Since this is deff nothing new here I just thought I would post my progress on getting motor ready to swap into my 90 crx - this is a all stock motor basically with a 90-91 si trans with exedy stage 1 clutch and 11lb flywheel and p08 ecu with obd0 to obd1 conversion. I am to lazy to do the wiring and just dont have the time right now and since its tax time I am going to buy the whole obd0 to 1 ecu harness with complete engine conversion harness from rwyire.com plug and play baby and hopefully will be in the car within the next couple weeks - will be tossing the the exhaust mani and in place I think I will be using the JG Edelbrock headers

anyway onto pics

Motor when I got it last week







This was yesterday after stipping the valve cover and painting the intake manifold which I think looked like *** (black metal flake) The person at autozone should have smacked me








And this is today after getting the wrinkle finish on the valve cover - still not dry which is why its still kinda shiny it will be dull when it dries. I also got the block painted I used rebuilders cast finish and redid the intake manifold a more resonable color with throttle body. Yesterday i just painted the TB with the cast finish and it looked like *** also so I did it in the aluminum color like the manifold and polished the stock fuel rail a bit. Im trying to make it look as clean as possible with what I have to work with






more to come ..........





Modified by JokerX-1.6T at 7:24 PM 2/11/2007

 

Aluminum Paint makes anything look minty fresh

 

nice, IMO i woulda kept the valve cover aluminum

 

looks good...I love the aluminum paint look...

heres mines....I painted everything black..I had the intake sandblasted to get rid of all the crap on it...



I think I spent more time cleaning and preping hten the whole motorswap took me...

 

I liked the valve cover stripped but there were stains on it you can see by the spark plug tubes and on the front of the valve cover that wouldnt come off. Thats why I went with the wrinkle black on it.

 

looks good im also thinking of getting that motor

 

thanx - Im hoping it should be a little better than my stock dx motor with 210k

 

yo man i ur D15 looks NICE im thinkin about replacing my CRX motor with a D15 im thinkin about boostin it how are they for parts and boost if u could email me your opinion that would be great im lookin for all the input i can get

 

my email is dabigshmo@comcast.net

 

looks good. that is what i am doing to my a6 bottom end when i swap my y8 topend and throttle body on. i will sand down the tops of the letters though so they are in silver. black crinkle coat and aluminum paint all the way.

 

Yea I am going to do the same on mine also -
I got the alternator painted and the alt brackets and misc intake manifold sensors yesterday

 

How did you paint the alternator without coating the insides in paint?

 

it looks like there is paint on the inside

 

yea I got it inside as you can see but in all the years of painting alternators it has never caused any problems. There was no way in hell I was taking it apart as they are so cheap its just easier to replace if it ever was affected by the painting which it shouldnt be. -

 

damn i loved how it looked with the black IM and stripped valve cover

 

did you switch the motor mount bracket on the drivers side of the car yet?... just letting you know cuz i had to do that w/ mine

 

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No I still have to do that

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You didnt see it in person with the metal flakes just didnt look right


Modified by JokerX-1.6T at 7:03 PM 2/13/2007

 

you sprayed too much paint at one time on the valve cover for the wrinkle paint.

too heavy of a coat.


i liked the look before, silverish VC with the black intake manifold.

 

that ******* sweet.

 

it needs to dry out and get some heat on it even 2 days later it is still tacky once it gets some heat to it it will look great. I did 3 coats about 10 minutes apart its been kinda cold here the last few days which didnt make for the best painting and after I get the engine in the car its always just a matter of stripping it again a redoin it if I dont like it .

 

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trust me. its still gonna dry like that. you need to do a very thin layer, let sit and fully dry, not just flash up. that paint isnt supposed to be thick.

 

im loving that reverse map sensor action

 

hahaha... he's right

 

Im famous for losing parts when I take stuff apart I just trew it on

 

got the edelbrock headers in today natural finish and got around to sanding the valve cover







Modified by JokerX-1.6T at 7:16 PM 2/17/2007