Our fresh OEM head gasket in place, with a spray of copper gasket sealer applied. The jury is still out on this gasket spray — it seems like about 50 percent of people say to use it, the rest say it’s not necessary. We say, better safe than sorry.Our fresh OEM head gasket in place, with a spray of copper gasket sealer applied. The jury Blueprint Racing provided a set of its head studs for our rebuild, along with a set of LS/VTEC conversion dowel pins. All the pieces from Blueprint are built to the highest of quality standards, and the fitment is superb. I also took this opportunity to install another two pieces I’d had for a while but never got around to doing anything with. An old school first-generation Skunk2 intake manifold (essentially the same design as an Integra Type-R manifold) and JDM 64mm ITR throttle body found their way onto my head, but not before being shipped off to Maxbore, a throttle body bore and honing specialist. Maxbore machined the throttle body to a diameter of 70mm, replaced the butterfly and port-matched the intake manifold to the newly bored throttle body. These modifications should improve response drastically over the restrictive and anemic stock B16A IM/TB and offer the capacity for more power due to the better airflow characteristics. The freshly rebuilt throttle body from Maxbore should help with response and overall power production when paired with the ported Skunk2 intake manifold. The real beauty is in the tune, though; any motor like this needs to be properly managed to run safely and efficiently.The freshly rebuilt throttle body from Maxbore should help with response and overall power Now that the head is on, the next thing on our plate is a fresh tune. I’ll be heading out to Church Automotive in our next installment of Project Civic — stay tuned! Sourcebox Mackin Industries Volk Racing Wheels mackinindustries.com Toyo Tires R1R Tires toyotires.com AEM Cold-air Intake aempower.com Redline Oil 5W30 Synthetic Motor Oil redlineoil.com Speed Ventures High-performance Driving & Track Events speedventures.com Blueprint Racing Head Studs & Dowel Pins blueprintracing.com Eastwood Fender Roller eastwood.com Maxbore Throttle Bodies Throttle Body Services maxbore.com Vanhap Photography Motorsports photography vanhap.com SOURCEBOX Eastwood 263 Shoemaker Road Pottstown PA 19464 800-343-9353 www.eastwood.com Redline Synthetic Oil Corp. 6100 Egret Ct. Benicia CA 94510 800-624-7958 www.redlineoil.com AEM P.O. Box 1312 Hawthorne CA 90250 800-992-3000 www.aemintakes.com Speed Ventures Los Angeles CA 323-461-4795 www.speedventures.com Mackin Industries 9921 Jordan Circle Santa Fe Springs CA 90670 562-946-6820 www.mackinindustries.com Maxbore Throttle Bodies http://www.maxbore.com BluePrint Racing 1500 South Chico Ave. #E South El Monte CA 91733 626-575-8866 www.blueprintracing.com Vanhap Photography http://www.vanhap.com Toyo Tires 6261 Katella Avenue Suite 2B Cypress CA 90630 800-442-8696 www.toyotires.com « | 1 | 2 | 3 | View Full Article By Nate Hassler Enjoyed this Post? Subscribe to our RSS Feed, or use your favorite social media to recommend us to friends and colleagues!
