1990 Highway Warrior
ohyeahcrx
New Wagonist
Hello all. Joined a while ago in hopes of getting a wagon, and the day has finally come. Story time. See this wagon on the corner for 700 bucks. My buddy sees it aswell. He needs a car more then I do cause he wrecked his hatch. I loan him the money. He pays me back. He drives it for a year and a half. He wants to get another hatch. We find one, then I buy the wagon off of him for 500 bucks. It looks like it was hit in the back, the back end is kinda crunched under, but other then that it is perfect! Drives on the highway fine and everything doesnt pull to one side or another.
PLANS: I want to turn this into a highway warrior, drive it as many places I can to see what the country has to offer. So keeping with the honda reliability is a must. Here is a list of things I want to do to it.
(This is an on going list, in no paticular order. I will add to it as I Think of more things.)
-Rebuild the d15b2 I have sitting on the stand.
-Convert to MPFI
-A6 cam
-Shaved valve cover, Painted with black wrinkle paint.
-Repaint the steelies white. (or find some stock Honda wheels, keep them stock color though) Done found some VX's with brand new tires for $100. What a deal!
-Get a dashmat.
-Get sidemarkers for the fenders.
-Paint the fenders flat black, Write all the states I have been to in gold paint marker on fenders
-Mod the cluster (either take out the amber film that’s in there, or just replace the bulbes with some LED’s, or a combination of both to make them brighter. Or a cluster swap, not likely though.)
-Matience as needed (list here)
Drivers side axle boot is torn, expect to replace the axle.
Perform Typical tune up. Include fuel filter.
-Repaint all the moulding and bumpers black again.
-Make some kind of light bar and mount some lights on the bumper?
-Get a TomTom.
-Rattle can it flat tan maybe?
-All weather floormats?
-Some kind of roof rack (not an aftermarket one, a stock one off another vehicle, Kia Sorento ect.)
-Scrape off the old bubbling purple tint and get it re tinted.
-Deep clean the interior.
-Make the car smell like clean laundry all the time.
-Try and find a hood bra. (might make one, because I cannot pay $100 for one.)
-Cover the headliner in some cool fabric. (Loctite Heavy Duty spray adhesive)
-Do a cup holder mod like this one? (viewtopic.php?f=9&t=3988
I will add to the list as I think of things. But on to the pictures!! THanks for viewing. Comments and Crits welcomed!
PLANS: I want to turn this into a highway warrior, drive it as many places I can to see what the country has to offer. So keeping with the honda reliability is a must. Here is a list of things I want to do to it.
(This is an on going list, in no paticular order. I will add to it as I Think of more things.)
-Rebuild the d15b2 I have sitting on the stand.
-Convert to MPFI
-A6 cam
-Shaved valve cover, Painted with black wrinkle paint.
-Repaint the steelies white. (or find some stock Honda wheels, keep them stock color though) Done found some VX's with brand new tires for $100. What a deal!
-Get a dashmat.
-Get sidemarkers for the fenders.
-Paint the fenders flat black, Write all the states I have been to in gold paint marker on fenders
-Mod the cluster (either take out the amber film that’s in there, or just replace the bulbes with some LED’s, or a combination of both to make them brighter. Or a cluster swap, not likely though.)
-Matience as needed (list here)
Drivers side axle boot is torn, expect to replace the axle.
Perform Typical tune up. Include fuel filter.
-Repaint all the moulding and bumpers black again.
-Make some kind of light bar and mount some lights on the bumper?
-Get a TomTom.
-Rattle can it flat tan maybe?
-All weather floormats?
-Some kind of roof rack (not an aftermarket one, a stock one off another vehicle, Kia Sorento ect.)
-Scrape off the old bubbling purple tint and get it re tinted.
-Deep clean the interior.
-Make the car smell like clean laundry all the time.
-Try and find a hood bra. (might make one, because I cannot pay $100 for one.)
-Cover the headliner in some cool fabric. (Loctite Heavy Duty spray adhesive)
-Do a cup holder mod like this one? (viewtopic.php?f=9&t=3988
I will add to the list as I think of things. But on to the pictures!! THanks for viewing. Comments and Crits welcomed!
Comments
Add a tune-up to that list. Plugs, wires, dist cap/rotor, fuel filter, air filter.
Another heads up, my sister is going to drive this until she saves up enough money for her own. So the start of this build will be slow but hopefully it will finish strong!
Haha yeah my buddy put in this nice alpine unit when he had it, but of course he took that out haha. Atleast he gave me back the stock one. First time ive had music in my car in a long time haha.
So for tomorrow I plan on changing the oil (going to teach my sister how to), cleaning up the inside a little bit more, and buy some dryer sheets. Depending on how much we do before I have class.
Another thing. I will be keeping a running price list of everything I buy for this car, from matience to mods. Cause I like seeing all that stuff haha, also to keep track on how much this money pit is costin me! haha.
hahahahah...awesome.
If you're gonna keep a log you should just start a blog somewhere.
Haha well I guess the weather stripping leaks somewhere, but until it rains I cant find it to fix it but it definately has this musty smell...
Thats why Im using this thread as a blog ha. Maybe if I actually drive all over the country then I will, but right now its just a plan and we'll see if I stick to it or not.
Maybe? I am not sure if my friend started some kinda thread with it on here? If he did Im sure it didnt go very far haha.
Close. They are infact VX's. Which are smaller (13's instead of 14's) and more narrow. Which means they are even lighter then HX's! I have some HX's on my CRX so I figured Id compare them for ya.
So I got some work done today. I bought some dryer sheets ($1.46) and changed the oil (Castrol High Mileage 10w-30 and a Wix oil filter for a combined total of $22.56.)
Nice hot day in the Sonoran desert I might add haha.
I also had some free time so I decided to start painting some of the trim that needs to be repainted. And some how I always seem to underestimate how long it takes to mask the smallest of things off haha. But heres what I painted
(black strip under the back window that used to be chrome.)
ride like shit and i was sliding everywhere
but good look on your wago
Yeah your right haha. Definately should change it after seeing what yours looked like. Gross. After you changed it did you notice any differnce in MPG's? Performance?
Ah sunuva... you got me! I have had both, but I haven't had VX's since 2001. But, the VX's look great too! I'd rather have 14" HX rims though.
VX wheels are very good for mpg. 8)
Definately going to do the fuel filter then. Ill forever be on the quest for those MPG's without doing anything drastic..ha.
VX's are the best of both worlds, they look cool and help towards MPG (plus tires are CHEAP too, atleast thats what people say) Though they are slightly lacking in the performance department, but thankfully the wagon is not the speed machine. Thats what the CRX is for
Did some night paintin and painted the rear bumper. Got some krylon Black satin. 2 cans was $5.83. Am going to take pictures and maybe paint the front bumper tomorrow...or maybe the window trim. Time will tell!
Also the engine started bogging sometimes at a low RPM (under 2500) but its not all the time. Only sometimes. And it seemed to happen more after I filled up the tank (89 octane, before its only ever gotten 87). Ill more then likely go through all the possible problems tomorrow (plugs, wires, injectors ect.) Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.
I also plan on painting 2 of the doors flat black, along with the roof, so people can draw on them with chalk (since the paint on it is less then stellar) and I know chances are my friends will draw male genitalia half the time but ill erase it before I start driving haha.
Thanks man. Trying my hardest..
So I replaced the valve-cover-gasket-spark-plug-tunnel-gaskets today. My friend had accidently bought more then one when he did his so he had an extra set and he just gave them to me, so no cost there. Also my spark plug wires are total sh!t but one of them in paticular was really bad. I couldnt even get it to click onto the sparkplug. And I couldnt buy new wires until monday (thats the next time my friend worked at the auto parts store) so I had to do a temp fix for today so I wouldnt have to deal with the boggyness. I had a stroke of ninjanuity. I used the throttle cable and its brackets to hold the wire in place so it wouldnt pop out as I was driving. I did about 30 miles today and not one spot of boggyness. I could run this setup for longer if I wanted to (thats how confident I am in my contraption haha) But tomorrow I will get new wires, maybe plugs, maybe a new cap and rotor, maybe some other things. We will see how I feel. But here is a picture of the setup.
Closer version'
yes I know I have a dirty engine bay.
Also I have been in the market for another valve cover, and I was able to find a complete B& head (minus dizzy and IM) for $10. So I scooped that up, not sure if I am going to use it or what but for 10 bucks I said why not, considering all the other valve covers I found people wanted like 30 bucks for.
But no more boggyness and its running like a top! (knock on wood)Loving it more and more each day.
Finally got around to start getting it tinted. I have a good friend of mine tints, so he and I started tinting this beast. We got the back window, and all 4 back door windows. Still need to do those rear quarter windows and the front window. I decided to go with 20% tint. I think it looks a ton better then before. I still need to repaint the moulding on the side, cause the front bumper and rear bumper are painted. Ill get better pictures when its fully tinted but this is just a minor update!