wunfstgsr

So I went ahead and picked up the civic, there's some pros and some con's to the car,

Pros,

I think it has lowering springs but it's not bouncy!
New tires
New brakes
New radio
New oil change and plugs
New stag 1 clutch
DC intake carb legal
Drives strong and healthy and gets about 34 mpg

Cons,

No power steering!! My arms killed me pulling out the parking spot.
Has a loose shift ****
Alignment is off
Has a broken window handle ****
Driver seat has a few tears
Headlights are oxidized to hell

Overall it's nothing I can't deal with. On my day off tomarrow I'll give it a wash and vacume and a bit of a detail. Eventually I'll take it to the junk yard and get a power steering unit installed. I'll also throw in a set of hid lights maybe a skunk2 weighted shift **** and I'll look into buying a set of aftermarket headlights to replace the ones on there now if I can't buff out the oxidation. So I won't do much to it but I'll give it some tlc overtime. I'll post some pics tomarrow. The Integra just got a lil sister lol.

wunfstgsr

Just got her home! drives pretty good if you ask me! still has some pep to it for a lil single banger. tomarrow ill give it a nice detail and take some more pics of my new daily driver.

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Got some more stuff in and pulled in the Integra. Tommarow ill start to pull out some stuff but i still need a new jack and a set of new stands before i can really start tearing it appart.










Got my new fan to replace the bad one i have.







oem Type R water pump,







These are injector O rings ill use for my Skunk2 low profile valve cover washers the fit and give a better seal than the ones they come with imo also got a IACV gasket and a new oil pan bolt i wont use cause im ordering ones with magnets. This one came with my maintenace kit i baught. It also came with a oem filter and fuel filter which i dont plan to use.








OEM oil filter ftw!

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Got some time to work on the car last night, got the car on jack stands and got some parts removed, going to install the new sensors and coolant related items first, then ill work on the IACV, I'm going to either clean it out and put in a new seal. Ill do the timing belt and valve adjustment last.

heres some shots i took ill be taking much more pics of all the installs. Theres going to be lots of cleaning in the engine bay as well. Im debating on a few things regarding the intake manifold. I want to remove it a spray it wrinkle red as well as give the valve cover a fresh coat as well, if i do this i can at this point instal the custom spacer i was thinking about putting on but i also want to do a dyno comparison of what the spacer will do while I'm at the dyno its just i don't want to remove the top half of the manifold at the dyno it might be a pita! so ill see what i do in the next few days regarding that.









Heres a close up of the cam gears i got from Bisimoto, he signed them personally for me and it makes me feel special lol.

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Pulled some more stuff out and drained all fluids. I installed the new Mishimoto ECT switch and thermostat, i noticed the surface between the two halfs of the thermostat housing was real gunky so i hit it with my dremel with a sanding bit, i then used a very thin layer of Hondabond to seal it further.

Blue-Civic-Hybrid

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Good to see that you are still at it! I'm debating on giving up on my B-series and dropping in a K20 when I get back in the states. I think my little JRSC is about to self implode after over a decade of use!

I'll just take the K20 out of Civic Type-R over here in England and ship it home to SD!

By the way, smart move on getting a cheap and easy to fix daily driver!

wunfstgsr

Thanks man I'm trying! Yea man i been thinking and still am thinking of doing a K swap and have it bared here in CA with the whole 9 yards but its allot of work and i have such limited time. After a decade of use i think your JRSC needs a vacation lol

Id love a Euro CTR swap :D

Yea i needed a daily driver especially doing all the upgrades i just can't keep this the daily anymore theres way to much modifications for this to be a daily anymore, although i will still drive it on the streets just not as much but I'm sure once I'm done i won't be able to get out the car for a while haha. The civic is a good daily give me good mpg its mostly all stock and has a decent paint job and the body is clean with no dents so thats always good. I did take it to the junk yard and had a 99 power steering conversion put on so now i have power steering which is so nice after driving for a weak without it, i was going crazy trying to pull out a parking spot or whatever lol.

Blue-Civic-Hybrid

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Right now I'm stationed in England but after my tour is done, I plan on taking out my CTR motor/tranny/etc, over here and shipping it back to SD so I can put it in my 95 Civic. As for my JRSC'd B18C1 which currently resides in my 95 Civic, she has served me well for over 15 years so I might think about rebuilding her, punch her out to 2.0L and go from there... but then I need to find a new car to put it in...heheh...I just might do something blasphemous...

If you want to see my CTR, check out the EP3 section here, I put up a few photos. She will drive the Nurburgring later this year!

wunfstgsr

Thats awesome man! mad respect be safe out there! Yea your civic would love that CTR swap! wow 15 years thats very impressive its lasted a good long time! you can always sell the B series swap and invest that in the CTR swapped civic! and find a daily to run around in. Ill check out the CTR!

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Got allot done tonight and now i need a beer break lol,

OEM ECT sending unit and OEM ECT sensor installed, The oem sending unit is old and the ebay **** ECT sensor went bad after a weak OEM FTW!











Now time for the Timing belt, it hit the 60K mark so now time for a upgrade. Gates racing timing belt and new OEM Type R water pump installed. To my luck the crank pulley bolt came off very easy using my air gun. It usually always gives me a hard time to take off but ths time it came off in one try!











Heres the brand new Type R water pump installed,







Heres the new Gates Racing timing belt, To my luck everything went on perfect the first time! installed the belt to OEM specs as well as tentioned the the belt to OEM specs.

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Got The valve lash done tonight its such back breaking wok for me since i have back problems i kept re adjusting the valves till i got them perfectly in spec, i found a few intake and exhaust valves a bit too tight! how it happened idk but they were tight. I did notice a bit more chatter than usual before i took it in the garrage but it still sounded pretty good and quite and also ran very good and strong but im glad i checked the lash while i was going at it.









Also took some pics of my 96'' Civic CX, i detailed it and also fixed allot of things on it lately, i went to the junk yard and got a full power stearing conversion from a 99 civic installed so mow its got power stearing!, i fixed the broken window crank with a new one i got on ebay for $3, I also instaled a new oem hood latch, i put new seat covers on the fron and also i put new black housing headlights! This is where i found out the good news that i have a 99 front end conversion so i ordered a set from ebay for $60 they look great i also put new hid lights.

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Been real tired from work and such little sleep i managed to slip in the garrage and knock out one task so i chose the IACV tonight. Bastard was kind of tricky with the manifold still attached. The way Skunk2 located it really makes it hard to take off and on. If you read back a little i was debating on putting on a custom 2'' spacer for the ultra steet manifold but i decided to skip it for now even though it would be a great time to do it while all the coolant is drained. Im hoping in the future when i get to it ill just try and remove the top half of the manifold with it still attached to the head and do a retune with that spacer and a 2'' custom throttle spacer and see if i get any gains.

I removed the valve and noticed the screen was pretty much cloged and gunked up even though i cleaned it a few months back when i was having a idle issue which fixed it but i went ahead and replaced the rubber seal as well as cleaned the inside out with brake cleaner.












Heres the new seal you can see how smashed the old one is lol

ComptechGSRSC

It's wild how many gaskets and seals can be so easily overlooked. It's great that you're thorough with your work. Makes for less hassles down the road. As a tech we get a bad rep for "over-selling" parts, but you gotta think long term. Not trying to replace things unnecessarily, but for long term cost effectiveness and lack of headaches. Every part has an effect on something else, whether its hp, gas mileage, durability, etc. There's a reason for "you get what you pay for".... your car shows that because you actually take care of it and don't short change anything. Keep up the awesome work! What do you all think?

wunfstgsr

Yea tell me about it! Thanks i try to be as thorough as possible. I also decided to replace the o ring on the coolant passage that goes in the thermostat housing just in case, last thing i need is assembling everything just to find a coolant leak at that seal when i could of easily replaced it while it was exposed. And iv been in this boat before and pulled my hair out from my baldcause i had to drain everything ect..

ComptechGSRSC Thanks man i really appreciate your support. I sometimes loose interest some days and feel like giving up whether its from stress or all the above but when i get and read positive comments it encourages me to keep going. Im not the most wealthy man and to tell you the truth I'm struggling real hard to make ends meet, nor is this the craziest or a high end build like others have going on but you know what this project keeps me sane and keeps me going. So thanks everyone i appreciate you.

I plan to send my Skunk2 Alpha header to LHT performance to be repaired, the bottom runners has been smashed to hell! So if its worth it ill have it repaired or ill invest in a budget header, i have my eye on this RMF V2 replica header, it seems like a decent manifold and has a skid plate under which is always good. But if i do it will only be temp. until i have LHT performance make me a custom Header for my setup.

Just found out my lower ball joints are shot on my civic and thats where the ugly sound was coming from so ill have to get to that soon, seems i have two projects now smh!

ComptechGSRSC

check those trailing arm bushings too! (PS you can get the CRV bushings for 1/2 the price from honda and they're identical...trust me)

wunfstgsr

Well the trailing arms seemed fine on my Civic but the lower ball joints are done. Im scared to drive it i dont know how long its been like this from the previouse owner. I did poke a hole in the rubber boot and sprayed wd40 through a straw and the sound is gone but its a temp fix for the sound.



Any how got some more stuff done and took lots of pics cause i like to lol So i got the Thermostate housing on,









Heres a pic of the brand new Richporter distributor.








I got the new sensors installed and pluged up.









I found this hanging tip tied and pluged, its a sensor from the old original GSR engine no need for this so i tossed it in my box of crap haha.








I installed the new fan and took some time and tried to polish the shroud as much as i could with some wax and a rag i had laying around, the shroud was so dirty but it looks much better now. I plan to place a piece of heat reflectant tape over the fan motor because it sits soooo close to the header runner.











So heres some pics of the Skunk2 Alpha header, the runners are smashed pretty bad! ill have to either repair it or buy a budget header for some time untill i can upgrade to a custom piece. It will defenitly have a thick skid plate!



















So basically tonight was a lot of cleaning in the engine bay as well as the motor. This thing got pretty dirty after 50k of daily driving her. I cleaned as much as i could and wiped everything down with a spray wax and wiped it off clean and shiny. Looks much better imo but my fingers are killing me haha.




















I even got the under side of the hood and added a few more decals i had laying around.

















And the Pro charger super charger is just sitting on the bench freshly rebuilt waiting to be installed! AHHH i cant wait to hear it spool again! as well as hear the massive surge valve go off! its like music to my ears haha

Blue-Civic-Hybrid

iTrader: (1)

Take your time and you will hear that sweet supercharger whine once again! Keep it up! You got this!!

wunfstgsr

Thank you sir. I'm definitely trying to take my time as I don't want to rush into anything it's why it's taken me so long to even start the maintenance. I gathered most all my parts and I'm knocking out each job one by one. Last night was mostly cleaning up things but I'm actually almost done. I just need to get my crank pulley tool and torque the crank bolt to spec and buy a new set of radiator hoses from Samco. I sold my white ones and I'm going to go with the urban camo hoses. I will be installing a new axle from driveshaft shop for the passenger side and it should be drivable again. Also not sure what I'll do about the header yet I'll have to contact LHT performance regarding the repair on the header. Cause if it's too much I'd rather sell it and buy a budget header for the time. I will have to wait and save for the retune which will include a new pro charger inter cooler, charge piping, 1000cc injectors, and a new hondata s300, my retune should be free cause my tuner said my next tune will be free of charge he's a cool guy.

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Decided to sell the dented Skunk2 header and buy the new Skunk2 Alpha V2 header since they just released it! Its designed to work with the Kraftwerks super charger so it should work very well with my new setup. Im very excited to get it in! Im also going to order a set of blue Gates racing drive belts for the A.C, power steering and alternator. These are much stronger just like my Timing belt. I plan to use the A.C belt for the super charger hopefully its long enough.

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Got the valve cover cleaned up and put on, i put the new O rings on the Skunk2 low profile gromits. The old ones were flat and leaked. I also sprayed my Skunk2 oil cqap flat black becaue it literally changed colors from black to this dark greenish color. I also had the center cap for the oil cap that i never put on so i put that on and it looks much diffrent.

ComptechGSRSC

Here's a few other options bud:
Headers/Exhaust :: Honda/Acura Headers :: Bseries Headers - Phearable.net - Categories

wunfstgsr

Thanks. I think my best bet is they new Skunk2 Alpha V2 header, Its designed to be used with the kraftwerks supercharger so id like to see what it does with my setup being my supercharger is a centrifugal unit as well. looks similar to the old Kamakazi header used allot with JRSC setups. I just ordered it so it should be in next weak. Its claimed to have better ground clearance and also tucks under the oil pan nicely. If it has good enough ground clearance ill leave it other wise i really want to get a SS skid plate welded under to avoid this header from being smashed. Im going to wrap the header with new white fiber glass heat wrap with red straps.

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Well the header showed up the next day! i got it mocked up on the engine only to find it has the same issue as far as being to close to my radiator fan, this one is worse its near touching it. Ill have to for one wrap the header, two put a piece of heat reflectant over the area of the fan touching the runner and im gonna try to relocate the fan on the fan shroud a lil to give some more clearance if i can.















Heres the oil pan and ground clearance!











Here you can see how damn close the runner is to the fan! damn you Skunk2 theres always something !

wunfstgsr

I made some brackets to pull the radiator back just a little bit and i also relocated the fan on the shroud a bit over and i got the fan to clear more so at least now its not touching anymore so i can live with that.

Blue-Civic-Hybrid

iTrader: (1)

Nice looking header, seems much better quality over my Kamikaze from back in the day.

As for your fans, I had that problem on my old JRSC setup since I used a full size Integra radiator and the header was way to close to the fan. I just used pusher fans instead of the pull style and and magic amounts of clearance appeared.