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Re: Green EG and Ham: Or, National Lampoon's Tahitian Vacation
« Reply #50 on: December 14, 2015, 03:40:44 pm »
So I saw this picture on the Internet:

Then I made this one:

Note: I haven't yet replaced the timing belt.

AMAZING!!
 

Then this can be taken one step further and create a "war of the civic" timeline...

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Re: Green EG and Ham: Or, National Lampoon's Tahitian Vacation
« Reply #51 on: December 22, 2015, 09:11:58 am »
Saw this on Jalop, for some reason I feel like there is probably a full sized poster of this hanging in your garage.

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Re: Green EG and Ham: Or, National Lampoon's Tahitian Vacation
« Reply #52 on: December 22, 2015, 01:50:42 pm »
Why reminds me, why doesn't anyone own an AMC Eagle yet?
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Re: Green EG and Ham: Or, National Lampoon's Tahitian Vacation
« Reply #53 on: December 22, 2015, 02:10:05 pm »
because he hasnt found one he likes yet.
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Re: Green EG and Ham: Or, National Lampoon's Tahitian Vacation
« Reply #54 on: December 22, 2015, 03:43:34 pm »
There's an eagle for sale on the "Alberta cars $5000 and under" group on facebook.

My family out in bc has one. They are terrible lol.

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Re: Green EG and Ham: Or, National Lampoon's Tahitian Vacation
« Reply #55 on: December 22, 2015, 05:37:01 pm »
Saw this on Jalop, for some reason I feel like there is probably a full sized poster of this hanging in your garage.

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Uhhhhhh why isn't that hanging in OUR GODDAMN GARAGE
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Re: Green EG and Ham: Or, National Lampoon's Tahitian Vacation
« Reply #56 on: December 22, 2015, 10:43:21 pm »
Uhhhhhh why isn't that hanging in OUR GODDAMN GARAGE

Probably because there isn't any more room with all the motorbikes, race cars, spare engines, empty beer cans, and stacks upon uckfaying stacks of wheels and tires.
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Re: Green EG and Ham: Or, National Lampoon's Tahitian Vacation
« Reply #57 on: December 23, 2015, 07:04:56 am »
Black Gold is a better trim package anyway.

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In my formative years I was exposed to two cars: a v3 Alfa Romeo Spider and an AMC Eagle. Sometimes you only see the path you were locked into in retrospect.

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Re: Green EG and Ham: Or, National Lampoon's Tahitian Vacation
« Reply #58 on: December 29, 2015, 05:31:14 pm »
Speed sensor replaced. It can now report the actual land speed the car is traveling, as opposed to previously, where it would only indicate the following speeds:
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If I did a clutch drop off the line and then only looked at the speedometer out of the corner of my eye without trying to focus on where the needle was, it would report accurately until I stopped again. Too much attention or direct eye contact with the speedometer resulted in an immediate failure of the unit.

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Re: Green EG and Ham: Or, National Lampoon's Tahitian Vacation
« Reply #59 on: January 01, 2016, 03:26:46 pm »
Pulled the stereo to try and figure out why it won't turn on. Dashboard radio fuse was fine, so was the underhood "back-up power" fuse which is commonly missed. Must be the 7.5A fuse inside the radio, I figured.

Others I talked to before taking the itchbay apart could not believe a stock Civic stereo still existed, and that surely it was a hacked up wiring harness inside the dashboard. But the illumination wire was apparently working - turning the headlights on made half of the radio glow (more on this later).

Strangely, nobody in the Honda community has ever posted about replacing this fuse.

Pull the radio, take it partially apart, can't yank the fuse. Won't come out. WTF. Can't get a good sight on the fuse, so I continuity-test it, which it fails.



Bring the radio inside, put the thing on the bench, take it all the way apart. Sure enough, fuse is visibly blown. can't yank the fuse. Won't come out. WTF. Multiple passes with upside down computer duster and a procession of increasingly violent prying tools aren't doing itshay other than cracking the exterior plastic.





Finally hold a replacement 7.5A fuse up to the board... pretty sure those uckfayers soldered the fuse in.

There's no way it can fit! The fuse "holder" was just there to ease assembly, and then they globbed solder onto the fuse's legs.





I'm debating desoldering the existing fuse holder and then putting in one on a nice long wire so I can mount the fuse externally.

Seems like a lot of work to go to when I could just replace the head unit with one made in the last decade, but I really like the 90s-ness of it. I'm torn. Nobody makes a sufficiently 90s stereo :(

Interesting Facts

Interesting if you're me, and uckfay you if you're not.
  • Honda puts a little rubber trim tape piece around the face of the head unit to keep it from rattling against the dash. I'm pretty impressed at the attention to detail on this car; they made things nice without making them expensive. No doubt the low Yen at the time helped.
  • The head unit is probably outsourced, but I have no idea who did it. They almost certainly aren't very proud of this. It was, however, "Made in Japan," which is cool since the car itself was made in Canada.
  • They still used through-hole assembly of discrete off-the-shelf components in the early 90s; I figured all this itshay would have been SMD with a bunch of custom chips. I guess "The Japanese," huh? I would love to hear from one of the actual electrical engineers slash supply chain engineers on the board because I have questions.
  • The case is almost entirely held together with weird bent-metal prongs, like 80s stereos I've seen. Not a lot of screws going on here, but the screws that are here are high-quality cad-plated JIS panhead screws similar to the ones the Subaru OEM "Alpines" use. Watch out for the "hidden" bent metal prong directly underneath the tape slot; it will uckfay up your board if you just tug with it still in place.
  • There's a little transparent plastic bootie that slips over the radio connector. That's a nice idea! Considering that the inside of a dashboard is a high-moisture environment the connector came right apart first time.
  • All of the lighting on the radio is only done with two LEDs; they have an elaborate acrylic 'light pipe' behind the fascia that take care of routing the glow to each individual button. I think the passenger-side LED is blown out but I won't bother fixing it. I'm not mentally ill.
  • NEC made the tuner chip. Seeing NEC stuff in Bubble Era products always makes me smile.

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Re: Green EG and Ham: Or, National Lampoon's Tahitian Vacation
« Reply #60 on: January 01, 2016, 04:17:40 pm »
I have a working JVC head unit with a CD player sitting around in my basement. I will give it to you for free if you like :)

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Re: Green EG and Ham: Or, National Lampoon's Tahitian Vacation
« Reply #61 on: January 01, 2016, 04:18:19 pm »
How 90s is it?

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Re: Green EG and Ham: Or, National Lampoon's Tahitian Vacation
« Reply #62 on: January 01, 2016, 04:29:26 pm »
How 90s is it?

Also yes.

It's this one. It might be newer than the 90's! :O

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Re: Green EG and Ham: Or, National Lampoon's Tahitian Vacation
« Reply #63 on: January 01, 2016, 05:06:20 pm »
That thing is a pile of garbage, it'll fit perfectly well with the EG
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Re: Green EG and Ham: Or, National Lampoon's Tahitian Vacation
« Reply #64 on: January 01, 2016, 05:10:37 pm »
That thing is a pile of garbage, it'll fit perfectly well with the EG

It is by no means modern, but it worked just fine :P

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Re: Green EG and Ham: Or, National Lampoon's Tahitian Vacation
« Reply #65 on: January 02, 2016, 05:10:59 pm »
Tried to do the front brakes today, because replacement hardware didn't come with the drum shoes that I bought.

Lug nuts were spotty (and of different sizes in at least 2 cases), both front wheels were rusted to the hub, both rotors had rusted captive screws, the caliper bolts sucked to get off (but now I know the trick) and the new pads didn't want to go back in with the anti-rattle clips (but now I know the trick).

Pretty sure they put the tires on this thing seven years ago and never removed the wheels once.

As a result of all the roadblocks, I only got one front brake done in like four hours :( It's cold in that garage and also I suck.

Hopefully tomorrow I'll knock the other front out. On the plus side this will give me an excuse to bleed the brakes because whoa mama the fluid is basically black water that doesn't even smell like brake fluid.

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Re: Green EG and Ham: Or, National Lampoon's Tahitian Vacation
« Reply #66 on: January 02, 2016, 05:24:34 pm »
both rotors had rusted captive screws

I hate those bastards.

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Re: Green EG and Ham: Or, National Lampoon's Tahitian Vacation
« Reply #67 on: January 02, 2016, 05:26:25 pm »
My ghetto impact driver made pretty short work of one side. The passenger side didn't want to budge.

While I was putting my tools away I found out that I also own a nice impact driver set. This is the non-stop thrill ride that you can embark upon when you hang out with me in my garage.

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« Reply #68 on: January 02, 2016, 05:34:34 pm »
I never had an impact driver until I broke my CrapOn screwdriver doing Honda (well, Acura) brakes. They make it a lot easier.
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« Reply #69 on: January 02, 2016, 05:35:36 pm »
This is the non-stop thrill ride that you can embark upon when you hang out with me in my garage.

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« Reply #70 on: January 02, 2016, 05:36:13 pm »
I never had an impact driver until I broke my CrapOn screwdriver doing Honda (well, Acura) brakes. They make it a lot easier.
You don't actually have to replace the screws, do you? I wasn't sure, so I put the screws back in with a feisty dollop of high temp anti-seize.

On the Miata I just held the rotor in place with lug nuts.

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« Reply #71 on: January 02, 2016, 06:02:03 pm »
You don't actually have to replace the screws, do you?

Nah. They're just there to isspay off backyard mechanics.
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« Reply #72 on: January 02, 2016, 06:04:07 pm »
Good, because I have a feeling the passenger side screws aren't going to be in a terribly workable state to be replaced.

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« Reply #73 on: January 02, 2016, 06:10:12 pm »
Good, because I have a feeling the passenger side screws aren't going to be in a terribly workable state to be replaced.

Princess Auto sells a tool that makes it an easy job.
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Re: Green EG and Ham: Or, National Lampoon's Tahitian Vacation
« Reply #74 on: January 03, 2016, 03:48:25 pm »
Wow that passenger side did not want to come out. Thanks Gord!