my car update picks

Well after some 4 years with not much future progress Ive finally started making way. Theres a ton of little engine details mostly just putting it back together. Im trying to get it road ready by the 19th for the Portlan #geez meet. Well have to wait and see how I actually do.

A few days ago i was impressed with myself. i was able to complete the intake installation (as easy as it may seem). Its a Edelbrock Victor X intake with a stock B18c TB installed on it. Ive got one of those amulinim pulley hardware pieces on the TB inkage for some odd reason. i honestly cannot remember why. The fuel rail is stock, Injectors are the same but turns out te banjo nut for the Bseries fuel rail is different from the accords, preludes, civic and other engine Ive checked at the JY. Thats about all that missing on the intake.

The exhaust was pretty straight forwars thanks to roodoo. He sent me a stock B20a header after i tossed BOTH of mine thinking i would never use them agaion since I was going turbo manifolds. Im hoping the stock exhaust (a20a3) bolts to the header of the B20a otherwise Ill have to get some parts welded up. I do need to get a secong O2 sensor installed on the back side of the engine for the 4-wire sensor Im planning on using with the B20a and OBD1 swap.

The colling system seemed to never end as I pilaged it time after time for other accord Ive had over the years. the hoses (heater and radiator) went on my hatch after the headgasket swap. The fan switch went onto a sedan I had for a while. the rubber holder bits disappeared in a box with all the other small bits I cannot find anyplace.

The vac system is alot easier now that 90% of it is gone. All Ive got is a 1/8in line for the criuse control, fuel pressure regulator and the 1/2 line for the brake booster, 3/8 line for the pcv system. No black box nothing. Even still the engine bay is gawd awful ugly. The way the coolant hoses route just look cluttered and nasty but that my opinion.

I tackled the brakes today. I swapped the LX-I prop valve for the SE-I prop valve finally some 5 years after the brake swap. Its ok though its only seen a good 1000 miles anyways. The aem big brake kit I bought of rob a few years is finally off the shelf, cleaned up and getting installed. I had them all shiny and hanging awaiting black paint on the inner hib when i decided i couldnt live with myself if I covered up the AEM badging and the bling factor of the aluminum. The CNC brackets rob had made sure helped the job go alot smoother as well. talk about plug and play. It was just as easy as doing a brake pad set. I installed a set of stainless steel brake lines i bought off bitesize when he wrecked his red hatch all of 3 years ago I think. I didnt make it to the rears yet. That will be a tommorrow job as here in washington we have high humidity and the temps are finally above doom and gloom so its been a scorcher outside all day. I dont get much wind or shade at my place so its a rough road.

Oh and my favorite, suspension. I pulled the spring springs off the konis tonight and installed the ground controls i bought off Angus forever ago. The swap is pretty straight forward. it took me longer to do the prelude arms with inglass camber kit than to get the springs swapped over. Im challenging cody to a battle of the lowered accords. Since he can no longer compete I guess i win by default. Sorry bro but you really are a great competitor. Its not quite slammed by my standards but low enough for me. The tape measure says the mud flaps are an inch off the ground and the body less than 3. I havent had a chance to run the car and settle the struts since the engine doesnt work yet. Ill do the rears tomorrow and get a nice full body pic. The 16in rims that are on it in the pics arent the ones Im keeping. Ive got a nice new set of 18's Ill pop on it for the meet. Till teh Ill probably try them on before the final wash. I wish I had time to install my poly bushings and suspension techniques sway bars but with everything else going on they just arent on my highest priority list. I love working on these cars so it will give me a chance to pull it apart again in the not so distant future.

Cleaning. Oh man i do love this part but only if the car cooperates with me. Ive seen pics of angus's car and it just looks like it rooled off the showroom floor. Same with roach and pico. I can only iomagine how clean jeans is. I tried to scrub with simple green concentrated and even with simple green max gbut the undercoating just will not turn the nice new balck. It has the brown/black tint to it. tyhe plastics turned out ok, the steel suspension is not working at all. 3 different type of brushes and nothing. the 1st time the rinse water was disgusting. After that not much at all. Its clean and no heavy deposits but I cannot get the newness to come back. i do not want to repaint yet as time doesnt allow and I believe nothing is as nice as stock paint anyways. The undercarraige, wheel wells and such Ide say are a strong 7 maybe a mid 8 on the scale to 10. Super clean but not shiny and new. If I have to illpull out the kerosene fired pressure washer and the heavy chemicals but theyre not much fun to work with. Great on old chevy engine grease though.

Well i wish i could put a caption under each pic but heres whats Ive got for today. if anyone want anything lese please feel free to ask.
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This is the stock fender clearance with the sprint springs before i did anything
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its huge I know. Itll be changinging shortly
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its the shocker, no really just clowning
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no clowning on the ugly ass garage either
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a little comparision for the AEM brake kit for later
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this is the soft line brakes and sprint springs
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old vs new. i really thought it was going to be a larger comparision in size ratio. I brought the rotors in to have them turned and they guy said theyre perfect. Since my pads have a few miles on them (less than 500) I didnt bother paying 30 bucks for nothing but shiny rotors. Ill hit the brakes and theyll be good as new. they dont appear shiny and heat soaked in real life.
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after AEM kit install. Some of you may notice the new invisible calipers i installed while I was at it. they sure are a pretty penny but the results are well worth it. Im planning on using these till I get the originals painted and put back on
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something for the ones who care what a set of prelude arms set all the way out and a ingalls camber kit at mave push. the tire sits outwards at the lowest suspension drop possible. Id say Ive got more than enough room for changes. With the prelude arms set all the way in towards the body and the camber kit on full extention its just about right.
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Its on cody, lets see what you got/had. Sorry man just want you to go buy your old car back is all. Im sure this doesnt help much. nyways I hope the captions worked. Who knows maybe nothing works around here. I know i dont.

nice update....so you are bringing this car right?

me thinks this is the first time ive seen a pixor of ur accord looks real clean and i want ur brakes

no way this si the first. I know i dont update much But I try to flaunt its total glory as often as possible. The interior still needs the dash swapped and Illpost more pics of that. i seriously dont think there is a grain of dirt in the car. The drivers seat is a little worn but otherwise my favorite mod. Yeah Jesse this is the car I hope to bring. Otherwise itll be my white hatch. the work car. Oh man is it ugly (stock i mean).

cool stuff...im also trying to get stuff together...i want to see this thing in person

Im a little nevous. i got the new axles installed. As I was pushing the car back into the garage the gears in the trans were'nt meshing very well. Even in neutral you couldhere them trying to bind and slip. i dont have any fluid in the transmission yet since I just got the xxles in today. When i had it apart i checked everything, went through as much as i could and replaced as much as was avaiable at that time for seals and bearings. The axles were a bit of a pain to get into the quaife unit but as long as they work Ill be extra happy.

Ill top it off tomorrow and see if it helps any. Im also concerned on the pressure plate,. Its the heaviest spring act carries for the 88-91 prelude si and its tight as hell. Like tot he iont I cannot pull up the lever by hand. I never had an issue with the stock unit. Im sure everything is fine and Im just being anal. i tend to over think ad worry about non issues. Im sure it would look even better with a CF hood on it as well jesse. Hint hint. no its cool i think Im shipping them through greyhound round trip less than a 100 bucks.

Damn bro....looks so clean im jelious

God I hated crawling under the car with the brush and degreaser. Hands were cracked weeks after. Worth it though, it's the only car i can work on without getting my hands dirty. The undercoating is always going to retain that brownish tinge... it's tar based. I cleaned the shit out of mine with driveway cleaner, to the point of where the undercoating started eroding away... still brownish. I recoated mine and painted with flat black. It's held up great. Be careful, the driveway cleaner will really start to soften and crack that shit if it's left on too long.

Could you post larger pics? the thumbnail links aren't working for me.

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Didnt have a whole lot of time today so far but i think Im going back out in a few minutes. I started off my day on a nice long motorcycle ride in the brisk cool air of the morning. Of course that meant by the time i got home it was well into the 70's but the good news is i had a UPS package waiting for me on the doorstep. In this package was one of the most beautiful pieces Ive bought on the site.

I ordered on of LX-Incredible's wiring harnesses. I was a little hesititant that I could properly explain what it was I wanted and how i wanted it done. Not only did he go so far into depth of knowledge that i had do more research but he did it in such a way the professionalism is outstanding. Every connector looks near new. The wires are tight and loom looks better than factory. He did everything just as I had asked and was such a cool guy he even tossed in a few sensors I was planning on deleting on my swap. If I was to order a kit or have any other upgrades done this is by far the first place I would go. Thank you very much Angus and Ill be testing it out tonight. The only downfall Ive found is the sensor clip on the 4 wire O2 sensor is broken off inside the housing. Its not anything I cannot work around. He provided me with a cover for the power steering clip just in case I didnt need or opt to use it. A jumper harness from the stock ciol location to the new OBD1 internal ciol dizzy. The ecu jumper harness, and all the little goodies in between.
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as youi can see all the clips are labelled and ready to go. Outstanding work. this guy can do anything

Before I start telling you how great your car is and how impressed I am, I wanna make sure you know my mudflaps sat on the ground and my front tow hook was and inch or so away from the ground ;)

This is awesome man! Your car is coming along great. I'm definitely feeling everything you've done so far :) Keep it up :cheers:

Brakes are looking good man. Can't wait to see it in person! Keep up the good work!

ok so the suspension is as close as I feel like getting it beofre the meet. I still need to swap in all the poly bushings but thats too much of a chore right now with everything else going on. The brakes are all pulled off and Ill be rebiulding and painting them this weekend. These are the new shoes Ive always preached about. I knew they were going to look good but I never thought this good. Cody, man how did you drive your car, off the bumpstops or no struts just straight springs. That must have been unbearable. You win, Im not going that low. the cost of bearings and axles will eat me alive. Oh and Im not sure how many times its been said but the rear sei stainless lines are a joke. One is too short, the other too long.... Youll see.
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sorry for the crappy cell pics but the wife wont let me hold the nice camera when Ive been working on a car. the D50 is a little too costly and the piont and shoot is too small to clean. This will be the last update till sun since Im going back out of town but hopefully sun Ill have the wiring done, calipers done and reinstalled. Maybe Ill even get to snap a few pics of the current engine. Most of these pics are posted just in case this car doesnt make it down there either due to mechanical issues or otherwise. I need the chip from speedfactory and Ill be able to test next week. Im getting so excited

Word. I had to bend the hard line and the brackets for the technafit rear caliper lines. Works fine now, bullshit that they couldn't give that extra inch though.

man i love wheels alot more then the grey one you had. Cant wait to see that thing in person...i love how you have the ground controls...damn you

well rendon Im not sure how long youve followed me on the boards. Basically i used to buy every part that came my way. Ive got alot of stuff the newer guys could only dream and some parts nobody or very few have. Unfortunatly for me but a good thing for the rest of the board there has been alot more parts from newer generations sourced to fit the car. I guess this means my extra sets of konis are no good with Ksports out. the jdm parts I paid out the nose for years ago people are getting on the cheap from aaron now adays. I just hope i get to the meet and back with no worries. theres alot of parts for me to get and a few to drop off. Id like to have it done early and log a few miles on it beofre I go but Im not sure if that is going to be a reality for me. That day counter your hving so much fun with is like chinese torture to me.

Umm...well you might have to put those up for sell bro..ill take em off your hands lol.....i always knew your from the b20 turbo..but no pics..im like damn this guy lol..im like i want to meet this guy some day..i should of dropped by i alwasy went that way..o well...this time it well be legit meet.

Ok i told myself i was going to wait till monday to start crackin at the wiring. Well if anyone here has really met and gotten to know me, projects and activities come way before sleep anyday. Im known to pull 40+hr shifts on my own time and at work if asked. Who needs sleep anyways.

Ok back on track...The wiring Angus biult for me is absolutly second to none. Every length is near perfect. It probably would be perfect if it wasnt for my edelbrack intake not having any mounting positions. The injector harness is a little tight and Im sure its because of the drop on the back side of the engine bay. I also cannot use the dogbone mount as a wiring support since I havent modified it yet to fit under the intake manifold Ive got. I need to strap it to the black box engine vent and again under the TB and itll be great. I will say the Bseries fuel rails suck. The studs are further out than the stock accord mounts so the 90 degree connector hits the fuel rail. Ill have to study aftermarket rails and see which one I can get fast and will work in my situation.

For those that care, this harness wasnt just a rebiuld. I had asked it to be converted and changed in many ways. The EACV that is usually on the front of the intake was moved to the rear section of the intake just behind the TB. The IAT sensor is no longeron the drivers side of the intake but positioned on the back, bottom side of the intake between ports 2-3. The OBD1 conversion prompted the need of added wiring to the harness for simple reasons. I had him upgrade the alternator wiring a size all the way to the battery. He also deleted the temp sensor on top of the T-stat housing leaving just the TW sensor as the JDM B20A doesnt have an extra sensor located in this position. He also moved the O2 sensors from the front of the engine bay to the rear under the intake manifold and made it a true 4 wire sensor. I did this so I can use the stock sensor for a future wideband location. He added vtec wiring as well incase the motor doesnt fulfill my current needs and it gets a more modern swap insteadin the future. For my own needs, my car came as an automotic meaning the reverse switch moved from the shifter to the transmission housing. He added those wires to the harness and routed them through an extra port on the firewall for me. He made me a jumper harness that moves the external coil into the dizzy and I didnt have to move any factory supports. I decided to ditch my boomslang conversion harness for his as he knows all the wiring that he ran better than anyone. I believ his harness to be of better quality as the wiring is color coded. his work is absolutly top notch. Im not sure if hes planning on mass producing these harnesses in the future but hes the man.

I didnt feel like pushing the car back outside for pics so youll just have to wait. With the coil removed, the black vac box out of the way, the wiring routed in such a way to clean up alot of old sensors, the removal of other sensors this engine bay is actually looking pretty damn clean and tidy. I wish I could ditch the heater hoses and PS line and Id be happy but there no way thats going to happen with the average yearly temp in the 40's where I live.

geeze man! good progress

last time i saw that car it had no motor and a bumper on the roof

it has a thule carrier on the roof now. Not too much has changed. The car was a place of storage for the better part of 3 years. im debating after its done do i kick its ass outside and get some garage space back or keep it safe and inside. i dont live in a high crime area and i wouldnt be too worried about it. After paint and tint well see how much attention it draws.

ok after pondering out of town for a few days how I was going to proceed on the project this week I decided to paint the calipers calipers with duplicolor caliper paint. This product sucks ass. i would not recommend this at all. I painted it after I had scrubbed 3 different times. The calipers were in great condition afterward the cleaning. On the way home the calipers scuffed, peeled and got trashed. They had dried overnight and now they need a redo.

I stopped by the JY today and grabbed a clutch cable from a 91 civic. It fits the firewall but lacks the rubber grommet to hold it in tight. Im sure by the time I tighten the cable down on the transmission itll hold itself in place. The nice part is I dont have to trim the 93 teg clutch cable and its even shorter. ill snap pics tonight after the installation is done.

I found a fuel rail nut for my b16 rail finally and I grabbed a map sensor of a newer acura intergra. It a firewall mount and should look pretty clean. Im going tio run outside and see how much I can get completed tonight.

My basemap is in route. Speedfactory out of tacoma (james) set it up for me. Its a non vtec b20a crv map modified for my engine. i dont have a wideband but the O2 sensor should compensate for any misgivings. Look for a pic post late tonight or early tomorrow.

Ok well like I said i cant leave well enough alone. i got a quick few minutes and figured id spend them on the engine bay instead. Let me know what you think. You can see the civic clutch cable is seated but no boot or the boot rotted off which i doubt because the cable looks new but dirty. The transmission side took a quick second with a razor knife to seat in the arm other than that it took me 4 minutes to remove the old and install the new. I like the routing but Im sure Ill be moving other things around to try and relieve some clutter. the OBD1 swap really helps the ugly on these engine bays.
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this distance pic gives a relative easy of how it looks. the cble has a small bend where it meets the firewall and gives the prefect angle to stock routing on the bracket
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closeup, yep no seal so ill either have to putty it in with some rubber putty or just dont go wild with the pressure washer in this area at the car wash next time. Its tucked up in such a way I doubt any water would get in but Id be sure there will be wind niose and smell from the engine so i cant just leave it be. Maybe Ill see if I can find a way to slip the stock boot back over it somehow.
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Dont flame me based on dirt and debris. Its been 4 years it was cleaned and it did sit outside for over a year. Itll get a good cleaning gain before it heads down the road (if ever). Notice the cable routing is all even and I no longer have that stray cable going out to the radiator for the transmission
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I still think this section of the engine bay needs alot of work. if I could delete the heater hoses and maybe reroute the PS line it would look better but till then Ill have to live with it. Maybe when Im done it wont draw so much of my attention
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This is the adjustment on a used cable and flywheel. I resurfaced the flywheel a bit to make sure my matting surface was excellent. The Pressure plate and clutch disc are both new act units for the 88-91 prelude si. The disc is the heavy duty full disc with springs. When i ordered it they olny had unsprung pucks and no way am i driving an unsprung on the street. The pressure plate is also the HD line. Its the toughest of the 3 they offer. Im not sure if i reassembled the transmission wrong or the plate springs are that togh buit man it takes alot of force to push in the dick to release. Ill find out on startup hopefully by the end of the week.
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Backside of the intake and such. Im not going to have time to fabricate the dogbone mount to the firewall so Ill just be going with the lower rear mount, front mount and belt side mount for the time being. the rear upper mount will be next on my list major tasks.
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Heres the opposite side. The mapo sensor will get routed to the firewall and Im not sure if you can see any of the new wiring from LX-Incredible but its fantastic!!! Just behind the intake manifold there is a empty boot originally and I had him route a bunch or wiring through it for me. He provided with a prefect fit replacement boot and the lengths of wire are pefect. Im sure Ive stated before but I am sooooo cvery impressed with his work. Ill be ordering another harness for my B18c hatch project down the line.

Thats about it for this post. I keep my phone on me all the time and I cant stand pausing on a project for pics, bathroom breaks or band aids so all you guys get ois crappy phone pics. If it makes it to the meet Im sure other will take much better pics of it. Hopefully it lives up to the expectations Ive tauted over the last few years.

wow, I wish I lived closer, you look like you could use some help but Id have to get you drunk so you would pass out and I could get some of that :thumbup:work finished.. hah ha jK
very nice project there

Looks great!

I'm had some issues with the beck arnely clutch cable from cockauto, now I have the cracking stocker and need to get another oem. Does the civic fit no problem and is it actually shorter? What year civic?

very much shorter, id say at least 18 inches maybe 2 ft. I did a visual comparision and didnt measure. Its even shorter than the 90-93 intgra cable carotman has. I did pull the teg cable as well to compare all 3 and the firewall mount cover on the teg is freakin huge. probably 30% larger in diameter than the accord. The civic was a 92-95 style but I didnt check the year for sure. Im going back and will get the info for sure.

Roodoo if you could out drink me Id be surporsed. Its only happened once or twice in 28 years. Both by seperate people and both sent me to the hospital getting my stomach pumped trying to keep up. Id love to have help or just hang out.