FE Challenge 10 - Summer 2010

It's a good spirit competition here.

 

Hey, Linux. How's your apache longbow doing anyway?

 

AS for Civic HX, it is doing better. =) I am learning ropes in that car.

 

Took my partial boat tail off. I don't think it made a difference. May have even hurt by a few mpg. ABA testing is the way to go, even if it's a pain to do the last "A" test (disassembly was not easy).

Looking at a 60mpg+ tank, which is, from my point of view, the mpg ceiling of my car in everyday driving, and probably wrong. I think it's closer to 50mpg.

We shall see . . . (evil laugh and hand movement)

 

This car is even more frustrating to fill up than the Prius with it's goofy bladder. I realize this was a short fill but it was in anticipation of a road trip to Cincinnati, OH and back. I had 408.7 miles and I practically physically assaulted the car and it absolutely refused to take more than 2.050 gallons of gas. I pretty much know what the next fill will be like, it will be about as insanely low as this one was high.

 

Yeah, it somehow doesn't seem as satisfying when I know it wasn't accurate.

 

Andrew, fork me, I am done for this competition.

I am beginning to think that my VTEC-E is NOT operating properly as it should. I need to speak with someone who currently own a HX car that runs VTEC-E to determine whether my 1st stage of 3 stages in VTEC-E is running properly or not. How can I communicate this to a auto repair to test throughly? My Service maintenance required orange indicator is showing.

 

The ECU has different ignition and fuel maps for each of the camshaft profiles. Whenever there's a mismatch between what it tries to load and what it gets, you have three seconds of horrible misfires followed by a Check Engine light. You don't, so you're fine.

I guess you could pop the valve cover and visually verify that the VTEC mechanism is in the correct position. *shrug*