Restoring a $300 Honda Civic On A Budget! | EP. 3

what's up welcome back to episode three of the $300 Honda Civic project in episode one you saw we picked up this car for 300 bucks we jumped right onto refinishing the brakes then we threw on a new axle and hub and a few other parts in episode two we threw on a new oil pan gasket picked up a stock exhaust from a subscriber and we pulled the head to further diagnose the engine noise and that leads us to episode 3 we're about to tear into this head and see what else we can get into so let's get started we got to take the distributor off we got to take the intake manifold off we possibly are looking at a parts car as well to see if we can grab some more parts for this thing uh but we'll update you guys later on let's get started take off the distributor and this [Music] intake I know many of you said it might be a simple fixes such as valve lash but in the last video I only showed a short clip of the noise here's a better clip of what it actually is sounding like and why we had to pull the [Music] head so as you can hear it's very intermittent very loud it goes away with engine RPM increasing so we're not quite sure what this could be we pulled off the accessory belts still made the noise we checked the water pump that seemed perfectly fine let me know below what you think it could be all right so we got the head completely stripped down uh for the most part we still got a couple things on here obviously but that is pretty much everything that we're going to need to take off of this uh head before bringing it over to the Machine Shop I'm not a 100% sure just yet if we are going to bring it to the Machine Shop cuz I may like I said in the intro I may have found a parts car that one of you guys hit me up and said that you got rear ended unfortunately and the rest of the car is still good so hopefully possibly we might have a new engine for this car and here it is let's check it out see if it'll work for [Music] us Edwin and his buddy just took off and they left me with this car that I just bought a 1999 Honda Civic LX and as you might have just seen it does have a slight dent in the back so this I did buy a four parts car for the giveaway car and we can use a couple different things on here as I'll show you in a second four-door version so we won't be needing too much of the stuff in the back here but the interior is pretty clean we can take a couple things from the inside including these pretty minty seats that he had just put in here the main reason that we bought this parts car was for this and battery's dead yay okay so we had to jump it we got to get a new battery but this is why we got this car we got a working engine here and it sounds really good quick ad break in today's project to tell you about today's sponsor Aura you ever been curious about how much information there is about you online done a quick Google search of your name and found out that there's actually a ton of creepy results and uh they hit a little too close to home they know 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we pretty much have on this project here we picked up this shell running and driving besides obviously the smash back end for around 750 bucks so we're going to do a tally pretty soon uh of everything Al together whether it's in the last video or the 10-minute build of this series showing you guys the breakdown and the process of how much we spent these wheels we're going to sell these for about probably hopefully 200 bucks so get a couple bucks for that then that puts this car down to 550 and then we'll try to part out a couple things before scrapping the shell here for a couple bucks so if you guys need anything off of this car hit me up on Instagram in the DMS and I'll let you know if we can part with it but I'm going to be taking uh pretty much everything in the engine bay this is the parts car super stuck that we found this and uh we're still going to be able to hopefully bring that head to the the machine shop and see uh if we can get that sorted Dave is here you're good bro Dave is here we're going to start cranking away on this thing first and foremost we got to rip this rest of this engine out we won't have to worry about getting a new head gasket all that nonsense so we're going to see what we can do to swap this engine into here probably take the whole front end from the 2000 and swap it onto here as well so we got quite a bit of work on our hands now we're going to get cranking on this thing and I will update you guys as we [Music] go [Music] oh [Music] would you look at that she's out nice [Music] work all right the engine is out as you can see and we have it on a dolly baby we're almost professionals over here so this thing is uh they's back here breaking stuff and uh I just pulled this engine all by myself move this out of the way rearrange some cars and um then I guess we'll start cranking on taking that one out and then getting ready to put it into this thing so stick around we got a lot of work to do on today's episode of simple bus garage come on take this B out I like that can you do that one time oh you like [Music] it next day back working on these two Hondas now and this one apparently the battery is completely shocked so we got to get a new battery for that but I got to get this car up on the lift to start digging into it so we're going to get the car onto the lift without a battery using uh little bit of [Music] these is not my brightest idea but we jacked the front up in the air and I can't push it up cuz it's slippery and it's uphill and it's heavy so um we just put a little ratchet strap to a very secure point in the shop trying to get it up there the rest of the way we're almost there see now we don't have resistance coming uphill cuz it's on the jack and we're going to be able to slowly roll it back okay car is up in the air finally only took all about I don't know an hour and a half maybe two hours also just wanted to mention thank you guys for uh compliments on the beard I'm trying something different trying something new couple of you guys noticed and uh you know gave me some compliments so thank you I appreciate you all in we're still under like 1,500 bucks uh for both of these cars uh so not including labor obviously um but this is what I do so I don't add labor into it uh if you guys are going to do it yourselves you're going to be saving that money by doing it yourself anyway so no need to factor labor in uh most times sometimes it does make sense so we got this car up in the air pretty much my game plan is that we're going to take the engine and the front end and the the front seats from this car everything else we're going to try to make a couple bucks on uh if you guys are interested again let me know on Instagram DM it's got about 150,000 mil so uh engine has less miles than this one does so that's always a plus again a lot of stuff that we needed on this car on that car we have on this car like the headers here uh but there is a small issue that I'm seeing now for the first time that this is not going to unbolt cuz it's welded all the way back so we are going to have to unbolt it I guess from here from this flange just like ours does comes all the way back and it's welded there's no exhaust leaks it sounds nice and quiet suspension on the back everything looks pretty clean uh might have bent something back here but I don't think it went that far I think the crumple Zone was mainly in the trunk here as you'll see and then it stopped uh where it's supposed to so I don't see anything beside like this frame rail looks real straight here this frame rail also looks straight besides whatever was in here the twisted uh bumper piece connector in there front end we got some normal leakage it look looks like from old residue but a little bit of a scrape on the oil pan nothing big nothing to worry about really there we do have some coilovers on the front looks like is scratched off I can't see what those are they look like godspeed coilovers or something like that but O2 sensors all work everything else looks pretty good solid big brakes on here big calipers yeah we'll get the axles from our car CU they're much newer at least this one is brand new so everything looks pretty stinking clean down there I mean nothing really you know big leaks or anything like that so just needs a good clean up and then see if we can find any leaks at all and uh see if we can sort those out so we're going to be using our trans cuz this is automatic looks pretty solid down here let's get the front bumper off first thing we're going to get these headlights off get the fenders off and we'll take the hood off cuz all that stuff and the grill all of that stuff needs to go onto our [Music] car [Music] o [Music] [Applause] and guys be sure to jump jump in and get entered to winning this car it is definitely a little bit wassed away from finish uh the timeline's going to be extended a little bit as we talked about in the previous video but I hope that you guys can see the vision I hope you're excited about it and I hope you're having fun following along as we go through this process of getting this car back on the road better than ever with the help from this car here so thanks again for the all the support the series is doing really well which I'm really excited about I know you guys love this cheap Honda stuff just as much as I do so that's very exciting so be sure to get entered simple clothing.co uh check out the membership there it's going to get you entered with 20x bonus points which would be the membership cost so that's going to be 400 entry just right there and that's going to get you entered into every giveaway that we do so jump into simple motor club check that out we got a really awesome Community growing over there with awesome uh perks and events once again I appreciate you guys tuning in and I'll see you in the next episode