XpL0d3r's Build.. Rice to Swapped to Boooost ;)

XpL0d3r · Dec 26, 2010

You like this.

XpL0d3r · Dec 27, 2010

And.. heeereeee comes the snow! Another storm. Was at a friends house when it first hit... ended up plowing the streets home.. especially into my driveway:

Interested to see what tomorrow morning's going to look like... supposed to get 12-18"...

XpL0d3r · Dec 27, 2010

And this morning, after shoveling next to my car already...

fun ride to work.. plowed the whole way there :lol:

Civplow FTW!

Shaaaft · Dec 27, 2010

DAAAMN I'm so glad Western PA didn't get hit that much. Although we did get enough to take the Pathfinder out for a little drifting!

civicmand16y7 · Dec 27, 2010

did you go to the dyno to get that retune? If you did what kinda numbers did you get??????

XpL0d3r · Dec 27, 2010

civicmand16y7 said:
did you go to the dyno to get that retune? If you did what kinda numbers did you get??????

Yeah, made it pretty close to my goal (250whp). Making 242whp right now, with ~10psi on all stock internals.

Picking up a built B18B head on Wednesday though! Crower double springs, retainers, ARP head studs, etc. Planning on doing a mild build on the block, and hopefully an LSD tranny if I can afford it. Also a new clutch, mine is brand new and slips like hell right now, lol.

charlie brown · Dec 28, 2010

what clutch and pressure plate are you running

XpL0d3r · Dec 28, 2010

charlie brown said:
what clutch and pressure plate are you running

eBay special stage 2. lol. That's why I need to upgrade it. Badly. I get on it even a little bit in 1-2 gears and it slips so bad almost like I'm in neutral lol.

Any suggestions on a new clutch? I don't want to spend too much, but I'm looking to get ~300whp out of the "finished" build...

finished in quotes because it won't ever really be finished... haha

got traction · Dec 28, 2010

XpL0d3r said:
eBay special stage 2. lol. That's why I need to upgrade it. Badly. I get on it even a little bit in 1-2 gears and it slips so bad almost like I'm in neutral lol.

Any suggestions on a new clutch? I don't want to spend too much, but I'm looking to get ~300whp out of the "finished" build...

finished in quotes because it won't ever really be finished... haha

Competition Clutch stage 1.5

PM me

XpL0d3r · Dec 30, 2010

Oh shiiiiit.....

Crower double springs, titanium keepers, ARP head studs (not shown), and an OEM Honda timing belt with ~2k. Picked it all up for $225..! About 62k on the motor, about 6k on the springs, keepers, studs.

slwrthnu · Dec 30, 2010

Come back up to Saratoga-ish country and lets get my f**kin hatchie done haha. I've been picking up motor after motor and just flipping them for money because I have no time to swap anything up until now. And I wanna get rid of this zc sohc since no one picked bought my hartch. So therefor it is time to give this old pig some viagra and make it romp on s**t. haha

UCCRacing · Dec 30, 2010

mymmeryloss said:
u should paint the mesh in ur upper grille and blackout ur intercooler?

I don't get why people suggest/do this..... The point of an inter cooler is to cool, not heat.... Painting it black only attracts more heat during the summer thus making the IC useless, or less useful rather.... Ugggggggh

So ON to the topic at hand...

Car looks great man, good color, still a sleeper kinda... Thank god you ditched the wing/tails...

So on to the head, let me know how it goes, I am building a similar set up...

BC Stage 2 Turbo Cams
BC Dual V Springs
BC Titanium Retainers
I want to do new over sized valves with a port/polish :twisted:

Are you gonna use your B18b VC on that head? I have always hated the a1 VC so much!

What headgasket you going to run?

I would honestly not run the 'Used' Timing belt, no matter what! .... You just don't know, you don't know the stress that it was given if any.. You don't know the true miles....

While it is off, I say just spend the 80~ bucks now rather than possibly hundreds later.... I say either another OEM or Gates Racing.... I would cry if you put that beautiful head on with a used T-belt!

Subscribed I want to see where this goes

SmashBros · Dec 31, 2010

Where did you get your interior neon lights and the switch for them frm??

XpL0d3r · Dec 31, 2010

slwrthnu said:
Come back up to Saratoga-ish country and lets get my f**kin hatchie done haha. I've been picking up motor after motor and just flipping them for money because I have no time to swap anything up until now. And I wanna get rid of this zc sohc since no one picked bought my hartch. So therefor it is time to give this old pig some viagra and make it romp on s**t. haha

Hahahaha. word.

UCCRacing said:
I don't get why people suggest/do this..... The point of an inter cooler is to cool, not heat.... Painting it black only attracts more heat during the summer thus making the IC useless, or less useful rather.... Ugggggggh

So ON to the topic at hand...

Car looks great man, good color, still a sleeper kinda... Thank god you ditched the wing/tails...

So on to the head, let me know how it goes, I am building a similar set up...

BC Stage 2 Turbo Cams
BC Dual V Springs
BC Titanium Retainers
I want to do new over sized valves with a port/polish

Are you gonna use your B18b VC on that head? I have always hated the a1 VC so much!

What headgasket you going to run?

I would honestly not run the 'Used' Timing belt, no matter what! .... You just don't know, you don't know the stress that it was given if any.. You don't know the true miles....

While it is off, I say just spend the 80~ bucks now rather than possibly hundreds later.... I say either another OEM or Gates Racing.... I would cry if you put that beautiful head on with a used T-belt!

Subscribed I want to see where this goes

Not going to use the timing belt most likely, mine now has low mileage as is (new from last year). Going to keep my B18B VC as well. As for a HG I'm not sure yet. I'm also thinking about getting Stage 2 Turbo cams, unsure yet though.

SmashBros said:
Where did you get your interior neon lights and the switch for them frm??

Advance Auto... lol

slwrthnu · Jan 1, 2011

I'll take that as a yes.. Your gonna hate me by the way.. I had a h23 vtec blue top anddd I sold it like a dumbass. I picked it up for 400 bucks with 50k on it and sold it for 700 though :thumbs up

Genuine Rolla · Jan 1, 2011

holy s**t man! Did you repaint your car or just paint the moldings, etc?

Looks freaking great dude!

Hendo · Jan 1, 2011

XpL0d3r said:
You like this.

Awesome

XpL0d3r · Jan 1, 2011

slwrthnu said:
I'll take that as a yes.. Your gonna hate me by the way.. I had a h23 vtec blue top anddd I sold it like a dumbass. I picked it up for 400 bucks with 50k on it and sold it for 700 though

That's a hell of a price to pick that up lol.

Genuine Rolla said:
holy s**t man! Did you repaint your car or just paint the moldings, etc?

Looks freaking great dude!

Repainted... but already starting to bubble on the common spots. My friends dad owns a body shop, so next summer he's going to get it professionally done.

Hendo said:
Awesome

And.... just spent the past hour cleaning puke out of my car... looks like someone couldn't handle themselves last night lol. Damn.

mymmeryloss · Jan 2, 2011

i love new parts! yay for u!

SmashBros · Jan 3, 2011

XpL0d3r said:
You like this.

Lol, wher'd u get that facebook sticker?

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