Been awhile since i've posted. Here's a few new things!(LOTS of PHOTOS *warning*)

GENERAL General G2/G2IC Discussion
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so if some of you guys remember I went turbo on my jdm b18b last year.
didn’t really get to update it so much, but i had the car tuned back in feb. and made 217hp / 200tq @ 8psi with 91 octane on a dynajet.
It was tuned by Kevin @ Whitfield racing in Upland, California. The motor blew 2 days after while doing a freeway pull, Piston ringland in cylinder 3 gave out and the other pistons had hairline cracks in the ringlands, all caused by a bad tune. :confused:

so after that i rebuilt the motor from the ground up minus head work.
Heres pictures;

On the dyno at whitfield.

After the pistons gave out.

Engine apart.

and the rebuild process.
Invoice at Golden Eagle for parts and machine work. They are very good with customer service and became very good friends with them(they also gave me good prices).

a few new parts for the block and rotating assembly.

Block bored and honed, decked, with block guard installed.

GE block guard.

Head resurfaced and cleaned.

OEM honda seals and gasket.

Crank Micro Polished.

pistons / crank / bearings in. *my stupid ass put the headgasket on upside down. Luckly for LS’s though its pretty much symmetrical.

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Head on and torqued with cams and gears on aswell.

New timing belt, tensioner and water pump.

Motor pretty much assembled and almost ready to be re-installed.

Motor just about to be dropped in. *at this point, i didn’t have caps to block off the fittings on the valve cover so i had to loop it. I didn’t end up using it for venting because i ended up selling my catch can to a friend.

Engine in and connecting all the necessary things.

When re-installed my axles this happened, smashed with the lower control arms. :sad: Good ol paper towel and tape to keep it from bleeding everywhere. lol

Blood, sweat, and no tears. :wink:

Everything connected and engine running, ready for break in.

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After putting about 200 miles on the engine, rings were pretty much seated. I took it to the local canyons at GMR.
Then bam, literally 2 days after a fresh oil change from break in i bust the oil pan by running over a giant rock. :sad: :bang:
Took it apart the next day and picked up another oil pan and got it tapped by my fab. guy *Jason Noren @ Jason Noren Fabrications.

And finally, after about 2000 miles i got the engine retuned by Import Auto Pros in Westminister.
2 hours on the dyno.

Engine specs:
jdm b18b
Acl Race Bearings
ARP head studs
golden eagle block guard
Nippon pistons / rings 81.5mm
All machine work done by Golden Eagle.

.003" piston to wall clearance
blue printed block.

265.7whp / 232tq @ 10 psi on 91 octane tuned on Hondata.

Although my down pipe is 3" my piping is 2.5" but my muffler is 2 1/4, it restricts it alot, power gradually builds vs. a nice spike in power/tq. because the turbo doesnt spool as fast.

eventually im going to go with a bigger muffler for a more free flowing exhaust.

and here is a little video of my car from lastnight.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yFY_EKrkrTs&feature=plcp

enjoy and thanks for looking!

-Karlo

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glad you got it back together man…broken part always time for upgrade LOL. glad to see you still have it.

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aha yeah, finally got it back together. :smiley:
and yes, anything broken is a good excuse for an upgrade!
6 years strong with my car, love it. lol

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Very nice, I like how you kept it all original and didn’t go for the vtec swap like most people do. Not that there is anything wrong with that but it’s being done to many xxx before and you can say yours is unique. I do know that if you are shooting for alot of horsepower then puting in a vtec head won’t hurt, but what you’ve done now is nice and simple and there is absolutely nothing wrong with that IMO<. Regardles of what you may do to it now or in the future I’m sure it I’ll be fine.

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Wow nice work! Your build kinda reminds of mine:cool: (LS Turbo). My thread if you want to check it out Jdecks23. Hoping for similar numbers at my next tune.

Congrats on the numbers! I don’t know if you are aware but the best way to seat the rings is to tow it to the dyno and to absolutely rip on it with a correct mixture for a few pulls. That’s all that’s needed. There is no break in period. You can do more damage by driving it and trying to seat the rings on an untuned setup. This is because the fuel mixture can wash out the rings. Sure it will seat, but if you ever start burning any oil this could be why.

Also, I’m just curious about two things if can you elaborate on them. What happened with the “bad tune” and how did you know? Sorry to hear about that. Also, you listed some details of the setup but I don’t see what cams or turbo, manifold, wg etc. just curious. Thx

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yeah i feel exactly the same way, thats why i kept it LS. All my friends were telling me to throw a vtec head on but my reply was “if the car came non-vtec then im keeping it non-vtec, although it didn’t come turbo…” but they understand what i was trying to say. lol

i like it non-v because it keeps the HP/TQ very close to eachother. :]

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[QUOTE=jdecks23;2273394]Wow nice work! Your build kinda reminds of mine:cool: (LS Turbo). My thread if you want to check it out Jdecks23. Hoping for similar numbers at my next tune.

Congrats on the numbers! I don’t know if you are aware but the best way to seat the rings is to tow it to the dyno and to absolutely rip on it with a correct mixture for a few pulls. That’s all that’s needed. There is no break in period. You can do more damage by driving it and trying to seat the rings on an untuned setup. This is because the fuel mixture can wash out the rings. Sure it will seat, but if you ever start burning any oil this could be why.

Also, I’m just curious about two things if can you elaborate on them. What happened with the “bad tune” and how did you know? Sorry to hear about that. Also, you listed some details of the setup but I don’t see what cams or turbo, manifold, wg etc. just curious. Thx[/QUOTE]

Well, i used the same tune to break in my motor but i just ran 6psi vs 8psi and i pushed it pretty hard for the first 20 miles, the engine stopped smoking within 30 miles of driving it. Engine has about 2500 miles on it now after the new tune and it doesn’t smoke so its broken in pretty well.

as far as the bad tune, only cause of piston ringland failure is detonation. First tuner told me it was my injectors(which is weird because im using the same injectors now and ImportAutoPros had no problem with them).

secondly, the first tuner(whitfield) took off the vacuum hose that connects to the fuel regulator and told me i didn’t need it(he was the tuner so i trusted him).
after david saw that @ import auto pros, he told me that could be a reason why it leaned out at higher RPMs.

i asked David to take a look at the old tune but by the time we were finished i had to leave his shop. I don’t see any other reasons why ringlangs should fail other then a bad tune. a/f, timing, etc.

and as far as turbo spec and manifold, im running a godspeed turbo kit, it now has about 5000 miles on it. ZERO problems, i just replaced the feed line, BOV, and custom piping.

its a t3/to4e .50 compressor, .63 exhaust with their cast iron log type manifold.
Head is completely stock minus resurfacing.

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and damn, jdecks your build shits on mine. lol
nice work.

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nice job

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thanks boom!

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nice built, the car sound nice and healthy. worth the blood,sweat,tears!!! nothing beats the feeling of a boosted acura/honda :slight_smile:

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thanks! Yeah motor is running good so far, just a minor oil leak coming the the valve cover gasket. I used an OEM honda valve cover gasket but i think the valve cover is kinda warped because of the welds from the fittings. I just need to fix that and it’ll be all good.

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I heard from alot of my friends that after u get ur car tuned from whitfield racing ur cars blow up because of bad tunes-.-

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lol. well best believe its true.
here is proof from my experience. :sad: