Lets see your Civic coupes! 56k stay away

[AcousticAudio]

I'll start off with my introduction and my car. My name is Scott, I live in Edmonton, Alberta and I just started my second month of my 1st year as an Automotive technician at a local Honda dealership.

My car is a 1995 Civic Si, which I purchased in November of 2007 and began modding in March of 2008. This was my first car, in fact when I began modding it I still only had my learners license haha. Anyways heres some of the interesting stuff:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZqSwmHb6pYU
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N5kdimvIG1o

These two videos are just a quick summary of the hundreds of photos I've taken of my project.

I'll try to list some of the basics that I've done.
Repainted in STI blue (World rally blue pearl)
Molded Si front lip
Work RS-Beta wheels, 15x6.5 +42mm offset
BFG G force sport tires, 205/50
GSR rear disc conversion
15/16ths brake master cylinder
4040 prop valve
Slotted/drilled rotors all around
Stainless brake lines
Stainless clutch line
Stainless fuel line
Stainless turbo feed/drain line
4th gen prelude cloth seats
320mm steering wheel
Skunk2 shift knob
Hasport shift linkage
Engine is B18b1 bottom end
B16a2 head
Golden eagle vtec conversion kit
Blox intake manifold (hand polished)
Benen industries fuel rail
DSM 450cc injectors (old setup)
RC 550cc injectors (new setup)
DRAG log manifold
Turbonetics t3/t4 turbo 0.48 a/r
T1r test pipe
2.5" Stainless exhaust leading to massive 4" cannon
Eagle rods waiting to go in, waiting for pistons
ITR 22t water pump
Fidanza 7.8lb aluminum flywheel
Stage 3 clutch
Skunk2 pro S coilovers
GSR 14mm rear swaybar
GSR 24mm front swaybar
unknown brand strut tower bars front and rear
Megan rear lower tie bar
Skunk2 rear lca's
Moroso oil pan with extra capacity and flowlocks
Spoon carbon kevlar plug cover
Spoon oil cap
Blox extended wheel studs
Blox open ended lug nuts
Turbo XS manual boost controller
MSD 8.5mm plug wires
NGK BKR7E spark plugs
Domokun

Errm thats all I can think of for the moment. So if you drive a civic coupe lets see it biatch.

[pharmed]

Nice Frankenstein build. I'm surprised at how clean the motor parts looked in the pictures!

[Lowered_Klass]

Painting the valve cover to match the wheels was a nice touch.

Was it a huge pain in the ass to do the rear brake conversion? I'm thinking I might get on that, I've put it off long enough, lol.

Nice civic

[Hheidi]

nice mods =) very nice

[BoS_DC2]

very clean work!

[AcousticAudio]

Thanks for all the comments guys, its much appreciated!

Spoon_Fed, the brake conversion is actually very straightforward. If you can get yourself the entire rear trailing arm assembly from any 94-01 integra or 92-00 civic, its literally a direct replacement. Just unbolt the old trailing arm, bolt in the new one.

Once that is done, you'll need to acquire the brake hoses to go from your OEM hardlines in each wheel well to the caliper (the end of the hose is different between a drum brake and the disc brake). This is a good opportunity to replace all your brake hoses with stainless steel braid ones.

You'll also need the appropriate e-brake cables, for an EG civic these would be from a 99-00 Si/SiR.

After that you need a 40/40 brake proportioning valve (located on your firewall amongst the mess of hardlines, its the "heart" if you will) from a 90-93 integra that has rear discs. This is a definite must for the conversion, if you run the stock brake prop valve, the rear brakes get too much pressure and they will overheat and seize (dangerous!).
NOTE: There are 2 types of 40.40 prop valve, one is the "H" type which is going to be the direct replacement, the other valve type is a bit different and requires re-bending and re-flaring your hardlines-- a big mess, save yourself the trouble and get the "H" type valve.

And lastly, this is not a NECESSARY component for the conversion but it does make the brakes much more responsive and powerful, is to replace the OEM 7/8ths brake master cylinder with a slightly larger 15/16ths master cylinder. The direct bolt on replacement can be found in a '89-'91 Civic 4dr with discs.

A small update on my build, I finally ordered up some SRP 81.5mm bore 9.0:1 compression pistons yesterday. So the block should be getting sent for honing/boring as soon as they get here, and then I can re-assemble the block and head. The trans is waiting for an LSD before it all goes back into the car.

[Mashimaro]

Old pic of my coupe before i turned it back to stock and sold it



it was the ultimate sleeper though before i pulled the motor out and put a stock one back in:

[AcousticAudio]

TE's.. nice.. C5 powered? Looks like it should be, since it's rocking the Milano red and ITR recaros.. :P

[Mashimaro]

Originally Posted by AcousticAudio

TE's.. nice.. C5 powered? Looks like it should be, since it's rocking the Milano red and ITR recaros.. :P

yup, JDM ITR motor. added pics of the 'after' look.

[AcousticAudio]

Ha I knew it. No man with a Milano red honda and ITR recaros would put anything but a C5 in haha. You don't still have those seats do you?

[Mashimaro]

Originally Posted by AcousticAudio

Ha I knew it. No man with a Milano red honda and ITR recaros would put anything but a C5 in haha. You don't still have those seats do you?

haha, i did have a JDM GSR in there prior to that motor though. and yes, i still have those seats...currently in my EG hatch now

[AcousticAudio]

Lol damn, I've been hunting for some black ITR recaros.. the red ones are so whored out now. Sick shit though man, it's always good to see there are other people that can treat a Honda right.

[Mashimaro]

Originally Posted by AcousticAudio

Lol damn, I've been hunting for some black ITR recaros.. the red ones are so whored out now. Sick shit though man, it's always good to see there are other people that can treat a Honda right.

haha, thanks dood! my hatch happens to be Milano red as well, but with even better parts now...here's teaser shot:

[AcousticAudio]

Ohhh snap I spy Spoon Twinblocks! CASH MONEY haha!

[cohan]

Just did swap si2009 interior into my em1' look nice,,

[cdizzle_996]

5 year thread bump...impressive

[fT-z33wor]

I'll play, photos from 2005
let the record state those are sw388's, not rotas