I put he engine back in there on the driveway and got it running , on through the mot and drove it for a little while like this I'm sure it was at this point I had the whole car painted and rear arches done as I think they were stopperd before when previous owner had it to tidy them up and it had done the job for aobut 5 years , I dont recall getting just the front painted rich had blasted the chassis leg and front panel with plane white whilst it was still in the workshop so that was all good and wasnt going to rust etc... some psyco girl broke my windscreen whislt it was on the driveway (enough said about that!) so it was time to get the whole car painted along with the arches all cut out n done. rich did have some pics of this & I did too but the only 2 I can find are from just after it came back from paint. I'd got 2 outer arches for it and rich made up the inners Like he did for that red one he did the build thread for on here some years later.


Just after new arches and full respray with the screen out, I should've done the indside too tbh , but this was another £1350 ish & I'd got that front splitter from canada its a Fibre glass rep bonded it onto the bumper with windscreen bond before it went for paint , a mate was over there so I got it delivered to his hotel and he carrried it back through customs for me

I used the car with the original b16 in it like this for a while.
Around 2004-2006 I had been involved with several b18 & b20 & turbo builds that mates were doing in crx's 4g's & ek's so we had been learning the hard way about all sorts with those cars, engines in and out and mapping , trying new stuff test cheap ebay parts etc going over to see melvin & teeshan in there unit at hillfields leicester & taran from peterborough was often with them. Also me and wayne at this point took his CRX turbo over to gordon at street racers and amazed him with how much power these things made as he was pretty much focused on fords/cosworths at the time.
2007 I finally saved up some money (i had been skint etc and the car took a sideline not quite as big as the one it would take later on tho! ) took my b16 out flogged the bottom end to a local lad who had seized his B16b!!! up in a coupe :O and I began building pob's first b20 nasp hi comp.
Engine out again but this time gone for good & a massive spending on silly bits that would prove fatal.... for the engine



Integra R MC & servo went in whilst engine was out man that was fiddly! rich hired some blokes garage as no one had anywhere to do this at the time & I had sold my house was back at parents :O
It was just around this time or before car had.
2nd hand 20mm rear ARB & bushes used stock drop links at this point
The type r servo & mc.
goodridge hoses, new grooved discs all round and yellow stuff pads all round.
new exchange calipers all round.
Full energy suspension bush kit , well what you can use mostly front end stuff & gear linkage etc.
Adjustable front camber sliding top mounts the seperate sort, that are a total bitch to adjust!
ditched AVO's & bought some D2 coilovers they were all the rage at the time
Another £750 ish there i want to keep track as best i can of how much its cost so ppl can see how easy it is to rack up a 35k + spend on a 25 year old civic

gearbox was taken over to some company in worcster cant remember the name anyway £325 later it was reconned with all new brass syncros etc as it was well crunchy.
The engine. for some reason I bought forged pistons not sure if RS were out or widely used at the time. but I splashed out anyway.
84.5mm weisco forged +2.2cc dome pistons
Eagle rods
b20b3 block machined out, (at the time I was naive and let the engineering shop decide what was best on p2w clearences etc)
ACL race bearings mains & bigends.
DH racing PR3 HEAD
Eagle B20Vtec kit
b20 alloy block girdle
Commetic slightly thinner Head Gasket
Commetic Intake mani gasket
ARP head studs.
SKunk2 Tuner stage 2 cams
Eagle cam pulleys
Itr Intake & 70mm TB machined out intake to mate TB etc.
ngk 7 plugs & reactive 8mm leads
weld in Baffle kit & B18c4 sump to clear the block girdle.
F1 stage 3 clutch. As the helix had got damaged whilst parts were sitting about/being moved The helix organic was the greatest clutch Ive ever had in anything brilliant!
oil pressure & temp gauge fitted.
new belts / gasket kits /filters /fluids etc.
Oh had to source new b16a engine mount as I stupidly let it go still bolted to my bottom end! lol learnt that lesson!



as you can imagine this set me back quite a bit.... i suspect this engine build by the time it was in and running cost about 5k.
The head cost me over £1000 in total and took Dave Hickman the fat rip merchant (as you can tell I dont really like him much) nearly a year to get it too me! Its all singing all dancing flow benched thing with some 3 angle valve job and springs etc in and ready to rock apparently..... well it wasnt! here's a pic of the port work.... It was supposed to be all polished and annodised up etc as per his original adverts...
