New name,
the Blue Pearl,
thks Ross
I have waited to create this thread until I had the car done. For fear of the naysayers. I bought this car back in November of 09, from a shop in Sacramento. Yes I know I did not do my homework. I should have carfaxed it. But I knew I was buying a car that had been in a "recent Freshwater flood" So figured yes I know what I was doing. Well when it arrived on the transporter with a broken rear hatch glass, which of course he denied any involvement. I soon was heartbroken to learn that my freshwater flood was actually a hurricane saltwater flood that had happened nearly 5 yrs prior. This car had been in who knows how many hands since, partially torn down, reassembled, auctioned off again. to some other shmuck. Well I have been called stubborn, and I do not like to admit failure or even worse that I had been screwed. But . so anyway.
I first brought the car up to my shop in Traverse City, MI and put it up on jack stands.
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Then proceeded to pull the engine and transmission out. My thoughts were that I was going to overhaul the engine. Ha Ha Ha, the salt water had sat inside it so long that it had nearly eaten through a couple of the cylinders. Drats. Ok, so I found an engine from one of the members, then continued stripping .
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Moving on now to the interior, what a piece of toast. The seats were quite a challenge to remove, as they did not operate of course, and were absolutely rotted together. So I tunneled through them and got the bolts out of the floor. As there was no way the seats were ever going to be fixed. I was not hesitant to slice and dice them to get them out. I had given up all hopes of any piece of the car being reusable at this point. The seats were like leather bricks. Anyway.
The interior of the car as I stripped it out.
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So I got the interior all stripped and washed, cleaned etc... I set out finding all the new parts and pieces, more on this later. Now I put the transmission up on the bench and started tearing into it. Holy Crap, it was a feat of creative disassembly getting it seperated and all the shafts , bearings pressed out.
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So the transmission was the only real mechanical part on the car that I was able to bring back to life, I did replace the counter shaft, all bearings of course, seals and other little stuff that could not be dremell tooled back to life.
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Yay, well it was about this time that Johns Engine arrived, so I was able to find a new clutch, pressure plate, bearing and assembled the engine and trans, and began putting all this part of the subframe assembly together to begin bringing Blue back to life. my Frankenstein was going to get her new heart.
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Oh yes check out the exhaust, as it came off the original engine
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now as it sits on the new engine
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Now to put it into the subframe
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Well on to other things for a bit, I put the nose area of the car together electrics, harnesses, rad, heater Evap unit.
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Well months into this now, and how the time flies. well here is the subframe back up in the car and the nifty Comptec exhaust on it, that Ross from STMPO helped me out with the correct adaptors to make it all work. Sweet.
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Check out this STMPO adaptor
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So moving on, the engine is up in the car, I have started putting the rear bulkhead back together as well as the hundreds of other parts and pieces that go into this car. It was incredible the mountain of parts and pieces that came out and inch by inch piece by piece crawled back into the car. Well not the same pieces but there replacements. And these came from as far as Guam, Scottsdale, Colorado, Washington, Oregon, Las Vegas, Los Angeles, Miami, Brooklyn, Detroit. and who knows where else some of them drifted in from , I am sure I missed someone, but for the most part all members.
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Well so now this is together I begin to massage the body, Again parts and peices from all over the U.S. come together for this. The original was rough everywhere, The parts were all useable for a good body man, I am not that. So I opted to find body parts that I could just touch up. with a little surface prep to use. As I planned on wrapping the car with FLX paint, not actually painting it. The body could be just a hair not perfect.
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It was about this time June 1st that I initially tried to start her up. And discovered that with all the missmatched electronics that the immobilizer circuit did exactly what it is supposed to. Well I tried every trick in the book to make this work, but in the end had to buy the key kit from Acura with a new immobilizer box. Then wait a couple of weeks for my neighbor locksmith with his magic box to come over and Voila it started up and ran like a hot japanese kitty. I was beaming. for about 2 minutes till the oil starts oozing out of both sides of the rear side of the engine. SFD . I was bummed in the extreme when I realized it is the VTec shafts that were leaking. I did not think that someone would have taken them out and put them back in finger tight. but lo . They were. and as anyone of you know that has opened up one of these engines, the drivers side is no big deal. the timing belt side is a major big deal. So I started on it Sunday morning of Memorial Day weekend , dropped it stripped the timing cover , belt etc off. pulled the plugs, checked for gaskets, put them back in and tightened them down. Reassemble all again and stick her heart back in. done monday morning Whewee, it starts right up and runs DRY as a popcorn fart.
well now I am pumped and really start to throw all I have at it to get her done by my 4th of july deadline that I set back on Thanksgiving day. So here are my finish up pics.
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Now my carbon fiber DINOC wrapped pillar garnishes.
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Blue is starting to take shape eh?
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A little plug for Ross,
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start to finish,
the Blue Pearl,
thks Ross
I have waited to create this thread until I had the car done. For fear of the naysayers. I bought this car back in November of 09, from a shop in Sacramento. Yes I know I did not do my homework. I should have carfaxed it. But I knew I was buying a car that had been in a "recent Freshwater flood" So figured yes I know what I was doing. Well when it arrived on the transporter with a broken rear hatch glass, which of course he denied any involvement. I soon was heartbroken to learn that my freshwater flood was actually a hurricane saltwater flood that had happened nearly 5 yrs prior. This car had been in who knows how many hands since, partially torn down, reassembled, auctioned off again. to some other shmuck. Well I have been called stubborn, and I do not like to admit failure or even worse that I had been screwed. But . so anyway.
I first brought the car up to my shop in Traverse City, MI and put it up on jack stands.
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Then proceeded to pull the engine and transmission out. My thoughts were that I was going to overhaul the engine. Ha Ha Ha, the salt water had sat inside it so long that it had nearly eaten through a couple of the cylinders. Drats. Ok, so I found an engine from one of the members, then continued stripping .
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Moving on now to the interior, what a piece of toast. The seats were quite a challenge to remove, as they did not operate of course, and were absolutely rotted together. So I tunneled through them and got the bolts out of the floor. As there was no way the seats were ever going to be fixed. I was not hesitant to slice and dice them to get them out. I had given up all hopes of any piece of the car being reusable at this point. The seats were like leather bricks. Anyway.
The interior of the car as I stripped it out.
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So I got the interior all stripped and washed, cleaned etc... I set out finding all the new parts and pieces, more on this later. Now I put the transmission up on the bench and started tearing into it. Holy Crap, it was a feat of creative disassembly getting it seperated and all the shafts , bearings pressed out.
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So the transmission was the only real mechanical part on the car that I was able to bring back to life, I did replace the counter shaft, all bearings of course, seals and other little stuff that could not be dremell tooled back to life.
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Yay, well it was about this time that Johns Engine arrived, so I was able to find a new clutch, pressure plate, bearing and assembled the engine and trans, and began putting all this part of the subframe assembly together to begin bringing Blue back to life. my Frankenstein was going to get her new heart.
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Oh yes check out the exhaust, as it came off the original engine
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now as it sits on the new engine
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Now to put it into the subframe
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Well on to other things for a bit, I put the nose area of the car together electrics, harnesses, rad, heater Evap unit.
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Well months into this now, and how the time flies. well here is the subframe back up in the car and the nifty Comptec exhaust on it, that Ross from STMPO helped me out with the correct adaptors to make it all work. Sweet.
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Check out this STMPO adaptor
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So moving on, the engine is up in the car, I have started putting the rear bulkhead back together as well as the hundreds of other parts and pieces that go into this car. It was incredible the mountain of parts and pieces that came out and inch by inch piece by piece crawled back into the car. Well not the same pieces but there replacements. And these came from as far as Guam, Scottsdale, Colorado, Washington, Oregon, Las Vegas, Los Angeles, Miami, Brooklyn, Detroit. and who knows where else some of them drifted in from , I am sure I missed someone, but for the most part all members.
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Well so now this is together I begin to massage the body, Again parts and peices from all over the U.S. come together for this. The original was rough everywhere, The parts were all useable for a good body man, I am not that. So I opted to find body parts that I could just touch up. with a little surface prep to use. As I planned on wrapping the car with FLX paint, not actually painting it. The body could be just a hair not perfect.
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It was about this time June 1st that I initially tried to start her up. And discovered that with all the missmatched electronics that the immobilizer circuit did exactly what it is supposed to. Well I tried every trick in the book to make this work, but in the end had to buy the key kit from Acura with a new immobilizer box. Then wait a couple of weeks for my neighbor locksmith with his magic box to come over and Voila it started up and ran like a hot japanese kitty. I was beaming. for about 2 minutes till the oil starts oozing out of both sides of the rear side of the engine. SFD . I was bummed in the extreme when I realized it is the VTec shafts that were leaking. I did not think that someone would have taken them out and put them back in finger tight. but lo . They were. and as anyone of you know that has opened up one of these engines, the drivers side is no big deal. the timing belt side is a major big deal. So I started on it Sunday morning of Memorial Day weekend , dropped it stripped the timing cover , belt etc off. pulled the plugs, checked for gaskets, put them back in and tightened them down. Reassemble all again and stick her heart back in. done monday morning Whewee, it starts right up and runs DRY as a popcorn fart.
well now I am pumped and really start to throw all I have at it to get her done by my 4th of july deadline that I set back on Thanksgiving day. So here are my finish up pics.
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Now my carbon fiber DINOC wrapped pillar garnishes.
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Blue is starting to take shape eh?
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A little plug for Ross,
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start to finish,
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