most of you all know what i decided to buy to replace my engine, but you all wanted proof. i bought the infamous itb engine sharpie built but couldnt handle. the engine was built right but it needed to be improved on. everythign on the engine was a mess when i got it. front crank seal was bad making a groove in the crank. had to replace the seal and of course there was no sleeves available to take away the groove but thankfully the new seal was off set enought that it was far enough away from the groove. to take that off i had to take the timing belt off. well the belt was on since the motor was assembeled and showed a little sign of wear so it needed replacement in my eyes. then came time to swap the engine into my car. everything went in smooth until the wiring harness. the harness i had in my car i wanted to use as it is perfect so comes the day to start it up and it didnt act right it was idling at 2200 and was not responding well. further diag led me to putting the old harness out of his car in mine and that solved one problem as it fired right up and idled like a boss. ok cool so go to lean in the throttle and boggs of fucking course. bought a laptop to hook up the smanager for the s300 to further diag that problem. found that the tps input was shorted to ground. while taking off the non honda tps sensor the connector fell apart in my hand great (ordered the new hall effect tps from twm) fixed it for now but will be getting replaced next week. now that we have tps signal why would the map be working have power and ground but of course the signal wire was shorted so i had to fax that as well. fml. get all that fixed and while messing with the dataloggings i messed up and wipped out the tune so had to wait till tony can get it to me (had a response in less than 5 mins with the file he is awesome). fired it up last night and it revs and idles like a fucking baus now. i leave for michigan friday 6/20 for the west michigan honda meet, talk about waiting to the last minute to get everything working perfectly.
cant thank John at Lowe for all his knowledge and texting me till the wee hours of the night telling me how stupid i am and that i am doing things wrong, and tony at t1 for his fast responses getting me what i needed when i needed it.
picking up sharpies car
plain jaine looking engine bay
now nothing
my old engine in my car getting pulled
now nothing
putting a moroso pan and fixing oil leaks
new hotness
