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What I know and have experienced does not bode well with teaching someone to drive these cars. It'll probably be fine after you wear it back in but man that sounds like a bad day lol
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Update #3
Good news,
After talking to a couple different people, I realized I didn't change some settings in the ethanol tune. To be specific disabling the ECT sensor. Which caused the cars fan not to turn on when it got hot. This was the issue. If anyone is installing the sirimoto flex fuel kit, remember to disable two sensors before flashing to the car. I'll leave the thread up for anyone needing this as a reference in the future. Thanks for everyones input!
Sounds like you owe your GF some thanks for bringing to light your mod error before it did too much damage with normal driving.
 

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You always want to get out of 1st gear. I'd also have a peak at the coolant temperature sensor as a precaution.
Yeah, def not enough air passing thru them radiator fins bud :thumbsup:

Not speaking about your girl specifically, but if any person in general cant prevent from stalling after about 15-20 minutes tops!!! They just may not be cut out for this life HAHAH :rofl: J/K lol
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What you were doing in the Car Park, is no different to congested rush hour city driving.


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I did not agree, try first gear at 3,000 rpm you see it is not like you may drive in a congested street. Engine is very very noisy
You may not have a Civic with MT ? I have.

OP write ; " I was wondering if this was due to driving in first gear during 15-20 min in 3k or so rpms? "

We know now it was a mod issue.
 
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Sounds like you owe your GF some thanks for bringing to light your mod error before it did too much damage with normal driving.
For reals man, maybe a quick spin in a final properly calibrated ethanol tune? Haha but yea I agree with you
 


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Update #3
Good news,
After talking to a couple different people, I realized I didn't change some settings in the ethanol tune. To be specific disabling the ECT sensor. Which caused the cars fan not to turn on when it got hot. This was the issue. If anyone is installing the sirimoto flex fuel kit, remember to disable two sensors before flashing to the car. I'll leave the thread up for anyone needing this as a reference in the future. Thanks for everyones input!

Good you find the issue.

What is next you may forget ? Or some people on forum who do mods ?
I never or I will never do a mod on my car or buy a car with some mod. I don't mean cosmetic mod
 
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Good you find the issue.

What is next you may forget ? Or some people on forum who do mods ?
I never or I will never do a mod on my car or buy a car with some mod. I don't mean cosmetic mod
If you're asking,what will I forget next?
It was indeed a mistake on my part, first time making a mistake. There's always a first right? However I do , do my research and make sure i don't just mess my car up. There is always a risk when modding a car, but with proper research and install, you can still be confident in having a proper set up.
 

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Glad you solved the problem. I know the party is over but I wanted to add I had the opposite effect. I have ktuner and tsp flex fuel kit. When plugging the flex fuel kit into rad and NOT disabeling the ect sensor in tune (same problem you originally had) it causes my fan to always run. Even in acc mode fan will always be on in my case.
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