Well...on to modifying the solenoid cover. I am routing the wire up through the cover where it shouldn't be exposed to as much heat. Also added a tab on the bottom to help with shielding. I did have to extend the wire, it will be connected under the coil cover.








Also started on a quick catch can. It will be mounted to the crossbeam, and use a oem radiator hose to connect to the valve cover (trying to stay cheap on this).


Floor baffles....hopefully there isn't much need for it, but I figured just in case there is a lot of fluid it might help against sloshing.





General layout of the tank's internals.









Drilling holes for the top plate.




Deburred and cleaned.





Cover plate for the catch can vent. Also pictured is my cnc machine.




Routed an edge on the cover plate and cleaned it up.







Tacked together...it will still need feet/mounts as well as a drain port.








I don't know if I like the scotchbrite as a filter. I might try to find something else that will work and not leave dust like red scotchbrite does. Maybe a fairly porous foam.




I have an o2 sensor question. Does anyone know which oem sensor is primary/secondary? It is a 2005...one sensor has a gray wire cover, the other has an orange cover. They will only plug in one way, but I forget which is in before/after the cat.

 

Are you serious? Please move to LA and be my friend haha. Love all the innovating bro.
I believe the secondary o2 is the one on the cat

 

If you want to make that solenoid cover and sell it, please let me know. My turbo is way too close to mine and I need something like that.

 

The orange sensor is before the cat

 

Willing to make anymore of the vtec solenoid brackets?

 

Thanks. Looks like I'll have to move them around.





Yeah I can make another shield, pm me.

 

Welded the catch can up. Also made brackets to mount it to the crossbeam, just haven't got pictures of it.







One of the last things to do is the ac lines. We had ordered a relocation kit....but had multiple issues with it. So I bought a cheap crimping tool and figured I'd just try and make them.

Here is the accumulator fitting. Luckily Honda has used the same size fitting over the years. This is off a mid 90s accord.



The reason I didn't use the S2000 fitting is because the tube on the S2000 goes through the block, and is crimped and locked into the fitting that way. There is no brazing done. Basically there is a tiny chance that pressure could leak on the outside of the tube and block fitting.

Probably would never happen....but the accord fitting is dirt cheap at the salvage yard. The block is one piece. From the factory, It is drilled to fit aluminum tube, then brazed together. So that is what I did when making the adapter. I don't have the material to braze, so I just welded it together. The weld flowed very well for a 20 year old piece (obviously cleaned up).

The bung is spaced away from the fitting for mounting bolt clearance.









The firewall fittings are pretty straightforward. They are similar to the accord fitting construction wise.
















Here is the crimp tool and fitting.









The compressors large line fitting will be a little tricky. I couldn't find any that were brazed, so I'll have to fuse the tube to the block first, then attach the bung fitting afterwards.

 

out of curiosity who did you order the ac relocation kit from? What issues did you have with it.

 

Had general fitment issues really. The firewall braze failed, and the fitting broke off.

One fitting had filler material on a mating surface. The dryer fitting was brazed directly to the block fitting, so fitting the oem bolt was impossible.

The quality was just sub par.....like it wasn't checked before shipment.

As far as I know the refund went through fine, so no hard feelings.....just wasted time.



The new lines and fittings are working just fine though.