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The philosophy at Honda's engineering department has always been,
"Keep it simple'.' Sometimes it's more difficult and requires a lot
more ingenuity to keep a design clean and simple rather than doing
things in a complicated
way. The Honda Civic 1200 and the Civic CVCC are both good examples
of clean, straightforward styling.
Everything on the car is there for a definite purpose. And what you
don't see, the engine and chassis parts were all designed with the
same goal in mind.. ."build it right, but keep it simple'.''
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Main Cluster Speedo/Fuel/Temp Removal
The main instrument pod (tachometer + speedometer) has 3 10mm nuts that hold
it in. Two of them are sort of behind the steering column, facing the
firewall. Feel around for them and you will find them. The third one is also
facing the firewall, directly behind where the tachometer is. Once you get the
nuts out you can pull it out just enough to remove the cable from the back of
the instrument housing. when you have the cable removed, you can pull it out
and have plenty of room to work with the wires. To take the gauges out, first
remove the mounting bracket from the bottom of the housing. Keep in mind that
the housings are fragile, and any any mount of pulling on it will break the
screw tabs that hold it to the bracket. I have not found a pod yet that
doesn't have broken mounting tabs, but it doesn't really affect the instrument
pod that much.
To hook up the tachometer you will also have to put the unattached blue wire
on to the negative post of the ignition coil. The blue wire is the tachometer
signal wire. Look at the wires around your coil, it won't be attached and will
probably be wrapped up in the loom. You should find a blue wire with a
"bullet" connector somewhere around there. On cars that had the tachometers
stock, the other half of that connector has a short lead that connects to the
coil. I believe the yellow wire is power. |
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Welcome to the website of the First Generation Honda Civics
devoted to the world community of 1st generation Honda car enthusiasts. We
currently have approximately over 900 registered to the site, and are still
growing. Our beautiful Civics and Accords range from the first 1973 Honda Civic to 1974,
1975, 1976, 1977, 1978 and 1979 Honda Civic 1200's and CVCC models. We take
pride in showing off our labors of love and some participate in gatherings
in order to meet other owners in remote areas. Our numbers are small
regionally but as a global community we can stand out! So take a tour of our
site and feast your eyes on our little babies. Owners of other classic
Hondas such as first generation Accords, Preludes, second generation Honda
Civics' and S500, S600's and more of the Honda 60's cars are welcome here too.
Get helpful information on tuning and technical data and specifications,
custom bodywork, welding, engine swaps and our helpful members will help you
on your way to customizing your ride if that your wish.. Find pages of
brochures, resources of books for repairs and guides for do it your self,
swap and sell your parts. |
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What
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 The S360 is the
beginning of the lead up to the S500 and S600/800.
The Honda S360 was introduced in 1962 as a
prototype car. This 4 seated convertible sports car that had a top
speed of 100km/h. This was achieved with a new double overhead cam
engine with 4 carburetors, it’s inline four cylinder engine was
water cooled and ran at 9000rpm to make 33hp from 356cc’s of motor.
It had a 5-speed manual transmission with a chain driven final drive
with rear independent suspension. The S360 never went into product
because of Japanese restrictive displacement laws. Future changes of
the S360 would increase the engine size to 531cc @ 44hp with drum
brakes to make the new model S500 convertible or the Japanese
domestic market.
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What
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 The RS is the ultimate factory Civic.
Dubbed Road Sailing, it was a more performance
oriented civic opposed to the standard economy-boxes we all know. It was released with an
1170cc EB1 motor pumping out 70hp compared to the 50hp of the standard model. Engine
modifications included twin Keihin carburetors, a freer flowing exhaust manifold, longer
duration cam (15 degrees), domed pistons (bumped compression up to 8.6:1), and
strengthened crank bearings. Handling was increased with a set of stiffer springs (30%),
shorter stiffer struts and 13" wheels wrapped in 155-80-13 tires. The wheels were
black with a polished lip and had a red "H" center cap- this is where the red
Honda "H" started. Besides the RS badge on the front grill other exterior
options included flared fenders, fender mounted rearview mirrors, and a slightly different
bumper assembly. The RS's were only released in warm red/orange paint schemes. The
predominantly black vinyl interior included a wooden steering wheel and shift knob, center
console, grab handles, a mechanical tachometer graded to 7k rpm, and a center auxiliary pod with
fuel/temp gauges and an air vent. The US gauge pods merely had the gauges for fuel and
temp. More info here
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New
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Recently added some new pages of interest on Alloy wheels
and suspension pages, check the links. Also check out the Second Gen Civic
pages. Lots of new pages added. |
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Discuss
Forum Archive
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Use of the
Discuss forum archive from civic1200.com Click Here to find information on
first or second generation Honda Civics |
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Second Generation Honda Civic 1980-1983
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What is a Honda N600
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 The Honda
N600 was produced in March 1967. It was a front-wheel drive two-door sedan
with a 78.7-inch wheelbase and approximately 122inches long. It was
technologically advanced for its time. It had a mere height of 52.2inches
and a curb weight of 1213lbs powered by a type S2, SOHC, 599 cc (36.553 cu
in) air cooled 2 cylinder engine able to reach a top speed of 81 mph. This
little car was suspended on rear torsion bar and leaf springs.
It was the first front wheel drive 2 door sedan Honda imported into North
America in March of 1970, It was first introduced in Hawaii in 1969. It
was priced around $1,300.00us. |
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What is a Honda Z600
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 The
sporty Z600 coupe was introduced in the US in 1971 with a total production
of 40,586 sedans and coupes were sold here. Approximately less than 2-1/2%
remain today of that number of which most were sedans.
The 2door Z600 hatchback originally had a 345cc engine in the Japanese
market, a more robust 599cc engine was squeezed in for the European
markets. It came in basic colors of primarily orange, yellow, olive green
and blue. The power plant was a Air-cooled, two cylinder SOHC aluminum
engine, this gas miser came through during the oil crisis of the 70’s
giving the owners a excellent fuel efficient car, it was rated to get
approximately 40mpg while it only held 6.9 gallons of gas.
The Honda Z600 was built on a 123in x 51in chassis and approximately 51in
high with a Curb weight of 1312lbs. Given it’s small size it was found to
still give reasonable comfort to the driver and front passenger. The back
seat would be described as storage only because of the little wiggle room
in the back. This car had some interesting advances like retractable seat
belts and a in dash seat belt warning system, front wheel drive and power
assist brakes. |
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What is CVCC
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CVCC means Compound vortex controlled combustion.
 The CVCC engine debuted in 1975.
Offered alongside the standard Civic engine, the 53-horsepower CVCC
engine displaced 1,488 cc and had a head design that promoted
cleaner, more efficient combustion. The CVCC design eliminated a
need for a catalytic converter or unleaded fuel to meet emissions
standards. (Nearly every other U.S. market car for this year
underwent the change to exhaust catalysts and the requirement to use
only unleaded fuel.) Due to California's stricter emissions
standards, only the Civic CVCC was available in that state. A
five-speed manual gearbox became available this year, as did a Civic
station wagon (only with the CVCC engine).
A CVCC engine has a special cylinder head.
The CVCC head uses a
 stratified charge combustion chamber. A
stratified combustion mixture is richer at the sparkplug and much
leaner at the main part of the combustion chamber. The rich mixture
is easily ignited by the sparkplug and this initial flame will
ignite the remaining leaner mixture. The CVCC head uses a
pre-combustion chamber that is about the size of a thimble. The CVCC
carburetor is actually two carburetors in one, a lean part and a rich part. The
lean part feeds the main combustion chamber and the rich part feeds
the pre-combustion chamber. The rich mixture in the pre-combustion
chamber is ignited . A "flame hole" in the pre-combustion
chamber allows the pre-combustion flame to blow across the regular
combustion chamber and ignite the lean mixture.
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More Power |
Firstly, the Civic 1200 engine is a very strong little machine which
has high rev capability. To exploit this some good cheap
modifications which can be made easily are the fitting of a sports
exhaust and perhaps a Weber carburetor. The sports exhaust is easy
enough, with a set of extractors, a hotdog and a turbo tailpipe
should give you a bit more power by freeing accumulation of exhaust
gases. Genie make a good tailpipe, the hotdog can be bought pretty
much anywhere. As far as extractors go, well in Australia there is a
header pipe made by Hurricane, as far as I know this is all there is
for the Civic 1200.
Installation of a Weber is where real performance comes from at this
level, note that this is not really effective without a decent
exhaust system. We have used two types of Weber, the best seems to
be the 32 DGV model which is an aftermarket carburetor used on just
about everything up to 2 Liters. DON'T believe anyone when they tell
you this is the wrong carburetor for a little Honda, from my
experience so called experts haven't a clue about the capabilities
of these cars! On my own Civic I have a 32 DIR 21 model which comes
from a Renault 12, I think my a father picked it up for about 40
$AUS from a wreckers.
Fitting it is pretty easy: Tear off the old carburetor and air
filter. Get an adaptor plate, Lynx make one for a Datsun 1200 for
about 25 $AUS, that is the one to use. Since Dattos use the same
Hitachi carburetor, obviously this will work. Get another air
filter, we have tried lots of tricks here but the best seems to be
the RamFlo type filters, once again they cost about 25 $AUS. |
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