FA5 Intro

Ok, now that I've got the albums figured out, I'd like to introduce my FA5. It's a Habanero Red Pearl 2007 Honda Civic Si.

I bought this car right out of college. It was my first brand new car purchase. This is also the first car that I started working on a lot on my own. I'll get a timeline of mods going eventually. There are more pictures in the Gallery. Here is the mod list (copied directly from my 8thcivic.com profile):

Engine/Performance Modifications
- Hondata FlashPro
- CT-E Supercharger Rebuilt/Ported by Stiegemeier Porting Services
- Pulley Boys 3" S/C pulley
- Injector Dynamics 1000CC
- NGK BKR8EIX Spark Plugs
- TL SH-AWD Throttle Body (80mm-70mm)
- P2R Throttle Body Adapter
- P2R TL SH-AWD TB Spacer
- custom 3.5" intake using Airaid UBI piping w/ BPI Velocity Stack and AEM 6"x8" filter
- MercRacing Aftercooler with Bosch Pump
- Go Power 575 header
- Full Race 3" exhaust
- Hybrid Racing shifter cable bushings
- Hybrid Racing shifter base bushings
- TWM Stage 2 short shifter
- 3M DP5106 Injected motor mounts (85A shore grade hardness)
- Centric Parts EM1 CMC/ Karcepts k swap clutch line
- Jaz oil breather can filled with stainless steel scrubber
- E85!

Wheel/Suspension Upgrades
- Progress sport springs with Konis
- Progress RSB, Energy Suspension Greaseable Bushings, Corsport Endlinks
- Moog FSB Greasable end links
- SPC rear camber arms/ Ingalls front bolts
- Energy Suspension Compliance Bushings w/ added zerk fittings
- Hawk HPS pads, front & rear
- Russell SS brake lines
- Prestone DOT4
- ARP extended studs in the front
- Akata Spacer 10mm spacers in front
- Enkei Rpf1 17x9 +45
- Hankook Ventus V12 Evo K110 245/40/17 front, 235/45/17 rear
- Unique 83 Steelies and Falken Eurowinters (215/55/16)
- Walmart Hubcaps!

Exterior Modifications
- 20% Tint all around
- go-pwr.com license plate frames
- Dented hood from hitting a deer datalogging late at night, SMH

Interior Modifications
- RAZO 400 gram shift knob

Geeky Fun

I've set up my "Gallery" page to display albums from Photobucket RSS feeds. I currently just have my FA5 album setup. Just glad that I got it figured out. I only have to update 2 sections: add a div tag to the "Gallery" page and edit the layout HTML. I'm using google's feeds API. It's really pretty simple, but was interesting getting it figured out.

Introduction

This is just my intro post and just a little bit about myself.  I am a car enthusiast that has a passion for driving and messing around with cars.  I am a newcomer to being a backyard mechanic with only about a year of experience beyond the routine oil changes.  I've been learning as I go and enjoying most of it (as well as lots of cursing, bleeding knuckles and various other cuts, bruises and sores).  It's always the drive afterward that totally makes up for all that hard effort.

I have so far owned and worked on Hondas.  Ever since I was exposed to the import/Honda scene in my early teen years, I've always had a sweet spot for those little engines that could.  I'll be introducing my cars in a future post.

Anyhow, I created this blog because I want to have a place to keep track of my progress on different projects that I work on.  I am on many forums, but would rather have just one place to keep updated.  I have so far not documented a whole lot of what I have worked on and would like to have a place for that, and "Voila!" here it is.