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1990 Civic Sedan Ex
300,000+mi on chassis
Tokico 5way adjustable gas struts
Eibach Sportline lowering springs
2.25 custom catback exhaust
2.5 cutout (after cat)
Rota Group N's (Damn i need some mugens)
Brand new Falken Ziex tires
JDM clear fogs
JDM cluster
And a full wire tuck done by ME

Motor
b17 gsr head
b18b block(81mm)
skunk2 stage 2 cams
omni power valvetrain (oem gsr valves)
DC Sports ceramic header (soon to be 2.5in collector)
skunk2 cam gears
no name anodized blue fuel rail
pr3 pistons w/ ls rods
arp headstuds
arp rodbolts
ITR oil pump
GSR water pump
custom ls/vtec kit
cable b16 tranny (non-lsd)
stage 3 clutch
fidanza 7.5lbs flywheel


ok so about a year and a half ago i went out and bought me a Ef sedan for 200$

(after i did the suspension)
then i went ahead and got my rims and tires.



now about 6 months ago i decided to build a Ls/Vtec for it cause i wanted a fast car. and i have probably the worst luck ever, i bought my block and my head from a guy on here i forgot his screen name but it was just a almost somplete gsr head and complete ls block with CTR pistons. So i did all my research and decided what i wanted to do with it so i started buy parts and **** and 2 months later i had everything i needed. I put my head on and started tourqeing everything down just to find out that 1 of the threads for my headstuds was stripped out. So i was pretty pissed but i went and bought another block.and i had everything ready.

i put the head on started tourqueing everything down and found out that this block also had a fukin stripped headstud thread, at this point i was ready to just give up, but i did a little more research and found out about helicoil kits. I went online and ordered a kit and waited fukin 3 weeks for it to come from some place that i could have drove to and it would have takin me 1 hour. As soon as it came in i called every auto anad machine shop within a 50mi radius of my area and every1 of them bastards told me they cant helicoil a block. So i said *** it and found a guy on HT that lived in Apple valley, CA and that same day i headed out there to get the block.
I got this on the way out there.

ok i got the block and headed home

before and....

after the hone, as soon as i got it home i started on it





took me like 20 mins to put the pistons in. Then at last i got the head on and i was really nervous when i tourqued down the head but everything turned out good for me this time.







and now im a happy man, so I might drop it in tomorow but im most likly going to wait and go over everything. ill post up more pics of my wire tuck and everything tomorow


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Very nice!

 

 

There's never such thing as too much assembly lube.

Looks good though. Good luck.

Pirate

 

Ok, the stripped head bolt threads sucked. And getting a ticket suxs even worse, but getting your motor together, thats cool.

The thing I like most about your build is it occured in your room on carpet no less.
That's super cool.

 

Should be fun to drive. Are you going to enable the IAB or just leave it open all of the time?

 

dope

 

yea thankx for all the feedback but about the IAB's i took out the butterflies but left the whole section in there, and i just pluged all the holes. but yea ive been building everything right here in my room and luckly i don't have any oil stains, so im happy about that

 

Here is a couple pics of how the car is right now.

ride height sucks with no motor

cleaning up the DC header

I think my tuck looks good, how about you?

my crappy harness i had to recut cause i forgot a wire

undercar pic of the cutout


pic of the suspension with the camber kit

Ballin!!!

sorry only 8k

i really need to clean this up!



and my tranny chillin in the closet

 

 

**** finally man call me up when were swapping it in and ill be down. lets hope there aint too many bugs to work out.

 

lol jdmb has been a member since 03' and only has 700 posts

 

Cool man, I can feel your pain on the stripped stud part. I had that happen to me. It can be fixed, but it's called a "timesert" or something like that, the kit cost 500 bucks according to the shop and I can buy LS blocks all day for 100 so that went out the window.

Good luck with the rest of it.

 

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Timesert kits are much, much less than $500. I paid $45 for a kit for mains.

 

Please don't tell me things like this now. It's one of three things that have left a sour taste in my mouth during this build

Is that what is required to re-thread a stud hole?

I know it's a bit off topic but considering the circumstances, I am sure the OP would like to know as well.

 

http://www.timesert.com/html/information.html
I needed a kit in a hurry so I was able to pick it up. I don't know if you can still do that, but you can definitely order them.

 

The same **** happened to me. I took my block to Jerry's tap and drill in santa ana, ca and he re did all eight of my threads for 90 bucks.

 

yea it was horrible

 

the only thing gayer than franklin eugene harris is the motor thats been in his room for 6 months.




hey i cant see the pics cuz im at work but did you hone the rust out of your cylinders? that **** was gnarly.

 

i got the rust easy and got the pistons in within like 20 mins but im not gay but this kid victor is

 

nice

 

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nice build

 

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lucas ginsburg?

 

b the way, let them know i put the michael jordan on the leaky *** reservoir.

if you need any help tonight with that timing belt, here is my card. give me a call.