My Pilot pics

[tunergirl]

The following pics are of our pilot being torn down for a rebuild:

[tunergirl]

Pics of the pilot engine reassembled and we also powdercoated the transmission housing Black:

[tunergirl]

Pics of the engine in the Pilot upon completion:



Pics of the custom CAI



Pics of a couple interior pics that we painted:



Next on the list is to reinstall the towing hitch, subwoofer, amps and the capacitor under the hood.

Next upgrade will be Projector headlights which are already started on by a friend who makes them and putting in heated leather seats in and carputer.

[humanoid]

Very nice job there! I had to wipe the drool off my face after those pics! BTW, was that Ron Jeremy in the pic? J/k!

[tunergirl]

Originally posted by humanoid
Very nice job there! I had to wipe the drool off my face after those pics! BTW, was that Ron Jeremy in the pic? J/k!

lol Thanks for the compliments!!

No that isn't, that is my loving husband who makes all this possible along with the upcoming upgrades.

Can't wait for the Accord to get the 4.0L in it along with our S2K witha 4.0L and twin turbo in her.

[charly]

Bravo, Bravo. That's a very very nice job.

I like how clean the engine looks. But just one thing why the outside red looking, and the inside blue.

[iivtecracerii]

what was wrong with it?

and what did you do to it in the rebuild?

[Samuel2003]

Sweet! Have you dyno'ed it yet?

[tunergirl]

Originally posted by charly
Bravo, Bravo. That's a very very nice job.

I like how clean the engine looks. But just one thing why the outside red looking, and the inside blue.

We will be changing that. We are going to have our body/paint guy take all the dents and dings out of it and the paint it that metallic red color that are on the newer pilots to match the engine bay. Then we will decide what color will go best with the pieces that are blue so we can repaint them. The swaps on the rims will be red and the calipers will be going to Black.

[tunergirl]

Originally posted by iivtecracerii
what was wrong with it?

and what did you do to it in the rebuild?

There was nothig wrong with the engine itself but the tranny needed to be done so since we had to drop the k-frame to get the transmisison out we figured we just do both of them.

We put new bearings on, upper and lower, new rings, pistons, TB, water pump, alternator and basically cleaned the block, heads and all that really good before powder coating them. new belts, hoses on the engine side. On the transmission side we replaced clutches, filter, all gaskets, several bearings, 2nd gear and reverse gear.

[tunergirl]

Originally posted by Samuel2003
Sweet! Have you dyno'ed it yet?

no we haven't because it was not a performance rebuild. If we would have done a performance rebuild we would have done several different parts for the rebuild such as Cl typeS cams and pistons, total seal piston rings, port & polish heads and Intake, supercharger, under drive pulleys, after cooler changed out the diffs with LSDs, but we have an Accord and an S2K for performance that we are planning on doing that way, the pilot is the reliable daily driver with a little visual appealing to it.

[charly]

I see that you have a optima batterie, wich i'm surre it holds more charging power, but my question is. How do you compare it to the stock batterie. Can you really feel the difference when the ignition gets turn on.

Because i want to buy me one of those but don't know wich one or how many cranks.

[tunergirl]

Originally posted by charly
I see that you have a optima batterie, wich i'm surre it holds more charging power, but my question is. How do you compare it to the stock batterie. Can you really feel the difference when the ignition gets turn on.

Because i want to buy me one of those but don't know wich one or how many cranks.

There is definately a difference when it's cold out.

You just need to get a red top.

[GreenMachine]

Where did you get those polished headers? I don't think I've even looked at the OEM setup, but I imagine it's a manifold instead.

Nice job on the rebuild. When looking at the pics, I thought I was looking at a different engine because it went from looking used to brand new. Did you just use new OEM Honda parts?

[tunergirl]

Originally posted by GreenMachine
Where did you get those polished headers? I don't think I've even looked at the OEM setup, but I imagine it's a manifold instead.

Nice job on the rebuild. When looking at the pics, I thought I was looking at a different engine because it went from looking used to brand new. Did you just use new OEM Honda parts?

WE did use all OEM replacement parts but everything you see was cleaned by us and then powder coated or clear coated. The polished header are from an Acura. WE thought they would fit but they do not so we are selling them to a friend. My husband is also a fabricator so he will be making a set of custom ones for the pilot along with a custom dual exhaust sometime between now and the end of April. I believe in a earlier ppost I mentioned what what we used and what we would have used if we makign the Pilot a performance vehicle. Any other questions feel free to ask.