DigitalShift

Some of you may have seen this on another site, but I thought I'd post it here as well. Things are coming together really well, but I wish I could speed things up..
Well here we go, I'm going to cram about 2 months of work into one post. :wow: Enjoy!!

I'll start by thanking some of my friends thats helped me out with the project, Will, Parker and Laura at Hybrid Racing, Kyle my bud, EJ, my girl Hannah for letting me spend more time with the car than I do with her. A little about this car,
I bought the car back in August 05, pre Hurricane Katrina. The car was pretty screwed up in the front, the previous owner had rear-ended a truck. So, I found it sitting in the front yard and drove it home with 130k miles for $1800.
Here is a list of mods/parts so far.
Car:
1997 Civic Hatch
2000 JDM front cap
Mugen Lip
EK9 Rear lip
ABS mirrors
Type R rear wing
Type R thin side moldings
Type R headlamps
EK9 Sidemarkers
EK9 Tail lights
OEM Bumper caps
New OEM Cowl & Clips
New OEM door garnishes
New OEM inner fenders and clips
New OEM roof rain channels
Powerplant
K20A2 Type S
6 Speed trans
RBC intake Manifold
Hondata Intake Manifold gasket
Comptech TSX Stainless header
Competition Stage 4 clutch
Yellow Valve cover
Spoon Kevlar plug cover
New OEM gasket set
Hondata K-PRO
Parts
Hybrid Racing EK Billet Mounts
Hybrid Racing Conversion wiring harness
Hybrid Racing Neoprene Fuel lines w/nickle fittings
Hybrid Racing Stage 2 Axles
Hybrid Racing Conversion Clutchline
Hybrid Racing Radiator hose insert
Karcepts Shifter relocation kit
Karcepts Radiator Relocation bracket
EP3 Powersteering removal pulley
Golden Eagle Pro series fuel rail
Areomotive Adjustable fuel pressure regulator
AEM Hybrid Intake
SPAL Electric Fan
New OEM Shifter cables and clips
Revo Short shifter box
Vision Catchcan
Buddy Club Racing Spec II Catback
PIC Select P3 coilovers
PIC Rear Lower Control Arms
EK4 Amber gauge cluster

I think thats it, I have a crap load of new OEM honda parts for the car I just cant think of all of them.. well here are the pictures. I'll start it off from when I bought the car all the way to the most recent pictures of it. :dance:

Before:


After:
I media blasted it, and recoated it.

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This is when I first got the car..



Front cap installed:

Here are some of my parts that I bought, I havent taken pics of a bunch of stuff..but this is what I've got so far..















Hybrid-Racing Stage II axles

Hondata KPRO

Buddy Club Spec II





Thats pretty much all the parts that I've got for this car so far..the list gets bigger each day.
Now on to the teardown of the car:












Off to the body shop..






Painting begins...









Car is ALMOST ready to paint. The body line is..PERFECT!!! :dance:

RicoD

i dont see no pics

DigitalShift

Please ignore all the trash and crap under my carport..I've had so much shit around I finally cleaned everything up after I was finished..lol




Rims and coilovers installed.

DigitalShift

JDM Flair..

Inside Finished:

Reasembling the engine, I've got to resurface the flywheel before I install the clutch so I took the trans off.


Me sealing up the Karcepts box...

Engine getting set in..

Header

Intake

RicoD

its lookin good man, that car has come a long way huh? AWESOME!

DigitalShift

Yeah it has, a lot of time and money... But it was worth every penny. This thing rocks!

HatchVX

damn that looks good. Where is the color from? How much have u put in to this car?

westcoaststyle

Exceptional work. One question: why a black roof?

You should be extremely proud of this man. Super clean car.

HcOiNvDiAc

damn! high roller..lol

Mynard

wow nice work...and patience