Clemson Sports Car Club

Hey guys, my name is Andrew. Even though the title of this forum is "Introduce Yourself" I must have missed the translation that "Yourself" is really "The cars that you possess and work on"

So okay, I'll downstep my maturity level here. I was hoping that some of you would understand my perspective. I mean look at this thread http://clemsonscc.com/Forum/viewtopic.php?t=10156

I know absolutely nothing about the guy, what's his name? Is he a car or is her a person? Look at the way it's presented. It's rather childish.

Okay, Okay, but since this is high school here, lemme see if I can do this and get it right.

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Okay, so it all started back in the day when I got this, yep 2003.


It was this car that captured my fascination with car tuning, it was this that caused me to dive into transmission tuning. Ultimately leading to the creation of my extensive writeups. Many of which can be seen on my blog, http://bensebuilt.com But this did not occur for several years past my ownership of the EM1.

After the EM1, I got this.
http://i7.photobucket.com/albums/y266/th...AqO_fs.jpg

It had a built & boosted GSR setup pushing around 300whp. Before I got it tuned, the engine was stolen. Rather than being a little bitch, and since my identity isn't my car. It wasn't really that big of a deal. I channelled all my anger into pushing myself to learn more.

Rather than learning concepts of tuning from hanging out on car forums and parking lots, I hit up the books, and I learned a lot. I replaced the turbo b18c1 setup in my car with a d-series, thus started my entire kick on d-series tuning.

From here I began working with the D16y5, the 96-00 hx head, VTEC-E. I made a lot of interested discoveries about this engine. As it was an economy engine, why couldn't it be tuned to make power rather than save gas? Oh that's because mechanical efficiency, is mechanical efficiency. In case you haven't heard of VTEC-E, here's a diagram for you.


One thing led to another, and then another. I planned on building a high compression D-series engine with that VTEC-E head and tuning for performance. Again, one thing led to another, and another. Turns out that honda actually made a 12.5:1 compression d-series engine with the VTEC-E. It was placed in a rare civic. The civic GX. The Civic GX ran off of compressed gas, you know, that stuff hot water heaters, dryers, etc run off of.

It surprised me that nobody had ever considered taking this engine and converting it to gasoline and tuning it for max power. After scouring the internet for months, I came to the conclusion that nobody had attempted this project. I picked one up and began the project. Here's the engine, with a d15z1 valvecover and a d16y8 intake manifold.


Here it is in my car


Do yourself a favor chase350z, google "d16b5" and tell me what comes up.

All during this time, I was also gaining a lot of attention for my transmission writeups and discoveries that I was posting on honda-tech. MFactory ended up sending me some gears to test out in the transmission that I was building to go in with the natural gas engine that i converted to gasoline.

Here are some pictures of the close ratio trans that I built. Yep, first in the US.








Like I said, one thing led to another, and another. The next project consisted of a F20B, an accord type R intake manifold, a bisimoto H/F2D transmission adapter and some custom work.

Perhaps you've heard of the F20B?


In case you haven't, I created a FAQ, over 2 years ago.
http://www.honda-tech.com/showthread.php?t=2018500

The project required a decent amount of fabrication work. Which wasn't that big of a deal, I have a few years of welding experience.

I ended up using an accord type R intake manifold, found out that it required a lot more work to get working. But that's okay, because I documented it all and created a writeup on it.
http://www.honda-tech.com/showthread.php?t=1960750



Turns out the F2D/H2D project required a lot more work than I anticipated. But that's okay, because I documented it all and created another thread, which can be found here:
http://honda-tech.com/showthread.php?t=1889537

After a while I got it all working, ready to kick some k-series ass with half the money invested.




Oh and by the way, I played a very very large contributing role in getting this gear produced:



Somewhere between all the car wax, the chrome, the car show glamor and glitter, the fancy rims. It all hit me, I stopped giving a shit. And realized that I wasn't happy unless I was learning. The materialistic possessions meant less and less and less to me. I stopped rebuilding peoples transmissions, and I sold everything, put a d15 in my car, and decided to go back to school. 1.5 years later and I'm here now. Hoping to find more people with the same perspective, but the way things are looking in here, I think I'm looking in the wrong place.

What went from this:


to this:



These are some of the experiences that contribute to me being here today. The thing that happens when someone gets really involved in a certain field, it becomes their passion, and they become more active, and cranking out information and contributions to their field. This is just what happens. I realize that there was a time when I was really passionate about this subject. Much more passionate than others. Does this make me better? No. Do I walk around wanting to shout out all my accomplishments? No. I try to keep it all to myself.

But I'm a fiery pissed off red-headed step child. If you push me and lash out against me, I will respond and stand up for myself.

It was of no desire to place any of this on here, but it is apparent that this is what you guys are looking for. A stupid car resume.

This should of been your first post......

If only CC was a honda, it could be a one man show now!!!!

FWIW, we are on a Sports Car Club Forum, even those of us that own econoboxes are usually willing to talk about, or share stories about our cars. It's not that the people that drive the cars don't matter but it's how we all relate to each other.

Scorke

I've seen your write up's and knew that you were a honda/tranny guru but I didn't know that you had got out of it. Sometimes I think about selling it all to go live in the middle of the Peruvian jungle...living off the land.

It's not all about your car and/or van. Hope you stick around, this forum has it's good and bad days.

You are by far the weirdest guy on these forums. Congrats

Ignore list reupdated.



EDIT: I tried but I feel shit is about to go down.

Wow. I'm actually seriously impressed. I mean it. Welcome to forum.

Chaser350Z Wrote:You are by far the weirdest guy on these forums. Congrats

Ignore list updated.

Stopped fueling the fire!



Bense, Please change the title we do not need a flame war.

You are welcome here but please do not start shit with people. The ignore button is there for a reason if you do not want to deal with someone.

Originally Posted by Bense View Post
Updated.

Engines:
1. Original CX engine, d15b8. Removed for next engine.
2. Turbo GSR engine, b18c1. Stolen.
3. CX replacement engine d15b8. Cheapest replacement available. Same engine that the car came with, but not the car's original engine.
4. DX 16 valve cylinder head from d15b7. Valve chipped.
5. HX VTEC-E cylinder head from d16y5. Removed for GX replacement engine.
6. GX CNG d16b5 engine. Removed. Pre-ignition detonation.
7. D15B VTEC engine. Removed, seller failed to mention that it was damaged.
8. D15B VTEC engine #2. Removed for replacement engine.
9. F20B DOHC VTEC. Over revved, valve floated on #1 causing cylinder head and cylinder block failure.
10. D16A6. head replaced for d16y8 head
11. D16Y8 Head swap on D16A6 block, removed because I knocked a rod through the block.
12. D15B VTEC engine #3. Current engine in my car.

Just saw this on H-Tech, you make me feel much better now!

I thought spinning rod bearings was shitty luck....

Scorke

And hey dumbass (bense) i never said jack shit about your introduction. I just said i fucking hate svensko and since your friend with him your a dbag too.

Everyone relax.

F1james Wrote:Everyone relax.

That is what I am trying to say! It isn't I do not like either one as I am do not know them really. Bense needs to stop.. just as much as Chase does.

Better welcome in my opinion. As sam said we are all here for our love of cars and not mentioning anything car related doesn't quite make sense. Plus if we know some car related background about yourself we we get the idea of what things you know and don't know about cars.

Oh and I saw your hatch in lee lots and I have to say nice wheels.

see, this makes more sense. we get an idea of who you are, what you know what you like, what you want, and what maybe you'd be interested in/want to get out of this forum or club. was that so hard?

thanks for the info. Do Not target people and Do Not make personal attacks. Please read our Forum Rules so you know what we expect. no need to get all defensive.

Chase, calm down as well, be the bigger person. If he wants to act like svensko did, he will subsequently be banned just as svensko was. No need to get worked up about it or stoop to that level.

So, Recap:

Everyone Chill the F#$@ out, or administrative action will occur. kthnxbye

Well since the maturity of this thread has already hit rock bottom....

Everyone calm down and bit and think a little more before you post.

Bense, the issue at hand is that svensko whether it was completely his fault or not has contributed and continuously prodded at people in the past and generally seems to get way more out of getting a rise out of people here rather than any actual contribution. As a result of repeated issues he is no longer here. Some of your posts suggested that maybe you were him in disguise, whether you meant to or not it likely appeared that way. Bc of this some of said people that have issues with him have clearly made it a point to suggest that svensko or you (if you were or are him) are unwelcome here.

Either way, looks like you have ALOT to show for yourself as I def. haven't disassembled that much stuff in most of my lifetime. A+ for that. Welcome to the forum. It'll calm down, I think you just caught a bad break with this issue here. Were a nice bunch really. Chase, James and all of the other guys are cool, just gotta get to know them in person really. Our internet tone is very different from in real life I guarantee you.

Nevermind. Not worth it...