Recent content by Shonk

Hehe I bought it off someone who took it off with mole grips

Before After Shorts not boxers:p Night time shot with flash so doesnt show it off very well

I realy like this car apart from 2 things them mirrors bolted onto the doors (bad idea they tend to rust off when the car gets older) and indicators on the wings like pre facelift ep3

The problem is caused by excess drag on 5-6 gearset which wares out the syncro's of lower gears the fix involves replacing the 6th gear from a double cone syncro to a single cone syncro hence giveing more space and no drag the problem is though that honda uk dont routinley replace the...

the service manager told me that upto 150 is considered ok but 150 is a touch on the high side if yours was reading 120-130 it will be factory paint they arnt sprayed all that even my bonnet was reading 98ish in one place 1cm over it was reading 125 alot is down to how small they are...

what was it upto 150 is acceptable if its been sprayed it will be 220-230 ish+ my roof was reading 125 and my bonnet

yep no problem

Me and my friend went out today with a camcorder and tried getting the grinding on film it ground 3 times two where small grinds one was a big grind that wouldnt go in gear http://www.shonk.org/Civic/Gearbox.rar ive rar'd up the vob files off the dvd i made here (26meg) do you...

Here is the service bulletin for the american rsx which shares the same k20a2 and box http://www.shonk.org/Civic/Bulletins/ it took me quite some time to find a working link so i mirrored them

Here's another post on k20a forums about it Just a chime in here about the k20a2 tranny. The service bulletin that came out that replaces the 5th and 6th gearset along with some bushings or something -- it only prevents synchro damage from drag. It doesn't do anything for already damaged...

As you may or may not know i have had problems with my gearbox and honda has washed theyr hands with me after 2 rebuilds and they havnt touched 2nd gear at all im in the process of takeing them to court over it and stumbled on this tonight explaining exactly why my second gear is...

I phoned up The dealer just now and the bonnet has been ordered and is on its way in so if you get turned down for paint work dont take it and persist if you know your in the right they cave in in the end even if it does take 6 months

30 mins after paying the £80 to take them to court I had a phone call off steve the guy at head office who's been ignoring me for the last week he said warranty have had a look at my claim again and have authorized for the bonnet to be done and to go to my dealer they would arrange...

I have phoned asking for the person every day since i sent the report every time he isnt available this mourning i was told he wouldnt speak to me and that they stand by theyr origional decision to not fix it Have just finished and paid for the Summons Should be interesting

Ive had half a result they have agreed to the bonnet sort of gona let them get on with the bonnet then go back in about the roof ill paste what ive posted on the other forum