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Reddy 12-21-2004 06:22 AM

Evolution of my Civic
 
I was going through some old pics of my Civic and decided to post them on here. I think its funny how far along my Civic has come. It orignially started out as a pile of ----, it has now graduated to a piece of ----. Slowly its comming together to the car I want. When I first got the car it was ready for the dump


I think someone tried to break into it by prying the dooroff :-\

http://www.draglab.com/hmt/Whitey/Ne...r/DSC00291.JPG


The car was piled with ----, it had about 5 driver's seats in it.

http://www.draglab.com/hmt/Whitey/Ne...r/DSC00296.JPG


The interior was completely fucked and the wiring was so hacked up like mice tried eating through it.

http://www.draglab.com/hmt/Whitey/Ne...r/DSC00294.JPG


So I rewired the whole car to OBD1. This was the biggest pain in the ass ever. I rewired everything down to the taillights


http://www.draglab.com/hmt/Whitey/Ne...r/DSC00293.JPG


The interior is alot better now with a couple trips to the u-pull it. The only thing its missing is a cage and racing buckets but I'll worry about that when the car goes fast enough to need it.

http://www.draglab.com/hmt/Whitey/Ne...r/DSC00286.JPG


Nice collection of knobs and buttons; nitrous arm, purge, rev limiter, timing retard, boost, turbo timer, and the factory sound system ;)

http://www.draglab.com/hmt/Whitey/Ne...r/DSC00287.JPG


The engine in the car was pretty well taken apart. Too bad the people taking parts off of it didn't realize the power of the STD manifold. 8)

http://www.draglab.com/hmt/Whitey/Ne...r/DSC00295.JPG


The little engine that could. I can't believe this motor in this car KILLED my friend who had the same exact car with an LS motor. I was even running the STD trans so I was even at a disadvantage.

http://www.draglab.com/hmt/Whitey/Ne...r/DSC00292.JPG


cleaned up and in the car

http://www.draglab.com/hmt/Whitey/Ne...r/DSC00290.JPG


Well it didn't last too long until I knew it needed boost. Nitrous was just too expensive so the clusterfuck of a cheap attempt at some high boost ::) https://www.homemadeturbo.com/forum/...d=9421;start=0

[img height=480 width=640]http://www.draglab.com/hmt/Whitey/TT%20civic%20kit/TTpic5.jpg[/img]


Well that lasted for a while till it came time to stop ------- around and spend some money on a real turbo. https://www.homemadeturbo.com/forum/...threadid=26458


http://www.draglab.com/hmt/Whitey/Ne...r/DSC00302.JPG


So this is where its at today. From complete nothing to turning into something. I think its cool how the car just keeps getting better and better. Hopefully this season I can start taking it to the track and actually get some decent numbers. Right now I'm finishing up the turbo kit and building traction bars. I'm going to try a limit strap type of suspension cause that seems pretty cheap and gets some good results. B-series may be more powerful but I'm building this car to go fast, not just paint curves on a dyno. 11 second stock block hopefully by this summer.


http://www.draglab.com/hmt/Whitey/Ne...r/DSC00288.JPG

http://www.draglab.com/hmt/Whitey/Ne...r/DSC00299.JPG


Anyone else had this same type experience?

SkunT 12-21-2004 08:36 AM

Re:Evolution of my Civic
 
so the new turbo set-up is done?

thats soo purty to see the evolution. :'(

stillnoturbo 12-21-2004 08:42 AM

Re:Evolution of my Civic
 
Damn thats a pretty nice change from how it first was to how it is now. Man I love pick and pulls also! I like the new mani but how are you gonna do the charge piping with the snail sitting like that? Either way it'll still be dope whatever you do! Congrads on bringing that thing back from the dead. 8)

d16forlife 12-21-2004 08:43 AM

Re:Evolution of my Civic
 
Looks good.I was contemplating picking up a car that beat up.I got a head ache just looking at how you got the car :-\.So Ill just stick to picking one up that doesnt look like that ;.Good job on puting it all back togetherhttp://www.sportcompactracing.com/vb...s/thumbsup.gif

Ravage70 12-21-2004 08:45 AM

Re:Evolution of my Civic
 
11 seconds on s tock block?

thats not very realistic

stillnoturbo 12-21-2004 09:09 AM

Re:Evolution of my Civic
 
Twin turbo's on a sohc didn't seem realistic but Whitey pulled that ---- off quite nicely.

necro 12-21-2004 09:24 AM

Re:Evolution of my Civic
 
Good job fixing the car up. I wanted to go Harry's also but never get a chance to get around to it.

dragon 12-21-2004 11:54 AM

Re:Evolution of my Civic
 

Originally Posted by stillnoturbo
Twin turbo's on a sohc didn't seem realistic but Whitey pulled that ---- off quite nicely.


Spenser 12-21-2004 11:59 AM

Re:Evolution of my Civic
 
you've turboed one POS and you are that much a of a cocky know it all? ;D

slowpoke 12-21-2004 12:12 PM

Re:Evolution of my Civic
 
nice turn out


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