Well I finally decided to start a build thread. I was in the dsm scene for around 9 years and got sick of my car so I wanted to get a honda and see what all the fuss was about I picked up what I thought was a good deal on a hatch I mistakenly got one with work done to it already because I had been there done that attitude and thought I had no drive to work on a car anymore.. but I was totally wrong, and this thing was totally screwed.

It ran great for 2 days then things just fell apart all the way to the rings breaking. Its a wonder how someone makes a car run great for 2 days then all the sudden theres a puddle of oil on the ground in the morning cuz the dizzy seals blew out :/

once I started working on it seeing what was wrong I really found my car enthusiasm back and decided to start from scratch and make it mine. Im re-using some things, but I basically stripped everything down, re-painted alot of crap cleaned the **** out of everything and in the process of putting it back together again.

gonna update as I go along.

When I got it :



got the head off



no hoist at the time, so brought the motor out the bottom



no motar.. some lazy *** painted the car with the motor in..


soo I fixed that ****


lots of carb cleaner and walmart degreaser got it pretty clean


my pistons hate me:


painted the block red (looks kinda orange from the flood lights)


the guy had a bunch of parts palmy blue and the interior is black, so I had to paint these they where driving me nuts.. painted the door panels black which where also blue.


got everthing back together and put the motor back in.





this is where it sits now.. havent had time to get everything plugged back in. this week im hoping to be able to start it if I can get it back together going to the dyno next week hopefully.


motor back in its home


Dyno sheet

 

In for this build! Nice to see you fixing all the little stuff to looks like a great start man

 

turbo cars with no tune tend to crack ringlands. Def cleaned up nicely though

 

yup... this time im not messing around and im going to the dyno before it ever sees boost

 

so what kind of engine management u plan on using?

 

its just a chipped ecu, the guy up here is good at tuning on chrome from what ive read.

 

nice build im looking to do a d16z6 vtec build just got to find a good engine gotta sell my d15 first love the gloss black btw

 

woo thanks

last night I got all the ecu wiring hooked up, got the damn back mount to slip into place and got all the mounts tightened up. went and picked up a lip kit and painted the interior bare metal black(the red was killing me >< ) will post some pics later tonight. tmr I should have it back up and running the way its looking.

 

looking nice.

 

looks like its comming along, but why paint the block??

 

i know its aluminum and there no real reason for it, but I felt like it. I couldnt get it as clean as i wanted it and i didnt want to throw down money on media blasting so now it looks clean

 

Got the motor back in and running smooth!




took it to the dyno today and I was a bit surprised by the numbers he said we could of got more out of it, but the motor wouldnt handle it.

 

Niceee, always loved SOHC builds.

 

OR turbo cars with Cheap pistons tend to crack ringlands. Had my last motor tuned on the dyno 3 different times and cracked pistons 3 different times.

 

Went out and picked up a front and back lip, cleaned her up. Running real damn good after the dyno, tons of fun