Page 210 = The New Project!! -The Speedfoos' 383 Stroker thread!!

[speedfoos]

Ouch man, that sucks. I would have just bought the HO jobby off Ebay for that price, but then you'd have had to deal with the downtime. Is you welder back in town yet? The one thing I'm really worried about is the fueling. I bought the injectors used and didn't get them cleaned or flow tested. I mean they look fine, but I won't know for sure until I fire the bitch up. Some time this week hopefully!

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[greeen01civic4d]

hey man, good luck, i hope u dont have any problems with startup, i hope it runs smooth and purrs like a kitten/roars to life, keeping my fingers crossed for u, u can do it... u can do it alll night long

[skipbarber]

he just got back in today, but im still waiting on a set of 20 t-bolt clamps to come in, and ive decided i want to get my valve cover and charge pipes powder coated, luckily i was able to borrow a spare valve cover so i wont have down time. now i just gotta pick a color, i think i may have to copy off of you and go with blue since just about everything aluminum under my hood is blue... AEM/hondata cam gear, vtec condom, GE vac mani, GE oil cap , and tial wastegate.

[dopes6070]

I was nervous as hell when I first fired up my built engine... It was REALLY relieving to have it run like a stock Honda. The only real difference is when the starter turns it over it sounds different.

[speedfoos]

Blue is better. Its hotter than red.

Yeah I need to more two t-bolt clamps as well because I didn't have enough of the right size ones. Its just for the air filter pipe, one on the pipe side next to the snail and the other on the filter itself. I'll be getting a new filter soon anyway, so I'm not stressing it though.

[LT2004ever]

i vote for a vid on the initial turnover experience... whether it is good or bad... i want the initial "WHOOO HOOO!!!!" or the "OMFG!!!!"

[speedfoos]

Oh it will be video'd, that's for sure!

[DaRk_MauL]

hey speedfoos what brush die you use to clean them up?

[speedfoos]

Just your standard 3" (75mm) cup brush. It flexes enough to get into the nooks and crannies.

[speedfoos]

Additional MAP sensor is vac-lined in. Just had to pop back in for my camera and the wideband wiring instructions.

[Alpha 5]

Dedication my friend, You Have It.

[speedfoos]

Install Day 13

Ummm.... I ah..... Huh. This is kind of strange.


I think I've installed everything.


I mean, I still have to do some tidying up, lock in the WG vac line, screw the oil feed line back into the oil adapter, and some other misc. re-assembly of the car, but I think I've gotten all the major shit out of the way. Here's what I knocked out today.

Plumbed the new 3 bar MAP sensor in. I forgot I had to put that in there. I was looking at it and the stock one thinking "This new one is not going to fit in the stock location. Plus what I am I going to do with stock sensor and signal wires?" I think I'm getting smarter. It just reads pressure, so I tee'd off the little sensor that hangs on the TB (no, I don't know what it is, but its next to the MAP sensor). Problem solved! The PCS has its own plug for the new sensor so that's done. Have a look.




The I spliced it in through firewall through that hole I showed ya'll yesterday. Done and done, MAP sensor is wired in.

Time to install the PCS-XFC and finish wiring up the wideband.

Andyman97 was right (I bought his setup). Wideband was easy, it has power, ground, narrowband output, and wideband output. Simple. White wire of wideband goes into grey/pink unterminated wire of the PCS loom. Thank God that I bought the plug and play harness! I would not want to wire this thing in myself!





But its done now and was really easy. Three plugs and that's it. Time to mount the unit itself. I cut a big hole in my glove box....






that you will see is WAY too big. Oh well, I'll fix it later. I just used some electical tape to cover up the hole. I'll fab up a little plate to cover it tomorrow.





Then I ran the serial port in through my center console. I just jerked the stereo out, fed it through the left side of the glove box compartment and then down to the little hole there next to my 3.5mm audio jack. Again, too easy!





Can't have that just dangling out there. There are laws against things like that! I'm going to make a little plate out of aluminum to attach to it. See?





All done. It's very small.





The paint is drying on it as I type this. And that's it for today! Tomorrow I will start getting everything cleaned up and back together for when the exhaust pipe is done and the belt arrives. If the moons align, I should be able to crank this bitch over this week!

[HonCiv02]

i haven't been this excited since....well ever and i hope everything is ok on the first fire up.

[DsevenEm2]

awesome..finally things coming together smoothly..if only that damn exhaust guy would hurry the hell up. i hope its worth it too..he doesnt do a crap job on it and mess everything up..

good job on the finishing touches foos except for the glove box..lol nice hole.. subscribed for initial fire up..

and um..im getting the first woohoo LT...u can have the OMFG!!

[speedfoos]

Yeah that glove box looks like shit! Oh well, I've some aluminum sheet that will do the trick for it tomorrow.

Naw, Paul my welder is an artist with a TIG torch. All these delays have really forced me to take my time and do everything right though!