Fixing up the EK

[jorge93]

Well, three saturdays ago I blew my motor comming back from tampa. I was playing with my friend Joey on the highway (Mazda Speed 3), and I shifted into 3rd instead of 5th :doh: . The motor is not really blown, but all the valves on cylinder 2 and 3 are bend, so I'm going to pull the motor, and decided to do a wire tuck and shave the engine bay at the same time. Then I started thinking some more and decided to respray the whole car, and paint the floor board and trunk to match (the car was red before). Also a couple of years ago I got side swiped, and the shop that I took it to did a crappy job so I'll be fixing that, and also taking out all the dents.

This is how the 1/4 panel looked when if got side swiped
http://i6.photobucket.com/albums/y228/ek-jorge/000_0680.jpg

And this is how the 1/4 panel looked after if was fixed
http://i6.photobucket.com/albums/y228/ek-jorge/P2240568.jpg

It was a realy bad job, the bondo cracked not long after, and not to mention the asholes didn't even pulled out the dent. They just filled the hole dam thing with bondo.

And the body work begins.

Saturday #1 05/24/08
Took care off all the other little dents, but the 1/4 panel was going to take us too long, so we left it for next saturday.

http://i6.photobucket.com/albums/y228/ek-jorge/100_1023.jpg
http://i6.photobucket.com/albums/y228/ek-jorge/100_1024.jpg
http://i6.photobucket.com/albums/y228/ek-jorge/100_1025.jpg

Saturday #2 05/31/08
We just did the 1/4 panels and a dent on the door, because it was my birthday, and I really didn't wanted to spend it working on the car.

http://i6.photobucket.com/albums/y228/ek-jorge/100_1019.jpg
http://i6.photobucket.com/albums/y228/ek-jorge/100_1020.jpg
http://i6.photobucket.com/albums/y228/ek-jorge/100_1021.jpg
http://i6.photobucket.com/albums/y228/ek-jorge/100_1022.jpg

I took some bondo off with a screw driver just to see, but at some point, it had up to a 1 inch thicknes. Lets put it like this, before the back wheel well was flush with the tire, and now there is a gap, so I need to adjust the coilover.
http://i6.photobucket.com/albums/y228/ek-jorge/100_1026.jpg

Took all the bondo off and pulled it as much as we could. We still needed to use some bondo in some parts, but it was kept to a minimun.
http://i6.photobucket.com/albums/y228/ek-jorge/100_1028.jpg
http://i6.photobucket.com/albums/y228/ek-jorge/100_1029.jpg
After that it got primered.

I'm hoping to do some more work on it this Saturday.

[civictype_r04]

That sucks man I'm suprised the drivers side didn't lean more from all that bondo.

[MEAN IRISH GUY]

gotta love that bondo. i had an old EG that i had body work done on. the guy that did the body work started pulling of these HUUUUUUUUUGE pieces of it. it was rather humorous.

[04typer]

bump

[jorge93]

Ok, so I've been slacking on the car lately.

Here is a pic of the finished quarter panel, primered and ready for paint. Dont crack on the wheels, they are not staying. lol
http://i6.photobucket.com/albums/y228/ek-jorge/100_1054.jpg

So I took the engine out, and realized something. My fucking engine bay is hurt. I took the fuse box, and a couple of other things out as well.
http://i6.photobucket.com/albums/y228/ek-jorge/100_1050.jpg
http://i6.photobucket.com/albums/y228/ek-jorge/100_1051.jpg

So I started taking the interior out for paint, and also for the wire tuck. I also took all the AC stuff out.
http://i6.photobucket.com/albums/y228/ek-jorge/100_1053.jpg
http://i6.photobucket.com/albums/y228/ek-jorge/100_1052.jpg
http://i6.photobucket.com/albums/y228/ek-jorge/100_1055.jpg

I extended all the wires on the passenger side, and ran them through the side.
http://i6.photobucket.com/albums/y228/ek-jorge/100_1056.jpg

A couple of minutes later, it started rainning, and all the damn mosquitoes came out, so I called a night. all covered up and ready for bed.
http://i6.photobucket.com/albums/y228/ek-jorge/100_1057.jpg

Hopefully I don't get lazzy next weekend, and actually do something. :laugh:

[cruzty]

Nice Ek...... I remember mine, I also did the P/W P/L P/M swap..... looking good mate!!

[shadowmd]

nice bro! i want more :mangel:

[ep3moschini]

:meek: that bondo was awful

[bunk]

Nice work so far, bro.

[mattism78]

Nice work so far. Do you plan on leaving the AC out? I can't imagine being in Florida with no A/C on purpose. I've been without it in vehicles before and it was miserable.

[nizmoluvep3]

nice- i always wanted a project ek, i cant want for you updates....keep us posted bro!

[FoReVaPmP]

I love project cars.... Keep it up bro... :mcool:

[KrypTOniTE]

Nice Project.. Bro. come on by my bro has the cleanest ek in orlando..lol
so.. he wants to get rid of some stuff... .. wat part in orlando u from??

[creamSODA]

somebody say EK parts for sale in orlando PM me

[VegaS10]

I was trying to trade my eg in my avatar for an ek hatch, but could find none.

I love me some ek hatch!

[dragon208]

dang that's a REALLY crappy job that the body shop did for u..

[jorge93]

Nice work so far. Do you plan on leaving the AC out?

Unfortunatelly, I can not keep AC with the Full race manifold, so I ripped the entire system out. I daily drive my EP anyways, and only drive the EK like twice a month. I've only put 800 miles on it in the last year 1/2.


Nice Project.. Bro. come on by my bro has the cleanest ek in orlando..lol
so.. he wants to get rid of some stuff... .. wat part in orlando u from??
I live by the airport. Whats your brothers name. I might know him.


dang that's a REALLY crappy job that the body shop did for u..
Yes. I'm glad I finally got it all fixed.