Hey what's new guys

I just bought my new Blue JDM SiR H22 Valve Cover for my 4th gen and I'm about to install it probably next friday. I've also bought a Mugen Oil Cap and a Spoon Radiator Cap. NGK High Performance Blue Sparkplug wires and a new nice distributor cap.

I'm wondering what alse have you guys done with your engine bays, and what suggestions do you guys have. I'm planing to Cover all the wires with blue wire loom after I wash my engine bay, but other then that I'm lacking ideas so any ideas you guys have would help me out.

I also have a question about Changing the valve cover. I want to do a Valve adjustment also, but This all have to be done from let's say 8 a.m. to 3 p.m. Is that enough time to do all this?

Hit it up with ideas and some help

 

You need a special tool to adjust the valves, plus some feeler gauges. If this is your first time doing it, I'd save it for later when you have a weekend to work on it. You never know what can happen...

As for the engine dress up....uh, that's all personal preference. I'd steer away from the cheapo colored plastic wire loom. Either get it in black, or go with some silicon hoses. But that's just my opinion...

 

You are right. The blue wire loom does look cheap, but I couldn't think of anything alse. You just gave me a good idea with the silicon hoses. Where could I get some?

 

i never understood why people buy mugen and spoon caps, they are just caps....

 

on the blue valve cover. I love mine...

 

I'm guessing about 15-20 hp will all those mods

I think you can get steel braided lines for some of your main hoses.

 

Let's keep the install question to maximum, and engine dress-up questions to a minimum or I'll move this to appearance.

217whp, stock oil cap

 

what strut bar is that?

 

hey hey dont be dissin his bar...

anyway u dont need a special tool to adjust the valves just the feel guage, a 12mm wrench and a flat head.. unless u guys are doing it the russian way, in which case u only need a hammer

 

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im gussing racetive

i used touse one...now its my hood prop

 

yea i got one on mine got it on ebay for 11 bux.. ahah it will work till i get home and make my own with my new tig welder wooo haaa

 

<TABLE WIDTH="90%" CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 ALIGN=CENTER><TR><TD>Quote, originally posted by 98CTRCoupe &raquo;</TD></TR><TR><TD CLASS="quote">You need a special tool to adjust the valves, plus some feeler gauges. If this is your first time doing it, I'd save it for later when you have a weekend to work on it. You never know what can happen...

As for the engine dress up....uh, that's all personal preference. I'd steer away from the cheapo colored plastic wire loom. Either get it in black, or go with some silicon hoses. But that's just my opinion... </TD></TR></TABLE>

Umm I def. adjusted my valves without a special tool.... All you need is a set of feeler guages, a screwdriver.. and a wrench set... and you'll be fine. A helms manual doesn't hurt either You should def. be able to do it all from 8-3. It should only take an hour or two.

 

Yea i also reccomend that you stay away from the Ricey wire loom...

With the color of the paint of my car i used the chrome look to dress up my engine bay.... Here is a pic if that helps at all....

http://www.imagestation.com/pi...g.jpg

 

you could get new caps, power steering, brake etc. personally i wouldn't change them, but it's just an idea, if you want to dress up the engine bay.

 

that bar looks very similar to my Tannabe bar...but the mount of the top of the strut is different

 

You could get a blue CAI, blue AEM fuel rail, Spoon resivour covers (blue). The steel braided lines idea is awsome looking too.

 

o yes you do... its not the same as your h23 the adjustment is too far down in the head to get to, unless you bent the crap out of a wrench to reach down there. use the tool!

 

do my buddies all the time

 

&lt;/quote&gt;that bar looks very similar to my Tannabe bar...but the mount of the top of the strut is different&lt;end quote&gt;
and where would i get that sorta thing from?

btw how do i quote?

 

there is a quote button, it's right next to the help one

 

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o yes you do... its not the same as your h23 the adjustment is too far down in the head to get to, unless you bent the crap out of a wrench to reach down there. use the tool!</TD></TR></TABLE>
true dat! on h23s its no prob, but on h22s, you either need the tool, or you can ghetto rig a tool, but wrenches arent gonna cut it, thats fo sho!

 

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o yes you do... its not the same as your h23 the adjustment is too far down in the head to get to, unless you bent the crap out of a wrench to reach down there. use the tool!</TD></TR></TABLE>

oh ya...ive done about 15 valve adjustments on h22, using a flat head and a socket. i guess those tools are very special. you just need to check w/feeler gages after ytou tighten the nut down.

 

what ever happened to function over form?

 

can you have too much of one color under the hood? My car is that blue-green color, so everything under my hood is blue (intake, fuel rail, fpr, plug wires, pulleys, and some steel braided lines with blue end caps) and i was thinking of getting a blue valve cover as well. Is that too much, or would it still look ok?

 

<TABLE WIDTH="90%" CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 ALIGN=CENTER><TR><TD>Quote, originally posted by Vtec96Lude &raquo;</TD></TR><TR><TD CLASS="quote">can you have too much of one color under the hood? My car is that blue-green color, so everything under my hood is blue (intake, fuel rail, fpr, plug wires, pulleys, and some steel braided lines with blue end caps) and i was thinking of getting a blue valve cover as well. Is that too much, or would it still look ok?</TD></TR></TABLE>
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