Hello Honda-tech
My name is Colin, most call me Rames.
This build started out of necessity I guess. It all started in Mar 08. I Wanted another Honda. Picked up an 04 Accord LX, auto. Was happy with it. My brother is a Honda head from cali. He helped me lower it and debadge it. We talked about building a motor for it. A friend had an F23A7 laying around from his Odyssey swap. It had no compression in cyl 3. But a clean looking motor no less. Stripped it down and had dreams of rebuilding it some day with dc5r pistons and no balance shafts and blah blah. Well Drove the car for a year like this.



Then, one morning on my way to work. SMASH. I rear ended a Camry at a light. My fault but there was no damage to the Camry. The front of my car was smashed. Well I thought it was a total loss. My brother went and looked at it. He said “****, that’s rebuildable.” It had pushed radiator into the exhaust manifold and it looked fvck’d. but his magic hands went to work.


So I took a little loan out and spend 1100 bucks in one day. For the cd5 build
Dc5r pistons
K20 rings
Complete gasket set
S2000 dampener
Bearings
Plugs and pins for the balance shaft delete
New 97 bumper
New hood
Black housing lights and amber corners
EG radiator
Caps and plugs for the power steering delete
Cheap ebay header and full exhaust. hey,, was running out of funds
Idk some of this was bought during the build but ..


We took it to my brothers garage. Stripped and cleaned the bay. Sanded the bay




And shot it all black.



My brother built a lot of the motor with out me while I was at work.

The motor was cleaned and machined
The head was cleaned and glass blasted. All stock parts went back in. valves were cleaned and re seated.
The intake manifold was disassembled and he reworked the plenum. The EGR port was welded shut and reground. Removed balance shafts and plugged the girdle. Modified the stock oil pump for a bit more pressure. The block was assembled with new bearings and dc5r pistons atop F23 rods. Both were balance matched to each other. The S2k dampener was installed. The belt was misaligned so a new alt bracket was whipped up to move the alt down and back inline with the dampener.














To clean up the bay it was mildly wire tucked.

I think it came out clean. I like what he did. He builds motors like he’s on crack and forgets to take pictures. There are limited pics. But you get the idea.

next installment will be body work.. shaving the moldings and replacing the rusty rear fenders.. stay tuned..

will

 

very nice work done. great process.

 

started some body work on the rust..

filled the molding holes


cut out nastyness


new patch


patched


now just need to grind and do body work..

more soon.. its cold as **** out right now.

 

wow spectacular work so far... gonna repaint the same color???

 

you have just inspired me! keep the pictures coming!

 

Looks good so far! Nice to see something different going on around here.

 

uh.. i dont think it will be the same color.. the interior is out of it right now. the headliner and door panels are getting wrapped.. will have pics up soon of those.

yea. we left it auto to see what we could do with it.. total budget build but this is my first modded car.. my brother is helping me. he had a rhd dc2 in san diego. has build many rx7s.

this is the first honda i have been able to play with.

more to come.

 

hey broda,, glad to see you finally posted.. car looks way cleaner in person tho.. haha..

as soon as this winter **** is over, we will get back on that.. or as soon as i can get some cars outts my garage.

looks good bro.. stay motivated

 

teaser on our cousin palmers build




will be turbo. just had a "turbo delete" for startup.

k24 in ef hatch