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Hopefully your all ready for 2021 man. Would love to meet up at some point and see this in the flesh i am a big fan love the details. Hopefully everything comes out well with the engine also and its not too drastic to fix.

Thanks man its hydraulics sort of like the lowriders now used to be air and they arent easy to find at all but if you type in airwalker bumper sometimes you can find one like from the states or japan etc just have to be lucky if im honest and just pay whatever the price is like alot if rare...

Thanks bro really appreciate it yeah eventually i will probably get rid of the wide wheels and the hydraulics and go for meatier tyres i nice set of volks and bc coilys most likely as i have them on my other civic which im in the middle of kswapping but your totally right about the seals etc...

Thanks very much man i know totally that it isnt gonna be to everyones taste in here being a sort of show car but i hope people will read through and appreciate the work anyway as ive tried to go seriously clean etc

If you arent quite looking to go as stiff as poly bushes. i would recommend the hard race stiff rubber bushings not quite as hard as poly bushes but not quite as soft as oem. Fairly nice to drive on Tegiwa have most for sale. Also on my daily driver which is soon to be k swapped i have got a set...

Now the reason ive rushed the timeline is because on Monday i am bringing her back to the unit i share with my friends to fully recondition the underside and then the interior so i thought i would get up to date before i start that.

so stripped and sold everything i didn't want and started ordering bits including BYS bumper, Zeal spoiler both hard to find, Rayvern hydraulics kit, custom CCW D11L wheels etc it went in too a body shop and its been there up until present day. It has had every panel replaced now with genuine...

So i looked for a clean shell or car to base this off, to re shell the car i found a mint little Tin Top 2000 EJ9 supersonic blue under 30000 miles full history etc i snapped her up.

It came to around July I am sure 2016 after being in Scottish Car Show Top 50 that was the last day i drove her and she was declared SORN as i had decided i was going to build a serious project go back to basics and start again. Build the civic i had always wanted.

I had the car on the road quite a lot that year doing what anyone should with a civic, enjoy it i built a boot build for the Air suspension and solved all the issues with the bags rubbing etc.

So then a brain wave arrived i fitted the XXRs on a saturday morning as it was a show at knockhill that morning i dropped the air down and i just wasnt mega impressed it didnt quite jump out at me. Then it hit me i needed wider wheels i had previously bought banded steels for my caddy fully...

So i sent the car along with the bumper etc in for paint during that time i thought i would look for some better coilovers and a usual for me at about 2 in the morning ordered Air ride wasnt a straight bolt on kit took abit of fitting etc so basically heres the car once painted and air was on...

The next things i ordered as it was going so well was a genuine airwalker BYS bumper and brand new xxrs and then sourced a buddy club spec 2 exhaust which wasnt easy to find but i had wanted one for ages. Also ordered a samurai sword gearstick and custom grip royal steering wheel so now i had...

So found my self a full rear disc setup but instead of using it went to order most of stuff brand new so order brand new oem RTA bushes, brand new oem calipers, drilled and grooved discs, new pads, new wheels bearings, braided brake lines and bew hand brake cables. Then totally refreshed the...

It was acctually a good friend i knew that owned it and had helped do some of the work to it so knew it was solid etc. So as you can imagine still with a fair bit of funds started ordering bits.

January 2016 i had sold my Caddy so had a fair bit of funds to throw into the civic but it had started seriously rusting and wasnt really worth fixing so i stripped all the bits i liked off it and found another one that was really clean 58000 miles heres some photos it had been minor modified...

So following that i built up a MK1 Caddy pickup that was pretty cool and start of 2015 civic went off the road and sat didnt want to sell it as i loved it was my first proper car. Now we come to the slightly more intresting part of the civic journey....

So basically i went got the arches done and the rear bumper painted so it was at least in better condition. I then did the usual when your 16-17 and bought a massive sub woofer a straight pipe and leds lights. I dunno what i was thinking but you live and learn i guess heres some pics.

so it began in 2012 i was 16 no license my friend had bought a honda civic ej9 pre facelift in thunder grey. I loved it and my mind was made up i had to have one so i bought this little thing a 2000 vogue silver metallic ej9 my first proper taste of a civic just a d14 but at the time loved it...

Hi guys totally new to this forum except been building hondas for around 8 years now so going to try take you from my journey then all the way till now and then see how we go. Now im aware alot of my choice with my builds might not be to peoples taste but i hope to hear opinions anyway. Thought...