yeah, it sucks... honestly, at this point, I'm seriously considering just selling my EG (gotta get those rear wheel bearings replaced first lol) and buying a 5-speed Integra GSR... I'll have a fast car (that some of my spare parts *cough* coilovers *cough*) will fit, and I won't really feel the need to spend $3k on mods since it'll already be fast... probably just i/h/e, throw my coilovers on it, and call it a day.

*edit: found a silver Integra GS for just under $7k at a dealer (82k miles on the car)... I'm probably going to talk to my parents about buying it (and trade in my civic while I'm at it)... If I do get it, I'll be honest... I plan on slamming the thing (on the coilovers that I already own) and painting my 17's (that I already own) blue, because silver teggies with blue wheels look awesome.
Linky!

 

Updated front page with my new plans

 

Pictures of the body work progress (I won't even be done tomorrow.. me and my friend are going to be throwing another layer of fiberglass on it and sanding it down perfectly next weekend):

Remember that switch panel I was thinking about making?

I'll get some pictures of it fiberglassed tomorrow.... it needs to be sanded and bondo'd right now.


Nothing quite like cutting apart a back bumper



Shaved sides/rust repair:



(I'm just doing a rattle-can job for now... assuming I keep the car (I'm actually toying withe the idea of an h22 swap instead of getting an rsx), I'll be doing paint prep and everything later this spring and painting it (well, having my friend paint it).


Oh, and HCF's RTFO Kr3w ftw!

(sorry, there's a lot of fiberglass/bondo dust floating around... and this was over an hour after we called it quits for the day)

 

well with all that dust BE CAREFULL...... i was shocked when i found out bondo dust is highly flamable!!!!!!!!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jjDpVEvxpmc

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xuY9ibNv91I

but i guess now that youve started the body work no selling it now.LOL

 

damn! I seriously didn't know it was that flammable... and to think I had a torpedo heater running aimed right at where I was sanding down the bondo... that could've been bad lol

And yeah, I'm almost 100% sure I'm keeping the car... my mom even said now that I'm fixing the rust and everything she thinks it would be better to just put a 5 speed in the car and keep it... my jaw hit the floor when she said it... she almost flipped out when I first suggested an engine swap last summer, so her suggesting me swapping the engine was the last thing I expected lol

so h22, here I come

and that $4,000 I was going to get for my next car? I'm pretty sure I can talk my parents into letting me use some of that for the swap and put the rest in the bank

 

Pics from today:





I had to rattle-can over the fiberglass for this week... I can't really finish the work this weekend (ran out of bondo, very little fiberglass resin, and I'm running out of time), so it's going to be spray-painted until next weekend when I can finish it (and primer it)... after all, a rattle-can job is better than unpainted fiberglass/bondo, isn't it?

Oh, and here's what I have for my system so far... I traded that td04 turbo I had for it:

 

wow lots of work, its coming along though, keep us updated.

 

i honestly think the back bumper looks better how it is.
but man dude thats one sick ride, thats amazing man. keep up the good work and put up the final project so i can sit and look at it for hours in amazment haha

 

hum.... not sure how i feel about the shaved molding.......
IMO its not worth it....


nice subs tho, tho i would ditch the cap....LOL

 

I figured the sides would look a lot cleaner when it gets repainted once the body kit's on... that and even if it doesn't look all that different, it still gave me something to do for 10 hours lmao

and I originally was trading the turbo for just one of the subs... I talked my friend into giving me both subs for it.. then when he was pulling them out of his car, he's like "hey, do you want the capacitor? I don't need it."... so I'm like "sure!"

I'll probably hook it up as a "just in case" kind of thing... I figure it's not like I had to pay for it or anything


idk, the bumper looks okay, but I don't like the dual exhaust thing (having previously had dual exhausts on the civic).. and if I keep the single exhaust, I have three options... I can drive around with an empty exhaust outlet, I can shave one outlet, or I can modify the rear bumper. I've seen pictures of cars with an empty outlet, and the car just looks unfinished. A guy I know in one of the neighboring towns used to have a 5th gen civic with the same kit I have, and he had an outlet shaved completely, so I really don't want to go that route since it'll look like Im copying him (even though I had the kit first lol). And also, I think the modifications I'm doing to the kit will give it an overall cleaner look (hopefully lol).

But thanks, man... I'll definitely keep everyone updated on my progress (and hopefully I can get that h22 swap I've been dreaming of soon ).


*edit: and now I'm starting to have second thoughts about the h22 swap. I know I'm swapping the engine and transmission, I just can't decide what I'm swapping it to.

After thinking about it, an h22 swap is very labor-intensive and expensive ($3k shipped once you include mounts and axles), then you need all these little odds and ends to get everything to play nice (not to mention no possibility of a/c or anything). I'm now thinking I'll take the 20hp loss and get an LSD-equipped B18C for less than the cost of the h22 swap.

Will the stock b18c mounts bolt up to my civic? And will the axles work? Those are the two big things I'm worried about right now.