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My 85 Hatch...

Posted: Wed Apr 01, 2009 1:59 pm
by HondaRue
Soooooooo... here's my toy

The day I picked it up.

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The original window sticker!

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2 years later I bought a donor car

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And it begins...

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My gts conversion had 240K miles on it when I put it in so it wasn't long before I was have motor problems. The next step...

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I made my harness

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New valve covers and a TRD 4 to 1

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I bypassed the intercooler just to see if it would start and run. And it did but with rod knock :( So I bought a second gze and guess what... rod knock. Less than 5 miles between both motors and both have rod knock on both. So what do I do???

#4 Rod

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#3 Rod

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Build a motor! I bought a red top crank and rods as the machine shop was unable to reuse mine and ae101 gze pistons. 8.9 to 1!

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Posted: Wed Apr 01, 2009 2:06 pm
by CBR_TOY
very nice gtsr5 converstion.... that's what i did myself.

Posted: Wed Apr 01, 2009 3:48 pm
by ga_goosh
nice build! you really cleaned it up well too :o

Posted: Wed Apr 01, 2009 4:21 pm
by dr.occa
very clean engine swap.

Posted: Tue Apr 14, 2009 5:28 am
by HondaRue
I forgot to post a pic of the wheels for my car... before and after

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Posted: Tue Apr 14, 2009 7:43 am
by dr.occa
good stuff good stuff.

wheel looks great.

your car started out looking just like mine when i first picked it up except it's a kouki.

Posted: Tue Apr 14, 2009 12:02 pm
by ga_goosh
ohh nice swazis i was trying to get a set of those for a while then i found out what size they where. those will look good on your car

Posted: Mon Apr 20, 2009 1:52 pm
by HondaRue
Assembled short block

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Picked up the head on Friday!

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Just need a small bundle of gaskets and it will be finished. I picked up some new springs this weekend too. I'll have pics of those and the new differential tonight.

Posted: Mon Apr 20, 2009 3:46 pm
by dr.occa
you're gonna tear up the leather man! :shock:

Posted: Tue Apr 21, 2009 4:43 am
by HondaRue
dr.occa wrote:you're gonna tear up the leather man! :shock:
That's funny... Heather said the same thing when whe saw the pictures. And now for diff pics!

Stock Kouki open diff...

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Cusco 2-way

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And I picked up some used springs... TRD and Swift

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Posted: Sat Apr 25, 2009 11:56 pm
by mexellent
Whoa dang...

Im excited. I wanna see this biznatch run!

Posted: Sun May 10, 2009 10:37 pm
by HondaRue

Posted: Mon May 11, 2009 1:18 pm
by mexellent
AWESOME!!!!! This is exciting.

Posted: Mon May 11, 2009 1:52 pm
by dr.occa
HondaRue wrote:As promised!!!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-sBu_Qp4okc
Aaron, was that tapping from the head or exhaust or???

please tell us it's not like the other gze's.

Posted: Mon May 11, 2009 11:52 pm
by landslideATX
nice, glad to see you got it going. sorry i couldn't stay longer and help you out with it.