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[paul190181]

Rite a bit more progress this weekend , a few more hours welding a preping up panels and the car will be ready to get the engine bay and iside painted ready for the engine etc to be instaled , if te new valve train for the head decides t arive .

Edited by paul190181, 16 February 2011 - 06:58 PM.

[paul190181]

Rite Starting to get things together now , shells gone to have the engine bay and inside and wheel arches painted , loads of parts have arrived this week clutch exhaust manifold , orderd a edelbrook victor x inlet , engine should be ready collect from the machine shop tomorrow so il have that to put together , and ive also decided to take the easy route on the engine management and ive orderd my self a watsons dta kit , hopefully ill have a car with an engine in it in the next few weeks . only thing i need to do is find out where i can get a set of plug leads made up ,

Edited by paul190181, 24 February 2011 - 04:04 PM.

[ginger_monkey]

You can get the leads from Watsons or you can get some made for you like me and KAM did. Kam gave me this link and the guy was quite helpfull

http://www.formulapower.com/

[paul190181]

Rite , receieved the engine back today with its new pistons rebore and rods , and whilst it was their had it balanced and lightened. the integra head is also back with a full set of racing valves, springs and retainers and a lite port and polish , and managed to pick up a set of civic type r cams so should rev a little better than integra cams , watsons wiring loom and dta is on the way , so all i need is the car back from the paint shop then ill see if it will all fit .

[Kam]

Thats looking pretty sex wee so far!

Nice work mate, love the block and head work!

[paul190181]

Rite im finaly making some progress , i got the car back this afternoon from the paint shop ,excelent job as allways , spent the last 2 nite puting the engine together and it almost done , just the timing to do and bolt on a few little bits ,

[Kam]

I honestly don't know how you can tip-toe around a freshly painted shell and engine getting it all in!

Good luck to you, and use plenty of coverage!

Brave

[paul190181]

I honestly don't know how you can tip-toe around a freshly painted shell and engine getting it all in!

Good luck to you, and use plenty of coverage!

Brave

yeah i no it a bit of a mad way of doing it but i just wanted the engine bay nice and shiny before it all went in.

[paul190181]

Had a very good evening today finished the engine and timed it up , put the clutch and gearbox on and managed to get it all in the frame and in the car and it was not as bad to do as i first thought .

[Kam]

Nice work dude, looks a nice fit

How did you get the engine in there? lift the body over?

[paul190181]

Nice work dude, looks a nice fit

How did you get the engine in there? lift the body over?

Yeah it seems a good fit got a few bits to do to set it up propaly , but it all seems good , yeah lifted the shell over and on to the frame and it slid under pretty well.

[Kam]

Silly question but is this gonna be the only way you can take the engine out now by lifting the shell over? If you got a 4 poster then your fine

If you haven't then I hope you got small fingers! things will be tight to work on in there!

[paul190181]

Yeah that is the only way i can get it in , i think im going to have a lot of scraped nukles tho , I cant get to use a four post hoist but iv got the use of a pit so that should make it a bit easier .

[izzy]

looks absoultuley brilliant .

Did that subframe need adjusting to fit that B18? if not does that mean its kind of adjustable or was it made for a mini B18 conversion?

[izzy]

sorry i just read the mini tec site and have found the answer.

Very expensive aswell!!!