So very minor issue. I got a new water pump gasket from the dealer for a 2000 civic si since my motor is a b16, well turns out my water pump is from a 92-93 gsr and that gasket is slightly different from every other b series gasket…who ever at honda decided to change the gasket shape for just that motor is retarded >=[
My water pump and the new gasket. See the difference is the upper right corner?
It doesn’t fit because of that slight difference in shape
I can make it fit in there if I push it, and it would probably work if I put a layer of hondabond around the whole thing…kinda sketchy though
Circled in red is the 92-93 gsr water pump and gasket, to the left of it is the water pump and gasket used on every other b series motor.
There was no reason to change the design for just the b17 and those 2 production years. Honda does some dumb things sometimes. Also, who ever swapped the water pump on my motor in the passed is an idiot too
#15 in that illustration is different than #16. is one a LS and the other a b17? the reason i ask ive been serching for the #15 for my build but im having a hard time. BTW every lunch im looking for updates! Keep up the good work and progress…
It appears that they’re different for the ls and the b17 since they have different part numbers. I don’t know if they dealer would still sell those. It might be a discontinued part, but I’m not sure. lol I do that with other peoples builds as well. Always checking back to see how things are going. I appreciate it man, it’s getting there…slowly but surely. I’m in no rush though so taking my time to get it done the way I want it to be. I was going to do some minor things to it yesterday, but spent all day installing a fmic onto a friends 2013 sti. Not a fun thing to do when nothing fits like it should. I did not like hacking up a $2500 front bumper…
Thanks. Not really secret, it’s a stock b16a. I got really tired of people coming up to my car and going “ooh wow that’s a clean integra…ooh it’s just a b16.” and walking off. So now no one gets to know what’s in it unless they ask me. I’m not trying to hide it, I’ll tell them if they ask. Just trying to get people to look at the car as a whole and stop judging it off of the motor itself.
Sorry for the late responses I’ve been out of town since last Wednesday doing my filming duties for thirdhonk.com out at Tx2k14. I’ve got over 37gb of photos and videos to edit this week so wont be able to get much done to my car. I was going to get the head done, but all my money went to this trip. Damn hotel was over $500 =[ I’ll post more progress when I can
So haven’t updated in awhile…nothing to update that’s why =[ Sucks this project stalled out, but money has been really tight lately, and I had to pay off my debt first.
I went out to my garage today to work on my other car (beater 91 db1). Well I noticed that everything, and I mean everything in my garage was covered in a thick layer of saw dust. My step dad had been out there the past couple days working on some old wood chest. Well I knew he had been using an electric sander on it, but I had assumed it had a filter on it and that the garage doors were open…I was wrong. This moron was doing it in a closed garage with no filter on the sander to catch the dust. I only took these two pictures, but you get the idea.
My nice shiny milano red bumper looked like it was sitting in a saw mill. I was pissed. Cleaning the bumper, not a big deal. That can be hosed off no problem. Some of the other stuff is not going to be as easy though. I had my intake manifold on the floor, behind my car, next to the bumper, wrapped up in a towel and it still got covered in saw dust. My cylinder head was on towel, underneath the back of my car, wrapped up in 3 towels…it got saw dust on it as well. That really pissed me off. My distributor, strut bar, timing covers, overflow tank, even my entire car which was underneath a cover had a layer of saw dust on it. I should of taken photos of this, I’ve got 2 tool chests (plastic dresser type thing with slide out drawers), one has all my tools, the other has all my car cleaning stuff, spray paint, and the small parts from my car in it. Well the outside of the tool chests were completely covered, so I thought ok no big deal I’ll just wipe them down. I pulled one of the drawers out to wipe it off and noticed every single thing in the drawers were completely covered in dust as well. I had to pull each tool out, each car part, each of this and that I had in there and wipe them down one at a time, and then clean each drawer out. I felt like kicking my step dads ass. What type of inconsiderate, moronic, douche bag would sit there knowing he’s making a huge mess on someone elses stuff and not even care. How hard is it to step outside the garage and do sanding out there? I’m still pissed cause I haven’t cleaned everything yet. I swear if I hear him start sanding out there again I’m gonna go grab there sander out of his hand and throw it across the street. Sorry for ranting, but I had too.
I’ve got some money together now so I WILL be getting the head milled sometime either late this week or early next week. My car WILL be running again soon. I really need to get it running, out of the garage and give it one hell of a bath.
So update…got my head back from the machine shop today =]!!! It looks great, all nice and smooth and shiny. No more built up gunk or head gasket residue on the surface. I only have this shitty photo from my quite old, but still awesome blackberry.
I’ll take a better photo when I can tomorrow.
Wantboost, I still haven’t checked to see if sawdust got into my engine or engine bay, but I’m gonna start cleaning up my garage and my car tomorrow getting it ready to put the head back on.
I haven’t had a chance to get out there and work on it in awhile. This past weekend I was going to work on it, but my friend threw a house warming party and I made the mistake of making friends with the bottle of Jager. That pretty much left me passed out on the porch next to my own puke lol. I still don’t feel back to 100% yet. That’s the most drunk I’d been since high school :thud:
This doesn’t really have to do with my car…well kinda. Idk if anyone remembers me talking about how I put my friends evo together last summer at a local shop and he bought me my turbo and some other parts for doing the work…and how the motor blew on the dyno (I didn’t build the motor). He bought another built motor, turbo tuff roads, wiesco 1400 hd pistons, fully built. Well anyway, after the car had been put back together months later, it went on the dyno again. Well, it started, made it onto the dyno, started on the dyno, then they shut it off after somehow determining there was coolant in the head. Long story short, something happened and they’re not telling us, and for some reason this brand new garrett gt35r that’s on it has in and out shaft play even though it has 0 miles on it. Basically he said fuck the car and is just parting it out. Bad news for him, sad news for me since I worked so hard last year putting it together…BUT, good news for me since I’m taking it all apart again for him to part it out he’s buying my id 1000 injectors =]
I’m gonna wait to put the head on until the injectors come in cause I have to solder the pigtails onto the harness and that’s easier when nothing is in the way. Shouldn’t be more than a week or two more. In the meantime I’ll clean my garage and car to get it ready. I’ll post photos as things happen
So yeah, my engine bay had a good layer of sawdust on everything…not surprised. The cylinders weren’t that bad though. I got as much out of the bay as I could without rinsing everything off. I haven’t pulled the pan yet to check if any got in there.
Here is a shot of the head after being milled
And here is how it looked when I first pulled it off, to when I cleaned it, to now
I taped the head all up and it’s currently being painted to match the block
Head is going back on tomorrow…well today since it’s now 2am, but tomorrow when I wake up. It doesn’t have to go on tomorrow, but I don’t see why it can’t. I’ve cleaned my motor out, I’ve cleaned he head up and it’s done being painted. It’s been off the motor since December and I don’t see any reason to wait any longer. I’ll do a run down through everything before I put it on just to double check everything is in order and ready to go. I’m going to leave the intake manifold off for now because I’m waiting on my id 1000’s to get here and I want to put them on while it’s off. I’ll post photos as always.
Went ahead and put some oil around the cylinders to help when I fire it up for the first time
Then I set the motor as tdc (after I took this picture…I know in this shot it’s not at tdc), cleaned off the deck surface and laid the Cometic head gasket down
Then my friend and I carefully laid the head down onto of the motor
Then I followed the ARP instructions and torqued the studs down in 3 equal steps till I reached 80ft lbs, and I followed the correct oem sequence as well
My friend Jose helping out as well
All torqued down and ready for it’s next step
Next step is to get my new injectors which have been ordered, and start piecing everything back together. It’s not close to being done, but right now I want to get it to the point where I can at least turn it on and make sure everything is ok with it. I’m hoping to have it running within the next couple weeks. I’ve got a chip burner, so until I buy hondata I have enough knowledge to tune it on crome just to get it idling so I can drive it in and out of my garage.
It feels so nice to have the head back on finally. I started this project in Feb 2013 and it’s been long and slow, but all the work is starting to pay off. I appreciate all the help I get from you guys as well. I’ll update again when something else happens
So I got my injectors today =] They’re FID 1000’s (Fuel Injector Development) not Injector Dynamics like I thought they were going to be. Basically my friend who works a shop said he had a brand new set of ID’s sitting there and my other friend whos evo I’ve been working on bought them for me as payment. Well they turned out to be FID injectors instead, but it’s all good. My buddies supra runs them, my friends evo was on FID 2000 cc and they both ran and idle great. Plus that was $330 for some brand new 1000cc injectors I didn’t have to pay for so I’m stoked. I learned through some research that FID uses the same Bosch injectors that FIC and ID use and they dynamically match them like ID does as well. In the package they came with a paper that showed that they were all flow matched and it lists the dead times as well which will help when I get it tuned. Honestly the only difference I see in them from the ID injectors is the “top hat” is plastic instead of the fancy anodized metal.
I’ll post a photo of them tomorrow. My friend is going to come over and solder in the pig tails for them as well tomorrow.
Polished up all the intake manifold nuts. I did this previously with all the other nuts and bolts in the engine bay. Some people have told me they’ll rust now, but the ones I did back in January haven’t rusted at all so idk. I live in the middle of Texas, it’s humid here, but not crazy so I think they’ll be ok. If not, I’ll fix it when the time comes.
And as I was plugging in some of the wiring…this happened =[ This goes to the ect sensor on the head. I went to plug it in and one of the wires came out, I then turned it so I could get a picture of it and the whole damn connector fell off. I hate old wiring, but my friend who wired in my injectors pigtails (which came out awesome) is going to wire on a new ect pigtail once I get one.
I’ll be replacing a turbo on my friends mazda 6 tomorrow so wont be able to work on anything, but hopefully I can do more this weekend. I need to run up to acura and get a new vtec solenoid gasket, and possibly a new oil pump seal. That is a long thing to explain…don’t have time right now. But I’ll say this, I’m more worried about that oil pump seal than anything else now.
Ook so at a point where I’m frustrated. This oil pump seal issue is getting to me and not that it has to do with the car, but my neighbors dog wont shut the fuck up which is pissing me off. Most annoying animal ever
Anyway basically here is the story. I bought a new oil pump seal awhile back when I took the pump off to replace the hondabond on it. Well I put the oil seal in the pump and then put the pump on the car. As I was putting the pump back on the seal kinda got caught on the crank and folded over, well I was being lazy and didn’t want to take the pump back off so I got a small screw driver and shoved the seal back down so it would sit against the crank properly. Well I told some friends about that and they pretty much said if the spring came off the seal it’ll leak and there is a chance it can get caught in the pump and ruin my motor. Well that got me really paranoid so I went to honda yesterday and bought a new oil seal.
Tonight I spent about 20 minutes trying to get the crank gear off, and then about another 20 trying to get the oil seal out of the pump. When I finally did get it out (after ruining it in the process) I saw that the spring had never come off and it would of been perfectly fine…
Well I went to put the new seal in and just barely pushing it in with any pressure from my fingers and it started to fold over on the crank again and when I pulled it back off I noticed the damn spring was already coming off.
If that happened with just a little finger pressure, how am I gonna be able to put it on all the way without this happening? I lubed the shit out of it and the crank first and it made no difference. I can work on a motor, replace a head gasket, change out a turbo on a subaru, put an evo together, but this little seal…beats me and kicks my ass every time.
I got so frustrated I decided to stop before I ruined another $12 seal. I even posted on Facebook that I’ve got $20 for whoever can come over and gaurantee and correct install for me. No one took the offer lol.
Any tips on this stupid thing? I’m really just wanting to pay someone else to do it for me at this point
Engine block looks fantastic. Props to you for doing the rebuild in the engine bay too. I rebuilt mine on an engine stand before dropping it in. Good luck with the oil pump seal. When I rebuilt my block I installed an ITR oil pump so the seal was already installed.
