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Are you fan less as well man you got so much going on in there, I have no fan on my radiator because there is no room but my radiator is 3x thicker then the OEM so I only gets warm in heavy traffic
So the story on the car..... let’s be honest this model is dirt cheap... and being my first car I wanted cheap parts and good gas mileage ( it gets 28 city and 35 highway,) When I first started modifying it I realized no one build this model and I didn’t know why you can not find how to boost this car on YouTube for some reason and I laughed so hard when I found a video and it had 2 parts and the second part of the video was never made. So then I was like man I have acquired so much knowledge on this car and people are pulling there hairs out trying to work on it ( if you found where to plug in the vacuum line by your self on the stock manifold +10 points to you) so I sought out the civic forums, I used them before to not much help so now that I know more I’m here to help
This is Oreo, a 2001 Honda Civic Lx this one I have had for 3 years boosted at 200,000 now at 295,678. Most of that coming from beating a delivery driver for 2 years. Has never really given me an issue except for the oil pan gaskets and burning oil before installing oil cooler( how to measure mpg on turbo civic before and after oil cooler. After: mpg of gas, before: Mpg of oil)
Nice, good looking car. You gonna go for more. There still is a lot of potential still there.
I just want this to be a daily, I this car has been done for a while, I just got “another” project car. This is now “the car” it has lost its project status
So first things first the biggest pain with this car is finding intercooling piping that will fit . The neck that connects to the manifold is part of the kit for this car, all the rest of the intercooling piping is from a 95 Acura integra kit that just happens to fit with a few modifications and to answer the question previously asked the ac will have to go it gets in the way of the piping theist is so little room and clearance in this car this 1/4 ratchet by titan is my new best friend
I live in NC, I have to have fans for A/C and cooling system. Car would definitely overheat.
so I just have heat it doesn’t really bother me too much and turning on hot air cools the engine because it’s all connected to the radiator via the heater core
Moving on to cooling I can 3 main things for cooling first a being radiator from Megan racing full side radiator it’s about 3x thicker than the stock I do not run my car has no fans but it does not over heat for 2 reasons first the radiator is 3x thicker( I think it’s a 4 or 6 core I think that means how many times it passes from One side to another before going back into the engine it snakes through the radiator) and the other being the thermostat, there are a variety of thermostats some that fail open so it won’t overheat I recommended them. Lesson on thermostats: most open at 180 degrees, but..... there are some thermostat that open at 170 degrees or even 160. Sooo... I have a 170 degree one so it opens earlier and at 180 degrees it’s open wider the the the stock one that open at 180. #OnlyThingsGuysThatWorkAtPartStoresKnow
Their is one huge problem with the stock radiator setup if your going to boost... the top radiator hose. Whenever you shift if you are all in it will create a vacuum and close in on itself. For the love of god find a straight piece of heater hose and fit it as snug as possible stretch it if you need too (stock hose in hand)
Getting something to eat when I get back I’ll talk about the other 2 cooling parts the oil cooler and the transmission oil cooler and how to and why whey are placed where they are
