Looks great, I really like how you "fixed" the exhaust tip. I was thinking about getting that exhaust too, but the tip was killing it for me. Great idea!

 

Thanks! Love the color you picked for your car too! That is going to look awesome.

I can't wait to bring my car out to Cars and Coffee when it's running again. People who didn't even like hondas really seemed to appreciate the work I put in even with just the LS swap. I didn't have any issues with the ECU and it shipped quickly. I think my wiring of the rywire harness is what caused my ECU issues, not the ECU itself. The chipped ecu worked perfectly and it's honestly just sitting there with no use for me now because it's for a B18B.

Thanks! Getting close!

Thanks. I really like how the muffler turned out. I had that stainless pipe just laying around from an old test pipe and it just looked right when I held it up to the muffler.

 

Looks good man ! wish I could've made it this far with my old hatch

 

The longblock showed up today from HMotors. Engine is pretty clean, just have to replace all of the hardware since most of it is rusted. I can't wait to tear in to this thing and get it looking as good as new. I'll keep this thread updated as I go along.

 

congrats, should be a fun swap for sure

 

Hell yeah dude!

 

Keep up the good work !

 

 

Thanks for the love!

I'm slowly chipping away at restoring everything on the engine.

 

Looking good, can't wait to see it in that bay!

 

Ran into SHG_Claudio yesterday, and he was telling me about your build. I had to come check it out. Man, I'm glad to see you still have your hatch. The build is looking awesome! Can't wait to see the finished product! Good luck the rest of the way! I'll be checking in to see the updates!

 

I painted the longblock this weekend and got most of the intake manifold stuff buttoned up. I'm at a stand still for now waiting on funds to order more OEM parts to freshen everything up and hopefully keep from having any leaks.

 

Thanks. I'm itching to drop it in there, but trying to be patient!

I've had the ole girl 12 years now. Thanks man! Hopefully just a few more weeks and it'll be ready to roll.

 

manifold came out great. Thats one piece I should have blasted but wasnt sure how it would come out. Something to do in the future i suppose

 

B16B will be an excellent swap when finished. Great progress so far, liking your attention to detail.

Their is a guy here on HT or eBay that cleans and replaces the internals for the proportioning valve. Other wise try out Brake experts method of bleeding, run a hose from farthest caliper to reservoir and continue through the other caliper.

 

Looking good man, can't wait to see the engine installed!

 

Slowly plugging away and still waiting on funds and parts to come in. I shaved all of the unnecessary brackets off of the IM support brace and smoothed everything out and re-painted it. Looks pretty good I thought.


Here is a before picture. It's from an odd angle, but you can see all of the random brackets hanging off of it.

 

It makes me really sad to see how slow Honda-Tech is now.... This was the place to be 10 years ago and all the tech articles, how tos, and crazy detailed build threads are all going to disappear eventually. I like the accessibility of Instagram and Facebook, but the real information and helpful data and pictures are here.

My engine is all detailed up and ready to go in the car now. Still waiting on the stupid intake manifold gasket, but I'm just going to drop it in and do that later.

 

good stuff, Chris!

 

I agree. The new way is terrible. I miss the good ole' days of HT for sure.

Great progress, btw.

 

Keep posting and it won't slow down

Looks great btw! Been watching this since you started the thread.

 

Chris =

 

Just miss the good ole days. You still coming out to Vance?

 

I hear you on the ht thing. Its changed somewhat. Years ago i was a socal civic member and then everything just grenaded. Whats weird is most members were hesitant to jump over to ht saying that it was populated by dicks and a cold place. I have found that it is not true and that this place has genuine salt of the earth kind of people on it and some badass enthusiasts as well. I miss socalcivic at times but it was just a lilly pad that led me here. Only thing i see that has changed on ht for the most part is the activity. Back then this place was like a free brothel lol. Everyone was up here checking it out. Now it seems like people sign up and maybe they come back maybe they dont. Dont get down dude. Your build is a bright spot on this site. Keep on keepin on.

 

I started out on JDMCivic.com because I was honestly scared of this place and getting yelled at in all caps for being a noob with an 8 valve single cam and Rotas. I was 15 when I signed up there and had just picked up my first Civic. After I had my B16A swap done and felt like I had a little more knowledge I signed up over here. I figured out pretty quick who the "hype look at me credit card baller" guys were and I just chose to ignore those people and secretly hope to have a car like theirs someday. This site has been nothing but helpful to me over the years and answered tons of questions and remedied tons of car problems I was trying to diagnose. I hope people continue to come here and post and keep the site profitable to where it's worth keeping going. All my local car forums are completely gone and it's hard to network with local people and sell parts to good people now.