I hope I'm not putting this up too soon but I'm starting to see the light at the end of the tunnel. So I thought I'd share a little bit about my project. For a little background, I'm the second owner of a silver 93 4 cylinder automatic coupe with red interior. I bought the car on Halloween 2009 off of a 76 year old lady in Greer South Carolina that bought the car new in Dec 92. She wanted a new Honda. It had 99,000 miles on it and I drove it 500 miles home. The only thing wrong with it was the radio didn't work. This is how it sat then.
First thing I did was yank the busted up stock head unit and amp out and put in a new cd/ipod player in it. I would drive it to work on occasion but not a lot. I've put under 12,000 miles on the car in 4 years. It got about 27-29 mpg so I didn't feel the need to dive into it too fast. After the radio I started accumulating and installing black interior parts and got the windows tinted.
I installed all of the black interior except the dash.
I figured I only wanted to pull the dash once and I'd do it when I was putting in the V8 computer, wiring harness, and clutch pedal assembly. I drove the car with tinted windows, black interior, and a red dash for a couple years while I started accumulating parts to swap over to 5 lug/cobra brakes. I picked up a cheap set of 98 cobra r wheels with old tires on them, bought an 8.8 setup for either the stock suspension or coilovers with welded tubes, C-clip eliminators, 5 lug 33 spline Strange axles, a spool, 4:10 gears and a girdle to replace the stock 7.5. Then bought the FMS cobra brake swap kit for the rear and some 94/95 spindles, cobra calipers and rotors for the front along with the couple different hoses and fittings needed, got a new 93 cobra brake booster and master cylinder and a Wilwood prop valve. I also got some eibach lowering springs, a new steering rack, Strange 10 way adjustable shocks/struts, Team Z caster camber plates, solid spherical UCA bushings, and Team Z double adjustable UCA's.
So after all that I had a 93 4 cylinder automatic with 90% black and 10% red interior, a pretty sturdy rear end and pretty good brakes. It looked like this
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I've driven it like this while I was acquiring the rest of the driveline and supporting components. About 2 months ago I started with my 4 cylinger to 5.8 swap. I started by pulling the fuel tank, exhaust system, radiator, engine, trans, drive shaft, dash, pedal assembly, wiring harness, and computer.
Now I have started reinstalling some things. I put on some vert trunk springs, the fuel system is an Aeromotive p/n 17106 kit. That's a sumped tank, -08 feed line, -06 return line, A1000 pump and filters, regulator and rails. That's all but finished. The black dash, clutch pedal assembly, Steeda quadrant, A9L computer and harness are in. The long block is in and that's about it. Under the Boss inc hood will be a roller 351W, with Holcomb solid drop mounts, TFS stage 1 cam, GT 40 heads with TFS springs, FMS swap oil pan and pickup, double roller timing chain, TFS R 90mm intake, 42lb injectors, 90mm MAF, CAI, Accufab 90mm T-body, and will be cooled by an aluminum 4 core radiator and an electric fan. Got a 3g alternator setup also going on. Transmission I have is an 03 Cobra T56 with hardened gears a 26 spline input shaft and MGW shifter. A Spec 3+ clutch and an 03 Cobra drive shaft and pinion flange. I still need to buy a few thing like a cross member, bell housing, and full exhaust system so it will be a little while before it's finished but I just wanted to share my project and hopefully I can update this being finished before the snow flies. This is how it looked before it went under the knife.
and now
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Originally Posted by John4cam
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