Civicstan's Ground up k20 Ek Build thread

Sup guys, the names Simon and im from the United Kingdom, being building this Honda since i was 16 and im 18 now, purchased the car completely stock knowing how much of a huge project I was getting myself into, and as usual it got worse as I got further into it, I changed my mind a lot through the years and now have finally got set on what I want, I try to buy all genuine and brand new parts where I can because im dedicated to perfection so all the little details matter, especially the condition of parts so I will throw some pictures up!

When I first got the car;









When I got the car safe and sound at home I started ripping out the interior









Fast forward some amount of work and were here:



Only signs of rust I found so far, nothing to bad, I guess it was expected really;





I could see daylight through this!



Once I got all the inside stripped out I wasted no time in driving the car in the garage and unbolting all the exterior panels:









Once the panels were all removed I could focus on the inside, in particular I started with the rear lighting loom section, so passenger side first;



Then chased it around the drivers side corner;



Until I was left with this;

Decided to take some photos of how it sat before i went in to deep;





But.. then i did;



Ripped out the old d14 engine;



Now with all the engine out i could set to work on removing everything else, so started with the drivers side suspension and hub assemblies;



Then onto all the wiring and brackets in the engine bay;





Once the bulk was gone it looked fairly straight forward;







Then come the time for making a custom stand for the shell that was higher than axel stands so we could comfortably attend to the underside, so we fabbed up this;







With this built we could easily access the underside, and attended to the fuel lines an tank, the tank will be replaced with a brand new one;

So now the shell was well equipped for working on and just about stripped, we got to work, cut out two pieces of rust on the front inner wings;



So got that rust killed and rust primered protection slapped on;



Now heres the inspection of the rust else where on the car;















Once all the rust was found it was time to get to work on killing the rust using rust killer and primer, the parts in black is the rust killer treatment and the brown was after three coats of rust killer;









Inbetween all that i removed the rear section of the sound deadening;

And discovered that all the floor plans have holes in both footwell corners due to factory designs;



Anyways back to the rust killing and arch weldings;

So the cars had some work done to it, i started by starting to fill the pop rivet holes for now until i can mock the engine up!







Then i cleaned most the inside up from the sound deadening residue and removed the rear seat bracket;





Then since all the rust killing is complete i painted the underside gloss black;

the arch reconstruction is under way



shaved all the seam sealer off the inside welds for a smoother look and used some putty just to neatly seal it;





Started on finalising the sound deadening removal to but its such a tedious job;





Recieved a rather awesome package too so here we go!













I opted for the 62a bush option purely down to the fact im only using oem bushes in the suspension when it comes round to it so i dont want to hard a compound bush.

picked up these new oem Honda ek9 race base manual door card pulls, keeping the all new everything theme going part by part

in other news received these items for the swap, dc2 subframe and rack, wishbones and fork legs;







I plan on powdercoating them at a later date and all new oem hardware for the rack, new oem bushes for the wishbones and maybe some downstar bolts!

bought a full civic type r, for use of the k20a2 motor and gearbox;



Photo's make it look clean but really it was a dog, so it made it hard work for me to shift some parts but im still on with that, but this is all i wanted;



So i got what i wanted out of it pretty damn quick;

Right heres for you guys to show you the parts im sitting on!

Firstly a Genuine honda ek9 rear plate recess;



Genuine honda ek9 99-00 rear lights;



Neo chrome asr brace and blackworks racing LCA'S;



16 4x100 arp extended studs;





ARC EK4 winglets;



J's Racing 60RR Titanium exhaust system, got lucky apparently the only one in the uk!







J's Racing 3d gt wet carbon spoiler, once again only 2 in the uk;



Rare Honda access BNIB gold badge set;





98 Spec dc2 Integra Type r Master cylinder+servo;



BNIB honda rear light seals;



BNIB Honda s2000 clutch master cylinder;



BNIB Honda rear disc trailing arm bushes;



Them red tags be addictive to get;



Honda ek4 saloon rear keyless entry door handles;

Spoon Sports S2000 Carbon Tai Rear Diffuser;





BNIB Honda ek windscreen;



BNIB Honda ek windscreen seal;



My wheel choice - Advan Rg's freshly refurbished (which ive sold now)







What could be in this box?



Maybe these?



And mocked up behind the advans;



Recieved these two boxes also;



Inside the first box;





K-Tuned billet shifter;





Inside the second box;

Billet shifter bracket and packet;





And race spec shifter cables;

Here something I threw together over the weekend since it was raining outside, now you don't have to guess what the part collection looks like;

So another three parcels turned up this week so here we go;

Firstly a brand spanking new fuel tank



Then I received my Rywire mil spec tucked wiring loom;




I also bought the Rywire k series harness adapter for 99-00 so there's a dash loom and dash change coming too;



Lastly came this box from the states;





BNIB honda access rear shark fins, stupidly rare over here;

Picked up some new wheels, staggered fitment Volk SE37's, the specs are;

4x100
2 - 16x8 et22
2 - 16x7 et42

Going to be running the 8j's on the front with some 225's or 215's and J's racing 99-00 fenders as the previous owner ran 205/45 all round and i dont like the stretch;





So now onto the pictures, this is the first time using a proper camera;









Going to be ordering some new centre caps for them and some stickers because i want them minty fresh;



Opted for the Skunk 2 Alpha kswap manifold. 2.5" to mate with my Js Racing 60rr catback so onto the photos;









A match made in heaven id say! I wanted to get a Js Racing manifold to match the rest of the system but i didnt want to spend around £800 and it not fit as there is only very limited information on the web to whether cl7 accord manifolds fit the ekk2 swap without catching the subframe. But it looks great with the 60rr and im sure it will sound amazing too;

Js Racing 99-00 Carbon front lip;



And my brother bought me this cool book for christmas;



Just ordered a Js racing gold emblem for the centre on the lip

heres a photo I took of the se37's and spoons: im looking at buying some 6pots instead of the spoons



and something I picked up just the other day; massive thanks to @Jdm Dc2 type rx



that's all for now all upto date on my build

Holy mother of god

instagram is simon_Stanewell if any of you want to follow or maybe already do

Shame everythings fake.

Yes logan my exact thoughts!

One question with your wheels you going to be running 225 on the 8" and 7" aswell?

Mega build lots of expensive parts

R1PPU said:

Shame everythings fake.

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I love fake stuff

Rossco155 said:

Yes logan my exact thoughts!

One question with your wheels you going to be running 225 on the 8" and 7" aswell?

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I am yeah, I may have to run 215's in the end though since im looking at selling the spoons before the cars done and buying some of the Js Racing s2000 6pots so I may need to space the wheel out some which if I do I don't want to faul the js wings il be running with 225's. A lot to think about at a later date

Jdm Dc2 type rx said:

Mega build lots of expensive parts

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Thanks man, thought id get this up so you could see what home your seats have gone to

Good lad I can see they'll be in good hands mate