Turning a $500 Civic into a $50,000 Civic (Full Build)

This is our $500 Civic and we spent $50,000

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it into an absolute weapon, all with one goal in mind and that is to beat that annoying new Civic Type R on the track, but before we head back to the track to give it one last chance, I thought. It would be fun to take a little trip down memory lane to see everything it took to make this Civic a reality. I drove it a bit and it felt like a shitty old car, it was super smooth. I think it has like 450,000 Mi on the odometer, so all the rubber parts were worn out, everything was super soft, it felt like the shocks weren't working.

There was nothing anymore so it felt very unsafe and everywhere so obviously we needed to change that. Let's look at the parts we are going to replace them with and compare them to the original ones we will start with. the coilovers, this is the original, nothing special about it, but we are going to replace it with these F 441s, these are basically entry level coils, they have adjustable damping in 30 ways, but it is a one-way adjustment, so bounce and the compression is tied together because, again, these are pretty entry-level coil-overs, but you still get a lot of cool features, you get ride height adjustment, you get preload adjustment, you get a nice Top Hat spherical bearing, you get Swift Springs, which should help with handling and they have valves for this chassis they should really improve the handling of this car so I'm excited about these so we just need to stick them in there so this is the stock control arm setup and you can see we have eraser. bushings in three places here one of which is completely gone and we'll reuse this arm here but replacing this outer arm like this and this bushing here like this.

I was looking at our type of burst rubber bushings here, these are cheap. They are good at reducing noise, vibration and harshness and they wear quite well, they are good for most people, but you can see how much they move, especially when they are worn, and the problem with that is that it causes a lot of deflection. and it turns the suspension and changes the suspension geometry when you're in hard corners, which is really when you want the suspension geometry to work better, so let's replace them, okay, and of course you can just press them. Take them out and replace them with new rubber bushings with polyurethane bushings or with spherical bushings like the ones we are going to use so we just received these they are very well powder coated and they come with spherical bushings already installed and it's basically just a big ball of metal. in a housing that allows rotation and angular movement so they can move with the suspension as they need to, but because it's a metal ball in a housing, there's really no deflection, so when you're in tight corners nothing deflects. drifts unpredictably and you can actually make use of that alignment you paid for, okay that was easy, now flip this thing over and replace this bushing, same thing here on the rear bushing for the lower control arm, It's rubber, so we're going to replace it. with a spherical unit now the bushing appears to be in good shape but even a new rubber bushing will deflect a lot under load not the case with these ok we have our front lower parts assembled so they come first I'm going to get in the car, I want to give us as much insight into the MLB action as possible without being approached by security, then download today's DraftKings sponsor, pick six, it's a whole new way to play daily fantasy sports and win big cash prizes, and security can't do it. anything about it right now all new customers who play $5 get $50 and pick six credits already know what they can do with $50 and pick six credits play even more pick six to get started download the DraftKings app pick six and sign up with the code donut Pick at least two players and choose whether they will have more or fewer stats, such as whether they will have 10 or fewer strikeouts, lock them up, and then compete for huge cash prices that, again, safety can't do anything to participate in. base to steal the dirt kicks and absolute dingers by downloading the DraftKings pick six app and registering with the code donut only at DraftKings pick six there's the safety stop, this is the original top stamped piece of steel with our burst bushings and the new is This, the big advantage of this upper control arm is that you get adjustability in terms of camber and caster, where you don't really have any adjustability on this stock upper arm, we're going to have a lot of adjustability to be able to dial in our alignment. exactly. as we want it, I'm going to put them in real quick and then the last thing we're going to do on the front of this car, we have this sweet Cusco strut.

The point of this is to basically join the two strut towers together to prevent them from bending under hard cornering loads, the only problem is that when I put it here it fits pretty well, but there are no holes where it looks like there should be holes, so for a minute I thought this was for the wrong car or something, but it turns out that most of these EG Civics have holes in there, but in this trim level the CX doesn't have holes, so it's not a big deal. I mean, what do you do when you don't have holes but you need some?

You guessed it right, this car may be a little junky but it doesn't have much rust, so since we're drilling holes and exposing bare metal, I'm going to hit it with the paint real quick so far, so good. We'll see. It actually looks like it worked well, the front is basically done, so now it's time to start on the rear, obviously we're going to use the same shocks as the front, it feels like this and then we have a lower control. The Megan arms are basically the same as the control arms at the front, although they are aluminum which is pretty cool, but the important thing is that they have spherical bearings for the bushings, so they will tighten things up at the rear , but what I want to talk about in the back is what I've always wondered about this damn bar and you know obviously this is one of Megan's, but there are a lot of similar ones and you always see them hanging something like that in the back from

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s and I never really knew why that was the purpose of that and it turns out that it actually has two purposes first: this is our rear subframe and it's pretty flimsy or so they say, so this helps reinforce it and strengthen it and, ya You know, It gives it a little extra reinforcement, but it also does a second thing: These cars, especially the lower trim models, don't have sway bars, well, this car doesn't have a sway bar in the front or rear, but Add this on the rear gives us places to mount a sway bar so we can add one to the car and now you may have noticed we didn't do that on the front we don't have a sway bar on the front yet but this is a front end. -All wheel drive car that usually has some understeer so adding a big sway bar in the rear with this kit will allow us to dial in a little more oversteer or close to it and will make this car feel much better and now you know what it is and so do you so now we just need to install it okay so i have news to install the sway bar that we just talked about.

We need to remove the muffler. This huge muffler here intersects with it. area where the sway bar needs to be mounted, so luckily the exhaust comes apart right here, so I can remove the muffler, but this will probably sound pretty bad, but that's okay, we'll fix it in the future, we'll get a better exhaust, so It's a mount, yes, but also a sway bar mount, yeah buddy, I'm really excited about this, it's going to be a hoop, well, we've got our mount and our sway bar hanging all tight. So now we can start putting these control arms in and then the shocks you'll see there are some solid bushings in there, yeah they're literally spherical so if you give it a push you'll be able to free yourself, one of the last ones.

What we are going to do at the rear is replace these arms that go there with these and the difference is that not only are these seals steel and tubular, but they are adjustable and that will give us adjustment over the camber, which is quite important to get a good performance oriented alignment, and here we have a Cusco rear strut mount that matches the one on the front, we're just going to join our two strut towers together to add a little bit of rigidity and Of course, a little bit of steel, well I was afraid that might be the case, we had to trim the interior a bit, not my best work but it works so once we finished installing all the suspension parts we took it out for the first test management.

Like night and day, we really started to see the light and I started to understand why people really care about Hondas, obviously they are very small, very light cars, especially of this generation, and once you put a little of time and effort in suspension. It totally transforms the car it becomes a kart it is very nimble and nimble and goes exactly where you want it so the new speed found in the corners quickly gave way to increasing brake fade, like most brakes of a stock car. make a few stops right you know you hit the brakes they can lock the front tires the problem is how many times can they do that in a row and the stock brakes couldn't handle it and then the super small brakes and calipers got hot too.

Super quick and easy, so what a nice F to make naturally. We spent another $55,000 upgrading our Civic with scoop brakes in the front. We also upgraded the rear to a disc brake as we have talked about in the past. This is the base model. of a Civic as you could get, so what that means is that the brakes are small and what that means beyond that is that the knuckle here is not going to work with our new brakes, so we're going to remove the brakes and Then we will also remove the entire knuckle and replace it with one from a higher trim Civic model.

Ah, there we go, it looks like a knuckle, doesn't it? Not very good anyway, this is what we needed to remove from the car to replace it. a top trim model unit from a different Civic right here where the brake caliper mounts, it's too far inboard, so you'll see the parts we're replacing it with stick out a little bit more, it'll allow us to have a little bit bigger brakes well, so here's the old one, a little smaller all around, versus this one that's a little beefier with that larger brake mounting bracket. Now this in itself isn't that sexy, it's not that fun, it's not that cool, but what? allows us to install it, it's great, so let's take a look at the brakes we bought.

Now let's throw away our rotor. This is a genuine Honda rotor which is good for future replacements but then for strength we have a bit of a scoop. Brakes, honey, that thing is light, the spoon is not one of the most revered aftermarket performance companies for Honda. The parts are known to be very high quality and very stylish, so these things are going to look amazing when installed and they are going to work even better, there are four piston designs, so we will get a nice, even pressure on the pad in a larger pad, so we'll get a better bite and they'll dissipate heat very well partly because they're larger.

They hold up to more heat but they're also made of aluminum, which will help us resist fading, which are the two things we're looking for right now. You can't forget the lines. We also installed these spoons. Stainless steel braided lines. don't flex at all when you step on the brake pedal, which translates to better braking feel, so as we fly through the Canyons I'll know exactly what's going through my foot, it'll be great, I can't wait, ooh, Ah, everyone. right, spoon shaped, the brake pads are yellow, blue and yellow, baby, pop, that guy over there and this guy up here, yeah, he's getting hot and bothered anyway while I'm working in the brake shop , Dad Adam is going to replace the cylinder m.

There it is, this is the old brake master cylinder and all it does is send fluid back and forth when you press the brake. This one is bigger since we have more liquid. Larger brakes and discs at the rear. We need this one. from newer integras it's an easy and straight forward swap ok so in the rear we have drum brakes these little units were very common place until not too long ago basically what's going on here are two brake shoes brake, which are basically the brake pads and when you step on the brakes they are forced outward and push against this outer drum to slow the car down and they work fine, they are annoying to work on and they are not very good at braking so come on. to get rid of these and replace them with some disks, so down here I have a

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trailing arm setup from an Integra that came with disc brakes, so we have to get all this out, put all this in easy, now we have to put that in. in place, but I have to transfer it first, okay, so I have the arm in place, we will wait to tighten it until everything is in place, so the most annoying part of this will be fishing the E brake cable. a where you need to go while lifting this trailing arm, it's not very heavy, it's not very light either, watch me struggle, so we replaced the battery with the disc for a couple of reasons, saved a little weight and improved a lot.

When braking with the front brakes, this thing will be a stopping machine, so while we were in the back of the car finishing installing the new disc brakes, Heber was up front taking out the old proportioning valve and this is our new valve dispenser. and with the proportioning valve it does it pretty much what it sounds like, it provides the amount of braking power that goes to the front brakes versus the rear brakes and since we now have disc brakes in the rear, we're going to want a little more power to go to the rear, so This metering valve is from an Integra and it's from a car that had disc brakes to begin with, so let's put that sucker in there and then we should be good to go, plus the brakes What we're putting here, we're cleaning up the wheels and tires on the Miata just for now, but I want this to look a little cooler, although the tuning is going to be a little aggressive, so we have to roll the fenders, whatever. that our fender roller is.

A little too tall for the job, so I think it'll be time for the hammer, stop, stop, Jimmy, you're hurting the car, look at me, you want to try, no, don't come near me with that thing, that might be enough, we will check it. and then probably Hammer it a little bit more, it'll be fine, I don't know, that'll be good, so once we installed the spoon brakes before we even drove it, I fell in love, these are a bit of a piece of the Holy Grail, do you know especially? from the Honda community so it was cool to step foot into Honda World and play with some spoons so I was really excited to get them first of all they set up really well they look great and then once we got out.

They felt fantastic when driving, the pedal feels phenomenal and they stay effective no matter how many laps you do on the track. I haven't been able to get any fade out of them and we were doing back to back laps once I made these brakes so I'm pretty pleased with them, so with the cornering and brakes now

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y under control our attention quickly turned to how incredibly slow it was. this. You don't know how slow a car is until it handles well and brakes well. and then you say, oh, I have no energy, so what do we do?

Case with wi and we invested another $10,000 into the project to acquire the iconic CAS 20A engine. We actually took this engine apart for another video and in the process I took the head to the machine shop, got it covered nice and flat, got all new valves, guides and seals and everything so we can get a lot of fun miles out of this K20, so for the uninitiated, if it's not obvious, this isn't it. the engine that came in this car never came in this car the engine that came in this car had like 100 horsepower the ker is a super popular engine that has come in many cars this specifically the k20a came from the dc5 type R Integra, it which makes it pretty good and also means it comes with a six speed transmission with a limited slip differential for maximum performance and yes this makes around 200 horsepower overall which basically doubles the power we had.

Let's establish a baseline that we need. Take this Civic to the track as is and see how slow it really is. Now it's time to get a lap time. Yeah, come on, baby, speed through here, come on, come on, come on, come on, okay, let's see what those times were like. the track safely please and thank you okay work you just ran 141.5s incredibly fast yes for reference Jerry actually took the Civic Type R a few months ago on the streets of Willow he ran 12477 in only 17 seconds, I work 17 seconds it's no joke man, I know it's a 1.6M field, it's a huge margin you have to make up, but you know what I'm going to allow you to make a believer out of me.

Damn, that's right, buddy, he's recovering, don't do it. Don't do it, oh your hair touched it, wipe it on an oil floor, damn it, so the first of many steps required when performing an engine swap of any kind is to remove all the original stuff you want to replace. , which means leaving the factory. The V5 engine is out, a new one is coming back in, but before we do that we have to dress it up with all the parts that hybrid racing sent us, Joby, what kind of fuel rail did we get here and what are the benefits?

Well it's a racing hybrid fuel rail, we stuck with the stock fuel injectors, you know, the nice aluminum fuel rail dissipates heat very well and you get a nice even pressure all the time, this will really look cute on the K20, can't wait. To see it there, especially with our new valve cover which will look great while Nolan is working on installing our new fuel system. I'm going to remove the factory exhaust manifold and replace our valve cover with this sickly yellow one we have. powder coated a while ago in an episode where we learned about powder coating, what do you think?

It looks great so we'll stick with the original six speed transmission that came with this k20a, it has six speeds and has an LSD. It's going to be great, but we're going to upgrade the clutch to get a little more holding power, a little more robustness, and it should feel great on the pedal. Hey, engine, transmission, transmission, engine, they are one now. Okay, join us for the exchange. Brian Gillespie from Hasport, he's like an OG in Honda World, he developed the kit to make this swamp in the first place, we've done it so many times, this kit alone sells 60 every month which is crazy, we've been selling it since 2004 .I think it's amazing.

I think we have the right person for the job to help us on this, so here is our old subframe. Here's the new one. At first glance they don't look that different, but it's very important that we removed the old one so we can install our power steering, as our ultimate goal with our EG is to make it comparable, if not better, to a new Civic Type R, which it means we have to install some of the Civic Type R's creature comforts and advancements into our car with the more powerful K20 installed it means we can put bigger tires on with this power steering which will make

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those wider tires even easier plus with more power, which means more torque steer going through the front and this power steering will help We navigate that a little better, okay, so the steering rack is attached to the subframe.

This is our first step in beating that FL5 type R. Alright, next up is one of my favorite parts of any engine swap, getting the head in correctly so that the The advantages of this head right here will be increased flow. The lengths of the headers themselves have been designed specifically for this engine, so we're going to take advantage of the increased power where we need it and also the diameter of the end of our exhaust pipe is a lot larger than what was there too, which will improve the flow even more and make the car sound a little better too, so I'm really excited to hear this power up for the first time.

I think we're going to be some really nasty Honda guys about this thing, somehow this crunchy Civic we bought for 500 bucks has unsurprisingly become one of my favorite cars here on Donut, one of many moments of the truth is upon us, it's time to put that K series in this little L. For example, the engine is ready, the car is ready, it's just time to do it, welcome to your new home, let's start leaving this car, it's okay, stop right there, Nolan, see you, wait a second, yeah, and we're very close to this support. Can we lose this support? if I am very happy.

I mean, this looks great. I think we're both believers, but you know, seeing the engine in the engine bay is a big step. Well, for our cooling system we are going to upgrade it. It matches our new K series engine so we have this hybrid racing radiator and it's almost triple the width of the original for greater cooling capacity and it looks pretty cool too. There are still many things to do to improve it. and running so we need to do things like install the fuel pump and fuel lines we also have power steering now we connect the shifter to make an intake which is most of the oh radiator fans and in theory , once we do all that in this car.

He will run and be ready to go to the dinosaur. These axles are pretty easy to install, you just have to move the hub out of the way, so to do that I've disconnected the lower ball joint here and the lower suspension bracket, so I slide. the axle up moving The hub looks for your coins and that's it axles yeah so we have a 3 inch exhaust for this guy because Brian Hasport tells us that will make the best power since the flange is also 3 inches and it's too big. so I need to oval the holes so they fit correctly.

The flange is cut. The exhaust is like a mockup, so now I'm going to attack it into place and then take it out and weld it all together. It looks half decent it probably won't fall apart so it will be put in place one last time. I hope my friend Mike Day was also in town visiting, so naturally I put him straight to work getting the new pump. here in the factory hangar, so I'm going to put this back in and we'll have all the fuel pressure and flow we need for the new swap while Brian and Mike finish up the details for the cooling and intake.

I'm inside the car getting the shifter right so one of the things I'm most excited about is this little kit, it's our hybrid racing shifter and it's really awesome, it's originally from an RSX but they gave us a license plate adapter that allows us to attach it to pretty much anything so it stays in place, we routed the cables, tightened all the hardware now we're just going to tighten this up to establish where the shifter actually sits and feel the first shift, that's really nice and This thing is infinitely adjustable, so I can put the gear wherever I want.

I can adjust the length of the shot. It's really a good piece. I can't wait to break. Okay, we have to put the icing on the cake. This is a nasty change now, oh yeah. Honey, okay, I think we're going to need a new gear now, but that's pretty funny, okay, the engine is in transmission, everything is connected, it's got a shifter, it's got fluids, it's got electricity, so it's finally Time to turn the key and see. If this powers up, everyone cross your hands, cross your toes, please power up first, everything will be fine. Keys on fuel.

Cycles. Oh my God, she lives. Now we have to go to the dyno, so we are in an unmatched fit right now with our. friend Danny and he's going to put this on the dyno and tune everything up and the tuning is basically maximizing the air fuel ratio we're just one step away from 200 horsepower and we're so close to that 210 215 that I want , so I think if it gets a little more aggressive over time we'll be there and man, this is going to be great. There you have it, we hit 208 horsepower and 157 torque. I'll take it all day.

Zach, have fun. If we're back on the streets of Willow with the freshly swapped Civic, it's got a brand new k20a, it's got six speeds with a limit, slide and drop, it's got a sick shifter, oh honey, it's got power steering and it's probably got about the triple speed. horsepower it used to have this feels like a brand new car this thing screams like a banshee the Englewood Banshee oh my god okay time to see if all that money and all that effort was worth it yeah this is going to be faster I think that's okay, clearly the car is faster, but now it's time for the fun part: we're going to run some laps here on the streets of Willow and see how much I can improve on our last time when the car had the original engine and that time was 141.5.

I don't care much about the time he said. I care a lot about time and I'm going to push myself while Job warms up once he crosses the starting line. I'm going to start with this stopwatch, oh come on, work, that's a real sports car, so I think it's got it, you hear it everywhere, it's like a circular saw going off. I think we're going to beat that Civic. I think so, come on Joby, use all the jump on the track, what's my fastest lap? 128.45 was your fastest lap. We are still 5 seconds from the top barof the Civic 23.

We'll get there, although I think the seats are probably holding you back a little. Lots of buddy, you're really trying to prepare and you're not concentrating on driving, that's true, yes, in the end we managed to get 218 wheel horsepower on our K20 and that got us that much closer to beating the new Civic. ran a 12845, which is almost a 30 second difference over the stock Civic, pretty good, so not only was the car much faster and sounded much better, but the driving experience was transformed too, the transmission on this thing is fantastic and when you combine it with the hybrid racing shifter that we put in here, it's an absolute pleasure to drive so you feel great, you sound great and god it's great so now that we've got some power under the hood, next up is the interior.

The old, ugly seats were quickly becoming a hindrance in the corners and were disgusting, so we did what anyone who works on an automotive YouTube channel would do and spent $10,000 upgrading the interior to not only make it functional but also to give it fun to the functional. elegant, makes it a nice place to be, so that's what we did to better keep my big button's place. We have this set of salvaged ricaro sr3 in yellow with a cute houndstooth insert, these things look sick and will be a nice yellow touch. in the car they match the valve cover, not only do they keep me in place well, but they are also comfortable, they recline and will allow us to continue using the original seat belts for driving on the street, which is really nice, so which is good.

The seat set has nice bolsters and what that means is the sides of the seat rise up around you and hug you and hold you in place, you get on these and they hug you like dad never did. So the first thing I'm going to do is take off the steering wheel. The steering wheel is huge so taking it off first will give me a little more room to get the rest of the stuff out and that's it. I'm replacing the steering wheel so it has to come off anyway so Jimmy is going to disconnect the battery for me because This thing has an airbag, but not for long, this is Jimmy and this is exactly what could happen if you don't disconnect the battery when you're playing with the airbags, good luck, oh no, poor Jimmy, that's for sure. go good, don't forget to turn off the airbags, kids, okay, the seats come out, wow, clean the hallway garbage floor, buddy, fries, yeah, eat it, no, so we're just leaving.

These plastic clips holding the rug in place because we're going to get this nasty rug out of here. This thing sucks. I hate it. I can't wait to get it out. Jimmy, no, bring the store back. And when? make a change of question, the ECU tends to hang in the middle of the foot and you have nowhere to screw it and that sucks, we don't want this thing to get knocked around so these cool little mounts with rubber grommets there you put the ECU on the top and helps insulate from heat and vibration. It's quite ingenious.

It is a steam cleaner. Baby, just clean things with the power of hot water. These things work great and contain no harsh chemicals. Even Jimmy doesn't feel very romantic here with all this steam. Windows, do you want me to go get the candles again? Yes, you know what I'm thinking. Okay, in addition to a lot of nice touches for the interior, we're also going to add some safety, so we have an auto power roll cage. It's a bolt on cage which should make it pretty easy to install and the difference between a bolt on cage and a welded cage is pretty much what it sounds like, this cage will bolt onto the car, it's time to mount our roll cage, just I need to remove these interior panels because the back bars will cross them so we are going to have to drill holes in them.

I want to put them back in and then once we have the cage set up we can work on laying down our new mat which will also need to be trimmed around the cage. This is going to be beautiful, yes, it's all about how it should fit and it fits quite well, snug against the B-pillar and fairly close to the roof. It should be pretty easy to install. I'm going to take a Sharpie and we'll mark the points of our holes, then we'll take it out again, make our holes and then we can screw in this son of a cookie.

I need access to the top of the wheel well. on the back here to get to the bottom where the cage hardware goes, so I just picked it up, took the wheels off. Jimmy is almost finished cleaning the plastic. Adam is playing with the rug by throwing it around. He's going to cut out the places for the cage and then. We're all going to find ourselves in the middle, this mat only cost us $135 and it's actually going to transform the interior of the car, you know, in a lot of cars like this, you remove everything you can, everything that's technically unnecessary. unnecessary, but then the car gets very loud and hot and it's not that nice a place to be and we want this to be a good combination of things, it breaks down and makes enough power that I'm not worried about wasting a few pounds on the carpet .

Yes, there are a lot of cuts that haven't been made, so basically yes, the mat is cheap, but it doesn't have holes in it, so there will be a lot of ins and outs, if you want to put it in the car, see where you might have to do it. cut some holes mark with the pen and cut remember cut less because you can always cut more later it comes now that we have the carpet there we have holes cut for all the screws and things it's time to throw away the cage Go in and see if it fits.

I mean, it should, but our holes could be in the wrong place. You never know. Well, the good news is that the cage fits. The bad news is that we forgot to put on the headliner. Speaking of which, let's take a look. So we took out some of the original Civic stuff, like the headliners and a bunch of the pillar moldings, even the visors, and sent them to an upholstery shop and they covered them in Alcantara, so this is really coming into its own. a luxury. Civic, it's going to be sweet, let's take a look at the headliner, oh honey, what is this?

A Mercedes, yeah, that's good, we have to install it, which means we have to remove the cage, so every time you put a liner on, you want to be. be very careful, it's long, it's quite flimsy and the last thing you want is to bend this, especially when you've just wrapped it, so be careful, find a friend and do it right, that's good, friend, look at this ceiling tape, We are taking everything. We group together because this car has no studs so we have no idea where the engine is so we throw you in so we actually have some kind of premise or idea.

I have Heber lifting the front of the car right now. We are going to drain the coolant because we are going to install two aftermarket gauges, one is for the water temperature and therefore the coolant drain and the other will be the oil pressure. Those are the two most important vital signs to know in an engine because if one of them is going too high or too low, you know you should probably stop and check something at the right time to hook up our gauges so they're cold because they're accurate when the water temperature starts to move on this It's probably not a good day, so we want to know before something starts to happen.

Apex is quite easy to install. This is your brain unit. All you need to do is provide power and ground to the box and then connect the meter wire directly to the brain, then the sensor directly to the brain as well and voila, any good car has good pedals, so we have a set of mugan pedals , they look nice and they'll feel nice, so I'm just going to remove the old ones. rubber pieces that have been on probably forever and replace them with these thin pieces, they're a little bit bigger, so we can close the gaps between the pedals, which is good for the control of the car.

We are getting closer. I have most of the stuff installed, just a couple of big things left. You can notice that I am removing the wheels. These wheels belong on the Miata and they're going back to them, which means the Civic needs wheels, which means we have te37 wheels for it. Civic is a 15 by 8 et35. These are super sticky tires and super sick wheels. They will look amazing. I always wanted a game and now I have a game. Things have come a long way in a short time. I can't wait to get it. these, throw it on the ground and look at it, look what a classic wheel sitting behind some spoon bricks mhm threesome one two three not bad that was decent that was decent we have a working spell Hub this will help us Place our dogfighting wheel that we have here and this will make you feel the road better.

It's nice because it's literally what you're playing all the time, so you might as well do that. Nice old wheel, new wheel, old wheel, about 15. on this guy it's 350mm now it doesn't seem like much but it's plenty of leg room which will free up for Joby and me so along with our steering package we have a quick release, now this is pretty much it. It's great for a couple of reasons: one it makes it easy to get in and out of the car by simply removing it and separating it from the column. You can also use it as a theft deterrent because you can walk with it in the mall.

It's going to look super cool, a lot of people will think your car is awesome, so it's got two little perks ready, yeah, that feels great, hey, it looks so good, we're coach

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ers, yeah, we're cool, the mats with wheels They are set almost on time. Put the seats back and admire our work, so with the seats it's usually a good idea to get a harness especially if we're going to hit the track, these are 2 inches and will also fit a Han device, plus it's a little thinner so it's not as bulky in the neck area it's just okay so the job is to finish the railing on the other seat all we have to do is tuck it in and buddy we're almost done here , a hot dog looks pretty sick.

Gosh, it looks like a brand new car, these seats feel great, there's a great crossroads of comfort and support, you know, I really feel like I'm well supported here without being restricted or uncomfortable. I'm so excited to have these seats here and the wheel oh my gosh and the pedals wow and look at these gauges just look at them and then look at that a brand new headliner wow a cage oh the carpet a dome light that works what feels like nice place to be now feels great nothing wasn't disgusting before the gear stick looks sick on top of the actual carpet.

I know all the white touches are new white meters. these white gauges the white shift knob looks so sick. I like these blue stitching, yes, a little touch of blue, touch of yellow. it got really hot, we did something else we didn't really mention before, this car had just straight pipes and it was incredibly loud, it was too loud so we put in an exhaust and it's time to hear what Jimbo sounds like. turn this pig on, oh so much Tamer, I like it, let's hear something else now, you may have noticed that this seat is not the same as the yellow ricaro sr3 that we originally installed now, while the rare ones are a great seat super cool, super comfortable for on the street and a little time on the track, they hold you in quite well, they are not a bucket seat and this is not just a bucket seat, but a bucket seat with a Halo that makes it extremely safe on the road track, now that is needed away from street riding, but let's be honest, this is not really a tram anymore, so the Halos keep your head in place when you have a helmet, which is very nice, very safe and the wraparound seat keeps you exactly where you want. being all the time one of the worst things is trying to go fast and having to worry about moving a lot when you're bolted to a bucket seat and really strapped in, you're one with the car which is what you want and hopefully become at one with the car is exactly what we need and all we need to beat the new Civic Type R so it handles well it stops well the interior is nice it's a fun place to be we generate power with the engine so what what do we do next?

Well we do individual throttle bodies and cams, now they didn't make us load more power, but they did give us some more power and increased our rev limit. Our rev limit is now 9,000 RPM, which is pretty fun and between that it's pretty high. rev limit and these itbs. The sounds this thing makes are pretty good, as always before we install the new stuff we have to remove the old stuff which means removing the intake manifold and everything around it and removing the valve cover and going down to the cameras and to make sure we don't screw anything up, we have the drag poster guys here to give us a hand, so that should make it pretty easy, why do you say right at the end?

Because, right? You may be wondering why we are changing the camshafts. The cams thatWe're going to allow ourselves to make a little more power at the top end. We will do that too. Improved valve spring that will allow us to spin up to about 9,000 RPM, so I'm very happy with that. Why do we replace the springs well? So you need more seat pressure at higher TDC if you have a stock spring. it starts to float because the valve itself has inertia and that can overcome the spring pressure, so if you are at those high MH revs, it floats like you said exactly, so you need a stronger spring to push it back into place, that's right, and then you can get into those crazy 9 to 10,000 RPM numbers, if you have enough valve spring, then we're going to have a dual spring setup here and that's going to keep our valves closing consistently at really high RPM.

Good, the original cams are working. quick progress, we need to compress our valve springs, just put a tool on this bar and use a little leverage, compress the spring, take everything apart and the new springs can go in nice and easy, now we just have to repeat that process. 15 times more they might wonder, hey, if the springs were removed, what's keeping the valves from falling into the cylinder? Well, the drag cartel guys brought in a little accessory that pressurizes the cylinder and keeps the valves in the up position and allows us to change the springs. With your head still in the engine, this takes a lot of getting used to, so a good set of camshafts for performance applications will have a little more lift, which means the lobe is a little higher, which which means it opens the valve a little. a little further and it will last longer, which is the kind of curvature you can see, it's quite wide, which means it will keep the valve open for a little longer before it closes again to allow us to suction.

It takes more air in, pushes out more air, and ultimately moves more air, which is what a performance engine needs to do to make power. I mean, it's an air pump and a pump, yeah, pump more air, make more power. Well, okay, the drag poster boys just finished. putting the cams on, let's turn it on, make sure it still runs and then tackle the itbs woo, yeah yeah okay, job's halfway done, that sounds great, solid job, now we can replace this, okay , so this is it. our stock intake manifold and throttle body, there you go, oh we have a throttle body here that opens up when you step on the throttle and then that hole is responsible for sucking in all the air that your engine needs to use and then it's distributed. to each cylinder through this manifold, it's 65mm wide and each one is 60mm wide, so we're going to get a lot more air into the engine and it's also going to sound a lot colder because we have four. of these things just allows us to listen to every cylinder okay I just want to see how far we have to go to get to that look of about half I mean it's like that doesn't happen or more yeah it looks like we.

We've come to an impact here why gentlemen, well our power steering pump is making contact with the stack right here, we can't get it to end right, we definitely are, so I guess we're going to eliminate the power steering that we just installed, maybe now is a good time to explore electricity. Power steering, we may have to do it. I mean, will this support be on the way too? No, once this is disabled you could literally let go. That should make it pretty easy. Why do you say right at the end? Why do you say right at the end? in the end, in the end, in the end, okay, so we're going to do something with our power steering, we're not exactly sure what, but one thing that needs to happen is the bracket needs to be cut in half, so Nolan and I together we will cut. four hands an angle grinder works oh yeah no problem we left these two threaded holes hoping we can reuse them for our serpentine belt tensioner without us having to go to a completely different configuration for serpentine belt so let's cross the fingers, let's do a little test fit, see how it looks and hopefully have all the room in the world, oh man, something feels like it's making contact, oh yeah, it's just sitting there.

Unfortunately, it looks like we're going to have to lose this threaded hole, which means we lose the ability to use the tensioner that we had on the saw, so since we're losing our power steering pump that used to go here, we do it. I need to replace it with a Poley tensioner so we can still use a serpentine belt, which is a big deal, so what we have here is a little ktuned setup. It's a really nice kit and it basically replaces the bracket that goes from the block to the engine mount and allows us to add this tensioner pulley that will hang H here but won't interfere with the itbs so I just have to take this thing off put this thing on and then the strap, it's that easy, I'm pretty.

Discouraged, we're going to have to cut the hood, we'll think of something. All of this will require a rune obviously between the cams, itbs and the larger fuel injectors. Hopefully this thing should turn on, but it doesn't. It's going to work great, all the connectors are connected, the battery is connected too, there are some odds and ends that still need to be addressed, what really matters is finding out if this works, yeah, I mean that's close to what I expected . You can tell it can work, but you really don't want to do it right now. I'm going to push the accelerator just a little to see what happens.

Oh, okay, that was sick. Did you see that fire? Now the ITBs and the cams don't really move the ignition needle much, but it's as much about the sound and the experience as it is about destroying your adversaries and knocking down that Civic-type bar, so when we got this Civic it was a $500 Civic , many things. didn't work, I mean the air conditioning and the new Civic Type R definitely has air conditioning that works, so if we are going to beat it, we have to completely beat it, not just in lap time but also in comfort, at least we got it than equal comfort, so what do we do?

We install air conditioning. So let's talk about how an air conditioning system actually works. Refrigerant is a really interesting thing because it can easily switch between liquid and gas states, meaning it can be easily compressed and expanded whenever it expands, it actually cools down quite significantly because its molecules are more dispersed. A car's air conditioning system starts at the compressor that compresses the refrigerant. This heats it but also gives it room to cool and expand the hot compressed refrigerant. through a condenser that works like a radiator to remove heat, then the cooled and compressed refrigerant passes through an expansion valve where the misting nozzle makes it expand cooling it further, finally into the evaporator, the refrigerant super Cold flows through another radiator where there is a fan. transfers cold coolant temperature to the car cabin at the end of the day.

It's pretty cool in its simplicity. Ah, an air conditioning compressor, the heart of the system, so I'm going to install this. This should be bolted up to the motor and then start on the other things like the capacitor, the lines, the box that goes under the dash and everything else. I have to remove the fender to run the air conditioning lines from the passenger compartment to the compressor in the front of the engine and to do that I also have to remove the bumper, so I'm just going to take the parts off, put the parts on and then put them back.

Hey, look, okay, the fender is off and now we can run some AC lines, so it looks. like at some point someone tried to lift this car off the center stand so you can see it's all squished in here, making the radiator fit a little weird, which is exacerbating our assembly issues with the air conditioning components, so I don't think fixing this will totally solve our air conditioning system, but it's definitely a step in the right direction and then we'll do some fabrication because our individual throttle bodies hit the factory mechanical pump, we have to do a power steering electrical. pump so we have one of these this one is from a Volvo and also a Porsche Cup car which is cool so essentially the way it works is like the mechanical pump except we're not using the engine to boost it. just an electric motor inside that winds up super fast to pump the fluid through the wreck, so since we don't have a full motor pumping the pump, that's why this guy is going to consume so much energy, we're talking from 75 to 80 5 amps. drain and that's why you'll want a good circuit breaker.

We'll mount it in the engine bay right next to it, so if there's a spike or surge, it'll explode now. I know it might be kind of tempting for a lot of people not to use a circuit breaker, but the thing to avoid is that it's most likely not Spike, but if you do, that wire will get so hot that it will actually turn on and You will have the engine catch fire and I am ready to position the power steering pump correctly to secure the fans we are installing. We've got these little units here, they're pretty simple, they're basically just flanges, but the flange part is separate, so you've got this tail that you can see has all these little steps that interact with this guy, this just clicks and you adjust it. and you basically just run it through the fins of your radiator. and you can just glue your fans to the radiator without a shroud, which you know, some people I think aren't fans of puns, but they work pretty well, they're very simple, and unless for some reason you need a shroud for the radiator , this is a really simple way to do it, so we're replacing the old standard battery with this little one.

This is an optimal lithium battery, it's so light and small it's amazing, but it will save us a little bit of weight and these batteries. They're supposed to be really good, but one of the differences with this battery is the terminals, they're not standard, like cylinder posts, which you would use one of these terminals for, so we're going to have to change things up a bit. We're going to have to cut this standard style ring post terminal and basically put one of these eyed ends on it and then we can connect it to these little threaded posts here, it's really not a big deal, just a little bit of a minor difference, but I think it'll be worth it worth having this sweet little man there now to connect the battery.

It works, it works very well, very well. I've got the fans installed so I'm about to put the condensers on for the last time we're buttoning things up right pretty much all I've done is take the fender off and put it back on so let's do it buddy but now you're cool it's important Do not do it. tighten all the bolts right away because we want to get the body, make sure the gaps are perfect on this thing, you know, it's like on a flawless car, this accessory is of utmost importance, moment of truth, it's time to see if I connected everything. correctly on the power steering pump power something strange 50/50 sounds like that all the time that's how you know we have a real race car it's a little crazy to have power steering with the car off I think it's in the capacitor yeah You're touching the cylinder over here, okay, like a glove, man, yeah, pretty good, man, this is like new from the factory, look at this accessory, okay, the power steering cooler, just you know, half an inch under of the protection bar and then the capacitor is as you know. inch away dude Honda hire me I'm right so we're connecting our vacuum lines to our vacuum block here each intake runner if you will has a vacuum port on the bottom and the reason This is because each type of cylinder creates its own vacuum every time a piston pulls down and sucks in air, so this block basically collects that vacuum and then uses it to power our brake booster, so we couldn't run a single vacuum line from a single intake runner because it wouldn't.

It's not going to be a consistent solid vacuum, but when you collect all four and use them in this port, then we have a solid vacuum, so we'll have pretty simple solid brakes, but it's definitely something you can't overlook, there's no way that it closes with that on. If it was soft, maybe, but I thought it was like rubber, but it is hard plastic, extremely hard. I mean, it's worth a try. I guess it still won't close with the filter on, but I'd love to be wrong, oh it's so. close, you're on that friend, yeah, it's okay, it's working, why do we want to keepThis here?

Well, we want this to work for a long time and, you know, I think in some parts of the country, especially with a car that you don't drive very often, you can get away with it, but we live very close to the beach and many of the places this goes to have a lot of sand, so the desert, the beach, the canyons, so let's go. to run a filter, whether we like it or not, look at that friend he looks sweet, that's not so bad, yeah, JY, good friend, he looks like we imagined, that's cool, which is good news, yeah , one step at a time, it's got a little tribal tattoo peeking out, that's cool, well it's time to turn this thing on and make sure it doesn't blow up and it's ready for the dyno and we've done a lot since this last one worked well, it's not.

It's going to work fine because it's not tuned yet, but it did work if we remember, as long as we do it again, we'll feel pretty good about loading it on the trailer and sending it to the dyno. I wish we could. plugged everything into an H sound, what are you trying to do? Simply crank the motor manually. Yes, it doesn't work very well. I guess it has something to do with the battery. It's a pretty slow start. Give him some liquid courage. You know, yeah, we could do that. spray real quick, open up, okay, go ahead, woo, woohoo, woohoo, okay, that's up, okay, so it works as good as before, which means I think it's ready for the dinosaur, what do you think what are you going to do?

I'm going to go with 234, that's a very good assumption. I was thinking 232, what does this thing weigh? 200 pounds, if that Jimmy, when he's wet, it's time to load this thing on the trailer and take it to the dinosaur, so we're back to being incomparable. tuning Danny has the car strapped to the dyno we're about to see if all these mods are worth it last time we were here we hit 28 horsepower now let's see if we can increase it with itbs wish us luck 234 look 234 stole my number I said 234 I did it right we really hope to make more power and the reason we're going to make more power is because the camshaft and the itbs together now don't necessarily mean You're going to make more power but we'll be able to use that extra air since we are sitting in a larger one, about 222 horsepower.

Not bad, we'll give it a couple more passes to see if we can. Get a little more power out and then let's see if we can get it to the CTR, okay come on, we're doing the last group here, we're very close and we've got good numbers now if I'm honest. I asked Danny if he has a little bit more, so he's going to tweak it a little bit because we want to get to that number 234 because I want to be right and Jimmy has to be wrong. 233 come on oh boy that's 9,000 RP 9,000 RPM from Gloria okay now I gotta know how much she made with the dyo uhh he got 230 horsepower.

Go to the wheels, that's great, but I think we are at a point where we might be able to win. Now, the last thing we wanted to address before trying to upgrade the Civic Type R was the entertainment system. You know, the new Civic has a great sound system and it's nice to listen to, so this Civic needed some upgrades. It still had the original headstock. unit with a bunch of broken speakers that probably didn't sound good at first, sounded even worse when we got our hands on this, so we thought it was only right to make another video and try to make our Civic as comfortable and entertaining as possible.

Like a modern Civic, we installed a stereo system. Oh okay, everything on this table cost us a total of $850, which may seem like a lot, but it's actually not as cheap as you can get with a good sound system when you consider everything. the parts will make more sense let's break it down first we have our head unit this is a Pioneer part it's pretty simple pretty basic and costs 100 bucks then we have some speakers in the doors these are pretty sturdy and should really improve the sound quality in the car they were only 70 dollars and of course we have a 10 inch subwoofer and this was only 119 dollars and then when you add things like this you usually need to power them with an amplifier and usually you will have an amplifier responsible for the speakers of your components and one responsible for your subwoofer, but in this case I We have a two-in-one amplifier, this one is five channels, so it includes door speakers and subwoofer, which will save us a little space and, In fact, it saved a little money.

I spent 420 dollars on this and then here we have I have wiring, you can't forget it, you have to have it and it was 60 dollars, but it's a pretty good thing and then a box to put the subwoofer in. We spent 80 dollars on just one box, now we have to install it right, Jimmy. Come on, yeah, give us a Bas tester. There's something wrong with this guy, so to get to the door speakers, I'm going to remove the door cards and then they can be easily removed. Come on, I don't want to break them. I have seen better days.

Well, now we've gotten these old dogs out of there and we're almost ready to put in the new ones. The question is how do you choose a new set of speakers? And there are actually a couple of things that you're seeing. First of all the size of them so these are 6 and 1/2 inch speakers so I ordered 6 and 1/2 inch speakers to replace them which means they will fit right into your home and that's great , now you can do it. increase the size of the speakers or use smaller ones if you want for some reason, but that will require a bit of manufacturing or at least figuring it out, and then beyond that you need to think about power when pairing the speakers with an amplifier Whether it's the factory head unit or an aftermarket amplifier, like we're doing, the main number that you're going to look at and think about is the RMS power rating, meaning root mean square or basically the average output power of that amplifier and how much a speaker can drive, so these speakers are 100 watts RMS, meaning they can handle an average of 100 watts all the time.

Our amplifier outputs 100 WTS RMS to four speaker outputs, although we're only going to use two. Well, we have matched our speakers very well with our amplifier and our subwoofer is also very well matched with our amplifier, so I think we are in business, all good, this is going to be sexy. Sorry, that was too sexy. I know the first thing we do. What we are going to do is wire the car and prepare it for our new things. You can reuse the factory speaker cables, but I wouldn't really recommend it. You know, if you're going to go that far, you might as well rewire the speakers with something good.

Speaker cable that can handle the increased output of your new AMP. One thing you'll see a lot in speaker wiring like this is whether the wiring is oxygen-free copper or not, and oxygen-free copper is the best it gives you. the best signal, the best clarity, and generally what you should use first. Here we have rcas and this is what will take the sound signal from our head unit to our amplifier so it can amplify it and then trigger it. to our speaker cables to our various speakers, so we have to run this to the head unit region and we have to run some speaker wire to the doors and a handful of other little things, like the power cable up the battery, all in no time.

It's everyone's favorite part about plugging things in. The blood goes into your head. It makes you feel good. It's just making sure I have these RCAs tied up and totally out of the way of the pedals. The last thing you want is for your foot to get tangled up while you're trying. using the pedals let alone anything even touching your feet will make you think about it and for a car that is going to be driven around the track make sure everything is strapped down and doesn't interfere with driving, who needs speakers then ? You can have me in the passenger seat while you J and handle the wiring.

I'll take care of some details like a new floor. This will support the weight of the subwoofer and it will be able to be mounted to the actual chassis of the car, which is really important, this car is going to go to the track and we are adding a subwoofer to the back that, if you don't secure it, becomes a a projectile if you get into an accident, so let's make sure we can bolt the floor to the car and then bolt the subwoofer to the car as well so nothing can move. This is our cardboard floor that I think came in the car, yeah, it's pretty. warped and also not very solid, so what I'm going to do is have this plywood here that I found at the store and I'm going to trace here.

I'm going to extend some wings to the side so this can bolt on. to the floor I intentionally left a lot of meat on the board because the cardboard piece that goes in here doesn't extend to these corners. This is the outline of where the original cardboard was. It doesn't reach outside. so I think I'm going to glue some cardboard to that original piece, make a template of where I need to cut here and hopefully that can get us to the right ballpark, almost there, yeah, getting closer, my arm is so tired, for Of course, you could use. a drill or an impact gun to drive these screws, but that's really risky, all it takes is one little slip and you make a hole in this foam over here and you've just left your sub practically useless.

I only do it by hand because I've done it in the past, okay, here we go, hey, it's pretty good, okay. Nolan has the floor done so I'm going to drop this here and see how we want to mount it and see how it fits with the rebar in place oh that could be money honey I want to make sure there's no way that , even if you hit a wall at 50 mph, this can move forward, we'll have supports on the sides and then the rebar will be right here, uh, preventing the sub from being able to move forward no matter what I'm just thinking about the packaging and we could rotate it in any direction, but then you have Gap here and I really like how nice and tight, yeah, that makes me feel good. a car that is small with a sealed box like this.

I think you can aim it anyway except down and achieve pretty similar results, so the fit is accidentally perfect. Let's talk about the box for a second. It is a sealed box, meaning there is no port for air to enter and leave the box. This thing has a volume of just over 1 cubic foot inside, which matches the speaker itself, which is information you can find from the manufacturer on any sealed speaker box. a tighter and crisper base instead of a ported box would be more boomy and hit a little harder, but I thought on this car we wanted it to be tight and crisp and sound good, it's also a 20 year old Civic. that's going to sound bad enough already and a ported box definitely exacerbates the fact that you may have seen me

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my own sub box in the past and wonder why I didn't do it this time and the truth is that you don't really keep a lot of Money MDF, the material it's made of is quite expensive, so really the only reason to build your own box is if you really want to or just need to fit it in a tricky space that a standard box won't allow you to do.

I don't have any of those quality issues or problems with this car so I went with an $80 off the shelf sub box and it looks good and should work great so now it's time to put it all together. Connect all the cables and let this suction cup blow up, we can put the amp on this side I think and ride, ride, ride, ride, all of our speaker cables are connected now, so they're feeding the speaker cable from the front door speakers to next sub. What I'm going to do is this, it's called a remote wire and it basically sends a 12 volt signal from the head unit when the car turns on the amplifier to tell it to turn on, a pretty critical part, it's like the alarm.

Say, hey, wake up, hey, boy, get up, it's time to work, okay, so this is the moment of truth. I really mean we've installed a lot of little details and it all has to determine how loud it's going to get louder, right, squeeze, bang. squeeze bang squeeze Bang that sounds great, it sounds amazing, yeah, it sounds great, it's very punchy, but not too punchy, so it doesn't exactly make our teeth chatter, it's well rounded, that's fine, it's rounded, man, this car It's officially at least as nice as a new Civic Type R. Down 100%, give me this every day of the week, so with all this done to the car, it's basically a new car, we've touched every square inch of this thing and we've improved it so much that it can be as good as a new Civic Type R and who knows, maybe it'll even be as fast as a new Civic Type R, but you know what?

Even if we don't beat the time, I really don't care about that. The only thing I really care about when we go to the track is doing better than last time, getting better and that comes with seat time and it comes with track time, you go to the track and you get some seat time in a car that you built with your friends, it's a formula for fun, so let's put that formula to the test and have fun on the track with the guys and see if maybe this car is now faster than a new CivicType R that we arrived at Willow Springs.

International Raceway in the Civic for a Speed ​​Ventures track day, the goal of the day is to achieve a faster lap time than the modern Civic Type R. The last time we were here at this track with this car we were 1.6 seconds slower than that. Civic Type R, but even if we can't beat that lap time, it's been a great experience, super fun build. I love this car, it has made me a certified Honda guy and Nolan also got a Civic thanks to this Civic. Now we're going to drive around a little bit okay let's see everything went well so Jerry just took out car 1266 and on that note thank you so much for watching.

I hope you had fun, we had fun even though this is still not that fast. like a new Civic Type R, I don't care, it's still a super fun car and we had a good time tearing it up, so like and subscribe to the video, leave us a comment, tell us what you want us to build next, see you guys. next time oh