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I used to own a 98 DX hatchback but sold that years ago to get a car my girlfriend could drive as well. Recently I got myself a 2000 DX Hatchback and have very audacious plans for what kind of project car I want it to be. Here's the catch.....I know almost nothing about automotive work. I just love this damn car.
I'm referring to it as project blank (written as [ ] for branding reasons) and I basically want everything to be unbranded. Just letting the car be appreciated as it is without brand names on everything. That being said, I'm not looking to slap on garbage parts. I'm just saying if something says Skunk2 (for example) I'll grind the name off.
Anyway, to the point of the post, I'm wanting to do lots of custom stuff. Unique exhaust, build from scratch body kit and one thing I'm tossing around in my head a lot, cyberpunk style rear sliding doors.
This will mostly be a dumping ground of ideas and I know I will get dumped on for "you want to do complicated stuff but you don't know how to do anything". So mostly, it's for fun.
This is basically all I've done to the car since November 2019. The radiator support and bumper were damaged, so....why not cut it off? This should also make it easy to remove the engine if and when I decide to do that. I did get a B20 block and B16 VTEC head that are sitting in my garage currently.
@Carks128 I tagged mac because he's kinda done what your plans are: throw caution to the wind and do stuff people haven't done before (particularly supercharging a D17) or wouldn't often do (he highly recommends against an AT to MT swap, despite doing one himself). He also has some custom DIY body work (hood, widebody work) under his belt. Dude's absolutely nuts, but innovative as hell, and we [heart] him anyways. He's slowed down a lot bit since he's been working on his masters in architecture though. Here's his build thread
Nice! Yeah, I was thinking of LS VTEC supercharger build. It's already a MT and I'm keeping it that way. Thanks for the heads up! I think one major difference is the knowledge gap we have. My tools have so much dust on them since I get so demotivated to work on projects, haha.
This is basically all I've done to the car since November 2019. The radiator support and bumper were damaged, so....why not cut it off? This should also make it easy to remove the engine if and when I decide to do that. I did get a B20 block and B16 VTEC head that are sitting in my garage currently.
Holy shitballs, you got your work cut out for you. I fully support your endeavor, and respect your admission to doing stupid fun things. I just ask one thing: listen to our advice (and toss that disclaimer around that you're doing unique/innovative stuff) and don't fight us when we say stuff. Particularly if we say something will be more expensive than its worth or will do more harm than good. Prolly one of our biggest pet peeves. Now, caveat there, if you tell us that you don't care about the price tag on doing [x], we'd be more welcome to your ideas. I don't want to deter you from taking on this project, just telling you how it is. That said, I'm excited to see where this goes.
Also a bit of an anecdote here: I started on this forum when I was 19 (now 36, 37 in November -- yeah, I've been here forever). First new car, didn't know **** for automotive work shy of doing oil changes, changing a tire, and doing disc brake pads (and assisting with brake shoes). Now, I'm probably one of the go-to people for advice on car work; I've done head gaskets, engine tear downs, headlight retrofits, just to name a few. All thanks to this forum and the amount of knowledge around here. Hell, on another car forum I'm on, I found one of my threads here linked over there as a "I followed this dude's DIY guide and it was straightforward and detailed as hell. Probably the best DIY out there!" and it was in regards to my tweeter install in a 10thgen civic hatch. Stick around, be active, make some internet stranger friends, and you'll be good to go.
edit: I guess it should be noted that a bit of my mechanical know-how should be credited to the Navy. Was in for 6 years from 03-09 and they trained me to be a mechanical engineer in a (shipboard) nuclear power plant. A lot of the mechanical theory translates well.
Very cool! I'll keep that information in mind and am definitely going to use this as a resource. To be fair I didn't say I was doing unique/innovative stuff, haha. I just said it would be an audacious project, similar to you saying I have my work cut out for me! I'm looking forward to making friends on here and utilizing knowledge that others have. I also hope that with a set of inexperienced eyes I can ask the "why not" question to lots of ideas.
Holy shitballs, you got your work cut out for you. I fully support your endeavor, and respect your admission to doing stupid fun things. I just ask one thing: listen to our advice (and toss that disclaimer around that you're doing unique/innovative stuff) and don't fight us when we say stuff. Particularly if we say something will be more expensive than its worth or will do more harm than good. Prolly one of our biggest pet peeves. Now, caveat there, if you tell us that you don't care about the price tag on doing [x], we'd be more welcome to your ideas. I don't want to deter you from taking on this project, just telling you how it is. That said, I'm excited to see where this goes.
Also a bit of an anecdote here: I started on this forum when I was 19 (now 36, 37 in November -- yeah, I've been here forever). First new car, didn't know **** for automotive work shy of doing oil changes, changing a tire, and doing disc brake pads (and assisting with brake shoes). Now, I'm probably one of the go-to people for advice on car work; I've done head gaskets, engine tear downs, headlight retrofits, just to name a few. All thanks to this forum and the amount of knowledge around here. Hell, on another car forum I'm on, I found one of my threads here linked over there as a "I followed this dude's DIY guide and it was straightforward and detailed as hell. Probably the best DIY out there!" and it was in regards to my tweeter install in a 10thgen civic hatch. Stick around, be active, make some internet stranger friends, and you'll be good to go.
edit: I guess it should be noted that a bit of my mechanical know-how should be credited to the Navy. Was in for 6 years from 03-09 and they trained me to be a mechanical engineer in a (shipboard) nuclear power plant. A lot of the mechanical theory translates well.
Very cool! I'll keep that information in mind and am definitely going to use this as a resource. To be fair I didn't say I was doing unique/innovative stuff, haha. I just said it would be an audacious project, similar to you saying I have my work cut out for me! I'm looking forward to making friends on here and utilizing knowledge that others have. I also hope that with a set of inexperienced eyes I can ask the "why not" question to lots of ideas.
Holy shitballs, you got your work cut out for you. I fully support your endeavor, and respect your admission to doing stupid fun things. I just ask one thing: listen to our advice (and toss that disclaimer around that you're doing unique/innovative stuff) and don't fight us when we say stuff. Particularly if we say something will be more expensive than its worth or will do more harm than good. Prolly one of our biggest pet peeves. Now, caveat there, if you tell us that you don't care about the price tag on doing [x], we'd be more welcome to your ideas. I don't want to deter you from taking on this project, just telling you how it is. That said, I'm excited to see where this goes.
Also a bit of an anecdote here: I started on this forum when I was 19 (now 36, 37 in November -- yeah, I've been here forever). First new car, didn't know **** for automotive work shy of doing oil changes, changing a tire, and doing disc brake pads (and assisting with brake shoes). Now, I'm probably one of the go-to people for advice on car work; I've done head gaskets, engine tear downs, headlight retrofits, just to name a few. All thanks to this forum and the amount of knowledge around here. Hell, on another car forum I'm on, I found one of my threads here linked over there as a "I followed this dude's DIY guide and it was straightforward and detailed as hell. Probably the best DIY out there!" and it was in regards to my tweeter install in a 10thgen civic hatch. Stick around, be active, make some internet stranger friends, and you'll be good to go.
edit: I guess it should be noted that a bit of my mechanical know-how should be credited to the Navy. Was in for 6 years from 03-09 and they trained me to be a mechanical engineer in a (shipboard) nuclear power plant. A lot of the mechanical theory translates well.
Or did you mean I should toss around a disclaimer saying I'm doing unique ****?
Must be an optical illusion, because they're on the car normally. At least, that's something I didn't change since getting the car. Do you think they're directional and were mounted wrong?
those treads should form a V shape with the point of the V pointing toward the ground when looking at it from the front. They're designed to toss water to the sides, not toward the center.
Just take a look at the rest of your tires, and see which ones with treads looking like / || \ instead of \ || / on the driver's side and swap them
Haha! Thankfully I've only driven it home after buying it. The previous owner was a strange one for sure, so the tires being wrong doesn't surprise me in the slightest. Nice catch folks!
usually, if there are a crap ton of responses and you wanna reply to a specific post, hit that quote button. If it's just a blanket response to all of the above, just up and reply. If you wanna address multiple posts directly, use that multi quote button, hitting the quote button on the final post you wanna quote. It'll bring you to a new window with each post individually quoted. Either that, or play around with the different buttons so you learn what they do
usually, if there are a crap ton of responses and you wanna reply to a specific post, hit that quote button. If it's just a blanket response to all of the above, just up and reply. If you wanna address multiple posts directly, use that multi quote button, hitting the quote button on the final post you wanna quote. It'll bring you to a new window with each post individually quoted. Either that, or play around with the different buttons so you learn what they do
This is basically all I've done to the car since November 2019. The radiator support and bumper were damaged, so....why not cut it off? This should also make it easy to remove the engine if and when I decide to do that. I did get a B20 block and B16 VTEC head that are sitting in my garage currently.
Looking forward to seeing what are you going to do!
It seems it going to be a really big project...
Hey Riceboy (can I call you Josh)? You're very familiar with Mac's build. I tossed the SC idea around a lot and notice that he put a SC14 on his. That's off of a Toyota, correct? People tell me it's not worth it putting a SC on a Civic because the rotation of the engine doesn't match. Thoughts?
Josh, Riceboy, "Hey you," whatever floats your boat. lol. real talk, Josh is fine
as far as mac's build.. man, that was like a decade in the making. I wasn't paying too close attention to what he tossed in it (other than his laser cut wooden mount mockup), I just wanted to see it actually happen. A proverbial "no *****," if you would. lol
I believe it was a Toyota SC14 with some, and he did some voodoo with pulleys to make it spin happy. I was hoping me tagging him would summon him like Beetlejuice.
Haha. I sent him a friend request but didn't get a response so I assumed he was onto other things outside the forum. I was looking at an Eaton M62 and found someone willing to sell one that he confirmed spun CCW. But without it in hand I couldn't be certain. Seems half the internet I ask says M62 is CCW and the other half says CW. I'm not really at a point where I should consider those parts since I'm all over the spectrum of buying **** I don't need yet.
