Andrew's engine swap (pics)

You gonna drive it to tifton this weekend?

No, probably not. It shakes pretty bad at about 70mph, so I'm gonna get the tires balanced again.

If I can fix that and the oil leak, yeah, I might, but it'll be a stretch

Today I'll check my valve cover gasket and see if that'll fix the oil leaking problem.

id say headgasket, i had to reseat mine and corrected the same leak. I went through 2 valve cover gaskets before i tried my headgasket. My old dseries was leak free after that.

I'll check the torque on them today, as well as clean the valve cover seal.

I'm tired of driving around and people thinking my headgasket it blown!! lol...

I just called KMS and he says, "I'd be very suprised if it is leaking, I use a 3 step torquing process and Hondabond on bottom and top"(of the HG).
So I don't really think it's the headgasket.


This is where I feel some of the oil(most of it is on the back of the block, dripping onto the exhaust..



It really is hard to tell where it's coming from, because where it is, its coming down onto the axle, and it's spinning it all over the block, so damn near everything is wet!
<sigh> time to crawl under there one more time...

Why don;t you get some paper towels and tape it around where you think the leak is..maybe put a lil cover or something over the axle so it's not slinging oil onto the towel.

can you just sit and idle and it'll leak, or is it something that needs vtec engaged to leak?


Thats what I'd do if I were me.. er you.

I'm pretty sure I identified the leaking thing- the VTEC solenoid. It had a crack in it, but I didn't realize it was leaking this bad until I wiped everything down and started up the car, crawled under it(ebrake, jack stands, and jack... ), and found that it was leaking pretty bad!
So I changed that with one from the junkyard, as well as a new IACV from the junker to hopefully take care of my rough idling problems, as well as it nearly stalling when under load(clutch in, off throttle after high RPM)

We'll see tomorrow whether that is the only oil leak. I'm pretty sure it is.
The only reason I kinda ruled out the VC gasket was because I looked all around it, and didn't see ANY dribble spots, no oil-paths, no nothing.

goodluck on finding it.. i had one, it was my distributor o-ring

lol some people are funny... the headgasket would be the last thing I would suspect.
its 3 dollars for a little bottle of engine oil and dye and u can find a highwattage black light bulb and put it in an old school trouble light that takes bulbs.
10-15$ cost to diag, assuming you have a older trouble light, and comes in handy often as oil+seals+time=leaks!

Bingo!

VTEC solenoid was the ticket!
And I also changed the IACV and that pretty much took care of the low/sparatic idle, and now it doesnt die when I rev it up and then let off.(putting it under load)!
Yet your right bro, I think theres a guy thats gonna tune it pretty soon, and I KNOW I need it... bad!

cool andrew. enjoy it

niiiccee.... after its tuned, post some vids of it in action... i wanna hear that single cam scream.. lol

Speaking of tuning, I just contacted Central Florida Tuning about their dyno tuning services, and got a quote from them($395 for a tune, no matter how long it takes, or how many dyno pulls they make, until it's perfect).

I guess thats what the next paycheck is going towards!

You should see if you got somebody to go with you (ahem ahem) and they brought their car (caugh, mine) .. If they woudl give a lil bit of a discount...

Thoughm you'd probably go before I got all my stuff together

I just got off the phone with CFT, and he said that they would indeed give a discount!

Since my ECU is already chipped, it would normally be $395. discount- $350
Since your ECU isn't chipped, it is normally $495. discount- $450

Eddie charged me $80 to chip it, so it's right on the money(especially for a big-name company vs. a friend)

Actually.. I'm working on getting my ECU chipped
And we shoudl see if we can get anybody else to go with us...Shame your not on TI anymore n00b

I could probably make another account on there if I wanted. They didn't IP ban me, hence the reason I can log into your account and see everything, and talk s**t...

Trick with the valve cover gasket. Use some RTV or Hondabond on the corners where the gasket meets at an angle. It sometimes doesn't seal right, and a little oil leaks out. My VG on my Mini-me leaked for a while until I figured it out.

EGProject said:

Trick with the valve cover gasket. Use some RTV or Hondabond on the corners where the gasket meets at an angle. It sometimes doesn't seal right, and a little oil leaks out. My VG on my Mini-me leaked for a while until I figured it out.

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Thanks for the tip, but all 4 corners were sealed from the get go!

I've been driving the car all day(about 20-25 miles total), and everything is looking good. No oil leaks, no coolant leaks, no nada!

PIMP PIMP PIMP PIMP PIIIIIIMP!!!!!

Numbers STAT!!!

Heh, soon enough dude, soon enough.