This thread is for anyone working on personal projects to share their progress, and hold themselves somewhat accountable to a group of peers.
Post your project, your progress from last week, and what you hope to accomplish this week.
If you want to be pinged with a reminder asking about your project, let me know, and I'll harass you each week until you cancel the service.
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Update on the motor pool:
The $500 Civic project has ground to a crawl, aside from replacing the battery (with Walmart's cheapest 51R) and confirming that the car does indeed run and drive, and the A/C works along with three of the four windows. The clutch pedal feels like shit (engagement is too low), but I'm confident that bleeding and adjusting the master cylinder will fix it. The old owner will be back in town this weekend at which point we'll do the needful with paperwork and see if he has to get a replacement title (The title exists and is legible but looks like a dog ate it.).
Speaking of titles, and actual work, I had to replace the starter on the other Civic. It was...not as bad a job as anticipated. I didn't have to pull the bumper, did have to pull the knock sensor, and did have spend $15 on washers to make the slightly different (case is thinner where it bolts to the engine) Amazon special fit the car, but at $60 from Amazon versus $80-$300 from Rock Auto and $325 from the parts store I can afford washers and the job was easy enough that I wouldn't hate myself if I had to do it again. I have a strong prospective buyer from this car, an old friend who fell in love with it (I let her drive it.) and is going to need a car in a few months.
The rational, but unwanted car may have a buyer (probably not, but I can probably sell the thing for five grand) if I choose to go all out and ditch all three for what I think I want (test drive pending).
What I think I want is a 10th gen Civic Si, preferably blue like this but I'd settle for silver, since I've seen one in person, thought it looked nice enough, and it looks like silver is easier to find than blue. Is it a Type R? No, but I don't have Type R money and these are allegedly easy enough to tune without much work as long as you're okay with settling for ~250HP before stuff starts breaking, and what the L15 lacks in top end power or K-series potential it makes up for with torque and gas mileage (My K24 Civic is fun but gets atrocious fuel mileage on premium by the standards of a Civic.).
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