my 88 GSR wagon build
Pat_Rick
Band Wagon
[IMG][/img]this is what my gsr wagon looked like when picked up from alabama im gonna post all the pictures i have of previously owned wagons and etc
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the next day after i purchased it the guy i bought it from moved to newzealand
i painted the rear bumper and some other stuff and sold it for $4,000 with no wheels
new exhaust and new GSR fat fives
i was crusing craigslist and i found a parts car in a junk yard i just saw the red top valve cover i go to the lot and its a B18C1 with hasport mount custom linkages and skunk 2 intake i paid $700 for this car no title no interior but a dash and 2 ebay seats orange ef hatch so i i then decided to put it in the blue car above the hatch ran and drove no problem it was cold so there was some that coming out of the exhaust i didnt think anything of it well go threw the process of having the engine put in fix the subframe axles and take it to a guy yo do the wiring he has it for 2 months and it still isnt running he says he gives up i get it wiring hacked ot death so take ot to another friend who is a big GM guy and i let him try it out he fixes alot of the wiring issues and gets it running well i start to drive it home and once it gets up to temp its a small freight train lol smokes awful so i decided to rebuild it get it torn apart it has ITR cams SRS pistins or something like that and has eagle rods but the cylinder walls were scarred so i couldnt use them sooooo i bought new in line four http://www.inlinefour.com/ b16A pistons and gsr rods for that little bit of extra juice 82mm bored and completely new head
these are the pistons i used
pistons installed bored .040 over new bearings and rings polished crank and new honda oil pump water pump and timing belt and everything else
the head and engine now complete
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PULLED THE MOTOR TO REPLACE TRANS SO STRIPPED THE POR 15 OFF ANF THE ORGINAL BLUE FROM THE BAY
MOSTLY BARE METAL ENGINE BAY
Aircraft stripper is some tuff stuff and it took off the factory seam sealer so had to re seam seal
sealed it and then mixed paint color is from honda insight
got some base in
tucked the injector wires out of the way a bit
sprayed the clear and let it sit over night then next night put engine back in and trans
wiring plugged up
new 4 core radiator
upper tie bar is in
pulled out to see in the sun and new neo chrome fender bolts and tie bar
red metalic powdercoated valve cover