Hey whats up guys! I have been lurking on this forum forever and have some posts here and there so I figured Id make a build thread since Im still not done. I went on deployment and starting piling the parts up at my dads house... MANY of the parts were bought here in the marketplace. I have been building Turbo Honda's for a few years now and have even installed a few Love Fab kits on Nsx's. After I went through my ebay cheap parts phase in the beginning I set out to do this one right the first time. After I came home from deployment I had 8 days to build the car to a running condition so it was somewhat rushed, but now it is in my garage here on base so i can take my time on whatever i want as long as the wife dosent mind. I will bring you up to date on the build , so here comes the good stuff.
Specs:


84mm Benson sleeved B18a1
Benson micro-polished crank
Pauter Rods
CP 9:5:1 pistons
ACL Race bearings
Oem Timing belt
Type R oil pump
LS waterpump
Moroso Oil pan
Every gasket/ O ring replaced with OEM
Innovative motormounts

Head:
Port mached Gsr head
Skunk2 Pro 1 cams
Skunk2 Pro springs/retainers
fresh resurface, valve stem seals
Edelbrock Victor xintake
Hondata IM gasket
Omni Power 70mm Throttle body
ARP Head Studs
T1 race development catch can kit (6 line kit) Black braided lines
AEM Cam gears
Golden Eagle 84mm Ls vtec kit

Turbo Kit:
King motorsports T3 Topmount + downpipe
Precision Sc61 .68 ,.70 ported "s" Compressor
Precision 46mm wastegate
Tial 50mm BOV
Go autoworks 2.5" Intercooler piping kit
HUGE front mount with 3" inlet and outlet

Fuel:
ID 1000cc injectors
Walbro 400lph pump
Aem Fuel rail
Fuel Lab FPR ( not installed)
Fuel lab inline fuel filter

Ignition:
Oem dizzy
New OEM NGK wires
Msd cap/rotor
Blaster 2 coil (will be upgrading soon)

Trans:
9lb flywheel
ARP Flywheel bolts
Competition Clutch Stage 5 unsprung with Upgraded Pressure plate
ATI Race Damper
Stock Gsr trans Type R Helical LSD
Gator Axles

Brakes:
Brembo Blanks F/R
Hawk HP+ Pads F/R
Goodridge SS Lines F/R
Integra Brake swap Front and Rear

Tune:
Neptune RTP with Demon
Mac boost solenoid ( not installed)
GM 3 bar map sensor
Innovate MTX-L wideband
oil pressure gauge
coolant temp gauge
boost gauge

Wheels/Tires:
Function form coilovers
Kosei K1 15's
Brand new Falken 512 205/50/15

This is how the car was before I hit a deer:


After the deer:


how the engine bay was before:

 

Some parts( the only ones I have pictures of)

 

Build process:







In the car (whooot whooot)

 

90% Ready:

 

Now for the NOT so fun part.
I like the Neptune software I have been playing with it a lot and got it to run pretty good just scared to really dig in( not experienced enough) I went to the dyno and I couldnt get it to run with neptune after I shut the car off( found out later it was anti-theft) Duhhhhhh. Anyways the "tuner" said well let me try something so he hooks up his Emulator and starts tuning it on Crome ( THE FREE VERSION :/) To make a long story short The car made 409whp and 259Tq on only 10 PSI! Yes only 10PSI( wastegate spring was 8 so it creeped some)

 

ALL the previous stuff was current about a month ago...lol
This past weekend I went back and was going to Rent the Dyno for 4 hours and play with the Neptune very slowly/gradually The most I could make with it with me feeling safe was 340whp on 10 psi. I wanted to up the boost since I was already bored at the current power level( thanks to my previous cars) I went up to 15PSI and the Tuner Modified his old Crome map ( adding fuel and pulling more timing) it made 456WHP and 291TQ.
I just dont see how he is comfortable using the free version because it has No datalogging. It is just adding fuel and removing timing in " guessed" spots on the tables in my opinion.


This pull was with everything heatsoaked from me tuning for the past 3 hours in the middle of the day, they have NO FAN to set in front of the car so my poor little cooling fan was working hard.

My next step is try and get in touch with a guy named MASE ( local tuner) to see if he can help me out with the Neptune.
I dont just want to pay someone to tune my car I want to pay someone and continue to learn at the same time.

 

That's pretty good, but I'm afraid MASE is that kind of guy that will point out the basics to you, but after that point, its either, stand back and let him tune, or figure out the rest on your own. Expect to pay MUCH more for him to help him teach you to tune your car, than if he just did it..

 

Yeah I need to get in touch with him and at least talk to him.... When it comes time for me to upgrade my turbo Ill be giving you a shout Mac!

 

Oh yeah, and anyone looking for a good brake setup mine stops AWESOME! but man it lays down some brake dust... I seriously have to wash my wheels off after a 30 min drive..

On a side note when I was tuning doing pulls I could NOT get the car to idle after a pull without turning the duty cycle on the IACV way up.. Otherwise it would just die. Think its because of the light flywheel?

 

Thanks for the compliments. I'd love to help..

Doesn't sound like the flywheel is the issue.

 

Hmmm might be the tuners excuse.

Anyways, I got the number for Mase today. Ill be giving him a call.. stay tuned for more power!

 

Got in touch with Mase today. going by his shop tomorrow!

 

is this car for sale?

 

Eh welll.... yes and no. Ill sell it for the right price but dont really care to get rid of it.

 

UPDATE:
After taking the car to see mase it started over heating some in boost so i thought it was a headgasket issue.... I come home and pull the head and find this...


#4 was the worst. but as you can see the intake side of the intake side of the piston is jacked up....
I got mase to explain it to me when I showed hom the map the other shop tuned on Crome free...

They were running 26 degrees of timing on my engine....
ehhh, now Im going back and forth with them about fixing my engine.

 

Damn that sucks man. Good luck on the rebuild.

 

Damn..26 degrees and what boost and fuel?

 

Well you can have these "other people" physically replace the engine since they are the ones who assembled, and set the "basemap" up for you. They're entitled to at least that. But just don't use their basemap any longer. (This is assuming that you can assess indeed that it was these "other people" that both assembled the engine AND started the car with the basemap)

 

Laskey built the engine... The engine NEVER saw boost untill the day it was on their Dyno... I never signed any kind of waiver either. If i can figure out how to screen shot Ill post the high cam timing map.
It was on 93 pump gas and 10-psi

 

Here it is guys... I paid for this tune, i just wasnt experienced enough to know what I was looking at.
High cam Ignition:


High Cam Fuel:

 

Above was the 10psi tune that made 409whp.....

Here is the 14psi tune that made 456whp:
High cam Ignition:


High can Fuel:

 

Wow that "looks" like someone spent very little time on it.

 

post up the 2d line graph for fuel high cam

 

409whp high cam 2d:


456whp high cam 2d:

 

Dude I just realized u got tuned on crome, without datalogging doesn't make sense,
Change ur tuner and get better management they r lots to choose from.
Ditch crome.