Restoring the transmission

My girlfriend and I went on a road trip to Vermont to pick up this transmission. Funny enough I wasn’t able to find only a transmission so I had to buy a B18b1 engine to get this guy. I didn’t really want to do a B18 swap however so I managed to sell off the engine (for stupid cheap…). Here’s how it looked before touching it at all. The dust shield got a little mangled up but a hammer ’taps’ with the hammer straightened it out.

New Transmission Mount Installed

Progress wise not too much more has been done on the Civic this week. I had to help out my girlfriend put new front brakes + an oil change so I wasn’t feeling too motivated after that. My Dad helped out and welded in the new transmission bracket though. It came out pretty awesome and should (hopefully) have no problem mounting up the B swap.

Wrapping it up

It’s funny, you never realize how many things are missing until you try to finish up your project. I spent today going over the motor ensuring I had everything I needed for it. Turns out I was missing quite a few bolts, and some misc small things.

I like projects

And I’m the kind of person that can’t leave a car alone. My civic is a 1993 DX hatch that I picked up off a friend of a friend 3 years ago. When I first bought it, it was an automatic and 100% stock. Cut to today and it’s totally different, it’s gone through rust repair, a paint job, and currently another motor swap. If your interested in it’s full history check out my build thread on D-Series.org. Currently however it looks like this:

Now that I’m back at college it’s been hard to make progress on the Civic. I do have a slight update to drop as the hood is just about done now.

I’ve been quite busy working on the Civic in the past month. I’m verfy excited to shared the journey I’m embarking on, and can’t wait to see how the finished product looks.

I don’t know why, but I’ve always been a fan of Honda. I just love the simplicity, and elegant styling. Sure they may not be the most luxurious cars out there but they are reliable and that’s a fact.

The transmission in the Civic was a good deal for the price of $100, but it had a nasty grind anytime you shifted into 3rd gear above 3k RPM. Because of this, and a transmission popping up for sale for $75 bucks I couldn’t resist making the switch.