Looks good man, I reeeeally like the gold.

 

Alright skanks more updates. I worked my *** off today on my car and made some good progress. Dash is in for the msot part, did the last of the wiring that needs to be done, made the hole for the engine harness, and other stuff.

Dash ready to go in.

And the bay as it sits, bolted mounts and stuff in to see it.


And the hole in the firewall for the engine harness to go through.

Driver side all cleaned up an done, thos eare the only wires coming out and bled the master and put the slave in and the stainless braided line.

Interior wiring done and dash on its way.

And dash in.

Got my steelies back from my sister today aka I can drive it without worrying about rubbing!

Pretty cool picture.



Ended up putting my dash in, taking it out, then putting it back in again. There was one clip I had left that I didn't know where it went, so I pulled the dash again to look for where it goes, which I failed to do. So I went on the Honda site (it is Honda's online manuals to anything that us techs get to use) and found out the plug is some security flasher relay plug, which was an option from the factory, which I am assuming I didn't have because I don't remember it. So dash went back in and alls good. Tomorrow I am going to put in the rest of the interior and get ready for Saturday for the motor to go in!

 

...Updates? I spy newer pics on Facebook.

 

Facebook is teh gay.

Post here!

 

^ [Kenny-g Likes This!] ...my crappy attempt to the Facebook thing lmao

 

Yes I have been severely depriving you all of updates. So much easier to just upload pics off my iphone on to facebook haha. Maybe tomorrow I will post up more pics. But we put the motor in Saturday, went without a hitch. Spent a few days routing wire, extending wire to the fuse box, etc. I ended up severing the wires for my speed sensor in between the rear t bracket so I have to fix that as well as broke the female connector on the tps. But I will jut get a new connetor from work, all the techs have bins of harnesses. I started the motor today. After building oil pressure, it failed to start. I double checked my wire order on the dizzy and I had them backwards, tried again, fired right up. After about a minute of running it threw a code 61, primary o2. I shut it off when the cel popped up not knowing what it was. Kind of baffles me since I had no problems with my o2 previously, so I'm going to look in to it tomorrow. I got my charcoal canister mounted, used about 10 zip ties LOL (literaly). So it is just fixing the vss wires, mount the rad overflow, get the engine warmed up and coolant bled, finish bleeding the brakes, put body panels on, and take her for a drive! I am excited! Here's one pic for now, looks great!

 

So today I unplugged the o2 sensor and plugged it back in and reset the ecu. Started the car up and let it idle for a bit and warm up, held the throttle a bit to get thefan to kick in, and of course, throws a code. Code 23... Knock sensor. ****. And on top of that I over tensioned my timing belt, can hear it when it is running, sounds like a whirring noise from the cam. Super pissed, idk what I'm going to do about the knock sensor. I unplugged and plugged it back in, so after I retention the t belt I'll try again. Maybe tomorrow, I'm really sick of this ****.

 

Was just talking with someone from work, they brougth up a good point that my gas has been sitting for almost 6 monthes now... it is a good possibility. I will talk with our head tech tomorrow and see what he says.

 

my gas sat for 3 years and it ran fine when i finally started it. not saying yours will do the same, but i would atleast try and if you really need to drain it do it then. just put some fresh stuff in once you get it rolling to delude to old.

 

KNOCK SENSOR PROBLEM FIXED!

I didn't really think the gas would be the problem, I go to the same gas station every time and never had a problem. My dad stored his Vette's for 6+ monthes at a time without driven and never had a problem. Talking with our head tech he said there's no chance that is the problem, and to drain it I'd have to store 5 gallons of gas and get to the damn drain bolt which is under the black sealer they spray over everything.

So on to the solution. I took the plug off to look at the sensor and what not.

*Little info on the knock sensor wiring first*
The knock sensor is under the intake manifold, and is a 1 wire sensor. Honda, being cheap, still used a 2 wire connector and blocked off one of the wire holes.

So, this is where my idiocy comes in. When I did the engine harness, I depinned the plugs and put the sheathing over them. The knock sensor, being a 1 wire in a 2 wire plug, has to have the wire on the correct side. I didn't really think about it, and when I put the wire back in, I put it on the wrong side. I was looking at the sensor, took my mirror and realized the pin off the sensor was on the trans side, while I had the wire on the plug on the crank side. So I just switched the pin to the other side, and all should be fixed! Easy fix and I am glad I found it before I started digging in deeper. Just need to fix the timing belt, which I might do right now, they all should be good.

Also grabbed a vacuum bleeder from work and bled all my brakes, took a whole 10 minutes haha. I love these, I need to buy one. Went from literaly no pedal (solid air in both front lines) to normal brakes in 10. Finaly a good day working on the Civic for me, makes me happy to get this much accomplished and figure this much out.