[Alperovich]

as the title states. I finally got a chance to look thru the 200+ pictures i took last weekend, plus a few video clips......

ps, incase you don't recall, here's the thread from a few months back when we pulled my motor out.

http://www.acura-legend.com/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=95024

trunk of parts :mhihi:

We started the project off Thursday nite with the heads. working a few hrs into the night getting the heads on and timing started...

here's some older shots of the heads...

heads assembled and ready to go..

we just moved in all our stuff into my friend Mike's garage (sirhannick), Ben looking for something

the start.....

heads are on...

oil pan

timing

Next morning (friday) we started off early, had a good breakfast hoping to tackle the whole project that day. It was a busy day and i didn't take alot of pics.

headers...

ben busted.....

me working on getting the front of the engine together, coolant lines hooked up. Pulley's installed. we ran into a issue with the power steering pulley. still have to take care of that.

wiring harness ready to go, getting ready for the intake manifold.

pretty much ready to go on the engine.......

yes thats right the big NSX filter!

back to the project.

Mike made these awesome extended O2 sensors. they are wrapped in the same stuff ppl wrap headers with. even though they don't really touch the headers. They fit perfectly.

awesome obx quality, couldn't have asked for better. :bs:

Saturday afternoon...

swapping the stand for hoist

Getting ready to install the trans the first time.

saturday was a bust, we installed the trans on, then spent a few hours trying to get the clutch fork into place. with no luck, i came to the conclustion the fork must be damaged. We called it a day.

sunday morning......

saw this 6spd coupe on our way to mike's garage after breakfast, yes we left a note!

So we started the day off by pulling the trans off and seeing why the fork isn't sliding onto the bearing

wow that is bent! we used my hydraulic tool set to spread the arms out, sorry i forgot to get a pic of that :headscrat:

once again the trans is in place, fork is installed, slave cylinder is installed.

me trying to flintstone my coupe

the infamous drop. it went not too bad, pretty smooth, aside from crushing a power steering line , who needs powersteering anyways

engine is in!

we did come across a major issue, I used the wiring harness from my parts car (93 auto LS) which has 1 plug on the harness that different btwn a manual and auto. I didn't get a pic, but i will. I had to make a harness using the firewall harness from my parts car and my old engine harness to go in btwn my firewall harness and new engine harness.

Sorry i don't have anymore pics of the engine installed or the car ready to go, i don't have a camera, and my sister took the one she was letting me use b/c she needed it.

However once its avaible to me, i'll get some video footage and more pics very very soon!

Special thanx to,

Mike (sirhannick) and his parents for putting up with us and leting us make a mess in the driveway/garage.

Ben (swift) for all the hard work in helping make all this possible.

Ken (kenso) for advise thru out this build (this weekend and in the past!)

Matt (sr5guy) for helping solve our no-start issue + tons of other advise thru out the build process...

John at Land Air Association for the machining work (heads, block, quality work, great guy and fair priced)

my friend Zack and the guys over at Pully Acura in Highland Park

Brian (aim:internetautomart) for all the non-acura parts. (best deal on parts ever!)

AND anyone else i may have missed!

 

[truonghthe]

yeh keep up the good work Alex show us some more pic when you done and some video clip too.

 

[ATLfoKuS]

sweeet! nice work man, I only wish I had all the knowledge to do a full build like that, oh maybe some day, I wanna see some pics once she is all setup and running. Nice work.


..pCe..

 

[swift]

finally you posted!

(and on 4/20) Sweet pics.


"like smack talking your opponents without saying a word"

 

[AustinForester]

Nice job alex! Great Job

 

[Ting]

:thumbsup:

Hardcore stuff.
:bowdown:

:bowdown:

 

[bandoni™]

wow very detailed post! I love those valve covers great job!!

 

[bboarder711]

oh she looks soo good!!!

 

[mrkeith]

Dang--this is the coolest thread I've seen in a long time. That's going to be FAST! Take videos.

Cheers,
Keith

 

[sirhannick]

Special Thanks To:
Baby, The Vdub Cabrio who was kind enough to give up her space in the garage for the engine building

Sleeper Cell, The Dodge Ram who was kind enough to share his garage with the import engine.

We threw in a different PCM yesterday because of the problems with Alex's PCM (Who the hell did that shitty ass soldering job on the ZIF socket?) and got it running half decent. Lets just say without an exhaust system it's deafening. No as cool as my Ram without headers spewing out fire from the exhaust ports though Drove it around the block and it went, but it definitely needs some tuning and breaking in.

 

[whyteLegend]

Great job :thumbsup:


awaiting video opcorn:

 

[Dv8]

Looks like some work has been put in. Good.


~Dv8

 

[TheLegend5peed]

mad props for doing all that work. Good job

 

[OhGeez]

Great pics!!!! Good job to all you guys. Can't wait to see her run.

 

[sr5guy]

Lookin good mang. I love how you can take dramatic pictures of a... erm... motor . That OBX Y-pipe is a travesty. My girl could weld better than that. There is one thing I'm slightly dissapointed about - you had the whole engine rebuilt and didnt install a new oil pump!!! Wassamattaforyou!

Were you going for a color match between those k-sports and valve covers?

-Matt

 

[lgnd4u2nv]

that looks sweet! cant wait to see it finished and videos!

 

[Telion]

Damn that is impressive and motivating AWESOME JOB you two. Now that I am rejuvinated I gotta go make my clutch fork look like yours . . .lol

 

[whats77inaname]

How long did it take you to get everything in?

 

[lastdaze602]

That was the sexiest thing I've ever seen in my life!!!:naughty:

 

[ptan1968]

Fantastic work and you guys are real good mechanics.