hi

[rawze]

just found this sight and just wanted to say hi. i'm 43 disabled from the army and live in maryville, tn. i have a 97 civic ex coupe with the d16y8. so far i have done header, took the cat off, replaced the muffler, cai, good tune up and little things like that. i have had this car for a year and love it. bought it for $3000 and its like new inside and out. it's an automatic and pretty quick for what it is. i dont know if anything has been done to it in the past but i find it unusual that sometimes it will bark when it shifts from a dead stop. it has 134k miles on it but runs real good. i have done a complete timing belt kit, replaced the front brakes with everything and run royal purple in it. thinking about maybe going a little bigger with the throttle body next. any way just wanted to say hi and look forward to looking through the site.

rick

 

[R3dline]

hi rick, welcome to the site man!, glad to have you on board, post up some pics of your car

 

[tx07civicsi]

Hi welcome to the site im new to this site also and in the Army also. Can't wait to see the pics of your ride.

 

[rawze]

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not sure how to put my pics up that i have. i like my civic but it's nothing compared to some of the ones i see on here. man there are some nice ones here

 

[R3dline]

lol yah there are some nice cars on this site man, upload your pics to photobucket.com, probally will have to make a account, (its free), anyways, upload them to there, then get the (img) code, post the img code in the quick reply box on here and your done

 

[rawze]

throttle body

so far with what i have done and by the way the car runs amazing. would it be worth while to upgrade the throttle body from the stock 56 (i believe is whats on it) to a 65mm or 68 or should i just leave whats on it? im not looking for a race car just some extra ponies


rick

 

[R3dline]

nah, if i was you id leave it alone, you dont have any mods that would call for you to have a bigger throttle body. with your car being auto, its just not gonna be as powerful feeling as you want. if it was a 5 speed car you would have alot more fun driving it, and feel like its got a lil more pep

 

[XpL0d3r]

Covert from auto to manual. That's what we did on my car, and it was the BEST thing I've done to my car. Even better than the turbo

 

[rawze]

auto/manual

i pretty much have to drive an auto being on disability. cant push a clutch

 

[97civicMan]

Welcome!!! There are some good guys on here that are very helpful R3dline5.0 is one of them.