hey ht this is my first build thread. I got lucky with her, the previous owner replaced the rear quarter panels and rust with sheet metal with new paint. Im gonna put the eagle/vitara set up in it and hopefully get more than 300whp.

Mods left to do:
ls meshie wheels
3" electric cut out
professional tune
maybe weld diff



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she came with a low mileage d16z6, eibach spings, tokeco struts, ebay head lights and some large rims








engine bay as I got it






couldnt get that b!tch pin out






haha first oil change since I got her








head work with 71k miles on it




yay the walls look pretty good, still has the crosshatch on them






head and valve cover, looks dirty hmm maybe I should paint it

 

cleaned up and sanded a bit


3 coats later ready for the oven
I pt chapstick on the lettering, it worked perfect


all done, I didnt put enough paint on the left side Im going to paint it again eventually






engine mounts ready to be painted


rattle canned








degreased and power washed the runners


cleaned up and painted a bunch of parts




notched the block, the dremel didnt fit very well


got the block hot tanked, ended up being $81






engine enamel, good for 500F


ready for reassembly

 

yay presents! :D
eagle rods
ycp 75mm vitaras
hasting rings
arp head studs
and a fresh gasket set




putting them together


lookin good, coated with oil to stop any rust
oh and those jewler pliers are awesome for the wrist pin clips


in the block pointed towards the timing belt, I think it might be better the other way though, oh well I like the diesel sound


p2w clearances are all good to go


putting the crankshaft in




valve lash with the head off was sooo easy
I want them on the tighter side so they open up more and breath better
0.007" on the intake side
0.009" on the exhaust




grinding the cap for the arp rod bolts


all clean with purple power


brand new main seal all oiled up






thats right, one cam


waterpump




head back on with ARPs


HORRIBLE IDEA
mine werent leaking, I replaced them just because I had them. I split a 2x4 hammering these in because I dont have a press


It would look way better if I painted the head but I didnt have time, I will paint it next time the head is off


tensioning the alternator belt


breather box and water pump tube thing on

 

that power steering is problly gonna come off sometime


almost done


VTEC


looks dirty




looks better


ACT HDSS clutch and pressure plate
clutch pedal is soo stiff!




tranny on


putting it back in!


axels in




REALLY should have put the wire harness on and intake on first












going to upgrade to either civic full size or aluminium


sold the exhaust manifold later


small wire tuck

 

dam, thread has ticked my pickle a little lol it makes me eager to work on mine too bad i havn't picked it up yet lol

 

nice build, my sol is comin along as well

 

NIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIICE

 

Nice so far. Really should've painted the head...

 

everything's looking good so far but how come you put the pistons in back wards and didnt change it?? i dont know a LOT about vitaras, but i know they're to face away from the timing belt, unlike all other pistons...not hating, just curious why you didn't change them...

 

Nice build. I like your alternator belt tensioning tool

 

haha thanks guys

I might take the head off and paint it before its all done, when I throw a zex 59300 cam in it.

I read a biased thread on about pointing them that way so I aimed them towards the timing belt, and i later found out it was better the other way, but the engine was already in so oh well. Apparently it sounds more rugged like a diesel engine this way tho.

 

yay more presents lets see what we got here.
oh dont hate about the ebay crap, Im poor and in college so yea..
Ill be putting an oil restricter, and and let it cool down after each use, so it should last a while.

50 trim
I went with a smaller turbo because I almost never take it to redline, and I want a quicker spool. Hopefully I'll get full boost around 3500 to 4k and the zex cam should cut off a couple hundred rpms IIRC.


came pre-tapped for the waste gate boost source


no play in it at all


and a cast manifold so it wont crack. I tried to get the shortest runners for the quicker spool






anti-seized the studs






damn looks like I need a steel braided clutch line so I can squeeze a filter on there


and some charge pipes









Ill have an update very soon with the intercooler, more piping, and a dsm injectors installation

 

for $81 bucks you block didnt get to clean from the hot tank

 

hmm, i'll have to see how it turns out for you. i know it works both ways, so hopefully you dont have any problems

thats the key. guys on d-series.org have been having really good success with ebay setups lately

 

wtf

 

the inside was really clean, but the outside had a bit of corrosion so it didnt look that good
and theres like no car community around here, so the like no machine shops

 

haha yea I hope so


intercooler time






lol I butchered that hole












damn I need a welder
bov hits the tower bar

 

eh, ditch the bar. you dont need it. you NEED boost! lol

 

so you'll never believe what happened, my diver side door handle broke, that never happens!
I got a spare at the junk yard but its not painted so Ill just glue it


I put the spring on loosely then gorilla glued it and clamped it over night.
next morning I shaved the excess glue off the spring with a razer and put the spring in the right position
And it works great!




when I got the car, the trunk floor was complete garbage
I got a flat plane of wood from home depot for like $11 traced the old flooring on it


Its so nice, I can sit on my trunk floor and it barely bends



oh yea and a cheap ebay bov cuz Im poor
horrendous weld



got these guys for $40 on craigslist
450cc blue top DSM injectors


for the resistor box Im going to solder in these resistors from radio shack for $4 then $3 for the shrink tubing.
the resistors are 10 watt 10 ohms


stock ones on the left vs DSM on right


the little clip you have to shave off on the left vs untouched on the right


the end clip you have to find, its not plugged into anything
cut back the wrapping about 10"


bam


well I forgot to take more pics , oops
but theres 8 wires aranged like this:
OOOO
xOOO

the X one cuts back away from the other 7 wires, so you want to solder in the resistors the the top 4 wires. In case you dont have a multimeter.
then heat gun the shrink tube and tape it all up, make it look nice

tucked the injector wires


I dremeled out the inside of the lower injector seals to 15.5mm, the DSM are 16mm in diameter

just one problem, I cant fit the injectors in any further than this. the insulators are stopping them from going in further, do I have to thin those out too?





well thats about as far as I am for now. Ill update soon, hopefully.
as she sits

haha oh yea this is my moms old miata cover, it fits almost perfect

 

almost there! what are you tuning with? if you said already, i missed it

 

Look good and should of clean the engine bay..I know it alots of work..

 

I think Im going with crome, I still have time to decide though.




last update for now, just some random pics

sohc vtec for trolling other ppl, and I like how they look

It was a pain the water would squeegee out from behind the vinyl




















crx needs paint bad






haha yea I know I spelled diesel wrong
hopefully it would scare off and as thieves

 

car looks really good. how's it runnin so far?

 

It still needs a lot of work, Id say it will be done by the begining of June. Sooner if I can get more money.

 

Looking good. Gotta love captiva sol's considering I own one lol. You are an inspiration to get my single cam turbo build started.