my car does not warm up properly (settle at about midway on the temp gauge) if I drive the car with interior heating on . Obviously this means I get very cold when driving. root cause in bold. when you turn on the heater, you are sapping heat from the engine. the heating coil inside your car is ess...

Joris, it sounds like the ECU is running the engine rich. have you tried repeating the test with a little bit of timing advance? are you running this engine on a stock ECU or a remapped one? any chance of gathering some AFR readings from a wideband sensor?

cheers.

the holes to be plugged with barb fittings like this one: http://us1.webpublications.com.au/static/images/articles/i26/2692_3lo.jpg pouring steering fluid was real easy. fix one end of the U pipe to a nipple and keep gradually pouring fluid through the other end until it starts to overflow. then plu...

thanks Owen. that took quite a lot of effort.

while looking around some more, I *did* find a picture of the looped rack.

inlet and outlet before looping:




after looping:

you can't see the looped rack but the missing pump and reservoir should be clearly evident.

correct. that way the fluid can still circulate. if you simply disconnect the PS belt without looping the inlet and outlet, the static pump blocks fluid circulation, increases resistance and makes the steering harder.

for those who are interested in deleting their PS setups, here is how I did it: 1. trace the PS fluid hoses back to the steering rack and locate the inlet and outlet. 2. disconnect the hoses near the rack and loop the inlet and outlet using a U shaped rubber hose. try to fill up the hose with as muc...

yes.

http://www.moates.net/honda1-honda-ecu- ... g-kit.html

make sure to scroll all the way down and follow the Support Links listed there.