i am looking through ads for used civics, and i had a question about this one. is this how a civic engine bay suppsosed to look like? why does it look like there is no air filter? is that intake manifold stock?

 

The air filter is tucked away inside the black plastic air box. Everything appears stock in the engine bay.

 

actually that engine bay looks pretty clean and yes that is the stock manifold the air box is that black box directly above the motor

 

The air filter is in the box on top of the intake manifold. That engine bay is stock.

That's the SOHC non-VTEC (D16Y7 - CX, DX, DX-V, LX, SE, VP) engine bay. Here's another pic of one.




The SOHC VTEC (D16Y8 - EX) engine bay looks like this:




Here is a SOHC VTEC-E (HX) engine bay.




Here's a photo of the rare SOHC VTEC CNG (D16B5 - GX - Compressed Natural Gas) engine bay.




And the DOHC VTEC (Si) engine bay looks like this.

 

Where do you manage to dig this stuff up, Amy?

 

Jeez, Amy.

What's the diff in appearance between the GX and the HX - if you're looking at the engine bay?

 

<TABLE WIDTH="90%" CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 ALIGN=CENTER><TR><TD>Quote, originally posted by Padawan &raquo;</TD></TR><TR><TD CLASS="quote">Where do you manage to dig this stuff up, Amy?</TD></TR></TABLE>
Mostly eBay Motors. I check every once in awhile to get photos of stock cars in particular since photos of stock cars are difficult to find compared to all the modified Hondas out there.

Some pics take me awhile to find. Mostly I have issues finding GX photos. So I save almost all GX photos as soon as I find them. I'd really like better engine bay shots for this one. It's just a really interesting model to me. Maybe one day I'll find one locally. It'd be cool to have such a limited car.
<TABLE WIDTH="90%" CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 ALIGN=CENTER><TR><TD>Quote, originally posted by Syndacate &raquo;</TD></TR><TR><TD CLASS="quote">Jeez, Amy.

What's the diff in appearance between the GX and the HX - if you're looking at the engine bay?</TD></TR></TABLE>
Not sure off hand. Perhaps these photos will help someone else one day though.

 

wow good info fast, thanks!

 

no fuel filter? o_O
at least not that i can see lol

 

<TABLE WIDTH="90%" CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 ALIGN=CENTER><TR><TD>Quote, originally posted by ej1serge &raquo;</TD></TR><TR><TD CLASS="quote">no fuel filter? o_O
at least not that i can see lol </TD></TR></TABLE>
They run on compressed natural gas.

The fuel filter is number 6, with 37 being the filter assembly. This is all the way to the right in the image.




Modified by NOFX at 12:42 AM 11/12/2007