This is more me just postwhoring than anything else. It really is no fault of the LS/VTEC, pretty much everything is my fault.

Went to the races last night and some spoiled brat in a 1997+ Prelude was talking a bunch of crap about my CRX being a "high 14 second POS" I really wanted to hand his *** to him but because of the following, I had to just take his **** until I eventually went home.

My radiator (after JB welding the **** out of a leak on the bottom hose "flange") Leaked a ton out of the top and my car got pretty damn hot. So now I get to go JB weld the hell out of the top hose flange.

Fuel Pressure is turned up so high (because I have no tuning, still waiting on my ECU chippage so I can run some maps using TurboEdit or GhettoDyne) that I'm fouling spark plugs like it's going out of style. I didn't bring my spark plug socket last night so I couldn't race because the car was bogging so much that it was taking 10 seconds to climb each gear.

My car is still ravaged from my accident and now the alignment is a little bit off (I'm fearing frame damage).

All of this and I am totally out of money. Praying that someone buys my other CRX (My white HF) And now I need to insure my car under my own policy because I turned 18 and this new CRX is in my own name.

 

Wow, lots of bad luck over little time.

**** happens, atleast to me anyways

 

I am now dumber for reading this worthless post.

you're complaining about your ghetto *** car , who cares?

 

You gotta pay to play.. sounds like you went a little over your head. Next time have some patience and build it right, from the start. You shouldn't be driving around flouling spark plugs and putting yourself in the position to have people talk **** about you.

go big, or STAY home.

 

Dont go to the track unless everything is 100%, thats where everything needs to be perfect.

Dont use that JB weld crap eaither. Get a proper replacement.

Sounds like your shortcuts are comming back and biting you in the ***.

Ive never fouled a spark plug on anything except 2 stroke dirtbikes.... That things got problems man.

-Eric

 

Well, being an 18 year old and still in school (and currently out of a job but working on it). It makes it hard for me to throw in huge amounts of cash into my projects. My LS/VTEC isn't the greatest I know. However, wasting $100 on a radiator when JB Weld will fix the problem is what seperates me and a lot of people. If not having brand new parts everywhere on my car because it's 13 years old is what seperates me from the 16 second crowd, oh well. And it's fouling plugs beccause of the fuel pressure being cranked up. (Not sure if you missed what I had wrote in the original post). But if you want to say that it has problems, then yes the cam seal is a problem.

I admit it was irresponsible for me to go down to the track when I wasn't ready. I just hate getting **** from people with slow stock cars.

 

well, lower the fuel pressure then. Is anyone else confused as to why he doesn't just do that?

 

<TABLE WIDTH="90%" CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 ALIGN=CENTER><TR><TD>Quote, originally posted by 2point2 &raquo;</TD></TR><TR><TD CLASS="quote">You gotta pay to play.. sounds like you went a little over your head. Next time have some patience and build it right, from the start. You shouldn't be driving around flouling spark plugs and putting yourself in the position to have people talk **** about you.

go big, or STAY home. </TD></TR></TABLE>
that's why my b16 is forced to stay the way it is from the swap time, no $$ to do what i want to do.
Hey, at least you got two cars (assuming the other one is running correctly)

 

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better to build something RIGHT then to slap something together to blow away "stock" cars.... It cost more money to build "****" in the end.

 

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better to build something RIGHT then to slap something together to blow away "stock" cars.... It cost more money to build "****" in the end. </TD></TR></TABLE>

Word. Why take risks?

 

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you're complaining about your ghetto *** car , who cares?</TD></TR></TABLE>

 

why do you have your fuel pressure cranked way up anyways? thats stupid. stock fuel pressure, maybe plus 2 or 3 psi, should be fine. lsvtecs arent THAT crazy-powerful. next time build your **** right. the punk *** was probably right, your car sounds like a 14 second POS at the moment. if you had done it right you could have smoked him(which costs money, i know, i'm in the same place you are, just imagine being in college and having to buy your own food too) suck it up and build it right.

 

a 97 prelude under 15 psi is a joke for a lsvtec crx....trust me I have one and the psi is 5 over stock what the hell are you doing....

????

1 word hondata and dsm injectors....I even use 510cc yellow top evo 3 injectors with the duty cycle dropped.

wake up

 

Hondata is a waste of money on an OBD-0 car IMHO. Ghettodyne and Turbo Edit do basically the same thing and are how much? FREEEEEEE. But yeah, my fuel Pressure needs to get cranked down except for in the top end, the car was still running 14:1 on Wideband. Which isn't exactly all that rich so it's sort of scarey. I basically just need to tune more. (Waiting on an RPM activated switch set up for my PM6)

 

I guess your fuel psi is cranked because your not using even close to the proper ECU.
Im only 16 and i parked my car for 6 months and worked my *** off while im in school. I cant wait for the snow to melt and for spring to come so i can bust this thing out on the street. whoooo.

-Eric

 

JB weld fixes everything and if it dosen't, thats why god made electrical tape

 

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So true. a little skill with a soldering iron and some computer proficiency is all it takes. The price is right for sure. When I was going to turbo my car, this was the route I was going. Now I still want to get it just for the datalogging feature. A little fine tuning will even help a stock motor with just i/h/e.

 

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your forgeting duct tape, crazy glue and wire clothes hangers.

 

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so true, dude just save up instead on ghetto rigging it and buy a beater (or drive your hf) and get a job nobody feels pity for u having no job, im 21 and have my own apartment and insurance and i building a turbo so its not impossible, budget yourself, find a cheep girl and build it!

 

Nice! And don't forget ZIP TIES!

Bash ghetto rigs all you want but they're the ones with the SOUL!

 

Most on this board are
working and going to school
working and have kids
or working all day with a million other priorites but we still manage to do things the right way, hell when I was in high school I worked full time and more to fund my cars and still had time to go skateboarding.
Put things in order and do it right, if you cant dont do it.

 

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Ok you don't have soul but it takes Blood sweat and tears doing it the right way!
My car is the fruit of my labor, just note that its takes time and money, mostly money lol

 

<TABLE WIDTH="90%" CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 ALIGN=CENTER><TR><TD>Quote, originally posted by kid-honda &raquo;</TD></TR><TR><TD CLASS="quote">Most on this board are
working and going to school
working and have kids
or working all day with a million other priorites but we still manage to do things the right way, hell when I was in high school I worked full time and more to fund my cars and still had time to go skateboarding.
Put things in order and do it right, if you cant dont do it.</TD></TR></TABLE>
hey man ghetto or not, just do it the way you wanna do it. personally, i try to be patient and save for the good stuff, but sometimes, it doesnt turn out that way. but f.uck it. building a car doesnt happen once in a lifetime. experiment. be humble about yo stuff, and seperate yourself from those who are simply jealous of people who have an easier route building their cars, and then dog you by flaunting the amount of things they gotta do everyday, the MONEY spent, blah blah. just do yo thing, rep your car....why rep your life with your car...thats not what its about.

 

there is very little that has to be expensive. The more blood and elbow grease you're willing to put into a job, the less it will cost. I do every damn thing myself. I get parts from junkyards, and there is quality stuff in there.. you just have to be patient and wait till you find a gem. not take the frist POS that "fits the bill." skill with a dremel and a welder will let you fabricate just about anything you need too. I won't do a job unless it's done right, but you'll never see me pay out the *** for anything.

certainly there are some things that will cost a nominal amount no matter what, but the vast majority of projects can be accomplished for shockingly little if you research the job, get the parts from the right places, and do the work yourself.

 

<TABLE WIDTH="90%" CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 ALIGN=CENTER><TR><TD>Quote, originally posted by IggDawg &raquo;</TD></TR><TR><TD CLASS="quote">there is very little that has to be expensive. The more blood and elbow grease you're willing to put into a job, the less it will cost. I do every damn thing myself. I get parts from junkyards, and there is quality stuff in there.. you just have to be patient and wait till you find a gem. not take the frist POS that "fits the bill." skill with a dremel and a welder will let you fabricate just about anything you need too. I won't do a job unless it's done right, but you'll never see me pay out the *** for anything.

certainly there are some things that will cost a nominal amount no matter what, but the vast majority of projects can be accomplished for shockingly little if you research the job, get the parts from the right places, and do the work yourself.</TD></TR></TABLE>


word. i bought a 19sec stock 1988 CRX HF, spent 200 bucks and made it a 14 sec D15b2 MPFI'ed MONSTER!