What should I do next? 3 routes
01-03-2002, 04:23 PM
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What should I do next? 3 routes
Already turbo what should I spend xtra $1800
1. Install already purchased JE 9:1 pistons and crower rods into exisisting motor in car since they are sitting in my room.
2. Start prepping the xtra Vtec head I have sitting in my room with ferrea or crower: valves, springs and retainers and port.
3. Buy hondata 3b with injectors.
What Im really asking is what should I do with $1800 (besides give it away to you! J/K)
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1. Install already purchased JE 9:1 pistons and crower rods into exisisting motor in car since they are sitting in my room.
2. Start prepping the xtra Vtec head I have sitting in my room with ferrea or crower: valves, springs and retainers and port.
3. Buy hondata 3b with injectors.
What Im really asking is what should I do with $1800 (besides give it away to you! J/K)
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Re: What should I do next? 3 routes (dustin)
Why does it cost $1800 to install pistons and rods that you have already purchased?
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Re: What should I do next? 3 routes (BoostinDC2)
Good suggestions get two things done.
Hondata turbo 3b $870
injectors $400 roughly
need to find out how much the install of pistons and rods into my car will be.
Local shop (SFP) quoted me $200 if I brought them the short block.
If I bring the car with the motor in it they have to remove turbo, oil pan, head etc Then install pistons and rods and then put everything back together....probably well over $500. Im gonna ask them tommorrow (SFP) if its better to take the car to them with the oil pan, turbo and head off. Might save me a few hundred bucks and probably only take me 1-2 hours. Any thoughts?
Hondata turbo 3b $870
injectors $400 roughly
need to find out how much the install of pistons and rods into my car will be.
Local shop (SFP) quoted me $200 if I brought them the short block.
If I bring the car with the motor in it they have to remove turbo, oil pan, head etc Then install pistons and rods and then put everything back together....probably well over $500. Im gonna ask them tommorrow (SFP) if its better to take the car to them with the oil pan, turbo and head off. Might save me a few hundred bucks and probably only take me 1-2 hours. Any thoughts?
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Re: What should I do next? 3 routes (dustin)
is it possible to install pistons and rods with the block still in the car? i would think it is, but is it just too much trouble to deal with?
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Re: What should I do next? 3 routes (dustin)
You could just do it yourself, it's pretty easy.
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Re: What should I do next? 3 routes (downpipe)
I think a garage would be pretty helpful, aside from that you need a cylinder hone, ring compressor, maybe a couple things I'm forgetting. I did my pistons and rings myself without takin out the motor, just pulled the head and oil pan. If the head wasn't such a pain in the **** to get off, I probably could have done it in 4-6 hrs but it ended up taking longer than that, maybe 2 nights (one to get everything apart and another LATE night to get it all back together) but I was also installing a new manifold which meant I needed to reroute some piping, modify my downpipe, etc. which took me a good amount of extra time.
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Re: What should I do next? 3 routes (nerdish)
I got the quote today and SFP would do the pistons and rods for $750. They said JE and Crower already come balanced. (vuudoo and downpipe, you dont need to pull motor for install this is done all the time).
Dustin because I have never seen it done in front of me, I wouldnt attempt the install. But I believe after I watched someone else do it then I could. Anyone want a student?
I was going to disassemble the motor, turbo, pistons, rods for them but they told me to let them do it because the head is aluminum and I need to be careful not to damage it and I could miss somethign that they could fix now and could go wrong in the future if i did it. At least thats the way I understood it.
Dustin because I have never seen it done in front of me, I wouldnt attempt the install. But I believe after I watched someone else do it then I could. Anyone want a student?
I was going to disassemble the motor, turbo, pistons, rods for them but they told me to let them do it because the head is aluminum and I need to be careful not to damage it and I could miss somethign that they could fix now and could go wrong in the future if i did it. At least thats the way I understood it.
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Re: What should I do next? 3 routes (dbman96)
I think a garage would be pretty helpful, aside from that you need a cylinder hone, ring compressor, maybe a couple things I'm forgetting. I did my pistons and rings myself without takin out the motor, just pulled the head and oil pan. If the head wasn't such a pain in the **** to get off, I probably could have done it in 4-6 hrs but it ended up taking longer than that, maybe 2 nights (one to get everything apart and another LATE night to get it all back together) but I was also installing a new manifold which meant I needed to reroute some piping, modify my downpipe, etc. which took me a good amount of extra time.
so, opinions?
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