Well this weekend I started my project. The purpose of this thread is for you all to see my progress and to help me when I get hung up along the way. My goal is to have the car running by August 1st. I have 3 weekends to do that. With your help, I believe this is doable.
Let's get started!
Here's what we're working with:
The tired 265,000miles D that never failed. The little engine that could:
D is coming out:
Here I am cleaning the bay. Simple Green is good stuff:
The clean bay:
This is after we painted the bay. We used a flat black rust proof primer, then high temp gloss black for finish.
On The Menu For Tomorrow:
Shifter Box/Karcepts Kit
Engine Mounts
Wire up Jumper Harness
Today supafly came out to talk and offer some advice. He really knows his stuff. :up: After he left I had to go pickup my intake because it was shipped to the wrong person. When i got back from that, I didn't have alot of time but still managed to work on the car a little bit.
Started by drilling out the spot welds of the rad brackets that need to be relocated to the other side:
Then I drilled out the welds for the condensor brackets that won't be used:
Then I got started on the engine mount by drilling out the spot welds:
This was messy:
And here's where I'm at now (still need to grind a crapload down):
damn bro WTF did you do?? lol you know the reason for drilling out the tack welds is to make life easier, if you drill out bigger holes you will cover the entire tack weld and the whole mount pops right out without having to bash it like that or grind anything down. go back to the hardware store pickup some bigger drill bits and redrill the holes wider, trust me on this if you havent already grinded the crap out of it.
I'm using the stock tsx IM for now, with a type s TB with speedwerx adapter plate. I just didn't want to mess with the water port.
The starter is off a 02-04 type s. The tranny is a type s with quaiffe lsd.
Ok, does this look right to you? I installed the crv mount. It just seems really close to the tensioner. I forgot how the belt is routed so maybe I'm worrying for nothing:
Did some other stuff.
Finally got around to installing the 4040 prop valve. Hopefully my braking will be a little more balanced now.
Painted the TSRM for a stealthier look (not like they're not gonna hear me coming, lol):
Ok, I got my rear subframe brace on but I can't install the sway bar because when I tried to remove the endlink bolt from my old sway bar, it snapped. Not only that, I tried to extract it with a screw extractor, and that snapped too!! There's no way in hell I can drill it out. Is the only option taking a plasma cutter to it? lol
I'm not gonna just replace the sway bar because this one has ES bushings in it, and I'm not going through that pain again.
drill it out and just use a nut and bolt, btw you got nothing to worry about on that crv bracket, got plenty of space there.
btw i just received my ep3 cable, its kinda long for an EG, im sure it works just fine but the gsr i have is still way shorter in total length so i kept that, i think this cable fits better in EK's where the motor is pushed farther fordward.
damn im lookin forward to my swap but not the days upon days to get it in... you seem to be making steady progress though as far as prep. good luck with that bolt. be prepared to possibly re-tap that hole one size larger with all that drilling goin on in there.
quick calculation here... 1221 x $1000 each = 1,221,000$, i wouldnt be suprized if almost a million of that was profit!
sorry for the off-topic, nice thread and good luck
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