My EK4

Yeah all tyres are on,

As long as it starts fine and doesnt explode i should be ready for the meet, im really hoping my spoiler turns up mon morning too!!!

I know i'm just saying what you already know Ez, but run it in properly mate

Well there are different views on what to do, i have read one article by proffesional engine builders that say rag the shit out of it and it will be better!

But i think il take it easy

ezza wrote:

Well there are different views on what to do, i have read one article by proffesional engine builders that say rag the shit out of it and it will be better!

But i think il take it easy

yeah ive read that too. hard to know what to believe. Wehn you think about it logicaly, running it in gentley seems the way to do it, but then professional engine builders say the opposite. it just wouldnt feel right blasting a freshly built engine lol
if your spoiler comes monday morning dude i'll drop the tilt brackets off, if not i'll see yo ass at the meet

I was going to ask that about the brackets, nice one david

just let it idle and run on mineral oil for bit, this oil is thicker and helps to bend and mold the new parts into place without any damage and no need to rag the engine but its up to you whatever method u wana use good luck either way.

I know what u mean, i think the assembly lube should take care of it.

Got enough of the engine in to try and start it, but the battery was dead (predictably), so im just waiting on the mrs to bring some jump leads and try again, it should run without the exhaust mani shouldny it? just to make sure it runs.

run it for about 50 miles on some cheapo oil, use this period to make sure everything is ok, change the oil to nice whatever your gonna use then go have at it

without manifold it will just idle a little funny, and be very noisy, but other than that deffo run it on mineral for bit, just leave it idle for bit then do an oil change before proper drive so you cleared out all the crap, magnetic sump nut wud be usefull i dont care what anyone says fresh build means your gona get few bits in the first oil.

Yeah il grab a mannetic sump plug

i bout one of ebay for new car cost me couple of pound, just to be safe

Woah Ezz, no messing about.
Mineral oil for about 50miles, then cheapy oil for another 50miles then normal oil is how ive done it before.

Oh yeah, wear it in slowly man, i seen the threads about ragging it, and they talking out there arses.

Even if it is better to rag it in it goes against all i know about engines, it wouldnt feel right, lol

gotta say wel ldone ez for gettin it back toghether and most of all no problems with the engine first rebuild so 10/10 for effort and such, and the wheels look sick!

last night at 6 oclock
phoned ezza
hello mate you in
ezza ..ye man pop round
bad move 3hr's latter brakes done oil in gearbox this is when tesh turnd up bonnet on bumper on
tryd to start ..shit battery flat so we jumpd it with my accord and it came to life a few rattles from the decat but that motor sounds so nice
i must say all you honda boys help each other out well done
and ezza nice build

looks sik man, fair play!

Gota say the engine sounds sweet! 10/10 mr Beck.
You didnt show me the cam gear doing the crip walk though

lol^

thank you so much all that helped out, in chronological order; toajay, ned, big-al, tesh, aky iv probably forgot someone.

im thinkin with the cam gear about finding the bit thats sticking out and tapping it with a hammer to try and straighten it out a bit?

i did that on the power steering pulley on the GC8
good as new

So iv done a few miles in it now and its pretty fucking sweet, the rust has nearly gone off the discs so its stopped making that loud ass grinding noise, iv given it a bit of stick and it feels like it pulls stronger than before but there is the 02 sensor to sort out and the engine check light is on so il see what codes its throwing.
The mounts are pretty solid, im still getting used to them, it feels like im going to stall everytime i pull off cus of the judder of the engine through the car lol.
There are a couple of noises to sort out too, the cat still needs sorting (debaffling), there is a high pitch whine at higher rpm which i think is an over tightened accesory belt, and there is a noise from the timing belt which i think again is because the tension isnt right, when my hand is better (i broke my hand u know) i cant wait to sort thse bits out!!

Since i havnt got any pics up of it on road i snapped a couple with my fone for now, soz its dirty havnt had chance to wash it yet, anyway:

OMG

If there was a wall nearby....it would be off it.
Ez thats bang on, awesome work!

It looks so sick.

SO SICK.

cheers lads, im well fucking chuffed!!