so as some of you may already know, i f'ed up my integra's valve clearances by trying to do it myself. i've had some nasty valve ticking noise for a few months now and i just monitored my gas mileage for the first time. its down. way down. i'm getting ~23mpg on a B18B. i know valve clearance issues can affect gas mileage, but my question is, can the exhaust valve clearance affect it, or would it be strictly an intake valve clearance issue?

me and g went to a benzo thing a few years back... very good time. this one looks even better. i signed up for friday (4-6 pm) because we'll be at summit on sat/sun sept 18-19

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Happy bday feerst! 8)

joins the old fogies club with alot of you guys already in it

i was on my way to an enjoyable back road today around 7 pm or so. i go to this road about once a week at around sunset because the road traces the spine of a very large foothill that comes out of the surrounding plains of greenville, SC. at this time of day, the air is cool, the sunsets spectacular, and the road is fairly empty yet not so dark that i need my lights. i, and the car, can unwind after being trapped in a cubicle, then gridlock, for the majority of the day.

i take the less traveled 2 lane highways to get there. most roads around here are 2 lanes per side, and some are always packed, while others hardly get their money's worth in use. i take the latter of course, which happens to be on the way to get gas. so after filling up at my favorite amoco station on the way to my mountain road, i pull out and come to the nearest light. im making a left, and im in the rightmost of two lanes turning left. as i come to a stop, i pull almost even with two bikers. one is riding a yamaha YZF something (the bike im about to mention was in the way of the model name on the fairings), while the other bike, closest to me, was a brand new, very black yamaha V max. i have zero knowledge of either bike, except that i immediately take notice that the YZF has a yoshimura pipe, and the V max has what i think was a Kirchner (kurcher, kircher, i cant remember exactly).

the two bikers are talking, and it was an encouraging sight to see they were in full gear, which is a rarity among any bikers here in SC. as the light is about to turn green, the V max rider flicks his wrists a few times, and the kirchner pipe absolutely rips! it was a heavenly noise, something between a small block V8 two octaves too high, and an S2000 on the power cam. thrown into the soundtrack was the off-beat stumble of a harley. the YZF on the other hand sounded meek and pedestrian by comparison, even with a similarly low restriction pipe.

as we move off from the light, the riders impatiently throttle their engines between shifts as the oldmobile in front of them meanders through the intersection. as the olds pulls a gap on the car next to it in the right lane, the riders do not hesitate. within a second's notice the haunches of both bikes lurch downwards and plant violently into the tarmac, hurling both bikes side by side through the gap in a left-right s-curve. i was watching intently of course, but i was overwhelmed when i saw them take off. and it wasnt just the speed, it was the sound of the V- max! what a noise. it was as if the bike automatically gained a litre of displacement and a straight pipe by just cracking the throttle. i could smell the gasoline reek of a mixture slightly too rich, and of rubber and tar heated to a good 150 degrees wafting in the wake of the bikes. it was awesome, and all the sudden, my car felt absolutely anemic. maybe it was the load of fuel i just took on (i was nearly empty) but man, how slow i felt. it was as if my windscreen was a tv screen, and everything around me was just wallpaper in a world on "pause."

after that display of mechanical glory, i was delighted to see the bikes stopped at the next light ahead. this time each rider has his own lane, and i could tell what they were thinking. it was like recieving a gift to actually see them do what i thought they would too....take off like bats out of hell down the open road ahead. with two mighty blips the v-max walked away from the YZF, low and black and sinister and sounding like pure evil. it was frightening to see how quickly they dissapeared. since i was focusing on them so intently, i didnt notice that when they cleared the rise in front of me, they were already a good 800, maybe 1000 yards away. they were gone that fast.

....only to reappear on the horizon again. i had the pleasure of hearing this symphony at 2 more red lights until they turned left at the last light and i continued straight.

this evening i actually savored the comforting, consistently slow pull of my 2.3 litre 4 cylinder. it gave me time to put into the perspective of the definition of fast. i feel fast, going to redline and hearing the roar eminate from my intake as the wind rushes through all 4 open windows. but alas. i am so, so far from understanding what fast is. i suppose in time i will come to find out, but until then, as long as i can thread my car into a few good bends every now and then, ill be satisfied

hey gusy just needed some advice... I have a check engine light turned on since i got the AEM cold air intake. Well when i got it checked the air pressure is too high. So in order to adjust that i need to get more fuel suplied. Here are my options get a mass air flow sensor or get mass fuel injectors and a high pressure fuel pump.. What do u think will work better. lemme knoe

bored....i've got 30 minutes left of work

just wanted to be a pOst-H0r :roll:

how long do you guys work till in the day?

aka what are your jobs that allow you to be on here?

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Tues, 11 am at MachV/Ultimate Performance - my car will be strapped into the dyno for a solid 2 hour session.

So now it is time to guess how much power I will make.

Relevent info to help your guestimate:

I myself will be doing the tuning with dsmlink version 2.

to help with calculations:
Fastest trap: 111 mph
Est weight with driver and gas: 3100 lbs
Quickest e.t.: 13.680
Airflow through the engine is 35 lbs/min.

important things to know:
Evo3 16g, clipped 10 degrees. Running about 25 psi.
VP Racing C16 will be used.
Stock head, stock intake manifold, stock throttlebody, stock unhacked 2g maf.
3 inch full exhaust, no cat. heavily ported evo3 o2 housing.

I think that's the important stuff.

To make it a little easier for you, it's going to fall between 280 - 320 wheel horsepower.

-T

*edit - Price is right rules apply. You want to be as close to the real number as possible without going over. Winner gets to drive it set up just like off the dyno, if they so choose.


***Pool***

Jack ÔÇô 293
Rob ÔÇô 295
Kaan ÔÇô 293.8
Reed ÔÇô 300
Dave ÔÇô 307
GSXChris ÔÇô 308
CaptainH - 315
Scott ÔÇô 318
Jason - 321.234
Travis - 325
Mike - 326

Raining all day, heading home from ice cream at Jessica's (really, ice cream), get in the turning lane for my new street and POW huge puddle... I immediately get out of the lane and the car starts hestiating pretty badly... I pull off the road to an office building, I call up my roomate to bring a screwdriver (to open the stock airbox), he arrives, we open the airbox... DRY. WTF! I was so scared I hydrolocked my motor... I mean what else could it have been? I sit there for about 15 mintues looking at anything that might be wet... NOTHING. So I start it, it purrs like it should and I head home w/ a perfectly running car..

Any ideas?

Oh yeah, my rollbar is in.

I don't really know if anyone else on this board has a need for high octane gas with good resistance to detonation like I do but I picked up some VP bradn C16 - 116/117 octane today from C&C Racing or Auto or whatever they call themselves. They're located right on 28 between Centerville and Manassas, left hand side across from the ford dealership.
So I thought if anyone else was trying to locate some higher octane gas, 103, 110, 114, 116 and so on that is one place to check out.

-T