Started cleaning it up a bit today. The car sat under a tree beside the garage for most of 2 years before I finally pulled it back inside and started working on it. So some of the afternoon was spent scrubbing it with a sponge and dish soap. There's apparently better paint under there than any of us remembered and I'm less ok with some of the trashy ideas I had for this car now. It may actually end up being presentable.
I'm about to have an 02 civic wander in to my shop as a possible first car for my daughter. You don't have a spare ECM for an automatic do you? When swapping an ECM do you need to get it programmed for the keys to work?
In reply to akylekoz :
I do actually have an automatic ECU leftover from the '01 EX auto parts car but I didn't save the ignition switch to go with it. I'm not sure on programming ecus to go with the keys. I know they have to be coded together but I'm not sure how one goes about getting it programmed since I ended up getting a matching ecu, ignition switch, and key set off of ebay.
Slowly picking at stuff on this thing. Yay for cheap mechless Bluetooth single dins.
Also it's cool having the Civic that's so unloved the instructions for the dash kit basically say "yeah it probably fits this one, you gotta figure out how though."
Somebody on reddit said the steel oil pan was baffled for attempting to play racecar with these things. The aluminum pan leaked and I still had the old motor to swipe the oil pan from so I ordered some gaskets.
Getting them side by side....eh I'm not sure I see it. But the steel pan does use an actual rubber gasket and not just Hondabond, which is nice.
Aluminum pan off, yep looks like an a questionable D17 in here for sure.
And some time later with me forgetting to take pictures again, the pan is sealed up.
And then I even got fancy and got the Blox Racing magnetic drain plug set sincd the old plug on this pan was leaking anyway.
So during the original effort to get this get ready for Gridlife Rev Up, my buddy sent me a $60 (a couple years ago, I refuse to check how much that price has gone up now...) questionable billet shifter from Amazon. I ignored it for a while but the fore/aft cable didn't seem to fit right in its bracket and there was no way to put the clip on it. I kept looking at it and realized couldn't figure out why there was a step on the bracket that the cable couldn't really reach. Finally I realized the level of QC we're doing with here means it's entirely possible they put it together wrong.
And sure enough. I unbolted that bracket and flipped it around and what do ya know...the cable fits properly with the clip now.
And no this shifter is not worth it at all. Do not recommend.
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