Andrew's engine swap (pics)

Well its true man... It's straight from Endyn's website.

Oh yeah, BTW... I'm gonna be goin to Pinks all out with my truck!!!

Ah! now thats funny. It is getting pretty chilly in Hell... Might be about to freeze... that must be the explanation.

Anybody see the eclipse last night??

Nope, I thought about looking for it but it's too chilly in PA

Terrance, you were serious?

daveholiday said:

Nope, I thought about looking for it but it's too chilly in PA

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I went outside and looked for about 2 minutes, but it was too cold in pittsburgh so i said screw it lol

Yup. Pittsburgh weather ftl.

Sorry to continue the thread jacking Andrew, but Pittsburgh weather is awesome (I live in little Washington). But I'm a snowboarder so I like it when its cold outside.

My roomates the same way lol

I've never been up to PA. I've been all around it (all of the east coast from FL to ME), and pretty much every other state in the U.S. but there!

Good boarding mountains? I've boarded/skied(sp?) in CO(lots. copper mt., breck, keystone, etc), Salt Lake City UT, Banff CA, NC(can't remember where exactly. It's above ashville somewhere), Bend OR, MASS, and a couple more I can't think of.

Korax said:

Sorry to continue the thread jacking Andrew, but Pittsburgh weather is awesome (I live in little Washington). But I'm a snowboarder so I like it when its cold outside.

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Pittsburgh weather is awesome, if you get the chance to go boarding, unfortunately I haven't had the chance the past 2 winters, so that means pitt weather is poop

I'll be taking a ride out to Pitt this spring, Maybe a get together ?

Hey Andrew, check out this link about dry nawzz systems

It posted a few pro's I didn't realize and actually some cons about WET systems that I didn't know either.

A good read, just so you know.

I'm too impatient to read it now, but I'll check it out tonight. I'll stay with my wet. You can spray your Dry and we'll see who lasts longer

There is a couple of decent resorts within one hour-2hours of where I live (seven springs, Wisp, etc) but they are nothing like out west. Just not big enough. The best east coast riding is up in Vermont (going to Mt. Snow march 2nd - 8th). And we could if the time is right, I'm getting a garage up in Carnegie after i get back. Need to de-rice this civic I have and get it prepped for possible Honda challenge. But, I would be up for hanging out.

we've got several decent resorts here in CA.. i dont snowboard anymore, but i used to hit the slopes a lot..

now back on topic.. whats going on w/ your ride Andrew?.. its been a while since i've checked this thread

Update 3/1/08

Picked up a JDM Passenger (U.S. Driver) seat from a guy off H-T in Miami. The only reason it's not in my car right now is that I need to switch the entire seat pans. I tried to just switch the rails, but the bolt pattern is different, plus theres no provision(bolt hole) for the Seat Belt Buckle thing to go.
MINT condition though!





And I just picked up a ZC style Carbon Fiber hood today. It's in pretty rough condition, but it was cheap so I did it anyway. I haven't decided if I want to Re-Clear coat it, or paint it white. Like I said, it's not in the best condition. The bolts are a little rusty and 1 is sheared off (just rusted on and got torqued too much when they took it off type of thing). Plus it's kinda warped (see pics).
Right now, I'm leaning towards NOT using it. but if theres any way I can screw around with it a little bit and get it looking pretty decent, I'll see what I can do.









Notice the gap... This side is the worst...






Front is straight



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IDK. It's pretty ghetto. I don't want to put it on my car as it is, OF COURSE. But I just want to find out if it's repairable. (the warpage is the main thing I'm concerned about)

What do you guys think?
-Andrew

If you park the car in a hot place and put a cinder block or something heavy like that on the sides then it should go back a little. My friend did that with a cheap nopi hood and it worked. It was bowed up on the sides just like that. Also a good compound a buffing might bring back the shine without any paint work.

Wow. That hood looks like my car does after the body shop screwed me and my insurance company.

Any shop that deals with CF should be able to fix it for you. OR you can do it yourself with steam and some wood.


PS, paint it. Add to the sleeper look.

91_civic_si said:

If you park the car in a hot place and put a cinder block or something heavy like that on the sides then it should go back a little. My friend did that with a cheap nopi hood and it worked. It was bowed up on the sides just like that. Also a good compound a buffing might bring back the shine without any paint work.

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Thats an interesting idea. I live on FL, so I shouldn't have a problem finding a hot place. I could always steam it, too. We have a steamer. Hmm.... I've got some research to do.

awptickles, thats what I was thinking, just keep it clean with some white paint

Hmmnnn... Where'd you get the ZC hood from? If you're not gonna do anything with it.. Eli might be interested?

I dunno.

I say keep the stock hood man.. If you painted it white, you'd have mis-matched colors. And you know I know ALLLLL about that.

Changing out the pans on the seats sucks BTW. You're gonna have lots of fun!