Finally a good starting point (EG Civic ecomod journey
 

Hi guys,

After my wagon got defected (declared unroadworthy by the police) within only a month of getting it back on the road i started looking for a new car, and the obvious choice was always an EG civic, not only is is a much more economical car but its also as lot more fun to drive and has nearly unlimited aftermarket parts availability

Wanted one for many years was the final nail in the coffin, i ended up looking at a couple before picking this up for a measly $1750
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It is a bit ricey but pretty straight and seems to have been well looked after, its pretty clean inside and out and runs and drives well

Within a week of buying it the crappy cheap store battery died so i moved my plans for a relocation forward quite a lot and put an Optima in the boot
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It is way overkill for this car but i had it laying around, i will probably switch to a much smaller lighter one later

During the swap i removed a few defunct bits (like the battery tray in the engine bay) and also took out the spare tire and associated tools from the boot to make way for the new battery, i havnt weighed it yet but i think the swap would have dropped at least 10kgs (every bit counts right?)

A few days after getting the car my freind informed me of a DC4 teg at the local wreckers so i went and picked up all of the lower control arms, swaybars, brakes and hubs, which should provide a decent stopping upgrade as well as allowing me to hold higher corner speed with the upgraded swaybars
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Thats about all for now, first tank i didnt pay any attention to driving economically (ok i thashed it a bit lol) and got just under 33mpg, so plenty of room to improve!

thanks for looking

Looks like a very nice car!!!

Reminds me of my sons hatch.

So what all your future plans for mods?

not really that ricey. looks like a clean car i like it. is it a d15b7 engine?

Thanks guys, i got a great deal on it, seems to have been well looked after and its pretty clean inside and out

Its got a D15B4 twin carby motor in it currently, which makes instrumentation difficult, i might take the vacuum gauge off my F100 and put it on until i have the time/money for an EFI swap, i would love to put a big motor in it like a K20 or H22 for the extra torque but this one runs nice so there is no rush

First steps are to make it as standard looking as possible, i dont want any attention from the police or anyone else. Ive already taken the massive cannon off, it sounded terrible and made a headache inducing drone at most of the common speeds i travel. Next step is to get a stock muffler for it, then swap the black hood back to a white one (or paint it). I also want to get some steel wheels with smooth hubcaps (both for efficiency and stealthiness) when these tyres wear out, i will swap to 15" when that happens to give extra clearance for the Integra brakes

Some stealthy aero mods and more weight loss are also on the cards, a grill block, belly pan, and small kammback are all possibilities, as well as smaller lighter side mirrors and a general cleaning up of the typical 20y/o japanese panel gaps.

On the inside im on the way to fitting a decent but lightweight stereo (i love my music), as well as designing a storage system for my tools and stuff in the boot

Sorry about the epic long post, i get a bit carried away with a new car to play with haha!

Hey guys

Been having way too much fun blasting through the hills in this so i still havnt taken too much consideration for hypermiling, although on my last fill up my mileage went up a bit to 35mpg due to a bit of DWL on the way to work as well as a couple of long EOCs on the way home

Heres a couple of decent pics after its first wash :)
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Thanks for looking

I love my Miata, but I do miss my EG Civic. Looking forward to your progress.

Man I have always loved the look of white EG's. I really miss my sons EG that was stolen about two months ago:(

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Wow pgfpro, your sons car was nice! pity someone else thought it would be nicer in their driveway :(

i put the aero template on it last night out of curiosity and it follows the roofline from the top of the windscreen all the way to the end of the spoiler perfectly, no wonder it coasts so much better than all of my other cars

I want to build a small kammback and do a grill block to improve the coasts even more, but i dont want it to look like a racecar to avoid attention. So no big drag style airdams or wings

How much of a kammback do you need to make a noticable difference? will adding 3 or 4" to the stock spoiler in line with the template help at all?

Has anyone done a front bellypan vs front lip comparo on these? would i be better off with the stock bumper and a belly pan, a small lip, or a combo of both?

I never seen an EG with a carburettor-fed engine. Was it stock or just a workaround?

Really? its stock, the majority of them in aus have carby motors, the early model Breeze has a 1.3L single carb, and the GL and GLi have 1.5L twin carb, then the Si and VTi got injected motors, the later ones (95-96) might be efi im not sure

Another PB with todays fill, i thrashed it a bit for the first half of the tank but started using lots of EOC and DWL in the second half and managed to bring it up over 38mpg :)

This next tank im going to try hypermiling the whole lot and see if i can break into the 40s on my mix of hilly country driving to work and city on weekends

Back here in Brazil they usually had the D15B7 and D15B8, mostly sourced from the U.S. and Canada. There were very few Euro-spec models with the D13B2 and that odd electronic carburettor, but they're not so easy to find.

the most common motor here is the D15B4

Today i got a boss kit so i could finally fit my new steering wheel, much nicer to drive with and as a bonus the new combo weighs about a quarter of the stock one

I also got a convex mirror that clips over the center mirror, i can now see all the way from the back of the passenger door around to my head at a glance, this means that i can take off the passenger side mirror for yet another bit of weight gone as well as better aero

Will have pics later on, cheers for looking :)

Police gonna love it :p

Regarding aero, I'd rather replace both external mirrors with the ones out of a sports motorcycle than just taking one off.

I will be replacing the drivers side with a smaller lighter motorcycle style one, but the passenger side does nothing now with the convex center mirror so there's not much point leaving it on, and legally i only need 2 working mirrors anyway so with a factory looking blanking plate it shouldn't draw any police attention :)

Im also picking up a second EG from a mate for the princely sum of $100 in the next couple of days, it has been rear ended but the rest is in ok condition, it has BMW 14" steel wheels that i will be using with smooth hubcaps, a standard exhaust in good nick that i will swap for my rusty old cat back, and a bonnet that actually fits, it will still need to be painted though as its faded red. Lots of other bits and bobs that i will probably grab also (still running and rego'd)

Thanks for looking

Hey guys

Still no ecomods but another record tank!

Up over 42mpg now :D, which is my most efficient tank ever im pretty sure, and still not a great tank either, i broke my 'going easy on it' for a tank idea with a brisk hills run or 2, and one of my tires had a slow leak which i didnt notice till it was at 20psi about 3/4 of the way through the tank

lots of DWL in the hills and EOCs on a fair few big downhills on the way home from work helped get the new PB, but with no instrumentation and a temperamental key for killing the engine made it difficult, gotta get a kill switch in asap!

Thanks for looking

Hi guys,

I got a second car for parts the other day really cheap so today was spent pulling some parts off:
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Its a bit rough and has been rear ended but the bonnet is straight so it will be repainted white and fitted later, the headlights are very ricey but they put out much better light than the stockers so i will be fitting them too, it also has a stock exhaust in good condition, stiffer springs and BMW 14x5.5" steel wheels which i will be fitting along with some smooth hubcaps

Another part i will be using from the red car is the drivers side mirror, the standard ones have huge blind spots as well as being quite heavy thanks to electric adjustment. I have removed the passenger side from the white car already but the dirvers side will be replaced with this 3" convex mirror:
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First i removed the stock mirror from the base then cut the base up a lil bit and hot glued a piece of 3mm mdf on to hold the new mirror:
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Then i filled the gaps with strips of cardboard hot glued on:
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before covering the lot in fiberglass:
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i needs a fair bit of sanding and shaping to get it smooth before i add some paint and stick the mirror on :)

Weighs less than half the stock one and has probably less than a 3rd of the frontal area, plus 10x better vision, winning all round!

Thanks for looking

That's good for a lower-cost alternative to a sports motorcycle mirror.

Hi guys

Had a couple of bad tanks since my last check in, i switched to 94 octane ethanol blend to try it out instead of the usual 91 unleaded and the mileage dropped quite a bit, i also had a small accident at the end of the last tank where a truck pulled out in front of me and i had to go over a gutter to avoid him, which popped one of my front tires and put my wheel alignment out of whack

i got more progress on my mirror upgrade though, the passenger side i cut the mirror off completely and smoothed it out, the drivers side i started in my previous post:
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still need a bit more bogging and sanding before the drivers side is ready for paint but the passenger side is done:
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I also mounted a killswitch in the gearknob yesterday, its not hooked up yet though, i cut the knob up a bit and siliconed a switch in before running the wires under the boot end through the center console:
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Thats about all for now, apart from a good wash again:
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Thanks for looking