Chris R's churbo shuttle

[chris r]

Spent money I shouldn't on fancy titanium dress up stuff and some new rocker cover seals/washers 

I've been having a bit of fuel surge when under half a tank since fitting a different fuel pump. I'll need to check I've not installed it too high. 

The shuttles have a saddle tank to clear the diff/driveshaft and the pump is kinda centeral/in one saddle. 

While checking through products on the website through work I the radium jet pump which should sort some of my issues. I've also orderd some fuel baffle foam to have around the pump to try and prevent the surging. 

 

[chris r]

The radium bits turned up at work today. I'll have to figure out what size to cut the foam into and where to put it but there should be plenty to play with 

 

[chris r]

Popped down to Wellington a few weeks ago for a family get together and squeezed in a quick pick a part trip. Grabbed a intake manifold I've been looking for for ages. Honda Barrys say its the best stock factory manifold and has similar performance to the spenny aftermarket manifolds. 

Had a nosey around and found a rover civic thing that had a interesting rocker cover so I grabbed that. Motor had only done 57000 km so seals etc were mint. (not leaking as much as what's on there now). I also found the correct dizzy for the motor that's in there now so I'll have timing in the right spot and have more than one bolt holding the dizzy in

Wanged the rocker cover on over the weekend 

 

 

[shrike]

Hey mind if I ask where you got the titanium buts from?

[chris r]

Just now, shrike said:

Hey mind if I ask where you got the titanium buts from?

Chasing j they were $$

 

Aliexpress has some that look pretty much the same which I have on the way. I'll compare and see how Chinese the alix ones are 

 

https://m.aliexpress.com/item/4000537133707.html?spm=a2g0n.orderlist-amp.item.4000537133707&aff_trace_key=5b4e6b84b29740689c9617a4be6ac6ad-1624179434015-03641-UneMJZVf&aff_platform=msite&m_page_id=9033amp-RlaQPPI1RK9Ao0zpd277jQ1624255904508&browser_id=0838eb2e55634413b5c0f67ca64b6672&is_c=N

Or these with some washers https://m.aliexpress.com/item/32234809314.html?spm=a2g0n.orderlist-amp.item.32234809314&aff_trace_key=5b4e6b84b29740689c9617a4be6ac6ad-1624179434015-03641-UneMJZVf&aff_platform=msite&m_page_id=1854amp-RlaQPPI1RK9Ao0zpd277jQ1624255919374&browser_id=0838eb2e55634413b5c0f67ca64b6672&is_c=N

 

[chris r]

Attacked the dizzy with a angle grinder today to remove the internal coil mounts and trimmed the shaft where the rotor used to go. 

The later motors don't have a vtec oil pressure switch and the Solenoids have a blanking bolt, I nabbed one in one of my pap/zebra missions and fitted that today too 

 

[chris r]

Just for something to do I gave the rail a polish 

Grabbed a metric to an6 fitting for the fuel inlet and did a test for with the lines I had, there isn't enough clearance with the tb and throttle cable. 

I spent far too long thinking about and looking for a solution then I remembered one of our suppliers has a nice banjo fitting 

Spent some time looking for a low profile M12x1.25 banjo bolt, everything was out of budget (sub 20)

 

Had a poke around on the Honda catalogue and the fuel tank banjo bolt is coated and the same thread and was $5

The barry in me is constantly annoyed with the bonnet rod plastic retainer being broken so I ordered one of those at the same time 

[chris r]

Finally had our container shipment arrive at work. 13 pallets of parts. 

Right at the bottom of the last pallet was my vibrant muffler.

I wanted to keep the oe style twin tips but twin 3" is a bit too rfb for me. It's 3" Inlet and twin 2.5 out 

I'll replace the mid muffler/reso with the big adrenalinr I've had in my hoard for ages (as long as it fits) 

Will save up and price up some stainless bends so it all looks purty and shiny 

 

[chris r]

Got to save some grams in bolts to make up for the kilos of sound deadening that's going to be installed 

Titanium dizzy cap bolts arrived on the courier along with the fuel rail fitting 

 

[chris r]

May as well add the new addition to the fleet here. 

Picked up a 06 accord wagon for cheap off fb. Was a trade in deal and was cheap as it needed a set of tyres engine mounts and lca bushes for a wof according to the seller 

Because I'm a scumbag I grabbed a couple of mounts and the lcas off a car at zebra. Got lucky and someone had already taken the mounts out for me. 

There was a set of mudflaps I've been wanting for my daily accord which was a nice surprise. 

The reason it was traded in was made apparent when I was stuck in traffic 

It didn't get any hotter than that. It needed a litre of water and the cap was looking suspect so zebras finest cap to the rescue and I'll test it again 

[chris r]

More punishing daily updates.

My genuine eurro R honda shifter lock nut (amayama is great) as my ocd has finally been annoyed after a few years of looking at the shift knob being crooked. Yes the cars a mess 

 

 

[chris r]

Installed shiny bolts. Lost the others so will tidy up and see where they went 

 

[chris r]

Had a look at the rear brakes on the wagon - handbrake had all the travel and didn't work. Ordered pads/parking brake shoes as they were both a bit sad.

Trying my luck with local rotors - rock are 111 landed for a pair.

The "Those tires are super noisy and sound like buggered bearings but aren't" were actually rumbling wheel bearings after all. A quick poke around amayama and the legend or acura RL rear bearings are the same as the wagon - Thanks honda lego. Ordered a set off rock too. Hopefully that's everything parts wise 

[yoeddynz]

Your car is a mess.

Just saying

[yoeddynz]

You've got a nice knob though.

[chris r]

I'm running evo wheels becuse the daily came with yuck random alloys.

They run a shank nut so are a pain in the dick to center properly. 

Aliexpressed some Hubcentric adapters over as the two places I asked locally couldn't do them. I'm living in denial about the vibrations on the motorway being the inner cv and hoping these help 

 

[chris r]

Installed more shiny bolts and took a crap photo of them 

Fridge magnet order arrived so I pulled the other rotor off to be skimmed 

 

 

[chris r]

Oh and who'd have thunk it but Hubcentric wheels don't vibrate.... 

 

[chris r]

Finally got around to getting the daily reflashed, it has made a massive difference(yes there's no dyno done and some placebo going on) vtax lowered a bunch so there no dip before it engages. Mid range has improved a bunch which was a bit lacking before. 

Makes good vtax noises earlier now and goes hard azz gee. 

Both mine and Mrs Chrisr but dybos say its heaps better 

[chris r]

Wanged some radiator flush in the new wagon and ran it, it got hot again. Hoses were cold so no flow 

Barry fixed it 

Radiator is mildly worying but held pressure spill. Refit the hose and call it good

Floppy mount is floppy