Step by step DIY Webber convertion + question

[ADRIANFARINA]

can't argue about the money, but time? everybody has it.. sometimes I work on the car at 01:00am.. after everybody sleeps .. I have a four months baby girl , full time job , in the project of buildg a new house and studying for my second degree.. what I mean is , that you are responsible of what you do with your time.

[gtpilot]

...what I mean is , that you are responsible of what you do with your time.

D'OH! I wish I could convince my Mother-in-Law, my Wife and my Step-daughter that small nugget of reality...I work a 60 hour gig to support all of them (including two grand kids and four dogs) and I find time to work on the house, build racecars and street cars and they all bitch about not having any time! And none of them work!?!? ...end of rant...

I have a 87 CRX that I bought brand new and I pretty much rebuild every three or four years - this last time was a D16A1 transplant and suspension upgrade. I got the motor running and tuned NA and collected all the parts for a turbo install plus the shocks/torsion bars/springs, MUGEN body kit and poly bushings to get it looking new again. Refinished one of the seats (the important one, the driver seat...don't need no stinking passenger seat, it adds useless weight!) and have started on the body work thus far, I'll get the body kit hung and repainted and suspension complete before winter...crap - forgot that I need to tear down one of my transmissions to put in the Torsen diff before I install the turbo.

Good to see another person go the extra mile and get into a rebuild!

Kirk

[ADRIANFARINA]

About the mother in law .. just wait

[ADRIANFARINA]

replaced the wheel bearings , lower ball joints and the control arms bushings into poly ones , all of this wasn't easy at all !!
the inside of the bearings remained on the hub , so I had to inprovise


this didn't work



this did





the arms gave me a lot of trouble , the bushings were really stuck , I had to heat them and press the rubber out , only after the rubber was out I managed to take the metal tube out




more tomorrow.. I hope

[gtpilot]

I have had to take a hack saw blade to a frozen inner race a time or two - cut a nice stress line down into the race and then took a cold chisel and a swing press to bear on the situation and cracked the race in half...learned that trick out of necessity from a wheel bearing giving up on me while I was driving and having to do the repair on the side of the road!

Kirk

[ADRIANFARINA]

my trick looks easier

[MrSamson]

When you going to fire this up?

I JUST completed this Weber 32/36 swap and when I can find the time I am going to put everything out there because i learned a ton via thread on here.

Really woke up the car tho, and that is WITHOUT any fine tuning...just bolted on and off to play.

I did tho have a couple of mods I did myself but the bulk of swap was based off of how tos and the collection of related threads.

Fun stuff!

[ADRIANFARINA]

I will fire it up when I'll finish the suspention.
I'm waiting for the front axles to arrive from the US the lower motor mount and the cooling hoses.
then install everything on the front and rear including shocks and lowering springs.
have some interior stuff to mount , thinking of changing the tires from 205.55.15 to 205.50.15
at the end paint.

[integratuner77]

Did this thread die? I keep checking back for updates, but there hasn't been any in a while.

[ADRIANFARINA]

"I'm not dead ... I'm not dead..!! " (by Monty Python).
I'm waiting for large suspension parts to arrive from the US to Israel.

but also , I can't upload pictures straight to the 3GEEZ forum .. I have to upload them to another forum and copy paste to here... weird. also this forum is really really slowwww..

[integratuner77]

Got ya, well I'm still following if it matters. I'm still curious to see how this project turns out. Best of luck!

[ADRIANFARINA]

thanks!!!

[ADRIANFARINA]

got these today

[integratuner77]

Nice! Finally! lol

[ADRIANFARINA]

waiting for the rear hubs now..

[ADRIANFARINA]

done with the front suspention

[ADRIANFARINA]

[ADRIANFARINA]

btw ...

I've started it up today .. sounds exelent !

[86dxhatch]

Looking good man! Went from just a Weber swap, to a whole other level!! What kind of shocks springs are those?

Seeing those new poly bushings gives me some inspiration to get my front suspension done!!

I take it you had to buy those smaller end-link bushings cause the bolt was too short?

What was the part # for the bushings with the bolt? Looks like a good setup for end-links.

[ADRIANFARINA]

what are those end links you are reffering to?
I bought all the poly bushings through Ebay .

now I need to do the rear suspention also , waiting for the rear hubs to arrive .. I already got the other parts.

[ADRIANFARINA]

from all these wires that come out of these three plugs , I've used only three wires , the water temp , the oil temp and the ignition that goes to the solenoid.

can I get rid/ cut all the plugs I won't use?
I want to cut the plugs themselves and leave only the above three wires and clean up the engine compartment.





these three plugs end here



thanks

[ADRIANFARINA]

no one knows about the wires?

[ADRIANFARINA]

everyone gave up on this thread?



This is what happened to the starter motor

http://www.pic.co.il/Files/A389AD0CC...97BAF5BDEB.JPG



wich wire do I connect to the carburator?

http://www.pic.co.il/Files/A389AD0CC...3BF5F49CCE.JPG

[ADRIANFARINA]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rUAchTFhqWM

[integratuner77]

Excellent work!

You just need a wire that goes +12V with the ignition on. It should be the wire that was connected to the stock choke.