The first picture shows the car basically as we bought it. Since then there has been alot of work done. We had all the basic mechanics of the front end and rear end re-built.

Then we added our re-built EB2 with Colt Cam, Japanese RS Header with 2-1 2" adaptor and Weber carb, some flat head pistons (which may be stock for the EB2?), and our vintage/new 1975 Ansa Ferrari muffler for old school flare.

Along with the engine swap we did the CVCC tachometer kit, a 5 speed tranny and matching vintage 5 speed shift knob, some race seats and changed the original blue interior for black, used a 1975 front grill and tailights and restored every little piece along the way....which took alot of time and patience...

Hooked up with some new seats, much nicer looking than the old one's, more confortable to.

I just quickly polished the rims, I plan to get Greens to do them proffesionally this spring.

Angel eye's from Ebay, haven't seen them since, but install was easy and now I have some halogen, big difference on the highway. Also at this time we wired the side marker lights to be blinkers.

the original EB3 got tossed. Then we sans blasted rust around the battery tray and spot hit any other spots. then gave the bay a quick paint job, this way when I re-paint this year I don't need to pull the engine ;)

Viola! Re-built EB2 installed. This was a day job, but it took a few weeks to tune it out, carb adjust, timing advance etc.

I managed to get around to installing the rear tail lights from an old 75 civic parts car we had. They are a bit different in that they have three red sections and I needed to custom wire this style of tail light so it would hook up to the old connecter. I made the top section blink and all of them turn on and go red under braking.

Vancouver Civic Warehouse Car Show 2006

The cars back from the welder, you can see here how much of the rear qaurter needed to be repaced by the donor metal.

This is a good shot of the rocker panel that got replaced...both sides right into the floor board...We decided to upgrade the jack points to 1991 civic jack points, a bit thicker and stronger than original.

Now that the cars home I installed new struts and cleaned and painted all the strut parts...easy job really, I used anti-sieze on the bolts when I put it back on. Also I started painting the wheel wells in preparation to get the car done!

So Whiteline suspension in New Zealand still sell the racing strut bars with poly-bushings. So I installed the front bar, which you see here, the rear one will be more difficult as it is a custom addition, not just a repacement part. This with my new shortened springs and new struts should handle pretty nice.

Change of plans, the cut springs didn't work so well, so I went ahead and used 1992 Honda Civic coil overs. Some minor mods. But will allow adjustable ride height.

It's hard to see, but the rear sway bar went in without a hitch, like I mentioned before it needed some work but, wow, the car handles like its on rails!!!

Short shift kit is in, I bought what was left from dealership for rubber parts and used a 92 acura shift kit. Than used my own wood knob on it....

There you have it, you can also see the dynamat we used to complete the whole inside of the car. More weight but way better on long drives.

Also a wood steering wheel went in this year.

After Paint my dad helped out and hooked me up with some old school pinstriping. Which is rad BTW.

So thats the car, back on the road. Lots of little things like flushed out symbols, marker lights, lowering, suspension, pearl in the paint, re-undercoated....the list goes on. I'm just glad it's all done and this summer was the first summer in a few years that I could just drive it. Ahhhhh. It was worth every second and cut knuckle.