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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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DSG visiting Journey of FD-3S

Yay.

oil change

Old loyal workshop jack has not been serviced before. Now I shall renew it. A bit.

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New Toyo R888 tires for the Time Attack EK Civic

We shall give no more lead in the tires.

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VAG version of hub bearing

Don't really know what to think... At least it is simple :)

The hub bolt was so loose, that the bolt came loose when I hand tested if my tool fits :D

Entries

Bloody C-Rock. Damn you!

I have not made single real entry after he announced the terms of service from Google. I've been just wondering what the hell is that made for, the terms of service I mean.

I guess I'll do some kind of collection of everything latter. I think..

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the reality strikes again

Even though it would be nice to work on the race/tuned cars all day long, one must eat and pay the rent. This patient needs new joint for the drive shaft.

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lonely dinner @ DSG

DSG is "empty" finally. The painful turbo replacement has finally been finished. Tomorow the TA EK4 will get final upgrades before we head to Time Attack races @ Motopark.

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s hell

Angryness and carness. We came to tip over the local Shell.

Murr!

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So close, still so far...

Funny how litle shiny things can make life difficult. Especially when the keys are forgotten...

Last night I had a dream in which I picked one lock. Maybe it was an omen. Who knows

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The Reality

The LSD installation was not all that straight forward as it may seem by looking these entries :D the box is rather complex package and one should know what is needed to do :)

I'm leaving to Estonia after 6h so I cannot do the entry with full explanation now. I try to do it early in next week.

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Done

The gearbox is finally in one piece :) Yesterday, or tobe accurate, todays morning, the case did not want to fit. Or actually it was the internals that did not want to fit in. Well, today, me and mr. Sandels watched as the case grew a bit in warm summer sun. Installation was easy, as a Sunday morning, afterwards.

Next in the program, finishing the clutch installation and adding the gearbox, with LSD this time, into the EK.

But first, I'll enjoy the sun a bit!

Cheers!
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Nani?

I came to the DSG and found this in front of a door. Is it a new door? We'll see later.

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Race Sausages

Sometimes, the hungriness requires fast action. That's why DSG has invested into hi class race sausages! Only the highest grade is good enough for us!

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the brake

...the ring of fire - the ring of fire... Titti ditti tititti tii...

LSD is ready for installation

Alright. The OEM parts have been installed to the Kaaz and it's ready to be dropped into the gearbox. Thanks to the heatgun and coldspray, i was able to remove the OEM bearings and reinstal them aswell.

Now we shall have sausage brake with C-Rock.

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Disassemblesness

Almost done :D

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Installing LSD into the EK

Widric was a bit late, so I took the gearbox to the "new" clean table. Installation of the Kaaz LSD shall start now.

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Saatana - PERKELE!

It was quite difficult task to get the flywheel torqued down alone. Especially without proper flywheel lockin device :| few flying tools and strong Finnish vocabulary were needed. Now it is done! Vittu!

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