1st, 2nd, 3rd, and 4th Gen - 3rd Gen Civic

Well I guess noone else owns a 3rd gen civic. Well I am the proud owner of a 1986 Honda Civic 1.5L Carb Sedan. Its a beater, but she is on her way up in the world. It generally is a good car, VERY VERY good on gas, I can stretch 10 bucks over 2 weeks doing daily commutes. Very comfortable, if you can find one in good condition. Spacious, bigger than alot of Civics out there today. Design is very simple, very boxy, with some what of an agressive stance. Not the fastest Civic, but it seems the automatic transmission on my Civic wants to be a manual. Its very peppy and rev happy. I'd say 0-60 in about 7-9 secs. Big trunk, [you know for the bodies or sub boxes]. VERY hard to find aftermarket parts and accessories. So basically its best to keep it JDM style as the new generation likes to say. OEM parts all over, maybe a few accesories here and there. Well thats my review, feel free to ask or add some more.

There is always custom parts you could work into it! You should do the engine swap and trick everyone on the road!

that would be sick^^

redpepperracing.com may be where you want to go with that fine gen 3

Your not alone on owning a 3rd gen civic. I own a 1986 Civic SI HB 1.5L FI & I love it. I'm getting 35+ MPG plus it has alot of giddyup >:). I can't seem to find any place where I can get a rear wing/spoiler for it though =[. Does anyone know of a place where I might be able to find a rear wing/spoiler for an 86 civic?

ha this is awesome two old school civic owners brand new :P and btw love your sig lol

ouch nike, is that your honda wrecked in your avatar?

it was... i got a del sol now lol

cool, del sols look awesome imo. so what happened to your civic? did you get hit or did you hit someone or something.

They ran stop sighn.... i hit them in driver side door... frame is all twisted now so its probably done

that sucks, my civic has a little bit of frame damage to it, when you look at it from the front, the driver sides looks droopy, I think whoever owned it before me may have a deer or something because it's not just the hood area, the entire driver side of the car looks like it leans forward & to the left lol.

I just bought an 86 Civic sedan that was in storage for 12 years. It has 41,000 miles. I'll have to post some pics. I have a problem with the air valve assembly. When it was taken out of storage, the carburetor was blown out and the small vacuum line on the top of the air valve- right behind the pcv valve..was snapped off. They filled it with weld. The bottom hose is ok. The car will idle higher than normal in neutral and be sluggish when cold. Is this part called an iac valve? It is number 17332-peo-003. Where can I get it? Thanks.

And here I thought I was the only one. I just got back into a Civic (after 15 yrs); it's an '86 Hatchback Si. Zippy, fun to drive, I want to drop it an inch or two and get some spidery-looking wheels for it. On that, does anybody have a good starting point regarding lowering the front of this car? I haven't really looked at it yet (overworked at the moment; haven't even had a chance to pick up a manual for it), but the aftermarket spring suppliers are listing this car as "rear adjustable spring only." Thanks in advance, I'm looking forward to hearing from the crowd.

nice 86, i have an 87, never been in an accident and under 101,000 miles, but def does not go 0-60 in 7 seconds

im soon to be a proud owner of a 86 honda civic sedan 1.5L carbed, light blue 5-speed. 120k miles and this thing is mint, a california car wit aloot of life left in it. The person im buying it off of if going to do a tune up on it and clean the carb for me. He started the thing up wit only 2 spark plug wires on it and it ran like a champ (it was only for like 5seconds to move it out of the garage). But thats a sign of a beast. Its going to be my DD and winter car. =] ill be a regular if anything goes wrong, which im hoping not.