[QUOTE=Colin;2296178]What was your source for the wiring crimper, pins, and plugs? Oh, and a nice tip for putting together the wiring… use twist ties (like you find in grocery stores for produce bags) instead of zip ties. That way you’re not wasting a ton of zip ties plus they’re easier to move around add/remove…etc.
I’d also love to see how your splitter brackets were made up. I assume you built it so that they “break away” when it rips off without damaging your mounting points? Because it’s not if, but when…[/QUOTE]
The pins that I had pictured in the bag along with the ECU plugs were from Xenocron. But all of the pins for the sensors themselves came from chasebays. They charged me .50 a pin, Honda has them for ~.14 a pin but there are also 25 different pins, and in the catalog they are just part numbers with no pictures, apparently dealers have a master kit that they can reference the pins to for part numbers. But I emailed chasebays a picture of what I needed and they helped me out, great guys over there. As for the connectors I had 2/3 of what I needed from the H23 harness and the rest I just grabbed from my local pick n pull.
Great tip on the twist ties. Ill be sure to utilize that method.
This is how I made the brackets. In this picture I was halfway done, there is another strip of aluminum that is forward of that piece on the left that goes up roughly the same height but only is bolted in with 1 bolt at the top. The piece installed on the left has 2 bolts ~3" spaced top to bottom. There are factory tapped holes there on each side so I just used those. Both strips are through bolted on the angle piece at the bottom twice, for a total of 4 bolts. I’m not entirely sure the breakaway potential of this setup, the aluminum is pretty soft and thin, but not to the point where it would bend when stood on. Let me know what you think Im open to any suggestions for improvement. This was my first attempt at this.
I got home a little earlier than expected today, my fuel rail had been delivered so I put that on. And yes I have good reason for running a fuel rail and its not that I need t3h mad fuel flowz, but that the H23 fuel rail had the input on the drivers side top of the rail, and the regulator smack in the middle, go to post #7 3rd pic down and you’ll see what I mean.
I gotta hop on a plane in a few min so I don’t have time to dig up any photos… but I’d think you’ll want something that mounts to the chassis and won’t break, then whatever is mounted to the splitter you can make so that will be the weak point and it will break. You need to build in something that will break otherwise it’ll just bend and you’ll get stuck or possibly do some serious damage to the car itself. Best case scenario is to design something that will break so you can just drive over the splitter and hope to only do minimal damage to the under carriage. Some kind of “quick release” is also nice so that you can easily remove the splitter for when you’re working on the car.
Do you have any pictures of the mounts your talking about?
No progress as of yet. Was toying with the idea of installing a mil-spec connector at the firewall, but the cost is a little salty. The connector, bulkhead, pins, and crimping tool are a cool $4-500, pretty steep. Especially with all of the other parts I still need. Still waiting on my mount kit to come in. Just want to get this thing out for a spin with all of this torque, its eating me alive staring at it in the corner of my garage.
Update. After 14 weeks of waiting after I was told 8-10 weeks, I finally received my mount kit from Explicit Speed Performance. The quality and finish appear to be top shelf.
Hopefully the Explict Mounts/Traction bar setup fits properly. I had to send mine back to them because my Driver side mount was about 3/8" off & one of the traction bar’s turnbuckle mounts were about 1/2" off. It took a while, but they fixed it. You’ll get excessive vibration over 80 mph.
I bolted on the traction bar setup over the weekend. Fit like a glove. What shifter did you use? The importer gave me a shifter from a 98-01 prelude and it looks bulky. And what about your passenger side axle?
Swap is in, and runs. I have to get some more pictures of everything, this was just after we put it in. Its tuned on crome for now. She pulls like crazy, 4th gear on the highway is nice. Tons of torque.
Got a new shifter from JTC. Really nice piece, cut the shift throw by a huge amount and the feel is great. Takes a lot of the sloppiness out of the cable shift feeling and makes it crisp.
Just for comparison sake next to the accord shifter I started with
Got a good deal on this brand new authentic RMF header, the craftsmanship is excellent pics do no justice. I found a guy who used to be a distributor for Randy’s headers and he had this one in a storage container as leftover old stock. Has very minor surface rust, nothing that cannot be cleaned up. Going to get a baseline dyno here pretty soon, and then install this along with a 3" exhaust and get it tuned. Ill update this with the results.
