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    GP02A0083's 89' black hatchback

    ok well figuring i haven't updated much i wanted to make a new thread and start off fresh.


    Start off with when I had both hatches, I sold goldie ( my 87 hatchback) roughly a month or so ago. These are the last pictures of them together.





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    Re: GP02A0083's 89' black hatchback

    Now onto the good stuff.

    Picked up my 89 lx-i hatchback in September 2010 with 57,xxx miles! She was dealer maintained the whole time and garage kept until 5 years ago. A 91 year old lady owned this car and her son sold it to me for a reasonable price.



    very clean engine bay, they even had a Honda battery installed. I installed the strut tower bar I got from Justin.


    The interior door panels are pretty clean too , not much damage from the seatbelts


    Hell the interior is soo clean that this car was never smoked in at all, or at least i can tell from the almost like new cig lighter.



    copy of the bill of sale and additional original paperwork that came with the car.


    and the best part yet, there isn't a spot of rust in the fender wells or the chassis from being under it.


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    Re: GP02A0083's 89' black hatchback

    installed my JDM corner lights



    installed my rear lower bars, i didn't feel like painting them again so they look liek crap, and now the only thing i found under the car thats a little bit rusty is the tail pipe.


    installed my rear upper bar


    took a few shots inside my new workplace, we were constructing the building at the time , so i sneaked my car in. It was snowing that day and i didnt have a way to dry the car off.










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    Re: GP02A0083's 89' black hatchback

    About a month ago driving home from work i experienced a front lower ball joint failure, the nut sheared right off. I ended up replacing the upper and lower control arms, strut and Axle ( im glad i horde parts and had these on the shelf in the garage). We later found out that the axle put a small hole in the back of the oil pan. I ordered another pan from rockauto, and since then i was having issues with the car chewing up oil. While diagnosing the problem i found that this engine has very good compression 180psi for all 4 cylinders, later a bore scope was used to check the cylinder, and i was amazed to see the original cross hatching in the cylinder from the factory.

    We later realized after dropping the oil pan that Dorman messed up, they fabricated the pan incorrectly causing a high buildup of pressure in the crank case.
    the original pan should have a spacing like this:



    and the Dorman pan looked like this:


    I got another pan from Lost ( Had to straighten out the pan and re-thread the oil pan bolt even tho it was a "good" pan ) and since then its been smooth sailing.

    i washed her up and took a few pictures the other day when it was warmer outside



    Hopefully in the next few months i can fix a few dings she has and paint her, black is tough because any imperfections you left will be seen, but when its done right it looks like glass.

    i plan on installing fog lights like i had on my 87 , maybe going more for the yellow OEM look, i want to get new rims the SE-i's i have have held up well but its time for something new. i have a box of goodies to be installed this spring also note some oldsmobile parts in the background like the taillight :

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    Re: GP02A0083's 89' black hatchback

    New car looks good! You should remove those rubber strips around the rear arches though.



    Quote Originally Posted by gp02a0083 View Post
    i want to get new rims the SE-i's i have have held up well but its time for something new.
    also shamless plug....
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    Re: GP02A0083's 89' black hatchback

    love the blacky!
    dead white and blue

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    Re: GP02A0083's 89' black hatchback

    @ 88lxi

    yah i have been looking at those rims for a little bit now, i just ended up buying new front tires due to a sidewall defect in my falken's. From what im understanding you have to bump up the tire pressure on these a little bit.

    and removing the rubber strip is probably a good idea, a lot of junk gets stuck up in there and sits.

    idk about this area with the 16's my SE-i's are already dented just from local driving. You have seen the area I am in, i work closer to New brunswick now than i was in jackson. Dodging pot holes as it is makes it look like your driving drunk. This is the reason i haven't just spent the money on the k-sports or the XYZ's (if there even legit)


    thanks stat1k, i plan on trying to keep this one running for a long time.

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    Re: GP02A0083's 89' black hatchback

    Quote Originally Posted by stat1K View Post
    love the blacky!
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    Re: GP02A0083's 89' black hatchback

    Clean Car!!!!!! Odd having a Coupe Owners manual?


    I want
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    Re: GP02A0083's 89' black hatchback

    what Stat1k said. lol.
    un-motivated!
    someone make me an offer i just could not say no to.

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    Re: GP02A0083's 89' black hatchback

    Love the Hatch

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    Re: GP02A0083's 89' black hatchback

    thats the first black hatch ive seen keep her clean bro!

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    Re: GP02A0083's 89' black hatchback

    Black beauty right there.

    Fuck is that nice, you better take damn good care of her!!
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    My hatch build thread(started in winter of 07).

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    Re: GP02A0083's 89' black hatchback

    I WANT A HATCH!!!
    as a DD.

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    pullin up turbo spoolin fast lookin fly like a 3g like a 3g like a 3g

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    Re: GP02A0083's 89' black hatchback

    Quote Originally Posted by ShyBoyCA6 View Post
    thats the first black hatch ive seen keep her clean bro!
    i bought this new hatch 5 years to the date of getting rid of my old one. Odd thing is it is practically the exact same car, only option this different is the pwr antenna

    My first 89' hatch:





    had the back hatch glass shatter on me in the summer , that decal on the rear glass was already there.

    That car ended on September 9th 2005. We had really bad storms that year, hydroplaned going through an intersection into a curb doing 15mph The hit was just right, took a 3" gash out of the tire, the rims were still ok. The body separated 1"-1/4" under the area where the battery sits. we tried to use a makeshift frame machine, but it wasn't working. The auto had a bad slip in third gear, so I decided to strip parts and get rid of it. I should have stripped more parts off the car , but I didnt have the room to store anything else.








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    Re: GP02A0083's 89' black hatchback

    dang 15mph?

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    Re: GP02A0083's 89' black hatchback

    now thats some clean mods

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    Re: GP02A0083's 89' black hatchback

    It is kind of interesting that all your hatches have been automatic...
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    Re: GP02A0083's 89' black hatchback

    i know this was not really by choice. I was going to do the manual swap to my gold hatch , but the trans gave out and i didnt have the resources at the time. I really want the 5spd in this hatch , i just need a donor car that i can swap stuff over and have a reference

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    Re: GP02A0083's 89' black hatchback

    bump with some not so recent pictures






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    Re: GP02A0083's 89' black hatchback

    your screenname is wierd.
    that hatch is clean.
    that is all.

    Low is a Lifestyle, and I'm living the life.

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    Re: GP02A0083's 89' black hatchback

    Damn that is a clean hatchback...57k miles....sweet

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    Re: GP02A0083's 89' black hatchback

    The rear strut bar is nice and all but I would cut holes in the covers where the bar would stick through so you dont have huge gaps in those slots.

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    Re: GP02A0083's 89' black hatchback

    Quote Originally Posted by Xaisk View Post
    The rear strut bar is nice and all but I would cut holes in the covers where the bar would stick through so you dont have huge gaps in those slots.
    thats exactly what i wanted to do with my gold hatch, it would look super clean that way, i just don't want to cut up my originals. if anyone has a spare set of those covers let me know. I did have a crazy idea of making another bar and have it welded to a b-pilar bar, but i dont have much time to do that at the moment.

    hondamonster, the name is odd, i created the name after i got really into the older Gundam series. The screen names comes from the Gundam Model: Rx-78Gp02A "Physalis" in the series with the year: 0083

    but always my cars are clean

    i may change my screen name soon, cuz it really looks like a spam name or something.

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    Re: GP02A0083's 89' black hatchback

    got some work done to the hatchback yesterday. I replaced the torque strut bushings as the engine side was kinda worn, i noticed i still have a bit of side to side play in the front joint, even with the anchor replacements i got. However i noticed there is no other movement otherwise. While i had most of the stock intake pipe off i replaced almost all of those SOB little coolant lines. I didn't want to chance a hose bursting on a road trip, the old lines were probably the original ones on the car because they didn't have flex to them at all, they were solid.

    picked up a cheap plastic welder at harbor freight for some random projects that would need plastic fused together. Wish i had the money for it , they had a small electrical powder coating kit. Next month I will probably pick this up

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