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Bought it Friday, blew it up Monday. Now let’s make it cool
So any of you can go pull a previous thread I posted and see I had a white integra I was going to boost and manual swap but wrecked it with a turbo kit and trans/conversion kit in the hatch. I parted it out and some how ended up in another integra a couple years later. talking about current car ⬇️⬇️⬇️
Going back to the subject at hand, I went out to find a fun beater daily that I can drive regularly with few issues. I looked over the car, it looked pretty tired overall with roughly 200k on the body an ld a claimed 80k on the swap(stock ls swap) the motor and trans seemed in okay condition driving aside from a noisy exhaust leak and burning oil when I really got down on it. It was sitting on some coilovers and rode alright. I decided to get it for $1400. I drove it an hour and a half home, drove it all weekend no issues. That Monday came around and I decided to drive it for work, I had to drive 3 hours from my house to the place I was working, sadly enough the car only made it 2/3 hours out. With little to no warning the motor blew(yes I had been actively checking the oil, and only event leading up to it was smoking around hood and from vents about 30 seconds before blowing). The integra left me stranded, a hole in my block in the mountains, nowhere near I needed to be. After an interesting chain of events the car is back home and on jack stands at my buddies house/shop. whats going on now ⬇️⬇️⬇️
Now lets talk about what’s going on currently
Bought a 40k mile b20 low comp p8r head for ~$300 from a “local” importer
just about finished with the swap
I want to start with getting this car as reliable as possible so I’m replacing some stuff, mostly starting with bushing, front end components, belts, etc. The next goal is making it look halfway decent and adding a little power.
I can handle most metal and body work myself from previous intership experiences, as far as power, I want to boost it on modest boost and make 3-400whp.
Money is an object for me so this is a progressive build not a bottomless budget. Mostly making this thread for a progress thread but probably will use for recommendations and help.
I will post more pictures next time I’m with the car.
Re: Bought it Friday, blew it up Monday. Now let’s make it cool
Freshen up the B20 with new seals/gaskets/belts before you start spending money on the turbo setup. Good luck with stock sleeves trying to hit 300HP+. You'll end up with the same results as the B18B.
Re: Bought it Friday, blew it up Monday. Now let’s make it cool
Originally Posted by NVturbo
Freshen up the B20 with new seals/gaskets/belts before you start spending money on the turbo setup. Good luck with stock sleeves trying to hit 300HP+. You'll end up with the same results as the B18B.
yeah before I put boost I will probably go through with all new gaskets, add new studs, etc but that’s all down the road, id also like to bag it but it’s not immediate priority, like the turbo
Re: Bought it Friday, blew it up Monday. Now let’s make it cool
Originally Posted by getbleached
All these stock sleeve comments, I never said the motor will stay stock.... why so quick to assume?
Originally Posted by getbleached
yeah before I put boost I will probably go through with all new gaskets, add new studs, etc but that’s all down the road, id also like to bag it but it’s not immediate priority, like the turbo
El oh El
Hmmmmm I might have a new sig in the making.
Re: Bought it Friday, blew it up Monday. Now let’s make it cool
Originally Posted by tony_2018
You threw a rod through the block, something was def wrong before you purchased.
Going by his "I'm not going to leave it stock, but I'm also not going to sleeve it or do anything more than gaskets/studs and thats after I turbo it, with my 3-400 hp goal" comment, I don't have much faith in his ability to keep an engine together lol.
Re: Bought it Friday, blew it up Monday. Now let’s make it cool
Originally Posted by CandyRedRC46
Going by his "I'm not going to leave it stock, but I'm also not going to sleeve it or do anything more than gaskets/studs and thats after I turbo it, with my 3-400 hp goal" comment, I don't have much faith in his ability to keep an engine together lol.
I never said I wasn’t going to sleeve it, actually ever even specified any motor work other than gaskets and studs until after the flock of sleeve comments �� and I am positive I never said I was doing motor work after turbo, because that just doesn’t make sense...
all we can do is follow the thread
Re: Bought it Friday, blew it up Monday. Now let’s make it cool
Haven't updated for a while, sorry working out of town proves to be a pain sometimes stuff that's happened
The motor is in and it's and its running and driving
I actually drove it out of town for work this week
Several ball joints have been replaced
new wheel bearing
Done because wheel bearing going out and most ball joints were toast
New ecu
the final solution to idle issues and the fact that it was running poorly
(previous owner had a p06 ecu on it so I picked up a chipped p75 from a friend which I got a ls base tune on)
plans
Interior
Even though I cleaned the interior pretty well it's still in overall poor condition so I'm going to look for a good deal on seats and door cards, hopefully order some new carpet for it
Wheels
Ditch the steelies and get some wheels
Exhaust
welding on a new flange right before the first cat, the current flange has a pretty bad leak
04-25-2018, 09:10 AM
Bought it Friday, blew it up Monday. Now let’s make it cool
Re: Bought it Friday, blew it up Monday. Now let’s make it cool
