My Ek9

I cant say iv ever had a car thats had the thrust bearing go.

Remember my red EF Ez? the noise it used to make

bit of an update on the 9!

woke up early this morning to get started on it.
was out on the car at 9 and by 11.30 i was splitting the gearbox from the engine out of the car.
gotta change the pilot bearing as i think thats whats causing the noise!
after taking the clutch and flywheel of and getting the bearing out im not too sure wether it is the bearing as it doesnt seem to be too noise when you spin it :S but gonna replace it anyway.

then decided to give the bay a bit of a clean and prep ready to give it a little spray. gonna do this next weekend aswell as degrease clean and paint the block and gearbox.

so now the bays empty again! seems like a keep going back to where i began!

will get some more pics up of the process soon

not long now!

Sounds like u made some good progress, I know how u feel but atleast ur getting somewhere with it, just a couple of things to iron out now then throw that ish back in there!

fair play takin it out again lol what colour you spaying the bay?

yeah man, just gotta sort these little things out!

just gonna do it CW just to make it look fresher like.

just ordered braided brake lines, braided clutch and a brakesmaster cylinder stopper.

thinking about some TRS 3'' harnesses too but not sure, anyone had these before?

update time!

well ordered some heat wrap for my manifold last week and finally got round to wrapping it! looks alot cleaner and from what ive heard its a good buy!

also recieved my hel brake lines today which i will fit on the weekend if i get chance.

so on saturday me and my good friend jonah got to work on the 9. we stripped the dash down and ready for a full tuck and went down to leicester to pick my seats up. sprayed the block and head and the inlet manifold too! all coming together nicely now. so hopefully the weekend i will have the wires tucked and ready for the engine to go back in. as im gonna spray the bay within the week. going to honda on wednesday to order in some new parts. pilot bearing, cv boot, manifold gasket, inlet manifold gasket, some plastic covers to cover the holes where the looms used to be.

heres a few pics so far... ignore the red cable ties as they were just to hold it in place for the time being.

back to stage 1...?












more to come

yussur!

nice!

lookin clean as fark!

I got some bad news about the manifold wrap if its a standard steel manifold, i wanted to wrap a header for a H22 swap i was going to do, i looked it up and apparently you cant wrap a oem mild steel mani because it increases the temp of the mani to the point where it might melt.

Look it up incase im wrong

Now i heard that wrapping mild steel is ok but stainless is more prone to crack as the heat wrap obviously holds the heat in and stresses the metal way more as it is thinner than cast manifolds,.
Im gonna pop up soon Ben and come see this aint saw you in ages mann

ezza its a stainless 4-2-1 anyways.

here the engine and few other bits painted









getting there now

looking good, what paint did u use?

used some aluminium vht in a spray can. does the job, hopefully its alright when the engines running! should be, it says holds up to 550c

hopefully the bay looks clean when its all done.

hopefully be on the road at of this month! just gotta work my ass off in the mornings before work! and weekends!

ye i used the same paint, if i aint doin shit this weekend i'll come over and give you a hand?

let me know man

cus - yeah ive got your number aint i, il txt you on the saturday morning,

did that paint do the job fine on yours?

ok dude, yer the paint was ok once i had fired the engine up and it got hot but before that if you wiped it it came of a bit on your finger.

mine was the same^, weird huh

i aslo used heat proof primer too. did any of you two do this?

wonder why it wipes off :S

ok so this is what £102 gets you from honda. picked it up today.



then was thinking to myself, why on earth have i spent so much on such little things! and all the grommets were given to me for free as the guy at honda said over the past few months i spent enough! DAMN right!

but hey its all part of the game.

ye that is quite a bit on that stuff but fairplay to you for gettin the proper ish!

daaaamn! honda anti freeze! baller liquid status

ezza wrote:

daaaamn! honda anti freeze! baller liquid status

lol
Baller Status Service Items Right Thurrrrrr

haha yeah its only cause i want to do it properly and not have any problems this time round!

i had to pay £15 VAT alone! robbing tax man!

just cant wait to drive the mother fucker!