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 [...]
Here’s a link to a mild turbo build thats using Vitara Pistons, I Beam Rods, Hondata S300 and some other components that I will be using in my build and this guy has hit 240whp(Wheel Horse Power) and he hasn’t tuned it fully yet. So looking at the graph and the numbers that are posted on the forum [...]
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 [...]
I finished masking all the parts that need sandblasting tomorrow so this should help keep the key areas from getting damaged, although I know that some of the tape might get ripped off which is OK. I also cleaned the old gasket of the intake header surface that mates with the cylinder head. I used a razor blade [...]
I had an early day at work today so when I got home and I started back on the turbo build. I sprayed citrus degreaser on the block, valve cover, intake manifold, main cap and the cylinder head and then pressure washed them to get rid of the oil. Now I washed the cylinder head last night but today [...]
Last night after work I disassembled the D16Z6 cylinder head with the help of my friend Tracey. I pulled everything off the head including the rocker assembly, VTEC Solenoid, valves and springs. I tried to pull off the valve seals but couldn’t do it by hand so I left those on for now. I later [...]
I’ve been busy with other interests and hobbies so I haven’t had to time work on my engine build this week. Tonight I went into my shop and decided to cleanup as it was muchly needed. There is nothing worse then trying to do a good job and you can’t cause your tools are unorganized or your tripping [...]
I was busy with some other things the last few days so I didn’t have time to work on my engine but yesterday after work I decided to go at it. I called my friend Tracey to come over and help me label my parts bags and help me disassemble the motor. I first took of the [...]
These are my first images of my D16Z6 engine, and as you can see it looks very stock right now. There are a couple sensors that are broken and plugs that are bent, but all in all the engine looks to be in good shape. It did not come with a distributor or a crank pulley but [...]
Well It’s officially September and crappy rainy weather will be upon us very soon so I’m gonna park my 93 Civic and use the 95 Civic as my winter beater. This should give me lots of time to do some winter work on the 93 and keep it away from those crazy winter drivers. All [...]
I found a great post on D-seriers.org about a D16 to D18 Stroker build right from the ground up. Click Here for the link.
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