High School, Low Civic

[Piolk]

Looks good bro, I love dumped civic hatches. Keep up the good work!

[Thee_blackmann]

You just took out the lock rings and it dropped that much?! Holysh*t . Nd did you notch the frame yet for the axle and tie rods? It need to do mine, but i wanna see how you do it first.

[Dremetos]

Yeah I pulled one lock ring and it dropped a quarter inch, leveling it out. I haven't done any axle or tie rod notching, but they have notched themselves. My CV joints are like twerking upside down at this point, so I'm sure my axles won't last forever. I really want to do some drop forks but we'll see. Car barely rides, lol. 1/4" of suspension travel and the UCAs are constantly poking through the holes so the strut tower notch is necessary for this low afaik.

Appreciate the kind words, should have updates when parts arrive.

[CollinYO]

sick hatch beats my highschool build

[Dremetos]

update: no updates.... catback didn't come today, assuming it will be here monday
strut tower caps are really MIA not sure what's up there, no shipping # etc but i guess they're coming?
battle pan being picked up mon.

i drove to a place that makes me look low as fuk for some reason.



there was water there

[theseeker411]

Looks great man, keep it up!

[Dremetos]

Thanks man.

New invoice saying my exhaust will be here Monday which is cool. Should have updates of that in coming time.

[double_oh_9]

looks even better on the new wheels!

[Dremetos]

Bad news to report.... The hatch is going bye bye in the coming month or so

This happened.



Found a 1999 Honda Civic Si (EM1 for those Honda literate) that was in a minor front end collision with no damage other than a broken spot weld on the up-most section of the radiator support near the passengers headlight that came with a BUNCH of mods that I could sell to re-coop money I don't care for, 92,000 miles, and CLEAN TITLE. After crunching numbers, I'm going to let the Hatch go, sell all the modifications that came with this car, and have it on the road with the JNC's, FNF's, and some other goodies I'm keeping for the fine tune of about 500$.

I'm not even going to make another thread, I'm still in High School and it's still going to be a low(ered) Civic. I'm not going as low with this one, I want to drive it like it should be driven! I'm thinking no wheel gap on the JNC's and just enough camber to make the wheels fit.

Things the EM1 needs..
Front bumper - Acquired one from a friend, OK shape, works for now.

Drivers side door - It would pass inspection but it is TURNT.

Headlights - Came with a brand new matching set, regular clear ones.

Front grille - Came with a fake carbon fiber one that will do the job.

Some love - Trim pieces, some small interior crap, some not-to-my-standard fog light and sub wiring cleaned up and removed.

And the banger..... - Paint. (I'm going to have just the front end sprayed and maybe get the rest of the car done around this time next yr.

I've already fallen for this car, and I can't wait to have it on the road for the start of senior year! I've been dying for a project car.



Here she sits with the front clip pulled aside from the front bumper just set on there.

[SnazzyQ]

Damn, Sucks to see the hatch go..

But on to bigger and beter things with that EM1 right?

[stbk]

This kinda made me want a civic. so i bought one. clean car with only 70.000km on the speedo. a 97.

got coilovers already. and got me some bmw bottle caps I'm converting to 3 piece!

Let me know if you want the picture gone, but here is the beauty.

just got home with it, so there is a shit load of flies and bugs on it :P haha

[Lunik]

Good luck with the rebuild, you should be fine after the frontend is changed.

[Randomofodication]

Hatch is the better body style but I can see why you would want to switch it up. Will be watching what you do with this one! Lol'd pretty hard at "door is turnt". Are you planning on keeping this one red as well?

[Dremetos]

Yes, it will stay Milano red.

Thus far with the EM I have..

Removed dodgy subwoofer wiring (twist and bolt into the + battery terminal, so OEM..)

Removed dodgy foglight wiring (don't care for fogs really.)

Got HIDs to work properly.

Got a new battery for it.

Determined the drivers front sway bay links are shot - in the hodgepodge of parts the kid gave me, sure enough are four brand new sway bar links for the entire car front and rear. I'm not used to sway bars, as my DX's have never had them.

Pulled more of the front clip off, bend the radiator support top plate back into shape and got the hood to properly latch and open.

Hit VTEC at 6am around my neighborhood with no front clip on it.

Determined I need to re-wire my radiator fan (twist and tape before one of the connectors on the radiator side... boh yah...!) Probably going to run a switch into the cabin as I know these things are tricky. Might just use the fog light switch ah?

Found out the car steams a little from the AC pulleys when the AC is on?????

More to come with pictures soon enough.

[Dremetos]

Just a little update I guess. I've been putting in work on the EM1 and ignoring many things in life to make that happen; this thread being one of those things, lol.

Car should be driveable by the end of the week, then I'm starting on paint. Then it's prepping the hatch for sale unfortunately