dopes6070

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Im sure you will do awesome things with that car. I also LOVE horizontal speedo. My dads 69 Ford E100 has one like that too. Congrats on the find Clint!

joe6680

Did you keep anything from your civic? I'd be interested in the rear bumper if you still have it. If not no biggie.

Thanks

lordhelmet

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Haha... I appreciate the offer but I don't think my civic is wide enough to fit that bad boy in there.

speedfoos

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I keep telling you Avery, it's the KA24 cast iron lump in mine. Go get me a juice box.

I am much happier now that the Civic is gone actually. This is going to be a fun project.

Thanks Bob! I took it for a final spin last night with the old motor in it. Raddy leaks, brakes and suspension are awful and my door kept opening on curves. She's about to go under the knife.

I have a giant FS thread up. It's linked in my sig.

No probs!

lordhelmet

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I'm assuming this build is going to have a lot of custom work done or is there a large aftermarket for swapping 383s into Volvos? What are you using for brakes and all the other stuff you are replacing?

civicsrcool

nice new ride. i dont get one thing though.. why did you have to cut your civic into tiny little pieces instead of just selling the whole thing? lol

bomerman19

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cause I needed the pieces LOL!

lordhelmet

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What the heck are you doing with the pieces?

speedfoos

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I am undecided on the front brakes because I don't know what kind of front end I am going to end up using. All depends on how much frame "re-configuration" we have to do. It's got a 101.5" wheelbase, so a 2WD blazer frame at 103" will work, or the 107" S10 with some mods done to it. That will give me modern front brakes.

Another option is a MustangII front end, which is what I would prefer. I have a Ford 8.8" rearend with disc brakes that's going in the rear so the Ford frontend is preferable from a wheel shopping standpoint. We'll see once I get the motor out.

Because the whole thing was worthless after being gutted and the front end parted out to Paul and Danny.

Big boy Lego set.

bomerman19

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I'm using the firewall to mock up my firewall for the RHD conversion that I am doing like clint said big boy lego's hehehe

dopes6070

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Thats one thing I like about hondas You cant really screw up putting one together as long as you dont force things haha.

lordhelmet

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Thanks, that brings me up to speed on a lot of your plans. I'm in for the future build. Don't remember if you stated this elsewhere but what kind of transmission are you going to run?

FoSho

ewww....it's a KA24DE? Dude, I am so more JDM than you! I even got the JDM "twinkie" yellow paint job and it's only got 76,000 beotch.....you go get me a juice box

btw...I dont know **** about old cars...wtf is that new car?

speedfoos

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I will be running the 6-spd manual Corvette ZF tranny that is coming with the matching engine some time next week.

My JDM clutch master cylinder failed me today and I'm TDY to Georgia, good times and cab rides all around.

I had never seen one of these cars before either man. My buddy saw it a month ago on Ebay and pointed it out. It was just fate that it was back up for sale when I was parting out the Civic. It's small 4-door sedan that weighs 2400 pounds - which is less than an EM2. She should scoot with 464 ponies going to the rear wheels!

def01tones

^^^From one post the thread went from an awsome source of info, to just total ****.

lordhelmet

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Psh... 464 whp is nothing. I hear those D17s put out 500 whp...

speedfoos

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That's mildly amusing. You fight with a car for two years and sink buckets of money into it only to have problem after problem and then see how long it takes you to throw in the towel and move on to a new project.


LOL - but this is NA baby on a stock (mostly) bottom end!

Apollyon02ex

ugh can we hear an update?

lordhelmet

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I think the US Military sent him to Georgia for the week just so he can't give you an update.

speedfoos

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Yeah, I've been doing nothing but ordering parts while I'm in Georgia. Nothing has arrived yet, but I'm home for the weekend and plan on doing some teardown on the car. Pics will follow as usual.

Apollyon02ex

good to hear the thread hasn't died I'm very excited to see this car in the making

speedfoos

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Buh bye.

Wolfgang5884

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Did you put Civic seats in Piggy? Lol, move on! j/k

speedfoos

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Yep, those are EM2 seats! Very comfy. Much better than the old bench seat.

speedfoos

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Buh bye.

OpTiCaL

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i see page 213, but i cant click it!!!! i wonder if this thread reached max size?!

oh yeah, nice ride man!

speedfoos

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Buh bye.

dopes6070

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looks like your making some good progress. At least the frame and all that is in good shape the floor is pretty easy to take care of.

speedfoos

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Buh bye.

bomerman19

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mmmmmm! toast!

I like your decision

that sawzall looks like it's coming in pretty handy

and is that a hoist I see

If you didn't run to a problem like having to lose the front end then it would not be a Foos worthy project