Building for the road course...again

[Easter Bunny]

Different opinions I guess I felt like the rear of the speed was easy. Though I didn't take off the sway bar end links I disconnected the bar from the body to let the suspension drop. Endlinks were frozen and would have required heat and cutting plus replacement. The four bolts in the body came right out. Plus the alignment isn't totally fucked when you are done

 

[gotovato]

There is the lower strut bolt in the rear of civic. Some how some way it just ends up so fucking tight it’s a nightmare to remove. I’ve done this 2 or 3 times now and those lower bolts always suck.


I just need to get this shit done and stop crying about it. This weekends mostly a write off which sucks. Not sure how much longer it’ll be above 0.


Have a fellow civic coming by on Sunday for a compression test and transmission fluid change. He’s k24 swapped and is starting to tune with my tuner so compression numbers need to be confirmed. My tuner doesn’t bother with half dead engines lol.


This dude has paid for 3 dyno tunes now from the two HUGE local Honda tuners and all 3 of his tunes were shit. He sent me and my tuner his tune file and it’s the most copy paste garbage I’ve ever seen and I don’t even know what I’m looking at lol.

Also his part throttle fueling is completely untuned. Cars trimming +/- 15% at part throttle. My car is within 2% lol.


He also has a ton of 0* cam advance all over his map which makes 0 sense other than it was copy and pasted and would’ve required too much effort to dial it in so just leave it at 0 right? Fucking losers.

 

[Easter Bunny]

Do you have an impact wrench? I bought a DeWalt one that uses the same batteries as my other tools and it has made a huge difference in my frustration from fixing cars. Shit that would have taken hours and tons of swearing and on blaster with a socket now takes half an hour

Of course I was smart I bought it after I swapped the suspension on my speed and the shocks on my buddies truck.......

 

[gotovato]

Do you have an impact wrench? I bought a DeWalt one that uses the same batteries as my other tools and it has made a huge difference in my frustration from fixing cars. Shit that would have taken hours and tons of swearing and on blaster with a socket now takes half an hour

Of course I was smart I bought it after I swapped the suspension on my speed and the shocks on my buddies truck.......

I’ve got an impact gun of course but there’s no way to get it to that rear lower bolt. It’s just way too tight in there.


An impact wrench would be cool but they are usually not that torque heavy?

Idk. Weather this weekend is junk. Cold and snow/rain so this is gonna suck.


Thinking I’ll do the front end one day, then the rears another day. I’ll have to turn the car around in the garage which sucks since I have everything setup for the car to only go in the garage one way