Project Hazmat '09 Honda Civic Si

In reply to spacecadet :

I don't even want to think about the first time I turn the blower motor on in my GTA. All evidence suggest it's been sitting since before 9/11. I'm sure there are some nice bugs living in those ducts. 

Tonight was successful...  

I've found another polished gem in this car... 

The brakes are nearly brand new.. I think the calipers and sliders were replaced within a few thousand miles... And the pads on the car are minty fresh

It all came apart super nicely and all the slides are in awesome shape. 

I don't have another set of solid faced rotors yet.. So I went and got 120 grit paper.. Put the nose in the air and idled the car in first and used the sandpaper to scuff the front rotors. 

Got it all back together and went out for 20 minutes to bed the new pads in.. 

HOLY berkeleyING E36 M3

I have never felt what real pads are compared to stock ones.. 

Jesus... that is some bite.. And this was on the stock tires that are being absolutely overwhelmed by the braking force. Like I wasn't doing full pedal travel and they were locking up.. These pads are awesome and I'm looking forward to running them Saturday.  Next up is fluid flush Friday night. 

And I forgot to snag a picture of it.. But the driver side compliance bushing is no bueno and the passenger one is not far behind. 

In reply to spacecadet :

that's pretty much every honda built in the last 15 years. I think they used play-doh for them. 

bobzilla said:

In reply to spacecadet :

that's pretty much every honda built in the last 15 years. I think they used play-doh for them. 

i was about to comment the same.  mine are starting to tear now at 100k+ miles.  i hear the hot budget ticket for a replacement is the Moog K200799.  its a solid OEM RSX bushing that gives you a little less response than a spherical bearing but an OEM lifespan and no noise.  and they're CHEAP!

The good thing is that with the lift and shop press we can press new bushings in fairly easily. Just need to decide which ones. 

mazdeuce - Seth said:

The good thing is that with the lift and shop press we can press new bushings in fairly easily. Just need to decide which ones. 

The ones Scotty just pointed out seem like the hot ticket. $20 on Amazon with free shipping.. 

In reply to ScottyB :

Those look perfect! 

Picking up my "new" wheels on friday. 

they're not honda wheels and as such i needed new lug nuts. 

stock honda wheels use the acorn/ball seat on the wheels and lug nuts. 

The new wheels use the 60degree bevel. 

so got 5 packs of these ordered last night and they just hit the amazon locker near my house. 



was slightly more expensive than summit by $1.. but i didn't have to drive to summit in arlington or wait more days for them to arrive. 

 

And my 3.5mm aux cable also arrived

I'm back in high school all over again.. 

MY $4 harness connector is here! 

The current level of playing with scabby cars on the forum has me all kinds of happy. 

In reply to spacecadet :

You had a car with a factory aux port in high school? E36 M3 you were fancy.

Daylan C said:

In reply to spacecadet :

You had a car with a factory aux port in high school? E36 M3 you were fancy.

my first had an 8-track, the second was AM/FM only, but it was the Ford Premium Sound version where they put the amplifier under the trunk lid so every time you opened it water ran onto it. 

In reply to bobzilla :

My D350 never had a radio. My XJ had a cheapo head unit that didn't get FM reception anywhere hooked to the stock blown out speakers. The aux port worked tho. And I was in high school at the start of the smart phone era. 

I was in HS at the start of the discman era.Phones were something you put a quarter into or had in your house.

How pimp were you if you had a diskman with buffering so you could play disks without it skipping? I didn't have one. Was not pimp. 

mazdeuce - Seth said:

How pimp were you if you had a diskman with buffering so you could play disks without it skipping? I didn't have one. Was not pimp. 

I didn't get one until 1994, it was a first generation anti-skip critter. With Cassette adapter to work in my Cop car. 

Ah the cassette adapter. Great invention that was. Had that and my Aiwa cd player that had like 60 seconds of anti-skip. Had my 83 datsun/nissan stanza rockin out. 

The bluetooth to aux adapters are sweeet. I use those now. 

Daylan C said:

In reply to spacecadet :

You had a car with a factory aux port in high school? E36 M3 you were fancy.

My dad had the 08 Honda Fit which we did not get the one with the aux port. But that was what I wanted then. My local Honda dealer had a Mugen Sedan and then a 09 Si coupe in the showroom when we owned the Fit and I was taking it there for free carwashes. This is a huge part of why Hazmat is a big deal in my life. 

Let me see if I can dig up a photo of my high school car that I inherited from my dad. 

All y’alls are fancy pantses, with your “mounted in the dash” stereos.

My setup: Boom box, with a tape player only, sitting in the back seat of the ‘82 manual accord sedan.

sleepyhead the buffalo said:

All y’alls are fancy pantses, with your “mounted in the dash” stereos.

My setup: Boom box, with a tape player only, sitting in the back seat of the ‘82 manual accord sedan.

Note fot innocent readers:  Don't do this, it is a very bad idea!

I realized I actually attempted Seth's Accord setup in my truck a few years ago. My results weren't as good. The problem had something to so with the fact that he has an Accord with quiet exhaust. I had an '89 Dodge D350 with no weather stripping, no carpet, no headliner, and an axle dumped 3" exhaust coming off of an H1C turbo hanging on a 12 valve Cummins. I drove that pile every day on a fairly long commute to class. It's amazing I have any hearing left at all. I LOVE how quiet my GMT400 is in the cab now.

Can't find an actual photo of the car. I didn't post any photos of it to book of faces back then. But it was a 98 Pontiac Grand Prix GTP sedan. with the supercharged V6 and my parents footing the bill for fuel. (i realized when i came home from college and I had to pay for fuel that christmas just how thirsty she was) 

We got it from a widow who's husband custom ordered it in 1998 and man was it a hoot. 

sleepyhead the buffalo said:

All y’alls are fancy pantses, with your “mounted in the dash” stereos.

My setup: Boom box, with a tape player only, sitting in the back seat of the ‘82 manual accord sedan.

One better...... when I had to borrow dad's 'burb when my trans pooped (imagine that, a 700R4 dying). No radio, so I had an old Walkman clipped into the hole where the radio was with a pair of battery powered corded speakers sitting on the dash. Of an 84 Lifted 'burb, 6.2L Diesel, no rear shocks and rotted out barn doors. I don't know how I heard anything.