I've been thinking lately and I dont really like the quality of the black housing headlights. My opinion has changed on liking them because I am getting Hid's soon and I feel like they wouldnt look right with them. Also, the light projection at night just doesnt seem right and no matter how hard I try the adjustment ***** dont even adjust at all. Yes, they are from eBay so you cant always expect good quality but already my driver side one has a piece broken that is laying inside the housing. So instead of ripping it all apart I ordered real EG6 SiR Headlights and Corner lights from way over in Tokyo. I normally dont spend this much but I really like how they look and I dont want to go back to OEM Housings. So as of now those and some 10k Hid's are on the way.

I'll sell the ones I have now to a friend or something lol.

 

Got the Crank Seals today,

Here is another updated motor build list:
Bold=Purchased

JDM D15b Motor Build
Ex/Si Tranny
P28 ECU Chipped and on P08 maps
Exedy Stage 1 Clutch Kit
OEM Timing belt & Tensioner
OEM Water Pump
OEM D16y8 3 layer Aluminum Head Gasket
Intake Manifold Gasket
Exhaust Manifold Gasket
Valve Cover Gasket & Tube Seals
OEM NGK Spark Plugs
OEM NGK Spark Plug Wires
Distributor Cap & Rotor
FRAM PVC Valve
ARP Head Bolts
ARP Rod Bolts
OEM Flywheel Bolts
NPR P29 Domed Pistons over-size 75.5mm
NPR P29 Piston Rings
Brian Crower Stage 2 Camshaft
SuperTech Ti Valve Springs and Retainers
D15b7 ACL Main Bearings
D16z6 ACL Rod Bearings
AEM Tru-Time Adjustable Cam Gear
NGK O2 Sensor
OEM Valve Cover Bolts
Oil Pan Gasket
Bomz Racing Lightweight Underdrive Crank Pulley
Gates Racing Low Temp Thermostat
Rear Main Crank Seal
Front Crank Seal


Machine Work
Head - Port & Polish, Hot Tanked and Milled
Block - Bored & Honed .25 to .50 over
Crank - Micro-Polished and Machined
Tune
Shotpeened Rods

Here is a picture of the seals and a couple other things I never posted:




ARP Head studs



Water Pump and Tensioner

 

Update: Got my 10k Hid's and threw them in even though I dont have the headlights and corner lights yet.


Found out today my dad is paying for this quarters college (birthday gift) so I can finish my swap. that will help. I just sent the guy at one6 racing my paypal info to order the Koni STr.t's and Blox coilovers for $460 shipped. Anyone let me know if you are looking for lightly used Tein S Tech springs or Brand new H&R's. I'll probably put them up in my for sale thread when I get them off.

 

The Koni/Blox setup should be here thursday, it will be a nice late birthday present to myself lol. I have been playing around with some compression calculators and found that I can't use my OEM headgasket. After some research I found that with the thin headgasket my compression would be around 14:1 lol. This is because with the JDM D15b, the rods are the same length as the z6 but the block deck is lower. This means the wrist pins sit higher in the piston to compensate for how long the rods are. Since I am using the P29 pistons they will sit higher in the hole. So I looked up the possible sizes of head gaskets that Cometic makes and found one that brings the compression down to around 11.7:1 which is a little more realistic for pump gas, its something like .095".

From here on out I plan on just spending all the money I get on the motor until its finished. Also, if any of you have suggestions on how to go about tuning it feel free to let me know your opinons. Thats the only area I'm not familiar with.

 

Recieved the EG6 Headlights and Corner lights as well as the Koni/Blox setup.







Havent dropped the car yet because I got off work too late last night. It will be lowered by tonight I hope.

I also like how clean the headlights look. You can tell the quality that comes with something made by honda. Somehow the just seem to fit much nicer.

 

The headlights look AMAZING!!!

 

Alright so I've been super busy these last couple days but I dropped the car more yesterday. Still needs some adjustment to match the ride height all the way around but I'm very pleased with the appearance and quality of the ride. No problems except for when I had to remove the top hat from the rear driver side. I wouldnt of had the problem but you have to re use the top hats. This happened because when I originally put the Tein Springs on the allen part on the top of the shock stripped. So I had to cut the nut off and use a nut that didnt have the nylon in it. To keep it secure I put locktite on it and what do ya know? I couldnt undo it. So I pulled out the trusty hacksaw



Here are some pictures of the car. Nice and dirty






Oh yeah, my alternator went out today. Plan on swapping one of the spare ones I have in tomorrow.

 

Ordered the ACL Race Bearings for the motor. Had to buy z6 rod bearings and a full set of d15b7 bearings since no one sells just the mains. That completes the lower end if my head gasket situation works out, not counting what I have to spend to get the stuff back from the machine shop.

 

Just getting to this thread sorry...daym im really liking ur civic mann...thats really low tho but with everything uve gotten into ur car it looks good And i like the hx wheels and am glad uve kept em haha i love mine lmao im in the process of painting my center capse semi-gloss black and eventually the rims themselves the same color...but anyway uve got one nice @$$ project here keep up the hard work and maybe ull end up with the ride of the month lmao

 

car is looking really good man, but i still vote to paint the door trim and the lip to match. I think it just looks a lot better IMO.

but keep up the good work