My not so slow EG4 build thread

[IVTECU]

Nice work Lance

[lancew]

Nice work Lance

Cheers. Getting some more parts later in the week too so the interior department will all be done in the next couple of weeks.

Good meeting you the other day too

[lancew]

Today I picked up a whole lot of parts from forum member STina,

I picked up:
Little clip for the drivers floor mat
the rubber nut thing that goes on the passenger side on the end of the boot strut against the glass
Drivers side windscreen trim
Little clips for the windscreen cowling
Roof lining
carpet
glove box
Heater core and heater hoses
Heater fan
Behind dash A/C box
And last but not least, some ITR rear seats

Pile 'O stuff:




Once I got home I got to work putting the roof lining in.

Before, no roof lining:




After, with roof lining:


I also mock fitted the ITR rear seats in the back. They sit in place fine and don't move, however because I changed to the interior that fit them there is no brackets wended to clip the back of the seats in place.
I'm going to see what I can figure out to get them held in the car nice and tight.
Anyway here's some pics so you can see:








Today I also removed the dash and took the front bit off it ready for the dash to be painted black The dash will most likely stay off untill the motor is in so it's easy to work with the loom etc.





Got the Heater core bolted in and plugged in :



The A/C box has now been gutted out and is just going to be used as a spacer between the fan and the heater core, like I did in the DA



and the un-needed inside:



One thing that has been bothering me since I got the car is this:



If you look carefully there is cracking in the plastic on the clear plastic cover. I will most likely replace this sometime, but for now my money is dedicated to other things

Love the red needles though I haven't seen many with these, if someone could tell me what model their off would be great

Chur.

[Horny_Devil]

ummm every eg i have had has had red needles?

[STina]

Quick worker! should have put you to work on my car

[lancew]

ummm every eg i have had has had red needles?

Oh really? I've seen quite a lot with white needles

Quick worker! should have put you to work on my car

Haha cheers, was trying to make the most of the clear sky before it rained again!

[lancew]

Today I popped into Supercheap Auto to pick up a few things and decided to see what they had in the way of plastic paint for my dash.

I stumbled across this and thought it would be perfect for the job:



The can doesn't mention anything about using primer, only to give it a good clean with wax and grease remover.

I decided to try it out on a few spare interior pieces I have.

I cleaned them up with wax and grease remover



I gave them 3 coats, with the first being the thickest and getting thinner with the next 2 coats

Here's the result:








I'm really happy with the result! The rest of the dash will be done in the near future also!

Chur.

[B16 SIR]

Pretty sure the red needles are off a vti (sohc vtec) eg4 most sedans had white needles and same with a lot of nz new models

[lancew]

Pretty sure the red needles are off a vti (sohc vtec) eg4 most sedans had white needles and same with a lot of nz new models

Oh sweet. That makes sense, That's exactly the model mine is haha.

[92vtec]

MAAAAAAN.....this build looks like...well so far is looking to be faster than the DA build. lol. But awesome work dude. I wish i had heaps of spare time to work on my car. Unfortuneatly just got a new full time job so not much spare time, BUUUUUT, more money to spend on my beast. haha

[R8edM]

ITR sears in the rear looks awesome mate

[lancew]

MAAAAAAN.....this build looks like...well so far is looking to be faster than the DA build. lol. But awesome work dude. I wish i had heaps of spare time to work on my car. Unfortuneatly just got a new full time job so not much spare time, BUUUUUT, more money to spend on my beast. haha

Haha yeah! I'm trying to make the most of my time off uni for the semester break. Once I'm back my shifts at work will be cut down so gotta make the most of it.

ITR sears in the rear looks awesome mate

Cheers. Think front matching ones would finish it off

[lancew]

So I picked these up the other day from forum member K-swap:



ITR front and the rear goes up above the interior plastic, so no cutting required!

I decided to see how well this would work:





Since there is no where for these to bolt to I thought I might as well try bolting them onto the plastic. I works great, the seats move a lot less.
I now want to try figure something out for the centre.

Yesterday I thought I would try and figure something out for mounting my C-pillar bar.

The interior plastic covers where the bar mounts, like so:



I got out the hole-saw set and started drilling, I ended up having to re-drill about 4 times till I got a size big enough.
Can't remember exactly what size it ended up being but it was around 40 or so mm.

I cut up some spare interior edge trim to go around the edge of the hole. The bar mounting points were too close to the plastic to fit it the whole way around but it is tidier than the rough edge of the hole.









I also chucked on the rear strut brace:



in other news, I broke the 5" extension and 17" power bar from my Powerbuilt 1/2" drive socket set.







This happened while trying to undo the hubnut on a mates car during an engine swap. At the end of the day we had a moment of silence for the 2 soldiers that didn't quite make it through.

The old man's taking it in to where it was purchased tomorrow to get a replacement under the lifetime warranty, so hopefully there's no problems there.

Chur.

[STina]

Car is coming along quickly. Heres that car
http://nzhondas.com/build-threads/71...ert-today.html

[lancew]

Car is coming along quickly. Heres that car
http://nzhondas.com/build-threads/71...ert-today.html

Cheers!
Oh cool, had a quick look last night but couldn't find it. Will definitely give it a read

[lancew]

So today I got around to removing the power steering.


These 2 fittings and everything attached were removed. The other 2 lines are still there as, unlike the DA they only go from one point on the rack to another.



The plan is to loop the 2 currently empty holes. I am undecided if I just want to cut the original hose and re-use the fittings or if I want to purchase new fittings. I will most likely re-use the old ones unless someone wants all the lines ETC (Highly doubt it though), then I will get new fittings.

Now empty spot where the P/S reservoir use to be:


Chur.

[lancew]

A small update.

The DA6 is sold!
This means I have some funds freed up to get the civic up and running a bit quicker

Chur.

[92vtec]

OMG. Gonna miss that thing bro

A small update.

The DA6 is sold!
This means I have some funds freed up to get the civic up and running a bit quicker

Chur.

[lancew]

OMG. Gonna miss that thing bro

Yeah me too. It went to some munter just south of Hamilton lol.

[92vtec]

HAHA, well hope that munter doesnt ruin it or make it rice like Fast and Furious.

Yeah me too. It went to some munter just south of Hamilton lol.

[lancew]

HAHA, well hope that munter doesnt ruin it or make it rice like Fast and Furious.

Yeah I hope so haha

[lancew]

An update for today. Last one before I'm back at uni tomorrow.

I decided to just reuse the original hose fittings to loop the power steering, like so:



I also picked up a few things from forum member velvet47

I picked up a mildly ported B16a2 head with Blox titanium valve springs and retainers





Exhaust side:


Some Blox spec 2 cams with AEM truetime cam gear copies





I have ordered some Blox cam gears and will most likely swap them over onto the cams.

He also gave me a cambelt, he was unsure if it was B16 or B18. If it doesn't fit I will just buy a new one.


I also picked up a new pod filter for the whale penis



That's about it. I've got a few more parts for the motor I'm organising to get later in the week so will keep you guys up to date

Chur.

[Horny_Devil]

i doubt you will pass a warrent with the PS looped like that

[lancew]

i doubt you will pass a warrent with the PS looped like that

Oh really? It seemed fine on the Integra.
I'll do a bit more research and see what other people have done

[da6boy]

just do a converson to manual ...pull this stearing rack apart and convert it