Can anyone explain why putting on an ITR Master Cylinder and b00ster involves:

-contorting oneself under the dash/cage/seatframe
-spilling brake fluid everywhere
-removing the intake manifold
-spilling c00lant all over garage
-dropping nuts and bolts and have the fail to reappear on the fl00r under the car
-cursing profusely
-cutting one's leg on the splitter


AARRGH!....and i'm not even half way done with this st00pid project...


....can someone offer me an arrive-and-drive deal due to my mad driving skillz before i really hurt myself?


*goes to pass out*

 

[QUOTE=El Pollo Diablo]-cutting one's leg on the splitter

QUOTE]

Thats normal.... there is a certain amount of blood-shed that goes along with joining the RRG team.

Sorry Bro.

Take the nose off prior to any big repairs.

See you next weekend!!!!

 

Removing the intake manifold and spilling coolant for a brake m/c change? Thats a new one...

And those nuts and bolts... magnetic pick up to remove them from the booster is best.

 

<TABLE WIDTH="90%" CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 ALIGN=CENTER><TR><TD>Quote, originally posted by .RJ &raquo;</TD></TR><TR><TD CLASS="quote">Removing the intake manifold and spilling coolant for a brake m/c change? Thats a new one...

And those nuts and bolts... magnetic pick up to remove them from the booster is best.</TD></TR></TABLE>

yah, i saw no way to get the much thicker than stock ITR b00ster on there without unbolting the intake manifold to make r00m for the b00ster....

the magnetic pick up is currently MIA somewhere....grrr...

time to take a shower and drink a beer...a beer of failure

 

g00t luck

 

wait until you start bending and flaring, or did you do the "fun" part already?

 

<TABLE WIDTH="90%" CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 ALIGN=CENTER><TR><TD>Quote, originally posted by 743 &raquo;</TD></TR><TR><TD CLASS="quote">wait until you start bending and flaring, or did you do the "fun" part already?</TD></TR></TABLE>


he should not have to bend and flare.....

matt if you take the booster apart from the master cylinder there is no need to take the IM off.....but if you don't you will have to take off the IM.....sorry i didnt' talk to you sooner.....


next time at the track....look at my hands and arms....they get tore up prepping the car the week before...and now that we are building a new car.....hmmm....pain in da ****....we will drink a beers with joos friday night!

 

goes into his best Keanu Reeves voice

"chicks dig scars"

"Pain heals but glory is forever"

I've figure it all out along time ago.

Honda is the devil

The simpler a job appears the more skin will be lost before completion

it's almost sadistic

 

you hate cars? i hate .rj.

 

I've learned by now that any excercise involving fluids should start by putting your inflatible kiddie pool ($4.77 at W-mart) under the front end. This came in handy during my recent head swap, when I turned on the ignition prior to replacing the little service bolt on top of the fuel filter, and had a small gasoline fountain going for a few seconds.

 

he should not have to bend and flare.....


if he used a pre '98 DC-2 1" MC then yes, he would have had to re-flange

 

<TABLE WIDTH="90%" CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 ALIGN=CENTER><TR><TD>Quote, originally posted by Geezer &raquo;</TD></TR><TR><TD CLASS="quote">I've learned by now that any excercise involving fluids should start by putting your inflatible kiddie pool ($4.77 at W-mart) under the front end. This came in handy during my recent head swap, when I turned on the ignition prior to replacing the little service bolt on top of the fuel filter, and had a small gasoline fountain going for a few seconds. </TD></TR></TABLE>

Sounds like my headswap - only when i broke the seal on the headgasket i thought that i should've drained the coolant from the block first.

RJ

 

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


he should not have to bend and flare.....

matt if you take the booster apart from the master cylinder there is no need to take the IM off.....but if you don't you will have to take off the IM.....sorry i didnt' talk to you sooner.....


next time at the track....look at my hands and arms....they get tore up prepping the car the week before...and now that we are building a new car.....hmmm....pain in da ****....we will drink a beers with joos friday night!</TD></TR></TABLE>


-the B00ster is apart from the MC...but the ITR b00ster is much thicker than the stock one and with the ITR intake manifold I just couldn't get it past the shock tower. It's in now though

-As for the lines, I will NOT need to reflare as my car is/was a civic si and has the same fittings as the ITR MC (already checked) but I will have to rebend the lines.

-zyg

Matt

 

<TABLE WIDTH="90%" CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 ALIGN=CENTER><TR><TD>Quote, originally posted by El Pollo Diablo &raquo;</TD></TR><TR><TD CLASS="quote">
time to take a shower and drink a beer...a beer of failure</TD></TR></TABLE>

I like this.... I've had many "beers of failure" since I decided to start working on cars.

 

<TABLE WIDTH="90%" CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 ALIGN=CENTER><TR><TD>Quote, originally posted by B18CXr &raquo;</TD></TR><TR><TD CLASS="quote"> he should not have to bend and flare.....


if he used a pre '98 DC-2 1" MC then yes, he would have had to re-flange</TD></TR></TABLE>

yes if he has a GSR brake thing then yes....but i know he got the ITR so there should be no flaring....might have to make slight adjustment with the lines...

 

<TABLE WIDTH="90%" CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 ALIGN=CENTER><TR><TD>Quote, originally posted by El Pollo Diablo &raquo;</TD></TR><TR><TD CLASS="quote">the magnetic pick up is currently MIA somewhere....grrr...</TD></TR></TABLE> probably stuck to the underside of your car or toolbox lid

 

yeaaaa lol

 

Dude, I feel the EXACT same way!

A) Removing PS from a 4th gen prelude is MAJOR PITA.. The VSS has PS lines going into it
B) Car won't start, cell 16 and 41
C) Cell 16 fixed due to stupid Corey, thanks Steve (SGT)!
D) Steering now feels like ***, because there are SO many lines in the prelude system, don't know if I looped them right.
E) Hi Cam still doesn't work, well, maybe because the speedo doesn't work..
F) When Installing another VSS, make sure it has all the parts inside of it!
G) Alternator not work, car running off Battery now
H) Connection came loose on Kill Switch wiring, fixed now
I) Jump start the car, no Cels, no weird noises, no leaks, runs great, about damn time!!!!!

Now to start the next projects

 

<TABLE WIDTH="90%" CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 ALIGN=CENTER><TR><TD>Quote, originally posted by Honda318dx &raquo;</TD></TR><TR><TD CLASS="quote">Dude, I feel the EXACT same way!


H) Connection came loose on Kill Switch wiring, fixed now

Now to start the next projects </TD></TR></TABLE>


lol...that reminded me. The kill switch short circuited when i was driving back from the VIR comp sch00l earlier this year. The car died outside of DC when the battery was drained since the alternator was grounding through the killswitch. The cellphone batter went dead after placing a call to the PD. I almost got arrested since the dash was all apart when the cop showed up. The 3 hour tow home was not fun either...and the $500 tow bill sucked 455....

And now I'm selling the car I love to support this stupid habit....i'm not a smart man

 

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

Matt, tell me you're not selling your new Z !</TD></TR></TABLE>

I would, but then I would have to turn away the two people that are coming to see it this saturday.

 

Yeah...... Cars do suck.

I got show kar wax under my finger nail and it really pisses me off.

BTW-How do you get touch up paint off the garage floor.

John- who waits for the flames.

 

<TABLE WIDTH="90%" CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 ALIGN=CENTER><TR><TD>Quote, originally posted by El Pollo Diablo &raquo;</TD></TR><TR><TD CLASS="quote">lol...that reminded me. The kill switch short circuited when i was driving back from the VIR comp sch00l earlier this year. The car died outside of DC when the battery was drained since the alternator was grounding through the killswitch. The cellphone batter went dead after placing a call to the PD. I almost got arrested since the dash was all apart when the cop showed up. The 3 hour tow home was not fun either...and the $500 tow bill sucked 455....</TD></TR></TABLE>

This, my friends, is an excellent example of why tow vehicles kick ***.

 

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

This, my friends, is an excellent example of why tow vehicles kick ***.</TD></TR></TABLE>

and AAA+

I got both after that "incident"

although the trip to mid-ohio, solo and in the race car went without a hitch

 

haha, after removing the p/s i had so much p/s fluid sprayed all over the engine bay, i'm surprised a fire didn't start at pocono. the blood from my fingers probably kept the oil fire from starting.

the mc debacle can't possibly be worse than:
- the vafc install
- the dash removal
- the dash reinstallation
- the cel that didn't die, matt "is this a long blink or a short blink?" us "uh, looks short." matt "*(^#(&@#(!" matt, after replacing every sensor under the hood except the faulty one

 

D00d, I was saving those stories for later...

huhu

*has plenty more stories in "storage"*