spuker1

Hey,

 

I've got a weird engine cooling problem. When I first got the car it would take forever to get the coolant to optimum temperature and it would overheat when stationary/start-stop traffic and would drop down below half of the coolant temperature gauge's scale. I thought it's a thermostat so I've replaced that for brand new one and now it won't overheat when stationary, it stays rock solid in the middle of the scale and heats up a bit faster (but still a bit slow imo) although when I drive about the temperature still drops. In normal cruising situation (30-70mph) It will oscilate between 1/4 and 1/3 of a scale. When I boot it and rev it up high couple of times the temperature stabilises a bit more but it's still around 1/3 of a scale.

 

On top of that, weirdly the heater inside the car gets warm pretty much straight away. In my 2000 Mazda, and in fact any other car I've ever been in, the heater will blow cold for ages until the engine gets up to temperature. In my Civic it blows cold very briefly and gets nice and warm pretty much straight away.

 

What could be the problem? Or is this how it is supposed to work?

 

Cheers!

Hi,

We all struggle to get our 3G/1G down to the ground and remain traces of handling, without spending fortune on rare shock absorebers or teins right?

I've approached a company called GAZ suspension which are based in UK (but they ship their stuff abroad) recently. They don't sell anything for 3rd generation Civics off the shelf at all but I've heard that they might be able to get it done down to order. I never dared to ask how much that pleasure would be but I did recently.

Actually I went all the way and enquired for proper Kazuhiro Furukawa's OsakaJDM racer style suspension i.e both front and rear full coilovers, so coil spring over the shock at the front to go along with the torsion bar. Also explained how different those coilovers have to be due to the lack of shock travel etc.

They came back to me and happily said that there's no problem with that at all and they'd do it for £500+vat and I'll have to send them my rear struts so they can copy the brackets etc. and also asked me how much room there is for the spring at the front....

We'll see how this goes and probably when they get mine done they'll have a template ready for next customers so anyone else won't have to send in their old suspension. 

So yea, that would be a great alternative for teins for a fraction of their price!

Stay tuned!


http://www.gazshocks.com/

http://gazcoilovers.com/

 

I've contacted Car Craft Boon some time ago for quotes for their parts and shipment overseas and the conversation somehow went down to suspension setup for 3G Civic and no one else but Kazuhiro Furukawa himself sent me a description of his track day E-AT's setup. It's quite interesting actually, I don't know if I can share the whole thing but I can paste the most interesting bits:

"Front brake is a brake rotor and dedicated NSX caliper"

"Brake master fitted with ITR processing"

"The shock front, I am wearing the spring."

He also said that he runs custom coilover system and custom top mounts with camber adjustment and rare mugen torsion bars...



I only hope he doesn't mind me sharing this :S

Hi,

I'm going along with my bike carb project fine, I have got set of bike carbs that I think I want to use (Keihin carbs, they come from Honda CBX550 F2). I have been reconditioning them. I have also got an wideband afr sensor and gauge to help me out with it all. I know I'll need a fuel pressure regulator and I'm looking for spare manifold that I could chop up or someone that can make me a custom one.

Recently I've found out (DUH!) that there are things in my Civic that need vacuum to actually work like brakes, for instance, and all of those things get it from the stock carb's outlets.

I have read loads of different threads about bike carbing various engines and also consulted it all with a friend who has done it loads of times himself and he has put it all in a way that you just whack it on and it works...

So the question is: Do I need to know anything else that is required to get the whole setup going?

Tell me most obvious things because I might not know it anyway...

Please help!

Thanks,

Tom

Hi,

I was wondering if the cam gear from D series fit and work with EW2 camshaft etc?

I wanted to get adjustable one like this for my EW2 1300:



It looks like it would go on, but it could vary a tiny bit and just not work... any clues?

Cheers guys!