Wagon Noob. Hi from 417 (SWMO)!
87RT4ME
Band Wagon
Hey everyone. New guy here from SW MO. Springfield to be exact. Anyway.... hoping to be a decent addition and post some. Really here to do a bunch of searches and a bunch of reading. Just sold my car and will be picking up my wagon here later this week. It currently belongs to a family friend who has owned it for 12 years. The day he drove up in it I was blown away (didnt know they existed), and told him I wanted to buy it if he was ever to sell it. WELL..... that time has come luckly for me!!
It is a 87 RT Civic. Lt. blue in color and around 120K on the miles. Rust free and all there. I have some different plans for it, and what I have read, non traditional. Seems like everyone wants to lower theirs, but I want to raise mine
. That and a D16 w/ boost
BTW.......... the name is Zach and I'm 33.
Past cars in order from most recent to oldest:
1999 Q45 (sold last week)
1998 Civic LX
2004 Tribute AWD
1993 740iL
1998 Accord Wagon
1991 Galant VR-4
1991 Galant VR-4
1992 Diamante
1995 Talon TSi AWD
1995 Eclipse GS
1993 MX-6
1991 Geo Metro (1st Car @ 16)
It is a 87 RT Civic. Lt. blue in color and around 120K on the miles. Rust free and all there. I have some different plans for it, and what I have read, non traditional. Seems like everyone wants to lower theirs, but I want to raise mine
. That and a D16 w/ boostBTW.......... the name is Zach and I'm 33.
Past cars in order from most recent to oldest:
1999 Q45 (sold last week)
1998 Civic LX
2004 Tribute AWD
1993 740iL
1998 Accord Wagon
1991 Galant VR-4
1991 Galant VR-4
1992 Diamante
1995 Talon TSi AWD
1995 Eclipse GS
1993 MX-6
1991 Geo Metro (1st Car @ 16)
Comments
Not sure about that one in particular, but I know for sure some D-series do. I am lucky enough to have an acquaintance here locally who has been doing Honda swaps into everything for the last 15 years. I know him as Tony w/ 2nrs of Springfield. Here are just a few of his recent builds........
Kale's Turbo Accord 11.0@129
James's turbo s2000 11.4@124
Fishel's allmotor crx 11.70@114
Tony's turbo civic coupe 10.33@145
His allmotor civic 10.8@125
Joviar's turbo delsoul 10.9@133
He is running an all motor Civic going 10.8 @ 125. He told me he can keep my 4WD w/ a D series so I trust him. I originally asked him if he could do it with an F22, but he told me quickly there just isnt enough room to shoehorn it in
Sorry to hear some newbies don't hang around. I've been lurking for a few and it seems this is a great forum. That is a great change of pace from my local 417racing.com which is just a Soap Opera for local men. A lot of entertainment, but just not much of a close nite community which I am hoping to find here. Just too bad we are all located so far away! Pretty cool club it looks like!
Posting his credentials does nothing for me. I could care less. The 84-87 cars are different than the 88-00's. They had D series motors but they are a little different. I used to have an 87 Si hatch and I know it was kind of hard to do swaps for those cars. That is why I was asking. I thought I remembered them saying the D16A1 would bolt up to the 4WD trannies, but it was years ago, so I might be wrong. At any rate, you will probably have to convert to fuel injection which was also a hurdle for 84-87 Civics looking to swap. They did have performance carbs and manis for the D16's and D15's but they were kind of hard to come by.
I have that same problem with the 86 CRX I have....damn carbs. But from my understanding the 88+ d16a6 won't work with out modification, and what not. But the brown top 85-86 d16a6 drops in, and you have to do the carb-fi swap...big hassle.
I refer people to redpepperracing.com which is the place to go for 84-87 Civics/CRXs