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[curtperry]

I figured it's about time I start a post...

I've owned this white 86 Civic Si for 12 years now. It was practically my first car (real first car was horrible rustbucket and lasted a only few months) and I fell in love with it. I think the previous owner, my dad, still wants it back.

Anyway I have been lurking on rpr since 2004. I have tried to soak in as much wisdom as possible from all the experts around here and always planned on doing this project. About 3 years ago the original EW4 motor gave out due to lack of maintenance (pics later) and in the driveway it has sat since then. Then around 2 years ago I bought a donor 88 Integra. And finally for the past year or so I have been slowly rebuilding the D16a1.

Now, finally the project is starting to get somewhere and I'm starting to have pics worth posting. Here are a few, I'll try to get all the rest of the pics to bring the timeline up to date by this weekend

heres the patient...


original engine with IM and valve cover gone


how it failed - I believe lack of oil caused this cam key to shear right off, EW4 rest in peace at 241k


out with the old to make room for the new!

Edited by curtperry, 13 May 2010 - 02:19 AM.

[Forcefed Si]

Looking forward to more pics. Looks Like a good build, Are you building the D16 for performance or are you just rebuilding it like stock? just curious, good luck!

[curtperry]

Looking forward to more pics. Looks Like a good build, Are you building the D16 for performance or are you just rebuilding it like stock? just curious, good luck!

I did some ghetto head porting with a dremel, used ZC cams and intake manifold. Didn't have much of a budget so that's pretty much it for power increases so far. More pics tonight when I get home.

[curtperry]

So I bought this teg for $450. it ran and drove but obviously it had issues - it was an 88 Integra RS and it was not well cared for (the interior was trashed)


I have no hoist and didn't want to pay for a rental so I dropped the engine to the ground like this and then slid it out from underneath by jacking the car up high


I then decided that with the engine's uncertain past, and the fact that I plan to keep my hatch forever , it made sense to do a complete rebuild. This is my first engine rebuild and a big learning experience.






-- Insert a year of playing World of Warcraft and Lord of the Rings Online here --





OK on with the pics...

After disassembling the long block, I started by porting the head. I slightly widened the ports, got rid of the ridge where the back of the valve seat meets the walls, ground down the valve stems (on the intake side only) to be flush with the roof and smoothed down the "hill" leading up the the stems.

This shot makes it looks worse than it is - the dark parts that look untouched were ground at from the combustion chamber side


After prepping the head for re-assembly I realized that I dont have a valve spring compressor and after looking at prices, decided to skip that purchase


and again being a cheap ass turns out fine



Damn posting this stuff up takes some time... more tomorrow!

Edited by curtperry, 23 April 2010 - 01:11 AM.

[badpenny]

and again being a cheap ass turns out fine

never thought of making one of wood. Hmmm.... HEY SCOTT (or david) You think we can make these out of delrin?

[curtperry]

never thought of making one of wood. Hmmm.... HEY SCOTT (or david) You think we can make these out of delrin?

Yeah I saw an old clothes hanger rod laying around in my garage and thought "Hey that'll work!" chopped off about 4" of it and shaped it.

[OG Wagon]

Dude, your home made tools/techniques ROCK! Very innovative. While a bit ghetto, MUCH better than the whole methanol-tire-mounting deal I've seen on youtube, lol!

Bay looks nice and clean. Keep it up!

[curtperry]

Dude, your home made tools/techniques ROCK! Very innovative. While a bit ghetto, MUCH better than the whole methanol-tire-mounting deal I've seen on youtube, lol!

Bay looks nice and clean. Keep it up!

Thanks for the compliment. Necessity is mother of invention!

Yeah I've seen that tire mounting trick on youtube as well and it looks fun - but I'm a pyro

[curtperry]

OK so I didnt get around to updating last weekend.... but thats because I was getting so much done!

First here's a few more pics of the engine build -

New pistons being installed with stock rods, new main and rod bearings, ARP Rod bolts


Bolted the head to the block with ARP stud kit 208-4601 (for b16's) the raised center stud needed 3/8ths trimmed off and the corner stud over the water pump is about 1/4 from bottomed out so that I could get full threads on the nut


Valve cover stripped, sanded, and prepped for paint


Valve cover primed with duplicolor engine primer


Lots of work went into this pic... not gonna show it because I cant find the pics I took of more engine building. I went with VHT red wrinkle for the valve cover.





And finally this is what I did over the weekend

Prepped the civic subframe by giviing it a good scrub, installing the teg anti-sway bar, and the teg torsion bars (yep im planning to drill holes in the rail where the cup mounts)


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I just sat and smiled a while staring at that one! (cold beer in hand)

Edited by curtperry, 27 April 2010 - 02:13 AM.

[Gant]

I just sat and smiled a while staring at that one! (cold beer in hand)

that looks great dude. I love working on clean stuff.

[Aren D.]

nice, I am a huge fan of the "drop the engine and lift the car"

[hatchbox]

Wow that is great looking hatch hope to see it driving around soon. Looks like your up in my neck of the woods, so if you ever need a hand I'm always happy to help out a fellow pepper.

[curtperry]

Wow that is great looking hatch hope to see it driving around soon. Looks like your up in my neck of the woods, so if you ever need a hand I'm always happy to help out a fellow pepper.

I might hit you up on that... I'm about to start wiring for electronic advance

[hatchbox]

I might hit you up on that... I'm about to start wiring for electronic advance

Not a problem I've done it twice now. Only problem is I work a second shift so it's likely that the weekend maybe the only time we would be able to hook up. Do you still have the Integra that you got the swap from? We will need a few things from the wiring.

[curtperry]

Not a problem I've done it twice now. Only problem is I work a second shift so it's likely that the weekend maybe the only time we would be able to hook up. Do you still have the Integra that you got the swap from? We will need a few things from the wiring.

The teg chassis is long gone. I had to get it out of my garage. I tore out the ecu and wiring harness minus the part behind the dash, I cut it where it goes behind the climate controls. I also got everything that was vacuum connected out of the teg

Edited by curtperry, 27 April 2010 - 06:04 PM.