What did you do to your Civic today? (II)

[123sillyboy123]

You got a link for those wheels? Love the look of them!

It is rays gramlight 57dr... was originally looking for volks TE37 but it is too expensive.

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[123sillyboy123]

Finally got my Acuity Instruments base bushings, shift linkage bushings, centercen spring and the type R shifter installed. Man oh man, does this feel SO much better. I highly, HIGHLY, recommend these to anyone who is on the fence about them. I can't wait for my next drive.

I am thinking between ctr shifter or buddy club...
Does ctr shifter offers shorter shifting? And does the knob sit any lower?
Acuity short shifter is too expensive so i am debate between above two.

 

[123sillyboy123]

I tinkered around with the stock air box to get some sound out of it. Ended up blocking off the silencer from the air box, then opened up the shroud on the air passage way. Resulted in a little hissing on the induction noise, and a very faint bpv release noise. Overall barely louder, but it's there.

Why not pull it all out and put in a short ram intake? It is relatively cheap and easy mod.

 

[Fanoflive]

I am thinking between ctr shifter or buddy club...
Does ctr shifter offers shorter shifting? And does the knob sit any lower?
Acuity short shifter is too expensive so i am debate between above two.

The TypeR shifter does have a shorter shift vs the stock. At a way better price than the Buddy Club. I am not knocking their product but at @$35 the TypeR shifter is a better deal.
For me, shifting from 1st to 2nd is like going from 1st to neutral on stock shifter. Add in the Acuity components and this thing feels solid.
The knob doesn't really sit any lower.

 

[123sillyboy123]

Put on PRL FMIC kit, and cobra CAI intake .. being a canadian civic, we have to work around to move the windshield reservoir from driver side to passenger side.. run more tube and wiring.. a pain in the butt but finally got my CAI done.
The car intake sounds so good now.

 

[123sillyboy123]

The TypeR shifter does have a shorter shift vs the stock. At a way better price than the Buddy Club. I am not knocking their product but at @$35 the TypeR shifter is a better deal.
For me, shifting from 1st to 2nd is like going from 1st to neutral on stock shifter. Add in the Acuity components and this thing feels solid.
The knob doesn't really sit any lower.

Yea.. that sounds great already ..
I do want the knob to sit abit lower, but really want to buy ctr shifter because of the price and shorter shift it offers...
Does the base bushing really make a different? It was like it just a aluminum nuts and thats all

 

[NHCivicGuy]

You painted them ?? Where did u paint them? With color?

I painted the bezels inside black. Like all Si and non-sport models, they were chrome before.

 

[Fanoflive]

Yea.. that sounds great already ..
I do want the knob to sit abit lower, but really want to buy ctr shifter because of the price and shorter shift it offers...
Does the base bushing really make a different? It was like it just a aluminum nuts and thats all

What you could do is look for a countersunk shift knob. It will screw down lower onto the shifter. That may be what I decide to do.
As far as the base bushing, YES, that makes that much of a difference. Stock is kinda like this with a solid core.

This allows flex or movement at the base of the shifter assembly while moving the shifter. The Acuity base bushing is solid and doesn't allow for movement.

 

[123sillyboy123]

I painted the bezels inside black. Like all Si and non-sport models, they were chrome before.

oh now you mention it, I do notice it.. do you have a result how it looks like when mounted on the car?

 

[NHCivicGuy]

oh now you mention it, I do notice it.. do you have a result how it looks like when mounted on the car?

Hopefully this weekend- swapped these headlights onto the car while I paint and retrofit the ones currently on the car.

Here is what the black headlights look like on the Sport models:

 

[n2da2nd]

Getting rid of those fake vents yesterday. More on them by the weekends

 

[Swank]

You just pry it loose. The plastic H backing will stay. Put the new one on top of it. There’s two pins in the middle that will break off and leave holes for you to put the new on in

Sorry, I meant the front Si logo, not the 'H'.

 

[_HatchED_]

Why not pull it all out and put in a short ram intake? It is relatively cheap and easy mod.

Because I'm not going that route yet. I'm enjoying as is for little bit. Only thing I really want to do is lower it a bit to hold me over till I'm ready to start doing more mods.

 

[keepitmoving]

I just drive it everyday. Still love it.

 

[NHCivicGuy]

Very busy day today. Had some spare headlights that I painted black swapped on. Will be retrofitting the original ones that were on the car, which will take a few weeks, so needed something to get by. They look awesome!

Installed the College Hill dual horn upgrade. Plug and play and sounds awesome. Nice and loud, not ashamed to use it now.

Swapped in the JL Audio C2-350x center speaker, with baffle and harness. Sounds even better now, and compliments the new Alpine tweeters and crossovers.

And finally installed the PRL Cobra Intake. Install was truly a pain doing it in my driveway with no ramps. Took me a bit to figure out the PRL tubing placement and getting mounts fitted. Lower stock box was actually super easy to remove for me up through the top. Couple twists here and there and it popped right out.

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