mmcd

On page 5-6 its now a fully build gsr and swaped (swaping) over to a 2000 si shell


Whats up guys i wanted to show you all what one of my good friends and I are building for me.. I have it also in the appearance build thread but i seem not to get any love there, and im bored so i thought i would share it with ever one here..
Here is my 96 civic i traded my hatch for after the hatch was involed in a garage fire..
Here are some pics of my old civic







And here are some after the fire



this is a crappy pic but the only one i have after, the whole front end got damage and some of the passanger side door. It did 2500$ of damage


And now here are some pics of the civic from the time i got it till now.. i got this car in jan '11 with a stock LS boosted with a ebay turbo kit

Here it is on the way home






when i bought it it had a turbo ebay kit and made 260hp at like 200tq, i hated the way it sat. so the 1st thing i did was buy coilovers and some suspension parts, roof rack and hood bra..



i end up going with:
blox full coilovers
blox lower lcas
benen lower tie bar

here are some pics after i put the suspension and winter wheels..









Next thing on the list (witch im in the middle of doing now) is the get a better turbo set up and try and get alittle more hp out of her. i end up going with.....
- b16 head ported and polished intake side, supertech valvetrain, GSR cams
- turbonetics t3/t04 .48ar w/ stage 3 wheel
- blox exhaust manifold
- turbo smart 38mm wastegate
- tial bov
- precision 1000cc inj
- act 4 puck clutch
- hasport motor mounts
- golden eagle ls-v conversion kit
- GSR shaved valve cover with a home made oil catch can set up
- aluminum radiator
- GSR ARP head studs
- walbro 255 fuel pump
- Gm 3 bar map
- blox intake mani
- 31x11x3 bar and plate intercooler


lol yes i know i took the pic in the house (everyone on facebook picks on me) but all the stuff was clean and new so it didnt bother me
now on with the build pics

out with the old




clutch in




tranny painted


plugs for the catch can and freeze plug in


tranny back in


sandwhich plate in








head, turbo and mani on




some wga fitment issues :s i dont know what im gonna do yet




3-18-11
adjusted the valves, got the vtec wired up, got the 3 bar map wired up. Tried to figure something out with the wastegate but no luck so im just gonna have to buy a newer style turbosmart wga cause there the only one that seems you can use without wacking up the head and wga with the blox exhaust mani..
that yellow had to go...




got the intake mani on..





come home and these were sitting at the door



3-19-11
I drove 4 hrs each way to pick up a wastegate so i can get this bad girl done, instead of waiting 3 or 4 days for shipping.


the only thing we did get done was the intercooler fitted


3-23-11
Well the wastegate still didnt fit. Took it to the machine shop to get the flange milled down alittle. I got it back today


the wastegate fits good now


just a fitmint text to make sure everything is gonna fit right..

mmcd

3-25-11


and here is some stuff i got in the mail today..

start of the intercooler pipe



fitting for the oil pan, i didnt like where the old one was..



and my boost controller







3-28-11

got all the IC pipe done and ready to be tig welded, gonna do that tomorrow and weld the bung in for the oil drain cause i dont like where the old one was.







3-31-11
got all the intercooler pipe welded up and the oil pan.. got all the pipe on ran some vac lines

mmcd

4-3-11

well was getting all the little odds and end done and went to put the o2 sensor in and found out the the downpipe i bought was cracked. So time to order some stainless pipe and make my own down pipe then everything will fit the way i want it to..


one side

then the other

mmcd

4-5-11
got the downpipe and dumptube pipe in the mail today



4-6-11

Today we started to make the downpipe and stuff





tomorrow im gonna try and get all this welded up

keep posted ill update daily

xfrankx

what are your hp goals for this? reason i am asking is why you were running 1000cc injectors on it. just seemed a bit overkill

94GSRMR

not really overkill

P-CRIDER

nice work bump for you

JoJo_Vtec

Is the LSVtec better and/or more reliable than a B20Vtec? I ask bcuz my car has a B20 and I still dunno what to do with it... I bought it with the engine, B20B4 w the B16 tranny.

mmcd

its really not overkill at all. with the 1000's ill be useing about 60-70% of them.. there are acouple cars around my area that are on stock ls and running 1000's. my reason is i plan on going bigger with the next year and no point of putting 550's or 750's in it then going back later and buying 1000's.. it can be tuned on 1000's if they know what there doing

mmcd

to be honest im not 100% sure im not up on b20's.. i know some people do b20vturbo but im not sure how they hold up or nothing.. sorry i couldnt help

thanks P-CRIDER

ryguy2588

iTrader: (11)

So you had the older turbosmart wastegate and it didn't fit with the blox manifold? Cuz that's the exact setup I'm about to put on my build. Why didn't you do a 90 degree bend?

mmcd

ya i had the older ts wga, and it will not fit with the vtec head.. i didnt use a 90 bc i didnt want to.. i bought the new ts wga and it still didnt fit either with the b16 head. idk what head u are useing but the older style wga will not fit on the ls head either, its huge. Unless u use a 90 witch i wasnt going too

ryguy2588

iTrader: (11)

Ok. Thanks for the info. I have a B16 head too. Great build! Can't wait to see some numbers!

xfrankx

b20's have weaker cylinder walls because its obviously a 2.0l. so people have problems with them cracking sleeves easier. you can do it, get a good tune. it all depends on the motor itself. hell i spun a rod in my b20 and it was my daily that i never beat on. it just decided to knock and then blow up.

if you are that worried about it just scoop up a good condition used ls block.

mmcd

i heard alot of b20s do that

mmcd

got alot of little things done this weekend.. gonna weld the downpipe and dump tomorrow didnt get a chance this weekend.. keep posted ill post more pics

AllShowNoGo727

iTrader: (1)

build looks good LS VTEC FTW!

mmcd

got some more done today..

mmcd

the car is finally done take it to get tuned on friday ill let u all know what it makes

jdm_phunk

Awsome build man Cant wait to see HP numbers.
BTW love all the pix

93lsv_turbo

Car looks awesome. What did you do with your catch can? Wasn't it in the bat box

mmcd

thanks man.. ill let u know on friday

mmcd

well where i take it to the track around here wont let u have it in the trunk without a kill switch and i didnt wanna do that, so we tried to put in the fender well, and that didnt work out do good either so monday im gonna take it to this guy i got to build my other one and put in front of the bat and smaller so i dont get bitched at when i take it to the track if all that makes since

93lsv_turbo

so did you ditch the box? or is it juss mounted lower. btw what is your hp goal. im digging the build because its pretty much everything i have in my car now except for a few things. is it a DD?

mmcd

ya the box i had i ditched.. im getting a smaller one made that wont take up so much room and put in front of the bat.. im looking for 350 or so