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How To: Valve Adjustment.

August 1, 2013 Ethan Strok 0 Comments 1976, 1977, 1978, 1979, 1980, 1981, 1982, 1983, 1984, 1985, 1986, 1g, 1st, 2g, 2nd, accord, adjustment, cars, civic, control, early., ethan, first, gen, generation, honda, Honda Roots, how, lash, prelude, Roots, sedan, setting lash, to, valve

Have more of a rattle than a growl from your engine lately? If your old Honda’s motor is starting to

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1st Gen Accord Resto

Resto file #8: Fender replacement

May 22, 2013 Ethan Strok 0 Comments 1976, 1977, 1978, 1979, 1980, 1981, 1982, 1983, 1984, 1985, 1986, 1st, 2nd, accord, bumper, cars, civic, early., fender, first, front grill, gen, generation, grill, honda, Honda Roots, install, light, marker, prelude, removal, replacement, resto, restoration, Roots, sedan, signal light, trim

Well, I lucked out recently and managed to not only find a decent replacement fender but one in just the

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1st Gen Accord Resto

Product Review: Evaporust.

March 20, 2013 Ethan Strok 3 Comments 1976, 1977, 1978, 1979, 1980, 1981, 1982, 1983, 1984, 1985, 1986, 1987, 1988, 1st, 2nd, accord, cars, civic, cleaning, dirty, early., Evaporust, first, gen, generation, honda, Honda Roots, install, prelude, product, removal, resto, restoration, rust, sedan, test, testing

Restoration isn’t always about tracking down tricky to find parts or installing them, sometimes it’s a matter of just cleaning

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ROTM March: Joe Ardagh’s Honda City Turbo II

March 1, 2013 Nate Mitchell 5 Comments 1981, 1982, 1983, 1984, 1985, 1986, AA, Chassis AA, COMBAX, cvcc, E-AA, Hirotoshi Honda, Honda Bulldog, Honda City, Honda ER, Honda Roots, IHI RHB51 turbocharger, Intercooler, Joe Ardagh, New Zealand, NZhondas.com, ROTM March, Turbo, Turbo II

The site of a Honda City is rare enough here in the states, but to witness a Turbo II (T2)

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Old school tools and dying arts…

February 6, 2013 Ethan Strok 0 Comments 1976, 1977, 1978, 1979, 1980, 1981, 1982, 1983, 1984, 1985, 1986, 1st, 2nd, accord, advance, cars, civic, control, cvcc, diagnosis, dirty, driveability, emissions, first, gauge, gen, generation, honda, Honda Roots, install, knock, pinging, prelude, resto, retard, sedan, smog, timing, tool, tools, tuning, vacuum

So I re-installed my Weber recently and was running the vacuum line from the brake booster to the base of

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A Brief History of the “Civic One-Make Race”

January 11, 2013 Nate Mitchell 3 Comments 1981, 1982, 1983, 1984, 1985, 1986, 1987, 1988, 2nd gen, 3rd gen, 4th gen, AT, EF, FF, FF Super Civic Race, honda, Honda one-make race, Honda Roots, Mugen, one make, one-make race, SR, Super Civic Race, Suzuka

For over 32 years now in the making, the popular FF race “One-Make Race” featured by Honda on the Suzuka

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ROTM January: Richard Judge’s ’85 Prelude.

January 2, 2013 Ethan Strok 0 Comments 1983, 1984, 1985, 1986, 2nd, 86, A18, a20, cars, cold air intake, corbeau bucket seats, early., gen, honda, install, month, resto, richard judge, Ride, ROTM, second

If you’ve ever ventured into some of the more popular forums like 3Geez, Prelude Power or even Car Domain, you

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3 Barrel Keihin Breakdown. Part #1

December 8, 2012 Ethan Strok 3 Comments 1976, 1977, 1978, 1979, 1980, 1981, 1982, 1983, 1984, 1985, 1st, 3, accord, barrel, bbl, black, box, carb, carburetor, cars, civic, connector, control, cvcc, diagnosis, driveability, early., ek, ek-1, ek1, el, el-1, el1, emissions, first, gen, generation, honda, install, keihin, prelude, sedan, smog, testing, vacuum, vacuum leak, vacuum leaks

Ever wondered why there’s so many strange gadgets on the body of your Keihin? What do they do? Why are

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