*Frost White EK4* From the start.


Anyway here was the engine, here with the head taken off...



Bores looked heathy...which was good to see.



Inspected the head and it became clear why joe said it was smoking a little....looks like the Stem seals had not sealed properly..they was a fair bit of oil on cylinders 2 & 4.



Cylinder #1



Cylinder #2



Cylinder #3



Cylinder #4



JDM ITR cams.....it was a bonus these were included in the sale. Fancied putting these in the b16 for a bit of extra power.
Joe bought these from Stevenek9 I believe who got them off Livi....so they have got around a bit.



ARP headstuds already installed which again was a bonus. I did label them up so that I could re-install them in the same place.



Had the Sump baffle welded in. Seemed like compulsory thing to do considering I plan on a fair bit if track time in the future.

 
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I decided that I would get my local machine shop to re-assemble the head and bottom end for me. After all they would be cleaning and machining it, plus they are known for good engine work so it gave me piece of mind if they did the tricky bits like Lapping valves in and installing cranks/rods/rings etc.

Then I would assemble everything else and put the head back on, do valve clearances, time it up etc.

I was keen to learn new skills during this process so I wanted to do some of the build myself. I just couldn't justify buying the needed tools to do all the vital internal work myself. and then to also have to possibility of it going wrong afterwards.

Head was done first, it has a minor skim, new seals and new stem seals. Came back looking lovely and clean like this.......






A few weeks after once I had all the parts. The bottom end went in.

Upon inspection, the crank journals were all good and within tolerance, bores were good, no scores on the bearings etc. So I was happy.

Apart form the inspection, the block was cleaned, bores were honed and oil pump was inspected and everything was disassembled, cleaned and fitted with new seals.

- All new oem seals were fitted
- RIKEN piston rings (also make oem honda)
- ACL duraglide crank/main/rod bearings





 
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Great work mate, its good to see a proper build like this!
 
Very nice dude :nice:
YES the spoiler tilt looks wicked, just a little bit of tilt is all it needed. Good man.

Car looks boss now, and once this rebuild is finished it'll be a wicked car.

i miss my honda now badly..

Enjoy dude, looks to be a proper rebuild as well ;)
 
You already know my thoughts ali - you have done a good job (took you long enough!)

Nice to see my old motor reincarnated!

Looking forward to some serious track action this year.
 
Topher-EK9 said:
Very nice dude :nice:
YES the spoiler tilt looks wicked, just a little bit of tilt is all it needed. Good man.

Car looks boss now, and once this rebuild is finished it'll be a wicked car.

i miss my honda now badly..

Enjoy dude, looks to be a proper rebuild as well ;)
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Cheers Topher, Looking at it again I realized I changed the washers again soon after and it is a bit more noticeably raised. Looks better now.


I will update with the rest of the pics soon....just moving house this week so a bit busy.

Car is currently run in to 750 miles as I speak. definitely feels a bit more pokey then the old engine :)
 
Right so to carry on....

Re-assembled the coolant piping on the back along with sensors, oil breathers, oil filter etc.



Head went back on.




Fished about with a magnet, just to try and fish out any swarf, did the job!



Lots of brand new studs/bolts from Honda used..




Set about setting valve clearances to spec with feeler gauges and lash nut tool.




Engine fully assembled with engine cover on....ready to go!

 
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Day/weekend of the swap...

Everything ready to go.





While the exhaust manifold was off, I wire brushed it down, applied VHT and then re wrapped to tidy it up a bit.


 
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Old engine disconnected nearly ready to be pulled out.



New engine ready to be swapped in.



Engine out.




Few bits moved across like alternator etc. Inlet fitted also.


 
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Injectors!

I didn't want to just reuse my old injectors which were after 152k a bit noisy. I got another set of a mate of mine and had them sent off to Spirit9 to use their injector clean, flow measure services.

Spirit9.com - Spirit9 Injector Services

Really happy with their service. Spoke to them via email and over the phone and they were nice chaps, ensuring a quick turnaround so I had them for engine swap day :nice:

They were returned with before and after flow data, they were now running consistently nearer to the original 240cc flow rate with much improved spray pattern and all new seals!

Order up a K-TUNED 3" rubber coupling for my intake set-up that I will be creating at a later date.






In comparison with my old injectors..





 
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Token picture of me in the engine bay!



Engine in!




Drive shafts had all new CV boots fitted




Aluminium Radiator fitted with the oem fan for time being. Looking at making and Aluminium shroud to fit the slimline better.



Will try and update with the start up video later...... :p
 
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Great read, Credit to you for doing the work yourself!
 
si8pny said:
Great read, Credit to you for doing the work yourself!
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Thankyou! Its been a lot of fun, i've really enjoyed doing the work.

So here was the video of the first start up, Once I reattached an earth, she fired up first time and purred beautifully.

*Sounds a bit more noisy in the video than it really was...once the oil had circulated for a bit it quietened right down.

B16a2 first start up - YouTube
 
To bring everything up to date, here's what I got up to last weekend in preparation for the MOT next week.

New Droplinks fitted. - Bit to much copper grease used there :/



New Lower Ball joints fitted - old ones where knocking thier tits off, feels so much better now.



And finally, whilst I had all the hubs off etc, I thought I would finally get rounf to fit my 282mm Brake set-up. I have had the rears 260mm fitted for over a year!

They consist of EBC turbo grooved discs / EBC yellowstuff pads / good condition MGZS 180 calipers.




Now just making up some brackets for the Brake hose's to fit as now with the new calipers, they no longer can fasten to the vertical hub arm.

Also I'm having a 200cpsi Sportscat from work today and will fit that so it can go through the MOT no problems!

And lastly, the engine has now hit the magic 1000miles, so after a few oil changes, I finally poured in some decent stuff.

 
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Car past the MOT last month with no advisories! The tester even mentioned how mechanical sound the car appears to be.....

Now the car is good underneath, its now time to sort out the exterior, on the list to do is...

- Refurbish alloys and choose what I am going to use. Team dynamics 1.2 in 15x7 or 16x7 or OEM blades. (thinking black again or graphite)

- Sort arches out, rust has crept up quite badly now. will have to look properly but I imagine I may need to just weld new ones in and done with.

- Repair cracked front lip and repaint.

- Attack underneath with a wire brush and underseal before the winter. (although not that bad)

- Get paint work mopped or get some quotes on a fresh respray.


Gave the car its first proper wash, polish and wax in months and shes looking a bit better now. But as you can see, lots to do over the coming months.

Plus still need to get her mapped at some point!

ahhhhh, its never ending. :(
 
I'm glad to see you were happy with the brakes Ali, Really good work all round. After a few years away I'm gonna be getting back into the game soon.
 
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I'm glad to see you were happy with the brakes Ali, Really good work all round. After a few years away I'm gonna be getting back into the game soon.
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Haha thanks, Its taken almost two years to actually fit them on the car from buying them off you lol. But I'm definitely happy with them.

Are you? good to hear, I hope to see lots more custom work as before!
 
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