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Wagon Attack II: 89 Civic Wagon > Your Legacy


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One of the coolest videos I've ever seen! This guy is local to me and I've met him before. Very cool and this car is awesome!

 

Watch and enjoy!

 

[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q7ZzqBPz4sY]YouTube- Wagon Attack 2[/ame]

[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jFuy0jYIT7Y]YouTube- Making Wagon Attack 2[/ame]

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Good show.

 

Nice camera work and music.

 

 

I think SuperStreet mag is putting together a big turbo old school Civic wagon right now. It's the late 80's lunch box just like that one.

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yeah watch it with sound....

 

i never knew they made that thing. Little ls/vtec/turbo motor swap and you are hauling ass at only 2600lb's.

 

Next one i see in the local paper with controllable rust issues is mine. Wife will have to find out about visa vi seeing it in the driveway. sell her impreza wagon and give her the legacy :lol:

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Are they factory turbo? or just factory awd/6speed and he added the turbo?

Just AWD and 6 speed, no turbo. The Civic wagon w/ "real time" AWD was available in the late 1980s and early 1990s. If I recall correctly, it was FWD-biased AWD.

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Yup, Just a realtime AWD civic wagon. The motor is a D16z6 from the 92-95 EX's and Si's (SOHC VTEC) with a custom turbo kit.

 

He really does drive the thing just about every day. I've seen him out and about multiple times. Probably really enjoying the current beat down of lake effect snow we are getting right now.

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18g kit would not be a very streetable setup though so you'd be going no where until you hit 4.5-5k rpms. Of course I guess this would be nice because in casual driving you wouldn't be boosting really so you'd still get some good mileage.

 

Back when I was planning my turbo setup on my integra I was looking at a Precision SC34 which is capable of 300+ and spools around 3k much like our cars and so was more of a streetable turbo which I liked more than going with the SC61 which is a HUGE powerhouse capable of over 600+ but obviously takes longer to get ya going. I had a buddy with a built Type R running the SC61 and he was around 500hp or so and that car was SCARY to be in.

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Meh, starting the push at 4.5 would be fine considering you are revving over 8k. it would be a larger powerband than what we have on subarus....sure we are making good tq at the 2.5-3k range, but we start running out of steam at 5.5. A lot of people are around here seem like they should have bought some sort of turbo diesel vehicle.....I have no problem letting a car rev that wants to.
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You are correct. The RDX was the first "production" factory turbo motor produced by the Honda corp.

 

Perhaps the first factory turbo motor for a car from Honda, but not in general for the masses... there was an early-eighty's motorcycle turbocharged from the factory by Honda: CX500TC

 

http://www.motorcyclemuseum.org/classics/bike.asp?id=33

 

... unfortunately, it didn't live long.

 

Regardless, the car in question is definitely a nice project.

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