Chambers Build Thread - "91.5 CID"

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By Spunky69
- Mon Apr 30, 2012 1:46 pm #303358 Any chance of a video of acceleration? :P
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By Chambers
- Tue May 01, 2012 11:44 am #303465
Spunky69 wrote:Any chance of a video of acceleration? :P


Very good chance, once I get it tuned and fix my alternator issue, its hitting the frame...

HungRealLow21 wrote:when is this bad boy going in????


The engine? I have around 450 mile on the engine, breaking it in so I can have the local speed shop to tune it. Its very fun.
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By Chambers
- Fri Jun 01, 2012 3:54 am #306874 So I have about 1100 miles on the engine, got it dyno tuned. It put down 161 horse power!!! Surprised the hell out of me! I put in a Walbro 225 fuel pump and a AEM 3 bar MAP sensor.

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http://youtu.be/vs4uCDqBZ5E
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By Chambers
- Mon Jun 25, 2012 11:30 am #309311 Thanks.

So over this past weekend I managed to find a center arm rest assemlby, and also got the stock airbox back on, and wow, what a difference both made. The aribox really made the "twang" quieter when not under a lot of engine load, and the arm rest makes this thing feel like a real car, not a little econo box...

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By Spunky69
- Thu Jun 28, 2012 12:03 am #309614 Love the shifter :thumb:
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By Chambers
- Sun Jul 15, 2012 2:57 pm #310977 Thanks!

Yesterday and this morning I did the power window and lock conversion on the car, I LOVE power windows, especially in my daily driver. It went well, I got the power door inserts, recovered them with a slightly lighter factory style fabric, then installed them onto my door panels. Since I had my amp running the speakers the factory speaker wires in the door harness were not going to cut it, so I had some spare pins from eastern beaver that fit the connector perfectly. So everything is still plug and play! Next I think I'm going to recover the center arm rest so it matches the door inserts and then the rear deck lid where the rear speakers mount.

Just got a DC Sports 1 peice 4-1 header. Turns out the ebay header I bought was only a limited run and the seller will not make replacement parts (gaskets) or new test pipes.... and the gaskets are huge, like 3"dia. so they aren't off the shelf pieces...
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I was surprised the DC header came with a 02 extension harness for the factory 02 sensor since there is no bung where the factory one would normally go. But, I'm going to weld one on so I can still run my wideband sensor. After I get the bung welded on I'm going to wrap the hell out of the header with the wrap I bought, then get a new cat and test pipe.

I have noticed on hard stops the brakes feel spongy, I think when I has breaking in the engine doing hard decels I may have hurt the brakes some how, so I'm going to flush it again and put the EBC Green Stuff break pads I ordered on. This is the first time I have used them but from what I hear they are good.

Also picked out a paint for the car, a Honda black metallic that in certain lights will have a blue hue to it. My painter suggested it and I really like it, so were going to start setting up for paint in the next few weeks.

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Thanks for looking!
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By Prototype4342
- Mon Jul 16, 2012 3:56 am #311057 Nice you seem to be going pretty all-out for a DD build!
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By Chambers
- Tue Jul 17, 2012 1:38 am #311142 Thanks, this car is one big learning outlet for me. I have been wrenching on Supra for about 5 years, but never built a whole engine or did a paint job. I figured parts are so darn cheap (for the most part they are) for the Civic that I could learn on it and if it went bad I wouldn't be out 6-9k for just an engine build. Its crazy when I look over what I have done with the car and what I have spent, I will have less in this whole car than I will in parts only to build the V8 in my Supra...
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By Chambers
- Tue Jul 17, 2012 11:19 am #311198 I found the set on craigslist, came with everything including a new set of the rubber seals that surround the window from Honda, I reused my door panels.
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By Chambers
- Sat Jul 21, 2012 9:13 pm #311626 Today I got a chance to build what I have been thinking about for a while. A place for the oils in the trunk that wont let them spill and new cover over the spare tire.

This is what I started with and what I ended up with:

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By brandoff88
- Thu Jul 26, 2012 8:12 pm #312039 that trunk thing is savage as hell, i am thinking about something like that, i like to have all my tools and extra fluids with me too...but it does get messy when they leak lol, keep up the good work bro!
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