Restoration Islander's First Generation Honda Civic

islander · Post by **islander** » October 23rd, 2011, 1:52 am

well.....Been busy, can't say I wouldn't be happy if I never had to do another RUST patch in my life. Needless to say moving forward with the reconstruction of my car. Also had the time to get a few more bits and pieces painted at work this past week. I don't have any pics of the gas tank stripped to bare metal, but once i did it was in fabulous shape

also finished off the front and rear suspension parts too. I took the brake lines to a hydraulic shop to be all re done and in place of the rubber flex hoses, I am going with stainless braided 8) . well here are the pics for now.

Bill · Post by **Bill** » October 23rd, 2011, 4:24 am

OOOooo, shiny is good! :D

Steph · Post by **Steph** » October 23rd, 2011, 4:28 am

Yeah, it's looking like it's going to be something pretty special!

nismo · Post by **nismo** » October 23rd, 2011, 6:52 am

Thats gona look superb when its finished.

islander · Post by **islander** » October 23rd, 2011, 11:27 am

I'm starting to think its looking more and more like a die cast model. I am thinking tho that it wont be to long away before the body goes down to the paint shop :D that way I can spend the winter putting the car back together.

islander · Post by **islander** » October 31st, 2011, 12:18 am

Making the big push to get my car down to the paint shop for prep and paint!!! The past little while I've finished up the welding :D and moved on to the filler part of the resto. Every thing has been given a lick of filler just to make sure its going to be straight. Here are some pics, pretty boring but non the less pics of progress.

Steph · Post by **Steph** » October 31st, 2011, 12:51 am

It's not boring at all. It's great to see progress and follow it. Much better than a before and after photo, not that they're a bad thing, it's just better to see what happened in between.

islander · Post by **islander** » October 31st, 2011, 2:54 am

Thanks Steph. Just didn't want to get to carried away with what seems as minor progress. Cant wait to have those new engine bay decals

Bill · Post by **Bill** » October 31st, 2011, 3:01 am

It's not really a little progress, there is a lot of work shown in those pictures!

Steph · Post by **Steph** » October 31st, 2011, 7:35 am

islander wrote:Thanks Steph. Just didn't want to get to carried away with what seems as minor progress. Cant wait to have those new engine bay decals

I need to know your paint colour code, and which ones you had before, as some of yours are different to ours. Once I know that I'll make up a sheet of them. I just switched my printer over to a continuous ink system, which is one of the many things I had bought and not fitted. I printed a test sheet on semi-gloss paper and the quality is astounding. I also printed registration marks for the first time! I'd been trying to do it in FlexiSIGN Pro, but the print quality was no good. Now I have to work out how to contour cut them on the vinyl cutter and I can start making them. I've already made a set before, but I had to cut them out with an Olfa knife. This isn't the way to do it IMO because it's too easy to make a mistake and end up with a crooked cut, or uneven edge.

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Restoration Islander's First Generation Honda Civic