Engine Rebuild. Work In Progress: Part 2

Hi guys.

The overhauling project is almost done. Below are some of the pictures that i managed to capture and share with you readers!

When i went to the garage, the engine is already inside the engine bay... as you can see above.

bring me back to life!!! :P 

And yeah. Upgrade my fuel pump to aftermarket fuel pump from Walbro. Why? because it is time to change my stock fuel pump with a better one. Other than that, the Walbro fuel pump has a higher flow rate than my current pump. It is capable of providing additional fuel to the injectors when necessary, preventing fuel under-run.

Walbro 255 lph in-tank fuel pump.....

Since my valve cover looks soooo bad (as you can see from the first two pictures above).. i asked my mechanic to help me to respray back the rocker cover. I really love the wrinkle effect which can be seen in most of Honda Vtec valve cover, so i search on the internet and i managed to get the spray can that i was looking for. 

Gox7 Winkle Blue color + Gox7 Primer/Undercoat. 

Stay tuned for more!!!

Regards!

Intake Upgrade : Skunk2 Intake Manifold

Hi guys!
For the past 3 months, I've been very busy with my work and i cant spend much time to write. Really sorry for that. In today post, i would like to share my intake project. I've been looking and collecting  parts for this past 3 months and yes, it did took a lot of my time since i need to make some research before proceeding with the project. I want this project to be like what i wanted. Thank god, i managed to gather stuff that i wanted. Pictures of the process below :

For this project,  i also decided to upgrade my fuel rail with a high flow fuel rail which is made by aluminium. Other than just properly supply the additional fuel needed for high performance applications and durability, this fuel rail brings out the bling factor ... of course :P

At first i would like to buy a new set of the intake but then i changed my mind. Luckily, i managed to find someone who wanted to sell off his engine, so after a lot of negotiations, i managed to ask him to sell his modded intake to me. For your information, the intake is made by Skunk2. It is designed for B Series application. So, in order to use this intake, there are some of the modification that is needed before it can fit perfectly. The previous owner use cut & weld method which means he cut the MIVEC intake flange and then weld it with the Skunk2 intake. This method will gives better flow and direct fit with MIVEC cylinder head. The intake has been sprayed with black VTEC rough structure.

For this project also, i decided to use thermal intake gasket. Thermal intake gasket acts as a barrier stopping heat transferring from the engine block through into the inlet manifold. Stopping this heat transfer results in a cooler inlet charge temperature and in doing so increases engine power. It has been proven so i think it is worth to try :)

Took out the standard intake manifold 

MIVEC intake manifold ... the design is much different from Skunk2. Skunk2 is designed to give better high RPM power and that is what i am targeting for...

Testing out the 4 throttle setup. Haha. Still under R&D 

Voila! The complete process! 

does look much better :) 

After a lot of test drive, i am very positive that this Skunk2 intake manifold gives much better feeling if compared to MIVEC intake manifold. No kidding. But i dont have proof to show to you for now. I will be on dyno machine again since this upgrade needs tuning to make it performs much better. Hopefully i will hit my target. We'll see.....

Regards.

Intake :Think Out Of The Box

Hi guys.
Sorry for the lacks of update. I'm quite busy nowadays so it is very hard for me to find time to write something. I still remember lot of 4G9X  Naturally aspirated engine user especially MIVEC always complaining that performance parts for the engine is not that much if compare to VTEC and yes.. it is true.

What i admire about the 4G9X engine user is their spirit to build the engine to be as fast as VTEC so they keep on doing research and develop custom parts for their engine and i think it is very good for the motorsport scenes.

In my country, which is Malaysia, most of the 4G9X tuner here think that one of the performance part that is lack of variety in the market for the engine is intake manifold. So, they find ways on how to upgrade it with the parts which is readily available for the market. I think they are quite creative indeed :)

Below some of the picture of 4G9X series engine using aftermarket parts which originally made for Honda and Toyota :)

 MIVEC with B-series Skunk2 Intake

 MIVEC with H-series Skunk2 Intake

4G93 with Edelbrock Performer X Intake 

MIVEC with Edelbrock Victor X Intake 

MIVEC with 4AGE Toyota ITB Intake

Creativity is the key point of this post. I think you can already guess what my next upgrade is *hint. See you in the next post :)