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Paul Piotrowski at InspiredMoneyMaker.com is running A Crazy Blog Contest With a Big Twist and prizes worth well over $100. His Blog teaches people how to make money doing what you love and he’s come up with a really neat contest idea that takes cares of all the people who enter even if they don’t win this time. There are also Knock-Knock Jokes! ... Read More

The most common cause of Honda engines getting rebuilt is the infamous timing belt breaking. When your engine is running, the bottom half (block, crankshaft, and pistons) and top half (cylinder head, Valves, springs and retainers) are synchronized to make sure that the valves don't hit the pistons. When the timing belt breaks the top half (valve train) stops working and some valves maybe left in such a position that when the pistons comes back up to TDC (TOP DEAD CENTER) they make contact. The piston is much stronger then the valves so usually what happens is that the valves get bent in the valve guides and you may have a good mark left in the top of the piston from the valve head. If you would like to know more about this subject I found a great post at D-Series forums today that describes everything in detail. Click Here for link. ... Read More

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Go VTEC or Go Home has a new home now with two dedicated domain names www.wonderbart.com and www.TuneMyCivic.com. I'm going to have more pictures, lots of more content, an RSS Feed, and video's. So please come back and enjoy the blog. ... Read More

My Dad came over to my house today and checked out my fish tanks and gave me a few pointers on a couple things. Since he was over and I acquired a good amount of fish lately I decided to give him a bunch. I gave him one of my large plecos about 15 baby platies and 4 of my recent fish I got from Big Al's. He was nice enough to give me some fish when I was short on a number of occasions so I was glad to give him some of mine. ... Read More

I brought my heli to a birthday party today and got to show off my stuff. A friend of mine who was into RC trucks way before i got started with RC's was really interested in trying it out. So I flew it around for a bit to show him how it works and then handed over the remote and let him give it a try. He seemed to like it but was scared and didn't want to wreck it, so I got the remote back. I flew it again and this time got it really high, I would say around 80-100 feet which was almost too high for my liking but I wanted to see if it could go that high. ... Read More

Today during lunch at work I was really keen on buying a 6″ tuna sub and some chocolate chip cookies. I was on my way to my car when a good friend of mine insisted that I take his car and test it out for him. I wasn’t gonna take it at first but he insisted that I take it and let him know what I think of it since I am a honda guy.  He drives a green EG Civic Si Coupe that’s dropped about 1″ all the way around and looks nice with tint on the back windows. I drove it up to subway and back and noticed big differences between his car and mine. My D16 with VTEC defineatly excelleraties way faster and has more kick to it. My Si tranny is way easier to drive, because as long as I am rolling the car in traffic I can engage 2nd gear and start driving. Before with my old DX tranny I had to always start in 1st gear and I be around 60KM’s to engage 5th gear. His 5th gear revs around 1500RPM in 5th gear at 60KM where as mine revs about 1800RPM so it’s easier to shift into 5th at a lower speed. Besides that both our cars drive nice except on bumps, his 1″ drop springs are way ... Read More

I came home today and had a nice surpise my orange platy had new fry again. I estimate around 40-50 new fry(babies), 4 died in the first few hours but the rest seem to be doing good. ... Read More

I went out for a luncheon today in Richmond with my brother and a friend to meet some fellow bloggers. I met a bunch of interesting people including famous blogger John Chow and Yaro Starak. Once I came back home it was only 4pm and the weather wasn't to bad so I had a friend come over and help me out on the '95 civic project. Last week I found out that I had oil in the spark plug holes so today I decided I was going to clean them out. I pulled the spark plug wires out and used a syringe with a fish air hose at the end to suck out all the oil, then used bounty paper towels to soak up any excess oil at the bottom. You can see in the left picture the oil is almost covering the spark plug and in the middle picutre it shows one of the bad seals that caused this whole issue. The last picture shows the spark plug soaked with oil on the threads. Once I pulled the spark plugs out I let the small amount of excess oil at the botttom drip into the cylinder. I ... Read More

I got an email from Tower Hobbies the other day about some RC Heli and Plane competition and it had a few links to video's of last years competitors. Check out this crazy heli flying, it's just amazing how well this guy knows how to fly his heli. Click Here for video ... Read More

What can I say I like my turtles they are so cool to watch as they rip around in the tank looking on how to figure out how to score the next meal. Cocco and Rocco ... Read More

I recently noticed that when I upgraded my blogs to Wordpress 2.5, the text box widget seems to disappear everytime I click edit. I tried so many things but just got frustrated, but I searched on the web and found this great text plugin by Daiko. Click Here for link to page where you can download it. ... Read More

I saw Ironman on the weekend and it was worth the money. The movie starts with action and ends in action just the way I like it. I give it 8/10 rating. ... Read More

Saturday I opened up the hood of the D15 Civic and pressure washed the engine bay, but being careful not to spray water on the distributor. I covered the distributor with a rag and plastic bag to protect it. When I was done spraying it off I got my air compressor out and used compressed air to blow off any water around all electrical plugs and air hoses. I had a friend of mine helping me out so it went really fast and once I was done she asked what those black plugs on top of the valve cover were. I told her they were spark plug wires and that she could pull one out and look at the plug down below. She tried but was scared not to break anything so I pulled one out and then something caught me of guard. When I pulled the plug wire out of the valve cover hole it was full of oil! I said crap how did that get in there. From what I know the only way oil could be in there is from bad plug hole seals. I checked all the plug wires for all cylinders and they ... Read More

   Thursday I had a day off and did my long awaited oil change on my new engine, and this time it was with Pennzoil full synthetic motor oil. I used a regular oil filter because from what i've read it won't make a difference on my engine being a daily driver, if I was racing an INDY car then that's a whole other ball game. Synthetic oil is known for staying a consistant viscosity even in extreme cold and hot conditions, thats why it lubricats so well. It does the best job during cold engine starts and high reving, just as my 6500rpm VTEC engine. ... Read More