i have always wanted to build a car to call my own so i Purchase a 99 gsr with 40,000 miles and a title today for a 1000 cash. its missing one tire, windshield, a key, has two fist size dents, and several dings. along with that the engine that was in has a large hole in it from nitrous. he threw in an extra block and informed me it needed pistons, rings, and bearings and a good amount of work. i dont know much about rebuilding an engine and would like some tips on good quality parts at a good price. i havent decided if i should or will need to bore the block out yet. im currently in college so im only interested in a quick reliable car for now. any help with parts or decision to bore it over or stay stock will be appreciated. thanks.

 

good luck lol

 

That's a bit much for me to bite off personally.

 

uh oh... not a good project to start while in college. considering you just want to make it reliable, looks like the guy before you did a great job in screwing that up for you to help you out a little... skunk2 (although there are many haters) make pretty good quality parts. but, you can never go wrong with oem parts

 

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Looks like we are going to have to put it down...

 

easiest thing for you to do is pay someone to do it for you

 

i could pay someone to do it but then i wouldnt learn a thing and would have to fork over some cash. i have free acess to a lift, tools and help from a mechanic who i repay by cleaning his shop. my goal is to get it running and then sell my current car to get the money i put into it back and hopefully a little extra left over.

i will post my progress and try to put some pictures up

thanks for any help and tips

 

you better get cleaning cinderella

 

just make sure you don't have ls19integra95 help you on the rebuild

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leave the rebuild to professionals and go home with piece of mind that it will be done correctly.....

 

sounds like you have a very big project ahead of you but good luck with it

 

yeah...ummm.....good luck

 

i think if you want to learn by yourself then good luck . no, buy the service manual and that **** will be your holy grail of the car. no manual=fuked up thing you bought for 1k . Also get some buddies to help you along. build the motor yourself with help then before putting it in the car send that motor to a mechanic is double check everything , then maybe have them do all the timing and stuff like that. My 2cents

 

my boss is a mechanic and has agreed to help me with it. he has 5 daughters heh i guess he enjoys helping me .

 

im in the same boat i just bought a 94 teg for 500$ and trying to convert it to lsv turbo...gl measure everything twice..

 

http://forums.evans-tuning.com...rance
Here you go, get to work

 

Good luck with your build keep us posted

 

if the body and interior are all there then that sounds like a hell of a deal. if you don't want to mess with rebuilding that engine, you could just get another gsr engine for around $1000-1500.

 

Get a Hanes Manual. It should have all the info to rebuild your engine, and it will have very important torque spec's, wiring diagrams, etc. Good Luck man.

 

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why waste the time and money on converting to lsvtec? why not just turbo? save the headache.

 

car doesn't sound too bad for the money you spent on it. I would probably just throw an LS block in it from hmotorsonline or something if you were trying to conserve money and just get it running. good luck on the project

 

what no pics?