Frankie, the Canadian immigrant
Swedgin
Band Wagon
This is my wagon. His name’s Frankie.
I bought him off the owner of MDA Fabrication who imported him from California into Canada, BC, and who also was going to do CRAZY things with the car. Before I bought it, he had a turbocharged K-series in the car, and was working on fitting the driveline from a K-series 4wd Honda CRV in it. He got it about 90% complete before he figured he had too many projects and decided to sell it without any of the K-series parts included.
So when I picked it up, it had nothing in the engine bay, but he kept the old D16A6 that he took out of it, and delivered that with the car. He also included all the other civic wagon parts he had laying around his shop (and he had A LOT!).
The body of the car is in great shape (for what I have planned). There is very minimal rust on it, which I'm going to cut out and weld a replacement panel in, the paint is faded, but I'm planning on painting it anyways, and there are zero dents on it, just a few small dings.
Typical wagon seats... Will be replacing:
All the engine wiring pulled into the interior:
This is not the only weird thing I found in the wagon...
All the interior bits that were included with the wagon:
So thats my wagon! I've got lots planned for it, but will most likely be a slow build. Stay tuned...
I bought him off the owner of MDA Fabrication who imported him from California into Canada, BC, and who also was going to do CRAZY things with the car. Before I bought it, he had a turbocharged K-series in the car, and was working on fitting the driveline from a K-series 4wd Honda CRV in it. He got it about 90% complete before he figured he had too many projects and decided to sell it without any of the K-series parts included.
So when I picked it up, it had nothing in the engine bay, but he kept the old D16A6 that he took out of it, and delivered that with the car. He also included all the other civic wagon parts he had laying around his shop (and he had A LOT!).
The body of the car is in great shape (for what I have planned). There is very minimal rust on it, which I'm going to cut out and weld a replacement panel in, the paint is faded, but I'm planning on painting it anyways, and there are zero dents on it, just a few small dings.
Typical wagon seats... Will be replacing:
All the engine wiring pulled into the interior:
This is not the only weird thing I found in the wagon...
All the interior bits that were included with the wagon:
So thats my wagon! I've got lots planned for it, but will most likely be a slow build. Stay tuned...
Comments
Gotta love spare parts
Also picked myself up this little MIG welder to learn on
Got the engine mounted on the stand for tear down:
The pistons in this engine are tiny!
After teardown: