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?

Re:Evolution of my Civic
 

so the new turbo set-up is done?

thats soo purty to see the evolution. :'(

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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)

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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

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11 seconds on s tock block?

thats not very realistic

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

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Good job fixing the car up. I wanted to go Harry's also but never get a chance to get around to it.

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you've turboed one POS and you are that much a of a cocky know it all? ;D

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nice turn out

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twin turbo with DP laughing gas. ;)
all homemade ;D

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Just make sure the traction bar write up is done soon. :P

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should look real good when its all finished. good luck with it

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that's cause he's famous 8) (twin turbo D)

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Its very realistic, I might kill a couple D's trying to get it right, but I'll get there, you just wait ;)




I had a 12 second turbo GSR 4 years before I had this Civic. ;) I can't even count how many turbos I've done on other people's cars



I worked on it till 7:30 in the morning. I was hoping before Christmas, but it all depends on the UPS guy now.

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nice story, these are the stories that should be told to kindergartans huddled around the purple monkey in a frog suit.

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from nothing to something. question: is that carpet just taken from another car OR is it one of those aftermarket type deals?

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That went from ---- to pretty clean.....nice job

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Props on saving the life of that poor civic. Good luck with the car.

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awww i see no pics...... ??? :-\ :'( i wanna see it!

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Way to bring back a 2 year old post retard.

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pics no worky for me.

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should have been here 2 years ago

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Wow never thought people actually went back so far to check old threads. I'm impressed :S :S :S :1

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Here's some pics of the car that were in this thread: https://www.homemadeturbo.com/forum/...?topic=46759.0

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pics dont work anymore.

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Those pics were on the old draglab server go to the link I just posted

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Where did you get those sweet red/black checkered mats? I checked eBay and couldn't find them ???