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AlaskaB16
New Wagonist
Hey everyone. I'll keep it quick and simple. A couple days ago the user on these boards known as "Beastmode" posted some pics of his wagon on clubcivic. Until then, I had never even know Honda made a wagon nor made anything in AWD/4WD other than trucks/SUV. I was the first to comment in his thread and was instantly hooked! I HAD to have one. Currently i'm working on an EJ1 with a B16a2 about to drop in. I had big plans for it (boost this winter), but now my plans have changed into FIX/SELL IT ASAP AND WORK ON WAGON!!! ha!
Agreed to buy this. 8 hours away from me @ $600. 112,000 miles. Needs head gasket. Auto tranny. RT4wd. Bringing a flat bed trailer with me tomorrow. First time since I was a kid that I didn't haggle over the price. Older guy, seemed nice. Plus I figure since I can't get it until tomorrow and he just posted it, I better give him asking price since he claims to be holding it for me until Sat afternoon.
Plans for this thing include fixing motor, then pull it out and list it for sale (just cause I hate to have a busted motor sitting around or taking one to the dump) in favor of doing a CRV B-series swap (possible K series depending on what year CRV I pick up). I've got nothing but time and a fairly decent car budget to make this happen. The body will get a total make over along with fresh paint. Interior will get reworked as well. Even though I live in a crummy part of the world when it comes to hanging out with other car people, it's actually really great for scoring cheap car parts by the truck load. I called the junk yards and found 3 CRV's with complete drive train so i'm going to head over there at some point and see what is going to work best for me. Also a couple civics ripe for picking interior bits and pieces. Should work out nicely!
I've still got TONS of research to do, but once I saw a few people posting about using B/k series motors, I knew that was the direction to take. So this car probably isn't going to be in any kind of moving condition until next year, so it's also going to be my first full restore/upgrade project. Tuck, paint,... the works basically. I'm sure you guys have heard this same story plenty of times before so i'll stop now and create a build thread once I can start putting my money where my mouth is. So with that, great to be here!
Funny comment quickly. Once I found out about these wagons, I showed my wife the new plans last night after locating a 90 rt4wd. She says, "That thing is ugly! Why do you have to like the weird cars? You better take me out to dinner for making me look at that granny mobile." LOL... I love it. She's put up with lots of my car crap over the years. (She drives a car worth many times more than this project could ever touch after completion)
My current civ project:
My daily :encouragement: :
Agreed to buy this. 8 hours away from me @ $600. 112,000 miles. Needs head gasket. Auto tranny. RT4wd. Bringing a flat bed trailer with me tomorrow. First time since I was a kid that I didn't haggle over the price. Older guy, seemed nice. Plus I figure since I can't get it until tomorrow and he just posted it, I better give him asking price since he claims to be holding it for me until Sat afternoon.
Plans for this thing include fixing motor, then pull it out and list it for sale (just cause I hate to have a busted motor sitting around or taking one to the dump) in favor of doing a CRV B-series swap (possible K series depending on what year CRV I pick up). I've got nothing but time and a fairly decent car budget to make this happen. The body will get a total make over along with fresh paint. Interior will get reworked as well. Even though I live in a crummy part of the world when it comes to hanging out with other car people, it's actually really great for scoring cheap car parts by the truck load. I called the junk yards and found 3 CRV's with complete drive train so i'm going to head over there at some point and see what is going to work best for me. Also a couple civics ripe for picking interior bits and pieces. Should work out nicely!
I've still got TONS of research to do, but once I saw a few people posting about using B/k series motors, I knew that was the direction to take. So this car probably isn't going to be in any kind of moving condition until next year, so it's also going to be my first full restore/upgrade project. Tuck, paint,... the works basically. I'm sure you guys have heard this same story plenty of times before so i'll stop now and create a build thread once I can start putting my money where my mouth is. So with that, great to be here!
Funny comment quickly. Once I found out about these wagons, I showed my wife the new plans last night after locating a 90 rt4wd. She says, "That thing is ugly! Why do you have to like the weird cars? You better take me out to dinner for making me look at that granny mobile." LOL... I love it. She's put up with lots of my car crap over the years. (She drives a car worth many times more than this project could ever touch after completion)
My current civ project:
My daily :encouragement: :
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