1990 Civic Sedan

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1990 Civic Sedan

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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.

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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.

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Got camber? Watch out nuns and kittens!

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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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As I said over on retro, looks a cracker :) when you are looking to move it on, drop us a PM ;)
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Hmmm, brown-ness, :lol: .

Liking the car fella, wheels look good. :top:
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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 8)
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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.

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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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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 ?
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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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MrJacobsSedan1992 wrote:what suspension set up you runnin, car is looking wicked very clean (Y)
Its all there in the first post.
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walsh123 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 ?
2-piece adaptors from 4x100 to 5x114.3
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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 :top:
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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)
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