project de-rice

**1SOL2NV** · 12-05-2008, 11:27 AM

nooooo u blew my z6 up .. told you it was going to happen .. but DAYUM it lasted a while .....

**Mad Mike** · 12-05-2008, 02:08 PM

Its fixable the Z6 will be going back in with some better internalls and a few more PSI.

It sitting on my floor right now. I'm taking a break from the 4 hour job I just did by myself.

see my new hood its shiny and new.

**93EG6LS** · 12-09-2008, 07:16 PM

Lookn good!

**J13eck** · 12-09-2008, 07:30 PM

hondas are sooooo much easier than dsm's. lol cool man good job.

**Mad Mike** · 12-17-2008, 09:07 PM

current stat of my car...

**Mad Mike** · 12-25-2008, 08:46 PM

Well started painting it last night. Got the roof and hatch painted satin black.

Today I started painting the body, fenders and bumpers.

Hopefully tomorrow I'll be able to finish it and get started on the motor tear down.

**Just_CHill** · 12-25-2008, 10:28 PM

Nice! Keep it up.

**GSRteg®** · 12-26-2008, 02:40 AM

Mike GL man

**Mad Mike** · 12-27-2008, 03:12 PM

ta da!!! Its green!!! I've had a busy day so I didn't get started on the rest of the trim till 2 and I've been sanding and prepping it till now. I'm about to go tape up the front bumper and finish it. and start painting the trim. Its dusty and the hood is really dirty right now. The camera make it lighter and barker so here's the pics.
And yes I'm changing the rims soon.

**FasTech** · 12-27-2008, 04:35 PM

I like that better. What is the material?

**Mad Mike** · 12-27-2008, 04:42 PM

Originally Posted by Fast-Tech™

I like that better. What is the material?

I uses Krylon Indoor-outdoor satin Italian olive green and satin black.

**03RCode** · 12-27-2008, 05:08 PM

Olive Drab Green FTMFW! Looks good bro.

**Revmaynard** · 12-27-2008, 07:35 PM

Looking good man, sucks about your engine though. That olive green is nice!

**Turbd4DE** · 12-28-2008, 02:05 PM

What a change. Clean rex

**Mad Mike** · 12-28-2008, 03:25 PM

Thanks

I can't wait to get it running again in a month I hope.

**Farrow2005** · 12-29-2008, 07:32 PM

Dood, my Ef hatch is the same color... no black though..

still lookin good. how much boost were you running on your z6? i dunno if i wanna keep mine or buy an LS with forged internals.

**Mad Mike** · 12-29-2008, 08:35 PM

I've seen a few cars this color but never a CRX.

I was running 10psi on the Z6 but the boost didn't have that much to do with the rod knock. I just ran it at to high of a RPM for to long(long rear ration DX transmission) and stretched the rod bolts. Plus the motor had a good amount of miles on it too.(not sure how many but in a year and a half I put on 9000 miles.)

**shane94** · 01-01-2009, 01:40 PM

dam!!! I'm going to have to chage my color, but looks good! Keep up the good work!!!!

**Mad Mike** · 01-01-2009, 03:54 PM

sorry it just looked to good to not paint my car.

**dabuilding** · 01-01-2009, 06:24 PM

cant wait to see some more engine work

**Mad Mike** · 01-01-2009, 09:31 PM

All back together.

**Mad Mike** · 01-08-2009, 04:48 PM

The motor is coming (Hehe coming) apart vary nice. I cant get the crank pulley off so I got to get a breaker bar this afternoon. It was the #3 rod bearing that granaded. These a good amount of metal shavings on my oil pickup screen but other than that everything looks good. The piston walls look great with one little mark it the #3 thats smooth to the touch.

Pics of said tear down.

Video of the rod knock

After a few hours of work.

piston #3 crank surface

piston #3 bearings

look how warped they are

#2 bearing is just as bad

oil pickup full of metal

New crank

**bpoweredhatch** · 01-08-2009, 05:12 PM

hope the new build goes well

**jdm_crx_man** · 01-08-2009, 05:16 PM

its time for you to get eagles and vitaras!!!!!

**Mad Mike** · 01-08-2009, 05:17 PM

going with vitaras and FJ disturbers custom length rods.

**dabuilding** · 01-08-2009, 06:17 PM

damn man gl reps

**Mad Mike** · 01-08-2009, 06:37 PM

thanks

**tdurr** · 01-08-2009, 06:47 PM

Originally Posted by dabuilding

damn man gl reps

x2 i love this lil crx. Ive

watched the whole build...

**Mad Mike** · 01-11-2009, 05:54 AM

Wow what a seriously unproductive day. All I got done today was replaced both the axle seals and the shifter shaft seal on my friends si transmission.

I also bought a new breaker bar and got my crank pulley off and pulled out the crank shaft. Finished striping it. Cleaned and degreased the motor so I can lay some fresh olive green and satin black paint on the block, head, and valve cover.

Also bought one of these so I can spec the bearing surfaces and piston walls.

**Mad Mike** · 01-11-2009, 07:09 PM

Before

After

Before

After

Olive green block and satin black wheels.

**imbatman** · 01-12-2009, 02:06 AM

the cars lookin good

**Tree** · 01-12-2009, 07:01 AM

when will it be running again??

**Mad Mike** · 01-12-2009, 08:37 AM

hopefully next month. I'm wanting to have it running and retuned for more boost way before may so I can run it around road atlanta at the year one experience.

**5speed** · 01-12-2009, 01:26 PM

Agghh, hideous at first. Great job on de-ricing. Looks alot cleaner. The blue would have looked nice though. Nice engine bay, very clean! I like it alot.

**Mad Mike** · 01-12-2009, 09:20 PM

New pics with black wheels

**Mad Mike** · 01-16-2009, 08:35 PM

I just bought the first internals for my motor. SCAT H beam rods and ACL bearings.
I may buy the complete gasket set tomorrow. The rods and bearings came out to be $373.49.
I decided not to go with the vitara pistons and instead I'm going with 9.0:1 CP pistons so I should be able to get some good high HP # out of it.

**jdm_crx_man** · 01-16-2009, 09:06 PM

Originally Posted by Mad Mike

I just bought the first internals for my motor. SCAT H beam rods and ACL bearings.
I may buy the complete gasket set tomorrow. The rods and bearings came out to be $373.49.
I decided not to go with the vitara pistons and instead I'm going with 9.0:1 CP pistons so I should be able to get some good high HP # out of it.

vitaras ftmfw...im about to do the same to my brothers y8 it blew up on me when i was driving it and i wasnt even boosting it...so now i got to pay to fix it

**Mad Mike** · 01-17-2009, 11:06 AM

Vitara pistons are good and all but the 7.4 CP is the problem I have with them. Even using the custom length rods from FJdistributors.com they still only make it 8.4CP. Not bad but still there not forged there a specially cast aluminum piston and I think I'll just spent the money and go for the good stuff since its already tore apart anyway.

**EL_DISTROYEL** · 01-17-2009, 02:38 PM

doing a good job

**Mad Mike** · 01-24-2009, 09:15 PM

Not much happening as of right now. Trying to save up for the rest of the internals.

I did paint some stuff.

Valve cover before

After (olive green)

Intake manifold before

After (satin black)

The gasket kit, bearings, and rings came in today. But that is it.

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