The Swagoberry. - NOW FOR SALE $1400 - Updated 9/5/11

sethwalterssethwalters Wagonist
in Rides & Builds- Civic wagons
What she looks like now
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Just picked up a 91 Wagovan. The body is in really good condition. Right as soon as I get a chance, I'll be taking pictures of it with my DSLR.
Got sick of the CRV. Great vehicle and all, I just need a car on it's nuts with a manual tranny and some power.
So I'm selling the CRV to my dad. Hopefully when he pays me, and tax returns roll around, I'll be swapping an LS Turbo. :D

Right now it is a D15B2 MPFI 5 Speed FWD. :D
Well here goes the beginning of a new fun thread from me. Hope you all enjoy. :D

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So today I went to the junk yard and found a 90-93 accord lip. So I took some time and installed it along with my amber bumper lights.

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Enjoy. ^_^
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Comments

  • civicpwr1civicpwr1 New Wagonist
    nice wagon. good luck with your build man.
  • WagonWagon Wagonist
    wow man, very nice pick up

    i want your seats =)
  • ThaClutcHThaClutcH Senior Wagonist
    Reminds me of mines somewhat. I have little to no clear on my OEM hood too. Haha. Welcome bro.
  • bam-bambam-bam Council Member
    Welcome, Seth. Nice wagon.
  • NJCIVICWAGON1NJCIVICWAGON1 Council Member
    Welcome! Very clean wagon! Great find for a project! Cant wait to see the updates!
  • CivicShuttleGermanyCivicShuttleGermany Band Wagon
    Nice Wagon and welcome! Cant wait to see some progress
  • sethwalterssethwalters Wagonist
    Well, it looks like I might be doing something I've never done before.
    I'm thinking about going kinda different. My last EF (90 EF Hatch), I swapped an H22 into.
    This time though, I am thinking about doing a JDM D15B Turbo.
    We will see how that goes.

    Anywho, got it on insurance and everything today. Driving it around. It's great.
    I love it. And the funny thing is, I've already had 3 people tell me how ugly they think it is.

    But hopefully this week I'm going to be dropping it on its nuts with my new coilovers I purchased.
    I'll post pics with my DSLR when I get a chance.

    :D
  • slo88crxslo88crx Senior Wagonist
    Yes slam it! haha Tell them its not ugly it has character!! lol Looks good I think the wagon is better then the CR-V anyways! welcome!
  • 1RONM4N1RONM4N Wagonist
    nice wagon do all honda lips fit the wagon?or only a select few?
  • doitdubdoitdub familEE
    sethwalters wrote:
    And the funny thing is, I've already had 3 people tell me how ugly they think it is.
    Better than someone saying it's freakin 'cute'. I hate that shit...
  • sethwalterssethwalters Wagonist
    doitdub wrote:
    sethwalters wrote:
    And the funny thing is, I've already had 3 people tell me how ugly they think it is.
    Better than someone saying it's freakin 'cute'. I hate that shit...

    I know right, I hate that.

    slo88crx wrote:
    Yes slam it! haha Tell them its not ugly it has character!! lol Looks good I think the wagon is better then the CR-V anyways! welcome!

    I think it's better than the CRV too. It's just slow as mess.
    1RONM4N wrote:
    nice wagon do all honda lips fit the wagon?or only a select few?
    No. You have to make them fit. If you're looking for a sexy lip man, my favorite one is that sexy integra lip. Oh my. :D
  • sethwalterssethwalters Wagonist
    So, I'm getting paid this week. So I'll be slamming it and fixing my speedo.

    I pulled the cluster out to see why my speedometer wasn't working. Well, I found out.
    The cable actually ripped itself out of the clip. The clip was still connected to the cluster, and the cable was just chilling there.
    Makes sense now why I was throwing a code 17 or whatever.

    No other updates as of now. Been awfully busy with the girlfriend, school, and work. And we freaking had a small icestorm down here in SC.
  • sethwalterssethwalters Wagonist
    Alright guys, so I've finally found out what I'm going to do. I'm going to build my wago to be sexy and slow...
    Instead of going for speed like my hatch was, I'm going to go for gas mileage. I read HERE that you can get roughly 60mpg in a crx with a D15Z1 and an HF tranny.

    Well, I have a wagovan, and am going to have a VX tranny.
    The final drive in an HF tranny is 2.95.
    The final drive in a VX tranny is 3.25, and
    The final drive in an SI tranny is 4.25.

    So my new tranny won't have as long as gears, but it is only going to have about 35,000 miles on it. The same with the motor. :D

    My plans for now is to get:
    D15Z1 SOHC VTEC-E (92-95 Civic VX motor) and Tranny
    I FOUND THEM HERE

    It's going to be about 700 bucks to get the motor shipped to my door.

    I'm also going to get 1 and 3/4 inch exhaust with an ebay header, resignator, and a muffler to keep it flowing well but quietly.

    I'm pretty stoked guys. I'm shooting for +50 mpg. Let's hope.
  • bam-bambam-bam Council Member
    sethwalters wrote:
    Alright guys, so I've finally found out what I'm going to do. I'm going to build my wago to be sexy and slow...
    Instead of going for speed like my hatch was, I'm going to go for gas mileage. I read HERE that you can get roughly 60mpg in a crx with a D15Z1 and an HF tranny.

    Well, I have a wagovan, and am going to have a VX tranny.
    The final drive in an HF tranny is 2.95.
    The final drive in a VX tranny is 3.25, and
    The final drive in an SI tranny is 4.25.

    So my new tranny won't have as long as gears, but it is only going to have about 35,000 miles on it. The same with the motor. :D

    My plans for now is to get:
    D15Z1 SOHC VTEC-E (92-95 Civic VX motor) and Tranny
    I FOUND THEM HERE

    It's going to be about 700 bucks to get the motor shipped to my door.

    I'm also going to get 1 and 3/4 inch exhaust with an ebay header, resignator, and a muffler to keep it flowing well but quietly.

    I'm pretty stoked guys. I'm shooting for +50 mpg. Let's hope.


    That is way cool. I'll have to read up on the d15z1. I have a cherry HF tranny, but the HF motor...ugh. I have fantasies about building a super-efficient DD.
  • sethwalterssethwalters Wagonist
    bam-bam wrote:
    That is way cool. I'll have to read up on the d15z1. I have a cherry HF tranny, but the HF motor...ugh. I have fantasies about building a super-efficient DD.

    Thanks, I appreciate it. I thought about originally doing an HF Tranny, but for the price of this motor+tranny combo, I couldn't pass it up. Plus, this motor and tranny only have roughly 25-35 thousand on them. Good luck on finding an HF motor or tranny with that. Plus, it's VTEC-E with Lean Burn. So I will be happily low and slow. But at least my gas mileage with rock. :D
  • sethwalterssethwalters Wagonist
    Put fog lights on tonight. Wired up everything, looks great.
    Wired the fogs to my corner parking lights.

    Everything was fine and working, then I turned the car on to drive, and the parking lights and fogs went off. :(
  • prboy1969prboy1969 Wagonist
    Wagon look nice . Check your fuses first , then check your wiring . Had the same problen on a friends car after a fog install . Turned out to be a wire not properly wrapped , was grounding out and blowing the fuse .
  • sethwalterssethwalters Wagonist
    Update time! Hope you all enjoy this. :D

    Got my fogs working again. It blew a fuse. I ended up rewiring them to my headlights instead.

    My new eBay Coilovers
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    Other random pictures
    The girlfriend doing a weird face. I caught her off guard. We got my friend an EG Sedan
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    It snowed here in South Carolina, like 4-5 inches
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    Fog lights! :D
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  • prboy1969prboy1969 Wagonist
    Fogs look great . Where did you pick them up ?
  • Eagle BeagleEagle Beagle familEE
    Where did you pick them up ?
    !!! who caresss...
    everybody likes a muffin...


    !!?
    :shock: well I do...
    :mrgreen:
  • The_HeadThe_Head familEE
    Good luck with your plans. I've always wanted to put a D15Z1 into something.
  • draginmywagondraginmywagon Senior Wagonist
    where did you get the fogs... whats the brand also... cant go wrong with ebay coils when you starting off.. i just put a set in my buddys EK and we had to cut a coil out of the spring to get it where he wanted to be.. you might have to do it to yours if you want to scrape_mudz.. lol
  • shakey021shakey021 Wagonist
    I'm cuttin a coil or so this weekend on my eBay springs. My front won't go low enough :(

    I got fogs just like that at napa for like 20 buck. But I'm going to get some of that yellow glass spray and paint em so they are more yellow they are kinda clearish.
  • sethwalterssethwalters Wagonist
    prboy1969 wrote:
    Fogs look great . Where did you pick them up ?

    Actually, I got them from Walmart. They have clear lenses and a yellow inside (so they shine yellow). I just bought some lense spray so they will be yellow now. :D They cost about 15 bucks, and are pretty easy to install.
  • sethwalterssethwalters Wagonist
    Eagle Beagle wrote:
    everybody likes a muffin...

    !!?
    :shock: well I do...
    :mrgreen:

    Yep.. who doesn't like a muffin? :D
  • sethwalterssethwalters Wagonist
    The_Head wrote:
    Good luck with your plans. I've always wanted to put a D15Z1 into something.

    Yeah, after reading about gas mileage and things, I've decided to not 'go fast' anymore. I've already had a fast car (h22 ef hatch). Can't wait.
  • sethwalterssethwalters Wagonist
    draginmywagon wrote:
    where did you get the fogs... whats the brand also... cant go wrong with ebay coils when you starting off.. i just put a set in my buddys EK and we had to cut a coil out of the spring to get it where he wanted to be.. you might have to do it to yours if you want to scrape_mudz.. lol

    Well I'll see where it sits first. If I like where it's at, I'll leave it. But I eventually want it to scrap my mud flaps :D. But here in SC, our roads SUCK. We have pot holes that will eat your car. And companies here (like gas stations) don't really care about their entrances into their places. So in my last car I scraped EVERYTHING. It's hard to go low here. My last hatch had ebays on it for 3 years. The ride sucked because of my struts, not because of the springs.
  • sethwalterssethwalters Wagonist
    shakey021 wrote:
    I'm cuttin a coil or so this weekend on my eBay springs. My front won't go low enough :(

    I got fogs just like that at napa for like 20 buck. But I'm going to get some of that yellow glass spray and paint em so they are more yellow they are kinda clearish.

    Go here for the lense spray. That's what I did.
    https://www.tamiyausa.com/

    Here's the orange (1st coat is yellow)
    https://www.tamiyausa.com/product/item. ... t-id=85073

    And here's smoke
    https://www.tamiyausa.com/product/item. ... t-id=85071
  • prboy1969prboy1969 Wagonist
    sethwalters wrote:
    prboy1969 wrote:
    Fogs look great . Where did you pick them up ?

    Actually, I got them from Walmart. They have clear lenses and a yellow inside (so they shine yellow). I just bought some lense spray so they will be yellow now. :D They cost about 15 bucks, and are pretty easy to install.

    Thanks man . Probably pick up a set this weekend if I get a chance .
  • sethwalterssethwalters Wagonist
    So, I've got a pretty decent update.
    First off... my motor died. So I bought a rebuilt HF motor for 60 bucks and dropped it in. Slow, but pretty freaking good gas mileage. Got 440 miles on a single tank. :D

    Also, I painted my stock corner lights amber, then smoked out my tail lights, corners, and bumper lights. I also painted my fogs yellow.

    Then, I installed my CB7 accord arm rest.
    I also installed my DA map light, which I have yet to get fully situated. I'll take pictures of that some time later. So here we go. Pictures. :D

    My new CB7 Armrest with my totally awesome flannel covering.
    Yeah, i definitely cut up my brothers old old flannel shirt…
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    Smoked Tailights. :D
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    Smoked custom amber corners, smoked bumper lights, and yellow painted fogs.
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    Hopefully in the next week I'm going to be getting my car slammed. I have my coilovers and camber kit. But I've got lots of stuff to fix. Pads, Rotors, Drums and Shoes need to be replaced. My speedometer also quit working yet again, and that's after about 3 months of driving it with my new cable. Hmm...
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