[ysosrs] dc2r k20 turbo

[mnc1408]

I have a habit of only working on my car at night time. It's just before midnight and I'm outside ratcheting, wire brushing, prepping and painting. My family and friends call me stupid and crazy.

Well tonight I prepped and painted my motor. Started by hitting it with a power drill attached with a wirebrush.







Took me a good few hours to get it to a raw finish. I removed a few things to really get into the smaller gaps.




This is your best friend when tearing down a motor guys. I repeat... This is your best friend.




I taped up all the sections I didn't want to get painted and plugged up all the bolt holes with tape, no one wants a bolt that can't be put back in later. Don't mind the rocker cover, that will get sand blasted and coated another awesome colour.




The tape I used is pretty decent. Loving the name and packaging also haha.




Once everything was wire brushed and all the dirt,grease and grime are off, I wiped down the whole motor a further time. Good preparation will lead to better end results period. I did 3 coats of primer and allowed 10 minutes in between each coat. Coat 1 and 2 are light followed by a medium 3rd. This is the 2nd coat drying.




3rd and final coat just dried and is safe to handle. It takes a week for the primer to fully cure though.

[mnc1408]

Worked on the car a tiny bit tonight. It was too late in the night to use power tools.

I ended up washing the engine bay tonight and wet sanded it at the same time.












I'm currently 2 hours in with the RBC intake manifold, Still many more hours of shaving, grinding and smoothing before I am happy to get it powerdercoated.










Pretty much I want the whole manifold like this before coating.







More updates this weekend.

[ryaano18]

nice! really coming along great. But definitely not looking forward to shaving an rbc, seems so tedious lol

[Si Speed 317]

Here's mine. Fully shaved, ported, and polished. Cheers to RBC manifold modifications! Eager to see results!

[mnc1408]

nice! really coming along great. But definitely not looking forward to shaving an rbc, seems so tedious lol

Ty ryaano18, to be honest I lost interest in the car for the last year and what got me back into it was recently in Australia, a whole bunch of Hondas were built and finished which made me really miss my passion. Also so many car events and track days I have missed.

As for the RBC, it's my first time and it is really big of a job to do. I'm probably not even using the correct tools to begin with.

Here's mine. Fully shaved, ported, and polished. Cheers to RBC manifold modifications! Eager to see results!

Yes Mr Si Speed, I saw it and envied it. I want mine just like that but frankly I don't have the skills and tools to do so

[mnc1408]

Worked on the water pump housing a little today. Started cutting the factory pulley belt tensioner as I'll be running the K-tuned a/c and p/s eliminator kit.






Must clean these oil stains because I can't stand looking at them. Throttle body cleaner melts these off like butter.




Water Pump removed. Might get this replaced while I am at it.




This is the part I'll be cutting off and smoothing it down for paint. Has been done plenty of time before and looks straight forward.




I also had the chance to paint the motor today. Decent weather + the aid of a cardboard box booth powered by a heat gun did a wonderful job at baking it haha. I used a steak digital thermometer and kept the temperature at around 40-50 degrees Celsius. Pretty much trying to mimic painting this on a hot day.

[aLmk]

Painted block looks great!

[mnc1408]

Thanks, I put in a lot of hours just to paint and bake it and I'm really happy with the results.


There's a few thing I'll be removing to get sand blasted and coated.

Rocker cover

Timing chan cover

Timing chain tensioner cover

Oil sump

[monjarassi]

Love the results so far.

[mnc1408]

Thank you! I do too.


Removed the oil pan today.






The pan was pretty clean with no sludge build up all all, just slight oil stain due to it sitting for to long. I cleaned it out to get it sand blasted, weld on oil return fitting and coated gloss black.






I was meant to use a k24 steel oil pan opposed to the k20 aluminum pan but I only just found out the pan has a massive dent from the bottom.