philgor

my pet hate is headlamp's out of allinement, i tend to adjust every car's headlamp on it's mot.... speaking of mot's, i mot'd mine today, and failed it... brake balance was at 32%, max is 25%. few advisory's on brake line's, and rear trailing arm bush's, nothing new then. just took the pad's out as both inner one's were stuck cleaned up and back in. also changed the oil and filter while i was at it. when i was logging mine on for test, it was a civic vti 5dr hatchback, so that was sorted, and the mot certificte now say's civic aerodeck....

didn't get tested today, as the boss doesn't like people testing their own car for obvous reason's, so it's sat at work for first thing tommorow, and i have a lovely 2002 astra to drive, and it's so wierd driving a car without vtec. it's offical, i'm a vtec addict.... as for the led bulb's, eventually i want to replace all the bulb's wit led's one as they should never need doing again, and after driving the astra 50 odd mile's in the dark, i want some hids' for it as well...

it's gonna be a slow old slog with this one, got a few idea's i'm looking in to, low boost charger, or compound turbo... what i'm finding is lack of time, but doesn't every one have that? too right, it need's 2 sidelight bulb's for the front, only noticed the other day, but not bothered as i don't use side light's on the road.... and the advisory's are gonna consist of both front to rear brake line's....

it's about bloody time, i got this started.... for those who don't know this is the history of the car --->http://www.civic5.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=141&t=7121 and as for the last currant post was this on the 8 april 2012. it's taken me 8 month's to start it... :oops: right. bought it from chris, but i think it was the worst kept secret on the forum right photo's... i don't seem to of have the best of luck with her at time's. i had some twat rip the front lip off the car, but thank's to krzys for a replacement i've had th rear number plate go missing in lincoln but i've found that horrible rattle that chris couldn't find.... i'll get i picture of it tommorow, as it's in for mot. (it'll pass, one way or another.. ) now do i shove £20 note's under the brake line's... as a project, i didn't have any really direction to go with her. so i when i got it back to work, i did an oil change and enjoyed her for what she is. as the most epic estate car of all time of course... many people took one look at it and laughted at it..... untill we went for a spin :lol: and then they under stood what it was all about..... and with it having a towbar (rear chassis brace for the non believers ) it's has it use's... towbar mounted bike rack... pulling trailer's.... well i didn't want all that crap in the boot..... i've done a few bit's to it such as mud flap's from weetec. to help reduce the amount of shite up the side of the car... and some sticker's WACK11111 and what not. but i have got plan's for it though.... it has some thing to do with this.... and this... that's all for now, i might up date this once/twice a year though...

i find the quickest way to de-mist mine at the moment, is re-cirulation on, A/C on, fan on full, and heater on hot, give it 5/10 minuites and it's just about clear...

the only thing i can think of, is he amp's required to power it, as they can be quite jucy on power... but depending on when their availble and final price delivery, and if they come with a wiring diagram etc (i'm shamed to say wiring isn't m stong point....) and of course when their availble, i'd be up for one..

that's intresting, i had a mb1 and did compare it to m mum's rover 416, all though they do share some part's other's are differnt. but i do remember in the handbook of the mb1, it did say a/c was a dealer fit option...

i'm sure some one on the facebook civic5 did this to their deck, and just followed the profile of the roof and it looked bloody brilliant...

this is brilliant, it seem's to my that most of the time when a deck get's stripped, it to donate it heart and soul to an eg or something. but this is brilliant, it's the only track car i know of that could carry all of it spare's with it like wheel's in the car......

the mgf / tf and rover 100 share the same stud pattern, and are a really wierd stud pattern, very few option's for them.

i think the weather add's to it it was really foggy up here earlier, took a few pic's and it look brilliant, but they got croupted when i tried to transfer them from phone to cumputer...

and just to confirm the 150000 mile's here's the photo's... 150000 down, 850000 to go

IIRC, from the hayne's manual. the difference's between the box's are only electrical, to do with the operting the box, all of them are essentally the same 4sd with a lockup torque converter, but i think the 1.5 vtec-e has slighly longer ratio's. i think i had the s1la in my mb1 (1996 1.6, d16y3 nonvtec) and that took some abuse it snapped a drive shaft, some WOT launch's, it would see the red line just about every day, and it never missed a beat, never needed fluid top up or change, and the oil was still red and unburnt from the day i got it to the day it went.

the X-type also rot's quite well, usally found on one's fitted with towbar's, and yes, underneath the jag x-type is a mondeo, they suffer all of the same trait's, brake pipe's (most mondeo's have had the front to rear pipe's replaced at 5/6 yr's old), noisey diesel's, rear caliper's, clutch's and DMF's (looking at 1k to do a clutch/flywheel/starter). but they don't seem to suffer the same injector fault's that the mondeo seem's to get.....

# Quarter tank of fuel! have you seen how many mile's he's got to the tank so far

hit the big one this morning, 150000 mile's, if the fist 150k was anything to go by, the 2nd 150k to 300k should be fun...

New stretch is bliss! That's just one long episode of VTEC though! yeah the new stretch is bliss, but i the lincoln grimsby run, some epic 90degree bend 2nd gear vtec pull. 1.5 mile hill near caistor to climb up perfect combo is 3rd vtec or 4th with iab's. some lovley wide road's to over take on, and people don't dawdle along at 45 even the truck's are at 50/55 most of the time, and NO SPEED CAMERA'S ASWELL Epic mate, sounds like paradise! well next time you fancy a trip to skeggy, instead of going along the a52, go along the a46 to cleethorpe's instead.....

New stretch is bliss! That's just one long episode of VTEC though! yeah the new stretch is bliss, but i the lincoln grimsby run, some epic 90degree bend 2nd gear vtec pull. 1.5 mile hill near caistor to climb up perfect combo is 3rd vtec or 4th with iab's. some lovley wide road's to over take on, and people don't dawdle along at 45 even the truck's are at 50/55 most of the time, and NO SPEED CAMERA'S ASWELL

but you don't own a vtec anymore, or are you swaping the how many time's you vtec for, how many time's can i get the roof down in a day......

i alway use blueprint on mine. just seem to be spot on all of the time. and never seem to have any issue's with them.....

when in lincoln, it's a vtec free zone, but the a46 on the other hand, is a vtec paradise......

look'd on autodata, it does state that the d-series engine is interferance, but that's got to be on vtec due to the increased valve lift when on vtec.......

i'd think you would need, on top of the head, inlet (b18c4's are 2 stage vtec, rest arn't on the b-series engine...) inlet, ecu possabley... best asking on the civic life forum * other civic forum's avaible* as they are bigger, and there would be some one on there who can say yay or nay to more than just the head.... as for the hole in crank case, worst case is that the timing jumped when it let go and there hase been piston to valve contact....

from my point of view as a tester, i don't like them, but spoke with vosa at truckfest back in may. this is what they said. they (vosa) are trying to devalue the certificate so much that in the future we can say, everything is all on line etc, including the mot system. that do we really need to give you a bit of paper to say it's passed.... from the cost point of view, per mot slot, it's around 2 quid, i know not a lot, but a basic vosa approved mot bay, can be the best part of 10k a lot, and the average mot tester is on 9/10 quid hr, it soon add's up to what the garage pay's out to do a single mot at 50 quid a pop... the old mot paperwork was an expensive bit of deliverly. when the garage bought test slot's (100 miniume) vosa would send 100 pass certificate's, 200+ advisory's, and 120 fail's give or take a few sheet's. all by next day delivery from dhl. now that would cost a bomb to do, as there are around 20100 test station's in the country.... and the paper work had to be kept's safe as if it got in to the wrong hand's (think about the v5 document that were stolen a few year's back.....). and the anpr being alknowing is wrong, it only pick's up on insurance and tax, despite the anpr and mot computer system being run by sieman's, now atos. they can not get the sustem's to talk to each other...... had it before from the police, before your stopped, they know you insured and taxed, but they call again to check the mot status, along with confirming your insured to drive the vehicle... now how many time's do the police take the mot certificate on face value??? still i want the old one's back, infact, we still have shed load of blank old style document's about.....

the plain paper mot certificate, has been in for nearly a year now, they came in on the 16th october 2011, to replace the green amber and red certificate's. i'm just wondering what people's reaction's are to the "new" style mot certificate's? from the few people who i have dealt with at work over the past year have asked "where's the green one gone?" useally followed by "look's crap" i'm just wondering what people think about them, good, bad or ugly just for the record, i don't like them, look's rubbish printed on 80gsm paper, but not too bad if printed on 100gsm paper though....