Get your stuff ready, your shop clean, and give me a date, and I'll take a couple days off! Make it 4 days of kicking-ass and building!
my shop? The fucking garage is just barely big enough for the car. Hell, last time I had to get into the car to start yanking the dash, I opened the side door to the garage just so I could open the car door enough to sneak into the car. Climbing out the window was much easier on the exit.
Why in the hell they built my garage so damn small is beyond me. Especially considering the damn thing was built in '52 when cars were the size of army tanks.
I seriously might just fly your ass out here if for no reason other than to help tune the carbs. Hell a local shop around here was willing to do it for me, but they get $85/hr for regular shop time, and more than that for tuning, so it would end up costing me the same if not more anyway. ...decisions decisions...
-Mark D.
Uh I don't know if you want to put me on the spot tuning carbs like that. I don't REALLY know what I'm doing! LOL. I can bring my wideband O2 setup, if they don't take it from me at the airport. That would help. I'm sure I could figure those things out though, assuming you have all the jets we need.
i cant wait to see it running
1989 Honda Accord LX-i
B18c1 swap since 7/2011
175whp and 132tq
Redzone tuned
x2 eh
those side draughts will sound mega eh!
awesome work dude, kick ass
This is very cool. Hoping for more updates (Subscribed).
mo updates....
Not much, but here's some pics of this weekends' progress.
Pushed her out of the garage, and first thing I did was yank the fenders so I could get at more of the soon-to-be-useless parts in there.
Upon getting the fenders off, I found an antique mouse nest. Based on the contents of the nest, this was from when my grandmother had it (she's the first, and only previous owner of this hatchie).
From this hole:
I got this: (It seemed like the endless pile of shit that was caked in there.)
After that little excursion, I took aim on the dash. After about 40 minutes of wrestling with it, while my son (only 2.5 yrs old) was 'helping' it looked like this:
...what came out... ...and will not be going back in: (minus the hammer. the boy dropped it in the 'trash pile' as he went for another tool I'm bound to find rusted up after sitting outside in some obscure hiding place in a few weeks.)
...after all that junk was out, I was free to do a bit of an interior wire-tuck (not really, I just zip-tied the entire harness up and out of the way just in case it's to be used again in another lifetime). Snug as a bug in a rug.
So she's no beauty queen anymore, but I already have one replacement panel, and need to get the drivers side now, and have them grafted on, but here's how she sits (bare in mind there is nothing in the front, so the back is a teenie bit lower than it will end up sitting.)
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-Mark D.
...and just some never before seen shots of the interior that I did back in '01. Any thoughts? No clue how I got a red tint on the headliner pic, but you get the idea. Still need to decide if I'm going to swap the back seats and hatch area back to burgundy or swap the dash and front seats/door panels to the black. Decisions decisions.
Back seat, black interior.
..oh and yes, for the first time in my 3geez history, I'm a pic whore. Deal with it.
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-Mark D.
About time you became a pic whore! Keep it up, we love the progress! Headliner and door panels look good! And good work getting rid of the mouse nest! Little bastards love Hondas!!!
awesome ! and put black seats up front
1988 Honda Accord LX-i Coupe 123k miles.
Ahh yes progress!!! Love it Mark, glad to see your making way.
Grr at those mice, grrrrr.
I'm a fan of black myself, perhaps because I had my time with the burgundy.
I'd say black too, but only if you swap the rest of the interior to match. Black and burgundy and white is going to be an odd combination.
I like your work Mark, but I think SEi interior would be best.. but its just me
Its prttey fnuny how you can raed tihs eintre snetnece with all tehse ellters out of palce...
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i want those wheels
Black all the way. And please, keep posting pics!
I'm actually have an Aerodeck here at local JY, 2 owner, clean Black interior, no tear and wear, good dash with only one double tape thingee that is not there anymore. with good rear seats and EDM center console and even with original extra "front fog" switch. I can take some picks for you when I get back there for alternator I'm trying to take out. Were thinking about you when I saw it, I believe you wanted A20a4 pistons? I was thinking if I take down crossmember and engine support, oil pan and crank, I can just pull pistons out without engine being out of car...
Its prttey fnuny how you can raed tihs eintre snetnece with all tehse ellters out of palce...
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If you do black, Mark, you'll have the same interior as everybody else on the forum who swapped to black. It's nice, no doubt about it, but it doesn't have that funky charm of a mint red or blue interior.
I do agree with you a bit on this John, but instead of the SE-i black interior with the leather, and power everything, this is from the less extravagant, but much more rare Phoenix Red '88 DX Hatch (although turbanaka [or something like that] has that damn hatch already), or in some cases, the Phoenix Red '89 DX Coupe.
Then again, as you said, no one else has actually embraced the idea of the maroon except for Dennis and Pete (peteandjenn) from what I know of. And honestly I do think the maroon on salt&pepper grey looks damn good. ...but I'm not sure how well that maroon will work with some of the secret projects I have yet to post any pics of.
Progress: I dropped the head off at the machine shop today to get inspected for what I suspect is a crack, but is hopefully just a casting seam. I'll be damn pissed if it's a crack because I bought a fresh P&P'd head from another member, and it was packed terribly when it was shipped to me, and the 'cracks' (hopefully casting seam voids) were EXTREMELY obvious the minute I got it out of the box.
...ok, anyway, due to the shitty packing, the head is back in to the shop to get pressure checked, hot-tanked and fully cleaned, and milled to get rid of nicks from shipping. Fingers crossed on this one.
A friend of mine and I will be honing out the cylinders this weekend too.
After I get the head back, it'll get a fresh coat of paint, get it's valves, seals, springs, retainers, and reground cam slapped in it. The block will also catch a fresh coat of paint, and be ready to make good friends with the head. Then it'll all find its way onto the cherry picker and snugly between the wheel wells.
-Mark D.
How do you remember where everything goes???
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