Time for the cam.

 

 

Rear head ready.
Just got to adjust the lash when it's on the block.
I hate this discoloration.
O well it will never be seen anyway.

 

Nice fat Honda box showed up today.

Every last piece I need to finsh the engine.
From flex plate,timming everything,every belt,Every gasket right to the TB.
Getting close, just not much time lately to mess with the build.

 

Port work just gone over on the front head.
You know what's about to go down !

 

valve covers?

 

Buying valve covers did turned into a full engine build.
We need to talk tom PM me when you get a chance.

Before assembly of this head I deceided to make sure the cam gears were going to play with the sensors running the newer tls cams.
Needed to add some washers to shim the sensors to clear the cam gear.
no biggie.

 

New parts always look good...can't wait to see the final product

 

Me too.
Cleaning the head right now.
The guy for my tranny called and said he would be here around 3:30 today.

 

Bling Bling.
Tranny landed.
He brought me the tranny complete.
flex plate,washer, all bolts and a copy of the title.
4 beans to the door ,you can't beat that.

 

Open bar at my my girls work getting twisted.
O yea.....

 

Back to biz.
Front head exhaust valves and seats grinded.
Time for the intakes.

 

Front heads valves are done.
One more cleaning,some paint and this one is ready to assembled.

 

Decided to start loading up,Head #2

 

missing a dam intake valve seal.
O well another order place for some little pieces.

 

Started to disesemble the water passage.
Going to clean it up,paint it,put some new pieces and the egr and air assist valve from the other motor I already made purdy.

 

I did not put the gaskets up to them yet.
From a quick look judging by the carbon the flanges could be tapperd a great deal to definitly increase exhaust flow.
Digging up a few more pony's .

 

Started on the headers since I don't have anything to do.
I can't believe how much this has opened up the exhaust to flow better.
I don't want to get anymore closer in the flange because I don't want to grind into the pipes.
I got a little more to do but,The opening is about 5mm taller and 3mm wider.

 

Was that carbon buildup in the left? Can't really tell from the angle.

 

That carbon is the exhaust hitting the flange of the header on the way out of the head.
So that is reducing flow big time. I am opening up the flange as big as the pipes are.
It's hard to see but the botom of the flange and where the pipe connects there is a good size differance that can be ground down to match.

I did not go back to the middle hole yet for touch ups but,I started the left.
here's a pic with the gasket .

The edge of the right hole that you see is not taperd. that edge is flat. It's kinda hard to tell what your looking at.

 

wipe the headers with alchohol before you start the engine up. it prevents them getting all gold

 

1 hole left.
Stainless is such a pita to grind.

 

Nice... I'll get those rewelded just for reinforcement

 

going to start the 3rd tube now.
Man these thing are going to cost alot to open up.
1 $10 carbide and 1 $5 pack of rolls per hole.
15 dollars per hole.
That's going to be 90 without rewelding.

How much should I expect to pay to get them rewelded ?

 

I can't believe I forgot to do that to my headers before getting them ceramic coated. I'm still going to match them a little better to the oem gasket so it's not as bad. Good job on all the work richardparker.

 

1st header is done in the rough.
It still will be opened more when I fine tune it,just the heavy work is done.

 

Rewelds shouldn't be more than $20-40 bucks it's a 10-15min job. And + it's not on the car. Great job Btw I've been slacking on dyno #'s on my custom header

 

^ thats not bad. Starting the 2nd one.
And thanks,I'm trying to extract all the free H/P I can.

 

Getting there.
Front head just about together.
Just got to remember where all the little sensor tabs go.

 

Any thoughts on engine management yet?

 

Not yet.

Abrah ka dabra
engine and trans are out.

 

So wait, you are building a stroker, in the process of assembling in and putting it in the car, and haven't thought about how to tune it? If you a CL-S I wouldnt have a problem with that, but I dont see how the CL-P ecu can safely manage it. Id be scared to go WOT with it.

 

I will get something. Getting the car running I don't see me having any problems.
What management should I look into?
I'm thinking the engine will have no problem exceding the cls's ecu rpm limit.

 

Piggy-backs are your only options since youre an auto.

Id convert to a CL-S ecu and run a F/IC or eManage.

 

Aem fic ftw!

 

Any limp mode problems poping in the cls ecu.
I have the harness so I imagine all I would need would be a ecu, and the matching key setup.
Another reason I did not want to go to the cls ecu and harness because I did not want to deal with the vsa or having dash lights on for something I was not using.

 

Rear header grinded today.
Will fine tune the both of them tonight.

 

opening them up like that should definitely help.

 

A little time put today.
Stipped pieces off my old motor,took said needed piece from the old trans to be transfered to the tl trans,put heads on ,timming gear,lower runners,fuel injector seals and loaded my valve covers with new seals and gaskets.
I don't think all pieces that some say are needed for the swap.
The only piece I know for sure is the front lower wire that goes to the pressure switchs because it has a differnt lead connector.
I will see tomorrow I will be loading that up and finishing up the motor.
Should be in this weekend.

 

Getting there.