New DD Hawnduh

[Clinical]

I abandoned my plans to sell off all my cars and buy a 5spd CRV because I knew that'd be boring, yet I need a car when I switch colleges that'll still get good gas mileage that I'll be able to drive the 2 hours home from school here and there.

Picked up the new bubble-bitch tonight.
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How it looked before it was dusty from sitting since septemberish:

http://i95.photobucket.com/albums/l146/a5hatch/DSC02144.jpg

[86svo9L]

Nice. What are the plans?

[Clinical]

plans wise here's what I have so far, I've been jumping on good deals the last couple months since I'm pinching pennies but I still want a solid setup:
innovate mtxl wideband - caught this on sale for a great price
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GS Boost/Oil Pressure Gauges
http://sphotos.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ash4/401451_2988534146125_1045228797_33077254_298921127 _n.jpg


Freshly Rebuilt Turbonetics T3 54Trim
http://a2.sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-ash4/s720x720/430702_2996771872063_1045228797_33080321_736835736 _n.jpg


Precision 600hp rated Intercooler





I've also bought a bunch of misc things from boostedsohc and my other buddy here such as a wastegate, dumptube, map sensor, resistor box, blow off valve and a few other misc things.
Also I bought some 1000cc Precision injectors from the same guy I got the intercooler from.
The car also came with a very nice custom mandrel bent 3" exhaust on it to a vibrant straight through 3" muffler which looks very nice (not fart can) and I heard the car running at the track and it was hardly louder than stock which is perfect since I hate the sound a lot of hondas put out.
Also has a nice rear-mount battery set up and a walbro 255lph pump
With the car I picked up a couple things from the guy I got it from, gave me a damn good deal since we're friends via friends.
I didn't take pics of the stuff as they're still in the car at the shop, so I'll just post the pics he posted of them.

Fresh 1300mile z6 Block /w ARP's - new oil pump/pickup/blockguard and timing hardware.
Also bought his crank with it, and since boostedsohc donated him some weisco pistons for free and he ended up not using them - they're mine now for free as well which is pretty damn awesome since I was going to run vitaras and they are hit or miss these days with cracking.
[img]http://i95.photobucket.com/albums/l146/a5hatch/DSC01159.jpg

Also bought his complete z6 head, excluding injectors which i have.
http://i95.photobucket.com/albums/l146/a5hatch/DSC01206.jpg

What I was really happy to also pick up with everything, a fresh 1300 mile transmission with a quiafe LSD, just the LSD alone costs way more than I payed for the trans.
http://i95.photobucket.com/albums/l146/a5hatch/DSC01176.jpg
http://i95.photobucket.com/albums/l146/a5hatch/engine%20build%20no2/DSC00398.jpg

[Clinical]

Goal is to keep it looking as stock as can be, I'd like to get the intercooler anodized black.
If I end up finding a clean 92-95 civic coupe shell for cheap as hell though I'll probably pick it up and swap everything over. Not a big fan of hatches but I couldn't resist this for the price, and being a CX it's light as hell no options at all. It literally didn't even come from the factory with a passenger side mirror.

[Clinical]

Well I can't edit my damn posts to fix my link or the wrong picture of the gauges, so yeah I messed up those links haha.

[goldluderay]

nice little car for sure

[black88gt]

First it was LS's now Hondas are the thing on here I guess.

Nice pickup, sounds like you got some deals

[Clinical]

I've said it before, I'm into about everything and will give everything a try once.
I'd prefer to go back to the LS though but simply out of my price range since I know it'd kill me to leave one stock + being that this will be a DD it'd be nice to get good mpg around town. My LS got around 13-15 in the city, and 27-28 on the highway with the cam haha.

[Jappbox]

How much invested in the this project will you be? including the car. I might have to spend a few grand and have fun weekend beater car to play with

[JustinS]

You and Jacobs cars can battle it out this summer it sounds like! Clean shell for sure.

[JacobS]

if mine doesnt blow up haha

[Clinical]

How much invested in the this project will you be? including the car. I might have to spend a few grand and have fun weekend beater car to play with

Well I'm shooting for the same power boostedsohc made on his setup and it ran 11.9@115 on an open diff and ebay turbo. He only had about $2,000 into the setup and it had 25k miles on it when he went to 475whp(with better parts)

I'm going to have around $3,000 mainly because I'm setting it up a lot more solid and running on E85 until I switch to 91 when it ends up as my only car.

[86svo9L]

Should be a great setup. Definitely will surprise some people with a stock looking hatch.

[Clinical]

Well its not in the shop yet, instead its in the car port outside the shop but I went today and cleaned on it a bit since its the only thing I can really do right now.

I scrubbed the engine bay as much as I could with as few materials as I had, forgot to take a new roll of shop towels and only had about 1/3rd of a roll left - the shop also doesn't have running water yet so I only had a gallon milk jug filled with water, a spray bottle of simple green, and a standard cleaning agent for car exteriors I used to use for my LS1 car before car shows and two microfiber towels.

Did get rid of a lot of grime/road crud buildup from the engine bay - but for the most part the upper part of the engine bay and all was pretty decent already.

I did get the injectors out to send back to the guy I bought the car from since he forgot them in the head and I did too.

I used all my water pretty quick on the exterior with the only goal of getting the dustiness cleared off, really didn't wash it but I did use a ton of my few shop towels getting nasty grime off the rear bumper, looks a lot better - would like to see it washed for real.

Some pictures in the day time from while I was down there:
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Took turbo apart to verify it had the o-ring since my buddy bought his from the same guy and it didnt have one and the guy said he'd send one and after 2 months still hasnt and sometimes wont even respond.
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Battery is mounted in trunk but took it out for now to put the head back there
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Parts parts and more parts:
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Block/Fuel Rail/Crank
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Slapped the front bumper on just to get it out of the interior for now
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Interior:
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Exhaust:
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Block & my one of the free weisco pistons - still stoked that I'll be running some good pistons and not crack-prone vitaras.
http://a5.sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-ash4/s720x720/418673_3092935636097_1045228797_33113034_191693008 9_n.jpg



Either way I'm excited to get started on it considering I haven't really had a project to mess with since last summer.
Though my DD on the way back from the shop pretty much grenaded its axle, was quite the interesting trip home trying to keep it straight and going on the highway 20 mins back - going to try to get that replaced tonight.

[Clinical]

Got all the parts into the shop tonight so the car is at least cleaned out and I can start doing some work on the interior, mainly just cleaning and if I can find a good deal I'd like to put integra front seats in it since I'll be driving it a lot. I've always hated stock civic seats, back always was killing me after spending more than 30 minutes in my old blue hatch DD.

Pic of the basically new rebuilt LSD trans:
http://a8.sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-ash4/432207_3094199307688_1045228797_33113337_460322804 _n.jpg

[AutoMods]

the crv route would've saved you time and probably money. this route is much funner though. whats it suppose to weigh when done?

[Clinical]

I'm going to guess around 1900-2000lbs - they weigh 2094 from the factory.

[Clinical]

How much invested in the this project will you be? including the car. I might have to spend a few grand and have fun weekend beater car to play with

Sorry I misread your post originally, just went back over it.
With the car probably about 4,000. I'm not sure what I really payed for the shell since since I gave him a lump sum for a bunch of parts. I believe it'd end up being $900-1000 for the shell so that'd put me about 4,000 invested total.

I still need rod bearings, rods, piston rings, downpipe, MAYBE intercooler piping but I may have enough to use already, and machine shop fee's, and a headgasket. Depending if I get some deals and if my buddy can make me a downpipe It might end up under 4k total.
I also need Hondata s300, I'm not messing with chip burning for tuning. So that's another easy $500

[JustinS]

Well I'm shooting for the same power boostedsohc made on his setup and it ran 11.9@115 on an open diff and ebay turbo. He only had about $2,000 into the setup and it had 25k miles on it when he went to 475whp(with better parts)

I'm going to have around $3,000 mainly because I'm setting it up a lot more solid and running on E85 until I switch to 91 when it ends up as my only car.
For those prices I might have to get one too, wow.

[Clinical]

Yeah they're pretty damn cheap and easy to get into the 11's. But its my own opinion if you want to go faster than 11's its time to buy a DSM or a V8

[Stutz]

Looks really rust free. I have to agree with the 92-95 coupes looking better tho.

[Clinical]

Yeah I've been looking for a 92-95 coupe for a long time.
but I kind of jumped on it since it was owned by a guy whose friends with boostedsohc and through him with me too.
Gave me a great deal on all the parts, and even threw in a bunch of misc parts for free that I wont bother listing that'll help me out.

It is pretty much entirely rust free, but I won't pass up a clean coupe shell if I find one for a good deal.

[JacobS]

this makes me miss driving mine...damn you.

[Clinical]

how does it make you miss driving yours when it's even more incomplete? haha

minor update: I sold the talon so I can go ahead and finish buying the parts and get the block to the machine shop. Would like to see this thing running in march or april.

[JacobS]

jsut because. dont question me!

[Clinical]

def not making a new thread for this, but since this is my "new honduh DD" thread i might as well post.
buddy bought this thing 3-4 years ago and has been using it for a DD since, odometer works when it wants to but definitely has anywhere from 250-300k on it now.
He got a Trailblazer SS, so he sold this thing to me dirt cheap $450! now i can ditch the 1.8, I love it but a 4g37 1g is a lot harder to get parts for or more expensive than a civic

its a rusty pos, but its a tank
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[Fiero]

Nice looking car you got. I don't understand the whole deal with the rusted hood though... People think it looks good? Maybe it's just not my thing.

[Clinical]

wasn't on purpose. When he bought it the guy he bought it from had primered it to paint it but sold it before he painted it, and my buddy never really cared enough about it to paint and it ended up rusting.

Sadly there were people at cordova last time who commented that it looked cool. Im almost considering breaking out the plastidip but then it'd be black which is also another rice fad, can't win!

[Fiero]

That's understandable, as long as it wasn't done on purpose haha. Personally, I think a black hood would look better than a rusted one.

[Clinical]

on the brightside the rusted hood matches the quarters hahaha
http://a2.sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-snc7/s720x720/423627_3139238713645_1045228797_33132268_125723865 8_n.jpg

[Clinical]

rods got here yesterday
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Had my bearings ordered, and after 3 days of waiting got an email saying they were on back order, ugh. Only thing I'm waiting on to get the motor assembled.

[Clinical]

rods got here yesterday
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Had my bearings ordered, and after 3 days of waiting got an email saying they were on back order, ugh. Only thing I'm waiting on to get the motor assembled.

went down to our shop to grab my block, brought it back home to get ready to take it to the machine shop.

pic of the car since i sometimes forget i even own the ugly thing haha
http://a4.sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-snc7/s720x720/419357_3171582602222_1045228797_33147289_201678333 8_n.jpg

block in the car and home
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still get a kick out of not even haven a passenger side mirror from the factory
http://sphotos.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-snc7/s720x720/429788_3171776607072_1045228797_33147346_100827442 7_n.jpg

[Clinical]

Got my clutch in today.
Only thing I'm waiting on now is my piston rings.

Block is ready to go to the machine shop.

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[AutoMods]

I ordered your rings already. So just be about 4 more days probably. I decided to stock some extra sets too for future reference.

[Clinical]

sounds good, you'll be ready if i blow this fucker sky high

[86svo9L]

Looks like you are making solid ground on this thing. Should be a blast when its done.

[Clinical]

well only ground im making is buying the parts haha, finally might be able to get some real stuff done here soon though once the block is done. Most of the stuff I even need yet I have to have the motor in to measure/fit stuff.

[sparkles]

Clutch looks familiar

[Clinical]

yeah its a comp stage 4. Buddies have had GREAT luck with comp clutches, at 475whp boostedsohc's did awesome and still looks great. His old comp 4 was still looking new after near 25k miles at 300whp.

[JacobS]

comp clutches are the shit.

[Clinical]

hell yeah they are.

Well should be finally moving my car into the shop in the next couple days. We can actually fit 3 cars in but one wont be up front as much so it was better than I just waited until my buddy got his car out.
I really don't have any pics for updating on my car, so I'll just post some of his. Last night I went with him trying to get his car on the road but he forgot a few things in town and ran into a couple other snags. He got the motor in last night but didn't finish his fuel line or get the wiring harness back in or trans since he forgot his clutch alignment tool.

It had been running fine about a month ago when he pulled it in, just wanted to clean up his engine bay and delete ABS so he basically re-did everything for the brakes excluding the actual pads/rotors/calipers.

Tonight she was on the road again. For those who saw his old car, he had the red 11 second sohc coupe at Cedar Falls the one time it went there.
Couple pictures of it:
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boostedsohc (john) creepin in the background
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ready to go
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Between the 3 of us (me/boostedsohc/our buddy brad) - 5 hondas haha.
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Just realized I didn't post anything from yesterday here.

I did go during the day time to paint my side skirts (with plastdip hahaha).
Both are faded, passenger side is really bad. Well I took one half full can and one basically empty can. Go figure the top broke on the half full can and it'd just spray down the can so I only had enough for the one sideskirt in the other car.

Unfortunately the pics I took don't really show the difference that well but:
before:
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after: (also in mid-wheelie)
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And a couple other random pictures of it I took. As you can see I got it moved out of the car port at least - really happy I was able to get it out even with how that big dumpster was put right in front of the car port, just had to get creative.
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[Clinical]

Took all my junk to the machine shop today, hopefully will be able to make some real progress finally!
http://sphotos.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ash4/s720x720/432105_3242228848334_1045228797_33180306_152332244 4_n.jpg

[JacobS]

looking good, keep it up!

[tylers88]

def not making a new thread for this, but since this is my "new honduh DD" thread i might as well post.
buddy bought this thing 3-4 years ago and has been using it for a DD since, odometer works when it wants to but definitely has anywhere from 250-300k on it now.
He got a Trailblazer SS, so he sold this thing to me dirt cheap $450! now i can ditch the 1.8, I love it but a 4g37 1g is a lot harder to get parts for or more expensive than a civic

its a rusty pos, but its a tank
http://a8.sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-ash4/s720x720/420114_3139239153656_1045228797_33132269_270933109 _n.jpg
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When the hatch is done, I'll help you make a profit from this turd. I need a cheap DD, 14 in the pickup just ain't cutting it anymore

[Clinical]

Chances are I'll keep ol rusty anyway, too good of a deal to toss out anyway haha unless I end up needing money bad.

[tylers88]

Chances are I'll keep ol rusty anyway, too good of a deal to toss out anyway haha unless I end up needing money bad.

Well damn

[Clinical]

yeah we will see. I still would REALLY hate to drive this hatch in the winter.. especially since one side rear quarter you can feel under it that it has started bubbling underneath although not visible outside at all, one winter would probably start a chain reaction.

[Clinical]

small update
Just hoping now the machine shop will have the motor done here in another week or less.. They had already started on it the day after I got back which for them is a good thing.. usually it seems once they start it they finish it pretty quick.

Today I ordered a gasket set and my oil filter sandwich plate for my feed line and my oil pressure gauge.

Tonight me and boostedsohc went down and pushed the car into the shop, next time she comes out should be under her own power.

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[Deimos]

When the hatch is done, I'll help you make a profit from this turd. I need a cheap DD, 14 in the pickup just ain't cutting it anymore

just tell me what you want for the truck

[86svo9L]

Just in time for driving season. Be interesting to see this thing on the road. You should mount a stock muffler and run a cutout, you would instantly get super sleeper status, I mean who takes a Honda with a stock muffler serious? It would be epic and probably shame quite a few unsuspecting people.

[Clinical]

Honestly the muffler it has looks pretty much stock and sounds quiet as hell already. If you know civics like the back of your hand you could probably tell the tip is a bit bigger but other then that most people wont know a thing.
http://a2.sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-ash4/s720x720/404541_3092934716074_1045228797_33113032_262467092 _n.jpg




Here's how it sounded when Gabe(guy I bought it from) had it last fall going down the track with 375whp, quieter then all hell.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rDUEwIx_uq0&list=UUJv10ELejDC0lsl_ERXQOdg&index=2&feature=plcp



I am going for the 'sleeper' look so I'm also going to be having the front mount black.. Only thing that might give it away are my gauges since they'll all be on the a-pillar. I would run them someplace else but I'm getting my 3pillar pod for a damn good deal from boostedsohc I'll run it until I decide to set up something different.

[86svo9L]

Nice.

[tylers88]

just tell me what you want for the truck

Sorry but I'm not going to sell it, just want something to drive to work

[Clinical]

Nothing really new yet... still waiting on the machine shop.
Dropped off my injectors to be cleaned/tested today. Also ended up going with a lame cast manifold, oh well it'll work. Hoping to get my motor this week, by wednesday would be awesome and then I could maybe even try to get it running by next weekend. The machine shop will have had it 3 weeks as of Wednesday so if they say it isn't done when I call monday I'm going to tell them I need it by Friday because I know they want to they can do it in 1-2 days.

My lame manifold
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Also got a 'virgin' p28 ecu from a guy on another forum, sent it off to be fitted and hondata s300 installed and come to find out it wont prime the fuel pump so currently attempting to repair it *crossing fingers*
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Also just my full gasket kit, mostly just for things like the VC gasket / Oil Pan gasket / front seal
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[86svo9L]

Its getting to nice out to not have this thing done! That machine shop needs to get in gear.

[Clinical]

yeah im a bit annoyed. But I have only ever personally taken a head to them before... if you go through them a lot they prioritize you pretty much. The guy I know who helped me with my LS1 has a 3 day turn around with them for about anything.

I wasn't expecting that but I was hoping for 2 weeks to be enough so I'm going to call and try to light a fire under some asses tomorrow.

I can't get to pissed though, they do absolutely incredible work - they build all the sprint cars for the 34 raceway down here. They've built everyones motors here including boostedsohc's vitara z6 that had 25-30k miles and made 475whp and never blew up. Obviously reliability is in the tune and all as well but they get their credit.
And the price for their work is pretty cheap. For my full assembly/cleaning/hone/machine work I'll probably end up paying around $300.

[Clinical]

figured I'd update this. went in to get my motor on day they said it'd be ready and rather then calling me they just waited to tell me when I came to pick it up that my rods need a hone and they don't have the equipment to do it...
so i said fuck it and sold the rods (for less than I bought them for since I mentioned they needed honed), and bought some brand new ones.. wont go used on rods again.

New rods got here today, taking them in tomorrow and hopefully my shit will finally be done monday or tuesday.
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Also got my VC tapped for my 10AN catch can lines.
Now need to clean it up and drop it off for powder coating.
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really tired of waiting on others for this build.

[AutoMods]

probably wouldn't be hard to grind the honda logo off that valve cover before you powder coat it.

[JacobS]

its not hard at all...unless you do it by hand lol

[Clinical]

yeah I dont have anything to do it with but I'd like to, probably going to try to get someone to do it for me before I powdercoat it

[Dustin]

Looks like a nice setup. Back in the day I had a Z6 hatch with a nice setup on it. I loved it.

[Clinical]

If it weren't for the occasional reply to my build threads or me accidentally viewing what pics I've taken I'd forget I even owned this fucking car.. being that our shop is about 15-20 mins away I don't see it often haha.

STILL waiting on the machine shop right now for it.

[JustinS]

Dude, would you, like, hurry up already?

I hate waiting on machine shops lol.

[Clinical]

yeah.. its getting a bit ridiculous. I know it's race season and all but they've had it for a month. If it isn't done by next week I'm going to take it somewhere else.

[Dustin]

I took mine the second time to D and R engines and machines. Dave, Randy, Nick and Preston know their stuff. The first time was taken to another "reputable" Machine shop which charged more and didn't notch the block far enough for the Eagle H beams to clear. It rotated fine when it was cold and looked really close but once it warmed up and started rotating is when it got ugly. Which made the block crack on the back by the pcv box and metal shavings to come with. :/ D and R did a really good job with no issues what so ever.

[Clinical]

I took mine the second time to D and R engines and machines. Dave, Randy, Nick and Preston know their stuff. The first time was taken to another "reputable" Machine shop which charged more and didn't notch the block far enough for the Eagle H beams to clear. It rotated fine when it was cold and looked really close but once it warmed up and started rotating is when it got ugly. Which made the block crack on the back by the pcv box and metal shavings to come with. :/ D and R did a really good job with no issues what so ever.

Yeah our shop here is pretty decent
They're really old school and its a bunch of older guys. They know their shit but pretty sure they've had the same tools/machines since the 50's or 60's but they do good work.. hard to complain about their prices though, I'll probably only pay $300-$400 for my motor when its done

Even though they're mainly v8 guys they've done a good job on our motors so far. They did boostedsohc's vitara z6 motor that had 25k miles of 300whp on it and another maybe 2-5k miles of 475whp and still was good when it was pulled for the GSR motor. Our other buddy with his GSR in his integra they built it and so far it's been doing great. Not sure how many miles it has but it's at 27psi on a 60 trim and running great.

I have faith in them just wish they'd be a bit more devoted to my motor after telling me it'd for sure be done and then not calling me and waiting for me to come to pick it up to tell me there was an issue with my rods.

Either way I'm honestly regretting this build, wishing I would of just been smart and either got a bike / nice DD or something like a 04+ wrx. As much as I planned to DD this car I have a feeling it's not going to get driven a whole lot and I'm not going to want to drive it in the winter. Really tired of looking like a dirtball in my beater. Maybe it's just my car ADD though, I'm sure I'll feel a lot better about it all when this damn thing is finally running.