Project Steph's 1978 Honda Civic 1200

[Bill]

The cars looking really nice! all the pieces are coming together nicely...

[Steph]

Thanks Bill :D it drives soo much better now, and the new tires are virtually silent, which is a huge change from the old ones which made lotsa noise. I was reading the wheel alignment printout, and the camber was near perfectly set at zero, like 0.1 degree out, and I have to say, it steers like power steering now, and drives in a straight line without any hands on the steering wheel. It's such a pleasure to drive. Now if I can just extract a little more power with the 32/36 Weber, camshaft and new exhaust, I'll be over the moon.

Steph

[Bill]

Theres always a little more in there to be wrung out! recurve the distributor, there is a couple little horses hiding in there... as for how to do it.... just get creative I suppose.

[Steph]

I'll get the distributor recurved when the motor gets dyno-tuned. That'll be the final stage, after I fit the camshaft, carburetor, and exhaust. I really need to get back into the header project this weekend, which I can do now I've finished the suspension and wheel upgrades.

[Blackbullet]

The car looks very nice. Where that 70mm picture from the rear arch?

[Steph]

The car looks very nice. Where that 70mm picture from the rear arch?

I never said it was 70mm? But it is the same as the front.

I finally have my collection of Choro Civics which I plan on using Blutac to position them across my dashboard. I had to paint a spare one silver so Keil wouldn't feel left out

[HondaCarCare1]

Nice little Choro collection there. :D

[Vulcan]

I had to paint a spare one silver so Keil wouldn't feel left out

I'm B15M metallic blue.

[Blackbullet]

I never said it was 70mm?

True but on the tape measure it looks like 70mm to me. Of the stock cars ive seen they have more clearance on the front than the rears

[Steph]

I never said it was 70mm?

True but on the tape measure it looks like 70mm to me. Of the stock cars ive seen they have more clearance on the front than the rears

I just measured it and it's 80mm :dunno

Steph