with the help of a haynes, a bit of prior accord experience, these boards and the search button, my new ishino head gasket is firmly in place along with valve cover, exhaust and oil pan gaskets and new upper and lower honda oem radiator hoses, clips and radiator cap! no more coolant in the oil and everything fired right up and drives nice. the block and head passed the flatness test by a close but tolerable margin! i set the valve clearances, got the base idle AND the base ignition timing set and she sounds wonderful! the only problem: a very minor leak (very likely due to a crack) on the upper radiator hose stem. i'm going to replace it very soon.
homer: half chihuahua half terrier. my partner in crime (and repair)
now on to the goods! if any of you have seen my introduction post, you'll know i used to have a '97 accord and i did a few mods to it in the six years i owned it lol! from that car i still had this: an OG triple O-G tanabe sustec front strut bar! not that red and black nonsense you see these days. just a clean, polished bar (that needs re-polishing after sitting for a few years) and the dark blue powder coated ends. all it needed was some width adjustment and she went right on! with the dx only having the oem front sway bar, there is much to address in the suspension department. since this was already in my garage, it was a no-brainer to start here! feels a lot less insecure on the highways!
thanks to all of you who have answered all the questions that i searched. thanks also to those of you who asked the questions in the first place! and a special thanks goes to the write-up folks! fifteen days into owning my cb7 and i'm loving every second of it!
homer: half chihuahua half terrier. my partner in crime (and repair)
now on to the goods! if any of you have seen my introduction post, you'll know i used to have a '97 accord and i did a few mods to it in the six years i owned it lol! from that car i still had this: an OG triple O-G tanabe sustec front strut bar! not that red and black nonsense you see these days. just a clean, polished bar (that needs re-polishing after sitting for a few years) and the dark blue powder coated ends. all it needed was some width adjustment and she went right on! with the dx only having the oem front sway bar, there is much to address in the suspension department. since this was already in my garage, it was a no-brainer to start here! feels a lot less insecure on the highways!
thanks to all of you who have answered all the questions that i searched. thanks also to those of you who asked the questions in the first place! and a special thanks goes to the write-up folks! fifteen days into owning my cb7 and i'm loving every second of it!
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