My Kouki build. (First car, first project.)
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beat to hell good thing u didnt pay for this but good luck with fixing this cant wait to see the finished product and agreed dont buy zip ties and tape jus save and fix it right the first way
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87 cutlass ciera gt- sold
99 accord ex v6- sold
96 civic hatch slammed- sold
08 mazda 3s sedan-dd
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Haha. I didn't forget.
I've been doing a lot of work, but not anything worth noting. Just little shit here and there. Maintenance, basically.
I have, however, begun to collect a few parts. I'm just waiting until I have everything for the front so I can do it all at once.
I've been doing a lot of work, but not anything worth noting. Just little shit here and there. Maintenance, basically.
I have, however, begun to collect a few parts. I'm just waiting until I have everything for the front so I can do it all at once.
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Update.
Yeah, it's been a while, but I'm finally getting off the ground. Sort of.
In the past few months I've basically just maintained the car: kept track of all my fluids, tire pressure, washed it every now and then. I recently just got some new tires. I wish I could've gotten pictures of the old ones...haha. The ones I got last Summer, they were so bald they had wires sticking out of them.
Otherwise, I've done nothing big to the car, but now it's Summer, which means I have no school, and my job isn't in the way of anything. And now I sort of know what the hell I'm doing. I've been planning out, calculating a bunch of shit, yadda-yadda. By the end of the Summer, I'm expecting to have a new front end, only the colors are going to be a little off. That's my major goal.
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Anyway, I finally got around to cleaning the IACV.
It took me weeks to find it.
And then it took me way too many hours and stress and blood and sweat to remove the goddamn thing.
I had to get up in this mess. My hand was fucked by the end of the night.
My lazy eye's doing better.
Got some of the bullet hole stickers off (thanks, Sonny...and maybe CheesePhantom).
All for this tiny POS.
Gross.
There was so much gunk and shit caught up in there, the piston and the idle adjustment screw were both seized up (the adjustment screw still is, and the piston might be).
This is probably 10% of what came out of the unit.
You can't even see the adjustment screw. Yes, you're supposed to be able to see it through that shitty crater-looking thing.
Post clean-up. Exacto Knifed gasket. Haha.
She kept me sane yesterday.
I went through all sorts of hell after re-installing the IACV. First, my car idled at 4k RPM. Scary shit. Then it coughed in between 1k and 2k. Still a no-go. This morning, it coughed again. I looked at the throttle body and adjusted it. It was open a little bit, so I closed it up.
When I cranked up again, all the chaos came to a screeching halt. Now, my car runs the same as it did before cleaning out the IACV. And my CEL is still on.
Oh, the pain.
I'm gonna toss this piece of shit and buy a new one in a few weeks. $130 at "the zone."
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If anyone can help me, I really need an upper bumper retainer and an upper radiator core support. Cash in hand next week.
In the past few months I've basically just maintained the car: kept track of all my fluids, tire pressure, washed it every now and then. I recently just got some new tires. I wish I could've gotten pictures of the old ones...haha. The ones I got last Summer, they were so bald they had wires sticking out of them.
Otherwise, I've done nothing big to the car, but now it's Summer, which means I have no school, and my job isn't in the way of anything. And now I sort of know what the hell I'm doing. I've been planning out, calculating a bunch of shit, yadda-yadda. By the end of the Summer, I'm expecting to have a new front end, only the colors are going to be a little off. That's my major goal.
_________
Anyway, I finally got around to cleaning the IACV.
It took me weeks to find it.
And then it took me way too many hours and stress and blood and sweat to remove the goddamn thing.
I had to get up in this mess. My hand was fucked by the end of the night.
My lazy eye's doing better.
Got some of the bullet hole stickers off (thanks, Sonny...and maybe CheesePhantom).
All for this tiny POS.
Gross.
There was so much gunk and shit caught up in there, the piston and the idle adjustment screw were both seized up (the adjustment screw still is, and the piston might be).
This is probably 10% of what came out of the unit.
You can't even see the adjustment screw. Yes, you're supposed to be able to see it through that shitty crater-looking thing.
Post clean-up. Exacto Knifed gasket. Haha.
She kept me sane yesterday.
I went through all sorts of hell after re-installing the IACV. First, my car idled at 4k RPM. Scary shit. Then it coughed in between 1k and 2k. Still a no-go. This morning, it coughed again. I looked at the throttle body and adjusted it. It was open a little bit, so I closed it up.
When I cranked up again, all the chaos came to a screeching halt. Now, my car runs the same as it did before cleaning out the IACV. And my CEL is still on.
Oh, the pain.
I'm gonna toss this piece of shit and buy a new one in a few weeks. $130 at "the zone."
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If anyone can help me, I really need an upper bumper retainer and an upper radiator core support. Cash in hand next week.
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I'd just pick a different iacv off a non-running ka, strip emissions off the intake manifold and say fuck the CEL. Spend that $130 on a new headlight.
