08-09-2016, 07:05 AM
navin Wrote:Word on the street is there might be a change to the 'ducting' rule, but who knows. I think you'll be fine without and just use some weather seal material to seal whatever gaps you can for the time being.
last week i got the stink eye from spencer over the internet about this... and a "relax, we are working on it."
rherold9 Wrote:One thing I'm not looking forward to in getting a honderp is cooling issues. Especially since you already have an upgraded radiator and still having issues.
I bought the car with a pretty bad radiator leak and the previous owner was like "oh i topped it off every day before i drove it." lol...I DO NOT attribute my head gasket issue to not enough cooling. I could quote Navin prior to my first event in the car telling me my HG was going to go lol... the car had 240k miles on the original HG... i'm sure it went on its own. You heard a couple of bubbles (so did i), there was very little oil in the radiator, and i was hard pressed to find the leak when examining the head/gasket/block. it wasnt catastrophic making me lean toward it was just an old gasket that had been abused.
what i am doing, since i still run a thermostat, is making sure its even more efficient AND making sure i can accurately track the temperature. Honda gauges are notoriously bad. they have 3 readings... "cold/not reading, warm/reading, and OMGURSCREWED." I always attempt to over do things, so in the future i dont have to deal with it again. Sometimes it works for me, sometimes it doesnt...
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