Integra Project
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Nothing useful to add here, but I love that car, can I have it, please
Cross my palm with silver young man and she can be yours
Ohh and as of today it's booked in to have a couple of little bits of bodywork done.
You won't have, there's another one very similar from over Newcastle.
Most of the miles i've done in mine so far have been Washington > Sunderland or Washington > Consett, infact I don't even think i've been over Newcastle in it
That's the other one I know of local ish
That's where he's from, round that way I think.
Slip's are awesome, just copies of Spoon SW388 wheels, they're nice and light too. Mine have Bridgestone RE720s on at the moment that i'm not too keen on, what i'll probably do next month is swap the Bridgestones onto my Mondeo as there's loads of meat left on them and get something else for the Integra
There's no way this is going to take me 9 months 
3 hours start to finish getting the engine out by myself (including butty break) Things are so much easier in a proper garage. A friend of mine who I think AGW will know from rovertech kindly let me use his unit for the day.
Anway, so it starts again.
3 hours start to finish getting the engine out by myself (including butty break) Things are so much easier in a proper garage. A friend of mine who I think AGW will know from rovertech kindly let me use his unit for the day.
Anway, so it starts again.
Ding ding ding
Yeah I think he's 216si on RT. Good friend of mine.As for what's going on, well i'm not too sure yet TBH. I *think* that the place that bored the block to 81.25 have hashed it up, it's still burning oil and compression is at about 150psi
Also, it's leaking oil quite badly.I said earlier in the thread I wanted to get some forged high comp pistons and cams to suit, so I think that's what'll be going back in. 81.5mm though, getting right on the limit of what the block can take. First it's of to a reputable machine shop to make sure it can go to 81.5 safely. If the block is scrap i'll probably try and source a b20z.
Copied and pasted from another forum:
Last year I rebuilt the engine on my 96 spec JDM ITR, Everything was renewed on it with OEM parts, bearings, pistons, rings, oil and water pump, new gaskets everywhere the full works.
Now, over the last 5 or so moths the car has began to smoke again quite heavily, it's also leaking quite a bit of oil. For example if I had been driving normally for a while and then accelerated hard a stream of blue smoke would come out of the exhaust. Similarly, If I revved the engine hard, backed off the throttle and let the car coast down, then re-apply the throttle large amounts of blue smoke would again come out of the exhaust.
Oil was leaking from what appeared to be the head gasket behind the exhaust manifold and the sump gasket.
Now today I pulled the engine out with the intention of having to replace the pistons and rings again with 81.5mm items, It already had 81.25 OEM pistons and rings last rebuild. However, when I pulled the motor out I noticed that there was quite a bit of oil in the inlet ports on the head: There was a little in the inlet manifold, but more on the ports of the head and small drops on the valve guides:
Head:
Inlet manifold:
The breather valve was replaced with a new item when I rebuilt the engine, but I can't help but think that the issues i'm having may be due to too much pressure in the crank case.
Can anyone offer any suggestions as to what my problem is? I had assumed that it was a piston ring issue but now i'm not too sure. (I'd assumed the placed that bored and honed the block had messed up and that it was because of this, they aren't the best of places but not many places can do that sort of thing round here)
So, any advice or suggestions? I can supply whatever info is needed from the build as I have it all documented...... apart from the bore and hone which I didn't do.
Well i've ordered a few things for the engine that wont be here for another week or so, in the mean time I thought I'd have a go at something i've been wanting to do for a while; baffle the sump.
Mugen sell a baffled sump which is essentially a modified stock sump, it comes with a hefty pricetag too. No thank you.
A few companies in America sell weld in baffles for about $30, this is much better value but by the time you pay shipping and potentially get stung for import duty I thought i'd just have a pop at making my own.
Standard sump:
I made some rough templates from thick paper:
I then marked up some 1.2mm steel sheet lying around. I couldn't find a proper pen to do it which was a pain
After attacking it with nothing more than an angle grinder and bench grinder I was left with these:
I then tacked them into the sump so I could test fit it to the block to make sure it cleared the oil pickup:
It fitted perfectly first time. I was more shocked than anything else
So It was then welded up properly:
So there we have it, my finished baffled sump. I'm really pleased with the outcome of this really, i've never made anything like it before. Yes, the hole for the oil pickup is out of round, but then I was making the hole with an angle grinder!
Props again to Mr 216si as some of you know him, he did all the welding tonight 'cos it's something I basically can't do.
I'm just waiting on my new lost motion assemblies, valve stem oil seals, head gasket and throttle body gasket which should be with me next Monday so I can get it back together.
I'm really, really trying to resist the urge to stick some cams in at the moment
Mugen sell a baffled sump which is essentially a modified stock sump, it comes with a hefty pricetag too. No thank you.
A few companies in America sell weld in baffles for about $30, this is much better value but by the time you pay shipping and potentially get stung for import duty I thought i'd just have a pop at making my own.
Standard sump:
I made some rough templates from thick paper:
I then marked up some 1.2mm steel sheet lying around. I couldn't find a proper pen to do it which was a pain
After attacking it with nothing more than an angle grinder and bench grinder I was left with these:
I then tacked them into the sump so I could test fit it to the block to make sure it cleared the oil pickup:
It fitted perfectly first time. I was more shocked than anything else
So It was then welded up properly:
So there we have it, my finished baffled sump. I'm really pleased with the outcome of this really, i've never made anything like it before. Yes, the hole for the oil pickup is out of round, but then I was making the hole with an angle grinder!
Props again to Mr 216si as some of you know him, he did all the welding tonight 'cos it's something I basically can't do.
I'm just waiting on my new lost motion assemblies, valve stem oil seals, head gasket and throttle body gasket which should be with me next Monday so I can get it back together.
I'm really, really trying to resist the urge to stick some cams in at the moment
Well yesterday morning (Saturday) the last remaining bits turned up that's i'd been waiting for. i'll probably make a decent post about it tomorrow but I managed to get it built, back in the car and running in about 24 hours. Beats the 9 months of last time.
pictures for now
Now for sale.
pictures for now
Now for sale.
I'm not sick of the car, far from it, I just want something a little newer, a little faster and more importantly something different. I can't explain why, I just think it's time for pastures new.
Si's car is looking good at the moment, more to the point is that it goes like stink. He's been painting a mate's Starlet this week that he can't do much with though. Also, his new MG is really nice. I want my own garage
Si's car is looking good at the moment, more to the point is that it goes like stink. He's been painting a mate's Starlet this week that he can't do much with though. Also, his new MG is really nice. I want my own garage
Pardon?
Current shortlist is Elise / s2000 / Evo8. I'm off to test drive an Elise on Saturday so we'll see how that goes.
Back into an Integra? Quite possibly. It'll be time to buy a house in the not too distant future, so I may end up with another as a cost saving exercise, they cost buttons to run really
After a DC2? Wouldn't be much different, handles just as well, just as fast, but less raw and more refined.
Evo 8 sounds good
What exhaust manifold is that Neil?
I quite like the idea of a turbocharged engine next, we'll see how it goes on a test drive i suppose.
The manifold is just an unbranded one, I had it acid dipped then spent a couple of hours polishing it because im a pervert with OCD
Well the car is in having a small paint crack on the sill painted at the moment. The jacking point bent over about 2 years ago and the jack cracked the paint, lovely, excellent quality on the jacking point too. Anyway, it's in been sorted so the whole car is tip top before it goes on sale.
While this was being sorted I decided to give the sill behind the skirt a little wipe down as it was grotty...... this soon progressed into me being on my back thoroughly cleaning the whole underside of the car
It's came up amazingly well for a 12 year old car with 100k miles on it:
Good news is that there isn't even a hint of rust on the sills or arches where Honda's are bad for it. Solid as a rock
While this was being sorted I decided to give the sill behind the skirt a little wipe down as it was grotty...... this soon progressed into me being on my back thoroughly cleaning the whole underside of the car
It's came up amazingly well for a 12 year old car with 100k miles on it:
Good news is that there isn't even a hint of rust on the sills or arches where Honda's are bad for it. Solid as a rock