Crazyjetsfan22's EJ9 Kswap build thread.

[crazyjetsfan22]

Kinda new here to this forum always looked around never posted. I am on many of the other honda sites (honda-tech, K20a.org and NWP4life)

Decided to post my build thread here.

I am from New York.

Here is the plan for the build (will prob change and be adjusted depending on how things go)



Motor:

05 K20z1 (stock for now hope for cams in the future)

RRC manifold

Hybrid Racing 70mm tb

Hytech header

2.5" Hytech twin loop exhuast

Custom intake (still figuring this one out)

Rywire tucked rad with An lines and dual fans

K-tuned upper and lower coolant necks

Hondata Kpro

Hybrid Racing shifter box

Hybrid Racing shifter Cables

Hybrid racing Ekk2 motor mounts

Hybrid racing Speed converter (for k20z1 trans)

Walboro fuel pump

Competition stage 4 clutch

Custom ran fuel lines

Custom tucked clutch line

Wire-worx Engine harness




Suspension:

AMR coilovers (12kf 10kr)

Comptech Rear subframe brace with 22mm sway bar

PIC/SUJA1 master bushing kit

F7 Rear LCA

DC2 front subframe with GSR front sway bar

Autopower Roll bar

AMR Front camber kit

AMR Rear camber kit



Wheels:

16x7 +42 bronze Volk Ce28's

16x7 +25 Se37k's

Volk bronze center caps

Volk black Valve stems

Volk black lug nuts

Tires (215/45/16 kuhmo XS)



Interior:

Black Recaro pole position seats

Headliner, Rear seats, door panels and arm rest wrapped in Recaro Fabric

Black carpet

Misc interior panels painted black

Si cluster

Rywire Conversion Harness

Tuner View RD1 (this wont be right away)

Spoon shift knob

Spoon steering wheel

Works bell quick release

Black civic floor mats

Seat harnesses (Stuck between black Willans, White crow, Status)



Exterior:

Mugen rear wing

Si front lip (might have another front lip as well)
CTR rear lip

Slim moldings

Painted side skirts

Honda Access Window Visors (need to put these on still)

CTR Side view mirrors

CTR front headlights (will get these eventually)



Mics:
AN brake booster line

Headlight harness tucked

Many items Powder Coated or POR 15

Brake line tuck

Engine bay resprayed with studs and misc brackets shaved




















I got the car in from a local and a member on HT in 2009. He was a mechanic at Honda so the car was in the right hands before I had it. A few other friends could vouch for the being clean and legit. Some of the parts were already on the car before I bought it. So it was a good base to start off of for the price. The car is original paint and came with a few things like CTR wing and mirrors 5 lug with powedercoated white wheels and a b16 semi wire tucked and a few other things. There were a few things that the car could use to be where I want.

Only pic I saw of it before I went to look at it!

Here is pics of the car when I first bought the car home.(cell phone pics)

Car same with stock seats because I didn’t want the memory fab seats it came with. Well lucky for me I kept my type r interior off of my old civc. So I traded my type r fronts and $150 for some black recaro srd’s I had seats sitting in my room but no car 

Pics of type r fronts

Srd’s were a little rough when I first got them but that’s nothing some woolite and suede brush cant fix

My friends got a his civic around the same time and so we did a quick shoot (I miss those volks car got stolen)

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Made a photo Rig that same summer and tested it out on my car a few friends cars

Friends S2k

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Friends turbo R32

Friends LS supercharged CRX

Later in August ’09 went to SHG BBQ with a bunch of friends
My car

So I really thought red recaros looked better then the black so I traded for these (straight trade! Came with some wedge engineering rails too)
I feel like I made out in the deal better lol. They are mint! Just needed a good cleaning.

All done and drying in the sun

Decided to do some more work on the car and clean it real well. Cleaned under the fender wells a bit and took my exhaust off to clean it

Took all Four wheels off and cleaned them good. Love how white wheels look but cleaning them is a major pain!

To bad the mid pipe on the exhaust needs some help bad it hangs really low and then scrapes on my drive way bad

 

[crazyjetsfan22]

Random Cell phone pic

Well fall came around and so I did a little photo shoot.

Love this pic!

Can see the engine bay here ( Plan on changing a few things up)

Sold my ITR rear seats and itr arm rest for some extra money to buy some top of the line security!
Before and after pics of them

So at my friends garage decided to tuck the battery into the trunk and fix the fuse box location.

Need to order a grommet to fill this hole

Got a new glove box too because the old one had a big hole for the fuse box.
Old Glove box

Finally got a damn cargo cover. There are soo hard to find! My friend took it out of his gf VSM hatch with 48k original miles.(1/15/10)

Got an si arm rest from a friend (1/20/10)

Purchased some rear mudflaps! Didn’t want to buy the fronts because they were cut and really beat up. Learned soon after that my car was too low with my drive way to even have from mud flaps so I sold those. (march 2010)

 

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Well I always lurk in the shaved and tucked threads so I thought it would look better if I flipped my break booster. So took the day and finished up that. Some how miss placed a nut but when to Honda and ended up getting some free ones.
Before the bb flip

After

Was not paying attention when I put the hose on and I put it on backwards for the bb.

My new Side skirts came in. They were a steal from Heal toe! $70 shipped for CTR side skirts painted VSm already. (never installed them they are in my attic still)

 

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Well this year we decided to go to IA. (2010) Last year 09’ me and a few others bailed out because the car were going to ride down in we didn’t think would make it. Though a year later that same damn car went down there and back. (we missed out on a good time)

So I decided I needed to get some things done for my car could be presentable for IA.
First on the list was getting my front lip redone which needed some paint bc I bottomed out on my drive way bad

Looks naked with the lip off.

Well lip was a lot worse then I originally thought had a crack that I over looked

Friend who painted it did some really good work on it! Fixed the crack and painted it flawlessly and matches perfect! (cell phone pic)

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I wanted to make my engine bay pop a bit more so I wanted to get a Valve cover powder coated. Decided on a Candy teal.

Did some shaving of the letters off and smoothed it out the best I could

Then sent it off to bone head performance.
Got the Valve cover 2 days before we were going to leave, should not have waited till last minute

Day I got it hard to capture the color.

Took Rad and the intake to clean them really good

Also orded a bolt boys engine kit for my motor
Replaced a lot of bolts looked really clean compared to some rust ones (damn NY weather)

Most of the bolts on at this point

 

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Rusty Vtec solenoid. Took some sand paper too it good as new.

Hated the way my over flow tank looked to I bought one from jegs and did a custom hard line to it.

Rad seems a little bit off …… ..(will come back to bit me in the ass later)

Over flow waiting to get new fitting welded on for hard line.

Changed oil, trans fluid, coolant, spark plug and oil filter,
Only the best stuff for my car.

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Always loved the s2k clutch master so I decided to put that on. Well with work and school I had no time to do it. Waited till last minute to put I on (hours before we left for IA) had it on and could not get the pressure and the length of the rod to the pedal right so back to stock L

Engine bay all done!

Well the same friend decided he doesn’t want any interior any more so he sold me the following

Headline rewrapped in recaro fabric along with the sun visors and rear seats.
Black carpet ( Im going to buy some fabric to re wrap the door panels and arm rest so they all match)

OLD rugs vs new rugs

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SEM paint

Car is a mess

 

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Head liner in

Rear seats in

Got some floor mats too in the deal. Think they are out of newer civic but I love the black

Interior all done!

We left to meet up with Solfresh guys and a bunch of others in NJ to travel down together to IA.
Well on the way there once we got into NJ decided to fill my car up with gas. I started to smell coolant so opened the engine bay and saw this

Well didn’t want to miss the trip so I said lets fix it quick. Only thing I had with me that was of use was duct tape. So taped it up quick and it held good actually. We got to deep PA and stopped at a rest stop and got some 5 hr energy drinks and used some JB weld on it. Thanks for everyone helping me out and waiting! Back on the road we go! Rad was doing fine made a few stops and checked it and had coolant in the car with me so no worries. When we got to VA it was cop central most of the group got separated but rad neck started to leak bad here had to stop a few times to fill it up. Started to use water and coolant so I wasn’t spending all my money.

We finally arrived at the hotel!

Untaped the car and relaxed. Next day wash the car and installed the lip and cleaned up the bay from all the coolant. Had some black s2k Cr lugs nuts to install to replace the ugly and old polished ones
Before

After

Well the first day of IA did not go so well for me. So woke up early with a few others and left for the IA meet to get a good spot. Got caught a red light and was behind a bit so I decided to catch up and speed a bit. I was driving with two friends in the car and we are prob doing 80-100mph starting to catch up. Well I hear a thud and was like what the hell then I hear some scraping sound and my friend in the passanger seat goes its your lip. I start to slow down to pull over and I feel a bump and the noise stops. Friend in the back seat goes of **** we ran it over. He then goes **** a bus is behind us that runs it over and so does another car. Back up on the high way and put it in the car.

We had to wait in traffic to get into the meet and didn’t get into VIP parking which sucked.
Think this is the only pic of my car at the meet lol

After the meet when to auto part store nearby and bought a rad to replace my broken one. Car blew a fuse I later found out but it would not start so I kept roll starting the car which sucked on the way home.
Rode all the way back home to NY hit ran and had to re install the wipers
Got home safe and sound took longer than expected with rain.

 

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The lip after it fell off
My friend who painted it yelled at me for this but he was happy to see that the crack he fixed was still intact after all that.

Car didn’t get touched too much for a bit after the meet had finals in summer class and busy with work and vacation.
Well got sick of the red seats so decided to sell them. Found a guy on Craigslist who wanted to trade his SPG’s for mine! So put them in my daily gotta love a 4 door! (seats came out of a mustang which was driven by a short asian guy…pretty ironic)

Picked up these new ones! In great condition just another cleaning and they will be perfect.

Little scratch on the back

Well drove the car a bit more in the summer , looked naked without the front lip, and decided to replace a few things. New thermostat and fan switch from Honda
School started back up so I neglected the car pretty much for a while
Well I wanted to attend SHQ OCTOBERfest but could not get my car started the battery died while at school and tried jumping it and no luck! Went any way to hang with a few friends




Well I came home one weekend and it rained the day before and I went over to my car and saw about 2 inches of water. Shop vac fixed that quick. I figured it was coming from the grommet in the driver side fender. I put it off which I should not have. The water ended up shorting the elec in my car so I would not start any more. Traced it to the interior harness and saw that my engine bay fuse box had now power
Messing around a bit with the car to find the electrical problem

Well during the school year ran some numbers in my head and decided to go K series
(not sure the set up yet). I only worked a few hrs a week at my internship so I wasn’t making the most money but decided to ditch the b series. Also going to do a Brake line tuck, Re paint the bay and delete all the studs and mics brackets, Re do the under coating on wheel wells, New bushings in the front., Powder coat misc brackets, Clean up the headlight harness

Car raised up and on steelies all ready to go to the garage. Could not find the short so I had a friend tow it all of 3.2 miles to the garage.

Came home one night to see the car get snow on it. Last flakes this car will see!

Home sweet home!

Well I sold my Valve cover and the intake

Well found the electrical problem. It was a rusty bolt for the ground on the interior by the driver seat. Replaced the bolt and started right up!

 

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Well getting ready to drop the motor
Harness and rad are out

Wow the harness that was on the car was foul! It will be re loomed and sold soon

Mounts are off

On the dolley

And its out! Motor was sold to a fellow north east member with a red ek hatch that changes his wheels too ofter

Bye bye oem fuel filter

Bay before all the madness starts

Fenders and headlights off

Head light harness will need to be re loomed when I do the b series harness

Here was why all the water was coming into the interior

More engine bay stuff

Hmm slight problem here on the strut towers .
This side has two holes cut out for what reason I don’t know.

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This side not cut out

The Heater to keep us warm on the damn cold NY days/nights

Organization is key to reassembly. Everything labeled

Spoon wrd lol

Hoods off

Spongebob tennis ball

Brake booster and clutch master out

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Head light harness out of pass side

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Taking all of the old loom of the dash harness

Got a package in! Great place to order from and they shipped it really quick to me

 

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Few Christmas presents!

Spent a bit taking some of the seam sealer off

Found a deal online and had to jump on it. Got these seats for dirt cheap! Pretty beat up but they will look great once im done with them. Will re sell them once they are done.

Both seats next to each other

Prob be the only pic of these seats in the car lol

Recaro’s all cleaned up and ready to sell. (1/6/11)

Small hole

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Decided to start to take apart the old engine harness from the b series so re loom it. Labeling the sensors so none get mixed up.

Well here is my passanger in the back seat! There are a few more parts that were in the trunk

Sorry cell phone pics for the time being forgot the camera

Dash is all out!

 

[Gav-EK9]

Cracking build mate ! Will be keeping an eye on this one

 

[si8pny]

great build! Any more progress or its this all up to date?

 

[crazyjetsfan22]

Cracking build mate ! Will be keeping an eye on this one

Thanks! There is a lot more to see just got started on posting pics.

great build! Any more progress or its this all up to date?

Thanks! There is a lot more progress that is a lot of old pics. I just need time to upload and get everything organized a bit more. Will post some more later today.

 

[B18C'R EK]

loving the build dude, keep up the good work

 

[Ozz9955]

I've been through this build on K20a.org, I'm a big fan of your attention to detail! Nice one dude

 

[crazyjetsfan22]

Decided to make some room in the garage and tear into my spare k24 motor.
Took a bunch of spare sensors and bolts and other useful things off it.

Cams out/ taking the pan off

Here is whats under the pan

All of the garbage

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Took out the heater core and everything under the dash too

I hate this stupid mat under the dash so heavy and was kinda moldy and wet! In the garbage it goes!

Friend of mine started to mock up the headlight harness. More of that when its complete.





Here is the harness all mocked up without loom.

Its 90% done right now with the loom just mixed up a wire on the diagram for one plugs so once i look that up in helms manual it be done!

 

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Took some time to play musical cars to fit a 3rd car in the garage. Took a trip to harbor freight and picked up some wheel dollies to make this all way easier.

My car and friend’s car that I split the garage with.

Garage isn’t fully insulated so we worked on the roof while there was no car in the garage bay.

The car that is coming into the garage all snowed in had to be about a foot of snow if not more. Need to shovel that car out and push it in

Car finally in the garage its kind tight but its only temporary because the while hatch is just getting new head gasket and head studs and mics things done.

 

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Here are some pics of the bay which I have been sanding and taking all of the body paste off of.

You can see part of the head light harness that is almost done. Will get pics of that when its all said and done.

These holes will be welded along with a few other tiny ones on the firewall from removing the brackets.

Pic of the studs getting ready to grind then all off. Taping up the lines so no sparks get in there!

Some of the studs removed need to get them all flush to the fire wall.

 

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Took off my old exhaust from the b series.

I can see why I had an exhaust leak.

Decided to take off the front suspension.

Driver side

Both of the 32mm fronts off.

Taking the subframe off so I can sand more around the steering rack and behind the subframe. ( i need to get and eg/dc subframe soon but for now im keeping it till its painted so i can bring it to the paint booth)

All out on the dolley