Rebuilding (And Heavily Modifying) A Cheap Ebay Honda Civic In 2 Days

Wait, wait, oh, you see that air gap, yeah, that, uh, I don't think this engine was giving any boost. Oh no, actually, that would be nice because that means this car is a lot faster than I thought. Welcome everyone to episode 2 of my

honda

civic

street racer gun real racer rebuild and that's a challenge featuring my friend chris from bf4 build. I think you mispronounced "ricer." This build is fully sponsored by

ebay

motors. We both have these things on eBay motor so go check out the app in the video link description also all the parts we are using for these cars are purchased on eBay and we have a budget of nine thousand dollars to make them as quickly as possible and as safe as humanly possible, which is why Chris actually has a Lexus of some kind.

SC 300 with the small block Chevy on it, the old classic small block Chevy with the carburetor, did they come with small block Chevy? Racing has a ladder bar suspension, a Chevy 350 eight stroke, it's now a 408 and it's going to be very, very hard to beat, especially with a front wheel drive car, so I have about 48 hours to build this from what is now. street racer hodgepodge of whatever this is into something that's really good at the quarter mile and something that's really competitive with that. I'm really going to need a lot, a lot of work and Chris also has an advantage because he's been working and also Jarrod has been helping him, so he's been here, he's been here, he's lucky.

I have a lot of excuses right now, so I need to get my hands dirty. Now we have the advantage of playing at home. Let's get to work well to address what we are going to do. For this car we have to make a small list and the list I made well, don't judge my handwriting, but it's actually not that long, so we have the exhaust, we have the wiring with the intake and the intake will just do a real intake. It goes from the turbo to something more interesting, maybe even the headlights. I have a purge valve spring because thinking that the bluff I'm going to throw for some reason doesn't have much momentum, we have the shifter because the shifter is horrendous. that's neutral this is the third quarter well we have seats well the seats are just regular Honda seats and I need something lighter and a race car II and then we have the cage because I want to be sure this car will have a roll cage . and then we're going to make some adjustments because I have no idea what the adjustment is like on this car.

I don't know who tuned it. I think it was just tuned on the street and I find out when I do the wiring and make sure everything has a good voltage that might change the tune a little bit, so there will be a big montage of me taking things apart and showing you what I found when I do it okay so this is the first time i'm under my new

honda

civic

and it doesn't look good but it doesn't look horrible either so this is the transmission there are tears and leaks everywhere you can see the exhaust is huge , these are booger solders, of course, and I think this will go away, goodbye.

I don't need that long of an exhaust, so he'll go straight up so we can hear the sound of his people. Look at this guy. It's called a pull bar and this is what you need to get really good traction. a front wheel drive car and it allows, if I'm right, it allows the front control arms to not do this, so it prevents wheel hop or at least mitigates some of the wheel hop now that the axles seem mostly stuck so it actually has a little bit of power so I'm not too worried about that, it also has an aftermarket suspension where we can lower it and raise it.

I think we're going to have to turn it up because I got some slicks, but if you come back here, I can see I have a shifter, all the bushings are not in good shape, there's play here and there's play right here, look where the pin is , that's not supposed to happen, so I'm going to replace this entire shifter. Take this exhaust down here, look at this purple guy right here, we have a connector that looks like a subframe or something. I don't actually know what it's called, but it looks pretty complicated, it looks like it's billet aluminum and it's purple, which means more power, but don't worry about these zip-lock fuel lines, they're completely race spec.

I think we have a nice little car, wait oh you see that air gap, yeah I don't think this engine was making anything. boost oh no actually that would be good because that means this car is a lot faster than I thought so we've gotten to the point where we're soldering because the design of this intercooler isn't very good at all in fact , I'm going to come and show you why, so this interval or pipe looks like it was melted down and it just doesn't hold on to anything. It had a major boost leak and there's no way you can put a hose clamp in there and expect it to hold for like 25 or 30 psi, so we'll try welding another piece of pipe.

Hopefully this aluminum will weld, but it could burn outright. What do you think? What are the chances that these welds are good? 97% Oh, Laney, 7%, what do you find out after 97% of something, okay, it's starting to sound like something that hasn't really changed much, but I cleaned up a lot and when I say, I mean, well, Jared it helped a lot. the weld, so if we go under here, you can see a new clamp edge, a new pipe edge and over here everything is much cleaner and it doesn't leak oil and right here I have a new shifter mechanism, everything is solid, whether it's solid or polyurethane, we made sure we have everything new hardware-wise, it shouldn't have that horrendous shifter feel anymore, but now what I'm going to do is make an exhaust and that exhaust, instead of going down here, it just goes. go straight to the sky yeah just following my toe okay oh yeah this looks great now polish the pipes a little bit too high the bad welds someone else made and I'm going to show the bad welds what did I do.

I did, but this is the downcomer, it has an Oh to plug right here, so we know what the air filled ratio is and the downcomer is at the same angle. The only problem is that a scream tube isn't exactly the strongest thing in the world. world, but let's not touch that, what I'm going to do now is I want to make an intake that is custom made for this car and an intake that looks really cool on a drag racing Honda Civic, so as you can see , I put a small coupler. put a little ninety degree curve here and then a little ninety here because the inlet is going to come out of the headlight and the headlights here are just some

cheap

aftermarket headlights, they're made of plastic.

I have new headlights in order I think. These headlights can go in the trash, so I'm going to cut out a section here and we're going to put a piece of pipe in and then we're going to paint it black and then those will be our headlights, in fact, we could paint them. black also just for symmetry okay so I change plans and I'm not sure if I want to do that light shot just because the light is not in the right place in the shots not in the right place so that's the hole , that's what The car came with this is the filter and if you can imagine this, the pipe goes up and it needs to make a 90+ degree turn missing the timing belt over here and then come out in the right place here and it just doesn't It doesn't work there isn't enough room this is what I did and although it looks like it would fit it doesn't so we'll just rule it out I'll have some new headlights and maybe do some kind of cosmetic modifications to them not sure yet but right now I'm really excited to get this working.

I want to hear what these things sound like, ladies and gentlemen. That's what's called two steps. This sounded incredible, but many of you probably. I don't know what that is, it's not just about speeding up the car because well that wouldn't happen, the fireballs and the pops and the crackling noises, so I'll have Jared explain to you what two steps actually are in a car like this. . means for the engine, so there are two terms that interchangeably describe the same thing, but actually work a little differently, one is a two-step rev limiter and the other is anti-lag.

The two step rev limiter works with ignition timing where it starts timing the ignition at a lower rpm level and then when you try to do launch control it creates boost, retards it so much that it's actually causing it to The combustion event occurs with the exhaust valve slightly open, which takes a long time. -The term will damage the valve seats, it will damage the turbochargers because they are not designed for direct flame fronts because basically there is an explosion happening like right there and it just comes straight out and then an anti-lag process is done.

I tend to control it by fuel enrichment, where you add a little bit of both steps to recover RPM or timing, but you're also dumping an extra fuel charge, so you further energize the flame front in the exhaust stream. and that's What creates the extreme fireballs, what you see at all the car shows lately, is a function of racing, so what will allow you to do this on the timing line normally with the turbocharged car that you drop and you have a very slow build up of boost from the turbocharger it is called boost lag by having this anti lag process it can be sitting stationary and the turbo can produce depending on the setup how aggressive the car engines are but it varies between 5 pounds and 218 pounds of positive boost pressure immediately, so as soon as you release the clutch, the engine is already making a tremendous amount of power and it's spinning very, very fast because it's already gone through that initial lag process, so that this is basically very violent, but it makes my car faster.

Now another thing that will make my car faster in this electrical situation so this is the wire I think for the fan yeah that's not cool it should be in a relay somewhere and I'm not even sure if It's merged, so I'll go over everything so far. like the electrical wiring and everything that's leaking in the engine bay and then I'm going to take that interior apart because the roll cage, the seat and the harness need to go in and then the car is basically ready to do whatever else we need to do. That was done in about two hours, two hours, you're thinking we'll do it in two hours, well we need it, but we're not going to do it, so not with that attitude, so I actually ran into something, there's a power switch. off. here at least I think it's a kill switch, just a secret switch that was behind this blank panel, you can tell it's been up for a long time so I don't know what that actually does, but I guess it's also a ignition switch.

This wiring is simply the best. I mean, you want to talk about duct tape, so I wasn't even using duct tape. There are bear wires everywhere. This is the worst wiring I have ever seen. It looks like it was made by For a blind five year old, this might take a little time to fix and just like that, we have a completely stripped down Honda Civic with a roll cage. This is a Bolton roll cage and we probably won't use it. This hardware this hardware doesn't look so good, but this roll cage is what we're going to need to pass the second spec.

However, now there are obviously no bolts that go through here from the body, so we're going to have to drill and There are plates that go on the other side that join this together and what we have to do after that is we have to do a harness bar because there's usually a little bar here where you can put all your harnesses. their racing harnesses and that didn't come with my cage so we have to do that before we get to that we have to take a look at the seat and the seat won't be available at all.

I have this querque seat, very, very light. I think it just weighs, yeah, that's practically weightless, so we're going to install it, but as you can see, there's no way you can weld anything here just because it's aluminum and any seat rail we have would do it. be steel so we're going to bolt the old seat rails on so we'll take them off the side and then measure how they fit and then we'll put bolts on the side and it should fit like the original, that's the idea maybe fingers crossed, well this is what's going on, there's a lot of work left to do, it's almost midnight, we have to go to the race tomorrow, we have to be at the track tomorrow morning and the car still looks good.

So, we're trying to get the bolt into the cage and we're having a bit of a struggle because, well, the car isn't exactly the most structurally rigid, but Jarrod did an amazing job getting the seat in place; In fact, we reused the seat supports. we have to reuse one of each seat so both seats are pretty much non-existent at the moment and we are getting the new five point harnesses that are going to be installed but there is a lot of work to be done and there is a lot but we will get therethere, I think Chris has more, I don't know, but Chris Chris is feeling pretty, yeah, pretty proud of himself right now, critical, it's too hot for Chris, but Chris is also making a custom welded roll cage and then we have to do it. making seats and then wheels and tires it's going to be a long night hello everyone, I'm with my racing harnesses on my head and neck restraint and with my new helmet and I'm in my race car and it's 3 :00 in the morning now I just installed the roll bar, everything is super tight.

I mean, I can shake the car just with the roll bar and it's been really, really hard to fix this car because we only have a few hours left until we have to put this on a trailer to go to the race and we're all tired, but we're still very, very excited, so if you could tell, there's still something. In fact, the owner of this car before me used jumper cables. I can't, I can't, I can't get it into my harness, but he used jumper cables to relocate the battery to the back. It's not very good, so we're going to undo that, we're going to put the battery here in the front in a sealed battery box and we're going to make sure that it can pass the technology and then I'll do a bunch of other things.

Just to prepare this car we're going to do tires and actually, you know what I want to show you when we get to the track, everything we did because it's been a long night and we still have a lot to do.