Matt's Old School Honda Thread - Bare Metal EB - 12/4/12

[SiRedge]

Great to see EBs getting the love. And second Chaos' post!

[lotusboy]

Cheers guys

More wheels

From this

To this

Having the centres painted tomorrow

[R8edM]

Shit they are beautiful.

[Ped Rac3r]

Are you able to move the center to sit on the inside of the inner lip, to change offset? Go with zinc plated cap screws rather than stainless too, still get the corrosion protection you want just at 3/4 the price.

[SiRedge]

Hey Matt,

This isn't the same black interior as you're talking about, is it?

Honda Civic EB1 1977 | Trade Me

Was going to PM this to you, but your inbox is full, as always. You need to have a clear out!

[lotusboy]

Are you able to move the center to sit on the inside of the inner lip, to change offset? Go with zinc plated cap screws rather than stainless too, still get the corrosion protection you want just at 3/4 the price.

Depends on the design on the centre. Cheers for the heads up on the screws, need to find some, also in black anyone got hook ups? Don't fancy paying few dollars per bolt x80

Hey Matt,This isn't the same black interior as you're talking about, is it?Honda Civic EB1 1977 | Trade MeWas going to PM this to you, but your inbox is full, as always. You need to have a clear out!

Yep thats a Japanese interior. Thats a Jap import Eb1 as far as I can tell, not sure why its registered as a '77 - maybe the year it came in, and was still new at the timeBit of progress on the EBReco'd radiator, plus had the fan frame powered coated and fan blades steam cleanedAs it sits now. Inner guard tops have been taken back to bare metal and treated. Next is the firewall seam, and some spots in the engine bayAlso painted the wheels for the city. Quite pleased with the result, my first time painting with gun and a proper booth.

[Brent]

Wheels look awesome, nice work

[NicoBZH]

Good work on those lil' hondas! Go on like that

[lotusboy]

Shit photo is shit, but managed to get the city a fair bit lower. A 50+ mm drop in the front, and heaps in the rear.

Yay for Honda lego! Didn't spent a cent, just used other stuff I had spare

better pics to come

[WingIt]

That.Is.Awesome.

There should be more of these about

[phats2000]

damm that looks f*cking cool! I'd love to own that now!! hahaha .. .. wanna spill the beans on the suspension setup?

[pretenda]

That City looks very aggressive. Nice

[666DAN]

City is looking tough

[lotusboy]

Didn't get a chance to play cars much this week, too busy, but

Did get the centres back, the powder coating is top notch, made the heavily corroded centre come up well

Got a bit more work done in the engine bay, rad support stripped back and coated, also the firewall seem.

In other news, paintless dent removal guy came earlier in the week and removed as many dents as he could. The spare tyre well has had the damaged paint removed, ready for rust proofing

[efsi]

city looks savage man good work

[magello]

Saw the City near Pakuranga i think it was, looks awesome bro

[Green Machine]

How well do those paintless dent removal guys work? What sort of price do they charge out of interest?

[lotusboy]

^ Paintless dent removal is top notch IMO. Really worth while as an alternative to bogging dents, so much better to get the dent removed before panel beating. Having said this, most panel beaters are probably capable of remove 80% of the type of dents the paintless removal guys do, but I'd estimate only 20% of them actually bother too, most would just slap some bog in there rather than take the effort to do it properly.

Putting the Orange EB on the back burners for the moment, to make way for another project..... (Owned by another forum user)

Operation Mugen re-allocation

10:30am this morning, car looked like this


Followed by




Bloody rivets! Laziness


Genuine Mugenz

End of the day


The idea here is to take the Mugen body kit from car A. And fit to car B. Car B is running a B16a, and is certed, road worthy etc, where as A has a non-running motor and some rust.

Next stop, the panel beaters, for kit to be refitted, and car to be repainted

[evlone]

car b's rear wheels are cool and suit the car very well, does he have the matching set for the front?

[CRZYSi]

^ always see the white mugen one on way home ... ima fan of old school hondas .. nice job man

[lotusboy]

Bit more progress on the white CR-X

Rear guard removal



Left rear 1/4



Minus the widebody kit


Front guards on, side skirts on


Nosecone/bumper primed, and fitted

Unfortunately the black cars body has had a bit of a hard life as a rally car, so a bit of persuasion has been required to get the kit sitting right


And in other news

More wheels


Stripped the powder coating of the enkei cross fever wheels, all going well, I'll have them painted tomorrow

[REZRCT]

Enkeis

[ryanfels]

oh man, i liked the old colour of the enkeis

[Klasse]

Have some Mugen wheels to go with the kit? CF48s would be mint!

[P Wizz]

Or NR-10s.... kekekekekeke