Street Tuner GB!!

OK. been down for a few weeks. Repairs have been made on my neck. next one is dec 20. but I will be back in the game soon. hope everyone is having lots of fun.

Kevin

no worries, folks...
just wanted 2 make sure i wasn't alone !
thanx 4 the kind words, platinumhw... if u like the hatch,
u mite enjoy checking out my chaparral/ferrari kitbash
in the Autos section... a 'what-if' build combining
chaparral 2D coupe & ferrari 360 modena spider kits.

best wishes & build when u r able !

frosty

Still have a bunch of GBs to clear out for this year before I can actually allow myself to touch the kit. = (

I am still here although my daughter still has my camara and alot haxs been going on I find myself going nowhere last weekend but there is a light at the end of this build and no rush of course. your work frosty is way cool.
Kevin

platinumhw:
i'm still working on mine !
nobody else has posted any pix yet...
& here i thought i was going
2 b the slowest builder in the group, too, LOL !
looking forward 2 some company in here at some point ..
one person isn't really a Group Build .

best wishes 2 all,

frosty

OK HOW IS IT GOING HAVE NOT HEARD FROM ANYONE. so is everyone still building there kits?
KEVIN

I think they changed there name and know one knows what to call them anyway I guess the did not earn all that they needed. ok back to building.
Kevin
by the way where is the spell check anyway, or at least stronger tea

gah, I think kevin saw too much of my screenname and got sick of it....

I think he means"angels"

the los angles err anahiem angles or mmmmmmmm anyway the angles won there chance to play in the world series.
Kevin

QUOTE: Originally posted by platinumhw looking good frosty say what about those angles? Kevin

thanx...
not sure what u mean about 'those angles', tho'...
will have some updated pix soon, i hope ....

frosty

QUOTE: Originally posted by platinumhw Right here not much on my end as of late. My mother inlaw had a stoke and I have been at the hospitial alot. I hope I can get some build time in this week. Kevin

platinumhw:
hope ur mother in law is doing better !

looking good frosty say what about those angles?
Kevin

Right here not much on my end as of late. My mother inlaw had a stoke and I have been at the hospitial alot. I hope I can get some build time in this week.
Kevin

progress update:
got the engine bay sheet metal painted Sublime green,
& started running ground wires between the block & the unibody.

totally rice intercooler, LOL... looks good thru the front bumper, tho' !

a small ICE upgrade w/ scratchbuilt speaker enclosures


no pix yet, but i also added some wire mesh 2 the rear bumper
& installed the instrument panel in2 the dashboard..
so, where r u all at, people ?

frosty

Ok lets see some pics I should have a few by sunday

Kevin

frosty you are amazing and glad to have you on this build. I should have pics soon.

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

WOW archangel sounds like you know your tunners,
Kevin

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...

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

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

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.

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