Ok, this thing is just cool....
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His father used to terrorize him with fast...
2012 Civic LX, 5MT
Just got back from a fairly decent trip down to Minneapolis, reset the trip meter when I filled to start. First leg of the trip I was averaging 43.5 mpg, ( 5.4L / 100 kms ) however when I was cruising on the interstate at 70+, the mileage dropped some. Including stop and go...
A theoretical question to everyone here on their take. If it would take more money and say 60% more effort to go 'all in' would you?
I will weigh in on this later, just want to hear from other people's perspectives. :D
The injection spider as it's called is just plugged in there for pictures, it was removed while I was working on it, however I left it in when it was blasted to keep from eroding the bore where the injector goes into.
Blasted up a spare lower intake manifold, then spent a few evenings with the air die grinders equipped with carbide burrs and flap wheels, and roloc surface conditioning discs.
I did this in preparation to change the lower intake manifold gaskets, which is a problem on these early Vortec...
I don't have many pictures, but I added lighting under the front seats as well, more 5050 LED strips. Changed out most of the stock filament based lighting in the interior as well: in the glovebox I have another small board with 5050 chips, the same ones I used for the cargo light, in the map...
Nix, I have used Por-15 once on a trailer frame I built for someone else, to me it's a 'shade-tree' way of doing things, however this is what the customer wanted. Exposed in the sun and weather, it will chalk up in no time at all. It does go on nice and smooth though with a brush application...
The factory cargo lights suck, so I used some boards with white 5050 led chips, had to use urethane sealer to hold the boards in place at the correct angle to the lens, about 100x better than the two measly 912 bulbs they had in there behind a fresnel lens.