Jimbob738

So after I got all back together I sprayed my VHT red Rocker cover and was super buzzing to get the car running again after over a year, but I was short on money and needed the Vtec solenoid gaskets and a few other niggley bits like rad switch and oil pressure sender so it sat for a few weeks while I saved up some pennies which bummed me out a bit TBF around early april oh yeah fitted flywheel and new clutch as well genuine honda kit of course.

Then came time to fit the sump, oil pump and crank seal and get the fresh head bolted on things started to come together around March time. Obviously I skipped a bit actually was so busy cracking on desperate to get my Honda back I didn't photo building the head back up fitting the Cams and belts back on just powered on I could hear the VTEC sound in my dreams BWAAAAAAHHHHH after a year owning an Octavia VRS I was getting mad withdrawals......

so last time I posted I think id just got the cylinder head back from port polish and decoke and skim I had B18c6 Valves cut in and dual vavle springs installed paid sod all for them so thought may as well proved very worth the effort. Shortly after around January/Feb time I started strpping and rebuilding the block replaced piston rings and deglazed the cylinders and decoked the pistons themselves, replaced all seals and built it back up again with fresh gaskets: You get the idea of this stage I imagine freshened it all with some Silver VHT after steam cleaned the block all went well.......more to follow

Its been a while since I came on here but thought its time seeing as my VTI-S is back in action, engine fully refurbished and running sweat as a nut pics from the rebuild will follow glad to see the forums still going strong.

I have got my hands full but I'm not breaking another vtis they getting scarce and they are a well made car so wanna keep it, missus keeps bugging me to get a vw transporter to convert into a camper but I want to sort the civic first.

Thanks guys I've been starting up my IT company still ongoing but gonna sort the civic to ease my mind. When the head went Andrew I was running standard ECU wasn't sure on the map I had so removed it, I'm in no mad rush to get it on the road as the Skoda is doing its job as a daily so I'll do it correctly this time round the Skoda 211 bhp and 330nm torque but as I said to krzys no induction noise just whistle bit boring really I miss my old red aerodeck so bad.........

Thanks Krzys all over it hope nobody else gets there account deleted by this "software" ! must be like Tron or something, all about Rinzler that B*st*rd

The Head I refurbished ready to fit with ITR dual springs both intake and exhaust and new genuine Honda stem seals, still toying with getting some DC2 cams. Sump gasket fresh to death....... And Clutch kit, new clutch master cylinder Biscuits and Cheese anyone????????????????????

Stuff I gotta sort: Remove Cylinder head and check the bores and rings, may have to replace the piston rings as the engine was blowing the sump gasket forcing oil out, but ive been lead to believe this was also due to the head being warped, but the remains to be seen. remove engineremove head and gearboxrenew all gasketspossible piston ring renewalfit new clutch and flywheel (which I have genuine Honda set to one side)fit new head gasket set ( on its way)Clean up brakesrefit engine get running.Not exactly straight forward some would same im probably mental but I love the car and I spent loads on nice parts so want to get it running while I have time and another car to run.

So its current state see below I will list work to be done to get her road worthy again its quite a bit:

Hello Everybody in the words of doctor nick............................... Been away a while had my account deleted by a mysterious force called "the Software", signed back in only to discover im once again a newbie and all my old posts say "guest" next to them fantastic I think to myself. anyway cars been off the road for some 6 months now and im about to start ripping the engine out for a full refurb, finally got my refurb head done skimmed and decoked and fitted ITR dual springs and new Honda stem seals that's sat on a shelf, I should be getting my ADL blueprint gasket kit next week sometime as Honda have discontinued it and tegiwa were useless they just chuck a load of old stock in a bag and tell you its a genuine kit.............no thanks I sent it back. im currently running in a 2003 2.8T Skoda VRS I have fitted a Miltek full system and sports cat was gonna get it mapped to 230bhp but missing my Honda Civic VTIS far too much so the £300 I was gonna spend on mapping the octy ive bought some new bits for the civic, think im gonna sell the Octavia.

Oh ok so is this where we are actively supposed to be keeping a running record of builds and such????

Hello Everyone Seems I had my account deleted, only found out the other day when I tried signing in to sell some bits the other day, apparently the software for the new forum deleted me, email to Dave has had him trying to associate my old account with the one I recreated of the same name but no joy so im a newbie again somewhat gutted........................ so things seem to have changed abit where can I find the section with all our cars on please tell me that's not VIP only now..........the build threads wasn't it I had about 10 pages of stuff on there hopefully still exists..........