I haven’t had much time to do any work on my 1993 Honda Civic for a while now but I still drive it daily and every time I get behind the wheel I get excited. It’s not the excitement of a new car or 500 horsepower but instead it’s the fact it works great and [...]
Engine / Performance JDM D16A VTEC Engine Honda P28 ECU Centerforce Dual Friction Clutch Vibrant Short Ram Intake NGK Blue Ignition Wires Megan Racing 4-2-1 Chrome Header 2.5″ Exhaust with High Flow Resonator Magnaflow Muffler with Chrome Tip Aluminum Radiator B&M Fuel Pressure Gauge Interior Custom Center Gauge Pod – Water Temp / Oil Temp [...]
I finally got my D16Z6 engine block back from the machine shop yesterday and took a bunch of pictures to post up the blog. As you can see the Block Guard is nicely installed in my D16 Block. The machine shop did a very nice job on boring and honing out the cylinders. After the top [...]
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7 Comments »My D16Z6 block has been sent to the machine shop and hopefully I get it back in a week or two so I can start building the motor. Once I get my block back I should start posting more updates regularly so come back to my site soon or register for my RSS Feed to [...]
It’s the 9th of January and this is my first post of 2009. I’ve been lacking on posting updates on the blog as I haven’t been doing any work on the RC D16 Turbo Build or any type of work on my Honda Civic. Ever since the 19th of December we have been hit by a ton [...]
The XMAS holidays were very different this year with Rocky’s passing and the crazy amount of snow, so I wasn’t really into doing anything on my RC D16 Turbo Build. I had 2.5 feet of snow over the week so I spent a lot of time just plowing my driveway. XMAS eve was great to [...]
We’ve had our first big snow storm this season and my Honda Civic drives pretty good in it. I swapped my wheels back in October to my old 13″ steel wheels and added a set of snow tires upfront and a good pair of all seasons on the rear. She’s a bit lower then a [...]
My D16Z6 Turbo build parts finally arrived today and man did I have a smile on my face after opening the box. The Vitara pistons and I-Beam rods are of great quality and craftsmanship and the block guard looks nice too. I have all the gaskets that I will need to redo the bottom end now [...]
After 2 more hours I finally finished notching the cylinders yesterday. I went through a bunch of grinding bits as some fell apart from cheap glue and others just got used up after intensive grinding. The I-Beam connecting rods should work fine now with the vitara pistons but if needed I can always touch up any cylinders that [...]
I finally got some time tonight so I went ahead and took out my dermal drill and started notching the cylinder walls. It’s not a hard job to do but takes lots of patience and a steady hand. I had to swap a few sanding stones to get the botom side done so for the opposite [...]
The next step while waiting for my pistons and rods to arrive is to chase all my threads and to notch the bottom part of my cylinders. The notch is 3/4″ wide, 1/4″ deep and 1/4″ down the cylinder wall. The reason I need to notch the cylinders is because the I- Beam connecting rods [...]
I sand blasted my D16Z6 block, cylinder head, intake manifold, and valve cover today and man do they look sweet now. Once I do the machining and put the bottom end internals in I intend to paint the block. I haven’t picked a color yet but I’m thinking of a high heat orange-red, but this is still [...]
