Building for the road course...again

[gotovato]

Waiting to hear back from them as I added a few more parts to the list. Sooner I can lock in this pricing the better.

removed in the spirit of competition



My car currently sits at the shop waiting for the dyno. I had a member on the k20a forum suggest I use a battery powered carbon monoxide detector to diagnose my head gasket issue. He was saying to put it in a bag. Seal the bag around my overflow or rad cap and see if it goes off at all. This could work

 

[jdab555]

Why are you at the dyno again if you're pulling the motor later?

 

[gotovato]

Why are you at the dyno again if you're pulling the motor later?

For science!

To see what it makes with the current tune which is a lot different from the tune I did the first dyno on.

We really just wanna see the graph, if there are any differences and where they are at in the rpm band

 

[Easter Bunny]

Plus you dyno the new motor and get to see the 25 naturally aspirated horsepower you gained for several thousand dollars lol

 

[gotovato]

Plus you dyno the new motor and get to see the 25 naturally aspirated horsepower you gained for several thousand dollars lol

Sad but TRUE hahaha. I love it. Whatever

 

[gotovato]

Test fit = success.
17x9 +35/45 rpf1’s have terrible terrible big brake clearance.


17x9.5 +18 on the other hand….fits great


Will be picking up a pair for the fronts. Not sure if I’m more excited for the new engine or the new wheel setup…lol

 

[gotovato]

Hahaha. The shit lost 14whp and 5wtq. It did push coolant. We did 2 pulls. First was 208whp and 151wtq.
second was 212whp and 154wtq.
It made 226whp and 159wtq in April.


Ah well. Time to pull the motor

 

[Easter Bunny]

It was a good run

 

[gotovato]

It did well for what it was. Gave me a ton of fast laps for sure.

Time to get going on the new shit now.

removed for NDA compliance

 

[Easter Bunny]

So you are overnighting parts from Japan?

 

[gotovato]

Haha I wish it was overnight parts from Japan. That’s another hollywood part of that movie.

removed in the spirit of competition

Guess they gotta send the cam dude up the mountain to fire up the foundry and bang out some big cams. Who knows. Apparently they pride themselves on doing everything in house.


Let’s hope this motor makes at least 245. Things gonna feel like a rocket

 

[gotovato]

What up yall.

things kinda escalated quickly here…started around 1pm…
Engines entirely free. Hanging by driver and pass mounts. Everything else is out.
Axles weren’t as bad as I thought haha


Now honestly the hardest part…finding a friend and an engine hoist. Fuck me.

 

[SyntheticAtmosphere]

I gots one, but its like 5hrs north!

 

[gotovato]

I gots one, but its like 5hrs north!

Haha thanks. I’ve got a buddy about 35 minutes away with one but he likes to sleep until 4pm on weekends so if I don’t hear from him soon that’s gonna be trouble tomorrow lol.

We’ll see what I can figure out here

 

[Easter Bunny]

Lower the car set the motor on something, disconnect and jack the car way up

 

[gotovato]

Lower the car set the motor on something, disconnect and jack the car way up

The car is at max height as is. My jack doesn’t go any higher so it would be some type of fight for sure.


An engine hoist would make it reasonable at least

 

[gotovato]

Update.

Will begin tear down tomorrow probably.

Drove 2 hours round trip this morning for the hoist. Buddy met me at my place. Engine came out with 0 hassle. Was a piece of cake some how haha

 

[gotovato]

Nice smoooth job here

Civic Engine Pull

 

[gotovato]

I forgot to post the carnage we found.

I’ll post the pictures and let you guys come to your own conclusions but I think I know what happened here

First clue
Hmm…missing a tang here

Where’d it go??

all pressure plate bolts were destroyed. We removed with a bolt extractor

Looks like that piece broke off. Flew around everywhere then made its way out my clutch fork opening!!!

Seems to be purely cosmetic damage. I will reuse everything.



Clutch/pressure plate seems to be in great shape still. 2 seasons on it, approximately 30 trips to the track and maybe 10,000 street kms.

 

[L337TurboZ]

Are you sure you want to reuse the flywheel?

If it chipped in the first place then it could be a defective ring gear in terms of metal casting. Or would there be some kind of burr on the starter gear that caused it to break?