The philosophy
Respect the car
Every car is restored, preserved or improved in a way that respects what it originally was — not forced into something it isn't.
How it started
The method
This started with a rough, carburetted Honda Civic EG3 in Cebu. It felt weak and unhealthy, and the first instinct was to go bigger — a swap, more power, a faster car entirely.
The more I researched the EG3 specifically, the more that felt wrong. It's simple, light, basic and honest; its character is in being the simple version, not the fastest one. So the decision was to restore it true to itself — an OEM+ car, kept light and period-honest — and let the dream of a faster build belong to a different car.
That one car changed the thinking: from modifying everything the same way into understanding, restoring and improving each car according to its own identity. That is the whole method now.
Convictions
What the archive is built on
Identity over image
A car's worth comes from what it actually is, not from dressing it up as something faster or rarer. The honest base car is a real thing worth preserving.
Understand before you touch
Every change follows research, not the other way around. Trim ladders, engine families, market splits, known faults — get the facts right first, including correcting your own when they're wrong.
Preserve, then improve
Foundations before fashion. Fix what time broke, keep it true to period and purpose, and only then make it better on its own terms.
The shift
The change of mind
The archive grew out of one decision, made about one car, then applied to the rest.
- modify every car the same wayrespect what each car already is
- chase the fastest versionkeep the honest version
- a fake EG6the real EG3
- a wishlist of dream buildsone car, properly restored and documented
The form
Kept as an archive
This is kept as an archive on purpose. Not a build thread chasing likes, not a spec-sheet dump — a set of files a careful owner would keep: the story, the research, the dated record, and the photographs as they're taken.
Facts here are cross-checked and labelled. Where a figure is approximate or sources disagree, the page says so rather than pretending to certainty. When something turns out wrong — like an EG suspension detail repeated from the internet — it gets corrected in the open, and the correction is logged. The archive is only worth keeping if it's right.