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[mestizo]

11/12/2008 Update: The car has been sold.

Ok I'll start off this forum with mod list and some shots from before until now. This car is my daily beater it gets 300 miles a day so I didn't use genuine honda stuff on most of it as I knew it would take a beating by the miles I put on it every day.

**Current Specs as 11/5/2008**


Car:
1996 Honda Civic DX Coupe

Engine:
1996 B18B1 USDM Integra LS motor and tranny swap
1996 USDM Integra LS P75 ECU
DC Sports 4-1 Ceramic Coated Header
1999-2000 Civic SI Cat Back
1996 Integra LS Cat
Stock 1996 Civic DX engine wiring harness modified for the LS motor
Hondata Intake Manifold gasket
Fidanza 7.5lbs flywheels
Exedy Heavy Duty Integra LS Clutch and Pressure Plate
VHT Wrinkle Red Painted Valve cover to give a "Type R" look
AEM Short Ram Intake

Exterior:
99-2000 Red/Clear Aftermarket tail lights
99-2000 Civic front end conversion
Aftermarket black housing head lights
Type R Style grill
99-2000 Type R Style front lip
96-98 Type R style rear lip
Painted Door handles, side moulding, side skirts and mirrors
Weather tech window visors
Removed "Civic" and "DX" badges from the trunk
Formula 1 5% tint on the back 3 windows

Interior:
Kenwood MP3/CD reciever
96 Integra GSR front Seats on 96-2000 Rails
96 Civic EX Gauge Cluster with Silver Reverse glo face
Real Carbon Fiber gauge trim bezel
99 Civic SI Arm Rest/Center Console
B&M dual bend short shifter

Brakes:
96 Integra GSR front and rear disc brake upgrade
99 Civic SI e brake cables
99 Integra GSR 1" brake master cylinder

Suspension:
Omni Power front camber arms & rear shim kit
Tien S Tech Springs
Tokico Blue Shocks/Struts
99 Civic SI front strut bar
NRG lower front "H" brace
Ebay rear upper tie bar
ES Poly trailing arm and rear lower control arm bushings

Wheels and Tires:
16x7 Rota GT3 Royal Gold
205/45/16 BFG Tires
Honda Center Caps


The Begining January 2005:

















First mods, Tien S tech's and Omni Front UCA's/rear shims 1-29-2005.









Next was Bronze fat fives, 96 Type R Style front/rear lips and painted mouldings 3-12-2005.

[mestizo]

Then came a 1998 B18B1 Swap 5-1-2005

99-00 Civic SI Mounts




Unorthodox lite crank pulley






Old DX motor ready to come out


Part of the 99-00 Civic SI catback


















NRG H Brace and it's hard to see but my Suspension Techiques sway bar






Repinning/modifying the stock wiring harness for the LS motor






















1996 P75 Integra LS ECU


The milage at which i swapped the motor and u can see my gauges.

[mestizo]

Then it got a set of 1999-2000 Civic SI Wheels and a bad night photo shoot 5-21-2005

[mestizo]

More bad night shots on the 99-00 SI wheels and also jahi's hatch too.

[mestizo]

After that came a 1999-2000 Civic Front end conversion 11-5-2005.

The parts were bought and painted 7-2005 but not installed til 11-2005
































































Before, the peice that needs to be cut:


After, now the bumper will clear and can be mounted correctly:

[mestizo]

This is how she sits as of June 2006

Rota GT3's and 99-00 Type R style lip. My night shooting skills are terrible! lol Anyway the car was really dirty but i just got the wheels and I couldn't resist taking some pics.

[Copilot]

Nice doggy!!!!

[courierboy]

Simple and Clean as utada hikaru would say ()

[RicerX]

Picture this car silver, with black rims and a chrome lip. Now picture it rearending another car. Thats what happened to my friend. I feel bad for him cuz he just got married and was coming back to work after dropping his wife off at work. Hes ok, but his bumper is gone and his motor is smashed.

[mestizo]

man that sucks never happy to see an accident

[mestizo]

Well, for an update on my coupe after 113,000 miles and a year and half of driving my used LS motor finally started to rod knock about 2 1/2 weeks ago. Which forced me to rebuild this motor, it wasnt a huge problem except for the unexpected money i had to spend. I'll post up some pics of the rebuild later, the ony problem is i don't have many pics since I was in a time crunch and had to get it done asap. The chassis now has 267K on it now and still going strong except for the problem below.

I had to remove my Suspension Techniques sway bars since the rear bar ripped my sub frame loose. Below is a quote from my post about the sub frame problem.

So for a long time now now my Suspension Techniques rear sway bar/tie bar combo has made a sqeaking sound from the bushings I am constantly regreasing it to stop it only to have come back again, well last monday it started to make a creeking noise. At this point im so tired of this thing making wack sounds that I am just gonna take it off and sell it. Well I jacked up the rear of my car yesterday to just take the swap bar off and this what I see, the creaking noise was from my LCA mount being ripped off the car by the sway bar, now the reason i chose this setup was it had the reinforcement on the tie bar to stop it from doing exactly what it did. The even worse part is my dad brought his mig welder over today to fix it and the wire feed motor took shit, so now im pretty much stuck until we fix it or get another welder. I AM HAVING SO MUCH FUN RIGHT NOW ITS REDICULOUS!

Driver's side LCA mount this is what it should look like.


Now the passenger side that has been ripped off the car.

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[mestizo]

Finally pics of the rebuild process, I only have pics of the long block assembly. The block and head were sent to Comptech, the head was cleaned, surfaced, has all freash seals and a fresh 3 angle valve job. The block, pistons, rods and oil pump were hot tanked, all plugs were removed and oil passages were cleaned. Finally the crank was polished.

Installing the main bearings and checking clearance's using plastigage.








Tq'ing down


Next I removed everything, checked the plastigage then wiped it all clean in preparation for assembly lube on the the bearings.


Now it rod and piston time the clearance's were checked prior to installing them, now time for the rings and assembly lube the bearings.






Now time to line up the ring gaps to factory spots and put the ring compressor on.


Tapping the piston and rod in with the end of a rubber hammer.


2 down 2 to go.


Rod caps installed and tq'ed to factory specs using light oil on the threads for proper tq.




Now that all of the rods/pistons are in time for the factory head gasket and head.


Freshly cleaned and rebuilt head






Lining up the dowel pins on the block to the head and tq'ing the bolts with moly lube on the bolts.




New factory water pump time


Cleaned oil pump and new oil seal installation


Liquid gasket on the oil pump, time for more tq'ing


Poored motor oil down in the piston holes to lube the wrist pins, installed windage tray, oil pickup and oil pan.


Long block assembled and ready to get the rest of the parts put on it.

[RicerX]

Sheesh, where do u get the money to do all this? Maybe I should ask u for hep on my bucket.

[mestizo]

Sheesh, where do u get the money to do all this? Maybe I should ask u for hep on my bucket.

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LOL me have money? I wish I blew all of my xmas money on fixing my motor. it ended up being about $800 to rebuild and have the machine work done.