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Recently I've seen more tuned owners here posting their mod list which includes a BOV. There's no need at this point to go into a long explanation as to why they aren't good for our cars. Instead this picture says all you need to know about BOVs... Public Service Announcement: An important...

Last year SynthCarbon released real carbon fiber shark fin antenna overlays. At the time they were the only seller I knew of making these. And even though I heard some negatives about the company --- things like them basically just selling AliExpress type Chinese stuff, I placed my order. And...

I've been working on getting rid of the window chrome for a while now. I'm embarrassed to say but I actually bought 3 different chrome delete vinyl kits and all three were a fail. I suck at vinyl plain and simple. I decided on one more idea. I purchased a set of metal overlays that would cover...

I pop by the showcases here once in a while to see what people's builds are looking like. Today I found a build so amazing and so unusual that I felt it was worthy of it's own thread. I've never seen anything like it. The amount of work that went into is is borderline ridiculous!! Wow...

Since my tuned CivicX experience and reliability thread is sort of "hard to find", from time to time it's important for me (and for the community) to refresh people's memories. Back in 2019 we had a rash of members here saying "If you tune, your car will blow up". "It's stupid to tune a CVT...

Well it's been a good run with my Cosmic Blue 10th gen. Overall it's a great car made better by tuning. I'll be sticking around to keep my tuning thread going because I feel like it's important for the community. Don't forget to add your tuned car or add a new update post (shameless plug...

Happy tuning anniversary to me. Technically I'm celebrating a week early here but close enough. :cool: Six years ago I was going back and forth on whether I should tune my 10 month old car. You know the drill. Worries about warranty and worries about blowing the engine and/or transmission...

First, a disclaimer. This info is based on the entries in my tuning experience and reliability thread. It's not scientific but I think it's worthwhile for a discussion. Early on we were under the impression that that Si and Non-Si rods were different. But as it turned out that was only...

Sucks ass basically. We've been lucky around my area for a couple years but this week's been a mess. Got about 8 inches of snow on Monday and another 6 coming tomorrow. Nighttime temps barely out of the teens and daytime temps in the mid-20's. High winds gusting to 50. I haven't washed my car...

Will your tuned 10th gen Civic experience be a success or a fail? There's essentially four factors IMO: 1. What tune you run. 2. How you drive your car. 3. How you maintain your car. 4. How many (and what) bolt ons you have. The tune you run Failure rates OTS: 2.4% Base: 3.8% Custom: 7.1%...

I've tried blacking out my chrome window trim several times. I've used pre-cut kits and vinyl that I've cut to size. Unfortunately there are two problems... 1. I'm a perfectionist when it comes to my mods. 2. My attempts turned out pretty good but, not perfect. Did I mention the #1 problem...

So the other day, going to work on a foggy, dark morning at 5AM, a deer decided running across a highway off ramp was a good idea. Luckily my brakes and reaction time were good enough that beside the scare, no harm was done. Fast forward to just now. I decided since traffic was fairly light it...

Tuning is a big part of the 10th gen experience. With the majority of the models being turbos, there are impressive gains in power and driveability to be found. There's even a tune available for the naturally aspirated models. A little over four years ago, I started a thread to not only...

Let's get this out of the way. I'm older than most people here, so there's that. I've always been considered someone who will give the shirt off their back and likes to help others. I've been called one of a kind. The proverbial "nice guy". The voice of reason. I don't know if this is just me...

This will be a long read. Skip it if that's boring to you. :cool: Back when I bought my EX-L sedan in May 2017, I wanted something a little more substantial than the stock baby lip. Honda had two accessory spoilers available --- a wing one I didn't care for and a decklid lip spoiler that was...

Hopefully this will help people looking to tune their car. The reason I'm creating this thread is that time after time so many people tune with almost no knowledge of what to expect when they tune beyond "it'll make me go faster". The threads, info and tutorials below are really good tuning...

Over the years, I've spend more money on modding cars than I'd want to admit. Tens of thousands of dollars. From Amazon to Ebay to Aliexpress and of course aftermarket vendors. When a problem crops up, most aftermarket vendors are pretty good about correcting things. On the other hand...

I tuned my car pretty much after just driving 5-6,000 miles and have been tuned now for 30,000+ miles. Pretty much a baby in terms of needing to change spark plugs but it's a cheap enough maintenance mod, so why not, right? I've changed plenty of spark plugs in my time but nothing prepared me...

For the most part when people talk about unusually high knock control numbers, we talk about gas. And for the most part octane does play a huge role in keeping knock control stable. Recently, I've seen numerous posts from people living in hot places like Florida commenting on high knock control...

The other day a member here made the blanket statement "small turbos kill engines" which I thought was a bit over the top. So I wanted to take a closer look at my tuning reliability thread's engine failures specifically. I have a few conclusions: First, the typical owner just adding a tune with...