JEBB4’s Ek1 civic hatch

Post by **JEBB4** » Fri Jan 27, 2023 10:33 am

This civic was acquired for a relatively small amount of money to use as parts for the ED6 civic.. most of all I wanted the engine, gearbox and manual conversion parts..

The car was actually more complete than the ED with nearly a full interior and all its body work “mostly” intact..

I do have headlights but they are not great, ones of no use really…

Once the engine was out the plan was to strip it and rebuild it and hopefully run twin webbers with it in the ED…. However..

Cylinder 1 big end was utterly obliterated.. others were in poor shape too but I thought no worries I’ll get the crank machined and build it to an even higher spec…

Sent the crank away only to be told it was scrap, couldn’t find another crank so I threw in the towel on that idea and bought another engine with 100k KMs on it for about $300..

Nice and clean inside too..

At this point I’m thinking this is becoming too much hassle for very little reward (under powered non VTEC civic) so i decided to get the EK running as cheaply as possible to sell on…

This car is at my work place so I’ve been doing little bits here and there in my spare time and Im quite enjoying the cheap fun this car represents, I just go into work and have a bit of a tinker.. god knows what it will end up like, but it’s all good fun..

The engine is in and it’s all up and running now so next up is body work…

Post by **JEBB4** » Tue May 02, 2023 2:16 am

Stripped the interior on this, it’s abit dusty

Previous owner loved the sex spec.. door cards are worst

Pressure washed the carpet

Cleaned primed and painted exhaust

Made a temporary side exit exhaust

Also stripped the spare steering rack and “kind of” converted it to non power steering

Post by **JEBB4** » Sat Jun 17, 2023 9:41 am

I’ve been stripping this car down slowly ready for full re spray..

Fitted an old bucket seat and my sparco steering wheel to try get it feeling abit more race car and because I had no seats for it so was a pain moving the car around the yard

So it’s basically stripped now so today I washed the dust and crap off of it ready to be sanded filleted and prepped for paint..

“MUGEN” label cracked me up

Post by **Merlin** » Mon Jun 19, 2023 9:26 am

It looks a fun project. Will you be spraying it yourself?

Post by **JEBB4** » Fri Jun 23, 2023 11:20 am

Merlin wrote: ↑
Mon Jun 19, 2023 9:26 am
It looks a fun project. Will you be spraying it yourself?

Yeah will be my first time using an actual gun, sprayed the whole side of my lude with rattle cans and that came out ok so hopefully this will be better

nalla · Post by **nalla** » Fri Jun 23, 2023 3:49 pm

You should sell the “Sh**box badge and sticker.

There are plenty of cars out there that deserve it.

toadster · Post by **toadster** » Sat Jun 24, 2023 9:48 am

nalla wrote: ↑
Fri Jun 23, 2023 3:49 pm
You should sell the “Sh**box badge and sticker.

There are plenty of cars out there that deserve it.

Very true

Post by **JEBB4** » Wed Sep 20, 2023 8:53 pm

Progress is slow but I will get there….

89 UKDM BA4 4WS (resto job!) · Post by **wurlycorner** » Thu Oct 12, 2023 4:56 pm

Loving the bearing in the OG engine

Post by **JEBB4** » Thu Jan 04, 2024 11:58 am

Been trying to get some time over Christmas break to paint this nugget but it’s proving difficult with two kids and my wife having been sick this week..
I did have a day on it last week, the weather was against me as we had a huge storm and lots of rain so any painting was out of the question but I did do some repairs the the front bumper..

The crack was quite nasty but I ground a groove in it and filled it with epoxy then ground and sanded it back, next step I’m going to buy some plastic bumper filler and smooth it out properly, I’m also going to add some strength from the inside using some wire or mesh melted into the crack.. but that’s to come…
Other than that the day was spent removing old masking tape, generally inspecting the car to see what else needs attention, I also fixed and tidied up the headlight wiring which someone had butchered..
Hopefully tomorrow I’ll get some more time on it and further prepare for paint..