when he said we had alot going on. Currently ALL my cars are going through some sort of modifications/rebuild or tear down. Currently the coupe’ is down due to oil pump failure on the b16 swap that i purchased from A fellow STLhonda member… apparently he decided that bolts in the oil pump were WWWWAAAAYyyyyy overrated and removed them all prior to selling me the motor and then failing to mention this… Nice right .. Inoright.
SOOOO… we rebuild right ?… sort of, this happened during my period of bad health when i was suffering from Afib aka http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atrial_fibrillation so i was kind of hampered by not being able to do alot of the work that needed to be done to get the car apart and find out what happened to the motor. During this time I had to have alot of help lifting and doing strenuous work and luckily i have some really good friends who came over and helped me turn some wrenches and get the motor pulled and torn down.
We here are some pics from that carnage
Got copper … main bearings shot
ehh well apparently when you run a motor with no oil shit wears out fast.. apparently since there were no bolts in the pump it just sprayed all the oil out of the block on the way home from work, well lucky for my i have a cpl spare blocks laying around and we scavenged a good crank and main bearings from that and then reassembled the motor hoping this would fix the problem. Fast fwd a cpl days and after a short stay in the hospital and a pretty routine medical procedure called synchronized electrical cardioversion i was back to normal and able to get back to wrenching on the cars lol. Well i finially got the coupe’ back together and took it out for a test drive to wash it and to make sure everything was legit.
Quick pic at the car wash .. mainly cause the car looks mean with no hood on it (i see why the cali guys do this alot)
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Well… it seems that when things go easy .. usually it’s too good to be true. The quick fix failed miserably, basically after about 20 miles of driving the motor did the same thing .. oil light came on then no power and wanting to die at idle. Basically we did all that work for nothing because the motor still had a issue in it that never got addressed the first time. So we pulled the motor again , sent it to the machine shop and did a full over haul this time. Dale did all the assembly work for me and after 2 weeks waiting for parts and the machine shop i have the motor back and its ready to be reinstalled just need to finish up the wire tuck and battery relocation and the coupe’ will be back up and better then new.
The motor is now pretty built for a stock motor to be honest:
B16 block decked
B16 head decked
Itr pistons on b16 rods
Full supertech valve train with black nitrate valves
arp head studs
stock b16 cams for now
all new gaskets
new acl rod and main bearings
Aebs intake manifold
IM spacer
H22 TB
Megan header (needed something cheap and lots of clearance)
Sk2 cam gears
Act streetlight fly wheel
exedy oem clutch
GSR tranny
blah…
blah…
blah… lolol
Quick pic of the tuck so far
