AccordB20A's 2.0Si F1 Edition Build

[AccordB20A]

The gfs accord ran out of rego so it was parked on the lawn for 2 weeks. up to then it was running fine. didnt use a drop of oil or water always ran PERFECT. Then she put rego on it and went to use it again but straight away it had a missfire. ran like ass and used all the coolant in the radiator. pushed it all out the overflow. and put the rest into the oil. FOR NO REASON

Well there is a reason actually. When i bought the car it had been sitting for a couple of years with rusty water in the radiator. it had obviously corroded away at the head gasket and fucked it over time. and when it sat for 2 weeks it gave up for good. even tho i had flushed the cooling system 500 times after i bought it to get rid of the rust from it.

So now im doing a head gasket on the ol girl. I thought while im at it ill change all of the other bits as well so i have ordered as cambelt, tensioner, water pump. complete head set so ill change all the sea;s etc. i got a new fuel filter and O2 sensor for it also.

pics part one. removing the head and inspecting the problem:




Spot the dodgy cylinder:

Fucked head gasket:





Next step is waiting for the parts to be delivered.

[Hazwan]

What a familiar sight. Rusty coolant ftl

[AccordB20A]

when will people get it thru their thick skulls that if you top up your coolant you put coolant in it not water!

[Hauntd ca3]

coolant costs money , people are to tight to spend a few bucks for a liter of anti freeze to keep in the boot
you know that

[AccordB20A]

lol its 16 bucks for 4.5L at the warehouse


Anyways the cars all back together now and running good again. pics later. i havent done the cambelt and water pump and shit yet as it has not arrived.

[AccordB20A]

[AccordB20A]

The shipment from the USA has arrived.



Oil and filter
Cambelt, Tensioner and Water pump
Fuel Filter
O2 Sensor

It too me three hours to complete the job. Crank pulley nut was a bitch!






Old Rubbish. probably still good for another 50,000kms






And i found a fucked engine mount which will need to be replaced when i manage to find one in my parts stash.


Did another cooling system flush and added some new coolant. Car should be good to go for many years now!

[AccordB20A]

Bought some more USDM parts for my silver accord.



Front Lower Control Arm Bushes and shock mount bushes
Rear lower control arm bushes
Urethane engine mount kit

Be gone bullshit handling and wheel hop!!!!

[Dr_Snooz]

Wait, you had to send away to America to get parts for your JDM engine? LOL. What a world.

[AccordB20A]

haha cheaper! and it worked. Peugeot cambelt, b20a3 sohc water pump and tensioner and a20a3 o2 sensor and fuel filter (Y)

[Tdurr]

Crazy how its cheaper to get parts from here. Glad ur still getting work done tho!

[Kiwi303]

Yep, Honda Nelson wanted $57 for a rubber front brake hose, A set of 4 stainless braided hoses is $43 US on Ebay with free 48 states shipping.

Ship everything to a mate in FL, send him cash for a USPS flat rate International box and it's cheaper to get a whole boxload of $5 and $10 parts than cost $20 and $35 here.

[Hauntd ca3]

shit your keen to use a peugeot cam belt!
it'll prob work for 6 months then decide its to much work and fail.

[Hazwan]

This is exactly why I refuse to go with that B20A (N)

[MessyHonda]

I would take a new cam belt over using a used one.

[AccordB20A]

Crazy how its cheaper to get parts from here. Glad ur still getting work done tho!

NZ and its rape tax

shit your keen to use a peugeot cam belt!
it'll prob work for 6 months then decide its to much work and fail.

its a gates belt so it will be fine.

This is exactly why I refuse to go with that B20A (N)

You dont know what your missing

I would take a new cam belt over using a used one.

For sure. the one on it wasnt that old but i didnt trust the garage that replaced it.

[AccordB20A]

Haven't been keeping very up to date with this lately. But today i installed my new lower control arms that i fitted new bushes into. Heres sum pix:






While i was there i also installed some old school bendix metal brake pads in the front and lubricated the caliper slides. Big improvement. The pads i took out were branded silverline and were absolute SHIT! They have been in there like 80,000kms and still looked like new when removed.

[Dr_Snooz]

You got some good filings out of it though LOL. What did you have to drill out?

I have to get some harder pads on my car. I have so much trouble with cementite.

[2oodoor]

haha cheaper! and it worked. Peugeot cambelt, b20a3 sohc water pump and tensioner and a20a3 o2 sensor and fuel filter (Y)

Neat work the belt may be got at Ford/Motorcraft too( cloned nissan minivans) which is good oem, nissan too 3.3L I believe is the same belt. Fits a Lotus too, not sure which motor /year model but that came up cross referencing number using tbe actual dimensions.

[Hauntd ca3]

those silverline pads are shitter than shit.
suitable for use as sinkers only

[AccordB20A]

Yeah.

[AccordB20A]

Couple of small updates. Swapped the swaybar on the silver accord with a CE5 16mm bar. the CB5 bar that came off went on the gfs grey car.





Stock CA3 bar vs the CB5 one



Its been a long time since i have updated this thread, The gfs grey car has yet another engine swap. im trying to make it good on fuel but this 9km / liter shit is pissing me off. Ive decided its time to do an OBD1 swap i think.....

[AccordB20A]

And so it starts, The OBD1 swap. My mate had a honda domani with a B18B in his yard which has all the parts i need. The B18B dizzy indirectly fits the B20A and since the wiring in the accord is fail, im gunna use the body loom from the domani to make a stand alone loom to run the EFI on its B20A Im gunna merge the B20A and B18B engine looms also.

I stripped the whole domani pretty much to grab the bits i needed. The ECU is even factory chipped so i can socket it and use that to run the B20. heres a few pics

[AccordB20A]

Stripped the wiring looms down to the bare essentials. Will mate them up tomorrow night. Ill leave pics of this mess here: