Well the week started off good.. I've been getting my car setup for the new cage. Its a Kirk Racing 6pt Road Racing Cage (thanks jim) its "bolt in & weld in" So I got most of it all ready and my buddy lionel welded it in for me.



Huge X brace in the back



Still got some more work with the cage, I need to finish up the door bars, Install some gussets and paint the entire thing. I'm thinking a dark grey, gunmetal will look pretty good. I dont want it to stand out to much. (I already got pulled over and a cop was like WTF is this ****) It really stiffened the hell out of the car, So I'm pleased with that. Plan is to put all the interior back in too. Plus I gotta fill my sunroof hole with something, thinking a piece of tinted lexan will be good.

Now onto the bad... > Last night we had a Draglab meet, a HMT buddy showed up so I wanted to race him first race I smoked them pretty good in first and completely missed 2nd twice, lol.. But I still beat him pretty good I come back around and noticed a little smoke, and was just about to line up and race my buddy in a TT 300zx. But I knew it was smoking a tad bit more than it should heh. Plus It had that good ol "Subaru sound" hahah, so now not only am I running subaru turbos my car sounds like one now! So its pretty obvious the engine is missing so I split.



Driving home I kept thinking to myself... "God damnit if I broke a sleeve I'm gonna be pissed" Did a quick compresson test 185/115/185/190. So I put a little oil in the cylinder and it jumped up, so I figured it was going to be ring lands. Ripped the engine apart (had to anyways since the thing had a blown head gasket since day 1) And yes.. broken ring lands on cylinder #2. I pulled all the other pistons to check and they were fine. So I started to think about it, these pistons came from my first ls/vtec turbo that I blew up and cracked the sleeve. Which sleeve? #2, and this was the piston from that sleeve that cracked. So maybe this piston was a little weak, because I've never broken ring lands on 8psi. Plus my ignition timing was a little on the "jeff frank timing madness" side.



Heres all the **** off the head..



Easy fix or not? now I'm thinking again.. **** I dont have any LS pistons laying around. How about using the B16a pistons in this thing! ya... same bore.. should be fine, Wait a sec...... How high is my compression going to be? (double checks on cspeed) 11.3 hmm, holy **** (*** puckers)
This should be interesting, a High compresson ls/vtec twin turbo setup!! yaya, I'm down for a challenge. Looks like I will be installing my 950cc injectors at the same time too.



So this gives me a bit of time to go over my turbo setup a bit closer, the thing was slapped together so fast it needed some attention, I used no gaskets between the turbo and manifold and was leaking, so I got some of those, and I couldnt stand how the manifold changed to a gold color, so I polished it up a bit, hopefully it wont change back to gold again. God.. I'm sick of the gold, fixing the valve cover too.



Closer look at the Downpipes



Ya, still no exhaust hooked up, just open DP. This also gives me time to put the o2 bungs in.



My very kind girlfriend rsxprincess (leia) is letting me drive her backup car while all this **** is going on. Because the "Orange Crush" 76civic project has been put on the back burner.

This is also going to be some damn good competition for me too.



The EK Built H22 Has begun



Endyn Roller Wave Pistons (FI) on Eagle H Beam Rods.



Sleeved with Darton Sleeves by Action Machine.

Should be quite the setup when done, I just cant have my girl faster than me!

Jeff

 

nice man

 

what fuel mang. are you running on your rex?

 

Zdyne Gold SECU

 

u are one crazy guy lol .. i love the story lol .. looks good man.. good luck

 

hey jeff, can the zdyne handle the 950s? also that manifold..I did the same thing to mine...and sorry man..it will turn to gold..and ya I hate it to...the only way to stop it is get it ceramic coated...which I will be doing shortly. Hating the gold..I could take a pic of it if you like...its actually darker with the polish on it...its like a deep gold..almost brown....ewwwww. its the mani RPI john made for me...it was is prototype..and for the first one...it kicks ***. his new ones are even better...but I still like it.

 

looks great... keep us updated!

 

damn. you were runnin it with no o2 sensor? good luck with high cr tt ls/v. im doin 10.5:1 b16 on boost, but originally plans would have made it up around 11.2:1.

 

spool + high compression

 

<TABLE WIDTH="90%" CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 ALIGN=CENTER><TR><TD>Quote, originally posted by Jonny Black &raquo;</TD></TR><TR><TD CLASS="quote">hey jeff, can the zdyne handle the 950s? also that manifold..I did the same thing to mine...and sorry man..it will turn to gold..and ya I hate it to...the only way to stop it is get it ceramic coated...which I will be doing shortly. Hating the gold..I could take a pic of it if you like...its actually darker with the polish on it...its like a deep gold..almost brown....ewwwww. its the mani RPI john made for me...it was is prototype..and for the first one...it kicks ***. his new ones are even better...but I still like it.</TD></TR></TABLE>

Man, I was hoping it turn a rainbow color or something, but I think your right its going to turn gold again, the heat just does that with the stainless. I hate it. The Zdyne will run the 950's.. I sold my other set to my buddy beau and they are in his race car using zdyne and it works just fine.

<TABLE WIDTH="90%" CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 ALIGN=CENTER><TR><TD>Quote, originally posted by KraZEtEggIE &raquo;</TD></TR><TR><TD CLASS="quote">damn. you were runnin it with no o2 sensor?.</TD></TR></TABLE>

Ya? I'm a open loop *****.. I just disable closed loop all together.

 

heres a little video of HMT @ the HT meet, has a little bit of footage of the TT racing a 12 sec ZC on the freeway (the ZC is filming)

http://www.nw1320.com/media/local/HTmeet.wmv

 

ive never seen a twin turbo honda or even thoght it waws possible...this has to be one of the coolest projects on honda-tech...much success on completing this BEAST and whoop some *** when its finished

 

Good lord. Nice vid!

Who's speedo got pegged? The 12 sec zc?

 

<TABLE WIDTH="90%" CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 ALIGN=CENTER><TR><TD>Quote, originally posted by notfastenough &raquo;</TD></TR><TR><TD CLASS="quote">Good lord. Nice vid!

Who's speedo got pegged? The 12 sec zc?</TD></TR></TABLE>

yup, the 12 sec ZC, I'll try to get some more footage of my car when its back up

 

Dang. That ZC is fast as hell. What else is he running besides the 18g?

Dave

 

I read your buildup article on NWSR....good stuff. Looking forward to seeing your car at PIR....

 

cool vid!!! I've always liked that song....was in an old Miata commercial.
Crystal Method..right??

that shot of the speedo was noice

 

You are insane!
Give us more vids!!!

 

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Man, I was hoping it turn a rainbow color or something, but I think your right its going to turn gold again, the heat just does that with the stainless. I hate it.
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why not just rub oil all over it? thats what i did on my headers and theyre a darker purple, almost black. looks a lot better than gold.

 

that car is so sick i wish i had the money fab skill ***** to have it my daily driver
even if i did i would lose my liscence in a week lol

 

you should thermowrap the manifold and exhaust pipes while your at it....looks like a fun project,keep up the good work

 

So how long did that lsvtec last exactly?

 

dood needs to concentrate on reliabilty now

 

Like I said, the piston was weak from a previous setup (my single ls/vtec) along time ago. thats more than likly why the ring lands gave away. It should be very interesting with the 11.3 c/r with boost. Fine tuning is going to be the key to sucsess!

 

i have 2 sets of ls pistons if you want them. just pay the shipping and they are yours. let me know