I always forget your car is auto. It makes me sad.

 

You and me both. I've still got 3/4ths of the auto to manual conversion. Just need a transmission, linkage, slave cylinder, clutch... uh, cluster?

 

I just got an exedy slave cylinder off eBay for like $17 shipped.

 

I ended up doing USDM wiring instead of JDM. The LEDs I ordered are BRIGHT. I don't wanna attract attention with them as running lights.



Short clip of the fronts working.

 

I finally have rebuild cash saved up. The block is FINALLY about to go to the shop for the necessary machine work and it's gonna get rebuilt. Yeah, I could spend that money on a B swap, but this is my DD. I want it dependable as hell.

Someday I'll afford a fun car. It will NOT be a sedan and it will have a B series.

 

The project engine is now in the capable hands of a Honda/BMW mechanic. He's gonna tear it down on Thursday and let me know how it looks. Might have to get oversized pistons. We'll see.

I don't regret going this route on this engine. This is my DD. I don't have the tools or the workspace to do this right so it'll be reliable. He's a master mechanic and he'll rebuild it right. My car will go for another 100K or more on that engine.

Someday I'll have a fun car. Maybe it'll be B series.

[edit] Im so tired. I just realized I posted the same thing twice, slightly reworded, days apart. I haven't slept in 48 hours. I'm gonna go pass out.

 

Nice!!!!!!!!!

 

Has a slight mishap yesterday. Was driving and the idle felt wrong. Drove a little further, got to a stop light, and it started misfiring. Drove a little more and it went away, then came back as a flashing CEL. It was misfiring bad. I later learned that cyl 1 wasn't firing at all and cyl 2 was intermittent. I had to drive it home like that (not too far though). So yeah, that sucked.

Went through, tested spark. Got weak blue spark on all 4 cylinders. Plugs looked okay, cyl 4 had a lot of oil on it.

I replaced plugs (NGK V power) and wires (duralast!) and it runs great. Looks like I'll have nice fresh plugs and wires to swap over to the new engine soon.

 

ooohkay.... back to the project.

The cylinders are out of round. Not bad, but enough that just a hone will make it smoke. I'm looking at options for oversized pistons. I'll probably go for .25 over. Options?

This will be an auto street car for now. It's gonna be practically stock D. It'll have y8 intake mani swap and bigger exhaust. It'll already have a few more horsepower than it had. I'm not looking to make big numbers here. Is there a middle ground here? Something slightly better than stock overbore pistons that WONT require a tune?

So far, my search for 75.25mm pistons is not looking good.

 

Why not just 75.5mm? Did I miss that?