1990 Civic Sedan
1990 Civic Sedan
So just before Christmas I snagged this off the Bay of E for a meagre �255. Seemed no-one else was interested in buying it so close to Christmas, so I hopped on a train to Harwich and drove it home.
It's your typical "two-pedal special", one-owner from new, 49k miler as most ED Civic saloons seem to be, as well be being totally mint replescent in brown velour and plastic inside, and only a few rust holes on the outside, mainly on the rear arches [typical for this model of Civic], and bizarrely around the aerial at the top of the A pillar [the sunroof drains underneath, so may be a contributory cause].
So anyway [mainly because I'm rubbish at taking 'in-progress' pics], after a bunch of money and time later, it's now at this stage.
Got camber? Watch out nuns and kittens!
The list of parts includes: TA Technix coilovers with Rally Design front springs, as the originals appeared to be rated for use in a biro. SkunkPro2 front upper camber arms, generic Chinese rear camber arms, 'top hat' top mounts all round, Team Heko wind deflectors, 4x100 to 4x114.3 adaptors, Toyota Celica Supra MA61 'Iron Cross' 7*14 ET8 alloys, stripped and refurbed in Mercedes Brilliant Silver, with Nankang 165/65R14 tyres, plus the old OMP-esque wheel out of the Cuore with relevant Civic boss. I did have a Golf III VR6 lip on the front bumper, but I managed to smash it into several pieces after only 10 minutes of fitment on crossing the third speedbump after coming out of the Dungeon. I also debadged the rear and red tinted the rear indicators.
Plans are to refit some kind of rear silencer, after an exhaust c*nting session left it looking much more awesome, but sounding like a blue whale farting down a sewer. There is an alternative set of wheels and tyres on the horizon, but I'm in the process of stripping and painting them.
There 'may' be a manual conversion in the future, but to be honest I only really bought and built this on the cheap as a daily, so it will probably be left as an auto and moved on once the Yugo is back on the road.
It's your typical "two-pedal special", one-owner from new, 49k miler as most ED Civic saloons seem to be, as well be being totally mint replescent in brown velour and plastic inside, and only a few rust holes on the outside, mainly on the rear arches [typical for this model of Civic], and bizarrely around the aerial at the top of the A pillar [the sunroof drains underneath, so may be a contributory cause].
So anyway [mainly because I'm rubbish at taking 'in-progress' pics], after a bunch of money and time later, it's now at this stage.
Got camber? Watch out nuns and kittens!
The list of parts includes: TA Technix coilovers with Rally Design front springs, as the originals appeared to be rated for use in a biro. SkunkPro2 front upper camber arms, generic Chinese rear camber arms, 'top hat' top mounts all round, Team Heko wind deflectors, 4x100 to 4x114.3 adaptors, Toyota Celica Supra MA61 'Iron Cross' 7*14 ET8 alloys, stripped and refurbed in Mercedes Brilliant Silver, with Nankang 165/65R14 tyres, plus the old OMP-esque wheel out of the Cuore with relevant Civic boss. I did have a Golf III VR6 lip on the front bumper, but I managed to smash it into several pieces after only 10 minutes of fitment on crossing the third speedbump after coming out of the Dungeon. I also debadged the rear and red tinted the rear indicators.
Plans are to refit some kind of rear silencer, after an exhaust c*nting session left it looking much more awesome, but sounding like a blue whale farting down a sewer. There is an alternative set of wheels and tyres on the horizon, but I'm in the process of stripping and painting them.
There 'may' be a manual conversion in the future, but to be honest I only really bought and built this on the cheap as a daily, so it will probably be left as an auto and moved on once the Yugo is back on the road.
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Re: 1990 Civic Sedan
As I said over on retro, looks a cracker when you are looking to move it on, drop us a PM
Re: 1990 Civic Sedan
Hmmm, brown-ness, .
Liking the car fella, wheels look good.
Liking the car fella, wheels look good.
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Saw this on rr too. Toyota wheels look so goood.
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Looking good, as said wheels look awesome on it
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Re: 1990 Civic Sedan
New direction.
The MA61 Iron Cross wheels were only a temporary solution, I've been wanting to fit these to a car for a long time.
Note I've also re-fitted a GOlf VR6 lip [this is the second one I've had, first one was smashed off on the speedbump 10 mins after fitting!]
The MA61 Iron Cross wheels were only a temporary solution, I've been wanting to fit these to a car for a long time.
Note I've also re-fitted a GOlf VR6 lip [this is the second one I've had, first one was smashed off on the speedbump 10 mins after fitting!]
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Re: 1990 Civic Sedan
what suspension set up you runnin, car is looking wicked very clean (Y)
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Looking good although i think i preferred the iron cross wheels
You use a spacer hub converter to swap to 5 stud or just fit different hubs ?
You use a spacer hub converter to swap to 5 stud or just fit different hubs ?
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1991 civic GL (track toy)
1991 Shuttle (To be "sensible" daily project)
Re: 1990 Civic Sedan
walsh123 wrote:Looking good although i think i preferred the iron cross wheels
You use a spacer hub converter to swap to 5 stud or just fit different hubs ?
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Re: 1990 Civic Sedan
Its all there in the first post.MrJacobsSedan1992 wrote:what suspension set up you runnin, car is looking wicked very clean (Y)
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2-piece adaptors from 4x100 to 5x114.3walsh123 wrote:Looking good although i think i preferred the iron cross wheels
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You use a spacer hub converter to swap to 5 stud or just fit different hubs ?
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Re: 1990 Civic Sedan
Does look ace, but I too sit in the iron cross camp. But the new rims do work well
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VERY clean!
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Looking cool
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Re: 1990 Civic Sedan
love the car, we never got sunroofs on any ef civics on this side of the pond(Exept for the civic Si which only came in hatchback form for 4 years)