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Well, this is farewell engine1, you have a happy new home now and i’m sure the new owner will treat you well 🙂
Start km’s is 85,820kms on my tach
End km’s of engine1 is 94,579kms on my tach
Less than 10k km’s and he’s already leaving home 🙂
i still need to upload engine1 dyno graphs and that will end this chapter.
Sorry this isn’t my first priotity, so i am doing other “life” things. If it was this swap should have been done by now 😦 Anyways here’s an update.
I was swaping cam plugs for the new owner of engine1,
I had both the blox $11 cam plug and the skunk2 $25 cam plug. I can see no physical differences in these. Looks like they both do the same job and are made almost identical. I believe the skunk2 one is made of a lighter material. I did not weigh it but by holding them i can feel the skunk2 one was lighter.
Both are triple 0-ring which is definitly a plus for stopping that honda cam plug leak.
The empty shell
Engine1 and engine2 side by side
Closer look at the block PCV port
Engine is in and set. I was also playing around and test fiting my race header, thanks Danny from SSR 🙂
I won’t be running the race header till the spring, if i damaged it my wife would get all upset and you know…”i told you so 😦 ” I will probably be running the stock jdm 96spec itr header again.
Well, i was preping the motor for removal and decided to do a compression test. Just to let the new owner know that the motor is good and strong after the breakin process.
results are 215-215-210-210psi starting with cylinder1. So pretty good 🙂
Well, looks like it’s out and time to prep engine2 for transplant.
As StarTrek ppl would say “the warp core has been ejected”
Sad to see it go, but it’s part of my engine program and i need to continue on to the end game of engine 4 or 5.
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So far there is not much more change with the car. Since the track day i have to say i was very impressed with how the car handled and impressed with how the engine performed. Much stronger than i had expected, i totally did not expect to make 161whp on a mustang dyno. I actually was thinking 130-140whp for some reason? All and all very happy with the car and the engine so far.
Oh another note because i’m venting pcv to atmosphere i as spraying oil all over the back of the engine on the track and onto the header, you could totally smell it 🙂 Better than that gunk going back into to intake tract and into the combustion chamber. I think i might consider a oil catch can to….well keep things cleaner :p I mean it’s good i’m venting the pressure and keeping in intake tract from being fouled up by oil but it’s messy 🙂
Hopefully i’ll be building my race tranny soon and my poorman b18c typeR, soon i hope
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Well i got the car on the dyno to check how much power this engine makes
to my suprise it made 154whp. After cleaned up the air fuel mixture and moving the Vtec crossover point around i was abot to squeeze out 161whp. I was pleasantly suprised, i was actually thinking it would only make about 140whp approx. Either way i’m happy with it and it’ll be ready for a track day 🙂
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sorry no real updates for now. Just enjoying the b18c-sirG motor 🙂
Well, it’s been 1000km’s, 86,956km’s on my tach so oil change again and that should conclude my full break in period.
Next step is to see the dynamometer. I have my first track event in a long time on June22/10. Just want to make sure there are no wierd readings on the dyno before i get onto the track.
I will be bringing my HD pro camera to show how the car does 🙂
Look for some HD Footage coming up 🙂
Thanks Brian for the HD pro camera
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Well, engine started up first try no problems now it’s time for the break in period.
Engine started up at 85,820km’s on my tach
-warmed up the engine for about 10-15mins then immediately drained the oil to take out any floating contaminents from the initial startup.
-break in period now, drove around let the rings seat properly, 85,900km’s on the tach now
-go home today and drain the oil again, 2nd oil change done at 85,970km’s on the tach
-next oil change at 1000km’s after, so 86,820km’s
-oil change before track day 89,400km’s
-then the regular 6k km oil change intervals
next oil change again at 1000km’s, 86,820km’s on the tach and another valve adjustment to make sure everythings still to spec. At that point i should do a compression test to make sure everything is good.
keep you updated.
Next engine build will come shortly….b20vtec
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i got it started up today, runs smooth, and started up on first crank over 🙂
I’m stoked!!! 🙂
Now enjoy the engine until it’s time for engine build 2,3,4 and 5
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rewiring for the new engine is taking much longer than i expected 😦
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i finally got the engine in, just have to do the wiring now, and top up the fluids 🙂
axles in, and you can see the new bushings, and the now rusty Spoon ball joints 😦
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