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Old 02-03-2011, 08:59 PM
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Default 1986 civic hatch build

Check out this sweet civic I picked up today

Its has 122xxx original miles and is near flawless inside and out,

Check out my 1988 civic wagon build aswell

https://honda-tech.com/forums/honda-crx-ef-civic-1988-1991-3/my-1988-wagon-washington-love-2865434/

Came with black hood.


Painted it silver,




It didn't have tach. so I replaced the cluster.


new cluster


Decided to paint my bumper today.

TAPE!


Not bad for a rattle can job





Also I was super bored so I decided to do amber corners.





Painted and cleared



Before.



After.


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nice hope to see more build pics soon.keepin it ol school
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Nice car man and love the price lol i got an 82 civic for $400 myself lol an i like the amber lights looks good
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Very creative bumper work, it is a very nice design.

Which engine do you have? Time to hit the junkyard to get some spare mirrors..... the hatchback is getting scarce and the mirrors from the 4 doors does not fit unless you bore some of the holes a tad.... at least I managed to get one spare for the passenger side, and did the same thing for the cluster, got one with the tach..... with almost the same mileage 140.
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Very creative bumper work, it is a very nice design.

Which engine do you have? Time to hit the junkyard to get some spare mirrors..... the hatchback is getting scarce and the mirrors from the 4 doors does not fit unless you bore some of the holes a tad.... at least I managed to get one spare for the passenger side, and did the same thing for the cluster, got one with the tach..... with almost the same mileage 140.

I have the 1.3 carb. haha

I just picked up the side mirror and dash clock today for it haha now I need the si center console
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True classics..
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Nice EA. Keep it up.
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nice ride. plans for it?
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nicee
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takes me back to the old days when i had my '86 and '87 hatch. good luck with your build!
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needs a k swap. lmao. good **** tho.
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needs a k swap. lmao. good **** tho.
Typical HT ricer boy, K swaps arnt the answer for everything. Way overkill. Swap it over to a 1.5 Si or a ZC swap. Thats plenty of power for these small cars.
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very nice built
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Looks pretty good I was thinking about picking up an old school hatch
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Sweet civic. Looks fresh. I was gana buy an 87 civic wagon but i gots too many cars all ready.
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Default Re: 1986 civic hatch build

Originally Posted by jdmda7
Typical HT ricer boy, K swaps arnt the answer for everything. Way overkill. Swap it over to a 1.5 Si or a ZC swap. Thats plenty of power for these small cars.
Do you know if its pretty hard to go from carbed to EFI? I wanted to do the z6 swap. I heard something about swapping over fuel lines and fuel pump and the whole harness from an si or teg.

I did a dpfi to mpfi and obd0 to obd1 swap in my wagovan for a d16z6 all the wiring I did myself. If its as easy as that I will be stoked.
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Originally Posted by E-AT_me
nice ride. plans for it?
Since I bought it for a daily so I can do a bunch more stuff to my wagon I probably won't be touching the motor.

But I do plan on painting it olive green pearl. Putting in hids and I wanna lower it. Just kinda stumped in the pre 88 suspension right now.

probably getting some ls webs or putting my sportmax 501's on it haha
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Join "red pepper racing" online for all your swap and suspension needs and ideas.
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Originally Posted by jdmda7
Join "red pepper racing" online for all your swap and suspension needs and ideas.
I will join I was on there and I couldn't find any threads on pre 88 suspension for 3rd gen civic noobs haha
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hey man i was just wondering how hard was it to replace the tach? did you have to rewire or anything?
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I did the same thing, find the same vintage, 84-87 without the fuel injection, and it is a plain swap, the plugs matches. I have an 85 on the 86, I was even lucky to find a vehicle with only 2000 extra miles.
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Great find! (And good paint work, too!)

I love that generation, all angles and pyramids.

How much did you pay for it (if you don't mind my asking)?
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Default Re: 1986 civic hatch build

Originally Posted by Justinleexxx
I will join I was on there and I couldn't find any threads on pre 88 suspension for 3rd gen civic noobs haha
to drop the car, you will need to use 1st gen teg torsion bars and re-index the bar to the height you need. There is an adjustment bolt that will give you plus or minus 1/2" height adjustment.

As to rears, you can try and find an old pair of jackson racing or lightspeed springs. You would be better off finding a set of lowering springs off an EF and lop off a couple coils..

Struts and shocks are no problem..
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the corners look awesome ! imma try lol
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Had an 86 civic si ..it was a great car..Billbert

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