Hello! For those of you who didnt get to read my intro thread, I'm going to kinda reiterate what I said in that post here, since this is a build log of course.

So here its goes...About a month ago I picked up a completely stock 1999 Civic SI with 61k original miles. It was clean for the most part.

It needed the following

- New a/c compressor,
- Needs paint on the right side, but it isn't too bad,
- Missing kick panels
- No head unit
- Missing PS reservoir and belt
- Needed new spindles
- Right passenger door panel needed replacing
- Needed tweeters
- Rear Speakers dont work
- Needed front speaker covers

Shes in the shop right now getting worked on by Max Ramos at JJ's Performance of San Antonio.

Mods

- Custom 3" CAI w/AEM bypass filter & K&N Air Filter
- Custom 3" Exhaust
- RMF v2 megaphone header
- Skunk2 74mm Throttle body
- Skunk2 Ultra Series Street Intake Manifold
- Skunk 2 Pro 1 Cams
- Supertech Valve Springs w/ titanium retainers
- Cam Gears (can't remember the brand right now)
- Walboro 255 Fuel Pump
- VMS Fuel Pressure Regulator w/guage
- K-Tuned 410cc injectors
- K-Tuned Short Shifter
- Skunk 2 Shift ****
- P28
- Custom tune on E85 and 93 on Neptune
- 7 inch touch screen Panasonic Head unit
- VMS Carbon Fiber Valve Cover dress up kit
- Custom Painted valve cover

My goal is to build a super reliable DD that will eventually run turbo in the next coming months.

 

The day I picked her up!

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Headunit installed


Intake mani, TB, headers installed



Spindles getting installed




K-Tuned 410cc Injectors



Walboro Fuel Pump and VMS Fuel pressure guage



Engine shot of work in progress



Rear OEM Si logo


Before we tore into her


Skunk2 74mm Throttle body




K&N Air Filter


Honda Keychain


Piping for my CAI 3" of course


Cam gears


K-Tuned Short shifter and Skunk2 Weighted ****


T304 SS 3" exhaust with 4.5 inch tip


Under the car


Custom 3" CAI with AEM bypass

 

 

Looks nice, are you doing all the work? Or a shop?

 

Good luck OP. Looks, good.

How can that guy find anything in that shop?

 

All in the first post my man

 

I dont know. Not my problem lol. As long as he gets the job done!

 

Hopefully he's not charging you by the hour while spending hours looking for tools!

 

Do you have plans for this? or just tossing upgrades at it as you get the cash?

 

 

Roger, totally missed that part.

 

Nope not at all. He is totally fair in his pricing! He seems to charge by the job

 

So my mechanic hit me with a few pieces of bad news, not terrible tho. He found that one of the motor mounts were torn, and while installing my fuel pump a not so good looking fuel tank. The motor mount has already been swapped out, and the new fuel tank is going in today. We were suppose to dyno today, but with these minor setbacks we're looking at dynoing her Thursday. The valve cover was also being painted yesterday and should be done today.

I attached pics of the problems below


New motor mount


Bad motor mount


Gas tank


Valve Cover

 

Where did you get the skid-plate for the header?

 

Just replaced that same motor mount. Happened exactly the same way. I was wondering why it was shifting so hard and that was the issue. Lol good thread OP

 

it came with the header already attached

 

Looked very clean when you got it and coming together nicely ill be following

 

Thank you I appreciate it. Yesterday the valve cover was finished and assembled. The car has a D-series A/C bracket and a few of the A/C lines needed replacing so we went ahead and did that. The fuel tank float and hanger are rusted to hell, so we replaced those as well.

We will be running her on the dyno in about 3 hours. She sounds super mean with those pro 1 cams thrown in, I couldnt believe it.

 

Valve cover looks great I have an ebp 2000 si that has a d16 in it I am restoring and post the dyno if u would

 

Nothing beats a clean red valve cover.

 

except for a clean blue one...

Anyway, good job on doing the mild build of the engine to hold off until turbo season instead of having to save shitloads of money to do all of that when you finally decide to go turbo

Just love these SIs, can't find em anywhere unmolested tho...

 

LOVE the build... keep up the good work

 

I will post the dyno sheet tonight, but she made 159.6 @9k with e85.