Big Brown's Automagic - The last episode in my DSM story.

[Goat Blower]

I've used a cherry picker to lower the tranny the last few times. The good old days of bench pressing those in and out are long gone.

[Halon]

I think the autos are a bit heavier than the manuals. Not sure how easy they are to bench press.

[scheides]

Nice! Get'r back together bud! So I know cam swaps are 'easy' and '30 mins' for you rippers but they're still a PITA for me...when we had spaz's car apart I asked him, 'how cheap would you need to buy a set of cams?....like if we got you a set of HKS 264/272's for $200 would you do it?' Just so we wouldn't have to take the car back apart even a little, do it once you know....long story short, I got hughes on the case and IIRC he got a set of 272's for about $160...just sayin

[turbotalon1g]

Originally Posted by Goat Blower

I've used a cherry picker to lower the tranny the last few times. The good old days of bench pressing those in and out are long gone.

I don't know if you could bench an auto even in your prime, I have no doubt you could toss a manual though.

Originally Posted by Halon

I think the autos are a bit heavier than the manuals. Not sure how easy they are to bench press.

Originally Posted by scheides

Nice! Get'r back together bud! So I know cam swaps are 'easy' and '30 mins' for you rippers but they're still a PITA for me...when we had spaz's car apart I asked him, 'how cheap would you need to buy a set of cams?....like if we got you a set of HKS 264/272's for $200 would you do it?' Just so we wouldn't have to take the car back apart even a little, do it once you know....long story short, I got hughes on the case and IIRC he got a set of 272's for about $160...just sayin

I don't know what you are saying.
But to be clear, if I could find cams cheap enough I'd get them. But I'm trying to purchase things only once here, and from what I'm finding a cam for a 2.0 won't be that effective on a 2.3. I'm aiming to get GSC S2Rs. The R designation seems to be for strokers, also autos and choosing cams seems to be not as easy as just dumping a set in like with a manual.

Anywho, you find me some decent 272s for $160 I'm game. To hit my goal I'm gonna need them though and a SMIM.

This week looks to be busy, not sure if I'll be able to get back to her till friday.

[Halon]

I think I still have a bunch of raw material at home that I bought when I planned to make a SMIM for my Talon (Square extrude for plenum, four round 6" long tubes for runners, plate for ends of SMIM & TB flange, head flange). I'll check when I get home but if you're interested I'd give it to ya for maybe $25 (I bet I paid 150-200 for it all) and we could try to build one. Only issue would be I think the flange I have is for a 1g head, but you could always just go buy some aluminum plate and drill/cut a new head flange.

[turbotalon1g]

Originally Posted by Halon

I think I still have a bunch of raw material at home that I bought when I planned to make a SMIM for my Talon (Square extrude for plenum, four round 6" long tubes for runners, plate for ends of SMIM & TB flange, head flange). I'll check when I get home but if you're interested I'd give it to ya for maybe $25 (I bet I paid 150-200 for it all) and we could try to build one. Only issue would be I think the flange I have is for a 1g head, but you could always just go buy some aluminum plate and drill/cut a new head flange.

Thanks for the offer man, I'm going to stick with the stock IM till proving grounds as I really want to run stock appearing this year. After that it is game on to get this record, meaning SMIM time but NO SPRAY!

I know that the car could do a 10 easy with spray, hell I bet could do a 10 with spray easy on a 5 spd, no doubt. Talking 100 shot.

Anywho, thanks bman, I'll be surprised if you don't have a bunch of PMs from locals that is a great deal.

[goodhart]

What record?

[turbotalon1g]

No record, my goal sorry. Don't know what I was thinking. I'm not close and not trying to be close to any record regarding 16Gs billet or otherwise.

I just want to hit my goal.

[Goat Blower]

Originally Posted by turbotalon1g

I don't know if you could bench an auto even in your prime, I have no doubt you could toss a manual though.

That's true, never tried an auto. I can still get a set of 10 out of 185 lbs on the bench, but that's a whole lot easier than a greasy tranny with no handles dodging subframes and axles. Luckily not too far off my prime.

[123abc]

Yeah, umm, I'll second the idea that the auto's are "a bit" heavier than the manuals. Try WAY heavier. They take up much more room in the engine bay too.


Whenever I get pissy while pulling my AWD trans, I just think back to helping Travis (twack) pull his auto. Never again... lol

[niterydr]

Originally Posted by Goat Blower

That's true, never tried an auto. I can still get a set of 10 out of 185 lbs on the bench, but that's a whole lot easier than a greasy tranny with no handles dodging subframes and axles. Luckily not too far off my prime.

Impressive!

However, bench-pressing Auto's should be an Olympic sport, they are NOT FUN.

[turbotalon1g]

4/22/12-
Bit of a lameo update here, worked on getting my wideband and shift light installed today got 99% of the way done but I can't find the holder for the shift light or my stash of velcro for the wideband mounting. So that will have to wait.

I did fix my "junky" glove box and it now shuts tight with no sag!! I'm really happy about that although part of me just wants to get rid of it really...

Ordered my parts i need to put the head together and I'm supposed to be picking up a set of manual cams from munchgsx soon. One of my stock cam gears looked bent you could see it wobble when the car was running.

Apart from that not much else going on, need to find time really to make some real progress. I must say that I thought a bit about building this thing and well no matter how cheap parts are in the end its still a decent amount of $$ getting spent so with that said I'm going to try and buy as little as possible till I can get some $$$ back into my savings, plus I'm waiting for the issues that come up once its running.

I should have everything this weekend to get the head back on the car, so we will see what happens.

[goodhart]

Have anything to do to it tomorrow? You should text me if you don't work tomorrow, I have a few hours to burn between work and the twins game at 7:00

[turbotalon1g]

I'm working 2-10pm the next few weeks so its looks like weekends only for me.

[turbotalon1g]

Didn't do much work on it the last week, but I did pick up the rest of the parts I need to put the head back on the car thanks to MAP and Nick@MAP.

I also dropped my water pipe off at JETs to get welded up and managed to get a great deal on a set of good ol' HK$ 272s. I'm pretty excited, almost excited enough to actually work on my car!
I spent most of today working on my honduh.

[goodhart]

The honduh road worthy yet?

[scheides]

Yay! Glad to hear you found some cams. Good
Ole setup!

[turbotalon1g]

Originally Posted by goodhart

The honduh road worthy yet?

Yeah, got the front bumper on and I painted it up so it looks decent, just need a grill and I'm done. for now...

[turbotalon1g]

Been a bit since I've updated this, but I started school this week and well its gonna be a rough few years as usual i guess.
Anywho, I'll be spending most of this sunny day doing homework rather than putting the car together, but hopefully I will make some progress this weekend and its starting to look like I need to just hurry up and slap the car together if i want to make proving grounds or even my bday!

4/30/12 - Cleaned and bled 3G lifters that were already in a 2G head I picked up:


5/2/12 - New vs. old.
You can see through the old one, around the edges at least.


5/3/12 - Initial install method, took me a while to get this far /


5/3/12 - initial install mock up. Looks like it could be a PITA.


5/3/12 hmmm, 2G head all cleaned up. Munchgsx stage 0.5. To include Evo valvetrain, and thanks to nick/Cornfed2.4 HKS 272s!


Cornfed 2.4 thanks for the oil cap, hopefully its better than my old one! Booo mobil1, i need a new sticker for that.


Pre-ported oiling hole:

Driver's side install, i decided to change the install method since the other way was going to be a PITA. To be honest I might end up throwing these in the civic and ordering some 5.25" for the talon just so i can have them fit in the door but I'll see next year or some other time. (Need to not get distracted by this non-necessary stuff)


Doesn't look to bad, they are Infinity Reference 6030cs components for the price they are rated very well and do well without an amp with I'm going to try out I think, I'm not going for some show quality system just something decent that I can turn up when I'm by myself.


Tweeter install:


5/6/12-Speaker install complete



This is my gear shift display installed, i didn't grab a pic of the display itself I'll have to remember next time, but you might be able to see it in one of the next few pics.

Interior 90% complete, its the most its been together in a very long time maybe 9 months! (you guys might be able to see what's missing.


Usually I'd say what's left totally, but I'll try to keep it to the necessary items.
-Drill 2G head for install to block
-Install cams, lifters, etc to head
-Assemble manifolds to head
-Front ball joints, control arms with new bushings, coilovers.
-Buy injectors.
-need radiator.
-install rear splash shield stuff.
-finish trans installation, its bolted to motor and held up by a jack.

Now what i'm trying to make happen:
-Do some powdercoating since parts are off the car that should never have to come off again.
-Install vacuum pump, ton of room without head on the car.
-Drop rear subframe and install active toe elim, and poly bushings.
-possible rear brake upgrade.
-find a lightweight sub/amp combo.
-Rebuild TB, do FIAV blockoff, put in new shaft seals. (old ones leaked like bitch I was def. losing a good amount of power there)
-Stop adding weight to the car.

Hopefully by the end of this weekend I would of made some good progress. One can only hope.

[goodhart]

good job man, ill have to stop by again one of these days