My recent issue with my CV Joint was actually loose lug nuts on one of my front wheels which was surprising but at the same time educating. From now on I will always have to double check and torque down my lug nuts as they seem to have gotten loose over time. And as far [...]
So 2 days ago I was driving with a friend and noticed a funny smell in my car and at the time I didn’t think of it and let it go. Well next day which was yesterday I was driving my car again and realized that the odor that I was smelling was antifreeze my [...]
As you all may have noticed my posts about my turbo build have stopped and not much new has been posted for a while. The bad news is that the troubled economy has finally hit my wallet and right now I have to concentrate on this before any other major work is done on my [...]
Use only genuine Honda Oil Filters !! Use 5W-30 non-synthetic motor oil ONLY !! Do Not operate the engine over 3,500 RPM during the first 200 miles of driving. You may increase the engine speed by 500 RPM for each successive 200 mile increment of break-in. Replace the Honda Oil Filter after the first 200 [...]
I’ve already put my D16Z6 block together and spec’d the bearings but if you need more info on this, here is a link to D-Series forum post that explains it a little more. Click Here for the link.
Part 2 of building the bottom end was more interesting as it was starting to look, more like an engine. The reason I inserted the pistons in first is because you can’t secure the crank shaft from falling out without the main caps bolted on if the engine is right side up. And while the [...]
Last weekend I had some more time to work on the engine so I started by pulling off the masking tape from the block and cleaned up any tape residue from the paint job. After that I washed the block with some soap and hot water, and then quickly dried it off with compressed air. [...]
Getting the rings to the proper spec was actually easier then I thought, all I did was oil up the cylinder walls, inserted 1 ring at a time and pushed it down 1″ with the piston head, then I used a feeler gauge to check the clearance. If the gap was too small I took [...]
After bolting on the connecting rods I bolted on the main cap girdle and noticed that I have very little room between my ARP rod bolt and the girdle so I had no choice but to notch the girdle. As you can see on the image above the space between the ARP rod bolt and [...]
Last weekend I had some time to check the connecting rod bearing clearance which was again interesting to do. All 4 of the rod bearings were in the .0013-.0015″ clearance range which is a bit on the tight side but still within limits for this turbo build engine. Just like the main bearings I placed [...]
Posted in D Series Engine, D16, D16Z6 Turbo Build, Engine Rebuild 
Tags: D16, Rod Clearance Check 
No Comments »Last Sunday I got around to checking the main bearing clearances and got some good results. All 5 of my main bearings were in the .0013-.0015″ range which is within the limits of what it’s suppose to be. I had some time today so I posted how it all went. I wiped off the area [...]
Posted in D16, D16Z6 Turbo Build, Engine Block, Engine Rebuild Tags: Bearing Clearance Check, Plastigage 1 Comment »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 [...]
Posted in 1993 Honda Civic Project, D Series Engine, D16, D16Z6 Turbo Build, Engine Rebuild, Turbo Tags: D16 Turbo Build 7 Comments »My D16 Engine block should be back from the machine shop soon and one of the steps that I will have to do is gap the piston rings. I found a great link on how to gap the rings. Click Here to for the link.
If you buy a used engine with a damaged or malfunctioning Throttle Positioning Sensor(TPS), then you’ll need to replace this before starting your engine to make sure it will run properly. The throttle positioning sensor sends real time throttle position to the ECU which in turn adjusts the flow of fuel through the injectors to [...]
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 [...]
