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How To Clean Cloudy Headlights - Like-New Lenses
Don't replace those expensive headlights just yet; keep costs down and restore them yourself. more
Wheel Offset: Why it Matters
Wheel Offset And Other Important Things- Web Exclusive more
Honda Aftermarket Parts & Upgrades - July 2008 Adult Toys
The latest and greatest goodies for your ride, from the revived Ronjon Devotion wheel -- named the Sport DT-3, to the Password:JDM mini battery mount more
Honda Clutch Line Installation - Steel Braided Bling
Trade That Ugly Clutch Line For Something Fancier more
Aftermarket Oil Cooler and Radiator Install - Cool Beans
Oil & Cooling System Temp-Dropping Tricks more
Header Dyno Testing & Comparison, Tri Y vs. 4 Into 1 - Performance By Design
Honda Header Showdown: Tri-Y Vs. 4-Into-1. Think You Know Which One Is Better? Back Up The Bench Racing With Data. more
Crank Pulley Removal For Dummies
The experts at Honda Tuning Magazine give you a little tip on how to easily removal your Honda engine crank pulley. more
D Series EF Civic and CRX Hydraulic Transmission Swap - Wrenchin
Swap A Hydro Tranny Into Your D-Series EF And Leave Busted Shift Forks Behind. more
Camber 101, Everything You Need To Know
We explain camber, caster and toe, how they all work together, why to adjust them, and how to adjust them. more
2006 Honda Civic Si - New Dog Likes Old Tricks
Check out this 2006 Honda Civic Si that has upgraded to acheieve 260hp. more
Putting Your Motor On Lock Down
Wrenchin - How Do You Do That Thing You Do? more
DC Sports Headers - How It's Made
DC Sports started as a header design outfit contrived by twin brothers and fabricators Darrell and Darrick Contreras. In 1987, American Honda approached the two to build a header for an '88 CRX race car. The design was impeccable, and Honda loved the header so much that they had the Contreras brothe more
Wings West RS Kit - Face Lift
I'm learning that putting a show car together can be lots of hard work. See, my life has been spent building race cars, where the emphasis is going fast and little attention is paid to aesthetic detail. However, in something of a new twist, I've spent the past few months building my first real show more
Wings West RS Kit Install - Face Lift
Our aging project EG hatch gets a new look, as Old Dog Tech Nerd learns some new tricks in the update. more
Endyn B20 Build - Pound for Pound
Consider for a moment what it might take for an engine to make 150 horsepower per liter of displacement. It's an impressive ratio, but not necessarily implausible. It'd be nice to have, but hasn't the tuner community already been there, done that? Well, it depends a lot on context. more
Auto Repair and Maintenance - Exhaust Notes
Time To Step It UpI always get different opinions on this matter, so I wanted to ask the Honda experts themselves... What is the most affordable way to get a noticeable horsepower gain on my '94 Civic EX after a solid clutch, intake, header, and exhaust? Leroy more
R18 Engine - Half the Battle
One of the best feelings in the whole world is successfully diagnosing a problem with somebody else's ride. Over the years, I have gradually become the guy that most of my friends and family call when they've got a car question. I guess it works out well, then more
JDM Honda Civic Front End - Raising the Dead
Sometime in late 1995, my mother traded in her Milano red EJ1 Civic coupe for the cooler, newer '96 EJ8 coupe that had just hit the market. At the time, I was in sixth grade (I think) and my interest in cars was just beginning. I spent the next 5 or 6 years at more
B16A Head - Budget Gourmet Part 2
Last month, we started our EG cover car project's engine build by constructing a poor-man's Type R block with RS Machine in Carson, Calif. The block was a GSR casting utilizing the stock crank and rods mated to RS's stock bore Type R replacement pistons. In th more
How to Degree Camshafts - Camshaft 101
Since we worked on the head and valvetrain in our budget B-series build this month, we figured now would be a logical time to cover a camshaft basic. One of the keys to making power is to properly set camshaft timing; in other words, when valves open and close more
1998 Honda Civic EX - Intake/Exhaust/Headers Install and Dyno
Text, photos, and testing (on Dynojet 248C) more
LS/VTEC Head Swap - Still The One
Lately, it's been all about the head swap. In November '04 we constructed a 2.0-liter CR/VTEC motor that never had the chance to dyno. Then, in the 2005 March and April issues we let loose our single-cam Mini Me swap-a-roo, which showed 30 percent more horsepo more
Auto Repair and Maintenance - Exhaust Notes
The marketing and advertising industries have grossly abused the word tuner, using it to define everyone from the hard-core engine builder to the guy who threw on some clear corner taillights himself. more
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