This is one entertaining build, keep up the good work boys.

Hey guys hows this coming along?

This has to be one of the funniest threads ive ever seen!
Whats happened? No updates in a while.....

Don't worry we are still working on it, although a few hiccups have caused 1 or 2 delays.

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Don't worry we are still working on it, although a few hiccups have caused 1 or 2 delays.

and stell nothing
pozdr

The lack of updates come down to 2 very good reasons.

1. The engine turned out to be a dog

2. I am really fu@£ing lazy

To see what transpired last year, here is how the build progressed

*From August last year*



The main news tonight!

BONG!

Work continues on Project H-Bomb!

BONG!

GB kick some ass at the Olympics!

BONG!

Boy trapped in fridge eats own foot!


.....In other news, the boys came over again on Saturday with the aim of stripping the head. Alas, after deep discussions it became apparent that none of us had neither the tools nor the expertise to carry this out so this part of the decontruction will be carried out by proffessionals.

But anyway this meant we could get on with the laborious but satisfying task of cleaning. Yay!

John decided to go straight for the big job of cleaning the gearbox, Ed gave him a hand while I made myself a coffee and smoked a fag. Graft eh?



The fellas had brought a lovely tub of acid with them to help us clean. John got careless and splashed some on his arm, he asked Ed to chuck him some kitchen roll which Ed duly did. Not fresh kitchen roll though, just some he found laying about that happened to have white paint residue on it from cleaning a brush. This made John's arm look real pretty.



Once we had finished laughing at Johns zombie arm, myself and Ed turned our attention to the bottom half of the inlet mani. Wire brushes at the ready.



I wanted to take the sensor off the mani before we cleaned it so that it didn't get damaged. The screws holding it on were proving to be stubborn little beggars. "we could try heating up the metal around it, you got a blowtorch?" asked Ed. "Yeah man!"



We soon got bored of that so the much easier plan of spraying the the mani with Gunk and breaking out the pressure washer. Much more fun.



I realise at this point it looks like I haven't done anything but it was actually me that did most of the pressure washing. Ed had to have a go cos it looked like fun. "ooh I've got to get me one of these!" he remarked. Well the end result was pretty damn good.



John had got most of the crud off the gearbox by this point and had discovered the joy of powerdrill + wirebrush attatchment so he helped us out with the top half of the mani.



The butterfly valves had been removed from the centre section and that had also been cleaned, so we put the mani back together, stood back and admired our handywork. It was quite shiny



It was beautiful So beautiful infact that I couldn't take my eyes off it. I stared and stared for hours, but unfortunately it was so bright that it set my face on fire



This concluded another successful day's work. I did a little more today, unsupervised Cleaned up the intake valve, starter motor and buffed up the gearbox.





BONG!

"And now, the weather"

It is almost immaterial what actually goes on with this project i'm in it for the epic sense of humour! keep up the good work though

Bravo! More please!

I think by the end of this you may have spent more time creating this post... But I'm sure everyone'll agree, it'd been worth it!

Just made my afternoon (I'm bored... And a slow reader)

so nice to read, please more!

Cheers guys, I'll try and bring it up to the present day (I am typing this with oily hands, yeah that's right, I'm actually working on it!)

*From September 2008*



Ok so I'm really bored and fed up of not having any work to do on this project, as I am saving up for parts, so I decided to cheer myself up and try to get my project fires burnning again by painting the rocker cover. I've had the paint scheme in my mind for a while now so picked up some rattlecans after work on Friday.



After priming it I applied the first coat of paint and instantly thought "Bollocks, this is gunna look shite" but I persisted with my plan got it all painted up Orange. Then painted the plug cover matt black.



Now I was convinced that I didn't like it so I sulked for a while then put a pic on photoshop and started playing. I decided to sand the DOHC VTEC logo down to the metal and paint the other logo's silver. It looked better. Then I opened my bonnet and lay it on top of my engine to see what it would look like in the bay.



At this point I did a complete reversal and decided I frickin love it The blue of the car really sets off the orange in my opinion.

More piccas





I am now happy with it, Lemme know what ya think

good choice sanding the letters makes it look miles better

I hate it when people don't sand the letters

Nice rocker cover.
Really want an orange one myself even more now.