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I still don't find this acceptable. Who is trying to get a fender for these cars just to... have on hand and not use? Like if you need a fender, it's going to be a high 90th percentile chance that you're replacing a damaged one. Acura/Honda shouldn't play games with parts like this. It's...

Ford does do pretty good most of the time on parts availability. The bumper was the only GT350-specific part there, though.

This is literally every modern car and I hate it. Thanks to the miracle of just in time manufacturing, the incentives that are put in place are for parts to arrive at the factory "just in time" to be assembled on a car. And when one of us idiot consumers dares to damage a part, well it just...

Awesome post, thanks for the writeup!

Torque requirements do not change when you switch lug nuts. That's nonsensical and I've never heard that in my life. Always use the vehicle manufacturer's recommended torque spec. 94 ft-lb for our cars. If you buy lug nuts that can't handle 94 ft-lb, throw them in the trash. WTF.

https://www.civicxi.com/forum/threads/adapter-for-motive-power-bleeder.58885/

That's the one I used, with the caveat that you should point the loop forwards (away from the driver) rather than towards the driver as the instructions suggest, in order to maintain clearance for a wire harness that passes behind the CMC damper bracket. Also, and I cannot overstate this...

You should remove the damper because it causes more delay than the actual delay valve. Doesn't seem to do much of anything for NVH.

Right but he's obviously completely misinformed about the FL5/DE5 clutch hydraulic system, so what else is he getting wrong?

The factory Honda MTL so far is doing good for me in the cold. It starts to feel just a bit sluggish around 0°F and below, but not bad. 20°F is no problem at all. Warms up quick. I haven't had the time, but I have a gallon of Redline MTL that I'm going to give a shot. Redline MT-90 is...

Good to hear!

Let us know how they fit. Brake caliper clearance is usually the biggest issue. If they just baaaaarely clear or baaaaarely touch, you can get very thin spacers from a company called Caold Technology out of Oz. Takes a while to ship around the world though.

I am also intrigued, but I will say I'm a little put off by that guy and his website. He specifically says to not follow the Hybrid Racing instructions, but he doesn't really provide any alternative instructions for his kit? Closest I could find is this: ...which just seems like a rant and...

You already have a car with a really, really good setup. The Acuity shifter does wonders for getting rid of slop. Based on your other thread, it looks like you didn't muck with your detent springs. @ashmostro tried doing the lateral detent spring combined with the Acuity upgrades and didn't...

Get a different car with a longitudinal layout, direct trans-mounted shifter, and get a high-end shifter for it. I'm serious, this is the wrong car for that.

An interesting tidbit I picked up today - the new Prelude uses the CTR suspension and brakes, which I would assume means that it uses the CTR bolt pattern. I looked it up and the wheels for the Prelude are a 19x8.5, factory wrapped in 235/40R19. That's actually a good bit taller of a tire than...

I used McGards on my BBS wheels. Very excellent, high quality lug nuts with an integral washer for consistent torque. BBS even has a private label version of them that they sell (with a BBS markup!) but if you don't need the BBS logo, McGard branded ones are the exact same thing. They have...

You'll have to turn the volume WAY up on this, but for anyone on the fence about it, give this a listen: I wanted to capture the sound of that car as purely as I could and I didn't want the audio to clip or be normalized/compressed, so that's why you need to turn it way up. The sound that...

If I had the garage space, I'd probably have a GT350 in the stable again. If you're a fan of high revving Honda engines with torque curves biased towards high RPM, the GT350 is basically that. It's unhinged and awesome.

Better at what?