Dad thinks i'm in over my head....

Hell no, not with these organizational skillz!!

There might be alot to do but i got this.

Finally Found a motor!

After many weeks of looking for a replacement motor with many deals not working out i was searching for a b18b (1.8 liter) but then found the b18c for a super deal and bought that, its basically 10x cooler. it is a VTEC motor and is rated 170 hp and 130 ft/lbs here is an explanation of how VTEC works it's pretty cool it's a way to put two cams in one motor.  It came out of a GS-R Integra.
The plan is to send it off to the machine shop and have all the machine work done and all parts in the block and head will be replaced.

This is the motor after it was brought home. it took two hispanic's to lift it in and some how took 3 1/2 white boys to get it out. and my dad kept saying to whole time "this is a bad idea" well it went perfectly except he thought we needed 8 hands to do it so he throught out his back.

Some new Mods

So I was at the junkyard getting some misc. hardware and saw some fat 'ol rotors and calipers and decided to swap em in for mine. and i polished the calipers and am planning on brushing or sand blasting the suspension parts and repainting them, as they are super ugly. the calipers have bigger pots and the rotors are about a inch bigger in diameter and are slotted. I have comparison pictures, but not right now.

Plans for the car

The motor has been out a while and this gives me many opportunities to improve things and clean up. I did some extensive cleaning and gutting of the bay to find some surface rust i need to take car of. So there are a few things left but the whole bay is going to get a coat of paint. Another thing popular to modding these cars is custom wiring, mostly just to hide it and make working on the motor easier. I'm still debating it but i might re-wire the whole bay and motor,
here is a more recent picture of the cars state...

Engine Tear Down

The motor that came in the car must have had a really horrible previous owner that didn't know what oil is. Because the car spun a rod bearing, when a rod bearing fails it means that oil couldn't get to it and the rod starts to wear directly on the crankshaft and the causes tremendous friction and the bearing eventually seizes to crank and spin around ruining that crank. So I dismantled the motor and found which one it was by doing a simple test where you tap the rods with a hammer and the sound is distinct when the bearings are bad. and i inspected my oil and found some of the material the bearings are made out of, they are usually about 4-5 layers of different alloys for different purposes. I didn't filter my oil but i kind of want to now. There would be more pieces in there.

This is a piece of the bearing, i put the motor back together because it was taking up lots of room in pieces and then after i finished i realized i forgot to take pictures. 

      Some causes of a spun bearing are usually not changing the oil, a bad oil pump, or improper assembly, i don't know what it was, but it wasn't oil changes.

Day 2

    After some open heart surgery the autopsy will be on saturday but we successfully pulled the motor. Thanks to Bro. Ed White for letting me borrow his Cherry picker, Ha it looked alot smaller when it was in pieces.

        

   So we removed all the lower mounting brackets and this one just wasn't budging even with the epic breaker bar. then i tore the whole rubber mount apart "Oops wrong bolt" "dude it's this one" crap. and again I leaked power steering fluid every where again and of corse coolant too. I need to make a kitty litter run to the store. And after seeing it in a magazine we had to try riding the crane. 

It took like 20 minutes to put this thing together it was like a super heavy lego set that your friend lost the instructions to. 

Quotes:
Me: Dad i just finished pulling the motor!!!
Dad: It's a 1/4 past one you need to get to bed.
Me: Are you serious?

Julian: Dude you tore the whole motor mount.
Me: Oops wrong Bolt. 

Heres an artsy shot of the crane eye ballin' the motor. I quote Ed: "you can just through the chains on anything thats attached to the motor" ok. Dad: k make sure you put that on at least 1/4" in. bolts on 4 corners of the motor!

      Obvious i chose the first. Luckly the removal went very smoothly thanks to the shop that installed the motor when it was put in, there were two or three huge bolts missing off the back of the transaxle mount. 

     For some reason a lip on the transmission kept on getting stuck under the transmission mount and that was annoying so we dropped the motor then lifted up. 

        So for fun here's a picture of Julian Riding the crane and a pic when i got fed up with the hoist chains and just decided to pick to motor up outta the bay with my bare hands. 

       So just a few more pics and then a post later this week about what happened inside the motor. We got bets on  broken rod and broken rod bolt. I personally think it was bent then broke so we'll see Ivan is stoked outta his mind to see the inside of a motor and hold a piston. 

Day 1

Well due to a delay in acquiring an engine hoist it took two days to pull the motor but thats ok. So Ivan and Julian stopped by and on the first day the engine bay was gutted, all fluids drained, the harness unplugged and the axels removed. which meant taking a special trip to the AutoZone to get a massive two foot breaker bar, a 32mm axel socket and a ball joint separator. The ball joint separator was a life saver. I kinda want to keep the breaker bar. And I spilled every fluid in the entire car on the floor. I hate power steering fluid with a passion.  

With Ivan and Julian the bay was looking empty fast and we didn't break or lose anything. nice.  The floor was just power washed the night before. but you cant tell. haha the Fork bolts were tighter than the axel nuts. hmm. 

So after the ball joints were separated the axels came right out. 

Thats the long left axel it almost fell on my face but julian saved saved me. And thats me trying to separate a ball joint.