New Daily
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So far so good.
I was taking the cluster out last night to see if the speedo issue might be a lose connector and came to a conclusion. At some point in time, someone with little to no mechanical knowhow had this car. So many broken tabs, stripped screws, wrong screws in the wrong spots, missing screws, and so on. It makes me sick digging into cars and finding this. I gave up trying to get at the back of the cluster because I didn't want to get stuck at a point where I couldn't get it back together for the next day. I'll look more into it Saturday evening. I won't be sticking a ton of money into this car, but I will be replacing and fixing shotty repairs. It'll be a nice dependable daily that I can trust. It really needs wheels and a drop though=P lol
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I drove the compact low for one winter and never had an issue=) The tires were bald to cords too. I actually preferred that over how my Volkswagen drove during this past winter. I would be going with coils though and COULD raise it a bit for winter. We will see what happens. Knowing me I won't do anything to the Prelude besides maintenance and I will try and get the compact done=)
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I replaced the plug wires, plugs, distributor cap and now the air filter. She feels a lot healthier. I need to get the stripped screw out of the rotor so I can put the new one in too. A vice grips didn't work. I either need to slot the head and try a big flathead, drill it out, or use a screw extractor. I also need to adjust the valve lash and loop the power steering yet. I haven't wanted to spend much time working on this thing. lol I still have honda surge and it is getting worse. I should pull the IACV off and clean it. I'm sure some other intake gaskets need to be changed too. So far it is a lot less trouble than the volkswagen was and it isn't a horrible looking car.
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Nothing has broken on this car yet surprisingly. I need to grab an ICV from the junkyard and clean it to fix my idle issues. I should probably adjust the valve lash too because it seems to be getting louder. I am just too lazy to touch this thing.
I did however have a cheap, creative idea for some period correct wheels=) (roll in the photoshop)
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Earl, I have to ask... how many cars do you have? lol.
Also, is the M3 in your sig yours?
I technically have 3 cars=) I have my 1990 Honda Prelude Si as my daily beater, the 1995 BMW 318ti (which was my daily and is now being built), and a 1986 Chrysler Conquest TSi that was my original build but I gave up on it because I got too interested in my 318ti.
That would be my compact in my signature on the way home from Eurowerks last year.
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I finally am fixing this thing. I am 98% done with the coolant bypass. This will rid me of my idle surge and make idle soley controlled by the idle screw on the throttle body.
In the process of this I accidentally leaned on my pcv valve and snapped it off in the valvecover. I am in the process of removing that right now.
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I got the rest of the pvc valve out using an o-ring pick. I installed the new valve cover gasket, plugged the last coolant line, put the cover back on, put the new pcv valve in and now it runs great with no idle surge.
It idles at 500rpm which feels a little too low since it wants to shut off when I let off the clutch. I will adjust it up to 750rpm and she should be great.
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What does that get for MPG?
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@DrLeadFoot
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you go earl!
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Glad I got this back on the road only to have it ran back off today=/
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