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OK Well I debated to make this thread or not and decided why not? Nothing else to do and it's not going to hurt anything so here we go...

Back on March 27th I traded my 95 VX that was gutted, primered and stock (down to the intake) for a 95 Coupe with a busted mini-me swap and a turbo kit on the side from him. The block was cracked when I received it but I did know about it and the owner didn't try to dick me over. I received the car with a header and ect so it was running N/A so the motor wouldn't be hurt more than it already was. Here I go with some pictures & I will explain more when I get to it instead of a lot of typing all at once. Here we go.

Here is the car the day after I got it. I just drove it up and parked it in my backyard because I had no plan on driving it. It did still have the intercooler installed though.





Here is the turbo/manifold that came with the trade. I think the seals were about done on the turbo.



So... I have a N/A mini-me and a turbo kit uninstalled + a boring day ahead of me. What do I decided to do? Yes, I turboed the cracked block.





But before I could turbo it, It was mandatory that I clean the interior first because it was nasty!
Here is a before picture taken by the previous owner (I forgot to take a before picture myself)



& here is about 2 hours later.



It had stock seats in it so I had these sitting around the garage, so I installed them.



I finally came around and cleaned the outside some (not a lot)



I was thinking I was going to stay SOHC-T for a little while so I purchased another D15B7 block and was planning on installing it.



Well my friend blew his headgasket in his LS/VTEC coupe. He didn't know how to replace the headgasket and there was A LOT more wrong with the motor other than the head gasket. We both knew it so he offered me a trade for my SOHC-T set up and so I planned on going B series way later on but I guess it came early and I accepted.

So I slowly started taking my motor apart/out. (Don't ask about the woodstands, I don't trust jackstands for some odd reason)





So I really wasn't worried about the bay and what not so I was planning on just putting the motor in once I fixed all that needed to be fixed on it.





I then came to my senses and realized that was A LOT. I was going to give it to my friend to help me put that head on my LS block that I already had but I figured that was a lot of time and whatever.
I sold some parts and whatever needed to be done to get enough money to order my new longblock.

I <3 HMO. Steve told me my motor would be here last Friday. Well I got it shipped to my step-fathers work and I got a call Friday morning that it had came in about 9:30 that morning. I was stoked. I brought it home and check it up and unpackaged it and ect.

Here is my 97 B20B longblock w/ 39k miles on it.









Wait?

What am I doing taking all the stuff off so I just have to put it back on?









Yes, did I mention I had a rev hard kit sitting around my garage for the longest time from when I planned on boosting the Si? Well now you know.

Tomorrow I am going to finish cleaning the engine bay and taking my harness out to get wire tucked. I will also be taking the tranny off the LS/VTEC motor and putting it on the crate where my B20 is. I am awaiting my new clutch/flywheel.

 

nice kyle nice. You project car will be up and running before my car.

 

ohhh

 

sweet

 

Nice.

 

yay turbo

 

suprise turbo at the end of the thread damn... i wish i jus thad turbo kits sitting around in my garage

 

NA is BEST!

its so best, that i want to take the turbo off my evo so it'll be NA.

jk looks good

 

Very interesting build scheme you have going on here.

I hope you pulled that tach out.

Get me that harness so we can start wiretucking this thing.

Also, let me know if you need a hand on the whole swapping over ordeal. I've done it once or twice



Modified by Redcoupe at 1:04 AM 6/14/2007

 

wow you have gone through many ideas with that car lol. this may sound corny but it is so awesome how mcuh you can do and how much you know for your age. shew, i should have had you do my swap! lolx.

btw - who is doing your wire tuck? you? or someone else?

 

b20b ftw

 

who EM1 in the back ground
your project

 

NICE

 

<TABLE WIDTH="90%" CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 ALIGN=CENTER><TR><TD>Quote, originally posted by hypeR_ash &raquo;</TD></TR><TR><TD CLASS="quote">wow you have gone through many ideas with that car lol. this may sound corny but it is so awesome how mcuh you can do and how much you know for your age. shew, i should have had you do my swap! lolx.

btw - who is doing your wire tuck? you? or someone else? </TD></TR></TABLE>
My friend Jarrod will be doing the tuck. "redcoupe" that posted above you.
& thanks for the compliments. Yes I'm 17.

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your project </TD></TR></TABLE>
My Si.

 

kyle youu fuckk.. make up your MINDDDDDDDDDDDD... you should boost the em1 @$$

 

<TABLE WIDTH="90%" CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 ALIGN=CENTER><TR><TD>Quote, originally posted by Koolaid_Chris &raquo;</TD></TR><TR><TD CLASS="quote">kyle youu fuckk.. make up your MINDDDDDDDDDDDD... you should boost the em1 @$$ </TD></TR></TABLE>
Hey hey hey... I did make up my mind... I just couldn't put up with all the bullshit of that last motor. But if you want any parts off of it, h0llAhh.

B20 Turbo &gt; N/A LS/VTAK