carterb Posted February 9 Report Share Posted February 9 Silly tree... Stop getting in the way of my shots! 3 Quote Link to comment
carterb Posted February 10 Report Share Posted February 10 Turn 6 Turn 7 Turn 8 Turn 9 Turn 10 Turn 11 Turn 12 2 Quote Link to comment
carterb Posted February 21 Report Share Posted February 21 A lot of time has passed since September and we've been meeting weekly - progressing the K24 swap. "It'll bolt right in" Jeff says... Right... One of the first steps was digitizing our quick and dirty motor mounts to use as the basis for a "real" design. This was not easy with purely conventional inspection tools but I was able to make a good start. I also made a cardboard radiator so we could test fit and confirm the radiator I selected would work. It did! So in October we had another piece to the puzzle. 2 Quote Link to comment
shlammed Posted February 21 Report Share Posted February 21 (edited) excited to hear and see more of your kswap experiences and use them in my own. M Edited February 21 by shlammed Quote Link to comment
carterb Posted March 1 Report Share Posted March 1 Just before Halloween we got to "dress up" the motor by adding the fancy new flywheel and transmission adapter. I'm not sure I love the way the pilot bushing adapter just floats but I was too chicken to glue it in place or make some other kind of secondary bushing to constrain it axially. We're going to have to trust Collins Adapters here and just use their kit as delivered. There is an awful lot going on up there in that K24 head! 2 Quote Link to comment
carterb Posted March 1 Report Share Posted March 1 The original motor mounts look like they will need a little more fettling before arrive at the final design. 𝆕 like a surgeon, cutting for the very first time...𝆕 Still need to figure out the best way/place to add a second lateral plate. 2 Quote Link to comment
carterb Posted March 1 Report Share Posted March 1 (edited) We have it on good authority that a K24 timing chain makes for a very efficient oil pump and will suck all the oil out of the sump in no time flat so after much deliberation and research, we decided to put a baffle between the main sump and the chain to reduce the likelihood of this happening. We had to sacrifice an oil pan to research. Thank you for your sacrifice oil pan! Those Honda guys packed allot of stuff in there for sure! Here you can see the trial baffle taped in place. Meanwhile, on the "keeper" oil pan, we cut out the notch for the crossmember and welded in a sheet metal shelf to keep the oil in the motor where it belongs. Edited March 1 by carterb 2 Quote Link to comment
]2eDeYe Posted March 2 Report Share Posted March 2 "It just bolts right in, no problem" hahahaha 😄 Quote Link to comment
carterb Posted March 8 Report Share Posted March 8 More work on the oil pan - now with timing chain baffle installed: Tacked in place for test fit Everything looked mucho perfecto! Before mounting - we sent the pan home with our resident parts washing expert for a deep clean and paint. Stay tuned! 3 Quote Link to comment
carterb Posted March 8 Report Share Posted March 8 Still catching up - now in 2024. My wife got us a new toy for the racecar: Looking forward to setting this up and playing with it at the track day preceding our next race in April. We got a little distracted for a minute. Jeff found a guy anchored in Dastun racing history with some spare clutch plates for our R190LSD. Unfortunately they turned out to be mislabeled. We *may* be able to modify them to fit with a little work but we realized that rebuilding a broken LSD should be lower on our priority list than this K-swap we are in the middle of. So it was back to the task at hand. Jeff milled us some shim stock: Okay, not really. It reminded me of the Loony Tunes cartoon where they make a single toothpick out of a tree. : ) This was actually just a byproduct of milling a steel bar to reinforce the JBC crossmember we hacked up for oil pan clearance. 2 Quote Link to comment
carterb Posted March 8 Report Share Posted March 8 Oil pan back from coat and installed on the engine - ready to install in the car. Note that we are using "The Gobstopper" now instead of the old rally car. Jeff put that car up for sale and it is no longer part of his fleet. I am glossing over so many things here! We need Jeff and Paul to chime in with stories about head welding, intake adapter kits that don't fit, etc, etc... 2 Quote Link to comment
iceman510 Posted March 9 Report Share Posted March 9 21 hours ago, carterb said: My wife got us a new toy for the racecar: Looking forward to setting this up and playing with it at the track day preceding our next race in April. Wow! What a generous wife. I have been considering one of these, but $$. Quote Link to comment
carterb Posted March 9 Report Share Posted March 9 5 hours ago, iceman510 said: Wow! What a generous wife. I have been considering one of these, but $$. We support each other equally. She's into horses. Makes car racing seam cheap by comparison. : ) By the end of January, we had the motor and tranny bolted in place! Then it was time to start plumbing. I took on the cooling system. Here is our radiator and me trying to figure out the mounts, hoses, etc. I was planning on wrap around side supports like the Experimental Engineering mounts but this radiator is so wide and we are thinking seriously about opening up the radiator hole in the core support to increase air flow into the radiator so I will probably support from above and below instead. Need to figure out intake too. It will need a pretty tight elbow into the throttle body. 2 Quote Link to comment
Icehouse Posted March 10 Author Report Share Posted March 10 Damage from the last race. Since the stub axles are the same as alot of other Dattos I went and grabbed a set off a ZX at Pick and Pull. Paul was going to meet me there but somehow he wasn't able to make it till 4:55 aka closing time. HAHA Rusty 2+2 5 speed car! Trans is still in it. Sawzalled off the arms. Then found a high end work bench. See what I mean! High end table! With that and the Z so much rotten gas smell! I got both of them 8 bucks each! Probably the cheapest racecar part I've ever bought. The just need some cleaning. I also ordered a bunch of goodies for the fuel system. 2 Quote Link to comment
Icehouse Posted March 10 Author Report Share Posted March 10 3 hours ago, ]2eDeYe said: Did you get the 5-speed? No. Pick and Pull prices are to high to just grab spare parts nowadays. So if you need it you getter get down there before someone snags it. Quote Link to comment
carterb Posted March 10 Report Share Posted March 10 5 hours ago, ]2eDeYe said: When was this? I think he posted the day he grabbed the stuff or the next day. Speaking of, now that Jeff is posting again - I better finish getting us all caught up to speed! 1 Quote Link to comment
carterb Posted March 10 Report Share Posted March 10 We test fitted a 3D printed under/over radiator mount set. I need to adjust the angle a little and it came out looking much more skookum than I had in mind. That happens on a computer monitor when drawing parts. Easy to lose your sense of scale. At the same time this stuff has to last a race weekend without failure. We have been joking that rev 2 should have a depression in it so we can use it as a tray to hold nuts and bolts when working on the engine. : ) Intake pipe seems to fit. Just need to add another curve and a little length to pick up the cone filter. Also needs a little boss for the air sensor. Jeff and Paul did a great job on the header. We started playing with the the lower end routing. It looks like it will get pretty close to the clutch slave cylinder but my main worry was the cross over to the left side and it looks like that won't be an issue at all. Got the fuel tank mounted as well. Did we show the pics of the pump mounting rework we did with this one? Still running the rough draft engine mounts We know we won't be running this engine for our first race in April but we at least want to get is started/running don't you?! What do we still need to do? One thing not on the list is "KEEP JEFF FOCUSED" He keeps getting distracted... 2 Quote Link to comment
carterb Posted March 10 Report Share Posted March 10 Wednesday we were going to get the car set down on wheels and tires because we need to roll it out of the garage soon so we can roll the Swamp Thing back in. But when we started to position the rear crossmember under the car, I noticed that the previously enlarged exhaust pass-through was not enlarged enough for Jeff's giant 3" exhaust. Well, I guess I know what I'm doing tonight... Done and done... Jeff even gave it a coat of "rebuild black" Here is what we need to do before the April race Good thing we have some tires with life still in them. Our sizes are currently unavailable! 3 Quote Link to comment
RyanC Posted March 11 Report Share Posted March 11 Keep it coming loving the updates 2 Quote Link to comment
shlammed Posted March 11 Report Share Posted March 11 Great updates. is that an s13 fuel sending unit? Quote Link to comment
]2eDeYe Posted March 11 Report Share Posted March 11 1 hour ago, carterb said: One thing not on the list is "KEEP JEFF FOCUSED" He keeps getting distracted... Sorry about that haha Quote Link to comment
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