my daily driver project

[A18A]

Here's a thread for this car so it doesn't clog up my other thread, which is for my other car. I've had this one for a while, but never planned on using it, until a week or 2 ago. It's been sitting around for a while with no interior or motor or loom, mainly cause it had no windscreen in it, but that's about to change cause I don't like driving cars with no engines & such. So over the last few days i've been doing a bit of work on it. Here's some pics of the build progress so far...



first up, a better set of wheels


then pulled apart again

[A18A]

this here is the motor for the car


and cleaned up


with a manual gearbox & other stuff all bolted on to it, all ready to go in now


now onto the loom & heater/dash install, the loom came from my CA accord, so it is all wired up for my alarm and whatever other things i put on that car:




and that's as far as I've gotten so far. I've been sick the last couple days so progress is teh slow.

[AccordB20A]

mint ow. yay my old gearbox

[MessyHonda]

good thing you got rid of that auto

[A18A]

mint ow. yay my old gearbox

your old car too

good thing you got rid of that auto

couldn't agree more!

[Civic Accord Honda]

yay!!!

[charliekuney]

Man, I'd kill for those fogs...

[AccordB20A]

your old car too

yes, yes that new plate does come back to my old cars old plate which is now on my wall.

[Civic Accord Honda]

Man, I'd kill for those fogs...

if u allow matt to rape you with a rake he may sale you a set =o

[Pico]

Sweet
More Pics Please

[A18A]

thanks.

well today, I decided to investigate how water is getting all in my interior, typical sunroof leak. 1 of the lines where cut, the other 3 where completely clogged & 1 was just going into the boot, which filled up the whole spare tyre wheel well with water. I couldn't even blow down the hoses. with the cut line, I just blocked it off, cause threading a new hose was far too difficult. That just means I can't park my car facing down hill on a passenger side lean in the rain. I can live with that. The rest, I forced some thick wire down them & eventually unclogged them, 25 years worth of gunky sludge came out, I hosed down the drains till water was flowing freely & was nice and clear.. should be good for another 20 years now

I also installed my tow bar & bolted on the bumper properly, it used to only be held on with a couple screws. Before doing that, I cut up a old car mat & zip tied it to around the exhaust part of it. This should silence the annoying exhaust rattle hopefully


also got my power folding mirrors working, so the cars alarm is now fully functional again yay! Only electrical problem I have now is the pop-up lights don't work. I'm hoping it's just a faulty switch, cause troubleshooting them is the sucks. Anyway, it's raining right now, just what I was hoping for too! So in the morning I can check to see if the inside of the car is dry.. If it is, I can proceed with installing the rest of the interior (carpet, seats & such)

That's all for now lol.

Man, I'd kill for those fogs...

Kill the person at imageshack who decided it would be a good idea to make their site automatically rotate my pics without my consent, and you can have some fogs

[A18A]

fail

[A18A]

continuing with the slow pace...
car ready for motor

motor ready for car

now to put the 2 together

yay

you probably cant see in this photo, but the right side of the car is frame damaged underneath

the cross member is all bent & is quite a bit lower on the right side. that explains all the stress marks in the engine bay where the paint has flaked off.. and probably why the front bumper & right fender has troubles going on. i'll have to straighten that out before putting it on the road

[AccordB20A]

andget a wheel alignment

dont break my gearbox boy

[carotman]

Nice project!

It's funny how parts seem to be popping from nowhere hahaha.

[speedpenguin]

Kid's got waaay too many extra cars sitting around his property.

Looking good man. I lol'd at the beater status sunroof repair. You know your car's a beater when you can't park it a certain way or water will get into it.

[A18A]

andget a wheel alignment

dont break my gearbox boy

dont worry, the clutch is so gay i doubt that that could happen >.<

Nice project!

It's funny how parts seem to be popping from nowhere hahaha.

thanks, lol what do you mean by that?

Kid's got waaay too many extra cars sitting around his property.

Looking good man. I lol'd at the beater status sunroof repair. You know your car's a beater when you can't park it a certain way or water will get into it.

haha thanks


i made some moar progress today, it didnt rain all day for a change! but unfortunately i left my head liner in a puddle of water, so I couldn't get that installed today. i got most of the interior in though. i hosed out the car a bit first cause there was lots of gunky slime and stuff in there. all nice now


my stealth alarm hidden inside a automatic gaybox control box.. not so stealth now that it's on the interweb





done more stuff in the engine bay, can't do much more untill i fix up all my fuck ups in there, don't wanna install the front bumper untill after i fix the damage underneath the car too.




here there is a crease that goes up to the top of the car, i'm hoping thats as far as the damage goes. you can also see the shock is all bent, probably failed caster cause of the bent crossmember


hope tomorrows weather is as good as todays

[ShyBoyCA6]

the interior looks mint!! and nice b20.

[AccordB20A]

i hope you removed that box under the drivers seat!

[A18A]

the interior looks mint!! and nice b20.

thanks (Y)

i hope you removed that box under the drivers seat!

which box would that be?

[AccordB20A]

never you mind i remembered what u did, at least the guts is removed from it

[speedpenguin]

I don't want to know...

[A18A]

the car sat out in the rain last night, and leaked, fail. must be from the windscreen. but i've already installed the head liner, and fucked if im doing that again.

the motor also got another nice rinse, i scrubbed the exhaust heat shield and that got rid of a lot of rust spots. makes a big difference


my goal is to get it as clean as what my other car used to be

[A18A]

kewl

[Civic Accord Honda]

ballar