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 [...]
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 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 [...]
I was surfing D-Series.org again today and found yet another great turbo build in progress and thought I would share this with you. Click Here for the link.
Today I had some extra time after work so I went ahead and setup my parts washer and filled it with 2 gallons of solvent. I started washing the exhaust valves first one by one and made sure all the components were accounted for including the valve, valve seat, spring, retainer and keepers. I used [...]
Another great find of a Honda Civic running 372whp on a D16 Turbo Engine. Click Here for the Link. He swapped his intake manifold and got a bigger turbo and gained a good amount of Horsepower.
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 [...]
