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interesting... i wonder why it says it's only for 2 doors?? I'm all for heating up the car quicker for more reasons than oil dilution. it's better on virtually ANY car to start from hotter temps.

Forget what I said back then. The definitive solution is in my last comment. But in regards to leaving the cap off, I found that while leaving it all open did in fact allow fuel to vaporize and separate from the oil, we're talking weeks/months of time. Not practical, as the true solution seems...

(nearly 2 year) Update: So as an owner of a 2018 August produced 6 speed sport hatch who has NOT gotten the software update (the stupid one that makes the engine rev to like 2000rpm upon cold start.) ans now lives a solid 15+ miles away from work (as opposed to less than 3 miles before). I can...

You just want valves to be in the range the factory provided. If you just tighten the tolerances too much, especially with these engines that have phasing on both ends that could cause major problems. Valve tolerance is also there to accommodate the different metals at their varying rate of...

so good you posted. I copied and printed. It will stay with me in the glove box lol

Someone should edit the first post to include MILES/KMS per adjustment... I too am always finding old ass 2008 civic adjustment manual PDFs or Honda fit stuff. Never 1.5t. I just want the 1.5T WHEN: (Miles, Kilometers per service) Valve clearances: WHAT SUPPLIES: It seems impossible to...

If i were you i'd find a race shop somewhere in vegas that is well schooled with AFRs and tuning. just try to absorb as much of an understanding as you can from them. Being that it's cold right now, STP booster or not, it's hard to tell if it did much of anything because you're already boosted...

No. Last time I was in vegas (2017), E85 stations were hard to find as well. did find one within a 10 mile radius of summerlin though. Might just be your "ritual". If you don't wanna do that, I highly suggest you look into Torco. that IS a real octane booster. the ones at the gas...

This statement isn't true at all. While Honda hid their turbo cars from the west in general, they've made turbo cars for over 30 years in Japan (with hundreds of thousands of miles of reliability and success in all forms of transportation). Like all things "good", we just never got them until...

I started with a practical experiment like this. Another idea was to remove the oil cap after a long drive since it's got a much larger area for the heated oil/fuel vapors to escape. The head has lots of surface area where the hot and thoroughly mixed fluid has been distributed to all the nooks...

Don't see what's hard to understand. The book says 10, I do it every 3 except my very first oil change. Again, there are many reasons the manual might tell you to change it later, to whose benefit though is to be determined, I have my reservations on that one and what I'm doing won't hurt me. If...

Thanks. I actually sent my oil sample (the one i did the experiment on) to blackstone for fun to see what they'd find (surely the results would appear catastrophic!) can't wait to see them. I'll also send one in 1500 miles from my vehicle. I'm close to my next oil change. Driving an mx5 at the...

And that's definitely not happening haha, that's a 2+ hour ordeal on an average day. A couple assumptions being made here. I don't adhere to the owners OCI. In fact, I do it every 3000 miles (the first one I waited to a little over 7000 before I caved), my work schedule and time windows simply...

I can vouch for this statement. The flywheel on an extremely tiny engine like the 1.5 is so heavy to compensate for the small rotating assembly (for good gas mileage etc) that the 6 speed manual and it's ratios just feel rather clumsy. You have rev hang, a restrictively short 1st gear and it's...

Thanks. Above all else, I did it for fun. I understand that indoor and outdoor temperatures vary. I also live in a tropical climate that never sees extreme temperature fluctuations (average 65 - 85 F all year long. 75-80 F 90% of the year). However, when I said "indoors" I meant my shop, which...

It's always good to challenge data and ask questions, just as I have done - which is why I did the experiment in the first place. I realise that these tests have their flaws and the environment I conduct it all in will greatly change my results and won't determine whether said results will apply...

cold metal retracts. exterior hardware is no exception. nonetheless once everything is warmed up and expanded, it should be minimized.

read my recent post if you feel it will be detrimental to longevity.

The first thing that came to mind after reading this forums' and the webs' countless threads of woe and uncertainty was the simple question of "wouldn't you be able to just vent it off while the car isn't running?" So I have taken a scientific approach to deal with the inherent fuel oil dilution...

To those people who were wondering why an Si Conrod would be cheaper than that of the 1.5t L15b7 in all the others. Well that answer is rather simple if you know your logistics. As you know, Hatchbacks are exclusively built in England (Designed in Japan - built in Swindon - Shipped worldwide.)...