almost finished with the daily driver
07-02-2005, 11:58 PM
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Join Date: Sep 2003
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almost finished with the daily driver
First this is only the daily driver. Im not looking to have the fastest car in the world. Honestly I deliver pizza with this thing 5 days a week. So Ive had to find the median between fast/comfortable/reliable. The race car will come soon.
Right when I first got it, stock 90 SI
My goals:
To stay as "sleeper" as possible.
Fast, but still a nice car, after so many Honda's im sick of driving a gutted car.
Keep A/C, I'd love to loose the weight and gain the room, but damn its hot here, just not worth it.
Not half *** anything anymore, its bit me in the *** too many times!
Setup:
B20z block
B16 pr3 head, stock cams, type-r valvetrain
AEBS Headstuds
JG adjustable cam gears
Skunk2 Intake manifold
Nayhow MFG. Intake manifold gasket (same material as hondata, but only $35)
UR underdrive pully - looking for proof of them "ruining engines"
B&M FPR and Gauge
Battery relocation
GC coilovers
Tokiko Illumina 5-way adjustable struts
Clutch Specialties 6 puck clutch kit
Ebay 99-00 SI intake
b16 tranny
cams/exhaust undecided
converted to OBD-1 using uberdata on a p28
retaining A/C with the hasport a/c bracket
new axles
Things im waiting to recieve:
2" aluminum half radiator
Dual 10" slim fans
Neuspeed Springs
J's Intake
Not ordered yet:
Header
Cams
After ~1500 daily driven miles I've had absolutely no problems at all. It runs perfect like a new car. Only issue is traction, which I have none of. So far I havent really had many races, just random cars. This all with stock cams/beat down b16 header, un-tuned.
new is300 - smoked
00+? camaro SS, 50mph+ roll on, slowly pulled away from me.
couple civics, no idea what done - destroyed
rx8 - beat pretty bad
mercedes clk320? - beat bad
B20z Block when pulled apart (6k kms original miles aka ~2,500 miles)
Motor assembled with pretty JG cam gears
Skunk2 manifold and Nayhow gasket Manifold awaiting port matching then paint - gasket is basically a hondata gasket for $35
Motor and tranny getting "Universal Grey" high temp paint.
Im really sick of Red engines and valve covers, I thought I would go to the opposite extreme and make it bland as can be. Im trying not to make it an eye catcher. DOHC V-TEC and Honda emblem are all removed from the valvecover.
Painting finished
Finally installed with the horrible valve cover (has cam gear area cut out for my tuning) soon to be replaced.
Then to the 2.5" exhaust I decided to make. It has a 22" resonator and a Summit "turbo muffler". The car sounds completely stock other than it has a deeper sound, all you hear is the motor, VERY sleeper just like I want.
NX wet kit install. I will be putting in the A/C this week and I figure with keeping my car full boddied I would like to have an extra boost on hand to make it less of a problem.
Air Conditioning Installed - By far my favorite thing, I hate the weight and power loss but its 90+ almost every day. If you dont have a/c you hate driving your car. The pump is really dirty from the old motor in this pic.
B&M Fuel Pressure Regulator Install - Nice gauge, very easy to adjust fuel pressure.
99-00 Civic SI "Ram Air" Intake installed - Very ugly but my stock D16a6 Intake arm was not even the size of my throttle body, I had to cut it to fit, so I figured the motor could breathe a bit better if it had a pipe the same size as the TB.
Also In the same pic's you can see I had to re-locate the battery to the rear to make room for the intake. All done with 4awg welders wire and some new terminals from Kragen. My old battery wires/grounds were in nasty shape, it was taking much longer for the motor to fire, my guess was the starter was grounding so much power the spark was not good enough. This was solved with the new wires/terminals.
I remade the Motor grounds, just like every EF the stock ones have been through 15+ years of crap and are looking horrible. Just used a bit of amp wire I've had laying around.
Tokiko Illumina 5-way adjustable shocks installed
Finally came across a stock SI lip, once its on you know it should be there, It makes the car look much better. I didnt want to have to get a JDM Carbon fiber space lip.
Right when I first got it, stock 90 SI
My goals:
To stay as "sleeper" as possible.
Fast, but still a nice car, after so many Honda's im sick of driving a gutted car.
Keep A/C, I'd love to loose the weight and gain the room, but damn its hot here, just not worth it.
Not half *** anything anymore, its bit me in the *** too many times!
Setup:
B20z block
B16 pr3 head, stock cams, type-r valvetrain
AEBS Headstuds
JG adjustable cam gears
Skunk2 Intake manifold
Nayhow MFG. Intake manifold gasket (same material as hondata, but only $35)
UR underdrive pully - looking for proof of them "ruining engines"
B&M FPR and Gauge
Battery relocation
GC coilovers
Tokiko Illumina 5-way adjustable struts
Clutch Specialties 6 puck clutch kit
Ebay 99-00 SI intake
b16 tranny
cams/exhaust undecided
converted to OBD-1 using uberdata on a p28
retaining A/C with the hasport a/c bracket
new axles
Things im waiting to recieve:
2" aluminum half radiator
Dual 10" slim fans
Neuspeed Springs
J's Intake
Not ordered yet:
Header
Cams
After ~1500 daily driven miles I've had absolutely no problems at all. It runs perfect like a new car. Only issue is traction, which I have none of. So far I havent really had many races, just random cars. This all with stock cams/beat down b16 header, un-tuned.
new is300 - smoked
00+? camaro SS, 50mph+ roll on, slowly pulled away from me.
couple civics, no idea what done - destroyed
rx8 - beat pretty bad
mercedes clk320? - beat bad
B20z Block when pulled apart (6k kms original miles aka ~2,500 miles)
Motor assembled with pretty JG cam gears
Skunk2 manifold and Nayhow gasket Manifold awaiting port matching then paint - gasket is basically a hondata gasket for $35
Motor and tranny getting "Universal Grey" high temp paint.
Im really sick of Red engines and valve covers, I thought I would go to the opposite extreme and make it bland as can be. Im trying not to make it an eye catcher. DOHC V-TEC and Honda emblem are all removed from the valvecover.
Painting finished
Finally installed with the horrible valve cover (has cam gear area cut out for my tuning) soon to be replaced.
Then to the 2.5" exhaust I decided to make. It has a 22" resonator and a Summit "turbo muffler". The car sounds completely stock other than it has a deeper sound, all you hear is the motor, VERY sleeper just like I want.
NX wet kit install. I will be putting in the A/C this week and I figure with keeping my car full boddied I would like to have an extra boost on hand to make it less of a problem.
Air Conditioning Installed - By far my favorite thing, I hate the weight and power loss but its 90+ almost every day. If you dont have a/c you hate driving your car. The pump is really dirty from the old motor in this pic.
B&M Fuel Pressure Regulator Install - Nice gauge, very easy to adjust fuel pressure.
99-00 Civic SI "Ram Air" Intake installed - Very ugly but my stock D16a6 Intake arm was not even the size of my throttle body, I had to cut it to fit, so I figured the motor could breathe a bit better if it had a pipe the same size as the TB.
Also In the same pic's you can see I had to re-locate the battery to the rear to make room for the intake. All done with 4awg welders wire and some new terminals from Kragen. My old battery wires/grounds were in nasty shape, it was taking much longer for the motor to fire, my guess was the starter was grounding so much power the spark was not good enough. This was solved with the new wires/terminals.
I remade the Motor grounds, just like every EF the stock ones have been through 15+ years of crap and are looking horrible. Just used a bit of amp wire I've had laying around.
Tokiko Illumina 5-way adjustable shocks installed
Finally came across a stock SI lip, once its on you know it should be there, It makes the car look much better. I didnt want to have to get a JDM Carbon fiber space lip.
07-03-2005, 01:47 AM
#3
0.0 BAR
Join Date: Oct 2004
Posts: 0
Re: almost finished with the daily driver
Originally Posted by alpalwal
I love it.. that thing is gonna rip.... you know what you need to do now....
bbbboooooooooooosssssttt.
I like how you kept it looking stock tho. Very nice
bbbboooooooooooosssssttt.
I like how you kept it looking stock tho. Very nice
07-03-2005, 08:30 AM
#7
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Join Date: Apr 2004
Posts: 0
Re: almost finished with the daily driver
good lookin car man. i might redo that suspension if you wanna go for the sleeper look. maybe some springs/good shocks rather than a coilover set-up. just my $.02. get something stiff as hell, and you will still have awesome handleing. looks good none the less though.
07-03-2005, 08:59 AM
#8
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Join Date: Feb 2004
Posts: 7,785
Re: almost finished with the daily driver
I go with a NA setup with a B20 too. That engine wouldn't last before those wall cracked or you'd have to run some low shitty psi where it defeat the whole purpose of boosting. Nice setup though.
