckily it did not travel back behind the bumper at all and its about the size of a half dollar or so. My friend said he is pretty sure he can weld a patch panel into it. We will also be doing a single stage spray on it. Nothing special, trying to keep the cost down since the integra isn't done yet.

Ok now for a few pics.

2 nights ago:

















And here are some I took today while I was working on it.

Rust



Old wheels from the integra, also notice the dent behind the door.



Close up of the dent after my friend spent a few minutes on it, said it was the best he could do without his proper body tools for now. I think it looks better already.



Interior removed for deep cleaning and dent removal.



Nice and stripped



Before



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