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This engine lived from October 20, 2001 to January 17. 2003. It lasted over 45,000 miles, and died because the nut behind the wheel did something stupid. Go back to the home page to see more. Here is the long awaited report about my engine swap. This took place over 3 weeks at Intercrew Auto Salon in Richardson, Texas (north part of Dallas), and cost me my left arm, right leg, and left nut. The swap consists of:
The only thing that's visually changed on the car is the appearance of that nice subtle Evo tip in the back! Right now with very rough tuning, the engine is making 185hp/140lbft at the wheels. Factor in driveline loss, and that comes out to about 220hp/165lbft at the crank! I'm hoping to hit close to 200whp (235-240 @ crank) once I have the time to get tuned properly. Then I'll upgrade the cams, valvetrain, do some headwork, and see where that takes me... The dyno chart is at the bottom, by the way. I've kept you all waiting long enough- here are the pictures. Click on the pictures to get a full size bandwidth choker in a new window. Modem users beware! 2001-09-29: I dropped the car off at 5 Star Transmissions Thumbnails 300x225 ~20k, biggies 1600x1200 ~360k Car at dropoff:  Hood open with stock yuckies in view:  Check out that auto!  Stock gauge cluster with no tach:  5 Star Transmissions, where I dropped the car off at...  2001-10-06: I went back to Intercrew to check progress on the car. Phillip was missing the main bearings, so he wasn't able to start putting the new engine together yet. Damn bombings were slowing down shipments... He already had the engine out of the car, so I took a few pictures of that. Thumbnails 300x225 ~20k, biggies 1280x1024 ~250k Empty engine bay:  Empty engine bay from the other side:  Stock pencil tip exhaust:  Engine bay from the side:  Close-up of the stock catalytic converter:  Front end's a little light with no engine:  2001-10-13: I went back again to check up on the car, and my main bearings still weren't in (damn 9/11 attack)- but I got pictures of the block and a few other interesting items at the shop. Thumbnails 400x300 ~25k, biggies 1280x1024 ~250k Broken rod (not mine):  Crank with broken rod ends:  My new block:  New engine code:  Close-up of my new piston:  An empty B18 block after cleanup:  A B18A block sleeved by Golden Eagle to 2.0 liters:  My stock D15B7 engine and auto tranny:  Now that is some hard core wheel gap!  Rusted out B20B block  2001-10-19: I picked up the car, and drove down to Austin for the weekend. 2001-10-22: I took these pictures while I was doing my first oil change at 650 miles (in the dark). Thumbnails 400x300 ~25k, biggies 1280x1024 ~250k Check out those Oklahoma bugs...  Engine bay:  Engine bay up close:  Just the engine:  DC ceramic coated 4-1 header, top:  DC ceramic coated 4-1 header, bottom:  New axle, KYB AGX strut:  Intake:  Place Racing engine mount (yeah, just one):  Greddy Evo can up close:  Greddy Evo can in the dark:  2002-02-04: I finally got a bit of a tune job, but we fried the Hondata system on accident, so it was a rough tune with a VAFC. Here is the dyno sheet (sorry about the quality, I need a scanner). Thumbnails 500x38? ~20k, biggies 19??x14?? ~230k Baseline dyno:  Just kidding- we got bored and ran on the dyno. Here's the real dyno sheet:  Last update: 2003-07-09 |