Loserkidwac

Is the hatch that heavy?...I have my interior out right now getting ready to paint and I think there is a noticable difference...I've heard of removing the sound deadening material to save some weight...I might do that since I have access to it right now

Tom-Guy

Haha. OMG, pop those hatch shocks off for a minute and heft the goddamn thing. 75-80 lbs? It's mostly in the glass, but taking a holesaw to the frame rails to lose weight sheds a pound or two as well. That rear smoked over glass piece is *thick*, and the rear windshield itself is pretty thick too, just look at how it distorts things in the rearview.

Don't ---- around with the quarter windows, there is no use. The glass is about 5 ounces heavier than 0.060" lexan, pointless.


I spent $10 in dry ice to remove a 1/4 lb of sound deadening material that fit into both my cupped hands. HF's just don't have a lot, and it's not worth the hassle. If you've a DX, or an Si, it might be worth it, I have no experience. Some german/domestic cars have heavy little sandbag type sound deadening, which weighs a lot, but the thin rubberized stuff on the Honduhs is pretty light.

If you want to totally boyracer out your car, down to removing the dashboard to yank out your heater core, and removing the plastic backing to the dash (PITA, but it's half gthe weight of the dash) I can be of some assistance.

Loserkidwac

I think i'll leave my si kinda nice maybe I can pic up an hf if i am going to make a race car, thanks for the suggestions

Tom-Guy

Good man .

If you haven't noticed, most nice older Honduhs are being destroyed by riceboys, so if you can keep her clean and sit on her for ten years... you might be surprised what they are worth. When I was a kid, those 60's Mustangs were throwaway old used up cars - if you have one with matching numbers and in decent shape $$$$$. Through the late 80's and early 90's you could buy a TR6 in awesome shape for $6K, now they go for $15K+ with no rust and a few cosmetic issues, and in ten years they'll be $30K+ cars.

ososlohatch

250 is a good mark to aim for ... how much boost you plan on running and what octane gas.... sorry i kinda just skimmed through post not sure if you discussed that already

Loserkidwac

well hoping to stay with street gas and i will turn up the boost as much as i have to to get to my goal...Thinking about a cometic head gasket which will allow for some more boost but probably shoot for around 14psi daily and turn it up for the track...I am aiming for 250 but i really want to get close to 300, this motor is just going in till my build motor is finish which who know when that will be...so if it blows "it ain't no thing" i acctually have another motor sitting here with a spun bearing that could be fixed and thrown in worste case

This isn't a race car just a hobby/weekend track car just trying to see what i can do...eventually going to get a welder and try and fab up my own mani designs and see what works best...I'mkinda creative but its all for fun, thanks for the comments

boosted_b16

i run a pm6 with turboedit for my b16 and activate vtec with an rpm switch, i've never had any issues with turboedit or running a boosted b16 with a pm6 and turboedit, my ---- is tuned to 11.5-11.7 afr's in boost and they stay there always, and i have beautiful idle at 15:1 afr and 14:1-15:1 afr's when in vaccum, this is with dsm 450's....

Tom-Guy

Cometic headgasket is same thing as OEM, a good MLS unit, don't fool around with what is already fine.

Well, I thought I was going to do just that with B16CRXT's car, and Blundar about smacked me across a 6 hour driving distance phone connection. If you want to tell someone they are stupid and don't know what they are talking about, the contact info is admin@pgmfi.org. Tell him I said hi.

FYI, TE may log the correct AFR under lambda trace, but you slow down the engine like you are taking a long high gear pull, and the AFR drifts between the widely spaced higher rpm scalars. It'd show up pretty well on one of those dyno plots with the AFR traced out at the bottom.

Loserkidwac

So you suggest just using a oem honda headgasket...i though the cometics lowered compression?

Tom-Guy

LS compression is already low enough.