Winter 08 build: The track package

[sr20deTsomeday118]

sexy build, i'd love to have the space to build up my car over winter. and about marenta, half the time she is feeling herself up while on this forum so i would just ignore that post.

[stylepointzz]

nice man

[Bumnah]

Update 2.0

These weren't a part of the game plan at all but I got a great deal on these piece slightly used. These arms and the rest I have planned, the entire rear end will have all spherical bushings.

I have no idea how the hell I'll ever get the alignment back together properly without taking it to a professional shop.

This may be my last update for a bit. My wallet is bleeding from all these recent purchases. Taking a break.

Battle Version Rear Lower Control Arms

Arm 01

Arm 02

More pix here as always.
Modified by Bumnah at 10:22 PM 12/29/2008

[eds13]

daaangggg....gonna be like the freakin best car built car on nico if you aren't careful, Amrit.

[yokota180sx]

finally, someone that isnt a COMPLETE idiot.

looks good

[Koshin]

are the s14 front lower control arms and upgrade over the stock equipment?? Just wondering....I just found some nismo front lower control arms...thinking of buying them, but these could be had cheaper I imagine

Those Battle Version RLCA are dope....expensive huh?? never looked at them before...

finally, someone that isnt a COMPLETE idiot.

looks good

I agree...dont see many good suspension builds...

Rich

[mattblancarte]

finally, someone that isnt a COMPLETE idiot.

looks good

[Bumnah]

S14 front lower control arms are longer than s13 front lower control arms. you end up running more negative camber with the s14s. I'll probably ditch the s14 lca's in favor of Battle version flca's or SPl front lower control arms.

Really depends on the $ situation. I'm getting tired of spending all this $ on this car.

[Bumnah]

Another couple pieces of the puzzle.

I've decided to tone back the suspension build. I'm cutting out the powder coating, I'm cutting out the aftermarket front control arms. I'm also cutting out some of the spherical bushings that are suppose to go in the uprights.

I was debating on doing an oil pump and timing belt change. That's another $400 to the build price. I was also debating on sending my injectors off to RC to have cleaned and spray pattern analyzed. I may still do the RC injector cleaning, but I may delay the timing chain and oil pump replacement.

Throttle body over boring and port matching of the intake manifold are both being delayed or canceled.

Too much $ and with this economy I can't justify the purchases. I'll have the suspension 85% they way I want it after this build.

New goodies:

GReddy gauges SMI with the control module. These things are being discontinued, so I grabbed the ones I wanted and got it over with. It took close to 3 weeks for the them to come in. I ordered the EGT gauge from FRsport and according to them I got the last one GReddy had at their NJ plant.

The control module has the peak hold function as well as 40 seconds of playback options. I primarily wanted the peak hold feature particularly for the EGT gauge. I also wanted to stick with GReddy since I already have my turbo manifold tapped for their temperature probe.

SMI control module

Oil Pressure gauge:

Oil Temp gauge:

EGT gauge I already have a 52 mm GReddy EGT gauge, but I'm replacing it with this guy:

Lastly, a new knock sensor. I got a fair price on it, and it's new, figured a decade old motor swap could use new sensors.

I'm going to hopefully get the car up on jack stands this weekend and start taking it apart. I've been waiting for the gauges to arrive so I can get started.

Next up will be the rest of the rear suspension.

Thanks for looking.More pix here.
Modified by Bumnah at 10:23 PM 12/29/2008

[ca18detgabby]

very nice build look forward to seeing the end result.

the blue dash is gay, whoever it is less gay then teh brown dash

my poop dash is awesome. idk what you are talking about.

[mattblancarte]

just hurry up and finish so you can get out to the track!

[Bumnah]

Car goes on jackstands on saturday. The build starts soon.

[andrewysjang]

where do you get your parts?

[Bumnah]

Most parts:

Some parts from frsport.com

SPL parts from splparts.com

Great customer service from all.

[Bumnah]

Minor update.

I finally had some free time and I got the car on jackstands this weekend.

Sounds simple enough but I had a ton of clean up to do.

I've been working on another project on my spare time as well, my friend suspension rehaul on his 95 Civic. I had been working in the garage previously pressing, burning and hammer out bushings.

The first step was getting the garage cleaned up.

Here's how it looked:



First thing I did was fire up the heat since it was cool 16 degrees F in the garage (yay winter builds).

I also took some profile pictures of the rear suspension to reference when all the new arms go in.

Rear Passenger side suspension:

Rear Driver side suspension:

Rear overview:

I had to throw away a ton of crap that was sitting in the garage. I wound up sweeping 3 times to get all the bushing dust off the ground. It was everywhere.

Cleaned up the table:

Had to make room for my friends remaining suspension arms and his parts. It's off the floor it's all that matters.

There was so much crap on the floor the car barely fit in the garage. Now, plenty of room. >=]

End result. It had to get on jackstands soon anyways. The cold temps were killing my tires. Now they're in the house in the nice warm heat.

Overall the car is ready to get worked on now. Tools are organized and there's plenty of room to work around.

Hopefully this week I will get the front bumper off, take off the OEM side mount intercoooler, and drain all the fluids. With any luck I can start removing the intake manifold.

Hope you enjoyed the minor update.

More pix can be found: here.
Modified by Bumnah at 10:24 PM 12/29/2008

[Bumnah]

.25 of an actual update.

I haven't had much time to work on the car recently. I wasn't going to update this thread so early, but what the hell. I was taking pictures of parts I'm trying to sell so I decide to post them in here as well.

I drained the oil. Removed the battery. Disconnected the throttle cable and the fuel injector harness. I start draining the oil, and I took off the front bumper. I'm going to drain the radiator fluid soon, but I have to get rid of all my old oil first.

I'm selling the OEM SMIC and OEM tension rods with poly bushings since I won't be needing them anymore.

Here's one pic for the hell of it


Modified by Bumnah at 10:25 PM 12/29/2008

[Bumnah]

I finally got my lazy *** in the garage and wrenched on the car. Not so much as to really get a lot done, but just to escape the every day problems and wrench on the car for a while.

I got the following done:

Removed the side mount intercoolerRemoved the intake tube.Removed the charge pipe & coild pipeDisconnected the wiring harness running along the intake manifold.Removed the vacuum lines and brake booster line to the manifoldRemoved the throttle cable.

How she looks right now:

After taking the piping out I took the couplers off and looked to see if there was any oil in the piping. Sadly there was. I suspected there to be some; is this much oil in the piping normal or too much?

Oil by the MAF. The pipe from the "T" on the valve cover comes in before the MAF.

The intake pipe after the MAF before the turbo:

Hot pipe:

I'm going to take the old oil and dump it at advance auto, and then I'm going to drain all the radiator fluid and get the manifold off.

A few more parts came in as well:

SR throttle body gasket:

New PCV valve:

Nismo long wheel studs for my rear hubs. (Long painful and expensive story).

S14 Throttle Body Pulley. I didn't think it was needed, but a write up on how to install the GReddy intake manifold stated to get this pulley. At $10 for the pulley rather have it in case I do need it.

Oil block bolts and 0 rings to go on the block. Last piece of the oil system puzzle.

Hopefully after the new years I'll have some time to really wrench on the car. We'll see.

Thanks for reading.

More pix here.

[dwclur]

So sick im having a really good time watching this thread and it makes me want to go out and work on mine now

[hbpignosePA]

looks like your making progress at least... i gotta get my lazy *** started (cleaning my garage up FTL)

what sort of heater are you using, ive been dragging my feet to get one but its gonna get alot colder

[Bumnah]

It's just a standard propane heater. It's made to heat a roome twice the size of my garage so after 20 mins of having it on. I turn it off. Once it's too cold I turn it back on again.

1 propane tank usually lasts me the whole winter.

[Bumnah]

I went back in the garage tonight. Needed another escape from reality.

Continued work on the intake manifold. I'd list everything I did, but it's easier to sum it up as I disconnected everything linked to the intake manifold, and I removed the intake manifold.

After I removed the intake manifold I went hog wild and removed the front bumper support as well.

There is a lot of oil in the intake system. A catch can is def. getting installed.

Pix!

Fuel system removed:

#4 injector seal is an issue. Probably send the injectors off have them cleaned and get new seal in the process.

Manifold completely removed. 3 support brackets holding the damn thing on. So annoying.

I've tracked the oil all the way to it's home; in my intake manifold.

Spent a total of 5 mins and removed the bumper support. I'll cut it to clear my intercooler and then reinstall it. I like my bumper support.

Next up remove the oem oil block and replace a lot of the rubber hoses hiding under the intake manifold.

Is the amount of oil I'm seeing normal or could this be a clue to a larger issue?

As always, more pix here.

[Ghast]

Nice very nice.

I like the builds that go into detail on all the small supporting parts. They really make a difference.

Beautiful work so far.

Staying tuned in on this one.

One Love,

Ghasty

[Bumnah]

Thanks. I hope it's worth all the headache. I'm really glad I'm putting in the intake manifold. Also seeing all the oil in the intake manifold makes me glad I took it apart. It was the proof I needed to justify an oil catch can.

[Bumnah]

Wrenched for a bit tonight. Hopefully hit it up again tomorrow night and Sunday as well.

I removed the rubber hoses under the intake manifold. Going to go to the auto store on Saturday and find suitable pieces. I'm also going to route the coolant lines so they do not go into the throttle body.

I removed the OEM oil block as well.I removed the OEM knock sensor.Seperated the TB from the old intake manifold.

I also removed all the bolts holding the oem oil plan to the block. The grey silicone sealant is apparently like cement, because I can't get the damn thing to separate. I banged on it with my hammer; no dice.

Next up larger hammer, and if push comes to shove, I'll jam a thick screw driver in the oil drain bolt and leverage it left to right and hopefully breaking the seal lose.

A bit frustrating I didn't get the oil pan off but it'll come. I was hoping to get the exhaust unmounted as well, but it'll have to wait for another day.

Lastly my new ball joints for the front lower control arms showed up.

Pix!

Everything off. Once I get the vacuum lines replaced I can start installing the aftermarket parts.

MOOG balljoints. They have grease fittings. Nice little bonus.

[mattblancarte]

That is a ton of oil in there. How many miles on the motor, and how much boost are you running?

[White Comet]

nice, my ball joints just got in today as well and their installed already

[Bumnah]

Yeah. Catch can is in the works.

I'm trying to get a bunch of work done on the LCA's as well. After I get the old ball joints out as well as the old bushing and race I'm having the arms sand blasted and powder coated. Then install everything.

I'm leaning heavily to just take it to a shop and have them press in the new bushings and ball joint

[White Comet]

i used an acetylene torch, and found a socket that fit in there and then smacked it out with a hammer in about 2 blows

[Bumnah]

I may go that route as well. Who knows. Really depends on the time I have. I barely have any time right to now to get work done on the car.

[White Comet]

i hear ya, working all the time makes it slow going. and on days that i do have off its either below freezing or raining or both, which sucks cuz my car is currently outside