backyard special civic hatchback

I know you guys are probably getting sick of seeing civic hatchbacks and this is my 3rd but I just love this car :) This time around, going to replicate the BYS (backyard special) civic which consists of a front chin spoiler and controversial rear wing.

this is what it looks like:

http://i41.tinypic.com/15y9b14.jpg

I'm going with a red body and gunmetal panasport wheels.

the wing and chin is made from scrap sprues and covered in mori mori putty

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v357/CRV18s/models/IMG_0223.jpg
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primer and test fit with panasports
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v357/CRV18s/models/07162009117.jpg

panasports with center painted flat gunmetal
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v357/CRV18s/models/IMG_0235.jpg

body is now painted in Mr Color Red Madder red and clearcoated with 2k clear. roof has been polished and I'm still working on the rest of the body :)
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v357/CRV18s/models/IMG_0234.jpg
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I've also managed to lower the suspension so this should be a relatively quick build

lookin good man, i think its a clean un-ricey set up for a hatchy

thanks ravan17! trying to maintain the clean jdm theme :)

Looks awesome!!

thanks guy! still working on polishing up the body for this. should have the chasis completed by this weekend.

still no plans for the interior. I'm thinking of going with Recaros from the CTR what do you guys think?

Looking good, i see you didn't break any a-pillars yet! :thumbsup: Becareful as they tend to break, i already broke three of them. The color came out sweet, and the overall look looks nice.

PS If you need any replacement parts for this build not including the body, let me know as i decided to put two of them away after i broke the pillars on both of them. No motivation to finish them off.

How did you go about polishing it? Did you sand the clear coat then polish? It looks really good.

Recaros would look good as well.

Looks fantastic. The paint is gorgeous and I just adore red on EGs. I also personally love the BYS spoiler and front end so if anyone busts your chops, I'll back you up on it. I can't wait to see what else you've got in store for this!

Midmazar, I learned my lesson after snapping 4 a pillars before. 1st thing I do when I open the box is throw on some 0.3mm strips behind those pilars :) thanks for the offer regarding the parts!

rhdmiklo, I clear coated it and then sanded with 2500 grit sandpaper. looks like I will go with the recaro seats :)

wilimo, thanks for the kind words! Its good to get support from a fellow JDM fanatic as well :D

Very cool! My type of build.

Nice I love the lip. Has any body ever noticed that they messed up the rear side window on these kits? It's too big. It needs to angle up a bit more on the bottom, and curve a little more on the back. I am too OCD...

mojo stevo, I never noticed that about the rear quart windows even after building 3 of these :) I'm just glad they actually have a kit of one of my favorite cars.

I decided to give the paint another week to dry, the side seems a little too soft for polishing. hopefully I can work on it this weekend and get the carbon fiber decals on as well.

here's an update on my BYS civic.

this is a resin cast of a spoon n1 muffler that I scratchbuilt before. I just chopped off the original muffler and replaced it with the resin muffler. the whole piping is painted in alclad chrome.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v357/CRV18s/models/IMG_0267.jpg

started the carbon fiber work! I used crazy modeller carbon fiber and they work great! they are a bit bright so a light coat of smoke should do the trick. I did the hood, rear wing and front chin spoiler and contemplating if I should do the trunk as well what do you guys think?

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v357/CRV18s/models/IMG_0269.jpg

the rear wing was a challenge and I had to do it in 2 pieces

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v357/CRV18s/models/IMG_0271.jpg

front spoiler came out ok
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v357/CRV18s/models/IMG_0272.jpg

Looks amazing!!!

Wow!! That looks sick!!!

The carbon is great! I always struggle with carbon decals. Looking good!

austin martin, rhdmiklo, thanks guys!

willimo, I know what you mean. my carbon work on my other eg hatches had creases in them. now how to tackle the complicated hoods such as rx7 re amemiya and the cwest r34 hehe.

The Color Finish is Great and also the Carbon Work looks Fantastic
Daniel

so clean.. great work

I like it! You got that spoiler nailed. If you haven't yet, I say go ahead and continue the cf decal to the tailgate as you mentioned.

very nice work on this car man...!...any updates...?

time to dig this back out from the grave! I've always had this kit on the back burner but wasn't too happy with how the decals and smoke clear coat turned out so it stayed in the shelf. finally got started on this again.

I wanted to replicate the civic SIR-II's yellow interior together with integra type R yellow recaro seats but its not working too well with the red paint. I might repaint the seats and sidings to black instead. what do you guys suggest for the interior?
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v357/CRV18s/models/IMG_2203.jpg

some shots of the smoked carbon fiber parts
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v357/CRV18s/models/IMG_2202.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v357/CRV18s/models/IMG_2201.jpg

decided to apply carbon to the trunk as well
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v357/CRV18s/models/IMG_2204.jpg

that's about it so far. suspension has been completed and the moldings and trims have been painted. just need to work on the lights and decide on the interior and this should be done :)

1 option you can do is repaint the center of the wheels yellow to accent the interior

2nd option you can go back to red recaros with the rear seats in grey , oem grey seats on those have stripes going left to right.......

3rd option i seen these blue recaros (prob DC5's) http://www.hondatuningmagazine.com/features/0608_ht_edward_opiniano_1995_honda_civic_cx_turbo/honda_b18c_engine.html ,and you can paint the rear seats the oem purple tweed color with door panels.....

thats what I would do.... see what happens, and great work on the civic also!!....

I decided to scrap the yellow interior and went with a rather boring black and gray interior which is more subtle.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v357/CRV18s/models/IMG_2289.jpg

finally completed this project! pics are here:

http://www.automotiveforums.com/vbulletin/showthread.php?p=6873913#post6873913