OFFICIAL NorCal Lounge Thread

[BB6-SH]

WTF is with NorCal's weather?

We just experienced days of 95F+ temperatures now it's down to 80F & below.
Saturday will be 68F tops.

I know, at least it cooled down.

[benji]

WTF is with NorCal's weather?

We just experienced days of 95F+ temperatures now it's down to 80F & below.
Saturday will be 68F tops.

I like it (No AC). Plus, today there were thunderstorms, and since I work for a firefighting company t-storms might mean fires, which might mean work for me, which means money to do stuff to my car. It's probably still to damp most places for fires, though.

[wed3k]

Get the pics and vid up, of both of u running.

I think i found out why i keep throwing a cel...It may be the vtm wire on the ecu, apexi needs to update their wiring diagram if this is the case.

People need to learn how to drive, i encountered more idiots. I went to the parts store today and asked them if they carried a vtec solenoid but the guy had a stupid look to his face, didn't know what i was talking about.

lol, parts stores dont carry vtec solenoids.

i got frisked tonight. my friend was showing off his airsoft pistol and we were in front of his house in Galt. so my other buddy that rode with me was kinda messing around with it but not shooting it.

next thing i know a cop car pulls up across the block. the friend that owned it said, "whoops, turned around and stuffed it into his waistband."

cop car comes rolling up and says, "hows it goin, what are you guys passing around?"
i didnt say anything because i wasnt passing shit around. finally my friend says, i have an airsoft gun and pulls it out of his waistband, LOL.

and then here it comes, ID, what are you doing here, another backup cop arrives. we start getting frisked and i call my box cutter my work utility...lol. he frisks me and says, "let me ask you again, do you have anything that is sharp or is going to poke me?"

i answer, "no..."
"what the hell is this? some kind of ipod or something?"
"that's my GPS."

he then gave my friend some lecture on how hes not allowed to carry handcuff keys on his keychain even though the purchase of handcuffs is not illegal. they asked us more questions of where we are coming here and what are we doing, why is my accord dome light is on???? why do we have a flash light? why does my buddy have so many keys???

what was funny is how these police came out of the wood works. we were seriously just standing in front of the house for about 5 minutes before cops rolled up on us.

[sackingz123]

galt cops..lol. they got nuthin else to do.

[TheNextAZN]

ok so i'm transfering the autoX vids n pix right now to my laptop. Imma need to compress video and upload everything after. So i'm looking at an ETA of 48hours hahaha cus im about to crash, and tomorrow night i've got some dinner party to go to.

oh yeh so imma take Keiko to pre-smog tomorrow, after i swap valve cover(maybe vc gasket as well depending on how lazy i am), hopefully everything is good.

[wed3k]

piece of shit tire pressure guage at the gas station read 42 psi...went home and used my quality one and it only read 34psi. no wonder my ride was so comfortable. i dont want sidewall flex!

[TheNextAZN]

Failed smog again. .. HC too high

[ExplodingCake]

2 weeks to go before vacation.

[Kurobei]

Failed smog again. .. HC too high

Hydrocarbons too high? Thats you and me both. I'm trying to BAR my car for the 7th time now and since my timing belt went out on me, I had my head refreshed andmy numbers have dropped considerably....however but not low enough to where it was when I first tried BARing my car. I passed the 15mph but failed the 25. Then i went from a gross polluter putting the bigger prelude catalytic converter (dunno why). But now i'm on my 3rd cat and went down to the bottle neck accord one and i'm back to lower HC and Nox. EGR port service helped out as well too and the engine runs so much smoother now.

My temp tag is up at the end of June so i'm getting desperate. I'm about to try slx denatured alcohol as a last resort. I'm going to try to go back to oem platinum plugs or the new pulse plugs and take out my iridiums. I hear platinums stay hotter but iridiums are more geared to life longetivity. Another thing I might try is mixing 87 octane with 91. I had a 3:1 mix of this when I first got my engine swapped in the old CB without any noticeable detonation/side effects (v-tec even still worked) so that may be another option instead of getting the car drunk on alcohol to lower HCs. Some turbo guys do it when their cars require premium and have had success so ehh I might try on a free retest.

[FuncOvrForm]

Hydrocarbons too high? Thats you and me both. I'm trying to BAR my car for the 7th time now and since my timing belt went out on me, I had my head refreshed andmy numbers have dropped considerably....however but not low enough to where it was when I first tried BARing my car. I passed the 15mph but failed the 25. Then i went from a gross polluter putting the bigger prelude catalytic converter (dunno why). But now i'm on my 3rd cat and went down to the bottle neck accord one and i'm back to lower HC and Nox. EGR port service helped out as well too and the engine runs so much smoother now.

My temp tag is up at the end of June so i'm getting desperate. I'm about to try slx denatured alcohol as a last resort. I'm going to try to go back to oem platinum plugs or the new pulse plugs and take out my iridiums. I hear platinums stay hotter but iridiums are more geared to life longetivity. Another thing I might try is mixing 87 octane with 91. I had a 3:1 mix of this when I first got my engine swapped in the old CB without any noticeable detonation/side effects (v-tec even still worked) so that may be another option instead of getting the car drunk on alcohol to lower HCs. Some turbo guys do it when their cars require premium and have had success so ehh I might try on a free retest.

too much bullshyt.

[Warudakumi]

too much bullshyt.

too much bullshyt.

True...but it will be all worth it in the end. I was going to give up on the project when I learned my timing belt was gone...but I decided to get my car overhauled instead of getting rid of the car and buying another used car (more maintenance probably not even any better) I'm thinkig it would be worth a shot trying to get my car to pass smog rather than putting a down payment on new car.

Right now i'm keeping my hopes up that I can pass smog...but if I can't, my car will be sitting for a long time and might just end up being a track car...so then I can go balls out like I want without no worries. If I can't pass smog, the cars i'm looking at right now is a

1) Subaru Legacy GT B4
Plain Sexy.... a luxury WRX basically



2) 2008 Accord Coupe

[jdm_inspired]

True...but it will be all worth it in the end. I was going to give up on the project when I learned my timing belt was gone...but I decided to get my car overhauled instead of getting rid of the car and buying another used car (more maintenance probably not even any better) I'm thinkig it would be worth a shot trying to get my car to pass smog rather than putting a down payment on new car.

Right now i'm keeping my hopes up that I can pass smog...but if I can't, my car will be sitting for a long time and might just end up being a track car...so then I can go balls out like I want without no worries. If I can't pass smog, the cars i'm looking at right now is a

1) Subaru Legacy GT B4
Plain Sexy.... a luxury WRX basically



2) 2008 Accord Coupe

Fuck all those cars. When you're ready so is Tony. I got your hot smog ready for you. It'll be a pretty penny, but it's worth it no doubt. Why make payments when you're almost done. Don't give up Tommy...I don't wanna take your thrown again

BTW, the smog is a def. 100%

I shouldnt have gotten rid of the civic so easy. I should have used it for a good couple months to get this car rolling. Now that I am having tranny problems (well not SOO bad), I need to pull that shit out more than likely.
H2B??? Maybe. Ima hop on another commuter I find. Money is pulling in, and I have a lot more time on my hands than I did before.

Car looks like shit but paint is on its way. Can't wait to see the end result. Don't give up ninja

[jdm_inspired]

BTW Tommy, 87 and 91 is basically 89 octane. Chevron only has to tank reserviors.

87 and 91

And guess what the mixture makes?
How do I know? Well...you know where I worked before.

We learn something new everyday

[wed3k]

i wanted dany0 to ask the smog tech if he can run the 15mph portion in 1st gear which will bring the rpms to around 2900 and do the 25mph normally. reason being is that the 25mph will pass at 2400 rpms.

it'd be nice if we could have something to log the egt's and see how hot or cold it runs.

[TheNextAZN]

i wanted dany0 to ask the smog tech if he can run the 15mph portion in 1st gear which will bring the rpms to around 2900 and do the 25mph normally. reason being is that the 25mph will pass at 2400 rpms.

it'd be nice if we could have something to log the egt's and see how hot or cold it runs.

werd i'm going in on tuesday to see what's up. And as for stock plugs tommy thing that will help?. . i mean i'm pretty desperate, and i'm running iridiums, so if stock spark plugs will keep a higher temp, i just might swap out for the time being.

Oh yeh, and tommy, are you running a USDM p13 or JDM? .. i'm running a JDM p13 and i'm only losing in the HC's @15mph(255 when max is like 160). When i ran the USDM p13 i was at a lower HC but cutting it close in other area's.