Yeah, I signed up for a proper (under my name) Facebook account this weekend. Curiosity got the better of me and, well, it cured some boredom for a while. I have to say its a well coded site, everything moves rather crisply and flows well. I find a lot of these big massive-database sites tend to be slow and clunky. I’ve found a few surprise faces that I didn’t expect on there but so far nothing too unpleasant. We’ll see going forward though. It helps not tying in any reference to school to avoid the undesirable encounters. I don’t know how long it will last but its interesting networking for the moment.

I figure just about everyone seeing this page already knows but what the hell.

1993 Civic Si Hatchback, 5spd, Polar White

- 250,000 kms
- Original D16Z6 SOHC VTEC motor, burns NO oil though it does run a bit rich
- Functional electric sunroof that doesn’t leak or stick
- Cruise
- Power Mirrors
- OEM-style Fog lights with paint matched covers
- Rear windows tinted professionally (No bubble/fading)
- Clear Corner Markers (OEM Amber markers available as well)
- Brembo rotors and Axxis Metal Master pads all around (4 wheel disc brakes, fresh pads in front, rears need TLC. Hoses are probably due for replacement but no leaks)
- Taylor 8mm Ignition Wires
- 2.25″ Cat-back piping with stainless steel Magnaflow muffler. Very nice sound and not head-turning loud.
- 14″ Steel wheels with Kumho KW11 185/60/14 Winter tires
- New/Used OEM front lower control arms with good bushings (1 year)
- New OEM front upper arms (1-2 year)
- Alpine Alarm with two remotes
- Timing belt + Water Pump done ~15k kms ago
- Interior in great condition with intact carpet, dash and rear seats (See options for front seats) Minor tear in one door panel. (Easily fixed, just haven’t bothered)
- Audio: Pioneer CD removable face player and front/rear speakers, wired for rear amp/subwoofer. Pioneer 4 channel amp to all speakers under passenger seat. Rear deck cover is wired for and has two more speakers but I didn’t generally use them. Rear panel speakers in rare OEM Honda speaker pods. Kenwood 5 band EQ with subwoofer control mounted in glovebox. (I can remove all this for a price cut if needs be)
- AutoStart remote starter unit with one remote. On the car when I bought it, I tried it out once and never used it again. I assume it works but I can’t guarantee.

- FULL service history is available. Everything I’ve done to this car since I’ve owned it is recorded including gas mileages going back to 1999.

There may be other things I’m forgetting, I’ve had this car a long time.

I won’t lie, this car hasn’t been babied but it has NEVER let me down. The motor pulls strong all the way to the top. Its an extremely fun car to drive and slalom.

Body is ‘OK’ shape. The rear wheel wells are starting to rust after being patched once. Front fender wells are starting to show bubbling. (Passenger side, drivers side is still decent) Aftermarket front fenders are very cheaply available, the rear quarters are soft and will require some body work.

Tailgate and hood are solid. The car has never been in a major accident. (The front left side fender was lightly crunched by a snow plow, repaired by Wolf Collision. Click for picture)

The interior cable release for the rear hatch has snapped and I never bothered to replace it, the outside key still works fine. The rear wiper motor is seized but there’s lots of those for sale on LowMotion and other places for ~$40-50. Simple replacement.

Additional Parts

- Original Si seats in perfect condition
- delSol Red-Striped seats (The most comfortable seats Honda ever made IMO, VERY supportive)
- Original Si Suspension with ~200k/kms
- 15mm Integra GSR rear sway bar w/ mounting brackets (Can’t be used with OEM suspension, needs the ITR arms (Included below) or Integra arms available cheaply from Civic Pride)
- Front upper delSol VTEC Strut Tower bar

- Full Summer/winter suspension package
> JDM SiR-II struts and progressive springs (Basically an Integra Type-R setup with softer progressive springs)
> Rear Integra Type-R lower control arms (includes sway bar mounting points, required for both suspensions in this package)
> Tein Type-NA 16-way adjustable struts and springs (Excellent Slalom/Track suspension! Fresh bushings on rear units.)

I’m sure I’ve got a warehouse of other spare parts I’ve forgotten about that I’ll either sell or throw in including freshly rebuilt/painted front calipers, extra brake pads, filters, etc.

I’m serious when I say this breaks my heart to do but as it stands now between my wife and I we have our hands in five cars in a house with three parking spots. Something’s gotta give. This is a car that loves to be driven and has given me a lot of good times. It deserves an owner that will give it some more.

I’m thinking a figure in the $4500 range for everything above would do it, if you don’t want the aftermarket parts the car can be returned to stock and we can talk.

Sunday we got our first chance for some up-close-and-personal time with the Audi and… well it was interesting. We’ve known from the start that the car needs some TLC, which isn’t to say its a bad car, it just needs a fair bit of wrenching before its ready to go. Currently as it sits the stock 20V Inline-5 motor has just been reunited with the transmission but not a lot else. So far we’ve managed to connect all the electrics, except for a wayward O2 sensor, and connected the starter. We’ve determined that the radiator is going to be a bit of a challenge since its a custom high capacity frankenstein job designed to be used in the Turbo motor that was previously in the car. This isn’t a road block, we’re just going to have to figure out some creative mounting and piping. We got to the point where we were ready to turn the key and see what happened but were thwarted by a dead battery and what turned out to be a seized alternator. Still, we should have the car mobile fairly soon and we can start working on making it street legal again which will pose its own interesting challenges.

The WRX is running well and I gave it its first interior vacuum yesterday, there were lovely reminders of Christmas all over the trunk in the form of pine needles. There’s not a lot of question about why the back bumper is scratched up. Good thing I’m not one to have a show-car. Anyone want to buy a 1993 Honda Civic Si Hatchback?

In non car news I finally got around to installing Ubuntu 7.04 on a machine today. I’m both pleased and disappointed with the newest release. On the plus side the installation gets smoother and smoother with every iteration. It takes less than half an hour to go from a paperweight to a fully running, configured and USEFUL Linux desktop complete with all the basic applications you might want. The eye-candy in 7.04 is very slick, even on the dated Radeon 7500 chipset of my T40 Thinkpad too. Unfortunately, however, they’ve taken a big step backwards in laptop support. Whereas 6.06 supported just about all the laptop oddities right out of the box like touch pad scrolling and ACPI suspending, 7.04 for some reason seems to have lost/broken them. I really don’t find the idea of going back and hand-fixing everything appealing. This is really a minor gripe though, if I were looking to use Ubuntu as my laptop/desktop full time it wouldn’t take long to correct these issues and the other improvements in this release would make it well worth it. Vista-what?