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[The Knobs]

I had the original Audi engine S1 and loved it, tbh I was a bit disappointed with the Honda powered ones.

[PaulCP]

I had the original Audi engine S1 and loved it, tbh I was a bit disappointed with the Honda powered ones.

Yes, it was great when it worked & wasn't eating driveshafts 😛

[Danny Scarbro]

So what I'm starting with;

Wheel 3 by Danny Scarbro, on Flickr

First job was to remove the Clam, so I did a fair bit of research, and was pleasantly surprised how easy it was to do....should have done it before removing the B18!!!

Took 1hr 15mins from start to finish which I was happy about for the first time.

9E6472C3-5D07-4782-ADA9-A0307CB31F69 by Danny Scarbro, on Flickr

694A8887-D7BB-4DD1-96D7-BB73764ED9E3 by Danny Scarbro, on Flickr

As you can see its a mess and one of my biggest things with the conversion is to make the car on the whole into a really nicely finished track and fast road car.

So I started stripping back all the nonsense and giving it a good clean...

43C0B735-4C96-436B-9171-A6C538544026 by Danny Scarbro, on Flickr

629E1CD2-1043-45C6-91D5-D3FEBC6C3155 by Danny Scarbro, on Flickr

98E34084-1853-4609-ACB7-25D70D293BA2 by Danny Scarbro, on Flickr

69F32924-F63A-49F4-A403-F347D65C49B9 by Danny Scarbro, on Flickr

4A3BA44C-99D5-4BA3-99C2-C6A8D86EEF4D by Danny Scarbro, on Flickr

I then had the fun job of scraping all of the adhesive away from the chassis and bulkhead.

C1BDBE19-4B89-4410-94E3-8DCBE989B3A1 by Danny Scarbro, on Flickr

69779BE2-27F9-4E5E-8E98-7F0246F558CF by Danny Scarbro, on Flickr

FE36BCD1-C1CF-4BFD-A716-D450BF922D39 by Danny Scarbro, on Flickr

913BFDF9-18C2-4FAC-A5E9-10CE93AF29E8 by Danny Scarbro, on Flickr


Really pleased with it so far, will be now looking at re-making the bulkhead to give more induction space and implementing some gold heat reflective material to help the case (Also looks cool!)

Dan

[CHILL Gone DUTCH]

Is that a rear anti roll bar across the toe links

[Danny Scarbro]

In terms of the engine itself I'm always abit worried about buying engines out of cars. (even in cars too now )

So I decided to buy a whole Honda Accord Type S...I can then drive the car, make sure it doesn't use oil, smoke, rattle and is on the whole a good engine.

So I found a low mileage Accord and went to pick it up, ran beautifully and so a deal was done....

481E0404-131B-4358-8B5C-2966B7AB0661 by Danny Scarbro, on Flickr

Seems such a shame to be breaking a car like this but the whole car was about the same as what an engine and box is anyway.

The engine is a K24a3 of which I will be removing the engine and using the Block out of this, the rest will be sold.

The rest of the engine will be taken from the following;

F6907E91-3367-4397-9698-B72259D372C2 by Danny Scarbro, on Flickr

A stock K20a with a rebuilt head. I'll use this head, with a new genuine Honda Head Gasket, Oil pump, Chain and Tensioner and the shorter ratio 6 speed box.

I'll also try and source an LSD and 5.1 Final drive before getting the engine in.

Got a good deal on the following additional gauges which should come in handy of track;

EE6E94D0-8965-488C-A1CA-D18ACA0203BA by Danny Scarbro, on Flickr

547A03E6-D606-4FB7-B57B-DDF8F7D921B2 by Danny Scarbro, on Flickr

Next thing to do is remove the engine out of the Accord, strip both engine and start the build, whilst making a new bulkhead in-between!

Dan

[Danny Scarbro]

Is that a rear anti roll bar across the toe links

It's just further bracing to give the toe links mounts support, was on the car when I purchased it. I believe they need as much help as they can get so cant be a bad thing! Dan

[Danny Scarbro]

Managed to pick up a few bits for the engine build, Firstly a RRC Inlet manifold and SKunk2 70mm throttle body, thanks Joe.

And also a set of Drag Cartel Drop in Camshafts.

Drag Cartels by Danny Scarbro, on Flickr

Drag Cartels 2 by Danny Scarbro, on Flickr

Hoping both will help give some good gains over the standard items and are nice and easy to fit and tune.

Dan