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Mine sounds really good until it doesn’t. Went into it above but somehow it breaks based on location. Breaks at the same 3 and one parking lot every time I pass them

Got bad enough one time i have to pull it out. Realized that it got worse as i brought the connector closer to my phone, never touched it

Don’t know what the fuck that means but it pisses me off

Found a solution to my whole issue tho. Turns out my double din stereo is two completely separate parts. One is just a cd player. Thinking abt replacing it with something with Bluetooth as an input to my head unit but that doesn’t seem to exist for some reason in single din

Everything I can find online is either an ugly ass pos head unit or a big ass screen that I don’t want in my 1997 car and those are also all head units bc that’s the only thing that exists in this world for some reason

That's schmexy Wowri

did you find out why it turned off?

Hello everyone

Custom prototype transmission that I've built using off the shelf parts.

https://honda-tech.com/forums/transmission-drivetrain-127/bensebuilt-close-ratio-j-series-trans-also-applicable-k-series-fk8-type-r-3346496/

I own my own business where I remanufacture and rebuild, and re-engineer custom Honda transmissions.

There's nobody else on the planet that is more knowledgeable about these particular transmissions (with exception to the engineers that were originally employed by Honda, that were assigned with designing and developing these, where all their knowledge is protected with NDAs) than I do.

That challenge is extended and I offer a cash reward to anyone that can put me in touch with someone else that has more knowledge than I do.

I will answer any (reasonable) questions for you guys

There's some of my books / binders for all the thermal fluid courses that I took at Clemson University

here's my grandfather's heat transfer notebook from 1934. (he was also a mechanical engineer)

Here's the latest updates to my mini workstation build:
https://hardforum.com/threads/bensebuilt-liquid-cooled-microatx-mini-workstation-riser-card-research-x99-x299.1841022/post-1045947251

I am here because I am wanting to get in touch with Linus because I want to help him out (by sharing knowledge for free) with his house water cooling project.

In the meantime, I have worked professionally in the automotive tuning/performance industry since 2005, and I am willing to offer my knowledge and experience by answering any of your questions.

I feel like I just inverse spammed you guys lol

Calling the mechanic tomorrow

big durbo xud

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the hell, why does such a small load kill everything?

Wdym with load

didn't you turning on the washers cause everything else electrical to go out?

No, there is something is wrong I believe, the engine light turned on for about 5 seconds after its turned off so I think something is messed up, maybe with the engine or battery but calling tomorrow

I doubt the load is what caused it

very weird, did the engine actually shut off too?

No I still had power from what I recall

sounds okay to me

Yeah idk man but I’ve decided to just not drive in case it had something to do with the timing belt

I was able to accelerate I think but I slowed the car down as soon as I saw the engine light

It just doesn’t make any sense

yea ive never seen that before lmao idk how it would bounce back on like nothing happened

finally went to one of those midnight car meets

Is that an Ecoboost?

What?

90000% certain

Those are sick cars they don't get the credit they deserve

If Honda put its 300hp turbo 4 in a rwd platform people would lose their fucking minds

But when Ford does the exact same thing people go "haha 4 cyl mustang gae"

Damn right. I hated on them until I rented one back when I worked for a car rental Company. Drove it about 250 miles two ways and fell in love. Got 25mpg trading places with an F type S doing 90mph one way and then got 40mpg driving back like a regular human being.

Between the 10 speed and lovely turbo noises and 0-60 in the low 5s for (at the time) sub-$25k brand new, it took every fiber of my being not to pick one up

So real. It makes me sad except for I was in that same camp until I lived with one for a week WAAAAAAAAAAA

Do you understand why Honda doesn't ?

Because they're mostly a fwd company, developing a rwd platform costs big money especially if that's not where their existing experience and expertise is?

Idk that'd be my guess

Any automotive manufacturer is capable of producing a vehicle that is sold to consumers that will blow the competition out of the water

Did the s2k not sell well back in the day? I don't remember the car market back then because I was too busy eating sand at the park

Its not that they are a "FWD company" perse. Honda is a motor company. They sell vehicles that will make them the most amount of money

They're pretty nice too, you can get them pretty well equipped with fancy stuff like heated/ventilated seats

Oh yeah. The one I had had that stuff. Radar cruise and heads up display too. It was a nice beast

Yea but if the last time they developed a rwd platform from the ground up was almost 3 decades ago I would imagine theyd need to do a bunch of hiring or training to get the staffs skillset back on par with competitors that have been doing rwd this whole time

@graceful flower Take a guess as to how many integral, drivetrain parts that Honda had to design and manufacturer in order for them to make the K20C drivetrain that's sold in the 2017+ Civic Type R

Give me a number

I'm gonna assume it's high 2 digit low 3 digit

80-120?

Oh wait drivetrain sorry I thought everything

What were they?

Reverse idler gear, mainshaft 5th gear, countershaft 5th gear

Oh and last thing, a feature that I don't understand why every performance car doesn't have, is driver adjustable steering feel and ratio. GOD my mind was blown when I learned about that

@stiff bloom One of the most immediately noticeable mods that I ever did to my '94 Civic was putting an Integra steering rack on it.

Wait there's no way that counts engine right?

It's astonishing how much that transforms a car

Yes and no. The engine is just an iteration of K-series

O tru

What was the trans carryover from?

2010-2014 Acura TL SH-AWD 6MT

Pretty cool did not know that

Didn't those also come in 6spd with the j series

Or did that stop with the Gen before

That's what I'm referring to

But I guess that just adds to my point

J37A4 with 6MT

Europe had a 2015-2016 Civic Type R, the FK2

Same K20C that is in the FK8

After taking such a massive break from rwd they really don't have anything to iterate on either like other oems do

So initial development cost would be brutal too no?

I mean they could also just put the engine/transaxle behind the driver 🤔🤔🤔🤔

23431-RK6-000 - Countershaft 3rd gear

FACTS

RWD is popular among enthusiasts.

And then they would have to lay off employees

Cough* fiero *cough cough MR2 *cough mostferrarisbefore1978 *cough

Niche market

Eh they're already doing that

Fiero was a good car

Now that they're 4-6 grand around me lol I don't think I'd like the price they were asking new haha

The other thing is that automotive manufactures are reluctant to sink a lot of R&D into vehicles that aren't electric right now

I unno, fiero sold almost a half million over 4 years

MR2 sold a million billion

Actually aren't plenty of manufacturers steering efforts away from EVs?

I'll give you an example

In 2003-2004 I had a 2000 Civic Si with B16A2 engine

The newer Civic Si had a K20Z3.

It was a less exciting vehicle to drive

Many of us on Honda-tech.com said that Honda had fallen off and that they should have just put the TSX engine in the Civic Si

What we didn't realize is that we were right, but Honda wasn't going to do that for another 10 years with the 9th Gen

Well I shouldn't say that "we didn't realize we were right"

I had a 96 ex and now have an 08 si! I miss my 96 everyday

Last generation with double wishbone suspension up front

Isn't the z3 the one everyone wants nowadays though, the last "true Honda" that revved high and all that

K20Z3 is the weakest K series.

VTEC with lift was only on the intake cam

Basically the engine from the base model Accord in Europe (TSX chassis).

Europe taxes vehicles differently. Engines above 2000cc get taxed higher

So, Europe gets an engine with a shorter engine stroke.

They offset this by putting a different final drive in the transmission

Final drive is just the one gear ratio that effects all the other gears.

Think front chain ring on a mountain bicycle

Us dumbass Americans see high engine RPMs and we're like "OMG is it going to blow up?????"

I do get a little nervous seeing my car sit at 3500rpm on the highway, I have never been described as a particularly smart fella so makes sense

The 5 speed K series transmissions are 6 speed transmissions with just a blank gear installed where 6th gear would go

Different ratios of course

We're not accustomed to high RPM engines here in the US

now that I’m living higher up my car is even slower 😭

This is true too lol, my c3 basically runs out of steam right when my si just starts waking up

discord’s tweaking

I mean that's not true. Coyote and LT6 should be evidence of that 😛

Never mind voodoo and lt7, all of which are well above 8000

its a v6

Wat?

I heard the PSHHHH of forced induction though?

Or am I tweaking

ever heard of modified cars?

Yes but aren't those still geared to chill at low rpm on the highway? Torque down low enough so don't need to rev high

Very cool

Didn't even know anyone would bother putting fi on the V6

i think its a v6 anyways

all i know is that it did a decent burnout

C3 ?

corvette c3 im guessing

You get what I'm saying

92-93 Integra GSR had a 0.875 fifth gear with a 4.4 final drive

That's. ~4700rpm at 80mph

If a customer test drives a Corvette, they know that the engine is going to be unique, different

If a customer test drives a 'nicer looking Civic', then they see 4400rpm @ 80mph

(not that they're likely going to drive 80mph on a test drive)

They're likely going to be unsure if they're okay with that.

likely exempt from emissions laws

i mean, the gt gets sorta close

7000

Not in Ontario technically we have to maintain all factory emissions equipment regardless of how old the things are afaik

But we don't do emissions testing so really it'd be up to the cop to pull me over, know what to look for etc etc

I'm thinking of a thread I saw on the forums years ago where someone had an older Corvette, and because it never came with emissions equipment, it was grandfathered in on being able to run anything, such as open exhaust

I'm in down in the south. Nascar land. I don't know of anyone that's ever been in trouble for any mods on their cars other than window tinting.

Those have either 6MT or 6MT transmissions with tall overdrive gears

how is that related?

Yea mine is a 79 so it's got all the emissions crap but I'm deleting em, EGR smog cat all gonna go

This is me in 2003

Sexy guy

That car, from the factory has a 5MT. When I had that car I often drove on a stretch of highway between Columbia, SC (flat, plateau portion of the state) to Spartanburg, SC, which is where you get into the foothills of the mountains.

Speed limit is 70mph, traffic moves around 76-79mph.

at 80mph in top gear (5th gear), that engine buzzes at 4400 RPM

Now, bear in mind this is a stock vehicle.

Most americans are not accustomed to smaller displacement engines that rev high. We don't have laws or taxes that regulate engines from being enormous.

So, up in Detroit, many years ago they're laughing at all the crap that the europeans are doin to make the engines more powerful. Detroit land was like

"man fuck all that shit just take every dimension in our mechanical drawing and just multiply it by 2"

Did that really happen? No. But it is essentially what happened.

So, for that reason, americans are more accustomed to larger displacement engines.

So, instead of having a smaller engine that revs high, with transmission gearing that allows the engine to sustain higher RPMS -- automakers will take an engine design and they'll increase the stroke (and usually increase the deck height).

And they will pair that engine with increased stroke with gearing where it sustains lower, overall gearing. So that its not buzzing (sustaining higher RPMs) as high

Corvette engines that rev high are different in that they're already enormous engines, that have essentially been tricked out to the max with high flowing heads, large lift cams

This is a "final drive".

It is the ring and pinion on a transaxle (FWD vehicles have the transmission + differential) in one unit.

The smaller gear is just an auxillary gear that drives an oil pump. Ignore that

The number of gear teeth on the ring and pinion determine the final drive ratio.

I am not joking when I say this

I've been banned from facebook groups for saying this. They didn't want to believe that their new Civic Type R was just a small iteration in development for Honda

I don't want to take over this chat so much that you guys don't feel comfortable conversing amongst yourselves

Lol don't tell those guys that Porsche has been iterating the 911 for 3 decades and it's one of the best supercars out there

And definitely don't tell them Chevy has been iterating the small block for like 70 years and now it's one of the most well known engines in the world

Fresh ahh old honda ew1,
It's a 1.5l 2 barrel carbureted motor
From the factory it made a whole 76hp at 5500rpm and 84ftlbs of torque at 3500rpm

Whoa

84-87 is earlier than anything I've got experience with.

I started learning with 1988-2000 D series.

Gotta love parking for your break having used 4h29m out of 4h30m of your driving time.

80s single cams sure are something

I just bought 2 more 1st gen Rex's last night

One of them came with that motor

It's getting high comp pistons, a d15a1 exhaust manifold, and itbs that's it

@ripe magnet I take it you like honda stuff?

@hollow pasture scroll up and read my previous posts

starting here

and of course, you're also in South Carolina.

don't listen to him, it's an ecoboost. 9000%

Yeah, they're street cars so they have gas saver gears. Corvettes have legendarily long gearing because GM engines have terrible volumetric efficiency