Project WTF??? - 1991 Honda City

woz_106 wrote:

Masher wrote:

I didn't think safety came into consideration in the B4T way?

oooooo your quick i'll give you that.

I do try



Norledge, Are you attempting to spaceframe the whole shell or just go for a cage that mounts the engine?

spaceframe masher

Respect


There was a lad on ssc who did a cosworth engined AX, but the car was never finished


Picture here

and here

wasn't that Taz's iirc, was watching that build for ages

It was indeed, i'm hoping he finishes it soon.

woz_106 wrote:

is that going to fit properly and why is the orange shite bronze

can't believe its happening though, something has actually gone onto the city rather that cutting/breaking something off.

Stu for the first time in years it's PROGRESS!!!!

What you mean fit properly??

And i said i'd matched the spring, not damper :-p

And Jay... you weren't seriously expecting it to be finished???

Any way... it's on its wheels now... next job is diff mounting...

Masher wrote:

Norledge, Are you attempting to spaceframe the whole shell or just go for a cage that mounts the engine?

Kind of half and half tbh...

I cant imagine how much your looking forward to the day the project is complete just so you can silence the mocking of how it will never be finished lol. Are the other 3 fitted yet?

Not just the day it's finished... but the day i hold a slide all the way round gerrards in it... while over taking a black 106... that Woz will STILL have!

lmfao more than likely the way my insurance is going atm

I can't wait to see this funny looking shrunken down civic in my rear view as we enter gerrards just carry straight on and into the kitty litter

What are your engine plans?

At the moment i'm using a Kawasaki ZX10, carb fed, 140ish bhp... As soon as that dies (or i get bored) I'll upgrade to with a ZX10R (injection 160bhp) or ZX12R (injection 200bhp) which are direct bolt onto the same mounts

Look forward to seeing this finished

we all are it's been going 18 months

Thats not too bad considering, my neighbour (also on ssc) was building a saxo turbo since 2005 and has only just finished, now the engine needs a rebuild because he bought parts from qep and they suck.

Don't tell him that, god I will be in a family wagon by the time he gets it done now.

tbh, he'd still be faffing about with civic engines if I hadn't piped up

Well you hardly had to persuade me...

'Why not just drop an engine in the back?'

' Meh... OK.'

lmao easy!!!

Norledge wrote:

Well you hardly had to persuade me...

'Why not just drop an engine in the back?'

' Meh... OK.'

Rear clip of an mr2 turbo would have being ideal its taken off in one piece. Remove the body work and your left with an engine/gearbox in the subframe with driveshafts & hubs etc all held together. Bit late now but l would have bought the engine off you

Adam86 wrote:

Norledge wrote:

Well you hardly had to persuade me...

'Why not just drop an engine in the back?'

' Meh... OK.'

Rear clip of an mr2 turbo would have being ideal its taken off in one piece. Remove the body work and your left with an engine/gearbox in the subframe with driveshafts & hubs etc all held together. Bit late now but l would have bought the engine off you

That was the plan in the Cinq/MG... But i wanted custom

All this talk of Scottish Driving Holidays, and pure interest left me calling Flux today...

Insured for £7500, all mods declared, up to 160bhp... £825... Just need to work out how to MOT it now...

Was that on a limited mileage?

Adam86 wrote:

Was that on a limited mileage?

2500 a year... but with no odometer... whos to know...

Norledge wrote:

Adam86 wrote:

Was that on a limited mileage?

2500 a year... but with no odometer... whos to know...

Could be abit of a school boy question but i thought you had to have one to pass an mot? I know they can't be legally reset but you can replace one with another with lower milage.

Nope... technically you don't even need a speedo!

That i didn't know.

I don't even need a bulk head between me and the engine... but i'm thinking i will

Bit of progress...



Freebie Polycarbs

can't believe this thread is 16 pages long and at the moment it's still scrap metal.

Still faster than your bec...

not faster than my gti though is it

Meh i'd rather walk tbh.

woz_106 wrote:

I am going to get you a little cup to present to you "This award goes to Stuart Norledge, for finally completing a project" .

Just thought i'd repost that...

I think you should add pop up headlights not only for the coolness but more importantly the motors will add some weight to the front end

just not mr2 ones as they will proberly fail

I've got some 480t pop ups that'd do the job nicely

woz_106 wrote:

just not mr2 ones as they will proberly fail

lol at least mine fixed itself. Must have being having a french moment

Adam86 wrote:

woz_106 wrote:

just not mr2 ones as they will proberly fail

lol at least mine fixed itself. Must have being having a french moment

Im clad it did start working again they are a bastard to change.

EDIT - that post went a bit wrong lol

lmao, i can see that...

pop up lights would add some '80's cool!! esp as the 480 ones are red!!! :-)

and for ultimate pimp, rig them to pop up just for flashing people, then straight back down, kind of like a retarded wink

ohhh yeah. if i remember rightly on is a bit wonky so city would look like a winker!!!

Any more updataes?

Linked in from a Honda forum.
Now you have an even bigger audience

Oh dear... got a link?

It's from ww.4guk.co.uk/forum which is about the 4th gen civic mainly, but entertains Honda owners generally.
There is a lad on there who has a City which was imported last year or 08 by a lad from the CRX forum.
I wanted it myself but Iv'e ended up with a couple of mk1 civic's instead. About the same weight

Just looking for ways to get a bigger D series into the front end and gathering others experiences.

I don't suppose you still have the original D13 engine and box going spare do you ?
The owner of this one may be interested...

Haha sadly it dropped a valve, which wrapped round the other three and was then pushed up thorough the head and snapped the cam

Got a lovely custom stainless exhaust though...

But no sadly no progress recently

I guess you chucked the box too?

Same about the engine, well, I dont suppose you'd have gone this far if it had not happened

Never fear, I'm 3 years into a build and so far all that's happened is £1000 worth of engine destroyed itself.
It took a year for me to fit it and it's been another year and it's still not fixed.

Haha just seen your post on the City thread over then... It will get done... eventually

On hold atm though due to financial issues