Nathan's Road-Legal/Track BB4

[NafemanNathan]

Well I made a bit of progress today and found something that made I laugh ...

Not been spending much time on the lude as of late as I've been concentrating on the house. Anyway, I had to move this lot out of the big bedroom today as I need to get the plasterers in...



My Wings West kit ...

First of all I wanted to do my subtle tweeks like I've done on my current bumper. Being I've done my front indicator/reflector conversion there are a few ugly bits left unrequired on a standard bumper, so I had to cut these off again...

From...



To...





Previously I'd even removed the front foglight area, but this had left the bushes in the front cross member exposed, so I decided against removing this portion this time...

Previous red bumper...





I did that last night, so today I got to fit it Along with the eyebrows ...



























Colourful in't she?

And then I gave the engine a bit of a rub down as the block had oxidized slightly whilst it's just been sat there...



But whilst I was wire brushing the front of the head I noticed some numbers I wasn't expecting...

As some of you know I had a bit of an incident a while back where my cambelt snapped A few of the valves were bent and long story short, I ended up replacing the head with a low mileage H22a# head my local Honda had kicking around. It was only missing the cams. I know a couple of the guys down there, so I got it for a very good price (;-) )

And then there was that whole fiasco where I bought a complete Type-S H22a7 head from a guy on ebay... That then just turned out to be a standard P13 H22a head (I still have that for sale btw )

Well anyway, since that ebay confusion I've become a little more aware of the different H22a# head codes, and today whilst scrubbing my head I noticed this ...



I already have me a PDE (H22a7) head

I was told the head was from an Accord... I just assumed it was from a standard 2.2 Vtec... Not an ATR

[NafemanNathan]

Score!!

i hate u more every day! so does it have cams fitted as well?

like the front lip, would actuallt suit my car not sure about the rear though, but hey no one likes my rear bumper

oh and i have looked into copying something else of yours as well!

will look really good when you have it finished

That front lip is just full of win, love it I think it's the bestlip for a 4th gen.

have you completely deleted the front indicators then?

[NafemanNathan]

Cheers guys! I feel such a goon for not knowing, but at the same time... I don't care!

i hate u more every day! so does it have cams fitted as well?

like the front lip, would actually suit my car not sure about the rear though, but hey no one likes my rear bumper

oh and i have looked into copying something else of yours as well!

Some people need to do a good deed everyday. My aim... body lemonade Phil off

Just edited the original post... I forgot to mention it was complete with valve train as well. The only things it was missing were the cams. Not to worry though as I have my Skunk2 bits n bobs anyhoo

I'm actually not terribly keen on the rear lip myself. I just put it on there to see really. It just doesn't look right. It's far from as cool as the front and sides anyway. But yeah, as long as no-one hates it as much as yours

And what you robbin' now?...

have you completely deleted the front indicators then?

Nope. I've done this...

I went on a whim and decided to chop my front indicators in half ...



The idea was to convert the side reflectors to indicators instead... Like so...



So I sliced the backs of the reflectors off as well and gave them a good sand...



And simply glued them together with solvent weld ...



The end product looked like this...



Being a whim, I wasn't that prepared, so didin't have the vital amber bulbs ... so I improvised ...



... Yes, I sprayed them Milano red



They inserted like so...



Up close look like this...



And from slightly afar... look like this ...



And when lit... like this!...

[NafemanNathan]

ha ha, you dont really pi55 me off matey

also would it not have been easier getting some side marker lights and just using those instead of hacking up the indicators?

Nice one bud - getting busy again now that some decent weather is creeping in.

I can really picture your end result now, she will look stunning mate.

Absolute result on the head as well - your build is full of win now!

Cheers,


Rob

P.S. I got my brakes!

nice update again nath
cars really coming along now
those brakes are giving me ideas aswell

[NafemanNathan]

ha ha, you dont really pi55 me off matey

also would it not have been easier getting some side marker lights and just using those instead of hacking up the indicators?

I didn't have any side markers Phil Jeeeeees!

Rob - Yeah, I think I can push one day of the weekend at the minute. Provided I keep working on the house during the week evenings

Mart - Considering Brembos as well then?... Or do you mean the Kawasaki Green?

[NafemanNathan]

I didn't have any side markers Phil Jeeeeees!

all you had to do was ask

[NafemanNathan]

I didn't have any side markers Phil Jeeeeees!

all you had to do was ask

We weren't quite as close then as we are now

[NafemanNathan]

Did you get a chance to fit those calipers??

[NafemanNathan]

Did you get a chance to fit those calipers??

Not yet mate. Sourced some spare hubs so I can mock-up a setup to measure up an adapter bracket. Should be fairly straight forward, but I have house priorities at the minute ... Though I have been working on modifying my ATR manifold now and again

[NafemanNathan]

Looking forward to both the ATR manifold and the new brake set up.