Zombine's DC2 tidy-up / rebuild 8/5/12 - Problems, Problems, Problems!

[flyinby]

My teg is nz new vti-r also, looks exactly like his.

same here

[Zombine]

Car has been painted now. Going to pick it up tomorrow morning, have the day off work And the reassembling will begin. Will upload some pics later on I took on my cellphone from this afternoon. Front bumper, front left quarter panel, passenger side door, rear quarter panel, rear bumper and rear filler panel have been resprayed.

panelbeated by marshall panelbeaters, painted by greenville auto painters.

[DrRubber]

sweeeeet man !!! looks good.

now just rims,coilovers and other goodies

[b_series_power]

looks like a nice job

[Zombine]

Coilovers will come at a later date, may settle for springs till I've paid off a few debts. Priorities suck

Thanks b_series_power you'll probably be seeing it in the near future anyway.

[b_series_power]

ill keep an eye out for it.. got any plans of side skirts, lips etc etc??

[Zombine]

I'd like to get a Zeal rear lip, and a front lip, undecided yet on what style I'll be going for. When it's road legal I'll most likely be popping over to catch up with degan.

[b_series_power]

I'd like to get a Zeal rear lip, and a front lip, undecided yet on what style I'll be going for. When it's road legal I'll most likely be popping over to catch up with degan.

you know degan??

[Zombine]

Yeah man he used to be contracted to us at work being our motor mechanic

[Zombine]

All put together, Took it for a WOF, flew though

So now it's all road legal, new motor goes hard and sounds awesome, especially with the J's intake Just one thing left to put on, and thats the little strip on the rear quarterpanel. half - decent pix to come

[spooner]

Awesome news man good effort how are you liking the type r engine compared to the old one.

[Ped Rac3r]

Heres the different bug eye front i've seen on most VTiR Integras.

Thats the USDM bugeye DC's, the NZ new Type R's also have the same front bumper too I believe.


Car looks good dude. Requesting some better pics though!

[Zombine]

Awesome news man good effort how are you liking the type r engine compared to the old one.

Goes alot better, sounds alot better too

Thats the USDM bugeye DC's, the NZ new Type R's also have the same front bumper too I believe.


Car looks good dude. Requesting some better pics though!

Yeah their coming tomorrow morning if I have time

[Zombine]

Well I went and snapped a couple of quick pix this morning, took it for a blat and recorded some vids of the engine in action.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=38vX6ghaywA

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GuXIfV34WRA

Still got to put that damn side strip on

[Zombine]

Update time.....Finally got around to stripping the old motor. heads off. Will be pulling apart the head tomorrow at work, and the shortblock will be getting pulled apart on the weekend. Slowly over time the shortblock will be rebuilt, as to what spec? I'm still undecided yet. bare head and bare block will be getting acid dipped soon, so should be nice and clean. The build will go from there. Pix will be up soon

Heads off to be acid washed tomorrow.

Edit: heres some pics.

[ryan540]

wow shiny bores

[xsiv]

looks good mate keep it up

[Zombine]

Thanks Will have the head back tonight, So I can get onto cleaning up the ports etc. Also pulled apart the intake manifold, that is also been acid dipped. IAB's are being removed, and the manifold will be port matched to the head. Will put pics up when I have some and when I have time to.

[Brent]

So youve just put a b18cr in and now you're rebuilding a normal b18c for the rebuild? I hope you're not keeping the crappy b18c 'banana' intake manifold?

[Zombine]

Pretty much

Got stuck in tidying up the ports after work, still alot more to go.

[DrRubber]

I thought it was a little strange to rebuild the non R engine....also I wanted to buy the old one.....now I figure I can buy the b18cr when the other one is built

[Zombine]

All depends if I can get my hands on a rolling body I can drop the R into once this motor is all done for a daily

[Zombine]

Heads all clean now, just needs more attention on the ports. been acid dipped (alkaline based), all outside of the head has been glass beaded, along with the combustion chambers.

[Zombine]

Block has been stripped down, and has been dropped off for acid dipping Should have that back tomorrow. Found some scoring marks on some of the crank bearings, seemed to be the only thing out of line in the bottom end as far as the crank goes.

In the head, All valves have been glass beaded, and wirebuffed, so are all clean. Have also started lapping them all in. intake valves need a bit more lapping though. Will post pics up tonight.

edit:valves were all vacuum tested today, came back sweet . Block is getting glass beaded tomorrow. Have started polishing the combustion chambers aswell.

[Zombine]

Been on a bit of a mission as of lately, tidying the car up. Made a new fake floor at work out of plywood, and carpeted it black, looks much better. Also gives me a little bit of room to use if i need Also started putting all the bits of plastic interior pieces back in, just need to sort out a new gearstick surround piece, and a new floor mat for drivers side

The engine rebuild has come to a little bit of a halt, as the prep work for the head is basically done, its had the exhaust ports polished, and has had the casting marks smoothed off. Just need to get some new valve seats, order my new springs, retainers, keepers, valve stem seals etc etc And I can start putting it back together Springs and retainers Will be aftermarket, Most likely from the Skunk2 catalouge. Still unsure wether I will run stock cams, or upgrade to aftermarket ones.

Edit: Also, The right inner CV joint broke, So I'm off up to strongs today to pick up a replacement item, and some more honda mtf *sigh* $37 a litre Going to have to replace the passenger side outer boot this week to as it seems it has split also.

Edit 2: Pix!

Floor - Also picked up some push clips for that rear boot plastic.


Head and cam girdle bits. - Went nuts with some scotch brite and a wire buffer, cleaned all these up, blew degreaser though all the oil ways, then blew them drive with an air duster.




Exhaust ports on the head - Been smoothed and have begun polishing.


Combustion chambers just need to be polished, then I'll port match the manifold to the head, then I can get a gasket kit for the intake manifold and reassemble that.