my winter project

[fdfreak]

here are some more pics. Everything looks ok except the coolant seals. The outer seals on all the plates are warped (expected) and the inner seal on the front rotor. I also noticed that there was coolant in the front rotor as well as broken corner seal.

I also took the oil control o-rings out of the rotors and fortunatly they look good. they still hold a tight seal against the rings. so By the looks of it, all i need is one corner seal, coolant seals and the dowel seals.

All the tolerances on the springs are within spec.

zac, what else do you think I should look at or concider?

[zbrown]

looks like you got lucky

I am surprised you lucked out breaking only one corner seal, and that an apex didn't let go, since i thought you were using OEM 2 pc, correct??

both halves look to be there from the corner seal.... so nothing went through the combustion chamber...... consider your rotors, housings, and turbine wheel lucky (especially on a $$ turbo like that)

I'd just make sure to check the irons for flatness if this motor got at all warm on you.

IMO those corner seals are brittle and a POS, I would recommend solid corners with the good springs when put back together

also people are having great luck with RA teflon encapsulated coolant seals.... just a thought

anyway, I am happy you didn't tear up those housings

[fdfreak]

have you heard anything about pinapple racings HD water seals?

[fdfreak]

yea, I might be painting instead of polishing. looking at cost and will be much cheaper. Id rather not buy i guess one is limited to what he has in his wallet. Do they make a polished alluminum color paint?

Gary, what kind of paint do you suggest? never painted car parts before.

[Grr]

I wouldnt do it myself, pm z31, he will give you a price just figure out what colors you want. You ever see pics of zacs motor? It wasnt very hard to do and man did that turn out nice

[zbrown]

fdfreak;246472 wrote:
Gary, what kind of paint do you suggest? never painted car parts before.

On my stuff every thing has a PPG sealer applied first....

the irons have a PPG single stage black....

and the red is the same paint on the car..... PPG base/clear

you would not believe how tuff all that stuff is...... even right at the exhaust ports after a bunch of antilag the red was like new

BTW the stuff that looks like bumps or whatever on the back rotor housing is just casting flaws, not paint flaws

[Slowica]

that thing looks sick! i need to get my motor painted when i pull it for a build.

[fdfreak]

DAMN! that does look nice

[fdfreak]

just got my solid corner seals in, now just waiting on my HD water seals from pineapple racing.

[fdfreak]

got done painting the engine. turned out better than I thought it would. Its not perfect but the block will be burried anyway. I think i am going to thow a few more coats of clear down.

[95accord]

looks good to me

[Grr]

spray paint wasnt what i had in mind when i said paint, but i guess it looks good enough

[99civic]

cant wait to paint it!!

[fdfreak]

Grr;247687 wrote:
spray paint wasnt what i had in mind when i said paint, but i guess it looks good enough

i know it wasnt what you had in mind, but I i was pinched for time. so I threw 3 coats of primer down, 4 coats of paint and 3 coats of clear. next week I will be up at NDSU putting the engine back together.

[CRX_Civic]

:icon_cheers:> zbrown;246493 wrote:

On my stuff every thing has a PPG sealer applied first....

the irons have a PPG single stage black....

and the red is the same paint on the car..... PPG base/clear

you would not believe how tuff all that stuff is...... even right at the exhaust ports after a bunch of antilag the red was like new

BTW the stuff that looks like bumps or whatever on the back rotor housing is just casting flaws, not paint flaws

:icon_salut:YES this is now my screensaver...!!

[DelSlow]

^^^ really? ...cool...

[MisterCMK]

It is mine too.

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[fdfreak]

here are some updates on the project. The engine is 90% completed . I just have to wait until tintmasters is done polishing my IC pipes and my turbo compressor housing. This saturday I spent all morning cleaning and tearing the engine bay. Aj and eric came over about 1:30, we masked everything off and aj went to it. it turned out great. the color is better than I imagined. Cant wait until the whole car is painted.

This weekend will be spent putting the engine back in and hopefully firing the car back up.