Take back the keys!

Alright figured i'd share some of this with you guys, it's gonna be a lot of work but i'm gonna be building my self a new daily driver. Reason being, i wanted a hatchback instead of my current coupe daily. That & there was no way i was gonna boost the d15b7 motor that was in my coupe so i looked around and got ahold of jakes old coupe with a d16z6 motor in it & tracked down a hatchback shell that was in pretty good shape body wise & i'm gonna be putting these things together.

Here's the wrecked up coupe. More suspension damage and tweaked body than anything, but has a good motor in it.






The Hatchback shell is decent body wise but is going to take a lot of work because someone cut the main harness all up. I'll be transfering pretty much everything to the hatch.

- has steering rack but not installed, it was in the back
- main harness is fawked
- missing a fender & rear bumper ( i'll pull the fender from the coupe, i ordered the rear bumper already)
- no axles
- no interior other than back half
- no headlights
- tails were in a box
- ect.

you'll get more details as the project progresses.




cable is fubared for the glass in the rear, so it won't latch yet.





I spent today getting the garage ready to do the job, the rhino is back on the ground & ready to rip, and the the left bay is ready so the work will begin tomarrow after it warms up out there.

sweet! updates plz

by chance did you get that hatch off a kid named joe boreio?

i cant wait to see the finished master piece

Bhaid98 wrote:by chance did you get that hatch off a kid named joe boreio?

i believe that was his name.

im lookin for some stock tail lights and back bumper for my civic got anything laying around?

Good luck!!!

Keep us updated =)

Hahaha Boerio's hatch! I'm really good friends with him. Built my eclipse in his garage. Holy shit! I've helped him do odds and ends thing to that hatch for the past 6 years. He slaved over the body work on that thing forever... glad someone got it that will put it to good use.

Did you happen to grab any other parts off him? He basically has a whole B series engine lying around, axles, radiator, tons of shit.

Bhaid98 wrote:im lookin for some stock tail lights and back bumper for my civic got anything laying around?

I've got a set of stock tails that you can have for 25 bux if you want. PM me for phone number.

Nick Serra wrote:Did you happen to grab any other parts off him? He basically has a whole B series engine lying around, axles, radiator, tons of shit.

It's gonna be a daily nick, i want 40mpg.. most likley as a second phase, i'm gonna boost it. Just gotta get the thing rolling & sell my current daily coupe first.

Did some prep work to the bay tonight, tryin to get it ready for the transplant. Cut the rest of the wiring out that i'm not gonna utilize & painted it up.

Before:


After:

you paint? pm me.

nice

PontiacChris wrote:you paint? pm me.

yes, i paint, i'll PM you photo's of my work.

Paint looks super nice =)

Rattlecan or paint gun profesional shit?!

sohchottie wrote:Paint looks super nice =)

Rattlecan or paint gun profesional shit?!

thats obviously professional. you can tell. post some of your work you pmed me bud. its really good.

PontiacChris wrote:

sohchottie wrote:Paint looks super nice =)

Rattlecan or paint gun profesional shit?!

thats obviously professional. you can tell. post some of your work you pmed me bud. its really good.

I don't wanna clutter this thread with paint work photos.. i'll toss the ones up that i sent you in a different thread or somethin.

Don't be surprised... some people can bust that shit rattlecan style out to look better then some "professional's"...

Just my 2 cents.

That hatch was in a lake, so I hope you won't be using a lot of the wiring. I think that is why Joey abandoned that thing.

Deviant wrote:That hatch was in a lake, so I hope you won't be using a lot of the wiring. I think that is why Joey abandoned that thing.

Yah, he just gave up because it was a wiring nightmare. We would troubleshoot that thing for hours.

Deviant wrote:That hatch was in a lake, so I hope you won't be using a lot of the wiring. I think that is why Joey abandoned that thing.

lol.. nice to find that out now! explains the rusty blower motor!

yea, i'm putting a main harness in it, so it's not that big of a deal.

anyone know how it ended up in a lake?

Running925 wrote:

Deviant wrote:That hatch was in a lake, so I hope you won't be using a lot of the wiring. I think that is why Joey abandoned that thing.

lol.. nice to find that out now! explains the rusty blower motor!

yea, i'm putting a main harness in it, so it's not that big of a deal.

anyone know how it ended up in a lake?

Well, the lake story isn't a fact. Just kinda a mosty likely story that explained why the car was so fucked up. I believe he bought the car off ebay from a seller in New York. The car was stolen and recovered in pretty poor condition.

sohchottie wrote:Don't be surprised... some people can bust that shit rattlecan style out to look better then some "professional's"...

Just my 2 cents.

my engine bay is rattle canned, u'd never know if i didn't tell u



its a little dirty in that pic tho, haha

g3ar5hift3r wrote:

sohchottie wrote:Don't be surprised... some people can bust that shit rattlecan style out to look better then some "professional's"...

Just my 2 cents.

my engine bay is rattle canned, u'd never know if i didn't tell u

that new slogan i just made on your car is rattle canned. check it out when you wake up! looks professional ehhh.

? im so confusdddddd

looks like a good project! il have to come check it out sometime

boosted_em1 wrote:looks like a good project! il have to come check it out sometime

i can use more hands!!

haha

Today's work consisted of stripping the shit out of the coupe. I'd like to say that jake is a lucky guy, for all the shit that i found in that thing that was loose that could have caused death, i'm amazed that he's alive! We worked on this thing pretty much all day, we got all the interior out, the dash & all the wiring, including the main harness. Pulled the e-brake assembly, pulled shiftlinkage & motor, headlights bumper, fenders, ect. Pulled power mirriors & door harness's. There not really much left to this thing anymore!

The main harness, yes, i actually know where all those plugs go!



Misc parts.



Yankin the motor



Empty coupe engine bay




more to come. not sure how much time i'll have this week to work on this thing but more updates will come as i get the work done.

hey in my defense i bought the car that way i didnt do the shady work on the interior all chads doing i think his name was

nice.... shit keeps going wrong with finances, and the holidays and stuff i'll never get to do my stuff how i want... but for sure i'll rattle can the engine bay now.... i didnt wanna have to buy a paint gun just to do that but at the same time i want it done before i send it out to get painted