One advantage of the pandemic, for me, is that Pat had to close his shop and had a lot of free time to work on my Civic. He rebuilt the transmission and installed the engine. I thought that I would have to take the car to Synoptic to make a chip for the ECU, but then Pat and I had a brilliant idea: why not just ask Sajan to burn us a new chip just like the one he made for my old car in 2014? It had the same engine and the same injectors... the next day, the chip was burned and installed and we were ready for a test drive.
The real test drive happened today. Pat put in some cheap oil in the engine and tranny so that we could see if everything worked. The car pulls strong and smoothly, and there is a lot of torque that the old smoky engine did not have. Unfortunately, a problem with the transmission manifested itself: it has a tendancy to pop out of gear in 5th under load. I will have to bring the car back to Pat to check it out. He has some theories about what could be causing this. Still, it was nice to drive the car a bit. I will bring it back to Pat's in the next few days, although there is no rush, since there are no events coming up any time soon...
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| Back home |
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| Cool Defender pickup |
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| Surprising spot: an AMG GTR-Pro! |
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| Cool yellow Aventador |
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| Fuchs-style wheels on a 996... not bad |
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