I bought this car about a year ago and over a year it has been nothing but fun. I picked it up for 500 with a running sohc zc swap, dpfi-mpfi swapped, and si trans swapped. I put all of my mint interior from my red ed into it since it was rust free and slowly started swapping out the exterior/suspension/turbo and eventually put a crx dash in it.
Once I got the turbo stuff installed on the stock block. I went out, tuned it on the saf-c with the plx m-300 and ran the piss out of it. I figured something was wrong with my wastegate or something cause my boost gauge was only reading 6 psi. I never noticed it then but when the car was not running the boost gauge would read about -4psi. So I didn't put 2 and 2 together and realize that it was actually making 10 pounds when my gauge was only reading 6. So I tried to turn it up using a little fish line valve, bad news. I ended up blowing it up @14lbs about 60 miles from home.
Pics of it sitting on the side of the highway waiting for the trailer/on the trailer
Since then I started a rebuild which included the infamous eagle/vitara set-up with acl rod bearings and oem mains and thrust washers. I kept the stock head, intake manifold, throttle body and upgraded some other things in the process. Like engine management, fuel system, boost controller etc etc. This set-up is as follows:
ENGINE:
JDM SOHC ZC block
vitara 75 mm pistons
Eagle h-beam rods
ACL rod bearings
OEM main and thrust washers
ARP headstuds
New water pump
New OEM headgasket
New timing belt
stock head
stock intake manifold
stock throttle body
no name block guard
TURBO KIT:
GT30R
Revhard cast manifold
Tial wastegate-10 psi spring
ENGINE MANAGEMENT:
Hondata s3000
Greddy profec B spec II
Gm 3 bar map sensor
Ran open loop all the time
SUSPENSION:
Apex-i t-max ITR 12 way adjustable struts with sprint springs
DA front and rear disc conversion
Front skunk2 knockoff camber kit
Some kinda cheap rear camber kit
On dyno day it made 343whp and 260ft/lbs on 20 psi
I ran it for close to 2 months at Bandimere speedway here in CO at ~5800ft and came out with a best of 11.62 @ 116mph with a 1.666 60' on 20 psi
The pics:
heres the vid of a 3rd gear burnout against a gto which I beat by about 5 tenths of a second.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K35xor0FzRU
Next season will include a fully built/ported and polished head. Cage, Parachute, Window net along with the rest of the works will include pictures as time goes on.
So I've dedicated this car to be a full out track car with all the necessary stuff to make it street legal. Eventually the dash will come out and I will run a 96-00 engine harness which will be the only OE wiring in the whole car. I will wire the turn signals/hazards/brake/headlights all manually onto a switch panel.
Here's the pics:
Once I got the turbo stuff installed on the stock block. I went out, tuned it on the saf-c with the plx m-300 and ran the piss out of it. I figured something was wrong with my wastegate or something cause my boost gauge was only reading 6 psi. I never noticed it then but when the car was not running the boost gauge would read about -4psi. So I didn't put 2 and 2 together and realize that it was actually making 10 pounds when my gauge was only reading 6. So I tried to turn it up using a little fish line valve, bad news. I ended up blowing it up @14lbs about 60 miles from home.
Pics of it sitting on the side of the highway waiting for the trailer/on the trailer
Since then I started a rebuild which included the infamous eagle/vitara set-up with acl rod bearings and oem mains and thrust washers. I kept the stock head, intake manifold, throttle body and upgraded some other things in the process. Like engine management, fuel system, boost controller etc etc. This set-up is as follows:
ENGINE:
JDM SOHC ZC block
vitara 75 mm pistons
Eagle h-beam rods
ACL rod bearings
OEM main and thrust washers
ARP headstuds
New water pump
New OEM headgasket
New timing belt
stock head
stock intake manifold
stock throttle body
no name block guard
TURBO KIT:
GT30R
Revhard cast manifold
Tial wastegate-10 psi spring
ENGINE MANAGEMENT:
Hondata s3000
Greddy profec B spec II
Gm 3 bar map sensor
Ran open loop all the time
SUSPENSION:
Apex-i t-max ITR 12 way adjustable struts with sprint springs
DA front and rear disc conversion
Front skunk2 knockoff camber kit
Some kinda cheap rear camber kit
On dyno day it made 343whp and 260ft/lbs on 20 psi
I ran it for close to 2 months at Bandimere speedway here in CO at ~5800ft and came out with a best of 11.62 @ 116mph with a 1.666 60' on 20 psi
The pics:
heres the vid of a 3rd gear burnout against a gto which I beat by about 5 tenths of a second.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K35xor0FzRU
Next season will include a fully built/ported and polished head. Cage, Parachute, Window net along with the rest of the works will include pictures as time goes on.
So I've dedicated this car to be a full out track car with all the necessary stuff to make it street legal. Eventually the dash will come out and I will run a 96-00 engine harness which will be the only OE wiring in the whole car. I will wire the turn signals/hazards/brake/headlights all manually onto a switch panel.
Here's the pics:
