jsanders85
Toad
Hello everybody I figured I would post up an introduction as my first post. Last week I purchased my 1993 Honda Civic Del Sol S. It was for the lack of a better term a bit riced out with 17" Motegi wheels, 5% window tint, a giant painted on Honda H on the hood and passenger fender, Honda Racing stickers, and a huge 5" canister muffler welded onto the stock exhaust. The car was pretty rough as well with a blown radiator, and very, very, very dirty inside and out with a busted wind shield.
But a week and $800 later the car is sitting pretty right now. I still have a few things to fix here and there but over all the car is really starting to look good. I replaced the wind shield, put on an OEM style exhaust system, Silla all aluminum radiator, 14x6.5 BBS basket weave wheels, removed the window tint, removed all the stickers, full tune-up with some new gaskets, and pulled all the interior for deep cleaning (found about $8 in lose change).
The car is running much better but is using oil the old d15b7 has over 220k miles on it, but has good compression still. So I know it is the head using oil, and instead of rebuilding it, a good friend of mine is selling me his z6 top end minus a p28, injectors, and a VTEC solenoid for dirt cheap. After I get a hold of everything needed I will do a mini-me swap on this car and have fun with that. And since the PO replaced the transmission with an s20 B000 transmission that shifts like butter. I'll lower it on some Function and Form full bodies and go from there.
So as you can see I've been a busy boy with this car in the last week. It's made me mad a few times already but that is the name of the game when you purchase an abused car. My over all reason for joining this site is not for the knowledge aspect or to really learn anything. I joined this site because it seems to have a fun chilled environment like a car club. There are a lot of Honda tuners in my area and we all hang out when we can. But I'm a forum lurker and love to read and give my input or just BS with other tuners across the world. I might go as far as posting a build thread on my Sol but it will be a slow moving project, but a project none the less! Here are a few pictures of how it is currently sitting, hope you all enjoy and thanks for reading!
But a week and $800 later the car is sitting pretty right now. I still have a few things to fix here and there but over all the car is really starting to look good. I replaced the wind shield, put on an OEM style exhaust system, Silla all aluminum radiator, 14x6.5 BBS basket weave wheels, removed the window tint, removed all the stickers, full tune-up with some new gaskets, and pulled all the interior for deep cleaning (found about $8 in lose change).
The car is running much better but is using oil the old d15b7 has over 220k miles on it, but has good compression still. So I know it is the head using oil, and instead of rebuilding it, a good friend of mine is selling me his z6 top end minus a p28, injectors, and a VTEC solenoid for dirt cheap. After I get a hold of everything needed I will do a mini-me swap on this car and have fun with that. And since the PO replaced the transmission with an s20 B000 transmission that shifts like butter. I'll lower it on some Function and Form full bodies and go from there.
So as you can see I've been a busy boy with this car in the last week. It's made me mad a few times already but that is the name of the game when you purchase an abused car. My over all reason for joining this site is not for the knowledge aspect or to really learn anything. I joined this site because it seems to have a fun chilled environment like a car club. There are a lot of Honda tuners in my area and we all hang out when we can. But I'm a forum lurker and love to read and give my input or just BS with other tuners across the world. I might go as far as posting a build thread on my Sol but it will be a slow moving project, but a project none the less! Here are a few pictures of how it is currently sitting, hope you all enjoy and thanks for reading!
