My project HB1

My Oct 1992 Hatch, all stock engine, blue Led guage cluster, blue neon under dash, removed rear and auto seat belts, 2 MTX 12" subs bridged on a MTX 300 watt D block mono amp, Smoked tails, sleepy eyed, X type wing, 15" blanks with 15" chrome beauty rings, and black paint job done by me.

I clame it's birthday it the 31st of Oct 1992.

More to come.




















More pics to come.

Sweet. i think you need a drop! and its almost its (her/him?) lol birthday!

Big Ol' 16, they just grow up so fast...

SHE doesn't have a name yet, since she's not on the road.

It's her engine I took apart last night.

A drop would be so nice!!!

Damn mang, that is a pretty clean hatch.
Paint scheme isn't too shabby either, it's unique.
GET THAT BITCH RUNNIN!!

The price was even better!!!

Same for my Coupertable...

It ran just not to well, a max speed of 45mph flat in 3rd and 30mph up hill...

Just found out it was about to blow a head gasket once I took it apart...

That's why I'm rebuilding her and at the same time doing my manny swap.

If you're willing to help with some labor it might go faster.

Lookin good.I like the taillights and the type x wing...and the paint job is pretty damn cool too.Im thinkin about paintin mine like a silvia and havin it black underneath the black stripe that goes across.

^Damn I've thought about that scheme too.. Bastard..

And if you didn't live so far away I'd definitely come help dude..

Idea thief!Lol jk do what you want she yours haha.At first i thought about paintin the top of the car black...just the hood, roof,trunk and all that but then i started seein hondas do it around here so i said fuck that lol.

I feel ya on that one.

That's why I have a Honda emblem hanging from ma tow hook on both ma cars.

Fuck HOMOs (HOndaMOtorsports)

LOL, yeah I think I'm stuck between getting it black on top, like the roof and pillars, white body. Or maybe all that plus black on the bottom.

Hey, Tommy you photo shop pretty well, don't you? I'd like to see how that would look...

Goodness im gonna have to start chargin for photoshoppin things for people just kiddin.I can try to do it for you haha.

i wanna repaint mine from black to roof and maybe hatch and hood black with the body blue

I finnaly picked a Romanian name for my car, Erika.

FYI: Pick up or watch a movie called 'Blood and Chocolate' if you have never seen it.
From the producers of 'Underworld', 'Underworld Evolution', and 'The Covenant'.

All GREAT movies!!!

Just ordered my cheap ass (FTL!) eBay Full Gasket Kit, $50.26. (You get what you pay for...) Now I just need to have all the parts cleaned/heat sink, to rid me of all the oil/greese build up...

But I just need to get this one running as a DD for now, I have another engine I bought sitting off to the side that was "recently rebuilt" but thay say they think it spun a rod barring..... So I'm gunna take all the "Better/Newer/Rebuilt" parts off of it for this engine. (i.e. water pump, oil pump, head, and pistons)




Now with this "Spare/Play Engine" once I get this hatch running I'm gunna take whats left of both engines and take it to a machine shop and get a head job have it and block dipped in a heat sink and cleaned and bored if needed, buy new parts, and upgraded parts. I'm gunna do a big big over haul on it and buit it stronger than I need it then go turbo on it.

It looks like a early christmas to: ME from: ME, my gasket kit just came in today!







And I guess as a extra little gift they through in a news paper, only problem is I can't read it. :'(



I can read this though.

Well this morning befor I woke up, my father and Pearce went and got my flywheel off my spare engine, but this time they used a blow torch to heat up the bolts and they just came out with a wrench... What it was, was that the JACK ASS who rebuilt the engine used RED LockTight for a PERMANENT hold...

Anyways, all I know about this engine is that the guy (Queeque) I bought it from said when he bought the car it only had 200 mi. on it and when it craped out (thinks it spun a rod barring) on him it was at 900 mi. so he pulled the engine and I bought it from him w/ maunal trans for $200.

Since I have the engine out of my hatch taken apart and gasket kit ready, I'm just going to take parts from my spare that are newer/cleaner/rebuilt/better to replace all of my bad parts then get them hot tanked and slap it all back to gether.

Ok, so my engine lift is at Pearce's house from when I helped him pull his engine, that's ok I got Keith since he came down to visit for X-mas, so I got him to help me tag team that bitch and we man handled it on to my engine stand and got it down stairs.

Well I got started on taking it apart and boy did my eyes light up to see how clean the head was inside.

Then that's when I noticed the upper timing chain cover had been snapped off/ground down some how...

Ohwell, I'm off to bed, I'll just end up spending the rest of my X-mas day breaking it down... Good night.

Well, after I drained the almost, if not less than 1 quart of oil, I finnished taking the engine apart, and shit is FUCKED!!!

#1 Piston


Yay! Burnt bearings!!!

#2 Piston



Yay!!! You can see the piston was hitting the head and the fucking bearing's melted!!!!!

#3 Piston



Yay! MOAR burnt bearings!!!

#4 Piston


Yay! more burnt bearings.......

"Think it spun 'A' rod bearing" my ASS, try BEARING'S' notice the 'S' more than one, MELTED, SPUN, and BURNT, but now that I have the smell of BURN OIL stuck in my niose, I'm going to bed...

P.S. I think it might be a S14 engine...

And this is what my house looks like, now.....


You can see my semi OCD...

PARTS!!!

Nice job... What's your goals for both cars?

Saltman wrote:

Nice job... What's your goals for both cars?

I only claim my hatch, the vert is my dad's. (I disowned the vert, just got to take all my "shit" out of it...)

I have two engines for my hatch so I can rebuild one (with SOHC pistons and removed secondaries from the intake) to get it running and build the other one how I want it (TURBO).

240sRus wrote:

Saltman wrote:

Nice job... What's your goals for both cars?

I only claim my hatch, the vert is my dad's. (I disowned the vert, just got to take all my "shit" out of it...)

I have two engines for my hatch so I can rebuild one (with SOHC pistons and removed secondaries from the intake) to get it running and build the other one how I want it (TURBO).

With those SOHC pistons you are gonna get a seriously high comp. ratio. like 11.2 (can't remember exact #). You can figure about 6% increase in hp for every point your comp ratio goes up. So that would be like 10 hp....maybe, but you would also have to run 93 or better octane and retard the timing a little which would reduce hp even more. IMO it's just not worth it. You could just do a nice rebuild and just replace the pistons and weak ass rings and then boost it later on. Just my $0.02

The only reason I want to go SOHC piston is because I don't have any money to buy new/better ones, and Pearce has a set laying around I can have for free.

The pistons out of my hatch have deep scars in the sides.

The pistons out of the extra engine I bought had the valves cutting into the heads so they're fugged up too.

So unless someone has a free set of good DOHC pistons laying around or wants to give me some money and call it a birthday (2/ gift, I'm gunna keep looking in to using the SOHC pistons.

About damn time I post something.

Today I took my Block, Cradle, Crank, and Oil pan to a shop to get 'HOT TANKED' , so you know what that means? No? It means, I'm about to order all my parts to have my engine rebuilt.

All thanks to auto upholstery and the people who need it done.

Well I got everything back yesterday and it look a hell of alot better than it was, I'll put pics up later.