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[2oodoor]

86 DX, 5 speed, gold top valve cover A20A1
A coworker spotted this one in somebody's yard and stopped to ask about it. That was several weeks ago, they called yesteday asking him if he wanted it for 300, he talked them down over the phone to 200, we went and looked at it today during lunch.. and bought it for 180.
He is letting me get it from him for the same price.
I drove it back to work, it is amazingly tight car to have 240K miles. The power steering isnt working, and it really isnt that bad without it!! The clutch was slipping, it was out of adjustment, we adjusted it and it drove great then. It is carbed :)
For that money I cant go wrong as a parts car but it drives too good to be a parts car, so now I will be conflicted about what to do with it.:violin:

http://i162.photobucket.com/albums/t280/roodoo2/1197573712.jpg

http://i162.photobucket.com/albums/t280/roodoo2/1197573775.jpg

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http://i162.photobucket.com/albums/t280/roodoo2/1197573698.jpg

[2oodoor]

I found a whole bundle of reciepts in the glovebox of work that has been done to it all in the past 5 years.
Interior is perfect, just needs shampoo a little. Has crank up windows, manual HVAC controls, not push button... honestly I have never seen an Accord like this before.

[labeledsk8r]

congrats. looks clean except for some small rust spots on the rear. daily driver??

[2ndGenGuy]

If it's carb'd then it sounds like a perfect opportunity for sidedraft Webers, a header and a cam. :D

[Civic Accord Honda]

looks good give it to me

[2oodoor]

It drives and runs out great but it doenst have the raw guts my auto LX has, the Weber makes a huge difference. I love the way it is so quiet though.
I cant believe it is a drivable car for 180 bucks, crap one of the invoices in the glove box 6000 miles ago was 328 for timing belt and tensioner.

[labeledsk8r]

hold on.... your other accord is an auto with the weber?? well now i see what this car can be used for, swap tranys between cars and wallaa 5 speed weber LX and a perfect auto Daily driver DX

[Civic Accord Honda]

i wish i could find a car that ran and drive for $180 lol my car was 500 and had a shot clutch and trashed body

[A18A]

cool, body looks pretty straight :thumbup:

[mushroom_toy]

Nice man.

[AccordB20A]

thats a mighty funny looking school bus in the background hahaha. Oh and nice car roodoo 2

[Hazwan]

Interior looks clean. Exterior needs some cleaning, but overall nice and clean car for 180.

[forrest89sei]

Great looking car for $180!

Congrats! :thumbup:

[irondragon013]

Damn Roodoo. That was 180. My car cost a grand and its trans was bad. Good find man. Just wish I had found it before you.

[2oodoor]

Irondragon, thier out there... about three weeks ago I found a hatch back for 400 bucks but I passed on it, once, it sold to the next person that looked at it. I could not pass this one up, there are too many things on it I could use. The only thing I see wrong with it is outer RS CV joint and valve cover leaks, no oil spots under the car though.

Wohdog that bus is called a MIdbus, it is the fastest F'n school bus I ever drove. It is kind of uniuque, it has a CD player, intercom, 8.1 liter gas V8 multiport FI..Allison automatic 6 speed, drives like a car, and is not undersprung like a "short bus".

The coworker has side jobs that take him all over the place, so he is always running into deals... we got a nickname for him now "carlot" lol, I am glad he let me get that one:)

[2oodoor]

hold on.... your other accord is an auto with the weber?? well now i see what this car can be used for, swap tranys between cars and wallaa 5 speed weber LX and a perfect auto Daily driver DX

so you can see my dilemma ? I need to check the weight difference in the two first.
I think I am going to need a third Accord.:cheers:

[88Accord-DX]

That is damn good deal for 180 bones. Now you need to find another weber to put on this one. Still got them weber hook ups at a local swap thing? People selling cars dirt cheap for water rations or what? lol

[Pico]

Looks like a good car for 180 roodoo Congrats

[2oodoor]

That is damn good deal for 180 bones. Now you need to find another weber to put on this one. Still got them weber hook ups at a local swap thing? People selling cars dirt cheap for water rations or what? lol

good point, but yeah we have plenty of water, Atlanta is dry though. Our lake is dry too but we have Savannah river so were good..:wave:
People are selling everything right now, just like on this forum...

[2ndGenGuy]

Hey roodoo, are you a school bus mechanic? A buddy of mine is a school bus mechanic. I'm always blown away by how HUGE all the parts are for buses compared to their car counterparts. Drum brakes that are like 12 inches wide, massive alterantors, huge wheels and tires. Pretty crazy stuff!

[2oodoor]

NOpe, not exclusivley... that is the only yellow bus we have.
What is amazing is those charter buses, pushers.. wow that is some big stuff now.. There is a major charter bus outfit in town though and I trip on those old guys that work on those things, been working on them for years.. I dont see how they do it. Huge detroit diesels that are as big as half a car .
http://i162.photobucket.com/albums/t280/roodoo2/1197591974.jpg
^^^ the stack of work order invoices in the glove box, totals over 2000 dollars worth of work done to maintain that Accord, dating back to 2003. Oil changes, water pump, brakes, it is neat to look at. My other Accord has all that too in a notepad in the glovebox plus reciepts from before I got it.

[MessyHonda]

cool...im driving my dx......and its a fun lil car...so yeah you are going to do a 5 speed swap on the lx?

[AccordB20A]

Sounds like the car was a gud buy. Mine was $170NZD with a facked, but complete and still working engine, good auto box.

[bullard123]

Not bad for $180. I say B20A it!

[2oodoor]

bumpage, I took the valve cover off my LX and put it on the DX. The 5 speed is cool. I had to fix a few vacuum lines but for now the carb seems ok. This car has a lot of new parts, it drives good.
http://i162.photobucket.com/albums/t280/roodoo2/1202162112.jpg

[2oodoor]

This is the gold top that was on it, it needs a new gasket. I slapped it on the LX for now until I get done painting the cast cover I got from militarymase.
This gold top is good nostolgia, screw on emblem.. .BS engine stuff FTW
http://i162.photobucket.com/albums/t280/roodoo2/1202164121.jpg

[2oodoor]

http://i162.photobucket.com/albums/t280/roodoo2/1202165055.jpg

[2oodoor]

http://i162.photobucket.com/albums/t280/roodoo2/1202165082.jpg

[2ndGenGuy]

Ooh that emblem is pretty snazzy looking. Don't think I never noticed that before. :)

[2oodoor]

Yep remember I painted the LX blue and put a trunk emblem on it, this one is off the DX original gold top valve cover. Not many of these around because they ran out and started using the glued emblem. My 86 LX even had the glued emblem (black top)

( ok that is a bread tie holding the spark wires up, that is totally temporary guys,, lol.)

[mushroom_toy]

God man we have to get a meeting up. Im gonna be lowered soon, and have rear discs XD.

[2oodoor]

Junkyard finds today !!
Weber kit for Mazda truck, same as the other one I have
console armrest, not the best one but better than nothing
total spent.$50.00
http://i162.photobucket.com/albums/t280/roodoo2/1203179054.jpg

3 geez pimpage I may go back and get these fender mouldings since they are custom and probably rare.
http://i162.photobucket.com/albums/t280/roodoo2/1203179012.jpg

[2oodoor]

There were two nice hatchback bodies, I really didnt see why one of them was in the yard, perfect.
an old MR2 with spoiler, I was tempted.. lol
several transmissions,, I was looking for a passenger side manual side mirror, did they even make those? I took off a electric one, but they wanted 20 bucks for it, I put it back.
Those fender mouldings were made for that sedan, I wonder if they would look good on the DX painted black with the side mouldings..

[2ndGenGuy]

Score on the Weber man! Is that a DGEV? Gonna rebuild it or slap it on and see how it works?

Not feelin' the chrome fender moldings though...

[2oodoor]

DGV-5A manual choke
I may be able to make it fit the Honda using the homemade plate that I found inside the truck. Or just fill and redrill the manifold.
Someone has changed the throttle shaft hardware already but they lost the secondary linkage in the process, I can make something I think.
Even though the oem carb is working good on the DX, it still does the fast idle thing too crazy and I am ready to do away with it. I sure I will go through this carb before I use it.
http://i162.photobucket.com/albums/t280/roodoo2/1203197935.jpg
http://i162.photobucket.com/albums/t280/roodoo2/1203197884.jpg
http://i162.photobucket.com/albums/t280/roodoo2/1203198044.jpg

[2oodoor]

I was trying to get a good pic at the IHOP and somebody pulled in on me and messed up my picture
http://i162.photobucket.com/albums/t280/roodoo2/1202904851.jpg

[Civic Accord Honda]

car looks good man

[2oodoor]

Score on the Weber man! Is that a DGEV? Gonna rebuild it or slap it on and see how it works?

Not feelin' the chrome fender moldings though...

it's going to be muddy this weekend but Im going back for those fender moudlings, the DX does have rear fender mouldings oem, and those rear ones would look good painted semigloss.
There must be like three different center console armrests, the one I got is so dinky, my other one is bigger yet there is even a larger on on SEI I believe??

[A18A]

hey thats some cool stuff there :thumbup:

[2oodoor]

random pic of the DD the DX
http://i162.photobucket.com/albums/t280/roodoo2/P7200200.jpg
http://i162.photobucket.com/albums/t280/roodoo2/P7210198.jpg

[2ndGenGuy]

Very niiiice!

[greentee76]

About the fender mouldings... did you go back and get them? If not I have a new set here that could be yours. LMK.
Oh.. what became of the pictured Weber?

[2oodoor]

About the fender mouldings... did you go back and get them? If not I have a new set here that could be yours. LMK.
Oh.. what became of the pictured Weber?

those mouldings are rare, no I didnt but I wish I did, I like the rear ones, not so much the front ones.
the weber is the same one I posted in the manifold thread (go look!) yesterday, the bigger one. It works great, there was nothing wrong with it except it needed cleaning. I rejetted it but I need to go bigger with the idle jets (50 is too small) I also have another extra one that needs shaft bushings.
I have (had) one for sale in the marketplace for months now. That one is on the other car right now but I may swap it out again since I discovered the difference in choke sizes between the two.

[greentee76]

I actually got a new set in a package deal when I bought my ventvisors. They're not really my style, but I got the package for less than I could have gotten the visors alone.
I have thought about using them as a template to make rust repair panels.

[Civic Accord Honda]

http://i162.photobucket.com/albums/t280/roodoo2/P7200200.jpg
that picture made me sad :( reminded me of my 3g ,

its looking good tho

[86ccord]

looks good bro.. what year and model of mazda truck you get that weber off of?

[2oodoor]

looks good bro.. what year and model of mazda truck you get that weber off of?

hrnnm about an 84 or so... it was a replacement carb. I was going to the JY and looking under the hood of every Japan made truck, and late 70's early 80's car. Webers were widely used back then as replacements for finicky hard to fix Japanese carbs. That particular one though DGV-5A originally came off a European Ford. either EDM or a USDM Capri.

[greentee76]

I found a Weber in the j/y last week. Unfortunately it was on an old Fiat. According to carbsunlimiteds site it was probably a 34 ABF? All I know is I turned it over and the throttle plates looked tiny, actually looked smaller then the primary on my 32/36. It looked like it hadn't been run very long before it went to the j/y and I thought about grabbing it to throw up on Ebay, but didn't think I would actually bother.
This won't deter me from my j/y search for a 38 though.

But back to the original topic, the paint looks really nice. Did you do anything special to bring it back?

[2oodoor]

Greentea, would it be a 34 DMSA 1/100? My weber book shows that one on a Fiat , also if it was a Fiat dino it could be a 40 DCNF (very interesting carb IMO) with any of them you may want to grab all the jets out of them. It it a progressive carb because the jet numbers in the book seem to indicate it is.
Paint, nothing actually it looks bad on the top panels. I have not done any cosmetic work to that car at all other than the 15 inch steelies.

[greentee76]

Your guess is probably better than mine, all I know for sure is that the plates (butterflies) looked REALLY small. I actually would have guessed 28 but I wasn't able to find anything stamped on the casting at all, just the usually weber cast into the top. It was definately a progressive, probably would have grabbed it if it were sync. It did look like it was a conversion kit though which is why I looked at carbsunlimiteds offering. If it had been a 40 it would have been going with me:).

[Hazwan]

http://i162.photobucket.com/albums/t280/roodoo2/P7200200.jpg
that picture made me sad :( reminded me of my 3g ,

its looking good tho

Look exactly like yours. Before you spraypainted it :slap:

[rfiks]

nice

[2oodoor]

thank you, Im sure my son appreciates the comment since it is his car that I am featuring here.

[AccordB20A]

Look exactly like yours. Before you spraypainted it :slap:

i cant even rmemeber what cahs car look like befor he ru...painted it


Anyone got a pic

[Hazwan]

i cant even rmemeber what cahs car look like befor he ru...painted it


Anyone got a pic

All I remember back then when he first joined 3geez he has stock gold LX-i, which later repainted 8389739232 times and another gold DX parts car where he swears not to spraypaint again. But he didn't.

[Civic Accord Honda]

Look exactly like yours. Before you spraypainted it :slap: :P i ment once i swaped the parts over from the dx lulz


All I remember back then when he first joined 3geez he has stock gold LX-i, which later repainted 8389739232 times and another gold DX parts car where he swears not to spraypaint again. But he didn't. it was a silver lx-i same as messys and the only part of the dx i painted was the hood cause the macco paint came offf and it was getting sufface rust luls

[Hazwan]

Ah it was silver then. You have crappy pics that time lol

[A18A]

not bad!

[2oodoor]

He hasnt got his license or even learners yet, and guess what he gets to learn on.. the b20 auto gold car. The DX is his though.
I may reconsider that plan, he may mysterously dissappeear if he was to wreck that one. :flash:Maybe get him started on his moms crown vic.
I started out driving with a vw bug, learning a stick was pretty easy on that, but with the way traffic is around here now days I think he should drive an auto so he can pay attention too other drivers. It takes a while to drive a stick without thinking about it.

[2oodoor]

This was done to that car a while back, I never updated this thread with it.
http://i162.photobucket.com/albums/t280/roodoo2/1212441062.jpg
I still have a lot of parts to go on this car, visors, console, dc header (maybe the whole A20 modified head motor from the other car along with it)
It will need a new clutch though.
http://i162.photobucket.com/albums/t280/roodoo2/1205698765.jpg

[2oodoor]

IT's gone!
got rid of it today, had to leave a weber 32/36 on it ...



and again, I cannot stress enough how much difference that 38 weber I put on it actually did. Night and day between OEM or the smalller weber.

If I were buying a weber replacement for OEM garbage I would not hesitate to get the 38 if possible.


now time to focus on the hatch and B20 LX

[bullard123]

What did you do to it? Did you junk it?

[2oodoor]

NO, that was a sweet running car, sold it as part of recouping money I spent buying the hatch
http://www.3geez.com/forum/showthread.php?t=72182

[2oodoor]

Well this one RIP , I saw it at pulla part this morning. Weber was gone but I snagged the catapillar yellow valve cover I did for it. Hope whoever drove the mess outta it enjoyed it. Blown head

[2ndGenGuy]

Damn, that would be hard to see.

[apache07x]

That sucks

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[Legend_master]

ouch!