Project Phil's 1975 Honda Civic 1200
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- Joined: November 30th, 2018, 3:58 am
- Province/State: SA
- Model: 1975 Hatchback
Project Phil's 1975 Honda Civic 1200
The car is still a work in progress, including some things that I intially didn't intend doing. My Mechanical friend has helped me through the majority of this process.
The removal of the EB1 engine, gearbox and all engine bay components. Originally planned to do a major service and replace all seals etc.
A decision was made to repaint the engine bay in yr-22 sunset orange ( and the rest of the car when finances allow). This was quite a challenge to get the correct
mix, I finally settled on the 3rd suppliers offering.
Getting the engine bay ready for painting has been a long process with no lack of sacrificial blood spared to the Civic Gods. I wasn't a huge fan of the Ford washer bottle, so it will be replaced with one of my original washer bags and motors.
Let the rust treatment begin!
I started with the removal of all seam sealer with a few picks (1 broke) and a scraper. The result revealed surface rust, which I managed to wire wheel and treat with rust converter. Rinsed and repeated this process for the whole engine bay.
Welded reinforcement of left engine mount, a little panel beating and body filler to get closer to the original shape.
Did I mention degreaser???
More to come soon, stay tuned!
I do not endorse the site nor was I asked for permission to use or re-publish the information from here.
He scraped the web for past pages that are already included in the database of this site known as 1StGenCivic.com/org or previous generations and upgrades.
I am closing site down as an open discussion forum.