HondaSwap Forums - Blogs http://hondaswap.com/blogs/ HondaSwap is a leading technical forum for all areas of Honda and Acura performance and tuning upgrades, including turbo charging, engine swaps, hybrid information, racing setups, as well as community forums for classifieds, videos, gallery, and so much more. en Fri, 24 May 2013 18:29:07 GMT vBulletin 60 http://hondaswap.com/images/misc/rss.jpg HondaSwap Forums - Blogs http://hondaswap.com/blogs/ Computers and photography http://hondaswap.com/blogs/xj0hnx/computers-photography-623/ Wed, 20 Jun 2012 02:45:39 GMT My dad let me borrow his AF-S 24-70mm f/2.8, that lens fucking rapes face. Sharp as a tack, creamy bokeh, and low light, enough to give a shutterbug... My dad let me borrow his AF-S 24-70mm f/2.8, that lens fucking rapes face. Sharp as a tack, creamy bokeh, and low light, enough to give a shutterbug morning wood at mid day. That one and the AF 70-180mm Micro-Nikkor, oh la la. both are just fantastic.

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Got my new motherboard installed last night. I always forget about the part where you have to completely reinstall your operating system, and was up until the wee hours of the morning. Finished around 5am, had to be at work at 9, good times. Got a EVGA x58 SLI E758, pretty smokin' mobo, nice features, and unlike my last one all memory channels work, so I got 12GB rockin' steady.
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]]> xj0hnx http://hondaswap.com/blogs/xj0hnx/computers-photography-623/ D16Y5 Civic HX Mystery surge solved! http://hondaswap.com/blogs/fletuitus/d16y5-civic-hx-mystery-surge-solved-622/ Fri, 20 Apr 2012 01:37:39 GMT OOOk, where to start. I suppose it is best to start with what I started with. I started with a stock 1999 Honda civic HX coupe. For those who do... OOOk, where to start. I suppose it is best to start with what I started with. I started with a stock 1999 Honda civic HX coupe. For those who do not know the major differences in this model Civic are as follows, it has an egr valve, it has roller rocker arms, it has a 5 wire primary or upstream O2 sensor, only 1 intake valve opens until vtech kicks in.

On my particular engine I have a zex light weight fly wheel with an act pressure plate and a stock clutch disk, Dc sport 4 to 1 headers, max speed exaust, Aem cold air intake, Aem adjustable fuel pressure regulator, skunk2 silica valve springs and titanium retainers, jackson racing underdrive pully's including the crankshaft pully, Aem highflow fuel filter, and finally the stock pistons have been replaced with PM6 pistons for an approximate compression ratio of 10.34 to 1.

Now for the problem. After doing a recent engine dress up including the piston swap the car developed an odd surge appearing mostly around 2500 rpms.

Keynote.. the primary oxygen sensor was replaced as part of the dress up.

An idle surge will be your Idle Air Contol Valve, or a Vacuum leak. No vac leak so that wasnt it. All the fuel injectors were ticking the same so most likely was not those. Compression was good and even across cylinders, not it. Ecu and distributor was swapped, not it. All sensors checked and no codes pending or otherwise, not it. No exhaust leak, not it. Timing all perfect, cam and ignition, not it. All sensors were throwing proper voltages with one anomaly, both the primary and secondary o2 sensors pulsed. The primary one is supposed to but the secondary should read flat.

It turned out that the primary o2 sensor had a bad resistor. As of now I am not sure if it is the one inside the connector (you have to remove the white insert inside the plug removed with needle nose pliers) or if it is the resistor inside the o2 sensor itself.

Best solution is to replace the o2 sensor.

Added note.. the iacv idle surge could be a clogged screen or an air pocket or clog in the coolant line that runs through it.

Added note on O2 sensors. I have run L1h1 o2 sensors and they have worked fine but I have read that L2h2 sensors come stock and both are listed as discontinued and dated. The newer o2 sensors are all LZA-** sensors. Though I believe mine were LZA-09 sensors. The next post will contain more info on this. Apparently the resistance should be around 6 OHMS, the new sensor I had installed read near infinite ohms. Not enough to cause a CEL apparently.

All info courtesy of "Kevin and Conners Shop" located in San ramon, 3211-A Fostoria way, 925-837-0554
Kevin & Conner's Shop


Update.. The bad resistor was INSIDE the o2 sensor.

Today I found this information which is relavant as it can cause some of the same symtoms...
97 Civic RPM Fluctuation when Driving - Honda Civic Forum

Alt link to all this info..
ecomodder.com/.../1999-civic-hx-mystery-surge-solved-21529.html ]]> Fletuitus http://hondaswap.com/blogs/fletuitus/d16y5-civic-hx-mystery-surge-solved-622/ 95 honda civic lx http://hondaswap.com/blogs/t3crx/95-honda-civic-lx-621/ Thu, 09 Feb 2012 20:44:44 GMT Hi everyone,

I hope you can help me. I have a 95 Honda Civic LX. I have spend a money in looks, sounds and video. It's all show no go. now I will like to upgrade to a better engine. Which engine can I installed with out complicating by self with wire harness and mods.

Please let me know, thanks for looking. ]]> T3CRX http://hondaswap.com/blogs/t3crx/95-honda-civic-lx-621/ And again... Still breathing... 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/ Unplanned Freefall? Some Survival Tips By David Carkeet 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/ Ls Upgrade http://hondaswap.com/blogs/amarlondis/ls-upgrade-587/ Thu, 23 Jul 2009 06:04:14 GMT I want to know if there's any camshafts that is interchangeable to a Ls motor.Someone says a B20 camshafts will give me more power.Then someone says the B20,or B21 Prelude Si camshaft will work.Can anyone give me a better idea on this. ]]> amarlondis http://hondaswap.com/blogs/amarlondis/ls-upgrade-587/ main relay http://hondaswap.com/blogs/wild90si/main-relay-585/ Tue, 09 Jun 2009 15:10:03 GMT help me help me ]]> wild90si http://hondaswap.com/blogs/wild90si/main-relay-585/ rev problem http://hondaswap.com/blogs/victor-carrillo/rev-problem-584/ Thu, 04 Jun 2009 17:17:16 GMT hi i have a 95 civic ex with the d16z6 the ecu that i have is the p28 but my car is only reving is only ta 6500rpm my car doesnt rev to 7200rpm... hi
i have a 95 civic ex with the d16z6 the ecu that i have is the p28 but my car is only reving is only ta 6500rpm my car doesnt rev to 7200rpm like a suposed to what can my problem be ]]> victor carrillo http://hondaswap.com/blogs/victor-carrillo/rev-problem-584/ H23 ek four door http://hondaswap.com/blogs/egsi/h23-ek-four-door-582/ Mon, 11 May 2009 19:34:33 GMT How much money do you think it would cost to install an h23 into an ek four door... and how hard would it be? How much money do you think it would cost to install an h23 into an ek four door... and how hard would it be? ]]> EgSi http://hondaswap.com/blogs/egsi/h23-ek-four-door-582/ will a P75 head fit a 91 B18A1? http://hondaswap.com/blogs/kaiperrigo/will-p75-head-fit-91-b18a1-581/ Tue, 28 Apr 2009 16:53:39 GMT Need to know if a p75 will fit a 1991 B18A1? Need to know if a p75 will fit a 1991 B18A1? ]]> kaiperrigo http://hondaswap.com/blogs/kaiperrigo/will-p75-head-fit-91-b18a1-581/ b16 wont rev and runs bad http://hondaswap.com/blogs/civic2188/b16-wont-rev-runs-bad-580/ Wed, 08 Apr 2009 22:01:55 GMT i have an obd1 b16 in my 97 ek hatch. i did the swap a couple years ago and it never did idle right and i had to sometimes reset the ecu. but here... i have an obd1 b16 in my 97 ek hatch. i did the swap a couple years ago and it never did idle right and i had to sometimes reset the ecu. but here lately ive come into a huge problem. the engine wont rev over 3k and when i do hit the throttle it really dies out and then i let off and it jumps to 3k before comin back down. but if i hold the throttle wide open it revs to 3k and bogs way out and will start to backfire. i have checked the entire fuel system and even put a new distributor on the car but nothing has helped. if anyone has any idea whats happening please let me know. THANKS ]]> civic2188 http://hondaswap.com/blogs/civic2188/b16-wont-rev-runs-bad-580/ Help!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! 94 Civic Coupe GSR swap motor/trans mount problems. http://hondaswap.com/blogs/bmw28/help-94-civic-coupe-gsr-swap-motor-trans-mount-problems-579/ Sun, 15 Mar 2009 00:38:53 GMT Some please help me installed engine but engine/trans
mount hits frame of car. I've tried all stock mounts anybody else had this problem? Thank's. ]]> bmw28 http://hondaswap.com/blogs/bmw28/help-94-civic-coupe-gsr-swap-motor-trans-mount-problems-579/ twin ek wtb http://hondaswap.com/blogs/91preludejdmized/twin-ek-wtb-578/ Thu, 05 Mar 2009 17:32:31 GMT so yea im lookin for 2 eks stock as possible and a 5 speed in Utah area so if anyone is willing to sell there car or hold on to it that would be... so yea im lookin for 2 eks stock as possible and a 5 speed in Utah area so if anyone is willing to sell there car or hold on to it that would be grateful and im giving cash so any info or number would be nice ]]> 91preludejdmized http://hondaswap.com/blogs/91preludejdmized/twin-ek-wtb-578/ civic vs crx swap http://hondaswap.com/blogs/the-sleeping-crx/civic-vs-crx-swap-577/ Thu, 26 Feb 2009 16:14:28 GMT *ok wats up ever one i am doing a honda crx si 1990 swaping my motor an trans out of that an putting it in the 1990 honda civic si i have to pop my... ok wats up ever one i am doing a honda crx si 1990 swaping my motor an trans out of that an putting it in the 1990 honda civic si i have to pop my ignitoin out of the crx and put it in the civic and i all so have to trade dashs an i am woundering if tht is a hard thing to do or no i dont really car for the motor info its just the dash an shit u know but if yall can think of anything tht would save me time then it me up but dont wast my time ]]> The Sleeping crx http://hondaswap.com/blogs/the-sleeping-crx/civic-vs-crx-swap-577/ civic vs crx swap http://hondaswap.com/blogs/the-sleeping-crx/civic-vs-crx-swap-576/ Thu, 26 Feb 2009 16:11:20 GMT ok wats up ever one i am doing a honda crx si 1990 swaping my ok wats up ever one i am doing a honda crx si 1990 swaping my ]]> The Sleeping crx http://hondaswap.com/blogs/the-sleeping-crx/civic-vs-crx-swap-576/