richardparker

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got the horns matched while still on.
tonight they will come off so I can finish out the tubes,polish everything up and get this thing back together tonight.

it's not done in this pic but,the whole front inlet and chamber is completed too.
gasket will be here tomorrow for the fuel injector base.
then I can match the lfuel injector base to the head and it's time to reinstall.
Hopefully it's done soon

Rajca

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fuel injector base? u mean the intake manifold runners?

richardparker

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yes.
It's called the fuel injector base.

I forgot to put up a before pic of the horns so everyone could see the edge .

friesm2000

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that what it sounds like , anyways i would proably call them the lower intake manifolds

friesm2000

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and yeah just looked it up at honda parts website and they are called fuel injecter bases

richardparker

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here's the before.
You can see the lips in the tops of the tubes.They were so sharp if you try to rub you hand across it,you hand would come to a stop.
That couldn't be good for flow.
The botoms are offset the other way.
A little grinding and it's beter than new.

civicdrivr

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Correct, Honda calls it the fuel injector base.

Rajca

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hmm. thats two new things i learned today. but i already for the first one. it will come to me when the time is right

richardparker

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This stuff is all done except flaring open the intake side of the heads.
Then it should be going on by this weekend,hopefully.

I bought some semi gloss black hi temp paint and was thinking of painting the top cover,plenums,spacer and lower runners.I kinda want flat black now.
I was going to polish everything but,hell no.
I got to much time into this stuff already.Not too metion my hands have been taking alot of abuse hand rubbing.

Any body got any idea's for painting my pieces ?

civicdrivr

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Id just do the top cover. No sense doing the runners when no one sees them.

Rajca

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^ u see the runners with the mdx spacer on

civicdrivr

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Oh yea

I forgot he was using the spacer.

friesm2000

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or just get a mdx beuty shield and you won't see any of it and have that stock look
http://www.acuraautomotiveparts.org/...s=&view=normal

Rajca

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even more hood pop would be needed.

friesm2000

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never could do my mdx spacer

Rajca

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i told u what u could have done.

its about sacrifice.

friesm2000

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i know but i like the strut bar more though

and the extra power would still be going through the slush-o-matic, so it be soaking up most of gains anyways

Nersh7

lol

haha sorry its late and I'm tired, amazing job I wish I had the time to tear mine apart and do this top to bottom.

richardparker

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Since I have a little time before I can install do to a broken fuel injector and waiting on some bolts to change out those dam studs I started preping the plenums.
I sanded one to 320 and it brought out a nice shine.
I have taken it to 600 for now,not perfect.
should I paint them or I'm thinking I will polish them out all the way now.

should I polish them or paint them ?

friesm2000

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don't cover it with paint, if anything polish that fine piece of machinery

civicdrivr

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Go 1000, then 2000 grit, then polish it with some Mothers Aluminum Polish. Thats what I did with my headlight shrouds. Came out shiny as hell.

civicdrivr

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This is what it looked like:



This is what it looks like:



And yes, it was originally that color. I sanded with 400 grit, 800, 1000, and 2000 following by polishing with Mothers Aluminum Polish. I did it by hand first, but them switched to the Dremel with a polishing attachment.

friesm2000

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they actually made those out of aluminuim i thought they were geneally made out of steel

richardparker

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those came out sweet.

I polished them after the 600 to see what I had and they look good but to 2000 they will almost look like chrome.

It's going to look killer.

I'm going to polish the plenums,the top cover,and the mdx spacer.
And paint the manifold body and lower runners black.

civicdrivr

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I dont know what its made from, I just used a polish that I had and it worked

richardparker

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here's pics with the plenums done,and the manifold body painted.
tape is still on in the pics.
plenums will get hand polished and thats it. They're not show quality but ,they are nice.

friesm2000

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Nersh7

looks sweet dude

civicdrivr

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Very nice! What paint did you use?

Rajca

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if it was me, i would have it powder coated. i keep working on my car and my intake manifold cover is already scratched up.

richardparker

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manifold cover polished.

richardparker

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Another view.
I think a polished p2r type s spacer would set it off sweet.

friesm2000

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the cover looks alot different being polished :scratchhead: (like shaped different; idk)



but very

Rajca

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tl-p and tl-s have diff cover if u didnt know

friesm2000

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for some reason i thought it was a type-s mainfold idk, but i know he has a tl-p but he had gotten a new manifold so his car was still driveable

richardparker

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I stayed with the clp manifold to try to get it to fit with the spacer.
I also did not get the p2r manifold gasket,trying to get it to fit first.

Rajca

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u still gonna mill down the spacer? u can always drop the sub frame about half an inch.

richardparker

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^ Not till I see where everything sits.
Has anyone tryied this on a clp before ?

CH46ESeaKnight

Drop the sub frame 1/2 inch? Really? For how much of a gain??????

That just has "bad idea" all over it!

civicdrivr

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Its been done. Its an easy way to get clearance, but its not something I suggest.