Bama Wagon Build!!!

GreyBanditEE

91 civic wagon i picked up last week! Gonna be a slow build cause money dnt fall of trees around here lol Got alot planned thou!!

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Never know!! lol

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Gets Kinda loud draging down the road!!

GreyBanditEE

The day i got her, bone stock! Lowered and painted bumpers and trim since!!

WagShapedProjectile

GreyBanditEE wrote: »

Gets Kinda loud draging down the road!!

Mine do that, so does my exhaust and my wheels rub! I'm a terrible wagoneer.

GreyBanditEE

As soon as my four door is gone ill have plenty of money for wheels and suspension, then in the near future i got a wrecked 94 teg with a complete ls b18 swap going in the ole wagon!!! Goodbye duel point, hello mpfi!! lol

GreyBanditEE

Ya turning into my apartment aint to quiet, sounds like eveything drags for a moment

Jhampster

Good looking wagon and four door lol

TerminusVox

That's the darnedest thing; mine doesn't rub or scrub or anything!

GreyBanditEE

Lucky, welp the four door is sold, time to order some much needed white spun supamesh wheels and full godspeed coilover suspension!! maybe turn out looking good. Update with more pics soon!

GreyBanditEE

well got the godspeed coilovers orderd and my xxr 531 16x8 +0 offset wheels, gunnna look sweet!!

black_89gt

its gonna be a while till you get those 531s. Preorders from last December still haven't gone out I've heard. Can't wait to see it when you get them!

driftin90

531s are sick! can't wait to see them either.

knottyy

Hell yeah those are gonna be nasty! Good choice, I like those as well. I've wanted to see what those would look like on a wagon.

GreyBanditEE

Ya I think there gonna look real good, I've never seen a wagon with them on there so wish me luck wheels should be in july 5 ups has them right now:)

GreyBanditEE

Well got my camber kit in today along with my wheels and two tires the other two should be here tomorrow along with my coilovers!! Did get the car tore apart for all the goodies to go on heres a few pictures of the progress!

lilROOKZ

looking good! keep at it

SaXXXon

What camber kit is that? been searching the forum to find out what people are buying so i can lower my own soon

GreyBanditEE

Godspeed front and rear kit, seems like it will work good we'll see lol

GreyBanditEE

Got my coilovers on and tires mounted on my wheels looks awesome, ill be putting the wheels on the car tommorow and getting my ride height adjusted like a want and rolling the fenders to heres a few more pics of what i got done today, then tomorrrow ill have some finished product pictures uploaded :P


Figured i would paint the lca and make them look a little better till i can buy me some lol:P

and put some much needed brakes on also

knottyy

Hell yeah! I bet you're stoked. I'm stoked for you! Looks like you stayed with the standard 6k/7k springs, I think you'll find you'll need to run your dampeners at their highest setting (tightest) if you run your wagon low. It feels like a caddy on the lowest setting...tons of squish. I'm still waiting on a replacement damper screw thingy from Godspeed. One of mine didn't click, it just turns like it's screwing in and out and the whole thing pops out so I don't think I'm actually adjusting the damper at all. Pretty lame, but they are supposedly sending a replacement part that should be easy to swap in. Luckily I think it's set to the hardest setting for now which is what I want.

Hey Saxxon, whichever kit you get make sure it is bottom adjustable like the Skunk2 Pro kit so that you can try and avoid smacking your shock tower with the top of the arm/ball joint. You don't want the ones with the bolts sticking up, those can puncture your shock towers if they hit hard enough. I'm running the Skunk2 Pro kit and even pulled out as much as I can (-1.8) I still hit shock towers on decent bumps/dips. If you don't wanna raise your car you can cut out the part where it's hitting like Pavementwago did and then weld back in a plate with more clearance, just be careful as that area is a main structural area.

I'm sure you've already heard this but just in case you haven't and you're wanting to go lower remember to remove your bottom 1 or 2 locking rings depending on drop wanted. I removed 1 from each coil over. I'm hoping that it's just the picture being weird or light flair or something....but what's up with your wheel lip in the last two pics of the XXR's? They look like they are scratched up. I vote to toss those center caps in the trash and find cool replacements:) I like the gold LCAs, I just painted mine flat aluminum.

GreyBanditEE

Thanks alot I'm so excited i can't wait to get the wheels on tomorrow and ill get some pictures posted tomorrow as soon as I do and there ain't no glare I had the wheel standing up and the dang thing fell over of coarse on that side so... It scrached it up but lucky I work in a machine shop so maybe I can polish it out, it ain't real bad picture makes it look worse lol I'm just ready to see what, its going to look like

GreyBanditEE

What center caps should I get, I like oem honda ones but don't want to buy the wrong size lol

GreyBanditEE

Here it is got the wheels on it finally and i looks amazing, i love it still havent got the ride hight adjusted like i want it cause this is my dd but still got to set my camber to but thats for tomorrow along with rolling the fenders but all in all it looks great even at this ride height :P so you all tell me what you think, up for any suggestions or opinions.

666DAN

That looks sweet!

GreyBanditEE

Thanks I think it turned out well

NCxEE4

perfection

knottyy

Man that stinks about the wheel getting scratched, I would have flipped my shit lol. Good thing you work in machine shop, I have my fingers crossed that you can polish that out. Congrats on getting the wheels/tires on the wagon! Looks great, and just in time for a holiday cruise. Will look even better when you get your rear camber pushed a bit more positive. Be sure to roll/pull your front fenders real well as to try and avoid what both ledler0321 and I did. When leaving a driveway or dip in reverse and turning the wheel, the tire tread can catch the lip of the fender, grab it and bend it in. As for center caps, I'm not sure the size of XXRs. I know my Rota centers are 2.5" across, and 2" electrical conduit covers from Home Depot fit perfectly and only cost $1 each. You can take a measurement and then try and find OEM Honda center caps of the same size. I've heard that possibly Odyssey or newer Accord ones may work. Not sure if the wagon is sitting a little uneven but it seems like the front right is higher than the front left, and also seems like the camber of the right rear wheels is positive in camber while the rear left is way negative? I'd personally like to see less gap in the front right. I run my front camber at -1.8 and my rear at -.8. Looking forward to seeing how things turn out, great start. And happy 4th!