my new daily ride. o/t civic
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think some of you might have seen it in me crx for sale post but i went up to have a look at this car on saturday afternoon and swapped it for my crx :)

its a weird 1.5 12v motor with siamesed exhausts running around 100 banana's, 80k on the clock and the interior is proper mint and 80's retrotastic. the chap i got it from runs the 3rd gen civic owners thing and only knows of one other black GT in the country so its pretty rare apparently. car only weighs 805kg aswell without my lard in it!

and yes before anyone moans i will get the mini fixed, no plans to do anything to this until the minis back by summer (if we have one next year)












came with a set of these Mugen splitties aswell which i'm going to refurb and bang on.

Edited by Nick on 10th Mar, 2009.

s-freakin-weet!

JDM boys will go pshyco over those wheels on the bay!

dont sell em though! haha they will look awesome on the car!

I like!!

Having been with Nick to fetch this, I can say I am very jealous, it is like a brand new car inside, and very nice to drive. Just sent an hour on ebay trying to find an 80's box for myself lol

Nice clean example, very retro.
Mind, you problably get a F1 car cheaper at the moment.

good work mate, that looks mint!

Looks like a lovely example, nice purchase. :)

Can you fit one of the d16 SOHC vtec engines in these? Would fly then.

very cool! As ric says can the d16 lump fit? Itrs screaming out for a turbo!

spot on - nice motor

If Carling made Mini engines
it would probably be like this one!

Thats really cool, nice one!

cheers dudes

apparently you can stick the sohc vtec heads onto this motor but i haven't found a decent guide yet. i havebeen looking at the hasport b16 conversion mounts though

uhmmm wonder if there is a mugen kit for these models.....

there is, rarer than the jdm yo light up rear civic centre light secion.

shame! the mugen kits are usually sweet!

I love Civics. Nice car man

On 12th Nov, 2009 Paul S said:

I think Gary OS has taken over my role as the forum smart arse

Just found this think its asimilar model!

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=La1TABMyI7w

Edited by Star Mag on 17th Dec, 2008.

thats the next model up.

its the same as the crx that is, they are just sort of hatch and fastback/coupe models if you know what i mean?

Ahhh my bad!

even soo....thats never a stock motor!!!!

yeah thats a 4th gen civic, same year as me old crx. the yanks seem to get massive amounts of power out of these honda lumps.


gong to have a look at lowering the front end of the civic this weekend if the weathers ok cos its like a 4x4 atm. its on torsion bars up front so could be interesting as i've never messed with them before, all i know is something about moving it round a spline and see how it looks/feels.....hmmmm.

Edited by Nick on 18th Dec, 2008.

have been messing with this now the weathers picking back up, fitted a 4-2-1 manifold and a stainless exhaust, dropped the front end a bit more, got the spare wheels refurbed and fitted, full service and probably a few others bits i've forgotten too.

for some reason i can't find the motivation to get back in the garage and do anything with the mini though :( i really want it back on the road but it needs a load of cash throwing at it all in one which is whats putting me off i think.

here's a few pics of the civic though from last weekend when we got a bit of sun, lol. spent 4hrs washing, claying, polishing and 2 coats of wax, i like cleaning em though for some strange reason.

liking this loads mate.. now get on with the mini! :)

uhmm, last time i was on Crx-uk there was a fellow calleb BillB doing mugen kits (copies) for the mk2.

there was also call for him to do a few kits for the MK1 of the same design.

i would love a mugen kitted Rex.....yumeh!