Vtecmec's 4th Gen

Post by **Vtecmec** » Mon May 12, 2014 8:02 pm

Cheers guys.

Man hours? Being conservative at least 1200, maybe much more.

Post by **Merlin** » Mon May 12, 2014 8:26 pm

Awsome stuff going on. At what stage in your overall plans do you think you are at?

Post by **Vtecmec** » Mon May 12, 2014 8:32 pm

Well, the steering is all back in, gearbox is off, and light flywheel in place, head being skimmed tomorrow, just waiting on a gearbox bracket due in 2-3 weeks from Honda, after that about 2 weeks to MOT(?). Of course after that is the rest of the bodywork, but if the tax man coughs up the few K he owes me soon then that could go rather quickly..........

farlow · Post by **farlow** » Tue May 13, 2014 7:50 am

This restoration looks to be to a very high standard. I think this is the level of detail I need to be aiming for with my crx. When I eventually get it back from the paint shop.

Post by **Vtecmec** » Sat May 31, 2014 12:16 am

I put together the front ABS sensors:

And then fitted them, I had a little issue with the N/S one as I am using an O/S sensor but placed into a N/S bracket, due to the offset nature of the exit wire being on the opposite side, the wire is a little shorter when it gets to the engine bay.

On with the subframe and steering rack, quite a challenge with only one pair of hands.

Once that was in place and the rear engine mount bolted up, I could move round to the gearbox side. So off with the gearbox, which went quickly as most of it was disconnected anyway.

Then once the box was off, out came the clutch and OEM flywheel.

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Ready to fit this lightened flywheel, which has been sat in storage for about 3 years.

So on it went with the clutch of my choice, somehow I seem to have amassed a few of them, I picked the best looking one and fitted it.

A random shot of the starter motor, all nice and shiny.

With the head off the engine, I thought it rude not to at least get it skimmed, so I went to a place called Peterborough Cylinder Heads, where the rather nice chap stuck it on his machine.

He said it was perfectly flat anyway, but better safe than sorry and at least it saved me the task of cleaning the mating surface.

Some new ARP head studs as I have reused the OEM bolts a few times now and really they are supposed to be only used once.

The thermostat housing, even though painted a (long) while back has started to fluff up under the paint (forth bridge?), so this time I gave it a proper job, first removing the paint before leaving in some boiling water and a bit of rust off. It came up really well.

Then a bit of paint.

And a nice new OEM thermostat.

Here it is painted, alongside some finished front shock mounts and gearbox brackets.

Some random new parts, mainly oil control orifice o rings and a new tensioner spring for the balance shaft belt.

And then on with the cylinder head.

In order to fit the gearbox on, I needed to replace the gearbox mount bracket on the car, this is due to the car previously being an auto, and these differ between the models. Having no money or resources at the time of the manual conversion 7 years ago, the bracket was bodged. Now is the time to correct that.

You get an idea of the bodge here

So off with it.

Side by side with the new one, which I’ve pre-painted.

Removal of the rust before the new one makes permanent friends with the car.

And nicely welded into place.

Post by **Donald** » Sat May 31, 2014 12:22 am

So I presume it was you that got that thermostat on eBay?

Nice update as always but I'm sorry, this is borderline unacceptable:

Post by **si import** » Sat May 31, 2014 8:00 am

great work as always mate

mercutio · Post by **mercutio** » Sat May 31, 2014 11:37 am

great work buddy

TopPrelude · Post by **TopPrelude** » Sat May 31, 2014 6:56 pm

Amazing work, true perfection.

mart609 · Post by **mart609** » Fri Jun 20, 2014 10:05 pm

great work as always!

Lude Generation

Vtecmec's 4th Gen

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ABS, clutch and flywheel, starter, thermostat, gearbox mount