Engine Swap

We've been nice to our competitors in time attack and ran the old B16A2 in the Civic. Well now that is over!

As Beldin has been paying a visit at my residence for last... few weeks or so [:D], we decided to swap the bloody B18C6 into the Civic. It's been laying around at the DSG for too long anyway. We have TODA Racing Spec II cams for it, Spoon Throtle Body, M-Bit manifold, Weds racing cat, Trial Tuning Spirit / JDM Factory Ti exhaust system... and the list goes on and on... I believe the EK will be a thrill to run on a track days <3

Beldin is checking and oiling the block, using the old JUN flywheel as spinning tool. Nice to have these "old" parts laying around. They get handy time to time ;)

We checked a bit the quality of the machine shop we used. We noticed that there was a lot undone, thus we had to clean "a bit" by our selves. *sigh* Some times I really hate to live here. The "good enough" attitude makes me really frustrated and the next pixture is a perfect example of it. That is what we found under the cams. The cleaning of the milled head was "good enough" at the machine shop. And this was supposed to be a good shop where many succesfull racers have done their engine machining... Shit!

After some major cleaning, the head met the block

This is where I really got multi frustrated, and Beldin as well... We didn't have proper tool for tightening the ARP head bolts/nuts. 12 cornered nuts. Sounds quite basic, doesn't it? We headed for the special tool store which we mostly use, but no luck. We headed for the popular car-people-store but still no luck. We headed for the last option and stopped for two hardware stores in the way, but none of these three shops had the tools we needed...

WTF?!

How come this fucking backwater (I seem to like that word nowadays) can't have single tool store selling regular 12 cornered long sockets? Some ten years ago, it was pain in the but to find a wrench set with hexagonal sockets, now it totally opposite and all the stores are selling the same shit with their own brand... *SIGH* Oh... btw, unless you have a company that buys like 1000€/month of tools, you can't go to a special tool shop to buy those proper tools in here.

I love this place... not.

While waiting and thinking, I mated the Spoon throtle body and Type R intake manifold together.

This pic was of the work still in progress :) The finished fitting was nice, of course! ;D

Today, we finnished when the engine was removed. The day was full of hassle, especially for me, and it took too long before I got a good hold of my self and we got into work :D We got good laughs though ;)

Also, there was no point to work more than this. The old engine needs to be disassembled a bit. The new one does need some parts from the old one, and before that can be done, we need to get that bloody socket from some place! grr!

Here is the EK baby just before we left the DSG.

Thanks for Beldin for being multi nice and working on the EK with me :) It's fun!

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