DIYMIKE EF BUILD: Here is my canvas, let me paint you a picture........

[DIYMIKE]

It's been over a year since i had my 1990 Civic DX hatch. Finally its time for me to build my dream car the way i finally want it. After putting it together once before with only ideas of making an average daily driver, i now come to the conclusion of making myself a car that i love and a car that will be far better then a new generation honda and Cheaper! I received this car for $500. let me shut up and show you the progression. The B18B came with it and was parted out...I made my $500 back! the body was in fair condition..considering i got this in the midwest and no rust notice the double exhaust cut out. almost painful to see Then i took it apart.. Then i did a ghetto flat black rattle can job on the engine bay All the while i had bought this parts car to complete my car. $425 shipping was 250 though! I did a little wire tuck action here Then i was done..for the time being as you can see, didn't really put any serious money into it At this point, i was content. but the mini me i put in started to smoke at high rpm's. i mean i could of drove it. BUT i got inspired to get a jdm front and if i am going to get a JDM front.... i might as well decided to paint the car over agian while i am at it. so i went ebay hunting started to take it apart again i started to do some bodywork here and there. i have no experience in body work..but it was pretty easy...it just takes patience. Chaos in my room after the motor was removed living room At this point i was able to peice together a complete JDM front end with an exception of the Hood. i wanted a carbon fiber one but when the total came up to 650 shipped i wasnt to happy. then i thought wait a complete jdm front end from a importer sells them for 700. why not just buy one and sell the other parts i dont need. i called Hmotorsonline and Steve picked up. I asked him if he had some ef9 front ends and he said yeah but I also have a Brand New One in stock! I thought for a second and said "wait you have a brand new one from japan in?" and he said "yeah in Honda boxes"......then i said how much? he said 1300. then i dropped the credit card number. now some of you might be thinking thats alot of money....well it is. but i thought I have never seen somebody sell one of these..This is a chance of a life time! haha yeah i know an impulse buy but hey when this came in..... I had the Biggest smile on my face... I actually sold all the used ef9 parts and made a good chunk of change.... I didn't want to neglect the motor either picked up a rear bumper.. took off the lip and rear fog lights to get it ready for paint... the Shell was sent to paint and i found a storage place to work on my car... and now i am just waiting........ UPDATES COMING SOON!!! Modified by DIYMIKE at 8:30 PM 1/3/2007 Update 1/27/2007 Update!!! so when i go back to Missouri to witness my car out of paint, what do i see??? I finally got my power back....like yesterday! so here it is guys....1998 Nissan sentra...Sierra Pine....inspired by SPANKY...i know what a biter eh? i was kinda upset at this guys work. i thought he would take his time to cover up certain things but......oh well.....i still have to get it Buffed and remove paint on some things i didn't want painted! this was the most decent shot. more to come. !!! 2/4/2007 UPDATE WITH SOME NEW PICS. i just got the Bumper back... i have to start the process of cutting the holes out for the JDM round fogs. but here it is.. more enjoy! more to come 2/07/2007 a couple hours and a dremel =....... it was painful... molten hot plastic was flying all over the place.. 3/09/2007 UPDATE! i got some great stuff in the mail. BUT first of all i just want to say to all the haters. anyway moving on here you go: brand new JDM rear bumper lip, new ef9 electric inner mirror covers,new ITR shift boot, used but mint ef9 jdm floor mat. brand new ef9 corner lights . Thank you JDMLand i got my p28 ready for chipping, i just got the chip kit from moates. A+ Sorry guys i am no longer going single cam turbo. i decided to sell all my turbo stuff.....so i will just show you what motor i am going to be running and no its not a b16 head i couldn't help it... b-series are made to be in ef's Thank you Boomslang for the motor and the harness!!!!! 3/16/2007 UPDATE lots of parts came in!!! finished the ECU a nice honda box came in with some goodies!!! My cable tranny came in! i didn't want to mess with the hydro conversion so i just sold the hydro GSR tranny that came with the swap and got a cable B16. I got AZracingmachine mounts that came in. impressed with the quailty. Then i had some spare time to slap it together and put it in. 3/18/2007 Mission complete! dang my back hurts from crouching over so much.... Goodnight car 3/20/07 more updates guys!!! finally i get to put these babies on... perfect got a new edelbrock header from summit. i have to do the mod though to make it 2.5" this is going to be a problem...my iceman intake with bpi velocity stack. too huge! 4/2/2007 Yeah yeah i know i should of updated early but i ran into some problems that are stressing me out! okay here we Go!!! UPDATE!! 100% cambodian....my motor only drinks the finest I know its ghetto but it will work for now, until i can get a custom one. full race or something down the road. test fitted the hood. the fenders need to be adjusted. I used some plastic washers to push my radiator bar out... i am praying the hood doesn't fly up !!! My battery set up... i am going to heat shrink the ground later(just to make it black) Its done...... PROBLEMS...... car doesn't start. will update later...... mood....Not to happy. so far all i know is that there is no CEL and i have spark, i have to check fuel later. 4/13/2007 I took the car for a spin in the storage unit place. it was nice. it was the first time i drove my car in like 7 months. still not done as you can see. something i did notice was that the car would hum when i would put the car in gear. i installed a exedy stage 1 clutch. did anybody ever had that problem. the humming goes away when i start to drive but when i put it in gear and its in neutral it hums well any way here some pictures I just want to remind you guys that: it hasn't been buffed yet i am going to get it buffed then i am going to install the new mouldings i bought. 4/28/07 Here is an update. i know its been awhile. i had to get an alignment and put together some random things. i have been driving it for over a hundred miles. i have to bleed the brakes. it seems that the brakes are uneven, it shakes when i apply the brakes slowly. Plus i felt the brakes on one side and its hotter then the other side. i bleed the brakes like crazy but when i put the new master cylinder in, i didn't bench bleed it. also my steering wheel shakes a little. you can hardly feel it but i know its there. i think its the steering rack bushings. i ordered some prothane ones. -Plus another problem i found is that the idle surges. the Type r head doesn't have the bleed valve. so i tried to do it manually but i don't know if i did it at all right. it might be the ivac but my car runs fine its just annoying! LOL but it only does it some times. other then that the car is really fun to drive here are some pictures My future plans: -New steering wheel! -get new suspension, i am on H&R's and some kyb but the car needs to be dumped some more. -put on my password JDM lip. -fix the idle -fix the steering wheel shaking -buff the car - then finally put on the new moldings i bought. Still going to have more updates. if you have any w\questions let me know i can help you out. UPDATE 5/1/07 Got the lip installed. its a password jdm one. they don't have anymore carbon ones but the fiberglass one will do. it weighs close to nothing. it felt like it would break in my hands, very thin and flimsy. i had to sand it down and respray it. its alright for the price. the final pic NEW PICS Modified by DIYMIKE at 12:46 AM 5/2/2007 Modified by DIYMIKE at 2:50 AM 1/25/2008

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[89efDUSTY]

b18c5 FTW...looks nice an gl

[mahatma]

i can only see about half your pics, but what's there is beautiful

[$racer1]

bump..sick ass ef...good job

[wiZCo]

Wow, this is an amazing build. I love the paint color.

[turbodcivic510]

your car looks amazing. not too flashy but attention to detail gets you noticed.

good job using only the best shit. and goodluck

[FotoGenetix]

looks like one of the best EF builds ups ive seen

[STREETWERKZ]

wow!

this thing is going to turn out very nice!!!!!!


i guess the screen name is correct.... DO-IT-YOURSELF!

great work too.

wheels look awesome with that color.

[sanimalp]

nice build.. have you figured out what the humming is?

[r1ch1e]

nasty dude. just NASTY. keep it up man. can't wait to do my own thread.

[bigluelok]

[quote=STREETWERKZ]wow!

this thing is going to turn out very nice!!!!!!

[harmonator84]

Nice job.

[CRX Toad]

Looks good....a real DIY is awesome. Good deal...hope all gets done like you want.


LOVE THE GREEN!!!! What color is that? Looks similar to the paint on my Mustang.

[Pee Wee]

damn that paint is hard

[Bob_760]

Beautiful.... at first I wasen't sure about the paint, but seeing it on the car with it put together it looks great!

Originally Posted by CRX Toad

What color is that? Looks similar to the paint on my Mustang.

Originally Posted by DIYMIKE

1998 Nissan sentra...Sierra Pine

[IP RACING]

damn thats really really clean. nice choice on color. but damn you really need that lip on that front bumper.
good job though
keep it up

[DIYMIKE]

Originally Posted by sanimalp

nice build.. have you figured out what the humming is?

nope but it doesn't effect the cars driving or performance. i'll probably get another tranny or get this one rebuilt.

going 65 mph and having your tach at 4k is annoying. i'll probably install a LS 5th gear.

Originally Posted by IP RACING

damn thats really really clean. nice choice on color. but damn you really need that lip on that front bumper.
good job though
keep it up

yeah i have the front lip but i don't have a friend to help me mount it.

[dohc_profile]

very nice, was doubting the paint colour till i saw full pics.

[KingDanOne]

damn, my boys car is that color heres a pic

[DIYMIKE]

Originally Posted by KingDanOne

damn, my boys car is that color heres a pic

hahaha
Nice. i think i saw that picture a while back.

well i hope hes not mad. maybe we can see each other at a meet and be twins.

at least we have some differences.

tell him he has good taste LOL

[Deetz]

Damn, that looks a lot like a green EE8 i just posted yesterday. Your looks great so far!!

[Chase]

SICK!

[hai_tech]

hey how much did u pay for the battery setup

[DIYMIKE]

Originally Posted by hai_tech

hey how much did u pay for the battery setup

i'll give you my exact price.

i got the battery from

http://www.Portablepower.com

battery p680- 76.95

brass top terminals 10.95

black powdercoated aluminum jacket 34.95

shipping was 10.77

for a total of 133.62

this is the cheapest place i found those batteries for. they kill passwordJDM on prices.

the wire i just got from a friend.

the monstercable battery terminals were 8.99 each from ebay a while back.

and i got a grounding foot for like 11.00 bucks on ebay. the ebay prices didn't include shipping.


I forgot to mention that i got 80% of the parts from this car from EBAY.

[crazykamper]

wow! very nice and clean looking!!! cant wait to see more of it!! the green looks REALLY nice!!