loiselle.m

Hey everyone, sad times as I'm forced to part-out my rt4wd wagon - too much rust.

 

What's available:

• complete interior (beige/brown);
• all the glass (except windshield);
• A/C system (which worked when I parked the car);
• tail lights;
• radiator less than a year old;
• Weber 32/36 carb, comes with intake (that has all the extra vacuum plugged), and modified stock breather;
• I have a D16A1 brown top as well pulled 15 years ago. Ran before it was pulled at 135,000km. No wiring harness, fuel rails or exhaust manifold.

What's gone:

• headlights;
• front corner and bumper lights;
• engine, transmission, drive shafts, half shafts, rear diff (all 4WD parts)
• hood, front bumper and fenders;
• header panel;
• wheels; 
• suspension;
• rt4wd shift knob. 

Body is in rough shape, lots of rust, especially on the inner panels, floor pans are rotten. 

I'm sure I missed some parts...Not sure if I'll be able to reply to the thread, so you can PM me if you're interested. Didn't really have a price in mind for individual parts, so shoot me an offer. I'd be willing to let the shell go with the complete interior (which is currently disassembled) for a reasonable price for someone who'd be willing to come and get it - will not deliver. Would make a nice lot of spare parts! However, as mentioned above, no 4WD related parts available. Car is for parts only - no ownership. Located in Sudbury, Ontario.

 

Would rather local sale, especially for large items. May ship smaller things.

 

I will update with pictures at a later date as I'm away from my own pc...or you can ask for some if you wish.

Cheers,

 

Mat

EDIT: I found what I needed - topic can be deleted.

I picked up a brown top D16a1 from a member here (thanks Cobourg Classic Hondas!) and I'm now looking for the complete harness for the engine as well as the cluster from a manual transmission 1st gen Integra.
 
I already have the ECU, so I need what will hook everything up from the engine, ECU, and cluster.
 
Willing to pay for shipping!
 
Not sure if I'll be able to reply to this post, so if you want to shoot me an email loiselle.m at gmail.com, that would be better for me.
 
Thanks!

I've searched endlessly for someone who properly retrofitted projectors in some 3g Civic headlights, to no avail. I do lots of night travelling and honestly, the stock light output is far from good. The bonus is we have glass lenses, so they don't fade over time. I purchased Bi-xenon Morimoto Mini H1 projectors from theretrofitsource.com, which were the smallest available. These are especially nice because they require little to know modification of the headlight housing; which I found was true - but I made a boo boo on the way. 

1. I started by removing the headlights from the car.
2. Separate the headlight unit from the base, by pulling the 2 springs off. Then you can pull the headlight off the 2 adjustment screws.
3. Remove lenses from headlight assembly. I put them in the oven, 1 at a time. The first one wen't pretty smoothly, at around 200F for a total of almost 30 minutes.That's the headlight with the lens removed, with the shroud and projector test fitted inside. The shroud fits pretty snug.
4. Unfortunately the splitting of the second light didn't go so well...It was more than likely human error as I was getting antsy to have the lens off. however, there was way more glue, or whatever it was holding it in place.
5. Initially, my intentions were to keep the light factory looking, eventually sanding the inside flutting from the headlight to have that desirable cut-off the projectors give. But after breaking the lens, and not wanting to pay the price, or wait for a used set (since this is my daily), I improvised. At first the projector would have fit behind the lens, and the projector is mounted through the bulb hole and screwed in from the back where it mounts permanently.
6. Remove the bulb holders from the back, don't forget the small set screw.
7. Now to make replacement lenses I decided I would just mount them flush again the metal headlight, instead of trying to fabricate something that was angled like the original lenses. This was a lot less trouble, and I thought I would turn out looking more like the 84-85 Civics with the recessed headlights.
8. Although for the projector to clear the lens that would now be flush I had to push it further back into the headlight, which meant I had to hack at the back to allow for clearance.So I did that, and glued a flat square piece of aluminum behind it, in which I also cut out a shape to allow for the projector to sit back. I would eventually drill 4 holes into this plate and mount the projectors with screws.
9. Next, the headlight "bracket" for lack of better term, needed to be altered, since the headlight would now sit back a little bit. So I glued a piece of sheet metal and painted it black, to cover the rusty and uneven bits underneath.
10. After having removing some pieces from inside the headlight the chrome scratched up a bit so I painted that all black as well.
11. Then I drilled the holes into that previously mentioned aluminum plate, and needed to use spacers (which were 1/4" rivet threaded rivet sleeves, about maybe 3/4" long) to mount the projector evenly. The spacers allowed the #8 screws to fit inside without having too large of an outside diameter that they would't rub again the projector and throw the screw on an angle.
12. Used some red lock tite on the nuts, and used the same clear glue (which is made for sealing roofs) to seal the hole between the projector and the headlight.
13. Added some glue around the projector lens and mounted the shroud