Seriously OT: Whoring Galore here in Part 4!

What email notifications? last one I get was like... 2 weeks ago, when all the issues started... bunch of little stuff, just annoying, really.

I have a routine too... keeps things from taking too long, and I don't forget anything. Good thinkin Tony :P

well i'm in a ebay battle for a z6 intake.... if i get it that'll be the start of my mpfi conversion :D

woot i won.... $13.50 ain't bad for an intake

Damn good price mang.

Damn it Adrian, I need to hurry up and move out there. You gonna come help me move everything ;) :lol:

i'll help when you get here...mabey you'll be here in time for this
What: Official CH.com Meet/Test & Tune/Bracket Race
When: Saturday, August 23
Time: 1-5 PM & 6-9 PM
Admission: Donations (Drop a penny in the bucket or 1 meeeeeeelleun dollars!)
Test & Tune or Bracket Race: $10
Where: Piedmont Dragway

6750 Holts Store Rd
Julian, NC
336 449 7411
www.piedmontdragway.com

http://i71.photobucket.com/albums/i153/Adamand/Piedmont_Start.jpg


NOTE:

Only Hondas or Acuras allowed to bracket race
All other makes are welcome to test & tune

Entertainment:

DJ

Dyno:

Portable Dyno provided by: Blueridge Motorsports

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3060/2565208574_09152dcede.jpg?v=0

Info at the bottom of this thread. $40 for 3 pulls

Food:

Piedmont concession stand

- Burgers
- Hot dogs
- Side items
- Drinks

Caravans from:

Raleigh (http://www.carolinahondas.com/showthread.php?p=613583#post613583)
Greensboro/Winston Salem
Charlotte (http://www.carolinahondas.com/showthread.php?t=52622)
Asheville/Hickory
SC

Schedule of Events:

Noon: Track opens up

1230: Drag racing school – Learn how to drag race. We will have a school to teach you how the lights work, how to stage your car, and break down your time slip so you understand every part of it. End w/ how to bracket race.

1 : Test & Tune opens up

2 : Bracket racing qualifying

3 : Bracket racing semi-finals

330 : Prize giveaway & Announcements

4 : Bracket racing finals

430 : Wind down.

Bracket racing winner announced:

1st Place Prize: $100 from Piedmont Dragway
2nd Place Prize: $75 donated by CH.com member Copperhatch!
3rd Place Prize: $25 donated by CH.com member Copperhatch!

5 : Event officially over (You're welcome to stay for night test & tune)

No racing from 5-6. Lunch time for Piedmont workers.

6-9 pm : Night test & tune

Vendor Row:

Exotics Inc (www.exotics-inc.com)
Trips Customs ( www.tripscustoms.com)

If you're interested in setting up a vendor booth, please contact:

Pete
civicized@hotmail.com

Dyno Information:

Blueridge Motorsports on site w/ their portable dyno

$40 for 3 pulls

(828) 433-4545

If you would like to dyno on August 23, please call Blueridge at the above number to give them your details. They will need your name, type of car, & your setup.

- Sponsors of carolinahondas.com will be there! Make sure you meet them!!

Mannerisms:

Everyone, please remember this is a place of business & any of the following will NOT be tolerated:

- Burnouts (Unless you're in the burnout box)
- No racing through the parking lot
- Fighting

Use some common sense and respect other people's stuff.

Be there... or hate yourself later!!

and i haven't gotten any email notifications in a while...

Nah, I won't be out there until sometime in March, probably early March, might be Feb...don't know for sure yet. I know my start date is March 30, so it will be before then.

Start date for school? Sweetness that you're continuing your education and shit... wish I had time right now, but I'm working two jobs right now, and wifey is going to school and working a PT job... so I'm pretty much tapped out.

But, after she's out of school, I'll be working a full time job (or not working at all, depending on how much she makes.) and start going back to school for auto... probably special reconstruction/restoration, which teaches fabrication and such as part of the course requirements.

Not sure where I'm going to go, but it has to be somewhere close to home, since we're probably buying a place this Sunday.

Yea, unfortunately I will be in a nice hole of debt by the time its all said and done, but afterwards, it shouldn't be a problem.

I had originally planned on just going to a local college for automotive and welding, but had no real plans on what to do afterwards. Then one of my friends got accepted into NTI, so I finally started looking into it, because I'm not a huge fan of NASCAR, but the courses are exactly what I was wanting, plus some. I would enjoy working on the cars, its still racing, but eventually maybe I can move on to some other type of racing, one that involves more right hand turns :)

i registered for school...starts on the 18th...Fire Protection Technology...wanted to go for my BS in engineering but i'd have to go full-time and i can't at the moment, plus the wife is starting her Masters program

heh... fire proofing is part of my job.

So I owed $4,620 to the courts of California for unpaid tickets and all sorts of traffic violations and shit. Then I owed Arizona 165$ for a speeding ticket I got in 2003.

I haven't had a license since like 2003/04ish.


I finally was able to pay off everything I owed and as soon as I get my clearance letter in the mail from Arizona, I have to go pay 28$ at the DMV for a re-issue fee and I'll be able to drive again.

I hope I can find a decent CRX to buy around here.

Wow dude, thats a TON of money.

A shit-ton even... holy hell.

new pics of the box :D bagged now, different rims coming soon so i can go lower heheheeh.

http://gta.crestfallen.com/xb/IMG_0992.JPG
http://gta.crestfallen.com/xb/IMG_0991.JPG
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Nice fishtank... or is it a toaster???

Either way, where the hell is your new car? :rolleyes::rofl::rolleyes:

forgot you had an xB...would love to have one :) on thing i noticed...your wheels have too much rubber :nono:

new pics of the box :D bagged now, different rims coming soon so i can go lower heheheeh.


the first thing jer says is "who put it in?"....as if that was the first thing i asked you :screwy:

sniff, i miss my bags :frown:

Well on the way to Wilmington this weekend my car started acting like it was starved of fuel again...hadn't acted that way in over a month, was fine on th way back, so i'm figuring that i'm going to have to replace the fuel pump

not saying it's not the fuel pump however, we've changed more main relays than I can count vs only 1 fuel pump. the relay does strange things when it's loosing contact internally but not yet to the broken stage.

if you know how to soldier it's 100 times over easier to pull the main relay, take it apart, and touch up the contact points compared to dropping the gas tank to replace the pump.

it's something that takes mins vs something that takes hours and is a more common problem...worth a try.

i'll give that a try Ami

the first thing jer says is "who put it in?"....as if that was the first thing i asked you :screwy:

sniff, i miss my bags :frown:
me and a buddy did the install, its a full bolt in setup (www.airrunnersystems.com) . Tires are from my stock alloys which were 15x5.5 stretched onto some 15x8s lol. Would look better with some 195-50's instead of the 185-60's but i had no extra dough and still dont. Plus I got someone that wants to trade some 17x7s for my 15s so i will be able to tuck again :D

i
have
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heh...i forgot you bought a lego kit car :grinno:

go ahead...I know you got jokes about my car being owned by the gas stations :-p

not saying it's not the fuel pump however, we've changed more main relays than I can count vs only 1 fuel pump. the relay does strange things when it's loosing contact internally but not yet to the broken stage.

if you know how to soldier it's 100 times over easier to pull the main relay, take it apart, and touch up the contact points compared to dropping the gas tank to replace the pump.

it's something that takes mins vs something that takes hours and is a more common problem...worth a try.

alright it's starting to get worse now...car is starting to turn off :crying:

ever try the main relay?

not as common but another problem I have seen 10 billion times more than fuel pump is a bad ignitor....

why do I suddenly say this? because a bad ignitor will make it feel like it's studdering, falling on it's face as the ignitor goes bad. then 1 day you get in and no go at all.

the easy check for this is to got out side as it's getting dark (but obviously not too dark, you need to see) and do the ol' check for week spark test.

you have my number. call in the evening and you might even get Jer

Hahaha...everytime I call you hand me over to Jer. I really need to get my other ED going, decided to go OBD1 with it, so I gotta get a harness.

My white hatch stopped sputtering, but every once in a while, my tach starts going nuts above 3k rpms, once it warms up its good. Afraid the ignitor might be it, lol.

can't find your #...how do i check the ignitor?

Check your PMs Adrian. About to send you one.

heh...i forgot you bought a lego kit car :grinno:

go ahead...I know you got jokes about my car being owned by the gas stations :-p
no joke, you got a good gas mileage car sitting down here ;D

thanx for the PM

but could it be the ignitor since i just got the distributor in June

Possibly because I wasn't too sure about the distributor you got anyways. I just got mine from the distributor king back in like November or something and its supposed to have an upgraded ignitor, and I think mine is messing up.

i checked my ecu and it's Code 1 (1 flash) Oxygen content

No clue there man. Do what I do when I'm stumped...call Ami, and then feel like a noob asking Jer questions.

BTW Ami, there is someone in the L.A. area selling a complete air setup for civics with spare cylinders for $600. I would be tempted if I had the money, and/or didn't need to save it.

LoL Tony, that's because by the time you call it's only because you have determined online it's an off the wall problem and you call me cuz you lost his number :icon16:

if you just put the dizzy on then I would assume the problem started shortly after.

code 1 is just telling you the o2 sensor is bad but that shouldn't make your car run like butt.

all I know is we've been doing this a long time and I would hate for you to spend a day messing around with the gas tank.

i'll shoot you a pm with the digits...dont loose it this time :nono:

and where's my mail by the way? you leave it next to my number?

No clue there man. Do what I do when I'm stumped...call Ami, and then feel like a noob asking Jer questions.

well unfortunatly i can't call b/c we have no home phone here and my wife has the cell phone...but i did get this reply

Sounds like main relay or ignition coil,both could cause that if they are under a load and get hot.

But normally a bad main relay would cause a no start condition in temperatures like the ones we have been having. A bad fuel pump would also cause a no start condition unlike what you said you are having.

Sound more like a bad coil or bad igniter since it practically bogs (weak spark) then starts back up fine since the cars computer basically restarts the whole process of running the car

and where's my mail by the way? you leave it next to my number?

still in my drawer at work :uhoh:

holy crap....is it stuffed in the back next to hoffa?

first I would like to say, nobody realizes they can open their main relay and fix it.

second thing is I've been saying ignitor but make no mistake, the coil is just as guilty. they like to help each other fail...as if buying 1 brand new isn't ridicilous enough.
why not both :banghead:

maybe somebody out there knows of a cheap dizzy laying around? currently I do not have any and I hate to think you'll have to send yours off and wait for another to arrive.

give us another call if needed

I have a few DPFI dizzy's laying around for parts... Problem is this: It will take awhile for me to get up to where they are...

If you don't have something by then, I'll test up the ignitors and coils, and shoot you one quick in the mail... dun worry about cost, I'll get it out there if you haven't found something by then... if I even have a good one.

One enthusiast to another.

i'm about to take out the main relay and check it and i'll take u up on that offer Jesus :p

think it'll be a good trade; my ipod for itb's for the LS?

NP, but like I said, it's on my time... I work three jobs, and my wife goes to school and works... the place where I keep all my "parts parts" is my dad's house... about 4 hours away lol.

That's where my parts CRX has been sitting for almost 3 years now on it's floorboards.

got an answer back regarding the warrenty on the distributor...i gotta send it back for them to repair or preplace it :frown: mabey i can find someone to let me borrow theirs

My kitty is sick =( He's 14 years old.

My kitty is sick =( He's 14 years old.

i don't think sick is the word:shakehead

holy crap....is it stuffed in the back next to hoffa?


i see it every time i open my drawer...promise i'll send it this week...or next:)

first I would like to say, nobody realizes they can open their main relay and fix it.

all connectors are fine

second thing is I've been saying ignitor but make no mistake, the coil is just as guilty. they like to help each other fail...as if buying 1 brand new isn't ridicilous enough.
why not both :banghead:

maybe somebody out there knows of a cheap dizzy laying around? currently I do not have any and I hate to think you'll have to send yours off and wait for another to arrive.

going to be sending back my distributor next week to get fixed...i had one person volunteer to let me use theirs, but they are 2 hours away...think i'll offer someone $20 to let me use theirs until i get mine fixed

http://videos.streetfire.net/video/ride-in-a-supra-FUNNY-AS_61066.htm

Just for kicks... you all have to watch this.

Shows a "test drive" first of a Supra TT, then a USDM Civic Hatch with NOS.

Both make "drag racing passes"... and dude gets a phone call while "driving" the Supra.

Apparently the Civic Hatch also has Vtec...

hahahaha that's actually really funny I'm glad I watched that =)

my Civic needs to be like this
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NhghRPqLhP8

met with the insurance guy and started tossing furniture...found out some of the furniture we have is from the '20s and '30s...still have some numbers we have to work through so hopefully we'll have a check next week...please let us have one next week

and since i can't diagnose the problem with my car i'm taking it to Leith Honda the get it looked at...guy i bought it from works there

I just uhm... i dunno if i can say it on the forums... but if my pants were a female, my pants would be pregnant right now from that CRX.

Here ya go. Same guy, and his integra type r is freaking spot on!
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-5951343529682130605&ei=MXOdSLWQNIP8rQLy9PGRCQ&q=integra+impersonation

my car seems to be runing rich again on top of the other problems...going through gas quick and getting black sute out of my exhaust...returning the distributor and going to drop the gas tank next week...

I think I'm just going to let you drop the tank...you seem to want to do it :screwy:

it's probably getting bad gas mileage because of unexploded gas....points back to the dizzy.

ever take the dizzy apart to make sure the rotor isn't falling off?

I would take care of the dizzy first and then see if more problems are there.

anybody else watching the olympics?

I think I'm just going to let you drop the tank...you seem to want to do it :screwy:

i think my tank needs to be cleaned out anyways...i'm only getting 10 gallons even in it and it should be 11...since the car is sitting and almost on E, might as well do it :dunno:

Iit's probably getting bad gas mileage because of unexploded gas....points back to the dizzy.

ever take the dizzy apart to make sure the rotor isn't falling off?

I would take care of the dizzy first and then see if more problems are there.

i'm going to check out the distributor today before i send it back on monday...i know a few people up here had problems with the rotor falling off


anybody else watching the olympics?

:disappoin but from what i hear i missed an awesome opening seremony:frown:

and for those that don't know...Bernie Mac died today :(

and for those that don't know...Bernie Mac died today :(

damn, that sucks :thumbsdow

and for those that don't know...Bernie Mac died today :(
I just saw that on the front page of Yahoo. I heard he was in the hospital for pneumonia a couple days ago, and never had a second thought; figured they'd announce his release in a few days. That's messed up. He was one funny ass guy. :frown:

http://www.grabow.biz/images/BernieMac2.jpg
"That's right, you heard it here first America, I'm dead...those damn kids finally did it to me"