project:HULK - updated pg2 lots of pics!

This is what i drove for the past two yrs and loved every min!






So i sold the sol a two weeks ago, gutted when i saw her drive away!

But now i have a new toy!

Its a 95 honda civic DX 1.3! has a few probs but nothing a good service wont fix! and when the MOT ends in 10 months the track prep works begins!







Ive already started collecting EG body parts, and ITR parts!



Hope you guys like i'll keep this updated as and when it progresses!

Andy

Nice...

Black Sols are pretty cool.

That DX has alot of potential. Make sure you keep the progress reports coming. Any ideas on choice of powerplant for it yet?

the sol was cool, even when it was pi$$ing down and leaking in! just had to go faster for the water to not leak in!

Well had a few problems with the DX so the track prep might start a lot sooner!
the elements in the rad were fooooked! so changed that last night! now the Off Side front caliper has looked on and pulling hard to the left! And for a 1.3 that you cant go fast, at all in it should be doing more than 31mpg! And while accelerating half way through the rev range, it cuts out for a second and carry's on! So prob going to cost ?£££? and not worth doing, and i have no money to do it!

I'll keep it updated when some progress is made!

After all the chassis, suspention, etc.. work i'll be looking for a B18, or if a K20 is going cheap!

For a full k20 conversion you've gota spend around £4k all in. I've looked into it a fair bit as i was considering this a while ago.

The project sounds good tho mate, keep us updated because, as Tim said, it would be cool to see an EG project on the site.



One thing though.. i have always been under the impression DX's didnt come with the side rubbing strips..? Just curious rele!

looks a good project base. Have a good think before you tear it apart. I did mine and whilst its moving forward you always get the thoughts of is it worth it.

B18 should work out cheaper as you can use any b series shafts, linkage, mounts are readily available.

as craig says the K20 will work out at quite a lot. everything costs more than you first think, believe me.

craig wrote:

One thing though.. i have always been under the impression DX's didnt come with the side rubbing strips..? Just curious rele!

never heard about that before mate! the V5 says DX on it and that will do for me! will prob be a B18 when i can afford one!

Well ive got it booked in for a full service, etc.... and if it needs any work after that it's going to be tough shi-tzu, am going to strip it,

lol, I like your style!^^


It will definatly shift well with a b18 in it

Well spent all my wage on servicing the civic, and now ive got too choices, get new discs and pads, front calipers, both rear trailing arms! around the £300 mark, or do what ive been waiting to do since i got her! STRIP!

STRIP....


you know it makes sense

the stripping will begin this weekend GOOD TIMES!

I'll post pics when i finish using the hammer

lol good stuff

Will be good to see it start to take shape

Well its on hold for a while the striping that is! tryed making some room in my garage to put the car in, as i was opening the door it fell of in my hand, and all the supports are rotten and horrible, so ive got to rebuild the garage before i start striping properly!

lol not the rebuild we were expecting yet then

No not the rebuild i was expecting either! got board at the weekend as well,




regretting it now, i think!

hmmm, interesting lol. Not to my taste

Timi wrote:

hmmm, interesting lol. Not to my taste

I know am regreating it now i think! Probablly spray them red soon!

Well i stared stripping the car and 5hrs later















And am starting to fill the dents and spraying the bonnet and boot black first, then getting ready for the kawasaki lime green!

ahhh, much better

whens the engine swap going in!

the B18 a while off yet, got to source rear 5 stud hubs, all that is needed from the hubs an suspntion from a itr, roll cage, the lime green paint, then i have to save up for the b18, while paying rent and looking after (buying loads of nappies) are new baby! so quite a while of yet! but i'll keep updating while shes getting sprayed!

well ive been busy scavenging wheels and parts, and bought a brand new Password:JDM 3 point front strut bar! got some fat fives in great nik,(untill i sort the hubs out/and get rid of the small 3 spokes) and of the same guy some eg6 springs and shox that he was just going to throw away!

So............ive now SORN'd the civic and left it at collage for the forseable future to get all body work sorted an spray it kawasaki lime green, am spraying the bonnet and boot black until i can afford CF

So its been in for 3-4 weeks now and this is how she stands!

















there was a hell of a lots of dints and chips in the bonnet, but she's ready to spray, the badge hole's have been welded up and smoothed, and got to smooth the key hole in the boot yet before i can smooth that!

getting there!

Sorry its been a while fella's, i'll carry on from were i left of....................................










I got a few bits........ PasswordJDM 3 pointstrut and Raybrig twin bulb fogs!










Had a few cracks along the way!





















oh and in between all this me and the wife had Ollie James Andrew Prescott






Back to the car i guess.......

















This^^ needed this


to make this














And how she stands now..............








And will/should end up this colour...


Also picked this up for a 100 notes last monday, with comp issues








And thats it for now, all comments welcome fellas

Wow this has come on!

Only just logged back onto here after a good while sorry mate. Need to rally the jap troops again to get this up and running for the summer.

Looking good mate. Any further updates would be very welcome!

Oh and nice baby! congratulations lol.

Whats the plans for the B16?

Cheers!

the b16 had this small problem



so at the mo am just stripping it down and see what i want to do after i finish the chassis! the civic stands like this at the mo!













planning to pick up a few more parts this week, full 5 stud hub conversion, 282 calipers and a teg dash! more updates soon!

Nice!

Thats coming along really good mate. Loving the stash of A048's on that trailer too lol!

The green looks good, will you be spraying the inside of the car aswell? and in the engine bay? just a plain black or something?

That broken valve should be easy enough to fix. For £100 you cant moan. That same thing happened to a mate of mine's b16a1. He ended up stripping it down and doing a B18 conversion. But i reckon just to fix it and run it stock should be simple providing there's no further damage.