My 1995 Civic Sedan project

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My 1995 Civic Sedan project

By EconoBox
- Mon Apr 18, 2022 3:59 pm #6909168 Well...

I missed owning an EG too much. I couldn't stay away. While I really enjoyed driving my 10th gen SI sedan the used car market is wild right now and I managed to sell my brand new car for a nice profit. And I went and scooped up this daily/project car.

I also had my first child in November so removing the car payment worked out great :lol:

Photos from the Facebook Marketplace listing:
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The only "issue" the owner claimed the car had was a small coolant leak that he was unable to diagnose and occasional issues with the car starting.

So I went to take a look.
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Re: My 1995 Civic Sedan project

By EconoBox
- Mon Apr 18, 2022 6:02 pm #6909169 Of course it needed waaaaaay more, and right before I got there to look at the car he backed his boat trailer into the drivers fender and mirror. So I ended up getting the car for a few hundred less than we had talked about after looking everything over.

Dirty main ground on the thermostat housing.
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Little rust spot on the passenger side roof. Starting to form some on the driver's side as well. Going to address this very soon. Need a glass guy to come pull the back window and a few hours with a TIG welder and a grinder I should be able to get it good as new.
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Was hard to get a photo so I got a screen shot from a video I took. The water pump was dumping all the water out within minutes of filling the radiator up.
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Found some change!
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quality exhaust work
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All of the suspension and brakes were shot as well.
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Also has awful purple and peeling window tint, awful speakers... etc. Typical 25 year old car problems.
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Re: My 1995 Civic Sedan project

By EconoBox
- Mon Apr 18, 2022 6:12 pm #6909170 First things first... Lets replace that leaking water pump and might as well do a new timing belt, tensioner, and some fresh Honda genuine coolant and some new spark plugs and wires, car feels sluggish up to 4,000 rpms then wakes up.
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and...
of course there had to be more issues than the leak... Head gasket was shot as well. Was not mixing coolant and oil but combustion gasses were leaking into the coolant and bubbling at the radiator. Found this issue while I was bleeding the system from the water pump repair.

So OFF with the head.
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Also found I needed a new cap and rotor while taking everything apart
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Re: My 1995 Civic Sedan project

By EconoBox
- Mon Apr 18, 2022 6:18 pm #6909171 Head back fresh from the machine shop.
Installed genuine Honda valve stem seals, cleaned and decked the head, and performed a standard valve job.
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I spent hours scrubbing the intake in my parts wash.
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Cleaned the block the best I could as well it was filthy.
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I know it may not seem like it but this is the easiest way to reinstall a cylinder head and the way Honda advises to do it in the shop manual. To fully pre-assemble everything before putting it on.
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A quick valve adjustment and then installing the valve cover with a fresh coat of wrinkle black VHT.
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Re: My 1995 Civic Sedan project

By EconoBox
- Mon Apr 18, 2022 7:47 pm #6909172 Up next a little suspension upgrade.

This is my daily and from previous experience a great budget product for street use has been these TruHart coilovers. For the price you can't really go wrong. And they have replacement shocks available for around $70 each. I may upgrade down the line but these have been great for daily driving. Also installed TruHart camber kits front and rear.
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The loose and worn out shift linkage joint. This makes the shifter feel very sloppy. So I replaced it with bronze bushings. I was able to find some hardware at my local ACE hardware that was an almost perfect fit. Took a little massaging with my press.
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I also installed a nice set of speakers, a small 10" subwoofer, and a nice 4 channel amplifier for all the component speakers. Makes a nice difference on a daily driver.
And I've had these OEM Civic accessory tweeters for the sedan sitting brand new in the box for probably going on 10 years and finally decided I'd use them. I didn't want to use the 25 year old speakers in them so I installed my Alpine component tweeters in them and they fit perfect.
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original Honda template
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Re: My 1995 Civic Sedan project

By EconoBox
- Thu May 05, 2022 2:36 pm #6909176 Got some new wheels
16" RPF1s
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Still need to roll the fenders so I can take out some of the camber but I love them. Picked up a new fender roller off of amazon. And some new lug nuts.
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And some aluminum hub centric rings
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Re: My 1995 Civic Sedan project

By EconoBox
- Thu May 05, 2022 2:44 pm #6909177 Well this next upgrade is kind of an ad for myself but it was much needed.

I removed all the original ground wires that were corroded and old and cleaned all of the ground locations. And installed one of my EG/DC ground kits.

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Re: My 1995 Civic Sedan project

By EconoBox
- Tue Nov 26, 2024 4:36 am #6909298 It's been a little bit since I've posted here.

Life and work have been crazy. I parted ways with my TSX chassis and have migrated everything into this car. Haven't had a lot of time lately to work on fabrication or to button up the wiring but the engine and turbo are installed in the car and a lot of the hard part is done. I just have an absolutely ridiculous amount of red horse AN PTFE hoses to assemble and have to finish up all the wiring for the Haltech.

And yes... that is a drive by wire throttle in an EG :oops:

Here is where the engine bay is at...
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I'll try to post some more updates with the build soon. Right now the entire rear of the car is cut out working on installing tubs to fit 18s at a JTCC inspired ride height with lots of functional suspension upgrades to make it work well from PCI and Honed Developments. Engine will have to come back out once the piping is fabricated so the front can be tubbed and modified as well.

I know we aren't really suppose to advertise but check out my website if you want some apparel inspired by classic Hondas. Don't yell at me for sneaking this in :cheers:
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Re: My 1995 Civic Sedan project

By EconoBox
- Tue Dec 17, 2024 4:37 am #6909304 Thanks Teal,

I need to work on the car some more but my job has me traveling non stop and I haven't been able to do as much as I would like to it lately.

Currently ordering the last of the fittings and PTFE AN hose for the fuel system and I'm almost done with the engine harness for the Haltech Elite 2500. And if you noticed it in the photo I have converted the EG to drive by wire using a 10th gen civic Si pedal, Grams throttle body and the Haltech. I'm really looking forward to the first start up and seeing how the drive by wire responds.
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Re: My 1995 Civic Sedan project

By teal_dx
- Wed Dec 18, 2024 6:48 pm #6909305 I saw that and was going to look it up, but haven't had a chance. I've been out of the game for so long now, I didn't even know that drive-by-wire was even an option. I think I remember people had to use a throttle body adapter back in the day, right?
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Re: My 1995 Civic Sedan project

By EconoBox
- Tue Dec 24, 2024 2:13 am #6909307 Yea a lot of the k swaps use adapters to fit the throttle bodies on the manifolds or even to run B series ones. The native throttle on the RBC intake is drive by wire so this is direct fit to the manifold but I designed a bracket to bolt the 10th gen SI pedal in to the EG. I have a friend cutting it on his water jet for me and i have to weld it up and have it powder coated once I make sure it fits how I want.
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