It’s been 2 months since I did the engine swap on my car and I love it every bit. It’s got more power, better response, less oil usage and looks good too. The D16 engine and the Si tranny works really good together in my little hatch. The Power to Weight ratio is really nice, its got lots of GO when you need it. Anyone out there wondering if they should do this swap or any other to add more power to their ride I say go for it, its worth every penny! The fuel economey is almost similar, I might of lost 50km per tank but it all depends how hungry you get for VTECH at 5000rpms.

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I passed aircare this morning with really good results and it didn’t take to much work. Yesterday I used up the last of the gas that I had in the tank and filled up with Mohawk 94 octane with 10% methanol, added some fuel injector cleaner and took it for a good boot at lunchtime. Then this morning I retarded the timing 8 degrees and put about 200ml of Menthyl Hydrate into the tank and drove it to aircare just before going to work but I made sure I drove it with high rpm’s to keep the catalyic converter really hot which would keep the emissions low.

Wednesdays Reading Todays Reading

HC 0.5221                 0.3468

CO 6.7286                 4.1013

NOx 0.4531               0.1945

As you can see from the results it did a lot better in all 3 categories and one big thing I noticed is that with the super blend of gas I gained some horsepower with less emissions. The methyl hydrate is suppose to run your engine hotter and leaner and has a tendency to dry out rubber seals so do not use it to often.

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My insurance is coming up this month so I went to aircare for lunch today but unfortunetly failed on one test. It failed Hydrocarbons(HC) but not by much. 

          Max Allowable                  My Reading               Average Reading              Result

HC          0.5000                         0.5221                        0.2072                       Fail

CO          9.3200                         6.7286                        5.2242                       Pass

NOx        1.2400                         0.4531                        0.6225                       Pass

I am gonna try running some Mohawk Gas with Ethanel, retard the timing a bit and dump some Menthyl Hydrate in the tank to see if that helps it out since I know I already did the basic tuneup when I did the engine swap.

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