1991 Civic Wagon build

CitySushi

Only pic I have at the moment. So far I've swapped the 13" steelies for 14" steelies with ex/si hubcaps from my ej1, scrubbed and wd40'd the engine bay, and started detailing the interior(lots of dust from previous owner driving dirt roads). I'll try to keep this thread updated as I make progess.

Rickstar22

Right on !!! I just grabbed one also Good luck and can't wait to see the progress !!!

CitySushi

Made and offer of $20 on ebay for inner driver side tail light. It was excepted today. $32 shipped, everyone else wanted $70+ shipped. I'm still looking for a passenger side front corner light, if anyone has an extra one for a resonable price, I'd love to buy it.

CitySushi

Car wouldn't start the other day, had to have it towed. The mechanic said all he did was clean the spark plugs and battery terminals and it started back up. Only had to pay for the tow.

Here's a few pics of the interior and with the ex hubcaps/steelies.







I'm gonna work on cleaning up the interior more today.

killapete

Clean. nice start.

CitySushi

Inner tailight came in the mail today.

Pulled all the seats and lower interior panels to remove the carpet.

Cleaned up the floor. Put one seat back so I could park the car.


Also scrubbed and rinsed the carpet, removed the pin stripes, and installed my ej1 tape player. The stock one didn't work.

simplyhonda

Looks like you got yourself a nice wagon there!
Good start on it! Keep it up. Always in for more! :encouragement:

CitySushi

Installed the carpet.

And put all the trim peices back in and wiped them down with black magic.

Still need to pull the rear door panels, clean them and the seats up. I'm headed to the junk yard to pick up a rear hatch hinge.

CitySushi

Picked up two hatch hinges off a 90 civic dx hatchback, one as a backup. Left is the new one, right is the frozen rusted one. Now I have a functional hatch : )

Now that the hatch opens, I could install the inner tailight. Before:

After:

CitySushi

Got the wagon inspected today. It failed because of the passenger side hood hinge, corner light, and trailing arm bushing. I purchased energy suspension trailing arm bushings, and stanley corner light from ebay. Ordered the hood hinge from the honda dealership.

CitySushi

Picked up my hood hinge from the honda dealership.
Out with the old.

New OEM freshness.

CitySushi

Rta bushings and corner light came in.
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Painted both corner lights amber with metalcast orange. Also, got the bushings installed and had the car reinspected. It passed : )

BillBoard

I like everything going on- but I would have left the corner lights clear...

Keep up the good worker

CitySushi

Thanks. I only bought one clear corner to pass inspection, couldn't find and oem one.

CitySushi

Me and the wife took the wagon and ej1 out for a cruise today and snapped a few pics afterwards.
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CitySushi

Bought a carpet cleaner/extractor and cleaned up the rear seat and cargo carpet.





Also adjusted the clutch cable and cleaned up the engine grounds.

Vladi

I think I have a spare driver side Clear Corner on my shelfs.

If interested lmk so I can go on adventure in the shed.

Cool wagon man, I have a Shuttle myself but Im still amazed if I see how practical designed and roomy the wagon is.

CitySushi

Thanks man. I may have to take you up on that offer in the future.

CitySushi

Today I covered up the holes in the drivers seat with iron on patches, pulled the front door panels to apply white lithium grease to the window rails/channels, installed led lights in my gauge cluster (I'm ordering new leds because the ones I have aren't very bright) Also, I was having a problem with the headlights, tailights, and cluster lights dimming(pulsing) at idle and while decelerating. I added two grounds, one from the valve cover to chassis and one from trans/engine to battery and found the negative terminal on the battery wouldn't fully tighten(now fixed) Lights are working great now.

CitySushi

Ordered some parts. Inner/outer tie rods, lower ball joints, radius rod bushings, and clutch cable. I installed the clutch cable today.

klum

i never got around to doing my inner tie rods they are such a bitch good work so far the corners idk how i feel bout them personally but that dont matter its ur whip!

IdahoHonda91

Looks like a great start! Interior is really clean. I'm glad I don't live in a state that requires inspection... Don't know if everything underneath would pass with 358k on it lol.

CitySushi

klum wrote: »

i never got around to doing my inner tie rods they are such a bitch good work so far the corners idk how i feel bout them personally but that dont matter its ur whip!

Thanks. I used a pipe wrench (friction wrench) on the inner tierods on a previous civic I redid the suspension on, came right off. The corners are temporary.

IdahoHonda91 wrote: »

Looks like a great start! Interior is really clean. I'm glad I don't live in a state that requires inspection... Don't know if everything underneath would pass with 358k on it lol.

Thanks. Inspections aren't so bad, emssions are though, luckily the area I live in doesn't require them.

CitySushi

Working on a cargo cover.

89Wa-gone

Hey whats up man. See that your from Va. What parts? Im in the Suffolk/Windsor area. Nice wagon ya got there, shes very clean!! I have one also,check out my build sometime. Anyway good luck with the build.

89Wa-gone

Hey whats up man. See that your from Va. What parts? Im in the Suffolk/Windsor area. Im build a wagon also, would be cool to meet up with some others. Hit me up sometime. Nice clean wagon you have there awesome base to do anything you want with

CitySushi

89Wa-gone wrote: »

Hey whats up man. See that your from Va. What parts? Im in the Suffolk/Windsor area. Im build a wagon also, would be cool to meet up with some others. Hit me up sometime. Nice clean wagon you have there awesome base to do anything you want with

Thanks. I'm in nova about 4 hours away from suffolk, I'm down to meet up in the future.

CitySushi

Finished up my cargo cover and added speakers. I was originally going to run my own wires but after reading a write up on here I decided to pull the rear interior out and use the factory wiring. Also test fit the rear strut tower bar from my ej1. It will work with some modifications.

Wasn't too happy to see this. The outter tail lights gaskets need replaced. I cleaned up all the water, dirt and dust but forgot to take pictures after.

Here's what I'm using to support the cargo cover. I wanted something that would look kind of stock, instead of using L brackets like I've seen people use.

Finished (kind of) product. I need to add one more support in the middle on each side to get rid of the sag and find some speaker covers. But for now, I'm happy with the outcome and my stereo sounds great now.

CitySushi

Swapped over the suspension from my ej1 to the wagon. Tomorrow I'm going to adjust the ride height a little and snap some better pics.

CitySushi

Got rear ended on friday in my odyssey about an hour after I swapped the koni/gc over to the wago. : (

Today I installed new inner and outter tierods with new bellows boots. Haven't messed with the ride height yet so I haven't taken any new pics. Tomarrow I'm going to the dealership to see if they will replace the wago front seatbelts under warranty. Both shoulder belts don't retract or lock.

CitySushi

Took the wago to the dealership to have the seatbelts checked out. They tried cleaning them with no luck. New shoulder belts are on order all covered under warranty.

...Just got a call from the dealership as I was typing this. They only have grey and brown belts left in stock and I'll have one of each. : (