Link to video at bottom

The day had finally arrived to install a collection of parts that had been growing in my room since Christmas. Waiting for me upon my return home were a pair of Buddly Club Spec III+ cams and cam gears, OEM timing belt, Hondata S100, used valve cover to trim for tuning, OBD conversion harness, K&N for my J's intake, and a distrubtor cap and rotor. I dorve home from school this weekend to install the parts on my car in time for VIR two weeks from now.



Everything went fairly well. My dad came over this moring to help put with the install and I can't thank him enough. My buddy John came home with me from school, about four hours away, just to watch the install go down, he also severd on video camera duty. After taking all the old parts off the new ones went in. A trip over to my dad's place netted us an impact gun to get the cam gears bolts off along with the crank pulley bolt. Everything came off and went on as planned. I was disheartened to see a heavily damaged distrubtor cap and rotor, cause by a backed out distrubtor rotor set screw. After all the parts were on we plugged in the Hondata.



Sitting down in the driver's seat, key in hand, nervousness consumed me. Having kncked on wood and crossed our finger, I started her up. To our pleasant surprise she fired right up. This ofcourse was a tad premature. After start up she idled at about 1500rpm before warming up and coming down to an even grand or so. After warming up however she dipped in the rpms a few times and cut off. Hrmm. Realizing the Hondata I have is tuned for GSR with Toda cams I decided to out the stock ECU back in and give it a shot. Viola! Started right up and came to a warm idle of 650 rpms.



My friend John and I hopped in the car and went for a spin. Taking it easy she ran fine and after driving around a bit I floored it through second and some of third. Not bad but parts of the power band definitely flatten out. Feels about even with my OEM cams at the moment, minus a few dips in power. This ofcourse will be remedied next weekend with a tune at AR Fabrications in Winchester. Not a bad day. Everything was installed, she sounds great, and should put down some good power on the dyno next weekend, and will be running strong at VIR.



Incase you're curious horsepower mods include: J's Intake with K&N filter, Type One header, SMSP modified 2.5" cat, Kteller 2.5" stainless b pipe with 14" resonator, Spoon N1 with 2.5" flange, and the aforementioned cams, gears, and Hondata.

Cliff's Notes: Installed some badass parts this weekend without a hitch. Cams/gears/Hondata.

Promised video link: http://www.we-todd-did-racing....DE%3D

edit-posted pics-just figured out how with the video camera-score


Modified by HondaRcB at 3:17 AM 2/6/2005

 

Good luck with the tune.

See you at VIR

 

Awesome, glad it went well. Give us an update after tuning and VIR

 

Nice upgrades - let us know how they perform on the track...

 

i was hoping to see a video of your car rolling. not sitting idle
good job on the install

 

good luck with your tuning. post some numbers up.

 

man I know how you feel when you do a big job on your caR all your self. it gives you a sense of accomplishment. I just recently did a full break job my self on mine. a long process... but in the end it was well worth it... kinda makes you proud of yourself

 

That lime green valve cover is crazy

 

looks good so far

 

ewww greeeeen

 

Good job! I have plans to go with the same cams. Where did you hear about AR Fabrication and the quality of their work?

 

You're the guy who's dad attended Expo 4 aren't you?

 

So you didn't feel that much power gain? Can you get a in car video please?


Modified by faSHOwidIT at 12:01 AM 2/6/2005

 

Nice to see you put some new go-fast bits in there Ryan. Hope Tech is treating you well too

Brian

 

yes... please let us know how those cams are once you get it TUNED .. i haave heard good and BAD things so I would like to see your results.

 

<TABLE WIDTH="90%" CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 ALIGN=CENTER><TR><TD>Quote, originally posted by HondaRcB &raquo;</TD></TR><TR><TD CLASS="quote">Cliff's Notes: Installed some badass parts this weekend without a hitch. Cams/gears/Hondata.</TD></TR></TABLE>

If you are pulling faster laps than me that's not cool.

 

<TABLE WIDTH="90%" CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 ALIGN=CENTER><TR><TD>Quote, originally posted by mikestypeRR &raquo;</TD></TR><TR><TD CLASS="quote">yes... please let us know how those cams are once you get it TUNED .. i haave heard good and BAD things so I would like to see your results. </TD></TR></TABLE> What are the bad things? So far I heard nothing but good thigns about them.

 

congrats on the install....should of went with the buddy club spec 4

 

The Spec III+ seemed like a better idea with my stock compression. From what I've read the IV's are for more built, higher compression engines.

-Aquafina- Yeah, my dad has gone with me to the last two Expos. Sadly I'm not going to make it this year because of school. He's beena vital role in my car hobby. Most of what I've done I couldn't do without his help.

It's gonna be a long week of waiting till I get to go get her tuned.

 

Go Tech!

 

Tell Howard i said whadddd up