Restoring a $300 Honda Civic On A Budget! | EP. 4

welcome back to episode four of the $300 Honda Civic build in the last three episodes we got a ton of work done to this car as you've seen with a bunch of new parts that we refinished and installed we started disassembling the car getting it ready for the engine swap cleaned up the body a little bit removed the head to see if we can fix it before the Swap and that led us to buying this parts car with a good engine and a few other parts that we were going to need we then pulled the engine on our car and that leads us to today in today's episode we now have two Hondas that we're working on so we're going to get started on the parts car we're going to take out the engine first and foremost so we got a couple things to disconnect couple things to drain remove the axles let's get started on taking that engine out we're going to do our best to try to get it into this Honda and see if we can get it running before the end of this video but we'll see how far we can get let's get into [Music] it [Music] [Applause] [Music] okay we are almost done down here on the bottom end we just got a couple more things to disconnect everything up top should be pretty much disconnected but we're going to drop it down in a second cuz we got to get to that power steering line we're going to drain some power steering fluid so that we got to disconnect that line we just got these two oil cooler lines or transmission cooler lines uh down here disconnected and then we disconnected the axles from the transmission as you can see here both are hanging down disconnected the tie rod end and the lower ball joint on both Sid sides and then we just put them back in and just hand tighten the bolts so that we can put this car back on its wheels and roll it out of the way when we need to the torque Mount here which was already just kind of destroyed so we're almost ready just a couple more things here and we're about ready to pull the engine out of the dut [Music] car so we're jumping around just a little bit we're going to clean up this engine bay show you guys a couple before and after it's not going to be the prettiest and uh best engine bay restoration just going to clean it up a bit while the engine's out make it look a little bit prettier we got couple of the lines like the power steering hoses uh sealed up so we don't get any water where we're not the whole harness here is in this garbage bag duct taped up let me show you a couple of fours on this thing and a couple Afters after I clean it [Music] up [Music] [Music] you so we're about ready to get this engine out of the donor car and we're going to lift it up clean that engine up a little bit we got to swap the manual trans from the engine over here we got to take the manual trans off of our engine and then swap the automatic trans off of this thing and uh swap a couple parts over so first things first let's get this engine up and out of the parts car and uh go from there [Music] [Music] w [Music] [Music] w [Music] up guys quick update since you last saw us we completely stripped down uh the parts car almost to the bare shell I'll show you guys a couple of things that we have for sale here be sure to hit me up on Instagram if any of this stuff interests you we got a massive pile of parts we got back seats we got the back bottom seat we got the front seats that are super clean here uh we got a bunch of interior trims pretty much the whole entire interior is available we got a really nice uh cluster here got the trunk harness with the tail lights local pickup in central New Jersey that's where I'm located so all this stuff is available the center console all that stuff is available hit me up on Instagram DM so I can make a couple bucks back on this before we scrap this thing I wanted to I saw a lot of you guys comments on fixing this and um and bringing it back to life but it just would have been more hassle than it's worth so I needed to take the engine from this obviously and at that point might as well just went all the way so I'm having some fun tearing this thing apart I hopefully I can help out some of you guys with some of these parts here cuz these are pretty clean Y8 block that is for sale as well about 200 bucks for that uh 200 bucks for the automatic transmission that we took off so selling everything pretty cheap let me know this is our manual trans going back in we'll get all that sorted and the car should be running very soon and then it's off to paint I'm going to start swapping out a couple of these things here like this radiator here I'm going to swap this one out for this one cuz this one is a little bit older and dirty and crusty so we're going to swap out this one that's from the parts car it's a little bit better and then we're going to swap out some of these hoses here we do have that new hose kit that you might have seen that he dropped off with us and this car is going to start coming together very [Music] [Music] fast [Music] he's making the [Music] part engine is up in the air about to go [Music] in we got the engine in late last night super stoked that that is in we got a couple things to button up on the bottom I'm going to go underneath and put the axles on right now I think everything should be buttoned up from the bottom but check all the connectors from the bottom and the coolant lines and all the fluid hoses and whatnot and then when Dave gets here he's going to help me button up the top uh plugs the the harness all back in and hopefully pretty soon get a first start for you guys with the new engine in our giveaway car yeah this thing's going to be running and driving again really soon super stoked so here we go let's get to [Music] work okay the axles are in next I want to take the fenders from our parts car and finally slap them up onto here all right fenders are on that looks really good fits up perfectly now up next I think I want to just see if I can tackle a little bit of this project so we do have the 99 headlights from the parts car so they are a little bit dirty the the housing or the lens is is uh kind of like coming apart this one is all dirty on the inside back behind here and the clips are kind of peeled up I don't know what they did hopefully we can get them to work good uh and no condensation you just got to make sure you seal it up nicely I've never done anything with headlights uh qu like this before so this will be a first it'll be fun but I'm pretty sure he was saying that these are the CTR uh replica headlights um not quite sure but would be pretty cool to have something like that as a part on uh the giveaway car so I'm going to try to take the lenses off here see what I can do about getting these off and then cleaning up the back a little bit um making sure that they look nice and clean let's see if I can get these uh these headlights off these housings off and then go from [Music] [Music] there [Music] so this is pretty cool I pretty much broke it down into its four main parts so we got the lens we got the inner lens you got the housing and then you have the I gu I'm trying to think this is I guess the main uh bulb housing so that's pretty much it there's only four parts of this headlight it's completely dirty really nasty as you can see in here there's a bunch of just crap that leaked into this headlight over the months that it sat that's obviously you can see this housing is absolutely disgusting just so much crap in there so we're going to put these outside and uh rinse them all down that's pretty sweet I've never done this before all I needed was two Flathead screwdrivers I know you can use a heat gun to speed up the process to get the uh lens detached if it's not old and brittle but this one was like half halfway already open so it's a little bit easier for me without heat but you can and should probably use heat if you're doing this on a newer headlight so let's get this outside wash it off and then go from [Music] there all right that is one headlight fully cleaned out pretty clean so from here I think I have to find out what ceiling I have to use for this here and then we can start plugging everything back together so then I'm going to put this back together and then update you guys when I figure out what to do with these [Music] headlights all right this is me in the future real quick to update you guys on the headlights uh we sealed them up and everything is nice and dry now so completely sealed with that silicone these things are super clean they do need still a little bit of uh compound and buffing but these headlights turned out pretty [Music] good [Music] good [Music] all right everything is buttoned up down here down below we just drained and refilled the gear oil for the transmission and everything else is tightened up suspension is tightened we got the manifold on everything lines up the hanger goes onto that so we got to get the muffler still installed so it's going to be a little bit loud but O2 sensors are on drop it down button up the manifold and then we're almost ready for first start on the new engine here we go let's uh let's hope it kicks over first try here we [Music] go all right we're thinking loose ground so we're going to put that on tighten it up and give it another shot hopefully it starts right up we are also extremely low on fuel so that could be a factor as well but what you eating bro some WWA pizza with some grap [Laughter] fluid quick gas out break with some Wawa Pizza Wawa Pizza is not good but it does the job you hungry what they say 16th times a charm gas is in it grounds are on ground wasn't to the valve cover now it is they fixed up a couple things so let's see if it'll uh see if it'll turn over [Music] [Music] yeah baby yeah baby let's go let's go something stupid bro we were looking at it sideways [Music] s [Music] nice s perfect oh it's nice and quiet bro oh my God headers are a little bit Smoky but that's about the only issue we got Dave is a legend we had a couple of the wires mixed up on the distributor cap cuz the logo the image we were looking at was super wonky so that's sorted that was our simple stupid fix all the grounds are good everything is good so we just got to do cooling stuff and all that that was nice dude Dave man this was this was a long process but we got it in and uh couple more things to do of course on this thing but she's running uh I didn't drive it yet hopefully I think it should drive as well but runs and drives I was super stoked that this engine is finally in here and it sounds really good better than both of these cars ran it sounds cuz we got a bunch of stuff cleaned out the cooling system completely flushed out so guys be sure to get entered into this car click the link in the description simple clothing.co but most importantly jump into the motor club that's going to get you entered with 20x bonus points into every single giveaway that we do and our next one that we already have planned out is uh it's going to blow this one out of the water so make sure you're entered into there you're going to be automatically entered into this one and into the next one that we're super excited about uh and every one that we do in the future so simple motor club check out the link in the description go get entered to win this car so I'm not exactly sure where this is going to land in the video but I wanted to get this in this episode before closing out I want to put a couple of these things on right now and show you guys what the car is turning out like [Music] is not going to be a show car by any means but definitely going to be a pretty cool car and a nice daily for one of you guys to drive around in Dave is on his way right now to pick it up uh and bring it over to Mo they're going to get it painted for us I'll show you guys the color that we went with uh in about a week or so hopefully that'll be in the next episode I'm almost positive it should be care of the rust spots one big dent on the back make sure to get entered jump on to simple clothing.co get entered is very cheap to get entered to win this car if you want to get entered into every single giveaway that we do jump into simple motor club shifter feels amazing with the new bushings the body is all put together engine is in runs drives feels really good feels really smooth so we still got a bunch of exciting things going down with this car stay tuned to see the rest of the progress this $300 project is coming along really nicely so I'll catch you guys in the next episode [Music] [Applause] yeah [Music]