I installed a B&M fuel pressure gauge last night and now I have a better understanding how my fuel pump and fuel pressure regulator are working together. When the vacuum hose is connected between my fuel pressure regulator and my intake manifold I get 31PSI at idle and 40PSI at full throttle and when I [...]
The car has been running good since this morning so I decided to wireup the VTEC tonight. I soldered all the wires to make sure I was getting good connections and used some zapstraps to keep the wires tidy. Overall it was an easy thing to do and now I don’t have the engine light [...]
The engine still had issues running rough the last few days and I didn’t have time to do the valve adjustment to see if that would help so I messed around with the sensors last night and added some fuel injector cleaner into the tank and this morning it seems to be good. I also [...]
After all that work yesterday I knew I would find a solution soon because I was running out of things to check. Today I went to the parts store and picked up some new NGK spark plugs, NGK ignition wires, distributor cap and rotor, fuel filter and a radiator cap since my old one disintegrated [...]
The car still stumbled today at WOT so I swapped the throttle body which included the MAP Sensor and the Throttle Position Sensor but unfortunetly it still stumbled after that. Just to be sure there was no difference in the IACV I also swapped the IACV(Idle Air Control Valve) from my D15B7 to be sure that had [...]
It’s been a few days since my last post but I have been researching information about my ECU, VTEC and why my engine surges while giving it gas. My first ECU was giving me code 19 which was an auto tranny sensor, so today I went to the wrecker and picked up a proper 5 [...]
Saturday – Final assembly, fluids and startup Today I started with hooking up the gear shift linkage and mounted the exhaust. Then I mounted the drive shafts and put the suspension back together. I hooked up the remainder of the heater hoses and mounted the radiator and then filled it with antifreeze and water mix. [...]
Friday – Ready engine and mount up in engine bay Today I got the engine ready for mounting and decided to use my original D15B7 engine mount and bracket. The power steering bracket on the other hand is one that I got from the wrecker from a D16Z6 engine. Installing the engine back into the [...]
Thursday – D16A Maintenance and external assembly So far out of the 4 days, today was the funnest till the end but I’ll get into that later. Putting something together is always more fun because you start seeing a little glimps of your final product and you get more existed. Today I started by taking [...]
Wednesday – Old engine extraction and engine bay cleanup Today started early at 9am, I picked up my flywheel from the Lordco machine shop and pressure plate bolts and throttle body gaskets from Honda. The bonus for today was I had a friend help me out to extract the engine out with was a great [...]
Tuesday – Ready old engine for extraction First thing in the morning I dropped off the Flywheel for machining and headed to Princess Auto for some oil drain pans and some other items. To start the engine removal process I jacked up the car and put it on stands ready for drive shaft removal. Taking [...]
Monday – Get parts and prep the new engine I started the day by calling around for parts, organizing my tools and figuring what I had to do first. Then I went to MOPAC and picked up a Centerforce Dual Friction Clutch and Coquitlam AutoParts for the water pump, timing belt and pilot bearing. By [...]
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