7afe build, lets see if its worth it Options

[celica74]

So a little history. Have had my 94 st for over three years now. Has had two motors in it. Stock one was neglected so i replaced it with a 95 with half the miles. All the car has done to it is the basics. Short ram intake, exhaust with ebay header, dropped 4 inchs on drop zones(cheap rout i know but im happy with them. Voxx 7.5 rims running 205/40-17s. I love thos car. Cant believe i almost got rid of it for a genesis coupe. Havent done anything to the car in the past year because i bought a bike. But now im back in the car game and ready to spice her up. Have considered many options on what i could do to make then realiable eco friendly cheap slower then a single cam civic motor some pep. Yes ive gone over the 3sgte and 3sge swaps. Honestly there not for me. I almost turbos my car 2 years ago but lacked funds and patience. So the other day i took a drive up to virgia to visit a fellow 6gc owner(or have a one. Hes parting his car). I pics up some goodies from him for a good price. Dont wanna spoil anything. Pics will be up soon on what i got and what my intentions are.

This post has been edited by celica74: Aug 29, 2012 - 11:43 AM

[celica74]

Ok as promised here are some pictures of what ive been doing to the car in the past week.



Realized the rear motor mount was bad so i had a blast pulling the old one out



this is what it look like. the rubber was completely shot, i could pull the metal out of it.

Also my driver front fenders clear coat was shot, keep in mine the age of the car, 18 year old paint. Surprised its held up this long. So i decided to experiment with my lack of body work and painting skills.



sanded her down rear good.


Masked it off real well.



after two coats of primer.



a couple base coats, the last one i did i make it nice and thick.




and a clear coat or two.
Overall im not displeased with it, hard to tell due to the photos. Now all i have to do is to decide if i wanna paint the whole car like that. I do like the kinda flat black look.

I also was bored one day and had a spare 7a intake manifold under the house that i brought out. One member mentions removing material from it to open it up some and create better flow. So i figured id go HAM on it and see what i could do.



A carbon composite disk on an angle grinder make quick work of the aluminum. If you know what the upper manifold looks like youll realize how much i took off.


As for the lower manifold if you know what they look like, they have high ridges and notches im guessing to guild the air into the runners. I took as much out as i could reach.
I wouldnt expect this to make much performance gain if any. We all know its not a honda and things like this would most likely hurt it more then help it, but like i said i had a spare laying around and decided to give it a try. Havent installed it yet. When i do ill report back.

As for my trip up to virgina the other day, i did bring some things back with me. Reason being my motor is starting to piss oil past the rings and burning a quart every 700 miles. Common problem in the 7a's along with the valve stem seals going bad. I dont have time to pull the motor and do a rebuild. I need my car everyday for work. So i decided to get this.




Thanks to "boostedricer"/brandon, i now have a 94 7afe complete block, head, and 2.5inch full exhaust. Only has 160k on it. He also had some pigtails i needed(alternator voltage regulator, and the coolant temp. sensor for the ecu). Both im assuming chaffed off due to the bad motor mount.

And here are just a couple of old pics of my car.



Pretty much how the engine bay sits right now, i do have a different intake tube on it, and the battery is in the trunk.
And heres a picture of the raleigh meet we had im thinking two years ago.



So my plans are this. Taking the motor i bought and stripping it down, measuring everything and see what i need in terms of bearing, if i have to send it off the the machine shop and what not. Going to be doing a complete rebuild. After searching for hours i finally found a conformation that putting in 4agze 8.5:pistons in a 7a will increase the comp. to 11-11.2:1 comp. See where im going with this? I wanna build an n/a 7afe as no one really has done a good write up before. I know in order to use those pistons ill have to convert the rods to full floating. Will need some advice on how that will be tackled. Im also going to be looking into a port and polish, a valve job, and ill have to see the rates for getting the cams ground. Any other ideas on how to make this 7a a little more power will be thought over.

This post has been edited by celica74: May 13, 2012 - 8:31 PM