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Crankcase Venting Block venting is a topic that’s been well covered and doesn’t need further explanation by me. If you want to read a great write-up about venting, check out…

Why is this important? It really isn’t…I just thought I would share the idea. While I was working on the upgrades that I outlined in “Project Civic – Letting it…

Interior Swap – Why? Simple answer: I couldn’t stand the color. If the 240 hadn’t fallen in my lap, I would not have considered buying it because of the color.…

Discussion: Direct replacement parts don’t tend to generate a great deal of excitement. It’s not a turbo or a fancy set of coil-overs. Most people don’t think about half shafts…

Justification Following the 2016 refresh and having addressed all of the stumbling blocks I encountered, I realized that I needed to develop a long term plan based on how I…

Once upon a time, circa 2000, I set out to do what would be the biggest automotive project I had done to date. I swapped the engine in my Civic…

As anyone who has tried to mix and match parts has discovered, trying to figure out Nissan’s part numbers and the variations between years and models is a serious exercise…

I had originally intended this story to be covered in one post. However, I ran into several issues that needed to be resolved from the original work along with a…

During the 2015 autocross season, I started to see the impact that 22 years of use had on random components on the Civic. As the season wore on, I found more…

The time I spent with my 240SX was short and long ago, however I think the story is important to share. I say this because the work I did on…

(This write-up was originally written and published in 2006) After a long weekend at Putnam Park Raceway in Indiana, I realized that my hatch needed a far more aggressive suspension.…

I’m kicking off a new series of posts with this write-up and the idea is to outline seemingly invisible parts on a car that are normally not considered normal wear…

Race, Race Race! This was the year that I really came back to autocrossing. After I destroyed my Civic coupe in late 2002, I hadn’t felt comfortable racing. I attended…

After I installed the upgraded power plant, covered here, it was time to sort out the suspension. Since the Civic already had upgraded springs and shocks, I decided to focus on bushings…

Upgrading the sway bars, or simply installing sway bars is a very cost effective way to drastically improve the handing of any car. I’ve outlined the installation of Eibach’s sway…

Long ago, on a Honda email list serve, I met Greg. He was a fellow Honda enthusiast. The first time we ever met in person (in the late ’90’s), after…

One thing that always bothered me about my ’07 Civic Si was the fact that it was almost impossible to shift quickly at redline without grinding or missing gears. To…