Sorry, I left this part out: As the portable dishwasher was being used in my driveway the drain was not connected to the city sewer system. Instead, the drain hose was routed to a 5-gallon bucket. I used 1 bucket for the wash cycle and 1 bucket for the drain cycle. After the cycles were complete I left the buckets outside to evaporate. After the evaporation process I was left with some "goop" (most was in the wash cycle bucket) which I scooped into a plastic jug and marked "old grease". On most weekends the county here has a free "Wastemobile Collection Event" where they have a collection truck parked in various locations and you can take your hazardous waste there for collection and disposal.


For the folks living in the Seattle/King county area:

http://www.govlink.org/hazwaste/house/disposal/wastemobile/index.html

So I'm taking the safe route and washing it down in the garage. Lots of Mean Green and a drip pan to keep things sanitary. I took about a half inch of "mulch" from the top of the engine. I never knew this engine block was silver!

....i would drive it ever so gently, as in no more than 2500 rpm and start with a cold engine. for a couple of miles even, turn it off at stop lights I have seen air cooled engines run without cooling on the drag strip and HARD too. 2 minutes in the staging lanes and 12 seconds full throttle and another 2 minutes in the return lanes...

Thanks for weighing in
 

Thanks for weighing in on this... but the job is nearly done.
I'm sidelined right now because of a dented injector housing in my left intake mani, but that will hopefully get cured this week.

I wouldn't compare this rickety old 2.0 to a dragster- those air cooled monsters are running forged pistons, chamfered cranks & shot-peened connecting rods for sure. And they usually rebuild them after a weekend of running them hard, if they don't run in a bracket that lets the teams yank the motor outright between passes and replace it with a fresh block.

you are selling your engine short...first your 2.0 is not rickety. in fact it is very stought and considering you still have the fan blowing air to the oil cooler it really is not that bad for a short run. The drag racers...most don't tear down after each race....most are less than 2 liters...most do not run a fan. I have even run without the belt to keep from exploding the fan its self at high rpm...have you ever watched one of those engine blow contests...the ones you have to gues how long the engine will last at full throttle and no load? most go for more than 10 minutes!


Your talking about driving two city blocks...and not at full throttle...you would be fine.


Having done that task numerous times I know how messy it is. My concrete driveway has the stains to prove it...good luck.

Scott

Maybe I am selling the 2.0 short- I'm sure it's a good engine in it's own right when moderately or fully built. I based my "rickety" judgement on the fact that I know this car since I was born, and believe me, the best thing my uncle ever did for this thing was park it for 17 years. Cap, rotor & plugs done maybe once in its life, I don't think the valve covers were ever cracked for an adjustment- for shame. I'm the kind of guy who hand polishes the VTEC solenoid on my B16 while I talk to it ever so gently, so it pains me to see this kind of neglect.
I just know that air-cooled is not for me. I'm getting it back on the road and saving up for a water-cooled transplant ASAP. More power, more bang for the buck than building an original spec flat six for this 914, or even than going through the motions of rebuilding this 2.0 from the ground up.

I already have a tinker car with the Honda, and believe me, I've done a LOT with a little engine there: 1.6 liters puts out 193whp @ 9500rpm-enough torque to shred the rear crossmember after 3 years of hard driving on a six-puck unsprung clutch. She's waiting for a one-off chromolly custom piece that will give me adjustable height for the steering rack too, so I can kiss bump-steer goodbye. I miss driving that car... it's handed many a BMW it's ass in the canyons.

Next, I want to build something without the inherent problems of small displacement. I want a 3+ liter cruiser, probably forced induction as well, with big brakes and the widest, blackest set of cookie-cutters I can stuff under those GT flares. I'm leaving it that screaming orange color to scare the valets.

So you're running the 1320 w/out a fan? That somehow doesn't surprise me- drag cars have any manner of sane parts missing. :-) But if you're worried about blowing it up when you hit high RPM, you may want to seriously consider getting the rotating assembly harmonically balanced at a machine shop you trust. If it's a street car/weekend warrior, it would do wonders for the longevity of that block in general. Anyone I know hitting 11 & 13 grand redlines on a Honda B-series has dropped serious $$ on bottom end prep. I don't know if you touched this when you rebuilt it, but I would imagine that a 30+ y/o motor would have some pretty amazing tolerances worn into the crank & the bearings too after so many years of use. Or even if it was new or low mileage, I've been amazed at how much tolerance will pass muster from the factory. Blueprinting is worth every hard-earned cent you drop into it.

OK, now back to cleaning up the 914. I smell like Simple Green...

I know of a few /4 motor'd 914's not running all of the engine tin...of course they have headers that have been ceramic coated to help minimize the hot air coming back up into the engine compartment...mosty auto-x, but they do see street traffic, no reports of problems...but for a stock motor running the stock heatexchangers I wouldn't recommend it....


well, not too impressive since the cookie-cutters only came 6" and 7" wide :)

good luck on the conversion to watercooled..there are tons of sweet motors that make cool conversions....just stay away from the VR6, motor is too damn tall...it fits (BTDT), but I didn't like it so I sold it.

Ceramic coat on headers
 

What a nifty, nifty idea!!!

I have a TON of exhaust thermal wrapping lying around. I'll give those headers & heat exchangers a seeing-to while she's apart. Maybe even wrap up the intake mani runners. I love the spray-on coating that came with this kit. When it heats up it smokes & smells like burnt cookies... Yum!

Regarding the wheels- I don't need 12inch meats in the back to be happy, just something more substantial than these spindly wheels it rolls on right now.

How much is too much for a set of cookie-cutters? They don't need to be perfect as they'll probably get machined & powdercoated black.

average cost of cookie-cutters is about $200 for all 4

FYI, with an adapter plate, you can install a Honda motor into your 914....most of the 4 bangers turn the wrong direction, but I know the V6's and one of the newest generation 4 banger does turn the "correct" way..... I wouldn't do it, but I'm sure someone will one of these days.....

Heh, and if it would be any krackhead... it would be me.
The newer iVtec K series is the engine you are talking about.

I think either a newer water-cooled Porsche engine or a WRX swap is it for me.

What was your major gripe w/ the VR6? My g/f had one in her Jetta. Plenty o' grunt, but I think it could have used a turbo for those "special" times.

Thanks for the intel on the wheels, BTW.

That's a stout B16, there. Sometimes I wish I had a B-series in my CRX... A lot like your Civic, but lighter and smaller!! :D

--DD

If you have about $2400 to do it right, the B16 is a good swap even in its stock form. Even better, put it in a 86-87 Rex. There's more fabrication involved, but it's an even lighter car. My hatch is gutted and now a 2 seater, but with my g/f's reaction to the spring rates I just shoehorned onto the coilovers (600lbs frnt, 700lbs rear) it may just be one Recaro seat up front real soon. Who needs a "navigator" anyway... right?

I like the Rex but honestly I have to say it's better for the drag strip. There's something a little twitchy about it's shorter wheelbase in a hard corner during an autoX/togai run session. Suffice it to say that I've broken traction a lot easier with my rear wheels in a Rex than with my hatch. Although I haven't yet cornerweighted the car or scheduled some skid pad sessions, similar setups to mine will pull 1g of lateral force before breaking traction on good tires. That, my friend, will punk on a Ferrari... all day.

The B16 also adds about 100lbs to the nose of the car and that won't go unnoticed with your car's predisposition to oversteer. Build up a single cam D16 for the best of both worlds. My buddy runs a red Rex that I helped rebuild. He spent about $5k on the bottom end and headwork, but he's getting 186whp with a torque curve much healthier than mine, due to the longer stroke of this motor.

The downside is: his setup won't stand a piss of a chance smogging, won't run on pump gas and it's tuned within an inch of it's life. That is one advantage to a mild build on a B16- it will push healthy numbers- as high as 215whp without sacrificing legality or integrity.

CARB will now sanction all JDM B16's as long as you upgrade your ECU and smog system to OBD1, have a CARB legal exhaust, header and intake mani, and pass all the sniffer tests at idle and 2500rpm. The best trick with the DOHC B16? Leave the primary lobes of the cam untouched- CARB tests don't pass the stock RPM threshold for VTEC engagement. Get as nasty as you dare with the secondary lobes- it's where the fun happens anyway. Just make sure you give the rest of the head "the treatment".

*I will not rest until my 914 has extended wheel lugs and a nice side-exit canister exhaust like all those WRX's I see tooling around. Kraut is so nice- with some rice!

But oversteer is fun!! At least it's one way to get that understeering mother of a car to turn...

Ob914Content: My 914 could do power-on oversteer. In the wet, or when the tires were really dead. That was lots of fun, dirt-tracking around the corners! Not sure I can do that anymore with my new-to-me Azenis tires. It'll be fun to find out, though!

--DD

The VR6 engine is really tall for the 914 engine compartment, I got it to fit, but I didn't like the install...so I sold it and decided to stick with the stock motor (sorta stock :) Nickies, which are aluminum cylinders, custom cam w/ceramic lifters, aftermarket fuel injection......etc...etc....)

Check out this thread here:
audi/volkswagon W8 and W12 motor discussion

Had I known about the W8 motor, I think I would have gone down that path, but I have too much money into my /4 right now.

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