Street Tuner GB!!

Ok paknick A year it is. so hopefully I can get a few kits done and really fill up the livingroom display area.
Kevin

MAJOR BUMP, This was on the third page
Kevin

Almost ready to start this build. have my kit and some fresh parts ready to go. paknick are you ready to go?

Kevin

No,not yet,but will be soon,I will be going to longs to get either a regular ciciv,or a hatch back,tuner version,revell.

Hey paknick I am in with a honda civic SI coupe. byy revel 1/25

Kevin

Cool platinum,im looking forward to seeing it done

One more day!!!!!!!! cant bear this been staring at the box and holding it. wif thinks I have gone mad. I told her sooooooooooo.
Kevin

All right tear open the boxes and let this bad boy begin. Time to blow it up.
Kevin

QUOTE: Originally posted by PakNicK-40 Well the reason I put a year is so that the slow builders(no offense)can finish in time,to maybe even build a second kit.

no offense taken, at least by me.... ( a very slow builder)
w/ that time frame, i'm in....
project: Honda Civic hatchback

frosty

ummmm.... i totally didn't put down what kit i was planning to build.

it's a nissan 300zx with some scratch built accessary parts for the car. hopefully i'd become bored enough to spend 10 bucks to get a set of rims... talk about ricing even a model car. sheesh.

Welcome aboard Frosty!

Hi frosty welcome aboard. lets have some fun. AM parts is the name of the game for me. or at least scratch built.
Kevin

well has anyone have a motor built yet or a chassie or umm wait we just started ok well are we having fun yet? I am still looking for the other four cylinders there here somewhere. oooooppppppsssss forgot it's a honda
Kevin

thanx 4 the welcome, guys !
here's where i'm at w/ this one :

honda civic hatch (revellogram 2 in 1 tuner series)

another pic... this is just mocked up 4 now...
i am shaving off the door handles & side trim, this will
not b a really extreme tuner, just going 4 a real clean look
on this project, at least that's the plan so far...


frosty

WOW and away we go. Into the first turn its frostygirl ahead by alot. great job so far frosty, you go girl.
Kevin

yeah, but i'll probably spin coming out of that first turn...
thanx, anyhow !

frosty

And funny too the perfect female, builds modeles and has a sense of humor,
Kevin

now were having fun

Kevin

can i just say how much fun i'm having ?
i really hate 2 putty & sand, so i'm trying 2 shave the
side detail off smoothly...
2nite i will b making w/ the squadron green/liquid cement mix,
ahhh, the smell of toluene....
ick !
how's by u guys ?
(& nobody's perfect... not even me... not by a long shot, LOL !)

frosty

every time i try to sand any 1/12 bike kit the gas tank start to look a different shape than it was originally molded. and somehow the Tamiya putty inside the seam just decides to not to stay put and flakes away so i go back to the puttying stage all over again. went over the old NSR500 kit about 3 times doing that process for the motogp GB which were also one reason that i temporarily stopped building that kit.

archangel try filling small seams with thick ca glue. it wont flake out and can be sanded smooth.
frostygirl everyone is perfect in there own way.
Kevin

progress update:
my tuner is moving along (so 2 speak)...
the body has been puttied & sanded
seat contrast color painted, console installed
the engine is in, the suspension is on & window tint applied....

i hear my turbo spooling up.....
so how's everyone else doing ?

frosty

hey frostygirl, i am not trying to be an ****** by stating this just so you know first of all.

anyways, the car unfortunately does not have a turbo in it (which is good cuz turbo defeats the purpose of Vtec, which a lot of ricer boys failed to realize) It DOES have a cold air intake that's either AEM or Injen (paint that cone thing in the front pinkish red and leave the circular piece chrome silver, that's the way Injen filters come in). it hooks onto behind the engine of what looks like a intake manifold that has individual throttlebodies on, can't really see it clearly. What would also be a cool look would be painting the engine bay interior the same as the exterior color, as most cars would already have. Fluid bottles are generally white. You can see the battery on the right side of the engine bay looking from the front, painting the top yellow or red would make it look like the Optima batteries most tuners use these days. and a painted valve cover on the engine itself would finish that engine bay to as real as those details can get and make ricerboys go wow.

You haven't gone onto painting yet but that'd just be my lots of 0.02...

WOW archangel sounds like you know your tunners,
Kevin

Nah, I just don't waste time watching things on MTV like Pimp My Ride. Back in college I got a bunch of crazy mechanical engineering buddies who got me into boosting cars. Started with one guy's Talon TSi, then eventually moved onto turbo charging my own gen 3 camry. 3 weeks later due to a lousy pressure regulator failure, (jumped from 8psi to 20psi), the block got a quarter size hole punctured inside out and half cracked plus 2 seized cylinders. That's the point when i realized the fact that unless it comes with a turbo, DONT put one in it. So now I just got basic intake (Injen) header (Forza/OBX) exhaust (Mazdaspeed) n some more bolt on parts for minor upgrades for the Protege5 for the general commute. n those are pretty much the same things the frosty 's got in her MODEL civic.

cool. my son just bought a eclips spider gs nice car.

Kevin

QUOTE: Originally posted by archangel571 br]hey frostygirl, i am not trying to be an ****** by stating this....

archangel:
thanx 4 the tips !
i wouldn't ever think that anyone was a (whatever) simply based
on the kind of stuff u pointed out ...
in fact, if i'd bothered 2 pay attention while assembling the engine,
i'd have realized that this was an all-motor setup & that the cold air intake
was hooked up directly 2 the intake manifold rather than 2 a turbo snail...
i was too busy trying 2 sound cool, but just ended up sounding dumb, sorry...
(sometimes my ADD gets the better of me)
as 4 the engine bay, i was looking at it & thinking something didn't look rite,
i will b painting it 2 match the exterior color as u suggested.
i'm not sure about the battery, tho'... optima batteries have a definite
6-pack shape under the rectangular top, some sharp eyed person like urself
mite notice that this battery is flat sided...

latest pix of the civic hatch project:

mods 2 body kit front end

body kit side mods & scratchbuilt intercooler

side mods again

disc brake rotors & brakes, another side view

mods 2 rear fascia of body kit begun...
so, since there's no turbo unit 4 it 2 connect 2,
does this mean that the intercooler i scratchbuilt 4 the front end
is going nowhere, or can i recycle it as an oil cooler unit maybe ?

frosty

well the intercooler is supposed to be connected between the turbo and the intake manifold for the high pressure air to pass through and get cooled down. and is used to cool the oil inside the turbo charger itself. Sometimes you do see people at shows using it just as an exterior decoration. Since you had already fabricated it I'd say it doesn't hurt to just leave it there in the front.

I went out and bought a tunners magizine. wow what alot of pictures and information this will help me get this car right. and I was able to get a good idea of the paint that will go down on the body.
Kevin

platinumhw:
tuner mags r a great source of info & pix,
i actually read 'Sport Compact Cars' every month !

progress update:
not much 2 report, actually...
here's a pic of the civic engine bay:

i've picked out some of the details under the hood & started
the process of running wiring, there r the 4 spark plug wires
between the distributor cap & manifold cover...
still have 2 break out the green paint & do the sheet metal areas
in the bay, maybe i'll b able 2 get 2 that this weekend.

frosty