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  1. Six Years Tuned

    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...
  2. Let's talk about the hatchback rod failures

    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...
  3. Winter sucks

    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...
  4. Is your tuned Civic set up for success?

    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%...
  5. My chrome delete adventures

    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...
  6. What a week! @#$&

    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...
  7. If you're tuned or considering tuning, READ THIS.

    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...
  8. What has happened to people?

    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...
  9. Keeping it Stock+ (my spoiler saga)

    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...
  10. 10th Gen Tuning Basics

    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...
  11. Sometimes you get a good one

    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...
  12. Adventures in Ruthenium

    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...
  13. Summer heat, high IATs and high knock control

    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...
  14. Thirty tuned engine failures

    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...
  15. Tuning - The nut behind the wheel

    I think it's safe to say that beyond going for ultimate power the other wild card in tune reliability is the driver. Honestly, the nut behind the wheel may be the biggest factor. I mean, it's obvious that full bolt-on, high power ethanol customs put the most potential stress on the drivetrain...
  16. Will your tuned car fail?

    Let's take a look at the 40 major failures in my tuned reliability thread with some cliff notes from me. How concerned should you be that your tuned car will fail? 1. A car had a failed CVT (replaced under warranty). Possible factory defect 2. A car had a blown head gasket on a base +9 Hondata...
  17. Looking for more tuned Type R's to join in

    I started and have been running the community's tuning experience and reliability thread for nearly 4 years. Basically the idea is to see how tuning effects the reliability of our 10th gens and for people to showcase their car and their tune experiences. Right now we have 106 Type R's in the...
  18. A note to the tuning "haters"

    There are still a fair amount of people who post that tuning will cause a disaster. That tuning is a big mistake. That tuning an "economy car" like the Civic is in essense, stupid. It's one of the reasons I feel like we need as many tuned owners in my tuning experience thread as possible. We...
  19. Adventures in car repair

    My car battery was six years old and was shot. I was due for an oil change too so I figured I'd get the battery from the dealer. Made an appointment for the battery, oil change and to see if they could drill out a broken airbox bolt (done by a local mechanic and a story for another day). So I...
  20. Really interesting development from Phearable

    I got an email from @phearable yesterday and it was quite the eye opener. Basically, they will be offering customers a revision to their existing OTS tune to be more dialed in to their specific mod setups. It's not a true custom tune by any means but it certainly should mean even better...


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