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[mini_mad69]

Well whether I like it or not I know the crank has gotta come out and get the block honed with new springs fitted all round, great

Springs = Rings

Only two washers came out? Is that normal?

Yup, Thrust washers

As I will be getting the block honed I wasn't sure if these oil ports needed to come out?

Under crown cooling jets is what they're sometimes called.

if I'm only gonna change the spring set on that one piston that is,

Rings




Looking good though Kam!

Edited by mini_mad69, 29 December 2010 - 11:25 PM.

[Kam]

Springs = Rings

Haha cheers mate, yeah I keep meaning to say rings, typo, honest

[paul190181]

Nice build mate , now tarting my own build usinga b18c , into a standard round nose

[Kam]

Nice build mate , now tarting my own build usinga b18c , into a standard round nose

Cheers mate, have you started a build diary on here yet? Which frame are you using, if its an allspeed one then check out Gingermonkeys build, allspeed b18 in standard length

[Kam]

Aint been doing much on the car lately as I have been studying

I did however get my powdercoated items come through











Nuff said really

I didn't want them in pearlescent caribbean blue (car colour) as thats what a normal person would do and I don't do normal this way they should hopefully match up nicely with any hoses around the bay

As for the engine rebuild, I'm currently swotting up on honda rebuilds before I tackle it, managed to get hold of a book from across the pond, was a couple of pre-owned ones over here but wanted it new....



From the day I paid for it I got it in four days from the USofA which is quite something really **Take note british postal system**

Also bought a rebuild dvd from across the pond, I like to have as much arsenal as possible at my disposal before I head in!!!!! I've got the Bill Sollis 1380 builder dvd and was hoping to find similar for hondas but there aint surpringsly alot out there? Theres a few books and loasda info on the information superhighway but I'm more of a dvd than reading type person.....

I'm not skim reading through the book or the dvd, I am taking my time with it and soaking in as much stuff as possible, however it is funny how you can make a big deal over something but once you start properly looking at it and reading up about it it don't seem half as bad or that daunting, so as and when I'm ready I'll crack on with it

And no, I still haven't bought a clutch yet

[Burnard]

Perdy, rocker cover looks allot better than it did:


Buttsticker hiding most of the damage me thinks?

I thought you would have it coated brown, or pink or something

[Kam]

Haha cheers Chris, I forgot about that pic you took

I hate showing the bay at shows when its still work in progress......

[Burnard]

I didnt take the pic, mini-jon did, but meh. any excuse to get the butsticker up

[Kam]

The engine re-build is comming along fantastically - I haven't started it yet but I'm almost done reading my book, so I'm nearly ready to start

In the meantime I took the block to an engine builder and got the walls re-honed, he chucked it in the hot tank aswell and cleaned all the crud off it, all the paint is comming off in places now so I might just strip it and leave it bare, main thing is its been re-honed





He asked me what engine it is, and when I told him and that its for a mini he and others just started laughing and said "You'll never get the power down?" Really?

I decided to pick up one of these aswell



So not only can I clean engine parts but I can also clean the dishes aswell after! Two birds with one stone!

Then my day started to just get better and better

Had these come through



A fellow and very kind mini owner sent me these from canada, was meant for his B16 build but he went overbore and so didn't need these, I say very kind because he just sent them through for nothing from canada! Hows that for a mini community! Thanks alot James

As I recently managed to get my hands on some EK9 civic type-r cams for my head, I've gone one better and managed to find by luck an EK9 civic type-r head!





Its comes with no cams (which I've got) but all the valvetrain so 8600rpm here I come!



Both the civic and integra type-r use the same head which is my B16a2 one but the only differences are the valvetrains above and cams but this also this gets a 'mild' port and polish from the factory

I think its around 10 thou port, you can feel a slight difference in the inlet port where the casting join is

My B16a2



B16b



You can only just feel the casting join in all the ports whereas on mine theres an edge to it, other than that all the stamps look pretty much the same



So there I was pleased as punch, what a day! But then the icing on the cake......









1.8 integra type-r bottom end

I think this might go nicely with my civic type-r head and cams and 3.4 final drive and rovers finest steel wheels

The above was found by luck, came from a '99 teg with 110k on it, the guy breaks 'tegs and his mate was after a head, so he went out and got one and started breaking the car, by pure luck I call up asking for another part and got chatting away and he mentions a recently aquired bottom end sitting in his lock up, the rest as they say is history

The above was not part of the plan! obviously my plan keeps taking a sidewards and not forwards movement but the next step is deciding whether to get some civic type-r pistons or keep the 'teg ones? civic ones will bump up the compression but either way this bottom end is gonna be taken apart (hmmm sound familar?) so pistons have gotta come out anyway

My B16 once rebuilded will be sold, but I'm rebuilding this first as I need an engine in my car! I would like to drive my car again!

Been checking the difference between the blocks, couple of minor differences, first one that sticks out is the engine mount on the cam side, B16a2 has two studs



But the B18 has three for its mount





So I'm gonna take off the mount from the B16 and swap them over, I need to keep my B16 ones.....all will be revealed later why

Other difference is on the back of the block just above the coolant back pipe, there is a plug sensor on the B18



But on my B16 there aint a plug in there, checked all my previous pics when I first bought the engine home and nothing



I think it might be for the knock sensor but not sure? either way its wasn't there on mine so I'll ignore it!

[Kam]

I also picked up the top half of the cambelt cover



My block is 263mm and B18 is 270mm so my cambelt cover wont fit, or the cambelt!

Then the biggest worry of all - my custom exhaust manifold.......

I've tried to pull the manifold down as far as I can





This is the most I can pull the sleeves out before the slits start showing through, I don't think its gonna be enough, my manny hugs both the block and sump so it might clear them both but then comes the next problem - my link pipe is 2" and I'm gonna need 2.5" for a 1.8! so that means its gotta drop even lower so the bigger link pipe can clear my gear linkage and tunnel, it was already close as it is

Spoke with the guys who made the manifold, he said "no worries" he can 'add' on a few extra cm of sleeving at the bottom of the manifold so I can drop it further and make up a link pipe of 2.5" following the angles of my current one for around 80 notes Just gotta decide what I'm doing about my back box as thats a 2" opening aswell......

So everythings here to get started on, and I will but I got a book to finish first.......and maybe buy some new pistons....

God I love cars

[mini_mad69]

Sound great, but I thought you wern't after more power ?

You'll be strapping the turbo on before the end of 2011

looks great though. When are you aiming to get it all back in one piece?

[Burnard]

[joshminivan]

i love this

[minidream94]

Looks good Kam, but what is the the final engine going to be :S i got abit lost

You still going to run it on the steelies or are you changing over to alloys?

[Kam]

Sound great, but I thought you wern't after more power ?

looks great though. When are you aiming to get it all back in one piece?

I wasn't!!!! there I was happy as larry going about my way and I seem to find things that can be hard to find!

Plan is to get this to Le Mans in june

i love this

Cheers mate, I don't

Looks good Kam, but what is the the final engine going to be :S i got abit lost

You still going to run it on the steelies or are you changing over to alloys?

I can understand that!

B16 will be sold once built, This build will be a 1.8 integra type-r bottom end with maybe (civic type-r pistons) and civic type-r top end complete coupled up to my Y21 (standard 1.6) box with my ever faithful 3.4 final drive, should get me around standard integra power (187hp) or god knows what with the civic pistons and a slightly higher compression???? Might need LSD but I want to see what its like first without it......

so after all that basically a type-r engine

And yes, keeping steelies! I aint getting big alloys, no way as it won't go with the rest of the cars look, not a fan of big alloys on minis, yes they might corner better with a hybrid engine but I'm sticking to my guns - minis look better when they look like a mini inside and out