civicturbo79

you are spot on the paint job is in the prep 100% i have been in the accident repair trade now for 12 years and my bro has been a painter for 10 years . you will get a ok job on non flat panels like doors and stuff because the dust can not land on them . but bonnets and roofs will get it . i have been there and done it may times trying to do someone a cheap job . we rent an over by is for £80 for a sat morning its just not worth taking a risk for that money. This is my car straght out of the gun in an oven. but i do see what you are saying we did the door shut in a garage ( and they are ok )

its still in the air mate . have a go but i bet you are not happy with it when its done .

have you got a oven you can rent then . only once did me and brother try and paint something in a garage and it looked like someone had throw sand in it . it tuck 4 hours to flat and polish it . never again

i have got a gt35 turbo on the way from japan at the min, also some 750cc injectors and hondata chip coming from the states. with this i have been quoted figures of 550 bhp . but im not sure if it will make that so ill keep you posted on its progess over the next few weeks . The block is covered for 60 psi / 4 bar of boost that works out to about 1000 bhp if i f**k the block before that they will replace it for free. i will never push it that far.so it shoud last for ever.

The car made 379 bhp 308 hp at the wheels 401 nm of torque here it is on the dyno The car ran a 12.72 1/4 mile @115 mph at pod last year hoping for low 12's maybe even 11's this year I have had a quick work and the car has cost me around £9000 to make it what it is today. hope you enjoyed my story. Ps ill do the repaint another day

So is were i started my monster build . I got e-mailed a block in the states and sorted out the spec i was after and i ordered the flowing 1 x darton sleeved block b18b ( same casing as a b20b ) bored out from 81mm to 84 mm to make it a 2.0 litre. Wisceo pistons 8.4 to 1 ratio Eagle rods Acl race big end and main bearings cometic headgasket Arp head studs lightened flywheel stage 4 ,6 plate paddle clutch hondata inlet and exhaust manifold gasket Greddy timing belt flammer kit

After i fitted sorted all that out i fitted the greddy e-manage to the car and tuck it to be mapped . a couple of days later the bloke rang me and said he was having problems getting the power i wanted and there was no vtec . So i had the car back and there was a wiring off to the vtec control stopping the vtec cutting so i reconnected it and it worked . that night i was taking it back to the mapper to get it mapped ( this just happened to be the night before jap show finale october 2007) . In a moment of madness i floored it it went like f**k for 3 gear changes and melted number 1 piston so that was the end of the b18c4 engine. . So after a big mardy i went for a b20b block with the b18c4 head off my standard engine to cut a long story short the engine made 307 bhp for about 6 months and then one day it split a liner 2nd engine gone.

Well now for my car , where do i start with this one . I brought the car 6 years ago off my brother . He brought the car and i feel in love with it, I had always been a ford man right up to that point needless to say the ford got sold and a brought the civic from him for £3000 and then it all started. my other half used the car for 4 years totally standard apart from an exhaust and filter . At the time i was working for a garage were i was working 12 hours a day 6 days a week and they would not let you work on your own cars so thats why nothing ever got do with the car . Then i saw sence and left the company to go and work were i am now . alot less hours you can work on your own cars and more money . So as my mrs got here new car ( the colt ) i started playing with the civic and it all began . i started by putting the turbo kit on the standard b18c4 engine i had to cut out the middle of the front panel to make the turbo fit + cut the low cross member to bring the rad forward to make room for the exhaust to come out of the side, not a nice job but it was worth it in the end.

just started with the standard bumper cut the lower spoiler to fit . i did use plastic weld to join the 2 parts together + some pot rivits on the sides . as for smoothing it all together you can use normal body filer i always do you just have to give the plastic a good key up ( a good rub with 120 grit paper ) i have never had any fall out that how we do bumper repairs at work on a daily basis. The lad has no longer got thre car he sold it to by the vti-s at the top of this thread. i got that car for him for £550 with light backend damage that car owes him about £900 as it stands

the bumper was made up from a standard front bumper with a accord type s lower spoiler added onto the bottom of it .

i work for a ford main dealer in hinckley in there bodyshop as a mechanic / panel beater.

here is another one i did an un insured driver hit the side of this one a drove off leaving the lad to get it fixed. not easy one this one.

hi there here are some pictures and video's of 2 other mb6 i have built + my own.Rich First is a vti-s v reg ( work i have done ) 1. lowered the car 2. fitted full s/s exhaust with de-cat 3. induction kit 4. wheels here are some pictures. This is the car on the dyno make 191 bhp. Second one is a big ish build. The car started a a veg vti. The engine was removed a a block gaurd fitted with wisceo pistons 9:1 and eagle rods with acl race bearing. uprated head gasket full turbo kit off e**y ,custom down pipe , custom rocker cover, dump valve , greddy map sensor , greddy e-manage, so pictures of the car. The car made 321 bhp on the dyno at a bar. Here is a video of the car at pod.