Hayce molests a civic - Two pics of the recovery

[Hayce]

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1. Colour examples
2. Stripped pics
3. 1st test panel, average.
4. 2nd test panel, pooos!
5. 3rd test panel, two options both nice = finally success!!
6. Shell rubbed back, some primer
7. in the booth for what turns out to be the 1st time.
8. Painted shell out of the booth
9. Painted shell in the sun for the 1st time. Raw welds in the engine bay.
10. Dummy run on brake lines. Tools required to make your brake lines.
11. AN fittings for fuel system explained
12. Pics of how to use the AN tube nuts to convert hard line to braided. New passwordJDM 3pt front bar. 1st set of Innovative mounts
13. Fuel lines flared, AN fittings attached. Bead blasted master cylinder.
14. 1st bit of engine bay smoothing. Painted & assembled rear end.
15. I strip down the motor
16. More engine strip down pics
17. Engine bay smoothed and primered
18. Painted engine bay pics
19. DEFI controller, 2nd set of Innovative mounts, bead blasted clutch cylinder
20. Replaced the interior cabin loom
21. PS loop, wiper, front clip wiring and slammed pics
22. Engine harness mock up
23. Dropped X member & front suspension
24. 2nd set of suspension: Buddyclub N+. Finished engine loom.
25. Full pics of engine loom, new bushes, new shiftsport guards, TITTIES on the VC and the car is back in the booth for a 3rd time
26. Car back from painters for the final time. Still in need of wet sand. Install N+ suspension = weak.
27. Few pics of the car low as hell and in the sun
28. Lancer gets broken into lol
29. I start to clean all the friggin over spray off everything
30. BLOX LCA's, rear camber arms, supertech valves & valve springs
31. Fitted bead blasted cylinders, dash mounted triple gauge holder
32. Overview of the 8 - 9 month paint saga. To this day (03/06/08) I have never seen the painter again
33. "Rebuilt" heater box, new SS radiator, painted X member & front suspension arms, new oem wheel bearings, new Buddyclub lug nuts, supertech TI retianers
34. Front end reassembled, red petrol flap wtf?!?!
35. My mean lego truck haha
36. Braided clutch line, 1st view of hole drilled for loom, tried on some new shoes
37. Skunk2 cap, buddyclub cam gears & FD2 CTR seats
38. FD2 CTR rear seats & mystery oem part
39. Stripped and cleaned head
40. Note for me: dropped shell off 19/10/08
41. Completed brake lines
42. Head semi assembled
43. JE's & eagle finally arrive
44. New DEFI's arrive & the beater gets a dyno hah
45. Peakboost manifold arrives as does new oem carpet
46. Mock up of random turbo, head and peakboost
47. Painted gearbox mocked up head with mani's and fuel gear
48. Painted some interior panels with vinyl spray, eh.
49. Painted block, head & alt. Pic of the bored out bores
50. Dash replaced, cleaned and painted in black vinyl paint, eh.
51. Balanced engine parts, assembled bottom end.
52. 1st pic of our fetus
53. Distributor wiring done, front clip wiring done (well redone)
54. More pics of custom brake lines, misc engine pics
55. 3rd set of suspension Skunk2 Pro c's, TiAL 50mm bov, TiAL 44mm gate, password rear brace, GT3076R turbo.
56. Shit pics of fitted suspension
57. Random pics of misc parts being cleaned EG door cards. DEFI's mocked up, skunk2 knob
58. Its not a fetus, its a GIRL
59. Energy shifter bush install
60. NRG wheel setup, clutch arrives, new oem dash center etc and Js racing CF bonnet (cracked)
61. Flocked dash - crap pics
62. Backup motor
63. Replacement Js CF hood - fail boat AGAIN!
64. Backup motor -teardown - fail boat motor lol
65. ENGINES IN!
66. Backup motor - paint strip, fabrication pics (IC piping, seats, DP in etc)
67. Seats/dash/carpet in. Painted starter.
68. NRG in, shitty lowered pics, password banner lol.
69. AN coolant pics, couple oem bolts, vac lines.
70. Roof boobs lol, uca oem bolts.
71. Introducing Ruby Charlotte Haysom. Nology leads.
72. Boobs on the roof part II
73. List of AN fittings
74. WILWOOD brakes, oil feed fitting, VC part II.
75. Fuel tank out and cleaned
76. Injectors/Alloy tanks/Exhaust
77. Breathers and some coolant AN plumbed
78. WILWOODS THAT FIT! S2K clutch cylinder
79. Testing some Miesters & Gram lights
80. AVC-R Arrives
81. IT LIVES!! - Video.
82. First Dyno Video.
83. Featured in PCar.
84. Taken out at intersection.

Yep seems its time I too make a "build thread" of what Ive been doing to my ek sedan.

Apparently a few people are interested as a number of chaps have been asking what Ive been doing to my piece-o-junk, some even think its a big secret Unfortunately I'm not that much of a douche bag to think that highly of it/me .

Truth be told, I'm part lazy and part short attention spanned... This is actually about the 4th time of done this but I kept getting bored and going out to the garage instead or to wongs pad to get some more scares FFS!

Right-o the car was pretty much finished as I bought it a couple years ago from Nate (nate_dogg). By finished I mean Nate had gone through the trouble of the motor/turbo/box swap & the previous previous owner, the late Ants Little (RIP, never met him but I hear he was tops :thumbsup: ) had the 98 spec brakes fitted at beyond.

Even though the main reason I bought the car was because it was done and didn't really need anymore $$ wasted on it...I changed a few things. Namely wheels, suspension, seats, wiring, pcv, fuel lines, steering wheels, mp3 etc etc. but it still didn't quite feel like mine ya dig?

So a few pics then.

HISTORY
This is the oldest pic I have of the car. The owner at this time was a buddy of mine, Dave. Some of the old dogs will remember him as "Cement".



The night I picked it up from Nate:


Always liked that pic... think its the wheels.


yep those are al-tit-za's, only the corners though


Inside


motah 1


motah 2

So - fresh from a tune with the green tell-tale marks from TP the car put out:

169.8wkw with about 520nm of tq on 9.3psi.
The car then backed that up ~4 months later with 171wkw. This was also at TP during a nzh dyno day. The day was colder and the car was running slightly more boost because of it.

Drove it around for a while with a big filthy grin like this ->

The details are a little hazy of what changed first and im already burning out from typing so heres what I ended up with when I changed a few things:

MY CHANGES

New wheels + new drop



De-loomed + ps looped + braided bizzo etc






Inside new wheel + knob + mounted controller + mp3



Right so thats the car pretty much till I pulled it to pieces.
Dinner time Ill chuck some more info/pics up of the cars actual build in a bit.



Why the car came off the road:


My first 1/4 run at meremere. Was at the Jtune drags for Anthony little memorial. I nearly hit 100kph yeehaw!
The stock clutch had met its matched and died.

and this:


Honda's can do skids Well technically the chassis rubbed and excessive camber started the skid just ripped it out.


So with the box out the engine was looking lonely so it went for a ride too.

Taking the alu can out:

On the pit side for the bitch pin and underneath bits



haha droop, what droop?



Swap sides, getting closer.
Do we have to... yeah we have to...
Big thanks to the lads here Andrew on the right, Damion on the left :thumbsup:



umm thats how we do it all day everyday




tada



Gearbox split and cleaned



Motor cleaned, took fuckin ages! I had a missing stud on the manifold and it spat shit on the block.



more



more



The dvm goodness has held up mint. Dave as put the flywheels on hold (probably indefinetly but I cant speak for him)


Welding the bay

I browsed HT way too much and thought heh the engine bay dont look too bad already maybe Ill fill the holes and be like those dudes....
This was a big undertaking, way more than I had anticipated, looking back I dont know if it do it again was such a big job.
A big, huge, massive chur boy goes out to my brother-in-law (well close enough) Phil for welding the bay for me. He drove over a number of times from tga on the weekends to do it.
I would have loved to of done it myself but Ive got 0 experiance behind a welder and it didnt seem like the best job to "cut my teeth" on.
That said I did the grinding and he finished it off by linishing them flat.
I had about 4-5HRS just in grinding, dirty job The disk ended up about 1.5 inchs round lol

So pics then:

You can see all the existing holes in the various pics of the bay.




So we started with the rad panel. The thought was if this turns to shit no problem well drill it out and replace the rad panel with a facelift one and scrap the whole engine bay filling holes idea, that shit rice anyway right !



One down, 44,000 to go, sweet baby jesus.



Right bloody rip in to it mate








Ok test time, Anyone spot the fuck ups here? Still not sorted but will do it soon. This was all me unfortunately so I get the dick head award here.




Around this time Katherine (thats the one that tolerates me... sometimes) decided to get into the groove of it... by taking the vacuum cleaner inside. Yeah I dont have a mrs willing to work on a car for me. Shes has a part to play later on :wink:



Whats a welder to do when its break time? I know make me look like a chump on my own bike...


and he just keeps going...



big ass holes from looms a/c and more looms



tacked up
The glove came about as Phil asked:
Phil: "hey bro where ya fuel?"
me: "umm haha right there man"
Phil: 8O
me: ops: "its sweet theres only half a tank in it"
Phil: 8O 8O
me: :ph34r:


hmm have I ruined a decent car?



yeah maybe I have, oh shit haha



Oh nah sweet au cuz :thumbsup:








So the holes are all welded shut and the painter is about to start his bit this week sometime. I dont have any pics of the bay in its final state. Some of the rougher areas in the pics posted were sorted later on.


Brake lines:
Eh this wasn't fun.
I didn't like the prop valve hanging out in the middle of the firewall so I took it to Apex brake and clutch to get new lines made up... you can read that shit here

After the saga that ensued there I ended up with this:



go on get up there



Dropped off, bye.


pics of the first round can be seen in the link above.


Much tidy-er on the second shot. Im still not 100% on them yet, I may have a crack at it myself.



This one has actually still got the old lines but it shows were the prop valve ended up.
When every things painted and installed they should be pretty unnoticeable. If they don't look to flash Ill rip em out and have a go myself.



INTERIOR
Bugger all has really happened inside the car besides destruction.
The rear seat came out when I test fitted the new one as did the front seats when I put the new evo4 recaros in there.





Thanks to Wong (blazed_racer) for the new rear seat, db8r :thumbsup: . Just sitting there in these pics, fits better when properly installed.


The welding on the firewall started so the dash had to be pulled. This was actually a pain in the ass on my car as a few "extra" wires had been run through the dash frame which had to be cut so we could get it out.


Mark: This is pretty much where it was at when you asked me if I was in for the AutoSalon


Question:
What do you guys reckon I should do with the dash? Since its out I wanted to do something with it as I cant see it coming out again in a hurry. Give me some ideas.
So far Ive had trim it, carbon it, flock it (rally car styles). Im not painting it and thats that!

WIRING
I had previously attacked the cars wiring with pretty good results. That is except of course for the infamous starter motor mishap. I rewires the starter plug back to front. The shitter is it was in a pretty straight forward place. Was an easy fix, im just happy nothing went wrong in here:


Pretty old pic of the first loom. Long gone now.


I did the headlight harness ages ok but decided to redo them as I had a lot more experience now.


Passengers side


Drivers side.


Now its starts to get interestingly pear shaped
For some reason a genius Johnny mechanic had decided to use repco style plug for one of the oem plugs. So instead of the normal 14 pin plug I had an 8 pin and a 6 pin instead.




Wasn't much fun converting this back to normal especially considering the replacement plug I got was off an h22 (cheers Ian :thumbsup: ) so the colours didn't match up or anything. Anyway shes since been sorted.

Now for the fucking horrible bits.
Since the dash was out and there was no more ac I thought Id inspect the looms and just checkout what the state of everything was for peace of mind. I'm bloody glad I did cos look-y what me find:


This is the main power from the key down to the fuse block.




The black thing in there is a diode or something that never actually went anywhere... just had one end bunged into the solder.

Yeah the pics are shit but you get the idea. Theres an alarm, immobilizer and turbo timer in there.

What you cant see is that all that shit pretty much fell apart in my hands when I unwrapped the looms, yay :evil:

So I decided I'm either going to rip it all out & see if it can be salvaged or Ill just get new looms.
Not wanting to mis a challenge I got stuck in:


And heres the result. No alarm, immobilizer, turbo timer or gauges. Gauges actually weren't bad but I was on a war path and I want some new purty gauges anyway



So now the looms are au-natural. They still need to be fixed but the good news is they can be
You can see the engine loom in this pics going through the firewall. The black plastic braided stuff its wrapped in came from cableorganizer.com. Good fast shipping from these guys :thumbsup:




Then moving on to the other side I find the main relay. Peel back the tape and I see this shit. I was like what the fuck!!. This thing literally fell apart without the tape on it. I'm amazed the car drove perfectly with all this shit.
If anyone can tell me what the hell that diode is doing there Id love to here it. Ive still not fixed this yet as I'm kinda putting it off.


Heh while I was digging around I found a present the original owner left me:


I finished the motor side of the loom to. I got an auto loom (Hayden, BTLF3D cheers mate :thumbsup: ) and stripped the auto stuff out of it and rejigged it so to speak.
No pics of that yet, maybe tonight.



NEW PARTS
So Ive found that ordering new parts and opening the boxes is heaps of fun, way more than bloody wiring!
If you recall from the top the reasons for the car coming off the road were:

• Clutch
• Tyres
• brake pads
• ps loop

To date I have none of these parts... yes I am an idiot. Instead I have replaced parts that I already had and most of those were already after market, yes idiot is right.

New suspension:

D2's. I have recently bought some zeal coil overs. If anyone wants these pm. They are in need of a rebuild.




Eagle rods... no the build is not just cosmetic




New throttle body. Stock b18c on the left new edelbrock 70mm on the right.



Hey where'd it go?



Just in case you forget...

At this point I need to say another huge, big massive thanks to Bunger, our new American user. Lee sourced me the matching plugs for the Throttle body. Thanks bro appreciate you going out of your way like that for me :thumbsup:






In this shot you can see the fuel filter and associated fittings...
The filter was bought from HRP in Hamitlon and the fittings were bought from another place who I wont name cos the boss can deep throat me.

All of these parts were source from Eric @ Hybrid-performance If you want anything let me know happy to help and Eric is top notch :thumbsup:

NOTE:
Before anyone jumps on my nuts I tried to get these parts from local suppliers. The suppliers either didnt/couldnt/wouldnt get them or the price could not be matched. I went for the best deal I could get, no other reason.

[CRZYSi]

nice man , this gotta be the nicest EK seden :thumbsup:

[Might_e_mowse]

nice man , this gotta be the nicest EK seden :thumbsup:

agreed

[mung]

Unfortunatly im not that much of a douche bag to think that highly of it/me .

hahha... fuck yeah you do.... you think your god.

Truth be told, Im part lazy and part short attention spanned...

haha... roger that. your got as much A.D.D as willie mason!

nice man , this gotta be the nicest EK seden :thumbsup:

yeap.. it would be,.... if it was done for the recent show, it would of been quite competitive..!!!

[Boostin It]

yeap.. it would be,.... if it was done for the recent show, it would of been quite competitive..!!!

this shouldve been at the recent show!!

[nathan23h]

Yep top car i've always loved it :thumbsup:

[Logger]

Lances car = Sex on wheels!

[hybrid_H]

man ur cars always been hot !!


i want a turbo too now :cry:

[trend.whore]

Is Dave still around lol

[[QUIKdc2]]

Is Dave still around lol

I hope someone can answer that because Im after a flywheel

Nice car Hayce, Cant wait to see your plans for it

[mung]

]

Is Dave still around lol

I hope someone can answer that because Im after a flywheel

Nice car Hayce, Cant wait to see your plans for it

yes. Mr. Cement is still around,
\

however, i think the flywheels have been parked for the time being,....

[divz06]

its come a long way too!

love it !

i wanna see the latest pictures now

[Hayce]

hahha... fuck yeah you do.... you think your god.

Nugga please... I am god


Sorry for the delay my router took a dribbly one on me

[americ_ian]

a build thread from lance?!??!!
ur saying he got off his ass?? wow

looking good bro, just found a pic of your new TB actualy mounted and working in a working car....looks good

[David R]

A car worthy of a build thread :thumbsup:

Will be watching this one, interested to see the progress no matter how long it takes

[MarkNZ]

Always thought your car was the shit after you dropped it on those Buddy Clubs.

[BTLF3D]

Always thought your car was the shit after you dropped it on those Buddy Clubs.

lol, you mean Advans?

[Hayce]

^ haha yeah advan RG's. Got them off someone on here forget who.

Updated the first post, figure I keep it all in one, good idea no?

Thanks guys :thumbsup:

[creative]

Good to see how far its come! Looking good man 8).

Dont even ask how i have old photos too

[Bl4ckt0p]

Cant wait to see this going through its build. Love this car good luck with the build dude.

[MarkNZ]

Always thought your car was the shit after you dropped it on those Buddy Clubs.

lol, you mean Advans?

ah yeah, whoops! ops:

[Hayce]

updated with:

new parts
interior
brake lines
wiring.

[cha siu]

God damn I want a Red Civic now.

[2HEKTK]

Been looking forward to this build thread for some time now.

Best of luck with everything Lance can't wait to see it when shes all done!

[Gargz]

Get some photo taking skills! *joking*

Awesome build and looking forward to the end result!