Owned my 87NA for almost 5yrs now. It has been my daily driver while I built, boosted, blew up, and repeated on my CRX Si. I have now got the crx sitting pretty on a lil boost and I am building a 92 Civic Si with a built GSR and boost..
But My daily driver fell victim of the dreaded BHGat 188K. NA supras are still a supra but I have boost in the blood... found a guy on my local Honda forum that was wanting to sell the guts out of his 89 5spd T. Had 165k on it but ran good, had always had run stock boost and recently burned the clutch up so the guy put a 6puck in it.
Here is my car, front paint isnt too clean...last fall I had a fender bender and put the front end of a 87 maroon on it and just so it didnt look too ghetto I sprayed a lil cheap automotive paint on it. It is getting new paint and all dents fixed this summer when the paint can easily cure in the sun.
Here is the 89 Targa Turbo that is serving are the donor car for mine. This car the owner says has a SRT10 swap in the mail for it. Worth ditching the 7m for that in my book.
Towed it to my house...
Pulling it out....
And This is what I found inside....
Looks like it didn't have too long before 7m's lil friend called rod knock developed!!!
Was only planning on replacing the rod bearings with toyota's and expected the mains to be in great shape with only 165k on them... but this aint no honda... this sucker needs some work :/ never pulled a honda apart that the bearings and crank were in such poor shape.
going to mic the journals on the crank and see how worn they are, but it looks like i will have to have them ground and oversized bearings used :/
if i am putting that money in it, i will bore the cylinders .25mm over and new pistons and rings, and surface the head and block and a hks head gasket. ARP head studs and all maintanence parts.
Adam
But My daily driver fell victim of the dreaded BHGat 188K. NA supras are still a supra but I have boost in the blood... found a guy on my local Honda forum that was wanting to sell the guts out of his 89 5spd T. Had 165k on it but ran good, had always had run stock boost and recently burned the clutch up so the guy put a 6puck in it.
Here is my car, front paint isnt too clean...last fall I had a fender bender and put the front end of a 87 maroon on it and just so it didnt look too ghetto I sprayed a lil cheap automotive paint on it. It is getting new paint and all dents fixed this summer when the paint can easily cure in the sun.
Here is the 89 Targa Turbo that is serving are the donor car for mine. This car the owner says has a SRT10 swap in the mail for it. Worth ditching the 7m for that in my book.
Towed it to my house...
Pulling it out....
And This is what I found inside....
Looks like it didn't have too long before 7m's lil friend called rod knock developed!!!
Was only planning on replacing the rod bearings with toyota's and expected the mains to be in great shape with only 165k on them... but this aint no honda... this sucker needs some work :/ never pulled a honda apart that the bearings and crank were in such poor shape.
going to mic the journals on the crank and see how worn they are, but it looks like i will have to have them ground and oversized bearings used :/
if i am putting that money in it, i will bore the cylinders .25mm over and new pistons and rings, and surface the head and block and a hks head gasket. ARP head studs and all maintanence parts.
Adam
