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Skeeter update thread # 4!!
My last update thread is HERE. It ended with me painting my nice red fenders to match the car back in the beginning of December... also I had just picked up my B6. So I figured its about time for a new update thread documenting what I’ve done since then! It’s been a long time in the coming!
I. Short Shifter
II. iPod adapter
III. B6 rebuild
IV. Finishing my paint job/painting the hood
V. B6 install, new clutch, KYB’s
I. Short Shifter
Back in January sometime I picked up a $.99 civic short shifter from e-bay. Here’s a pic of the new vs old shifters:
I had to cut a bit off the spring to install it but other than that (and a rusty bolt) it was very easy. Direct swap, and I like it a lot!
Here’s a pic installed:
II. iPod adapter
For Christmas I got an iPod car adapter/broadcaster and a little stand that’s supposed to hold your ipod . The case on my iPod is too big to fit the stand, but I use the stand on longer trips. I installed it in one of the open spots behind the wiper arm and tie-strapped it in:
III. B6 rebuild
A detailed version of this post will be over in the N/A engine swaps area, but here is the general idea of what I did:
Start out with a B6 block that had had a cracked head on it (courtesy of htchbck):
And a head from oxbrain:
And a pile of other parts:
And start cleaning the dirty rusty mess up!
^^I used a lot of simple green, and ran a hose off of the hot water pipe for the washing machine. Crude but it worked!
Clean head:
Clean, but rusty, block:
Cleaning up the pistons and oil pump (don’t tell my mom, ok? It was too cold outside!):
Block cleaned up and honed, not perfect but a lot better.
Pistons w/ new rings:
A lil PnP work done:
VC/header b4 and after high-temp paint:
Baking:
Crank/oil pump installed:
Valves cleaned, lapped, and re-installed:
Head installed and bolted down!
All new gaskets/rings/seals. Main/rod bearings looked really good so they didn’t get changed, oil pump was well within specs so that stayed the same as well. That’s about it for the re-build, it took me a few months of working on and off on it to get it re-built, but it was fun and I learned a lot!
IV. Finishing my paint job/ painting the hood
At that point my hood was still black, and I decided to paint it blue to match the rest of the car. I love my rollers! A couple coats of paint and wala... I was finished.
And finally got around to buffing/waxing the car. Still isn’t perfect but not too bad for a roller job.
V. B6 install, new clutch, KYB’s.
Finally after spending time on and off over the course of almost 10 months the B6 was ready to be installed. My parents went on a 1 week trip to Romania at the end of august, so I had the use of my mom’s van for the week, and picked that time to do the swap. I enlisted the help of a friend (Josh, 15) for helping with the dirty work and to have someone to chat with.
We started around 8 or so at night (I got off work, picked him up, got home and let the car sit a little while to cool down b4 we started pulling things). Had some pizza, drained the coolant, and got to work!
A last shot of the B3:
A few hours later and the engine/trany was out!
Dirt Ol Engine!
We called it a night after the engine was out and on the ground (around 11pm). The next day I again enlisted Josh’s help, and also got a bit of help from my brother.. put the two of them to work cleaning the engine bay, while I worked on swapping parts from the B3 to the B6. I swapped the water pump, belts, alternator, motor mounts, etc. spending a lot of time cleaning each item before it was swapped.
Clean engine bay!
I then sanded it a little with some light sandpaper, taped off what I didn’t want painted, and rattle-canned it semi-gloss rustoleum black.
At this point I decided to put in a new clutch, since mine was getting rather worn. Got a full kit (clutch, pressure plate, bearings) from Autozone for ~$100, it was in stock which I was thankful for.
And installed
Also had to install the rocker arms from the B3…
Josh cleaning up the trany (it was soo light!!)
Injector harness spliced
Injectors (B3 front, B6 back)
New engine and old engine
And finally, put the B6 up in the air almost ready to drop it in!
And in!
While the front end was all apart I also installed some KYB GR2’s in the front… I love them!
There were a number of little problems I had to overcome throughout the swap, coolant line re-routing, had to modify my B3 down pipe (which didn’t work) and then ended up making a custom down pipe, re-drill a few little holes here and there, etc, but all in all it went fairly smoothly. It took me a little while to get it started because I hooked the fuel lines up backwards (that was a pain to figure out… dumb little mistakes will do you in!) but I got it started and running before my parents came home! So the entire swap was accomplished in about 1 week, with me working during the days and most of the time spent cleaning stuff… lol.
Had a few other issues (CEL, etc, see my other threads if interested) but its been running well for about 5k miles now!
That’s about it for now! This thread is long enough, lol. I have more that will be getting done in the next few days now that school is over (ball joints, sway bar bushings, odyssey battery, and hopefully a MSD coil). I will try to finish a full write up of the B6 re-build/install with more details as far as the actual swap and pics in the next few weeks! Go give your festiva some love!!
My last update thread is HERE. It ended with me painting my nice red fenders to match the car back in the beginning of December... also I had just picked up my B6. So I figured its about time for a new update thread documenting what I’ve done since then! It’s been a long time in the coming!
I. Short Shifter
II. iPod adapter
III. B6 rebuild
IV. Finishing my paint job/painting the hood
V. B6 install, new clutch, KYB’s
I. Short Shifter
Back in January sometime I picked up a $.99 civic short shifter from e-bay. Here’s a pic of the new vs old shifters:
I had to cut a bit off the spring to install it but other than that (and a rusty bolt) it was very easy. Direct swap, and I like it a lot!
Here’s a pic installed:
II. iPod adapter
For Christmas I got an iPod car adapter/broadcaster and a little stand that’s supposed to hold your ipod . The case on my iPod is too big to fit the stand, but I use the stand on longer trips. I installed it in one of the open spots behind the wiper arm and tie-strapped it in:
III. B6 rebuild
A detailed version of this post will be over in the N/A engine swaps area, but here is the general idea of what I did:
Start out with a B6 block that had had a cracked head on it (courtesy of htchbck):
And a head from oxbrain:
And a pile of other parts:
And start cleaning the dirty rusty mess up!
^^I used a lot of simple green, and ran a hose off of the hot water pipe for the washing machine. Crude but it worked!
Clean head:
Clean, but rusty, block:
Cleaning up the pistons and oil pump (don’t tell my mom, ok? It was too cold outside!):
Block cleaned up and honed, not perfect but a lot better.
Pistons w/ new rings:
A lil PnP work done:
VC/header b4 and after high-temp paint:
Baking:
Crank/oil pump installed:
Valves cleaned, lapped, and re-installed:
Head installed and bolted down!
All new gaskets/rings/seals. Main/rod bearings looked really good so they didn’t get changed, oil pump was well within specs so that stayed the same as well. That’s about it for the re-build, it took me a few months of working on and off on it to get it re-built, but it was fun and I learned a lot!
IV. Finishing my paint job/ painting the hood
At that point my hood was still black, and I decided to paint it blue to match the rest of the car. I love my rollers! A couple coats of paint and wala... I was finished.
And finally got around to buffing/waxing the car. Still isn’t perfect but not too bad for a roller job.
V. B6 install, new clutch, KYB’s.
Finally after spending time on and off over the course of almost 10 months the B6 was ready to be installed. My parents went on a 1 week trip to Romania at the end of august, so I had the use of my mom’s van for the week, and picked that time to do the swap. I enlisted the help of a friend (Josh, 15) for helping with the dirty work and to have someone to chat with.
We started around 8 or so at night (I got off work, picked him up, got home and let the car sit a little while to cool down b4 we started pulling things). Had some pizza, drained the coolant, and got to work!
A last shot of the B3:
A few hours later and the engine/trany was out!
Dirt Ol Engine!
We called it a night after the engine was out and on the ground (around 11pm). The next day I again enlisted Josh’s help, and also got a bit of help from my brother.. put the two of them to work cleaning the engine bay, while I worked on swapping parts from the B3 to the B6. I swapped the water pump, belts, alternator, motor mounts, etc. spending a lot of time cleaning each item before it was swapped.
Clean engine bay!
I then sanded it a little with some light sandpaper, taped off what I didn’t want painted, and rattle-canned it semi-gloss rustoleum black.
At this point I decided to put in a new clutch, since mine was getting rather worn. Got a full kit (clutch, pressure plate, bearings) from Autozone for ~$100, it was in stock which I was thankful for.
And installed
Also had to install the rocker arms from the B3…
Josh cleaning up the trany (it was soo light!!)
Injector harness spliced
Injectors (B3 front, B6 back)
New engine and old engine
And finally, put the B6 up in the air almost ready to drop it in!
And in!
While the front end was all apart I also installed some KYB GR2’s in the front… I love them!
There were a number of little problems I had to overcome throughout the swap, coolant line re-routing, had to modify my B3 down pipe (which didn’t work) and then ended up making a custom down pipe, re-drill a few little holes here and there, etc, but all in all it went fairly smoothly. It took me a little while to get it started because I hooked the fuel lines up backwards (that was a pain to figure out… dumb little mistakes will do you in!) but I got it started and running before my parents came home! So the entire swap was accomplished in about 1 week, with me working during the days and most of the time spent cleaning stuff… lol.
Had a few other issues (CEL, etc, see my other threads if interested) but its been running well for about 5k miles now!
That’s about it for now! This thread is long enough, lol. I have more that will be getting done in the next few days now that school is over (ball joints, sway bar bushings, odyssey battery, and hopefully a MSD coil). I will try to finish a full write up of the B6 re-build/install with more details as far as the actual swap and pics in the next few weeks! Go give your festiva some love!!
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