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Vista-Vis

Member Since 16 Dec 2012
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Wtb: Water Tube That Mounts To The...

07 February 2014 - 07:04 AM

...back side of the water pump.  It's for an SI so I need the oil cooler nibbles.  Removed mine during the tear down just to find out that it's incredibly rusty and brittle from when people didn't use coolant in the damn thing.  Ahhh the poor thing; the lip that the o-ring goes in actually chipped away on one end because the rust was so bad.   :(

Anyway, I know for a fact that I forgot some other things that I need so I'll probably update this sometime later.

 

D16A1 Ignition Coil anyone?  Figure I'd probe around here before I hunt locally.  

 

Anyone know where to get a new exhaust resonator?  Mine rattles like there's a golf ball in it if it idles, pretty annoying, horrible to try to get used to lol.

 

Thank you,

Nathanael J.

 

 

Oh yeah, I forgot to mention that the Shipping would be to Altadena, CA 91001


My Potentially Sexy Build Thread. Who Knows? I Have Some Ideas ;p

31 December 2013 - 04:27 AM

Hello my fellow Peppers!(if I can even call myself that yet) I'm back from the dead and bring with me some information about my engine build. I figure that after I get the poor thing runnin' again some other stuff can happen.  There's good news though, I come bearing gifts of pictures!  That said, most of the disassembly pictures died due to an apple related failure of epic proportions. mad-877.gif  I can elaborate on if anyone wants to hear about it so feel free to ask.

Anyway, time to get on with my long since over due update with some (not so) quick facts:

1) The Si has been down for almost a year now during which I've been using my bike as my main means of transportation.  Various things interfering with my build caused it to take this long but hey, I can honestly say that I've made some decent headway in the last 3 months or so.

2) I almost, almost threw a rod but was lucky enough to hear it start knocking while headed home on the freeway.  Boy did that suck too I only had 2,367.6 miles to go until I reached the 300,000 mile club. (so close!)  But hey, at least it never got to grenade on me right?

3) I ended up deciding to go with a Hydra build because I found a reasonably cheap and complete head (with a guarantee!).  I originally wanted to keep it a stock rebuild but I ran into problems that made that seem impossible at the time. (I'll elaborate on that later.)  After thinking about it while typing this out I probably could have kept it stock if I had thought to post on here as I'm sure that someone out there has an Si head. <_<  I guess they say that hindsight is 20/20 for a reason eh? :lol:

4) I almost have the Hydra put together; the block and head are both assembled and now that my bolts came in from Honda I can finally put the head on the block and the cams in the head. (YES!)

 

Here is my picture album with 72 shots showcasing everything I have done currently, minus the stuff that went missing of course, up to the week before Christmas. 

http://imgur.com/a/iq2xq#0

As of now all of it is motor based and the pictures were taken with my iPhone 4 so the quality isn't the best by any means.  That reminds me though, I do actually have an interesting find as far as rear sway bars are concerned that I'll talk about a little later. :ph34r:

 

 

Well then, as some of you might remember I came to RPR about a year a go asking about the Hydra and whether or not I should attempt to do it.  Anyway, after a lot of time considering the pros and cons of the various potential head swaps vs keeping it all stock I decided that stock was probably better for now and that I could always do something on the crazier side later down the road (B-series?).  After I saw this http://imgur.com/a/iq2xq#8, this http://imgur.com/a/iq2xq#9, and this http://imgur.com/a/iq2xq#10 I found out that a new head would likely be cheaper than fixing that.  Then I researched the local prices for an Si head and they were either non-existent or waay over priced.  Like $300 for a head that looked like it had been to hell and back.  So feeling frustrated about that I moved on to the block so I could see if anything was saveable and when I found out that I had a block to work with I just said fuck it, bought the Integra head for the Hydra and began working on that.  When the semester came to an end I had taken my crank home so I could have it ground or use it as a core and find a new one.  Of course no one had it and I was SoL as far as an exchange goes so it just stayed in my garage til later on next semester. 

 

The number one wrench in my plans was without a doubt the change in some of the administration at school with the fall semester.  New administration meant new politics which led to the school cancelling some tech classes that would've allowed me to actually work on my motor during the summer and during the beginning of the semester.  I actually had to go to the dean to get approval to work on it, and because the shop wasn't open to me because of the lack of a tech class I had to scrape the money up to send it all off to Johnson Machine Service where they checked everything for warping/alignment, valve job on the head, ground the crank 10/10, put the new pistons on, and bored/honed the block. You get the idea.

 

So, the new dean turned out to be a cool guy B) and he gave the aok for me to work on my stuff in the shop and life was good again.  Then midterms hit, which took forever, and since I had to work with my old instructor at his pace things got pretty stretched out.  Don't get me wrong, he's a great guy and has great intentions, but holy crap can he get distracted easily. -_-  After that I got really sick for a while in early December which ultimately led to rust in my freshly honed cylinders, <_< damn body not letting me do what I want to do!  To fix that instructor borrowed a Sunnen Midget Honing Head, yes it's actually called that and is totally not PC, so we could get it all straight and rust free again.  The bores came out a lil' bigger, of course, but they were also straighter than I got it from the shop in the first place! :huh:

 

After that I've pretty much been assembling the engine as shown in the photos so far it's been pretty smooth, save for a few hiccups like having to figure out where to source a longer head bolt for the so that I don't have to drill and tap my block.  Thanks to hatchbox over at the ZCR who I'm pretty sure is the same hatchbox here I found the solution to this which is in my last picture of my album.  http://www.thezcr.co...11&postcount=17  That post got me searching high and low through Honda parts catalogs until I found the 5 speed manual transmission case bolt out of both the accord and the prelude in various forms from 1990-2002. 

 

I will make updates as I make progress.  Happy New Year to you all!