Automotive

Automotive tinkering and mechanics has always been a passion of mine. I have fabricated 1/4 mile queens, tractor pulling brutes and anything in between.

This is my old 1998 Acura Integra, Over the course of a year I increased the engine’s output by approximately 300% while maintaining 26 MPG. During this time I modified the suspension to decrease wheel hop during hard acceleration, which can cause serious damage to every component on the vehicle. Stiffer springs, adjustable upper A-arms, and traction bars were added to tame wheel hop and traction loss.

The engine is a 2.0l B20B4 out of a Honda CRV, originally produced 142 horsepower and 133 ft lbs of torque from the factory. It produced 430 horsepower and 340 ft lbs of torque at the wheels at 5500 RPM on 24 psi and 93 octane gasoline.

In addition to the exhaust manifold and wastegate seen here, there is a T60-1 turbocharger, 720cc fuel injectors, air to air cooler, fuel regulator, 255l/hr fuel pump, and a modified ecm that accepts eprom for tuning.

When you don’t have a tool or the money to buy one sometimes you make your own way. In this case I don’t own a pipe bender, this bend was made by cutting a straight pipe into pie sections with a specific angle so that when reassembled it would give the needed angle and radius to clear components in the engine bay.

After selling the car the new owner accidentally loosened one of the injector wires while installing a more capable ecm. The result was a lean condition whenever the wire had a bad connection, quickly becoming hot and burning the piston into an egg shape.

Using an old Android tablet, cheap tablet case, head unit adapter and small audio amplifier I was able to take my 1998 Honda CRV into the 21st century.

It almost looks like it belongs there doesn’t it?

This green pickup utilized an extremely large 76mm turbocharger and a custom made draw through carburetion system. I fabricated the exhaust manifolds, y-pipe and adapter for the turbocharger and its supporting components(wastegate, exhaust stack…). This pickup ran on E85 alcohol, the power output is unknown.