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Thursday 27th October 2005
I dropped my car off at Interpro this morning (they have done a lot of work for me in the past) and by lunchtime I had a call to say that all requested work had been completed.
They advised that there was an issue with the car running very lean, and that a diagnostic run on the rolling road would identify the issue, so they did that in the afternoon. About 3.30pm I had a call, they said that it had been on the rollers and made 129.5bhp. A little down I thought, trying to remember what it should be, 135 or something like that. “What did it make at the flywheel then?”, “No mate, that was at the flywheel!”, “it made 75.0bhp at the wheels”
Oh dear I went straight down to Interpro on a break (I work just down the road from there) and they advised me that the car is running very lean right across the range. The weird smell was caused by the engine running lean and not burning the fuel efficiently. They said that the most likely cause of this is “incorrect injectors and/or fuel pressure”. They commented that the timing had been retarded to compensate for the lack of fuel, but the injectors are going flat out and simply cant flow enough fuel.
After work I headed directly to Karma Imports, and when I spoke to the guy and asked what injectors were in there, he said the ones from my old engine! I asked why the ones that came with the B16 were not used but he couldn’t answer me. He was going to make some calls and sort out the injectors and call me back.
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This post is filed under Honda Civic by Lonewolf at 10:48pm
First Impressions of the engine swap
Friday 21st October 2005
I picked up my car Tuesday afternoon, but the Quaife diff has NOT been fitted because they wanted to make sure that the gearbox was ok first (they had told me a few weeks before that the diff was in an ok), and the spoon plug cover hasn’t turned up yet.
I settled the bill and booked in to come back on 07/11/05 to get the diff fitted.
I have been driving around this week and put around 250 miles on the clock so far. I am reasonably impressed, it has much more torque and acceleration is fast due to the short ratio gearbox, but it doesn’t feel more powerful, there isn’t the decernable pull you get when VTEC engages.
With all the problems that have occurred during the conversion I have booked into Interpro in Thornbury for a check over and to get my suspension looked as the camber is way out causing the tyres to wear uneven. I also asked if they could have a quick look at a few issues I had - VTEC wont engage properly, lack of power, there is a weird smell inside the car, you can also smell it under the bonnet, and I found a problem with the drivers CV joint. Its booked in for the 27th which is the first date available.
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This post is filed under Honda Civic by Lonewolf at 5:38pm
Monday 17th October 2005
The engine mount arrived on time and was everything was looking good until they took it out on the night of 14th for a test drive; the problem with the car running lean had been sorted, however on the test-drive, the ecu again showed errors (o2 sensor and TPS again). Because the errors are showing the car is in limp home and does not run properly. Also because of the ECU errors, the car is still without an MOT, so illegal for me to drive anywhere.
I was unable to watch the track day on Saturday and missed out participating in the rolling road event organised by Southwest Civics – missing Jtuner magazine as well - on Sunday. I am really not pleased about that.
They have fitted an O2 sensor fooler and adjusted the throttle position sensor to give the right voltages and its now ready. Its booked in for an MOT tomorrow and I will be picking it up at last.
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This post is filed under Honda Civic by Lonewolf at 8:29pm
Wednesday 12th October 2005
I phoned Karma Imports at lunchtime and they reported that they have taken my car down to Honda to be fixed and its now running, its just lean and the VTEC system wont fully engage. It is also showing ECU errors on the malfunction indication lamp. I told them that VTEC wouldn’t engage if there are errors and that the ECU is in “limp home” mode, so they pulled the codes (7 – throttle position sensor and 23 – knock sensor). It turns out that the engine didn’t have a knock sensor, so they fitted one, and the TPS was replaced with the one from my old engine and the errors went away.
I asked them what injectors they were using, and they said the ones from my old engine, to that I told them that they are no good as need to be suitable for the new engine. They also said that there was a problem still with the engine mount (from a few weeks ago) that needed to be sorted and a part was due in on the 14th.
Annoyed now I asked why this hadn’t been sorted while they were waiting for the ECU/Honda booking and they said that the mechanic had been busy.
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This post is filed under Honda Civic by Lonewolf at 10:05pm
Monday 10th October 2005
I phoned Karma again to see how they had got on and found out that they had managed to contact this guy and he would bring the ECU in on Saturday, a little annoyed but they wanted to test it before going to Honda because Honda would charge a lot of money to look at it with no guarantee of a fix. Saturday he did not show, but said would be there today. I reminded him of the rolling road club event which was fast approaching and this needs to be sorted ASAP. I was not at all surprised when he didn’t show, so it was rebooked into Honda for Wednesday 12th.
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This post is filed under Honda Civic by Lonewolf at 4:51pm
Monday 3rd October 2005
I popped into Karma to find out what was happening with the ecu, they said that they had contacted a customer on Saturday afternoon who has agreed to bring in his ECU for them to test and that he would be there Monday morning. He did not show and they could not contact him, so I said to get the car to Honda and get them to look at it, they should be able to reprogram the immobiliser for my key. It has been booked in for Wednesday.
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This post is filed under Honda Civic by Lonewolf at 5:17pm
