Since I can't leave well enough alone and it's winter time, I got boared today and pulled the motor out of my car. I figured I've never really done a build thread so I'll start one. The car was pretty clean already but there is alot of things that I know about that others don't, and I don't like that. The car is a Stock bottom end LS/Vtec with a 61mm turbo on it, It was tuned by Dave Lee to 400/300tq on 110octane, its been running strong for a year now, I do almost everything myself, only thing I don't do is paint and tuning. The catch can, intercooler piping and backdoor i/c was done by my roomate (slowreaction here on HT) He's a much better fabricator then I am, I did the exhaust, downpipe, cage and modified the manifold, basically any fab work you see that is just mediocre I probably did...lol The nice work was done by my roomate.

The plans are to build a Mil-Spec harness, shave and paint the engine bay, possibly do a brake line tuck, possibly get my roomate to build me a manifold, build a traction bar, and whatever else I feel like doing in the meantime.

This will be a long drawn out process, time and money is somewhat of an issue at the time so it might be a while...stay patient for updates...lol.

Before:






Currently after today:

 

****** right Andy! I'm definately subscribed.

 

 

In.

 

That is sick!!

 

In for a local and a sick ride

 

should this be in the build forms?

 

this will be a winner!

 

Mod's can feel free to move it if this in the wrong section...I didn't realize there was a build section.

Got some stuff done this morning, pulled the dash out, cut all the old brake lines off ground down all the places where I will be filling holes. Just need a MIG welder to start filling, we have 2 TIGs here but filling holes with a TIG sucks. Need some money to buy lines and fittings, The fun can now begin, the shitty part is over (pulling dash and motor)

A couple pics of this mornings adventure:

 

Car already looked good so I can't wait to see what you have in store.

 

Sick hatch yo.

 

Looks nice!!!! Love the wheels.

 

clean hatch, solid numbers, good stuff

 

 

couple of new pics, no real cool progress, just painstaking crappy job progress...

Motor on stand for harness mock up:

Harness completely stripped and ready to be re done, I decided against building a completely new harness, I don't know if I trust my electrical abilities that much yet. I will just re-work this one:

Testing out the line bender I have. I might stick with these lines, I like the way they came out, need to order tube nuts and sleeves and bulkhead fittings, probably coat the lines also for looks:

Holes pretty much all filled, horribly with a flux core mig lol. Oh well I'm griding it off anyways right?:

All the fills ground down (that sucked) and I began filling with upol dolphin putty, this stuff is great to work with, lighter and easier to work with then bondo or some ****:


Thats all for now, I hope to order fuel and brake fittings and parts next week, then I can start making some serious progress. The harness is 98% done, wires are all terminated into a 55pin Mil-Spec connector, all the wires on the chassis side are terminated. I'm not happy enough with it yet though to post pictures. I will once I feel it looks good.

Happy Thanksgiving.

 

subscribed

 

Sick wheels!!!!

 

coming along nicely

 

no half assing!!

 

i'm subscriing.

 

lookin good

 

nice! keep it up.

 

keep updating, give me some inspiration to do something this winter lol

 

I got my big order from Summitracing.com, and I got some free time today so I got alot done. Brake lines are all done, started on some sanding, just need to order one part for the wiring harness to be complete, sand alot more, possibly do a little more filler and prime and paint!

My roomate and I decided we are going to build a manifold for it, I think next summers goal is to make 400whp on e-85 with a stock block, avc-r/bbg and some sticky tires up front. It should make a pretty nasty street car. It made 400 on trick 110 octane, but $10.50/gal. sucks, $2.50 is much better Closest E-85 station is about 25 miles away, but as cheap as that stuff is I could buy it 55 gal. at a time for just over $125 and keep a drum in the garage. I figure I should be able to make 400whp with 880cc's, it will be working them hard but I think I can do it if I bump up the psi @ the rail.

Enough talk, on to the picture updates:
I'll find my digital camera one of these days, cam/phone sucks...






And before anyone mentions the pedal/line clearance, I checked and there's well over an inch when fully depressed.

 

in to watch this rebuild.