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Re: Building up Miyuki (a.k.a. Josh's mod progress thread)
Already got KTuner. I don't think I'ma switch any time in the foreseeable future.
KTuner and hondata flashpro both have their merrits, seems like KTuner has a bit more versatility and more aftermarket support (e.g. 3rd party e-tunes) but hondata has CARB certification on one of theirs. I couldn't care less about CARB certification.
With the CVT, gotta be a bit more careful. MTs apparently have a +9psi tune (23psi) whereas the CVT they cap it at +6psi (21psi). Estimated whp for the 21psi is about 210whp, even on the CVT. I can attest that my +6psi tuned sport hatch is faster than a stock Si coupe (rated at 205bhp)
Re: Building up Miyuki (a.k.a. Josh's mod progress thread)
What's this?
Raceseng? Don't they make those purdy but spendy shift *****..? That's some fancy packaging, laser cut foam and ****...
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But... Miyuki's rocking a CVT Josh.. What you getting at...?
I'M FANCY AF MOTHERFORKERS
It came in, guys, and I couldn't be happier. My unecessarily spendy raceseng ****. On a CVT. lol. I teased it in a DIY guide (that I will finish when I make V2.0)
A 3D cutaway the apparatus I fabbed up to make a MT shift **** work on the CVT is like this:
Basically, a 14mm ID stop collar at the bottom, a spring to keep upwards tension, and a sleeve (made of carbon fiber, in this case) that bolts to the shift **** adapter and limits up and down travel (to keep the shift **** from flying off). Simple, right? It was a bit of an ordeal, but I had committed to the fabrication at that point. I'll update my AT to MT shift **** DIY thread so you can read all about it. This isn't the place to discuss that. This is to admire it. lol.
I went with a gold core because my color theme in my car is red/grey/black with a little bit of gold. It was inadvertent that my favorite sports teams (Vegas Golden Knights and SF 49ers) and Marvel superhero (I am Iron Man) kinda match that color scheme, but I can always claim the OG Mugen colors, too, as they were red, black, and gold, as well. Grey just bc my car is dark grey.
Re: Building up Miyuki (a.k.a. Josh's mod progress thread)
Dude, the **** is solid. Feels great in hand. The black is made of delrin, so zero heat retention. It can also double as a weapon. lol. Thing weighs like a pound
Re: Building up Miyuki (a.k.a. Josh's mod progress thread)
UPDATE TIME!
Yesterday marks the... 4th retrofit I've done? One on some EM2 TYCs (then replaced with a much more pro version I bought from another member), one on some EM2 OEM third-party replacements, one on my buddy's EJ6, and now a set of FK7 headlights. I never would have guessed that they would make it easier to retrofit headlights than the Morimoto Mini H1's into H4 headlights, but lo and behold, TRS did it again. I'll post a mini-DIY below, complete with parts list. I planned on starting the retrofit at like.. 10AM, but it was cold and windy, and I pussed out. It warmed up a little at like noon, and decided to pull the trigger on doing it. I finished up and preliminarily aimed around 6PM (bc I had to let roomie borrow the oven for her cookies). I'm still rocking that preliminary aiming job bc.. well, I'll get to it in the mini DIY. I also took this opportunity to black out the chrome bezels using Rustoleum semi-gloss paint+primer black from Home Depot. I rushed it a bit with 2 heavier-than-I-should-have coats and got a little bit of running, but you'd have to be looking hard af to see that and any other paint imperfections. Damn the wind. when people opened the garage door. lol. But I digress. Anyways, PICS! The teaser from post 67 Driver's side. Stupid reflections.. Passenger side. You can actually see the chrome v black on this one. After preliminary aiming. Might be some slight rotational misalignment, but not enough for me to care about busting them open and fixing it. Not nearly as bad as my EM2 did when I installed those. I'll touch on why that is down in the DIY portion. That, and in the DIY, I'll explain why I'm content with just the preliminary aiming job I did.
DIY guide on retrofitting a 10thgen! <----CLIIIIIIIICK
For real, if you're performing a retrofit, you either have to be crazy enough to dive right into it, have a bit of an idea of what you're doing, or a combination of both. Hence why I'm not making a dedicated DIY for this. I mean, I might, but.. okay. I might. OKAY! I will. Geez y'all are pushy. I'm still gonna post here because I already committed to it. Or I'll just link it. I'll just link it.
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Re: Building up Miyuki (a.k.a. Josh's mod progress thread)
Mmm.. visory.. I got these visors from ProCivic.com. PRO Design MG-style (Mugen style, for the uninitiated). I was on the fence about getting window visors bc a) I was "eh" on the look of Honda accessory/style visors and b) didn't really feel like spending $300 on genuine Mugen ones. Also read so-so reviews on the $40 ebay mugen style ones. Then read better reviews on the OEM style procivic ones, but was still on the fence since, well, OEM style. THHEEEEENNN, randomly viewing their product page for the visors (since I kept going back and forth) and saw "MG style" ones for the hatch for $82 shipped. Realized I was gonna buy them at that point so I ordered 'em.
Pros:
They look good. Well crafted
Tint on them is a nice black tint, as opposed to some purple or green hued ones you may see out there.
Install was a breeze. Only took me like 15-20 minutes
Cons:
Install is only 3M tape, compared to OEM/OEM style which uses 2 in-channel clips and 3M tape. Took her out for a test drive on the freeway almost immediately after install to see how sturdy the install was. Got her up to 80 and tested it out with varying degrees of window level, and when I went to go fill my gas tank after all that driving, they showed no signs of budging.
Curvature on the fronts seemed off when I first did a dry fit. Laying the back end of the visor, the front was about an inch off target. Actually wasn't bad when it came to install, though. I laid down the top edge and let it "curl in" a little, then flattened it down. There didn't seem to be enough tension on it to make it want to spring off any time soon, nor did it look like it was forced on.
The length on the rears seems a hair short. There's about a 3/16" "gap" on the for and aft ends of the visor if I have it centered on the door. You can see that "gap" on the 2nd picture. It's only noticeable if you're looking for it.
They have some dumb looking metal badges on the aft end of the fronts. Notice they're not on mine, however. They're only attached with a mild adhesive and I was able to get them off with the aid of a plastic spudger (cell phone repair tool). Some rubbing alcohol and a bit of rubbing with my finger and it's like they were never there.
Re: Building up Miyuki (a.k.a. Josh's mod progress thread)
You know what the best thing is about sharing a chassis with the FK8 Civic Type R? FK8 Civic Type R chassis parts fit. Case in point, I have an FK8 rear sway bar that was a direct drop in on my OEM endlinks. Furthermore, the FK8 has a front subframe brace installed from the factory, whereas the FK7 doesn't. Well, fun fact, the threaded mounting points are there on the FK7, and, if I recall correctly, the Si coupe and sedan. I'm unsure if the the non-Si coupes and sedans are threaded, but has the holes for it. Also, one guy did the install on an EX-T sedan. I vaguely recall one model not having the threaded holes. I'll update this post if I find any validity on that.
Here's another cool thing about the brace: I paid $28.17 shipped from Majestic Honda for the brace and the two bolts. With the brace installed, steering response has improved, and it feels... sportier, to say the least. Mind blowing change? No. Noticeable change? Definitely so, especially if you're like any other driving enthusiast out there and you're attentive to how your car handles, especially after driving it for 2 years. The best quotes I saw on civicx about the brace install:
Car feels more planted and steering more responsive; feels like a Type R in Sport Mode (steering). Most satisfying $25 upgrade.
Now, I've never driven an FK8, much less in sport mode, but I can agree with the rest of the quote.
This brace shined at highspeed sweeping turns. It didnt increase corning speed like maybe a sway bar would. It doesnt increase the "limit" of the car. It does, however, make finding the limit and riding it much easier. The car felt settled much sooner during turn in and made holding a line much less work.
I can agree with the finding the limit part, and yet to be on any long sweeping highway parts. Will have to try that out at some point. There's one good one I like to push the limits of my car on whenever I head that way. Now, unfortunately, I didn't take any pics during install because a) I forgot bc I was using my phone to play the Golden Knights game and b) seeing how simple the install was, I didn't feel the need to take DIY pics. I managed to take one shitty pic after I had installed everything, It's really the only clean black metal in the area, but kinda hard to see, so I outlined it for you
Re: Building up Miyuki (a.k.a. Josh's mod progress thread)
First addition in a while, but nothing major. Pre-ordered a shift boot collar from Raceseng back in November, and it finally got to me today (they did state they were shooting for Feb delivery time frame).
For those of you asking wtf the difference is.. It's the black ring under the **** and above the shift boot
Re: Building up Miyuki (a.k.a. Josh's mod progress thread)
lol too rich for my blood. $1500 for the snail, though 27won is releasing new bigger "drop in" W2 snail, then like $300-500 custom tuning required on top of it.
I'm not going for huge power with this next mod. I'm getting the Phearable tune, CVT safe, 3 maps - 18psi tune, 21psi tune, 24psi tune, all with torque limitations below 4000-4500 for CVT safety. All the real-world reviews I've seen said it pulls hard, even in comparison to the starter 21psi tune from KTuner. Dyno (granted, MT bc it's hard asf to dyno a CVT) puts it at about the 220whp mark for the non-si (stock is in the realm of 170whp, ktuner 21psi at around 205whp), and 245tq (for CVT tune, 268 for MT tune) with peak torque around 3500rpm.
Not a huge gain over what I have now, but who am I to decline a tune for a belated Christmas present from one of my best friends. I apparently won Christmas because all of her kids/stepkids' favorite gifts were all from me. Her and her husband's gifts also made their eyes light up like they were kids on christmas again.. just in their 30s. lol
Re: Building up Miyuki (a.k.a. Josh's mod progress thread)
Well, I didn't take pics bc I suck, and I was trying to get this done quickly, but a couple weeks ago, I nabbed a set of 10thgen Si springs. According to Vincent, the owner of 27WON, they are a direct fit to the hatch. I was on the fence of buying them new from Majestic Honda, then this dude on CivicX offered a set for sale for $30 picked up, and this dude lives 10 miles from me. Damn right I snagged those. The fronts were a bit of a bitch, and one of the strut mounting bolts decided to yeet itself into the abyss. Luckily, I have a **** ton of grade 10+ fasteners in my tool box, and found a flanged nut that fit perfectly. I legit spent an hour searching for that damn thing, pulled off damn near every splash panel I could, looked around all the moving parts, and nothing. Just. Nowhere to be found. In any case, took me about an hour for the front passenger side, 15 minutes for the front driver's side (because I did it second and knew exactly wtf I was doing at that point), and like 10 minutes each for the rears. Holy **** those rear springs are easy as hell to drop. Literally the 17mm bolt that attaches the control arm to the knuckle, the 12mm bolt that connects the sway bar endlink, and it pops right out. Well, I supported it with a jack so it didn't spring open like a jack-in-the-box. I will say, the drop isn't quite noticeable. The springs are physically about an inch or so shorter than the OEM Sport hatch springs, but they also have a higher spring rate.
OEM FK7 Sport springs: 126lb/in front, 158lb/in rear
OEM Si springs (~0.4"/~10mm drop compared to OEM FK7): 144lb/in front, 208lb/in rear
18lb/in increase in the front, 50lb/in increase in the rear. It is definitely noticeable in the *** end.
Re: Building up Miyuki (a.k.a. Josh's mod progress thread)
Alrighty then kids, another installment of "Josh said he initially wasn't going to mod this one then does anyways".. I purchased a third party tune from Phearable.net. Here's the dyno they have on their site from an MT non-Si
***I am in no way affiliated with Phearable. I'm just posting these links in case anyone wants to try them out or research them on their own.*** Here's a link to the tune I purchased. It's a $200 tune, and it's been on sale for $120 for about a month now. There's also GOD (gurgles on demand)-mode variants of all of the tunes which makes your car make those aggressive pop and gurgle sounds everyone seems to love. I like my fuel economy and I have a stock cat, so I'm not about to take that route. It's also an extra $80 (normally extra $100), so yeah, not about that life.
and the estimated change for the CVT tune
I can feel the dampened throttle down low, almost like I have to push the pedal down a bit more than normal to get the desired result. It really makes [map 3 - 24psi] very daily drivable. It's really there to protect the CVT. As you can see on the projected dyno, John Vega limited torque to below 250ft-lbs (estimating around 245ft-lbs), which is the supposed upper limit of the CVT. WHP on this tune tops off at the same 220hp as the MT tune. On top of that, acceleration, down low and up high are stupid smooth. Once I get in the 3000RPM range, man this thing pulls. I don't drive around all Speed Racer style like I used to back when I was in my 20s, but this tune makes this car that much more fun.
Re: Building up Miyuki (a.k.a. Josh's mod progress thread)
More aero today. In today's installment, I ditched the OEM upper spoiler and slapped on some OEM FK8 vortex generator winglet thingies (upper tailgate garnish, so Honda calls them) on my hatch. And no, they're not replicas, they're genuine Honda OEM
Peep the part number. And yes, I tossed the website's sticker in there on purpose. These things have a list price of $211 each and these came from Japan via jdmyamato.com at $35 each with $29 shipping. Just under $100 shipped from Japan for the pair. And yes, they have Honda stamps on the underside. I placed the order on Jan 28 and got them in just over a week later. More impressively, they left Osaka, Japan on Feb 3, and got to my doorstop on Feb 5th. About as close to overnighting parts from Japan as I can get
Install was a breeze, literally a minute per side to install. Uninstallation of the OEM wing took some brute force, but still took less than 2 minutes. The OEM spoiler is held on by 2 10mm bolts and 4 black clip things that don't like to come out. In fact, they broke on the way out. Luckily, the winglets come with new clips and grommets and install of these were literally reverse of removal. Now I just have to get either the FK8 spoiler or the UKDM Type R Sportline spoiler and the little vortex generators to finish out the look. I'll just grab some adhesive replicas for the smaller bits.
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Re: Building up Miyuki (a.k.a. Josh's mod progress thread)
So, last week, washed my car. A few days later, drove through a small wet patch of road. Got to work and saw the entire side of my car covered in road ****. Been dancing around the idea of buy either OEM Sport hatch splash guards or Rally Armor mud flaps. Well, I went with the latter. They're expensive bitches (MSRP is like $157), but Amazon had them for $20 cheaper than MSRP, so I grabbed some black with red logo ones. Install takes about an hour, fairly straightforward. Mind the shitty pics. It rained for a minute, and the sun decided to poke its head in the worst spot to take pics. lol
Re: Building up Miyuki (a.k.a. Josh's mod progress thread)
I bend over to make sure my as... OOHHH keeping the car clean. Gotcha.
I mean, I almost died squatting 215 (my 6 rep max is 250) all because I decided it was a good idea (spoiler alert -- it wasn't) to look at my knees to make sure my form was good. Instead my body weight shifted backwards as my upper body went forwards with 215 on the back of my neck. Definitely almost went full shrimp
Re: Building up Miyuki (a.k.a. Josh's mod progress thread)
I spilled a can of Red Bull in Miyuki, and something happened....
So, for the longest time, I've been eyeing the [expletive deleted] out of the UKDM Civic Type R Sportline spoiler (pic for reference). It's an FK8 spoiler that's not so much *BAM* in your face, and quite frankly, not very commonly seen in the US since, well, UKDM. I found a source on CivicX and dude was selling them at $650 shipped stateside (full lower spoiler direct replacement, no drilling, no tape). I thought that was a bit steep back then, so I held off (plus I had other financial obligations). Well, late 2020, Honda Europe damn near doubled the price, and dude is now importing the spoiler (again, full replacement) for $1200! Nah bruh. I'm not that rich. That money could almost buy me a rim and tire set.
Fast forward to early 2021, and I find what seems to be a replica on AliExpress for $100, but shipping brought it up to $180, and I'd be waiting until July to receive it. Better, but for a stick on spoiler and half the reviews saying "meh," and that shipping from China wait, I held off. Fast forward to Tuesday morning, and my buddy at work (that just bought a 2014 BMW 328i) talking about thins he found on eBay. On a whim, I search for FK7 spoilers. I found people selling the aforementioned UKDM FK8 Sportline spoiler, and those were going for $1300+ shipped. Then I find the same replica I saw on AliExpress. With the same stock photos. For $100 shipped. From Cali. You bet your sweet *** I hit that "Buy it Now" button. Today, fedex delivers me a big *** box. 15 minutes later, I have a lower spoiler. Now, fitment wasn't 100%. The curvature is ever-so-slightly off (curved a bit more than the OE lower spoiler by about 2mm on both distal ends -- not a huge deal), but the finish was pretty spot on with the OEM gloss piano black. There was also a small square (maybe 19mm x 19mm?) on the top they forgot to 100% level off when they painted it. Noticeable if you're looking closely at it, but not enough for me to make a big stink about.
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