http://hondaswap.com/blogs/ Join 60k+ members on our forums discussing technical questions and aftermarket performance enhancements, swaps, turbos, and handling upgrades to Honda and Acura vehicles. en Mon, 06 Sep 2010 07:26:31 GMT vBulletin 60 http://hondaswap.com/images/misc/rss.jpg http://hondaswap.com/blogs/ http://hondaswap.com/blogs/drbelanger73/again-still-breathing-616/ Fri, 13 Aug 2010 03:57:25 GMT Its been a very long strange trip since I have posted here. I now have another child about the size of the one in my avatar... The car is nearly... Its been a very long strange trip since I have posted here. I now have another child about the size of the one in my avatar...

The car is nearly done. I had to drop the pearl color and just paint the damn thing white. This weekend I intend to shoot the trim and the spoiler (honda type r spoiler, dont panic, no wings...) then clear her up and get the bitch on the road.

Lots to comment on. Have to wonder if anyone still reads blogs... ]]> drbelanger73 http://hondaswap.com/blogs/drbelanger73/again-still-breathing-616/ http://hondaswap.com/blogs/howndah/unplanned-freefall-some-survival-tips-david-carkeet-615/ Sun, 27 Jun 2010 10:58:42 GMT Admit it: You want to be the sole survivor of an airline disaster. You aren't looking for a disaster to happen, but if it does, you see yourself coming through it.

I'm here to tell you that you're not out of touch with reality—you can do it. Sure, you'll take a few hits, and I'm not saying there won't be some sweaty flashbacks later on, but you'll make it. You'll sit up in your hospital bed and meet the press. Refreshingly, you will keep God out of your public comments, knowing that it's unfair to sing His praises when all of your dead fellow-passengers have no platform from which to offer an alternative view.

Let's say your jet blows apart at 35,000 feet. You exit the aircraft, and you begin to descend independently. Now what?

First of all, you're starting off a full mile higher than Everest, so after a few gulps of disappointing air you're going to black out. This is not a bad thing. If you have ever tried to keep your head when all about you are losing theirs, you know what I mean. This brief respite from the ambient fear and chaos will come to an end when you wake up at about 15,000 feet. Here begins the final phase of your descent, which will last about a minute. It is a time of planning and preparation.

Look around you. What equipment is available? None? Are you sure? Look carefully. Perhaps a shipment of folded parachutes was in the cargo hold, and the blast opened the box and scattered them. One of these just might be within reach. Grab it, put it on, and hit the silk. You're sitting pretty.

Other items can be helpful as well. Let nature be your guide. See how yon maple seed gently wafts to earth on gossamer wings. Look around for a proportionate personal vehicle—some large, flat, aerodynamically suitable piece of wreckage. Mount it and ride, cowboy! Remember: molecules are your friends. You want a bunch of surface-area molecules hitting a bunch of atmospheric molecules in order to reduce your rate of acceleration.

As you fall, you're going to realize that your previous visualization of this experience has been off the mark. You have seen yourself as a loose, free body, and you've imagined yourself in the belly-down, limbs-out position (good: you remembered the molecules). But, pray tell, who unstrapped your seat belt? You could very well be riding your seat (or it could be riding you; if so, straighten up and fly right!); you might still be connected to an entire row of seats or to a row and some of the attached cabin structure.

If thus connected, you have some questions to address. Is your new conveyance air-worthy? If your entire row is intact and the seats are occupied, is the passenger next to you now going to feel free to break the code of silence your body language enjoined upon him at takeoff? If you choose to go it alone, simply unclasp your seat belt and drift free. Resist the common impulse to use the wreckage fragment as a "jumping-off point" to reduce your plunge-rate, not because you will thereby worsen the chances of those you leave behind (who are they kidding? they're goners!), but just because the effect of your puny jump is so small compared with the alarming Newtonian forces at work.

Just how fast are you going? Imagine standing atop a train going 120 mph, and the train goes through a tunnel but you do not. You hit the wall above the opening at 120 mph. That's how fast you will be going at the end of your fall. Yes, it's discouraging, but proper planning requires that you know the facts.

You're used to seeing things fall more slowly. You're used to a jump from a swing or a jungle gym, or a fall from a three-story building on TV action news. Those folks are not going 120 mph. They will not bounce. You will bounce. Your body will be found some distance away from the dent you make in the soil (or crack in the concrete). Make no mistake: you will be motoring.

At this point you will think: trees. It's a reasonable thought. The concept of "breaking the fall" is powerful, as is the hopeful message implicit in the nursery song "Rock-a-bye, Baby," which one must assume from the affect of the average singer tells the story not of a baby's death but of its survival. You will want a tall tree with an excurrent growth pattern—a single, undivided trunk with lateral branches, delicate on top and thicker as you cascade downward. A conifer is best. The redwood is attractive for the way it rises to shorten your fall, but a word of caution here: the redwood's lowest branches grow dangerously high from the ground; having gone 35,000 feet, you don't want the last 50 feet to ruin everything. The perfectly tiered Norfolk Island pine is a natural safety net, so if you're near New Zealand, you're in luck, pilgrim. When crunch time comes, elongate your body and hit the tree limbs at a perfectly flat angle as close to the trunk as possible. Think!

Snow is good—soft, deep, drifted snow. Snow is lovely. Remember that you are the pilot and your body is the aircraft. By tilting forward and putting your hands at your side, you can modify your pitch and make progress not just vertically but horizontally as well. As you go down 15,000 feet, you can also go sideways two-thirds of that distance—that's two miles! Choose your landing zone. You be the boss.

If your search discloses no trees or snow, the parachutist's "five-point landing" is useful to remember even in the absence of a parachute. Meet the ground with your feet together, and fall sideways in such a way that five parts of your body successively absorb the shock, equally and in this order: feet, calf, thigh, buttock, and shoulder. 120 divided by 5 = 24. Not bad! 24 mph is only a bit faster than the speed at which experienced parachutists land. There will be some bruising and breakage but no loss of consciousness to delay your press conference. Just be sure to apportion the 120-mph blow in equal fifths. Concentrate!

Much will depend on your attitude. Don't let negative thinking ruin your descent. If you find yourself dwelling morbidly on your discouraging starting point of seven miles up, think of this: Thirty feet is the cutoff for fatality in a fall. That is, most who fall from thirty feet or higher die. Thirty feet! It's nothing! Pity the poor sod who falls from such a "height." What kind of planning time does he have?

Think of the pluses in your situation. For example, although you fall faster and faster for the first fifteen seconds or so, you soon reach "terminal velocity"—the point at which atmospheric drag resists gravity's acceleration in a perfect standoff. Not only do you stop speeding up, but because the air is thickening as you fall, you actually begin to slow down. With every foot that you drop, you are going slower and slower.

There's more. When parachutists focus on a landing zone, sometimes they become so fascinated with it that they forget to pull the ripcord. Since you probably have no ripcord, "target fixation" poses no danger. Count your blessings.

Think of others who have gone before you. Think of Vesna Vulovic, a flight attendant who in 1972 fell 33,000 feet in the tail of an exploded DC-9 jetliner; she landed in snow and lived. Vesna knew about molecules.

Think of Joe Hermann of the Royal Australian Air Force, blown out of his bomber in 1944 without a parachute. He found himself falling through the night sky amid airplane debris and wildly grabbed a piece of it. It turned out to be not debris at all, but rather a fellow flyer in the process of pulling his ripcord. Joe hung on and, as a courtesy, hit the ground first, breaking the fall of his savior and a mere two ribs of his own. Joe was not a quitter. Don't you be.

Think of Nick Alkemade, an RAF tailgunner who jumped from his flaming turret without a parachute and fell 18,000 feet. When he came to and saw stars overhead, he lit a cigarette. He would later describe the fall as "a pleasant experience." Nick's trick: fir trees, underbrush, and snow. But in one important regard, Nick is a disappointment. He gave up. As he plummeted to Germany, he concluded he was going to die and felt "a strange peace." This is exactly the wrong kind of thinking. It will get you nowhere but dead fast. You cannot give up and plan aggressively at the same time.

To conclude, here are some words that might help you avoid such a collapse of resolve on your way down.

"Keep a-goin'." (Frank L. Stanton)

"Failure is not an option." (Ed Harris, as the guy in Apollo 13 who says, "Failure is not an option")

"'Hope' is the thing with feathers
That perches in the soul
And sings the tune without the words
And never stops-at all." (Emily Dickinson)

David Carkeet is a novelist and retired writing professor. I found this while researching ''chuteless jumps'' one day in 2007. I hope I'll never have to use these "tips".:D ]]> HownDah http://hondaswap.com/blogs/howndah/unplanned-freefall-some-survival-tips-david-carkeet-615/ http://hondaswap.com/blogs/blown-ek/turbo-f2b-614/ Sun, 04 Apr 2010 04:46:38 GMT so it's done I took it to the dyno and I made 317whp and2673q at only 10 pounds of boost on a stock block....:D:D ]]> BLOWN-EK http://hondaswap.com/blogs/blown-ek/turbo-f2b-614/ http://hondaswap.com/blogs/tjweberhonda123/crx-build-swap-613/ Sat, 20 Feb 2010 03:13:18 GMT i have a 89 hf with a blown hf motor and a 91 dx with dpfi which one would be beter o build up i wanna motor swap maybe http://www.hmotorsonline.com/shop/sc...age&item=30022 this or some other motor could use the help:confused: ]]> tjweberhonda123 http://hondaswap.com/blogs/tjweberhonda123/crx-build-swap-613/ http://hondaswap.com/blogs/hoodrat-tuners/89-civic-wiy-ls-swap-no-start-612/ Tue, 16 Feb 2010 21:35:06 GMT i got my ls swap runin with a zc engine harnest n it didnt have the vacuum lines map sensor hooked up it had the map misfire but i switch from pm6... i got my ls swap runin with a zc engine harnest n it didnt have the vacuum lines map sensor hooked up it had the map misfire but i switch from pm6 ecu from zc n put pm4 ecu it started up wouldnt intake the air it would just shut off and now it dont start with the pm4 or pm6????:confused: ]]> hoodrat tuners http://hondaswap.com/blogs/hoodrat-tuners/89-civic-wiy-ls-swap-no-start-612/ http://hondaswap.com/blogs/tjweberhonda123/91-crx-dx-should-ui-go-b16-wat-looking-fr-budget-buid-all-motor-under-1500-2000-610/ Mon, 08 Feb 2010 20:27:17 GMT i want some more power with a motor swap on my crx need help detailes and stuff i want some more power with a motor swap on my crx need help detailes and stuff ]]> tjweberhonda123 http://hondaswap.com/blogs/tjweberhonda123/91-crx-dx-should-ui-go-b16-wat-looking-fr-budget-buid-all-motor-under-1500-2000-610/ http://hondaswap.com/blogs/1hawaiian/brand-turbo-kits-609/ Fri, 08 Jan 2010 23:34:16 GMT I was just woundering, has anyone run a godspeed turbo kit for a b18c. I missed out on a turbonetics kit and now i'm thinking about going with a godspeed kit. Ive seen alot of threads about ebay kits, but nothing on godspeed. any help would be much appreciated.:cool:



motor will be b18c with 81mm je 9.0 pistons w/manley h-beams, gsr crank, oil squirters plugged, b16 head full port and polish skunk2 cams, dbl wound springs, ti-retainers, skunk2 intake and t-body with arp head studs. ]]> 1hawaiian http://hondaswap.com/blogs/1hawaiian/brand-turbo-kits-609/ http://hondaswap.com/blogs/epic860nb/what-best-607/ Sun, 20 Dec 2009 22:46:58 GMT I have a 1992 ex f22 a i want to put a f22 or 23 v-tec head with a 2.3 intake man what is the best combo for raw power with out a h22 head i want to... I have a 1992 ex f22 a i want to put a f22 or 23 v-tec head with a 2.3 intake man what is the best combo for raw power with out a h22 head i want to try something new shoc I work at a junk yard so parts are no thing (i might want to boost but only 8-10psi max small turbo for the sound and off line pull ) will i need a new ecu for the head swap ? what kind can i use ? how should i go about this ? O yea i have it in a 92 prelude i know something new like i said i want to move with a f seares every one is a d b h fan i was now i would like a f to make a move on the streets ]]> epic860nb http://hondaswap.com/blogs/epic860nb/what-best-607/ http://hondaswap.com/blogs/blown-ek/f2b-turbo-606/ Tue, 15 Dec 2009 01:30:07 GMT Im building a new eg with a f2b swap im doing a f23a4 bottom end with a f22a1 accord head with qsr f2b kit and a gsr transmission i got some bisimoto... Im building a new eg with a f2b swap im doing a f23a4 bottom end with a f22a1 accord head with qsr f2b kit and a gsr transmission i got some bisimoto goodies and a nice turbo :d i want more info from anyone that has done this swap or any f2b swaps... ]]> BLOWN-EK http://hondaswap.com/blogs/blown-ek/f2b-turbo-606/ http://hondaswap.com/blogs/honda21usa/motor-feels-like-its-straining-605/ Mon, 23 Nov 2009 02:38:29 GMT *ive got a b20 vtec before it would go to 8,400 grand easy now it feels like it starts to strain about 7200 it feels weird like im loosing power or... ive got a b20 vtec before it would go to 8,400 grand easy now it feels like it starts to strain about 7200 it feels weird like im loosing power or something......what could it be ]]> honda21usa http://hondaswap.com/blogs/honda21usa/motor-feels-like-its-straining-605/ http://hondaswap.com/blogs/joeb/idle-after-driving-604/ Sun, 08 Nov 2009 00:53:46 GMT i am havin troubles with my h22a it not idle after i get off the highway it just want to die every time. does antone knows what going on can someone... i am havin troubles with my h22a it not idle after i get off the highway it just want to die every time. does antone knows what going on can someone help me with this ]]> joeb http://hondaswap.com/blogs/joeb/idle-after-driving-604/ http://hondaswap.com/blogs/honda21usa/b20-vtec-redlining-early-help-603/ Sun, 01 Nov 2009 23:06:44 GMT i've got a b20 vtec in my 95 hatch and recently my vtec kicks eraly and my car redlines eraly also...im run s300 and vtec set at 4800 and redline is 8400, ive put my ecu in my budies car and itworks fine so its not my ecu what else could it be ]]> honda21usa http://hondaswap.com/blogs/honda21usa/b20-vtec-redlining-early-help-603/ http://hondaswap.com/blogs/puddleskipper/can-88-91-lx-swapped-mpfi-602/ Fri, 30 Oct 2009 19:48:17 GMT Hi I am wondering it an 89 LX can be coverted to MPFI, all the coversion products I have seen have been for standard/DX. Hi I am wondering it an 89 LX can be coverted to MPFI, all the coversion products I have seen have been for standard/DX. ]]> PuddleSkipper http://hondaswap.com/blogs/puddleskipper/can-88-91-lx-swapped-mpfi-602/ http://hondaswap.com/blogs/greenking707/short-cut-bad-credit-used-car-loans-online-601/ Wed, 28 Oct 2009 09:19:15 GMT Image: http://www.pcql.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/10/used-car-loans.jpg It is a misconception among most of the people that bad debt means end...

It is a misconception among most of the people that bad debt means end of the road to any of the loans available in the market. On the contrary there are many car loan lenders that vie with each other for debtors and offer bad credit car loans as well as bankruptcy car loan. There is neck and neck competition among these lenders to offer used car loans. In today’s situation where every single customer counts for business no one wants to leave a single stone unturned for getting a customer. Now when a customer approaches a lender and reveals that he or she is have a bad credit, the lender is not a fool, not to offer any services. On the contrary the lender will try to offer used auto loan or used car loan especially tailored for applicants with bad credit.

In case of car loan the good credit and bad credit hardly makes any difference. The used car loan is a secured loan in which usually the lender has the right to confiscate the collateral. The lender knows that the money given to the debtor is safe. That is why most of the lenders assure of guaranteed car loan.



The lenders usually make their own terms and conditions to give loans to the people with bad credit, and provide attractive auto loan value through which the buyer can benefit. The big difference is higher rate of interest and more monthly payment. The lender may even ask for more down payments. The best way to get the best deal is asking quotations from different lenders offering you the same service. This can be best done through companies offering online auto loans. A bit of market research will make the picture clear about the car loan rates of interest and the monthly payments. The companies offering car loans online usually have an online car loan calculator also known as online auto loan calculator.

When a person with bad credit wants to buy a used car, much attention needs to be given to the model, make, mileage, state of the engine, and availability of spare parts. These are main ingredients for the car finance calculator and the car payment calculator. The cost of maintenance and servicing the machine as well as the interiors of the car have to be included in the cost of the car. One needs to have a technical person who is reliable and can calculate the true worth of the used car.

Some of the ways to make the availability of bad credit car loan for used car are as follows.

>> One should try to get the support of a co-borrower. The co-borrower should have good credit and assure the lender that if the primary borrower of the loan is not able to repay the loan the loan is going to be repaid by the co-borrower.

>> One should try to get a pre-approved car loan.

>> The possibility of a bigger down payment should be tried so that the monthly payment is lowered. ]]> greenking707 http://hondaswap.com/blogs/greenking707/short-cut-bad-credit-used-car-loans-online-601/ http://hondaswap.com/blogs/greenking707/looking-bad-credit-car-loan-low-interest-rates-600/ Wed, 28 Oct 2009 09:18:28 GMT Image: http://www.pcql.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/10/autoloan.jpg With the economic downturn many people have lost their jobs, there are many...

With the economic downturn many people have lost their jobs, there are many who have found solutions in taking up various loans for their purpose, and this includes car loan for people with bad credit. Such times have given birth to a lot of lenders all across the country. Lenders have found tough competition for themselves and thus even they have eased off on their terms and conditions to get these loans. It is the same in case of car loans. If you are dealing with poor or no credit car loan then you are expected to show the credibility to pay for each month’s installment.

The first thing that you should do is assess the credit score. A copy of credit score can be brought from the credit bureaus and take into consideration your past record. If it is less than a good score then do no approach a lender who only entertains good credit borrowers. You need a car loan with bad credit. The next thing is to make an estimative budget as to how much can you take finance and how much you will pay for car. Bad credit car loan come with high rate of interest so try to pay as much amount as you can as your car’s down payment. A high amount of down payment can fetch you low interest auto loans.

Why go online for Bad Credit Car Loan?

The best way to find a loan that will suit your needs is to find one online. online car loan are an easy way to decide upon one since you can ask for free quotes and then compare them to find the best deal for you. You can do all this sitting at your home and by just clicking on your mouse. Make sure you read the small prints and there are no hidden charges that you are not aware of. Repaying your loan on time will help you improve on your credit score. Look for subprime lenders they can offer you no credit check car loan or even car loan after bankruptcy. Getting bad credit auto loans are very much within the reach of people now. ]]> greenking707 http://hondaswap.com/blogs/greenking707/looking-bad-credit-car-loan-low-interest-rates-600/