Official 'What did you do to your car today?' Thread

My car is dead for the next while. Something went as I went into vtec going onto the highway Thursday night, it's running extremely rough and making a high pitched whining sound. Throwing error code "P1009 VTC Advance Malfunction." It's to do with the sensor on the intake cam, hoping its just a sensor, gotta check if the timing is off. If it is it could be the pulley or a stretched timing chain. Car has under 50k km's and all regular maintenance has been done, always use synthetic oil and the oil level is fine. I'm very unimpressed.
 
Chris35 said:
My car is dead for the next while. Something went as I went into vtec going onto the highway Thursday night, it's running extremely rough and making a high pitched whining sound. Throwing error code "P1009 VTC Advance Malfunction." It's to do with the sensor on the intake cam, hoping its just a sensor, gotta check if the timing is off. If it is it could be the pulley or a stretched timing chain. Car has under 50k km's and all regular maintenance has been done, always use synthetic oil and the oil level is fine. I'm very unimpressed.
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Ouch. That sucks. Any mods at all?
 
andre12dbsi said:
Ouch. That sucks. Any mods at all?
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Yeah it's a 2010, have HR CAI, J35 Tb, Vibrant header w/ HFC, FR Exhaust and tuned with flashpro. So hands down on a stock car this would be under warranty but Honda will probably try to screw me, even though this shouldn't be happening regardless of the mods.
 
Chris35 said:
Yeah it's a 2010, have HR CAI, J35 Tb, Vibrant header w/ HFC, FR Exhaust and tuned with flashpro. So hands down on a stock car this would be under warranty but Honda will probably try to screw me, even though this shouldn't be happening regardless of the mods.
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Yeah that why I'm so hesitant to do any engine mods while under warranty.
 
Yesterday I took my interior apart and ran my power and remote cables for my amp and sub that I had left over from my last car. Thankfully the amp has high level inputs which made it a little easier. Also gave her a quick wash.
 

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Si: Stared at it sitting in the driveway literally covered in cobwebs and thought "I should drive you today"

Exploder/Explorer: Drove Gene to PATH and drove on grass, sidewalks, etc to get out of traffic in Harrison and wished I could find a decent trans for the damn thing
 
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Got my performance alignment done this morning. Took the guy 3 hours but he got it spot on to what I asked for.

Prior settings were done by hand and digital level/ruler: We had trouble getting the toe done properly so I knew it was way off.

Front:
Camber - L&R were both at -0.4
L toe was -0.55
R toe was -0.39

Rear:
L @ -0.7 toe 0.23
R @ -1.1 toe 0.31


After:

Front: L&R both at -1.3 toe 0.09. As close to 0 as the guy could get on the toe setting.

Rear: L&R @ -0.8 and toe is 0.10 and 0.07. Best he could get with old corroded bolts. Not bad.

I'm expecting the rear camber to increase as the springs settle. I bought the 3yr. unlimited alignment package so I can go back a few times until it's all settled in and perfect. Not bad for $180. About $60/hr which is cheaper than the labor rate at the dealer.
 
I finished up blackening out the front as well as the chrome on the back including the H. I balanced out the Si on the back with the red Civic overlay.

I apologize for the dirty car. It won't stop raining long enough to clean it up.



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