my ek3 build

[joeleoek]

Heres an updated speclist

Vehicle
1998 Honda Civic ek3

Brakes/Suspension
Meister R Zeta S coilovers
Cyberspeed lca's
Ek9 front anti roll bar with new oem droplinks
Dc2 front strut Brace
Tegiwa x-brace
Rear trailing arm bushes replaced - oem
Lower Balljoints replaced
All Front bushes replaced with Energy suspension poly bushes
Goodridge Braided Brake Lines
5.1 Motul Brake Fluid
Tegiwa MasterCylinder Stopper
Mb6 brake conversion, 282 fronts 260 rears - Fully rebuilt calipers using all new components/seals.
Brembo rear discs
Mb6 calipers painted oem R505-p

Engine
B18c4 engine- Bought with 26k miles
DC2 exhaust manifold
2.5" center section
2.5" backbox, spoon replica
Decat
Blox intake manifold
Aem Cold Air Intake
wire tuck
colourcoded rocker cover
Cambelt Changed

Exterior
Ek9 Style Headlights
Ek9 Front Lip
Ek9 Rear Lip
Ek9 Grill
Colourcoded Bumpstrips
Colourcoded Sideskirts
Jdm Rear Light Conversion
Jdm Sized Plates
Tilted oem spoiler
15" 5zigen div.3 wheels
Jazz washer jets

Interior
Fiberglass composite bucket seats
Sunroof removed and fitted with sunroof delete kit
EK9 door cards
Ek9 glove box
Ek9 Carpet
OMP 4-point harnesses
Momo Tuner 350mm wheel
D1 spec snap off boss
Type R gear knob
Ek9 Gear gaitor
Carbon airbag delete
Carbon fuel pump cover
Fli Swat5 Headunit
Carbon fibre air vents + dash trim
removed sound deadening throughout
stripped out, no seatbelts, bolts, brakets or rear seats
Satin black painted interior



heres my buildup anyway which i started about 9 months ago. all comments and opinions welcome!

Heres my old hawaii, had it for about a year and luckily i didnt do any mods on it. I had **** tyres, probably illegal and it was raining so i went right into the bak of sum1. obviously it was a bit my fault but i blame the weather lol

Then after that disaster i knew i wanted another 6th gen civic so i saved up 4 a while then bought this. i paid £1500 for it with 58000 miles on the clock. it was in amazing condition but the main reason i wanted it was because it was a 1.5 lol not a 1.4 very big improvement, naat!!

here she is as i bought her, bit of a shyte pic!

first thing i did was get red honda badges, take the 1.5ils off the back and a new type r front lip.

next i bought a genuine type r grill, and a twin pipe back box off ebay. i went for the ep3 type r look.

an here they are on

grill was ded easy only took 10 mins. I think it looks good with the lip and bumpstrips. thinking of colour coding something but dno wat yet.

My springs are getting fitted this sunday i will post some pics as soon as their done. Any one got any experience with koni sport springs??

Today i also recieved my new front tyres gonna get them fitted tomorrow, get the springs done on sunday and then get an alignment on monday.The toyo proxes had good reviews on this site and they wer cheap so decided 2 go 4 em!

finally fitted my springs on sunday at a freinds/mecanics house. only took a cuple of hours. I wasnt hoping for a massive drop because i am a delivery driver part time, just want a subtle drop! heres the pics, tell me what you think

just had a play around on photoshop, think the blue luks cool!!

ok got a few more updates

firstly i did an oil change with my dad, replaced the old oil filter which was a bit of a nightmare to get off. but the crow bar soon changed that!

then i replaced the gear knob gaitor with an ek9 style 1. pretty easy job and looks sweet!! just need a new gear knob.

Then i painted the calipers gold, just to contrast the wheels. suppose any colour is better than shitty blacky rusty dirty kind of colour lol

gave the wheels a good clean while they where off!

Then i decided to type r the headlights so i set about taking the front bumper off

i took the lights off, the car then put them in the ovan to melt the silicon seal the after a cuple of mins i pulled the different sections apart

Then i masked the certain ares off and primed them with halfords grey.

while i was waitin for the paint to dry i took the plastic number plate surround thingy off, then mounted the plate back on. luks alot sleaker and lightweight lol

o yer i also d-badged the rear. just luks alot smoother and stealthy

 

[joeleoek]

okay havnt updated for a while. i failed my m.o.t on a few small things like window wipers and rear trailing arm bushes. All that has been sorted and today im going for my retest then tomorrow i will be fitting the exhaust mani. I also but a z6 inlet mani that should be going on later in the week when i have time.

At the moment i have been colourcoding the bumpstrips, i was gonna just fill the bumpers but i thought i may aswel colour code then if they look **** i can get on with filling them in.

alot of the rubber had layers coming off and stone chips so i chuked a bit of filler in them and gave them a smooth.

heres the before pic

heres the otherside with all the stone chips, and a bit of sanding i started.

then i put way too much filler on. which meant i had to sand it down alot more but it came out really smooth and i was happy for it to be primered

The lighting was a bit **** in the garage so the colour may not look right but im sure it will be

now im just adding a few more coats of clear laquer and then il show sum pics of them bak on. then i need to do the other 6 pieces

im well chuffed with how they turned out but i might do an extra layer of laquer as it luks a tiny bit dull.

got a few more updates
firstly i cleaned up my d16z6 inlet mani. just gave it a scrub and a smooth sanding down to bring out the shine.

also gave the little bracket a spray

just ordered a new gasket for the inlet mani then i will fit it hopefully later on in the week.

Then i fitted my exhaust mani. I found that the bolts connecting the mani were badly rusted along with some of the exhaust. They where impossible to take off so i just cut them off and replaced them with new ones. This will also help me later on when replacing my exhaust in the future.

Also gave this a sanding to bring bak the shine and remove the rust

 

[JDM_addict]

nice build..

a quick question, i got an ek hatch wit a top mounted intake mani jus like yours before u changed to d16z6 inlet mani .
I would like to know did u changed anything else other than the intake mani itself? like the ecu, pipping,injector, cable, sensor etc.. so tat i will fit to ur engine..

 

[LiamEk4]

nice ek3 build mate keep use updated

 

[joeleoek]

nice build..

a quick question, i got an ek hatch wit a top mounted intake mani jus like yours before u changed to d16z6 inlet mani .
I would like to know did u changed anything else other than the intake mani itself? like the ecu, pipping,injector, cable, sensor etc.. so tat i will fit to ur engine..

Thanks buddy..

erm all of the sensors came with the d16 mani that i bought and so did the throttle body fuel rail and injectors. i Used the same injectors that where on my d15 but u can swap them i think. pretty much a straight swap m8 just all the messin around with which bit goes where. if u label everything u should be fine.

 

[joeleoek]

nice ek3 build mate keep use updated

thanks m8 heres an update of the new d16 mani fitted..

ok the only problem was that my mecanic friend ordered a new gasket but it was for an 1850cc civic. so we had to fabricate a new one using special gasket card.

i still need to tidy up the injector wires and give the fuel rail a proper polish but thats pretty much it!

it did take quite a while to do but thats mainly due to the gasket, other issues where just locating which wires went where.

 

[joeleoek]

full pic of the bay after

 

[magikcivic]

Its a very entertaining build. Also i love the color. Keep up the good work

 

[JDMJNKY]

Looks really good! why didn't you paint the: Lips & door molding?

 

[joeleoek]

im gonna do the door moldings sometime next week mabye and probably get the sideskirts and lip done professionally.

 

[joeleoek]

i havn't updated in ages and iv got loads of stuff done. here it is!!

rocker cover needed doing

gave it a clean with some soapy water and then splodged on loads of nitro morse

Then cleaned all that off and gave it a light sand all over. Also polished up the honda logo and dabbed sum vaso on it, so the paint will come off l8er.

Also plugged some of the holes with tissue and masking tape

Then used a high temperature paint as a primer

After about three coats of primer i gave it a light sand with 1200 grit ready for paint.

Then i did four coats of paint and this is what im left with

Just need to wait for it to dry, remove the paint on the logo then il get sum pics of it bak on the car. dnno if i shud have done a clear coat of laquer....ahwel still luks ok i fink.

 

[joeleoek]

heres a pic of my engine bay with the roker cover on

thought id take sum pics of the car after a clean and nearly all of the bumpstrips colour coded.

heres my gangsta gecko aswel lol

very small update, probably not even worth u looking at it!i did the jdm light conversion 2day, an il be ordering a tegiwa master cylinder brace and a password jdm gear knob for crhistmas. and thats it lol

(very bad picture)

 

[joeleoek]

iv changed the badge bak to standard and put my import plate on. i just need to get rid of the sticky stuff left over from the the previous plate.

finally got round to fitting my straight through exhaust system with decat. it sounds soo much nicer, has a subtle purr to it and sounds really sporty in vtec, im soo pleased. we had to weld a few areas to get the pipe to fit with the new decat but everything is fitted now.

old stock exhaust

new exhaust being bodged

i also put my tegiwa mc brake stopper on. i just couldnt wait till christmas, i hate having parts lying round my room waiting to go on my car. so that on and braking seems a bit sharper.

i had a little bump the other week on the ice. skidded into a wall but luckily the damage wasnt too bad, most of it was on the numberplate.

soon the bumper was fixed and also replaced the number plate. And added a tilt bracket from Tegiwa

i also bought some grommits from halfors too fill in the holes, then sprayed them up.
my new camera arrived aswel so heres som shots, not the best because im still learnin the ropes

 

[joeleoek]

o yer and i sprayed these up coz they where manky!

should freshen the bay up abit more

finally got the sideskirts done, just needs a proper clean and some good pictures. Il be ordering my tripod soon so shood be able to get some better shots.

i also bought this polished rocker cover off a member. Don't know wetha to put it on the car, paint it and sell it or just use it as a pencil holder or somethin lol

im bored, so iv done a spec list just for the sake of it so you can see what iv done!

Exterior
Type R front lip
Type R grill
Type R style headlights
Jdm Rear Light Conversion
Colour coded bumpstrips
Colour coded side skirts
Tegiwa Tilt bracket
Jap Plates All round
Debadged
Civiclife.net sticker hehe

Interior = Fail
Type r style gear gaitor
Fli Swat 5 Head Unit

Engine/suspension
Japspeed 4-2-1 exhaust manifold
D16z6 polished inlet manifold
Straight through Powerflow exhaust system
Painted rocker cover
Painted / polished brackets in engine bay
Koni sport springs
Tegiwa mc Brake stopper
ebc green stuff brake pads
goodridge braided brake lines
5.1 motul brake fluid
Toyo proxes T1r

 

[joeleoek]

heres some better pictures taken from a meet at the weekend

brake lines and my cai have arrived, really quick delivery for both. Just waiting on pads and fluid now. I also got out bid by two ****in pounds on ebay for some koni shocks. Absolutely gutted Anyway i got cracking today with putting the cai on and making a cold air feed in the bumper.

gone with the old airbox!

and the resonator

once it was in i needed to make the cold air feed, so i used my old K&N one, and bodged it in like soo..

heres i final picture of the cold air feed, i didnt want it to look too obvious.

 

[Jokeshopbeard]

Very nice build up mate, enjoyed reading that that, been an amazing transformation!!

Thanks for sharing...

 

[joeleoek]

thanks matey, its the most rewarding hobby ever haha

heres my small brake set up which i will be putting on in march

 

[Svenni Litli]

Nice one mate

 

[konradinu]

lovin the build man . love the colour . did you manage to fit the tegiwa brake stopper. mine did not fit due to the inlet pipe being in the way

 

[colliemcc]

nice build mate. keep up the good work