Winter Projects?

[WRXtranceformed]

Brian is there something wrong with the stock radiator or are you just looking for more bling?

Honda at least nowadays tends to overengineer their cooling systems. Not sure how it used to be especially with their older sports cars. Shoot, even my transmission has a cooler on it from the factory!

Ahh that's cool, I didn't know you were going to be tracking it. Probably not completely necessary for that car but it never hurts for extra insurance if you're going to be driving it hard!! Not sure what kind of oil you use, but I would also recommend Amsoil or Redline...my engine loves it and I don't believe it's been burning any oil.

Things coming up in the winter for my car:
- New tires. Falken 912s are almost dead again after 20k miles of normal driving, mostly due to whack factory alignment specs in the rear. Which leads me to my next item:
- Ingalls rear camber kit. Only the rears of these cars can't be adjusted much from the factory, so unfortunately I have to drop $150 to fix a factory issue. This was actually recommended to me by my buddy who is a Honda master tech.
- Oil change, Amsoil status ran out so I'll use the opportunity to switch to Redline.
- Timing belt service. Already bought all of the parts for this, including valve cover gaskets for a valve adjustment. My buddy says I really shouldn't need to do it so I might put the adjustment off until later. Will probably also begin switching to Redline "Type F" racing ATF as some guys on the Acura forums are having good success with it in terms of prolonging the life of the trans
- Once the big services are out of the way and tax season is past, precat deletes and jpipe will be on order...should net me another 25-30 whp/torque.

That carries me into the spring, where I will probably end up fixing the cosmetic issues with the car before another good wax job.