Stay tuned, ill be photo bombing this build thread.
the beginning


How she is now running ( some slight differences)




unfortunately this is the only pic of the currently built engine. Sleeves pistons, Rods, cams, solid lifters, Springs, etc.

cwest bumper and hood 5 lug conversion and some Chrome z's and hours of sanding and primer.

new wheels came in
Much better!

My "new" seats before and after

Got all my diff goodies!!!


Tt axle with q45 diff axle and hubs with some extended wheel studs pressed in.

Let the fun begin!!!

4.08 ring gear with q45 guts


shims I had to make with a tubing Cutter to fill the gap from the s13 ring gear bolt to the q45 vlsd assembly.


all put back b together

A good comparison of the Monster axle upgrade!

Let this mother f*** burn! lol. Even if you can get them out without burning them (which of they are bag enough, you can) its still fun lighting stuff on fire!



Diff axles hubs subframe bushings all done

My uprights (I actually used my s13 drop Springs instead)


the last of the poly urethane bushings!! The best day of my life! Lol


Uprights all done up.


tuckin slicks!!! Lol

Power = broken transmission. ... By By sr helloooo vg!

Bell housing off to machine shop


everything test fitted!!!

My baller fan controller! Lol




this is how I wired it up (stole this from moso on here a while back)
if your going to copy this don't get the fan switch from napa. Mine and mosos switch went bad within a year. I'm running a fan switch from orrielly made by import direct which is basically genuine Honda.
Also I did away with the emergency switch, and ran the power wire that goes through the relay to the fan switch from the 10a fuel pump wire and just grounded the other wire from the switch straight to ground. The way it is in the diagram would make the relay buzz sometimes.

Some nicks and nacks






Sold my baller apexi bc for this

it actually works better than ebc!!

Twisted motion bov welded on




hooked up to my ported throttle body and intake manifold.
It was actually quite a task to get this thing to pass a boost leak test and function properly with my car being maf, inevitably I ended up running this one super tight, and my ssqv on the other side.

trying to solve the infamous catch can filling up problem. This actually works but I will be eliminating the stock catch can to clean things up by running the line straight into the vc with an a/n fitting and stainless line.

Time for stacking parts for vvl monster


Christmas for myself!!!

Match made in tuner heaven! Fic flow matched 1650cc injectors with aem peak and hold driver (any ecu I will use doesn't support low impedance and didn't want to run resistors, this will make it more drivable anyways)

some port work before ceramic coating

short ram intake? I think yes!

Looks very good so far! Keep the hits coming. I take it you used urethane bushings for the Z uprights?

Yeah I took the urethane bushings out of my old knuckles and used them in the uprights. The uprights are wider so had to cut them in half but worked just fine. These uprights came from a q45 that had hicas so that had to be pressed out and bushing halves went in no problem.

pita

cut off the runners and hat for future porting


vvl head!

Btw if anyone Comes across some sr16 cams lmk. The cams in this engine were rusted so im on the hunt.

HUGE BRAKETHROUGH!!!
nobody makes a vvl top feed fuel rail but this will fit with only 2 custom brackets!



manifold sort of mocked up, no clearance issues.

All looks good to me... But so far I'm not seeing anything remotely "budget".

Lol I knew that was coming. Most of the other stuff I already had and was going to build the sr with anyways. "Budget" comes to play how I will do the head and head only.
So far in the head swap I'm $80 into it.

$100 if you count my Harbor freight air saw. Lol

I wish I could find a VVL head for a good price, but everyone knows that they can charge big bucks for it...
One of these days I'll do this swap too, always been one of those things I want.

But then again, I'm gonna need a stronger trans and rear end first...

Diff should handle the power. Trans is usually first to go. My trans only lasted 2 months at 25 psi on my gt3071rwg . I could have got another stock trans but with my future goals I found pointless.

My s12 has an r180... its welded, but it still won't take much to break something.
Actually I'm more worried about axles.

I've already popped 3rd gear on my original w71c, now I'm on a lower mile s13 box but its just a matter of time.