Good day everyone!
Here is my baby. Let me know if you have any questions, and I will try to answer them.
As of this week, we finished our development plug and play harness for OBD1 Hondas to work with the Haltech E8 and E11v2. Regardless, here are lots of pictures and words. Beware.
I got the car in late october of 2006, and it needed some work, but i got a pretty decent deal on it. It had a giant wing, clear corner and bumper lights with blue bulbs, silver rims(which are ok, but black>*) the engine bay was a mess, as some have seen on other sites.
it had 2 monitors and a dvd player in it, and the engine mods were intake and exhaust, look out!
it was a good platform to start with, it just needed love and a goal.
As I've said about 4000 times, i love the grumble of a v8, which stems from being around some awesome fox body stangs growing up, so one of my first purchases was a delta 272 cam, which is still one of my favorite mods today, as i love the sound of it. In about a week to two week's time i also ended up purchasing the IM/TB off of an H23 which is the mid 90's prelude engine, it has dual runners and is a little bit bigger than the f22a1's, which is smaller and only has one set of runners on the IM, a DC header, front and rear strut tower bars, a chipped p06 tuned with crome, and an NOS wet kit, which was to be used with a 75 shot.
Exterior wise, i decided on going with a bordeaux red/black theme. I proceeded to do a few small things in the short term, which included painting the rims black
painting the lenses on the doors transparent candy apple red
I also ended up putting my ps2 in the glovebox and removing the dvd player so that elijah could play games when we went to my dads and such.
Back to the engine stuff, I went to my dads and my brother Cory helped me install everything.
I blackhoused the headlights, removed the fogs, removed my pin stripe, added a small lip, relocated my battery to the trunk, removed my gigan-tach, made a diy grill, did a dim to bright headlight conversion(bright bulbs where dim bulbs were), added a small black lip spoiler, installed an autometer oil psi gauge, installed an autometer voltmeter, and went to a single sub instead of two. mostly minor changes, but they still add up in the end.
one disappointing night at the track later and it was, yep, i need to go faster time again. Being in love with turbocharged cars after owning my merkur xr4ti as my first car, as well as talking to skinnye about his form turbo CB7, it was a pretty easy choice for me, and i found a kit someone had pieced together for the most part for $400(2g dsm manifold, 14b, 2 ic's,i sidemount and 1 evo 8 fmic, oil feed and return lines, various couplers, 2g dsm 450cc injectors, o2 housing, wastegate actuator, 2g dsm bov, and a few random pieces)
then bought my intercooler piping, new water pump, timing belt, and lots of other various maintenance parts and went to install it all again at my dads with the help of my brother.
Turbo was shot, so our plans were a no go.
Ended up getting a skunk 2 adjustable cam gear, a turbo basemap and aem brake pads i couldn't end up using.
time went on, little changed, and finally, it was turbo time again, as my brother helped me out and had a 14b that worked at dad's, also we removed the a/c while we were at it.
fabbed up the downpipe and the j pipe at skytower and proceeded back to lexington.
I then called RTC for a tune and went in to actually do the tune, when i found out that the clutch was shot and slipping like crazy. An ACT 6 puck clutch was ordered and installed, as was a walbro 255 lph fuel pump, axxis ultimate brake pads, a B&M fuel pressure gauge, installed a boost gauge, made a diy lip, and my back seat was deleted.
I then wrapped all my charge pipes, installed a turboxs rfl bov, and made a diy intake.
alas, it was tune time again and the gentlemen at RTC put in the time on that once again.
244/239 sae corrected hp and tq respectively.
Looked like this at that point in time.
Fast forward about a year.
I graduated college, went away on some training for the National Guard, and not much was done to the car.
Finished my guard training, then I somehow got lucky and landed a job at Haltech USA. I have recently installed an evo III ported big 16g, converted the car to an external wastegate setup with a tial 38 and some amazing welding from my coworker here at Haltech. Have gone to a 3 bar map sensor, and done a few other various things here and there that I am sure I am forgetting like blacking out the chrome trim, paint matching the grill, going to a civic half radiator, etc.
Here are some pics of the welds and such.
Yes, my couplers are painted black and look like shit, but with the bumper on, you cant see them.
Ive also upgraded to some better tires, falken ziex 912's in 225/45/17, and they fill up the wheel wells rather nicely I do believe.
I still currently have a lot to do, and feel as if I will never be finished with my project.
I need to install my 560cc injectors, do a more thorough tune on the e8, enable anti lag and the internal turbo timer function on the e8, and do about 5000 other little things. Oh yeah, install one of those racepak iq3 dashes as well.
It made 250 some whp and tq on the 12 psi tune, up from my 244 hp on the 14b, but on a richer tune and less aggressive timing.
I could go on and on about it, but this should be enough reading for one day. If anyone has any questions, comments, or smart remarks, just let me know.
Thanks!
Mike
