Well, I tried to do the JDM Intake Manifold myself, but the two are just too dissimilar, hoses in different places, different wiring, Ill give it another go sometime soon though. But I did manage to install my Tsudo/OBX Header...verrrrrrry nice upgrade and relatively easy, Unorthodox Racing Underdrive Pulley...again, a very nice upgrade, removed and painted my valve cover, and made a bracket for my eBay intake, and installed my AutoEXE Ground wire kit. I dont know if anyone else had the same troubles as me, but my intake rattled and shook up against something in there and wore a hole into it as well as scraping up the part it rubbed against. The bracket helped out a lot though. Also, the header brought up the standard CEL problem, the two spark plug non foulers trick worked great. Enjoy the pictures.
What Ive been up to...
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Boston5761
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- 03' Familia
valve cover paint what did you use?
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- 02.5 P5
very nice. (thumb) keep us posted on the jdm intake manifold.
mountjonas
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looks good, but what's with the extra hose clamp on the intake in between the MAF and filter?
mountjonas
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ahhh. cool deal. just curious.
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Lookin good....I've got an OBX on the way and can't wait to put it in...new exhaust, new springs, new shifter...I'm in freakin heaven....
Cellerator
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you did all that and you took the car to a jiffy lube? NOOOOOO!!!! I had a friend work there and he said after working there, he would NEVER take his car and warned me never to take my car to 1 of those places. Trust me on this, heard many horrible stories from him.
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but congrats, tell me how much better it feels after you install the exhaust tomorrow. But yeah, I would much rather do the oil change myself than have some woohoo at jiffylube touch my car.
Nah, I got a Jiffy Lube gift certificate as part of a "Welcome Home From Iraq" package and decided to put it to use. Full synthetic and topped off my fluids at no cost to me, sounded like a good deal at the time. I drove all the way from Olympia, WA to Portland, OR and waaaay over to Walla Walla, WA with a loose oil filter spitting the black blood the whole way. So when I got here my father and I started the installs off by puttin the UR Pulley on and noticed the leakage. Thought it was the oil pan gasket at first, but as the header install progressed we noticed it was leaking from the poorly installed filter. So we finished everything up and took it over to a Jiffy Lube here to rub it in their face a bit. Fixed it up for free and got THREE MORE FREE OIL CHANGES...but I think Ill quietly burn those...or maybe offer em to someone on the Hondatech page...hmmmmm
Well, I got the MSP axle back installed...I havent even bothered to look at how to modify it to fit under the bumper without the overhang...looks like it will have to go to a muffler shop for welding. But the sound is EXACTLY what has been lacking from the car. Sometime around the first of the year, the SR Motorsports midpipe and high flow cat will be on, I really cant wait. Also, check out my stubby antenna, isnt it CUTE?!?!
Oh, and thanks for the props guys...its one thing to take these cars to a shop for an install, but doing it all yourself brings a great sense of manliness I havent felt since I was gunning down Ali-Baba in the desert.
Oh, and thanks for the props guys...its one thing to take these cars to a shop for an install, but doing it all yourself brings a great sense of manliness I havent felt since I was gunning down Ali-Baba in the desert.
