Project Steph's 1978 Honda Civic 1200

Bill · Unread post by **Bill** » May 23rd, 2010, 11:05 pm

The cars looking really nice! all the pieces are coming together nicely...

Steph · Unread post by **Steph** » May 23rd, 2010, 11:14 pm

Thanks Bill :D it drives soo much better now, and the new tires are virtually silent, which is a huge change from the old ones which made lotsa noise. I was reading the wheel alignment printout, and the camber was near perfectly set at zero, like 0.1 degree out, and I have to say, it steers like power steering now, and drives in a straight line without any hands on the steering wheel. It's such a pleasure to drive. Now if I can just extract a little more power with the 32/36 Weber, camshaft and new exhaust, I'll be over the moon.

Steph

Bill · Unread post by **Bill** » May 23rd, 2010, 11:31 pm

Theres always a little more in there to be wrung out! recurve the distributor, there is a couple little horses hiding in there... as for how to do it.... just get creative I suppose.

Steph · Unread post by **Steph** » May 24th, 2010, 12:22 am

I'll get the distributor recurved when the motor gets dyno-tuned. That'll be the final stage, after I fit the camshaft, carburetor, and exhaust. I really need to get back into the header project this weekend, which I can do now I've finished the suspension and wheel upgrades.

Blackbullet · Unread post by **Blackbullet** » May 24th, 2010, 1:35 am

The car looks very nice. Where that 70mm picture from the rear arch?

Steph · Unread post by **Steph** » May 24th, 2010, 2:23 am

Blackbullet wrote:The car looks very nice. Where that 70mm picture from the rear arch?

I never said it was 70mm? But it is the same as the front.

I finally have my collection of Choro Civics which I plan on using Blutac to position them across my dashboard. I had to paint a spare one silver so Keil wouldn't feel left out

HondaCarCare1 · Unread post by **HondaCarCare1** » May 24th, 2010, 3:24 am

Nice little Choro collection there. :D

Vulcan · Unread post by **Vulcan** » May 24th, 2010, 12:38 pm

Steph wrote: I had to paint a spare one silver so Keil wouldn't feel left out

I'm B15M metallic blue.

Blackbullet · Unread post by **Blackbullet** » May 24th, 2010, 3:30 pm

Steph wrote: I never said it was 70mm?

True but on the tape measure it looks like 70mm to me. Of the stock cars ive seen they have more clearance on the front than the rears

Steph · Unread post by **Steph** » May 24th, 2010, 3:37 pm

Blackbullet wrote:
Steph wrote: I never said it was 70mm?
True but on the tape measure it looks like 70mm to me. Of the stock cars ive seen they have more clearance on the front than the rears

I just measured it and it's 80mm :dunno

Steph

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Project Steph's 1978 Honda Civic 1200