No, its not the jsupergoover car although mine looks like his without the trick rear spoiler lip...want to find one...the German car I was refering to is a dark green and has 15" tires on it. If I could figure how to post pics on this site I could download a couple of pics I captured from the German website. Anyone else have them?

By Jarcaf (Jarcaf) (207.55.238.216) on Tuesday, November 02, 2004 - 11:35 pm:

that's not the jsupergroover car is it? I followed that link a while back and tried to translate w/ google, but couldn't find any dutch or norweigen plug-ins. It's not german. This could be a different car you're talking about though. I'll go check it out.
-In my 82 sedan, i've got an EK1, weber 32/36, custom vinyl recaro seats(best part of the car), freebie "classic rally" style chrome 6x13's, B&G lowering springs, new struts, and that's about it. i'm thinking i might pull the rear sway bar off the abandoned S if i don't get the whole car. I've been thinking about the rear disc brakes for awhile but have put absolutely no thought into it past the fact that it'll be a swap from a prelude. You'll have to devulge your thoughts on that to me eventually. I have a non-functional e-brake, but i think it's because of the self-adjusting mechanisms.
A vtec swap would be killer, especially if it worked to increase the reliability of the car while boosting the hp by a lot.

By John S. (68.91.200.68) on Tuesday, November 02, 2004 - 05:08 pm:

Jarcaf,
Currently they are mostly stock, however I have fitted a set of the 5-spoke Del Sol factory 14x5.5" alloys w/185-60x14 tires on the "S" model. The 4-dr is running on a Canadian non-CVCC head, which made it a much more likeable car.
I don't think you gain much power, but the driveablity is much better in all ways.
What will I do? I have larger Frt and rear swaybars for the "S", and 1st Gen Prelude strut housings, which I have Koni inserts for. Dennis already has this setup up and running and loves them. I am also working on a conversion to rear disc brakes, but that will take some s'plainin...later on that. Run down the other 1st Gen Civic website because there is a link on there to a few pics of a very hot 2nd Gen in either Germany or Holland that is running a Twincam V-tec motor...from the pic of the motor it looks like it was put in at the factory...obviously it was not, but it fits the space that good(well). Looks like the hot ticket to me!!!

By Jarcaf (Jarcaf) (207.55.238.216) on Monday, November 01, 2004 - 10:47 am:

Hey John, what kind of a list of stuff do you have done to your cars? I'm looking at picking up an 83 1500S that's abandoned down my street, and I've also got an 82 sedan w/ a weber and an EK1. I don't know where to go next though. Thanks,
-Jarvis

By Jarcaf (Jarcaf) (207.55.238.216) on Monday, November 01, 2004 - 10:44 am:

If you feel like you want to buy something anyway, a weber 32/36 or 38/38 would boost the hp significantly, but make the cvcc obsolete. It's also easy to install. The biggest problem when i did it was that i cut and marked each and every vacuum line. This all turned out to be unnecessary, since most of them ran back to the carb or to stuff i didn't really want working. All you really need to keep are the vacuum advance to the dizzy and the brake booster line. It really cleans up the engine bay. The bast part about having the carb done is that when I swapped in the EK1, it cut out about half the time that I would have needed.
The adaptor plate that you get with the kit($350) will work on most if not all earlier hondas. Check out carbs.net for redline kits, or buy the carb off ebay then buy the adaptor separately.

By jim skidmore (Jimskid) (24.116.126.218) on Sunday, October 31, 2004 - 06:17 pm:

thank you
john, appreciate it

By John S. (68.91.223.71) on Sunday, October 31, 2004 - 03:40 pm:

Jim,
First thing you need to know is what motor you have. If it is a 4-sp 99.999999% of the time that means it is a 1300 CVCC. This means find a new motor because that particular one as far as performance concerns stinks. It has an extremely restrictive 2-port exhaust. It is OK for economy but if you are having carb problems it is time to put something else in. I'm serious, don't spend any real money trying to fix those CVCC factory carbs. Everyone else here on the website will tell you the same thing.
There is hope though someone will buy the crank and rods out of your motor as they fit the earlier 1st generation motors. The first thing you should do is round up a factory shop manual on the car. It will help you to understand what you have gotten yourself into. Even if you decide to swap in a different Honda motor you will still have all the information to deal with the brakes,suspension body etc. I'd watch eBay, they are popping up off and on. By the way, either an 80-or 81 manual will do since there were no real changes until the '82 model.
Good luck, I own an 83 4-Dr and an 83 "S" and they are "Not for Sale".

By jim skidmore (Jimskid) (24.116.126.218) on Sunday, October 31, 2004 - 01:38 pm:

ive got a beautiful 81 civic 4 speed, 81K miles, sat for years, high altitude california emmissions nightmare of a carb..want to build a street legal sleeper, either retro a simple carb to toss the engine all together, MPG is not a concern, anything north of 8 mpg will be fine.

where do i start, please and thanks
jim
Lake Texoma, Texas