Tone's rusted wagon, budget revival build
TonehouseNY_EF4Life
Band Wagon
Hey guys, so I've been searching for a while for a wagon. I had one as a young kid, my grandmothers old car. I've only driven ef/ee/da's for about the past 10 years idk I love the old stuff, just staying loyal to how I came up in the honda game!. So anyway, I live on a freakin island! Literally. I love in Long Island New York. So there are slim pickings . There are a few upstate, and jersey and ct, but with travel fees, towing and price of the car, I hadn't found anything to really make me want to jump up and go, so in my usual trolling on craigslist like I do every few days, I found a 1991 rt4wd right here on Long Island. There were actually 2 on the island, and one was a non running one the kid wanted $2000 for. Smh silly kids. Then there was the second was a mess! But it was just my kind of mess. It was a 91 red rt4wd. It had a sohc zc
swap , also had the most ghetto turbo set up I had ever seen. Pinched oil feed line, crazy ass backwards vac lines, there was jb weld on th wastegate, an also used to seal an elbow on the inter cooler pipe,shit wouldn't even go into boost wtf!!! Really? Lmao it gets better though so get your popcorn. It has a broken windshield, a broken front seat, no passenger seat. No glovebox ,an a 8 gallon homemade fuel cell in the freakin truck! Wtfffffffff.all 4 axels are hurting along with the engine mounts. And last but not least......... RUST! DUN DUN DUN!!!!! So like I said, just my kind of mess. The way I seen it, is tht if I didn't get this car, it would be blown up, and junked. An they don't have pick and pulls in Long Island. It gets smashed. So Tone to the rescue.
Now to what I got her for. So the kid didn't want to take any less than $1400, with all it's issues there was no way I would pay that. Not to mention if the wife seen me pull up with that, an I told her I paid anywhere near that. Well let's just say I would be sleeping on the couch with the dogs. Haha, he swore up an down on the phone it was perfect and had no issues except cosmetic. Well once I got there that promise got blown out of the water. I work as a service tech at honda Riverhead "it's a motorcycle dealer/ repair shop" after I drove it and dropped about 100lbs of knowledge in a 20 lb bag on his lap while we drove, we came to a decision that either he was selling it to me for $600 or I was walking. I was shocked he went for it. But he did, and here we are now!
My plans for this build are simple. Get it back to close to its original glory, in the least amount of money possible. I will be doing all the work myself, from the body to the engine. I plan on ripping the wack as boost set up out, keeping the rc 440's and parting the rest of the set up out.. I am considering on keeping the sohc zc in it. But I'm debating on a z6/y8 hodge pod ge combination. But I know myself, an if I rip that engine out. Something isn't going back in until it's completely rebuilt. I'm not going to give it any real attitude adjustment as far as the stance goes. My plans are to use it as my daily, an in the summer there are off road beaches on Long Island, some I can only use the jeep for, but some are really packed sand an I know the wagon will do fine. The back seats will always be folded down, so my dogs can always come along. So with that being said. The fuel cell in the back is going! And going fast. Going to do a full obd1 conversion, replace all 4 axles, I can get the fronts for 49 each and the rears for 69 each, that's from Apple Hondas part department with my dealer discount. Can't get much better than that. Those will be getting done in 2 weeks or so when I really start getting into the project. I will be posting pictures up tomorrow to show the horrible state this wagon is in! I just work so much I haven't had time to even look at it for more than a few minutes. If anyone has a line on both driver side doors with manual doors an a rear truck lid deff reach out and let me know. I'd rather not patch the huge holes in those doors. I'd rather swap them out and worry about the color when i sNd this bitch down patch the quarters . Also as far as fitment, can I use the bumpers fenders or good off of any of the other ee/ef bodies? I will be keeping this thread current and show pictures all the way through! My goal is to have it ready for paint by the spring the latest. I will most likely keep it with the red color it is, although at the moment it's black plastidip. This kid thought it would hide the rust! Silly kid . Glad to be a part of the community !
swap , also had the most ghetto turbo set up I had ever seen. Pinched oil feed line, crazy ass backwards vac lines, there was jb weld on th wastegate, an also used to seal an elbow on the inter cooler pipe,shit wouldn't even go into boost wtf!!! Really? Lmao it gets better though so get your popcorn. It has a broken windshield, a broken front seat, no passenger seat. No glovebox ,an a 8 gallon homemade fuel cell in the freakin truck! Wtfffffffff.all 4 axels are hurting along with the engine mounts. And last but not least......... RUST! DUN DUN DUN!!!!! So like I said, just my kind of mess. The way I seen it, is tht if I didn't get this car, it would be blown up, and junked. An they don't have pick and pulls in Long Island. It gets smashed. So Tone to the rescue.
Now to what I got her for. So the kid didn't want to take any less than $1400, with all it's issues there was no way I would pay that. Not to mention if the wife seen me pull up with that, an I told her I paid anywhere near that. Well let's just say I would be sleeping on the couch with the dogs. Haha, he swore up an down on the phone it was perfect and had no issues except cosmetic. Well once I got there that promise got blown out of the water. I work as a service tech at honda Riverhead "it's a motorcycle dealer/ repair shop" after I drove it and dropped about 100lbs of knowledge in a 20 lb bag on his lap while we drove, we came to a decision that either he was selling it to me for $600 or I was walking. I was shocked he went for it. But he did, and here we are now!
My plans for this build are simple. Get it back to close to its original glory, in the least amount of money possible. I will be doing all the work myself, from the body to the engine. I plan on ripping the wack as boost set up out, keeping the rc 440's and parting the rest of the set up out.. I am considering on keeping the sohc zc in it. But I'm debating on a z6/y8 hodge pod ge combination. But I know myself, an if I rip that engine out. Something isn't going back in until it's completely rebuilt. I'm not going to give it any real attitude adjustment as far as the stance goes. My plans are to use it as my daily, an in the summer there are off road beaches on Long Island, some I can only use the jeep for, but some are really packed sand an I know the wagon will do fine. The back seats will always be folded down, so my dogs can always come along. So with that being said. The fuel cell in the back is going! And going fast. Going to do a full obd1 conversion, replace all 4 axles, I can get the fronts for 49 each and the rears for 69 each, that's from Apple Hondas part department with my dealer discount. Can't get much better than that. Those will be getting done in 2 weeks or so when I really start getting into the project. I will be posting pictures up tomorrow to show the horrible state this wagon is in! I just work so much I haven't had time to even look at it for more than a few minutes. If anyone has a line on both driver side doors with manual doors an a rear truck lid deff reach out and let me know. I'd rather not patch the huge holes in those doors. I'd rather swap them out and worry about the color when i sNd this bitch down patch the quarters . Also as far as fitment, can I use the bumpers fenders or good off of any of the other ee/ef bodies? I will be keeping this thread current and show pictures all the way through! My goal is to have it ready for paint by the spring the latest. I will most likely keep it with the red color it is, although at the moment it's black plastidip. This kid thought it would hide the rust! Silly kid . Glad to be a part of the community !
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Also lol @jbwelded intercooler and wastegate. That's funny. Also route those wastegate gas somewhere so you don't light your front end on fire!
engine and cabin harness out of a car and spend the weekend with it and have completely virgine harness in the car