UPDATE! The car is done! I went down this weekend and put the motor together. I have no pics to show cause I left my kodak at home. everything went smooth other than the knock senser broke. I will fix that on tuesday and get some bay shots.

Few months back my motor lost a rod bearing and killed the bottom end. So now I towed it to my father-in-laws shop to do the work. Below is some pics of the night we towed it, and some of my new parts.












Should be up and running in two weeks!


Modified by MyliTTLeDc5 at 3:05 PM 5/20/2007


Modified by MyliTTLeDc5 at 3:06 PM 5/20/2007


Modified by MyliTTLeDc5 at 11:44 PM 6/4/2007

 

how did you toast a bearing?

 

I have no idea? Went out one night and raced a few time and the car preformance drop and it started to make that knocking rod sound.

 

this same thing happend to me i just picked up a k20z1 for my 02 rsx so hopefully i will have it running by the next week i post some pics up too BTW what kind of motor are you putting in?

 

you're going to love that exhaust...

 

any reason why u went with a shorty header instead of RH ?

 

It is a fresh k20a2 block, it only has 40k on it.

 

Right now I just want to pass smog and not have to worry about it. Later on I will pick up a test pipe or rh dont know yet lol.

 

lol kool just checkin, hope u get ur car running right

 

That Exedy clutch cracked on both sides on mine after 44,000 miles, I was usuing that flywheel too. Good luck with it cause Exedy turned their back on me after I emailed them some pics and they basically told me it was no fault of their product and must be mine.

 

Well last week my great grandma passed away, so I went to Honolulu to visit family and go to the service. So I did not start any of the work, but my father-in-law did. In the next few weeks it should be running, but that not really important right now, so I will update when the car is done.

 

good luck with all that im curently rebuilding mine as well... mine toasted the #4 rod bearing and journal.. i went with oversized irt pistons and the usuall.. that clutch should have any problems ive heard a ton more good things about exedy than anyone else.. even tho im gona have a CM set in mine .. have fun with it man .. hopefully you wont have to do this again.. at least on your car.. ide make sure u got a new oil pump forsure.. if you dont know where the starvation came from .. maybe even a baffle.

 

It has a newer oil pump. it was on the block when I pick it up.

 

Its like xmas again lol!

 

how many miles were on the old one???

 

Tomarrow is my big day as well from getting my ep3 back from a shop..

 

The old setup had 83k! still young.