Project Bourne 93 civic
August 17th, 2009 
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Photos by: Soulessphoto
Article by: Nelson Q.
First and foremost, this is the first incarnation of this “project” or “build” or whatever you want to call it. Most featured cars are done or … done-ish when they get featured. Not this one, this 93 Civic DX gracing the pages of InTuned is in the process of receiving quite the facelift, so while it’s already amazing and hella fast….it’s only gonna get better and faster. Scary.
Let’s give a little insight on Andre Bourne, owner of this vehicular masterpiece. Andre is your typical hardcore Honda guy, he’s gone through all the phases, from the early days of Altezza taillights(lol) to the now hardcore JDM movement. You see, while some of us dream of Ferrari and Lambos and Skylines, a Milano Red Honda Civic Hatchback is Andre’s dream car. Yeah…this is it. And when his first Milano Red goodness was totaled one early Saturday morning by a grandmother driving a big Cadillac(no offense to any elderly drivers reading this.-NQ) Andre decided to come back with a vengeance.
He got his hands on this 93 DX, it was already converted to RHD by the previous owner, and while being weary of conversions, he decided to give it a shot. His first motor was the B16 in his previous hacth, had that for while and with plans of going LS/Vtec-Turbo he swapped in a B18B, and quickly added a few more ponies with the help of a Spooling Performance manifold and Garret T3/T4 Turbo. To make sure the engine didn’t implode itself due to newly acquired compressed and then intercooled air, he opted for a set or R/C 440cc injectors along with Earl’s SS fuel lines. To add some flair to the now more “boosted” engine bay, he custom coated the valve cover, tucked all the wiring along with a relocated fuse box and even hid an Odyssey PC680 battery under the dash. End result is an engine bay so fresh and clean you can literally eat off of it…..but I wouldn’t advice you do so because you know…that’s just weird.
Let’s go back for a second and mention that custom coated valve cover, as you can see it’s white, and it matched his first set of wheels, and this Civic has seen many, first set were GAB Sport wheels in the traditional white finish, but as you can see in the pics those are now gone and a classy set of super clean Mugen M7 wheels took their place (oh btw those have been sold by the publishing of this article and something much better is in the works 
-NQ) Poking behind the polished face of the wheels are Willwood 4-Piston calipers in the front and an Integra GSR rear disk conversion to get rid of outdated brake drums. After drooling on such awesome wheel/brake combo, you start drooling some more at the authentic Backyard Special front lip, I think Backyard Special is THE front lip to get for an EG chassis, it just looks right at home and so so sexy.
Now, there’s a splurge of JDM parts to mention, but let’s get a little American made quality in the mix, with the help of pair of Status seats and to round out the suspension, an ASR subframe brace to add some reinforcement to the rear along with an ITR 23mm sway bar.
A lot of tuners will be happy with this, I would, but not Andre. You see, the motor was swapped out shortly after the snapping of these pics(on a cold Miami night ☹-NQ) and something much bigger and better is in the works, it’s safe to say this car has another go-around at InTuned and the secret works shall not be revealed. So until next time!
said on August 21st, 2009 at 3:38 pm
Great Photos!