Civic Si

She's all back to stock. Had to take some final shots for the memories. I have to say that even after 3 years of craziness, she's still a looker.

After a year and a half of turbo bliss, its time to move on.

Doug sent me home with some 1300cc DeatschWerks injectors to test. I finally got the time / clear weather to install them this morning.

I have a lot of tuning ahead of me to get these running right on my car.

The nice thing was that the PNP clips that came with my ID1000cc injectors work with the DW's. They have the exact same plug on them! So my install was very simple.

For now just some pix comparing them.

Finally stole the video camera from my dad and snagged these two videos of my 12.795 runs from back in September.

Everyone asked me how my birthday went. Well, I spent my day finishing the Civic, and troubleshooting the electrical system on the Teg. What a great way to spend a birthday...lol.

There are many details I'd like to change on the Civic's engine bay. All of them involve significant amounts of money though, so it's going to be a while.

I tweaked all of the injector wiring to do a semi tuck on it. It'll look a little cleaner with some more time, but it's good enough for now. I will spend more time on it when I get an aftermarket fuel rail. read more »

Finally got to the perty stage on this ish. Had to cut a couple corners on the intake manifold. It didn't turn out as nice as I'd like, but I'm never satisfied with anything so I digress.

Wet sanded and polished the valve cover. Man with more time and patience, I could really make that thing pop. It'd need another coat or two of paint and a little more sanding. Maybe later.

I got most of it installed on the car but Renee came downstairs and made me go to sleep before I could finish (it was 5:30am the next morning afterall)...lol

Adam took care of painting the valve cover for me at his house. Turned out a lot better than the teg's, the surface was much smoother to start with and Adam is learning the paint.

I decided to spray the spark plug cover really quick, I think it turned out pretty nice.

I got the turbo all reinstalled tonight. Had a moment where I thought things weren't going to go back together with the new manifold design... thank you MIKE (Soxfan143) for putting a flexpipe in the downpipe. Otherwise I would have been totally screwed.

Got back to sanding the intake manifold. I spent all night working with emery cloth to get as many of the deep grooves out as I could.

Received my new turbo manifold today from TSI to replace my cracked one. No time like the present, we got straight to work.

Since we had to take the car down and I have to give VIt back a manifold next weekend, work re-commenced on polishing the intake manifold. We also decided we might as well paint the valve cover since it's off the car. We have this awesome uncanny ability to compound the amount of time it should take to complete something by adding more ish to the project along the way.

I took the opportunity to take some photos of my wastegate setup as I've received many questions about that on 8thcivic.

Also took a few photos comparing the two manifolds once I got the Greddy one out. I enjoyed suspending the turbo in air with zipties. lol

Decided to drive the Si to the beach despite the recent cracked manifold nonsense. Had to drive it up and over the pass by Corvallis and this is the aftermath. Funny enough, she did awesome flying through the mountains, even on icy road with these summer tires.

It was a good year. I enjoyed the Si immensely. I now get to pay for that enjoyment.... though how I will pay... I have no idea.

I noticed over the last month that the fumes from the car were especially noxious whenever I came to a stop. Figured it was some kind of exhaust leak.

Welllllll, I couldn't check it out due to the Integra dominating the space in the garage for the last month and a half. Finally had a chance to get the Si in the air tonight and I was greeted with so much win.

My turbo manifold is cracked. Like a boss. Like a massive crack all the way down the 4th cylinder corner by the flange. It's a goner.

I tried to snap pix, but it's kinda hard to get in there. You can see the crack clear as day though.