Hey guys just wondering if you guys get really paranoid with your motor (I've got a d16y7) sometimes. I've had my car for close to 20,000 miles now and I 100% know all the normal noises and vibrations it makes. But sometimes I'll be driving along and get paranoid that my motor is going to spontaneously blow, even though I know it's 100% healthy and there are no concerns. Does this happen to any of you guys and how do you cope with it? I just get paranoid as hell about it and sometimes I get paranoid about it when I rev it up to 7k and get kind of afraid to do it cause of the stock valvetrain. Then some (most) days I could rev it up to the limiter and womp on her all day and not give it a second thought. lol I think I'm crazy.

 

Yea i'd say your crazy! But hey I kinda do it too. With the sound deadening stuff out of my car, I hear all kinds of sounds that you wouldn't with it in. It trips me out some times.

 

ya my old muffler had gotten pretty rusty so I threw a 25" glasspack and an inline resonator on and after I kept "hearing stuff" everywhere I went because the louder exhaust was "hiding bad noises" lol ya I def am crazy

 

haha I know what you mean man....but then a little voice in the back of my head says "hey dumbass you have a d series"...then I get a little smile on my face thinking about what I would put in my ek if the d did blow

 

lol ya I've got all my money in my incomplete turbo kit and a y8 head with all the works. So if my motor blew I'd have to smile and put in... ...another d series lol

 

Look at it this way man: if something does "spontaneously occur" there is nothing you could've done to prevent it. Just deal with problems as they occur. Plus, like the previous guy said...its a Dseries, if it blows either buy another one for 300 bucks or swap out that beast.

 

ya I know, I'm not worried about it but I just wondered how many other people get paranoid like I do

the only time it would really suck is when I go between college and home because it's 550 miles each way. I don't have triple A or nothing and if I blew a motor in between that would suck big time.

otherwise if it blew around home I've got the motorcycle

 

its like letting your timing belt go for over 100k...lol
been there wont do it again.

 

i just shrug it off. its just a d-series
you can always get one for dirt if
something tragic were to happen.

 

schizophrenia???

 

<TABLE WIDTH="90%" CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 ALIGN=CENTER><TR><TD>Quote, originally posted by egwhte &raquo;</TD></TR><TR><TD CLASS="quote">i just shrug it off. its just a d-series
you can always get one for dirt if
something tragic were to happen. </TD></TR></TABLE>i was going to say the same thing.

its not even close to the paranoia that comes with owning a civic with a more expensive motor. i will put it this way: i would much rather be paranoid about my car not working one morning, than my car not being there one morning.

 

i feel the same way, but that's because i just swapped in a JDM motor and 300 miles later the crank pulley fell off, timing slipped, etc. i lucked out that nothing broke, but yeah, i listen really carefully now, and am so scared it's gonna break i am afraid to drive it now.

 

if your scarred your going to break something, sell your car buy a kia and drive it like a grandma. **** is always going to break, regardless of what you might do to prevent it. if something breaks fix it.. life will go on.

 

<TABLE WIDTH="90%" CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 ALIGN=CENTER><TR><TD>Quote, originally posted by packman5280 &raquo;</TD></TR><TR><TD CLASS="quote">i feel the same way, but that's because i just swapped in a JDM motor and 300 miles later the crank pulley fell off, timing slipped, etc. i lucked out that nothing broke, but yeah, i listen really carefully now, and am so scared it's gonna break i am afraid to drive it now.</TD></TR></TABLE>

I don't mean to offend.... but honestly what is the point in having a nice car if you are too scared to drive it? I have always taken the approach of "drive it like you stole it" Well maybe not that bad but when I get in a car you can know that I have the gas pedal on the floor and I've got my little d series wound up

Life is too short to worry about such things (even if it is 3000 dollars worth of b series swap under the hood)

 

i agree with you guys, life is too short. i guess i don't mean afraid, but not confident in my abilities any more. i drive fast, and part of the reason i bought the si was how that b16 loves to be run hard. after i did my clutch, i was fine. drove it hard right away. same thing after the timing belt. but having this thing come apart after 300 miles makes me nervous about what else i might have missed. a clutch and a timing belt are WAY easier than a whole motor, so i'm just nervous. once i get the oil leaks fixed i think i'll feel better about things.

 

<TABLE WIDTH="90%" CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 ALIGN=CENTER><TR><TD>Quote, originally posted by spray_bombed &raquo;</TD></TR><TR><TD CLASS="quote">haha I know what you mean man....but then a little voice in the back of my head says "hey dumbass you have a d series"...then I get a little smile on my face thinking about what I would put in my ek if the d did blow </TD></TR></TABLE>

another D, just this time built for the turbo ur gonna put on it to blow away B, H, an K series... thats good thinkin right there.... oh wait, u meant b series swap to that lol...

 

Yeah i think i hear noises at least once every trip. i have a system in my car and i'll be driving down the road and i think somethings wrong turn the stereo down and everything is fine. idk why i keep doing it, its probably because i'm just waiting for the time something does finally break.

 

<TABLE WIDTH="90%" CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 ALIGN=CENTER><TR><TD>Quote, originally posted by JDM_SOHC &raquo;</TD></TR><TR><TD CLASS="quote">

another D, just this time built for the turbo ur gonna put on it to blow away B, H, an K series... thats good thinkin right there.... oh wait, u meant b series swap to that lol...</TD></TR></TABLE>

lol ya I know... I'm gonna get a turboD running fine, also I'm learning to tune with crome all by myself. I figure D series motors are cheap(er) to blow up so that's where I'm starting. Once I have some experience under my belt I'll move up to a B,H or K series.

 

im completely paranoid becasue i had my engine in the car 2 weeks and the bottom end went to **** (split two of the maine bearings in two) o it s a d16y8.

i put in back to gether in about 8 hrs with the crank in the engine ( this means i didn't polish it)
and now i flog it close to 9k on a regular basis. for me its just a matter of time till it blows. when it does im pulling it this time and doing a full rebuild.
last time i had an auto-x event in two days.

 

<TABLE WIDTH="90%" CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 ALIGN=CENTER><TR><TD>Quote, originally posted by eg8tuner &raquo;</TD></TR><TR><TD CLASS="quote">im completely paranoid becasue i had my engine in the car 2 weeks and the bottom end went to **** (split two of the maine bearings in two) o it s a d16y8.

i put in back to gether in about 8 hrs with the crank in the engine ( this means i didn't polish it)
and now i flog it close to 9k on a regular basis. for me its just a matter of time till it blows. when it does im pulling it this time and doing a full rebuild.
last time i had an auto-x event in two days.</TD></TR></TABLE>

9K..... that's not stock valvetrain is it??

 

completely stock

it will do 10k but at that high the rings will bend over and u will lose compresion.

im not saying that its a good idea for me to be doing this but i consulted a local engine builder and he said that it could take it for a while but i am running the risk of breaking something.

there is now a little bit of smoke that comes out when i shift im not sure if it is the rings or the head but i looking to do a complete rebuild mid summer

 

well. i really dont care... i have a d.

 

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I usually get paranoid when I do an upgrade. I always think that I might have forgot something or whatever.... but it is what it is. PARANOIA! I did however, get super paranoid the first time I drove my car after it was stolen Who knows how the hell the thieves drove it when they had it I spent a week going through every little thing making sure all was good. Thank God it was

 

<TABLE WIDTH="90%" CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 ALIGN=CENTER><TR><TD>Quote, originally posted by jdmturbo1127 &raquo;</TD></TR><TR><TD CLASS="quote">I usually get paranoid when I do an upgrade. I always think that I might have forgot something or whatever.... but it is what it is. PARANOIA! I did however, get super paranoid the first time I drove my car after it was stolen Who knows how the hell the thieves drove it when they had it I spent a week going through every little thing making sure all was good. Thank God it was </TD></TR></TABLE>

u got really lucky