Pico's 89 LX-i Build

[88Accord-DX]

Nice latex surgical gloves there someone is wearing. Got's to have them babies on doing open heart surgery on a car.

Looks like your coming along nice. Bet you can't wait till it's done.

[ghettogeddy]

sorry i dident make it today lol
i got a little drunk last night with my girlfriend for here bday and my girlfriend forgot to tell me it was 2 of here brothers kids birthday party today lol
no they weren't born on the same day but they had the party today

[Cheeseburger]

and we were not invited???? WTF geddy!?!?!?!

[speedpenguin]

Dude your engine bay is as clean as the rest of your car!

[Pico]

sorry i dident make it today lol
i got a little drunk last night

Thats ok I hope you had a good hangover lol
I didnt get a chance to take your door lock out of the parts car, I'll get to it soon

Dude your engine bay is as clean as the rest of your car!

Thanks Bro.
Just wait till we pressure wash it and paint the engine bay It's going to look totally different.

[Toneloc5145]

I could eat off of that engine bay. Dang. I like your car a lot for some reason. Good luck with the swap. You'll be happy with the 5-speed. I wish we had the kind of weather that you guys are having in those pics, but I can only dream.

[frantik]

I wish we had the kind of weather that you guys are having in those pics, but I can only dream.

or move to cali

[BITESIZE]

Any progress yet?

[Pico]

Any progress yet?

Not yet. I may not get back to the car for another week or so, gotta work and gotta do other things nex weekend.
I can't wait for it to be done

[Pico]

Got a little bit done today on the engine and I do mean a little.
Installed brass freeze plugs in the block.



My wife does stain glass work and she has a sand blast cabinet for etching glass, it works real good on cleaning paint and gunk off of the alternator and p/s brackets.



Thats it for now more next time

[forrest89sei]

Looking Good!

and this thread is 56K Recertified

[MessyHonda]

cool you going to do any work tomorrow?

[Pico]

cool you going to do any work tomorrow?

Have to go help Coco install my old engine in his old 3G

[MessyHonda]

Have to go help Coco install my old engine in his old 3G

Oh.....yeah i remember that now...

[kifo57]

Well my Friends Coco,George and I started pulling out the engine and trans today from my 3G we got everything disconnected and all the fluids drained, I still have to assemble the newly rebuilt engine and wait for my friend at the transmission shop to finish rebuilding my 5speed, I cant wait for it to be done, finally going from automatic to manual transmission
Here's some pics of the engine I took from the donor car I have and some of the engine after I got it back from the machine shop. Stock rebuild but the block was bored out to .020






We're getting hungary right now so I'll post up the pics of what we did when we get back from dinner

[bobafett]

awesome project. im loving the black on black on black theme u seem to have with your painting. flat black would look good on that valve cover imo!

[Pico]

awesome project. im loving the black on black on black theme u seem to have with your painting. flat black would look good on that valve cover imo!

I thought about that but should I keep the wrinkle finish or smooth finish?

[Cheeseburger]

wrinkle finish would be nice!

[BITESIZE]

Wrinkle all the way

[cndyapple88lxi]

very nice. are u going fairly aggressive with the motor or u keeping it mostly stock rebuild? i would come and help u out but im in the process of doing my cam swap in my trans am. good luck with ur swap.

[Pico]

very nice. are u going fairly aggressive with the motor or u keeping it mostly stock rebuild? i would come and help u out but im in the process of doing my cam swap in my trans am. good luck with ur swap.

Mostly stock on the engine , the only major part that we're doing is the swap from automatic to 5speed,.
Can't wait to see the how your ride turns out when it's all done

[Pico]

We haven't really gotten much done on the engine, I'm still waiting on my transmission to come back from my buddies shop so in the mean time my wife and I started to clean off all the grease and gunk from the engine bay.
And she decided to remove and re-tape the wiring harness.
Here's a few pics from what we did today.


Before with the grease and dirt



After



My wife working on the wires


Slamed on steelies (I had to put this one in)

[russiankid]

Looking good Pico. Cannot wait till it's done.

[Pico]

My wife decided to start painting parts off of the engine today and touching up the engine bay, so I decided to skip watching the game and get off my butt and start work too.






Got my shifter in, No more Automatic


And my buddy Coco showed up and we got the engine assembled.

[speedpenguin]

Well this is one of those cars I can't stop raving about. I hope I can get mine that clean!