My never ending EG8 sedan build (motor update pg 18)

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By familyEGuy23
- Tue May 08, 2012 6:45 am #304254 Haven't checked out your thread in awhile sucks about your motor but good thing you got that mini me :thumb:
Can't wait to see it installed :woot:
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By 1-low-92-EG-Sedan
- Wed May 09, 2012 3:47 am #304352 motor is in!!! :woot: :woot: :cheers: ....ill have pics of it all later in the week....and for the record..it took a total of about 18 hours from start to finish...with NO air tools...and i had one other person help the whole time and had a third person help for about an hour or 2......i think thats great timing for our first swap ever :D

@ branoff88 - thanks alot man...everyone has their own style :thumb:
@ fatcoup - LS non vtec turbo
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By 1-low-92-EG-Sedan
- Fri May 11, 2012 5:25 am #304588 well lets start off with some pics of the old blown block.....LOLZ

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IMAG0222 by Busone10, on Flickr

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IMAG0220 by Busone10, on Flickr

and as for the new motor in the car..i only have one pic from my cell for now

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IMAG0223 by Busone10, on Flickr

:thumb: :thumb: :thumb:

and just for fun an extra pic to compare to the OLD engine bay when i first got the car...hahah

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100_2243 by Busone10, on Flickr
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By fatcoupe
- Fri May 11, 2012 2:55 pm #304626 looks good! hows it running?
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By ceelx
- Fri May 11, 2012 3:01 pm #304628 well done dude :thumb: look sooooo clean
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By 95kuope
- Mon May 14, 2012 2:57 pm #304880 congrats & good luck
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By fatcoupe
- Mon May 14, 2012 4:31 pm #304887 congrats!! bring home the win! :thumb:
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By Sirjump
- Mon May 14, 2012 9:18 pm #304913 Looking so much better in the engine room now :thumb:
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By 1-low-92-EG-Sedan
- Wed May 23, 2012 4:33 am #305868 soo i havnt been on here in a couple days...reason being is my head gasket blew and left me with a knock in my lower end :x :x :? ...probably a wrist pin went bad or something...all i know is my head gasket didnt exactly blow..it exploded!!....cuz it was doing fine..then i was stopping at a red light and before i could even stop it stalled on me and next thing yu know im surrounded by white smoke..i felt like i was on a plane going through clouds... :lol: ..so i tried to start it back up and there was so much water in the cylinders it wouldnt even start...later on when i got it home and took the head off, #3 cylinder was at bottom dead center and the whole cylinder was filled with water...sooooo i have been searching hard on a solution for my self....and came up with 3 options keeping in mind i dont have the money for any of this and will be having to "take out a loan" from a family member :lol:

1. get another junk yard motor = $800 and possibly be a waste of money and time if that motor is no good...again..

2. buy another car for a beater/DD build my motor including machine work, forged internals etc. (if im going to build it im going to build it once and correctly..)= $2,000 plus what ever i spend on the car i get

3. buy another 4door with a healthy motor and rust free body and take everything from my car now and put it on my new one..and go from there...= $1,500-2,000


im leaning toward the new 4door...here are a couple links to show wut i found so far...all have no rust according to the seller...ill try and go look at them by the end of this week

http://newyork.craigslist.org/que/cto/3030159460.html

http://newyork.craigslist.org/mnh/cto/3031956696.html

http://newyork.craigslist.org/brk/cto/3020112237.html

http://newyork.craigslist.org/que/cto/3029803103.html


let me know wut you guys think..any suggestions on other options would be great too !! :thumb:
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By juls1488
- Wed May 23, 2012 5:01 am #305872 its unfortunate to hear about that motor going like that :cry: , but if you're gonna get a new 4 door, i would say go for the 3rd link you posted. while it might be an auto-tragic, the car looks friggin immaculate.

on a side note, it seems like the prices for clean civics are cheaper down in the city the up here in the boonies, and that makes me sad, haha.
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By Sirjump
- Wed May 23, 2012 6:31 am #305879 At least you can salvage some parts from it... :(
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By fatcoupe
- Wed May 23, 2012 3:50 pm #305904 if your buying a junkyard motor for 800 id say just buy a warrantied jdm d15b vtec for 800. just my 2 cents :P good luck either way :thumb:
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