a few loose screws (er... bolts)

tpunx99GSX · 06-12-2006

Ok so wednesday i decided that it was time to put on the 680cc injectors to defeat the knock i was expirenceing at only 10 psi.
So i get everything on and tightened one of the fuel rail bolts a little too tight and the bolt snaps, but im lucky enough to be able to unscrew it because it was actually hanging on by the threads. Pretty nice. So i replace the bolt and as i am screwing in the side bolts the Ratchet wrench taps my Cam Angle sensor and to my amazement the sensor moves.... i stare at it for a bit and a tear comes to my eye. The Cam Angle sensor is LOOSE as HELL. At a closer glance i notice that one of the bolts is actually missing and the other one is barely hanging on, the CAS is like moving freely. I grab an extra bolt i had laying around from the GSX and put it in there and tighten both of them securely hoping that the timeing is decent, if not ill just adjust it with the link.
The next day, Im driving to work and all of the sudden NO BOOST, and it wont accelerate, i pull over and one of the IC pipes popped off right before the blow off valve. I put it on and drive to work.
On my way home from work that same day i am driving and all of the sudden my car is driving funny, its driving and actually makeing some boost, but its just taking a lot of time to make the boost and it sounds like i have an external dump to atmosphere wastegate (i havent put it on yet) im swearing left and right and finally get home, open the garage park the car and look under the hood, i notice that the plug that was plugging the tap for the EGT gauge is missing. I take off the heat shield and its just sitting on the lower heat shield. LOL i plug that tight as hell, and then start the car, and go back to make sure it was that, and i look and one of the turbo bolts is bouncing up and down. WTF!!!! so i tighten that back up.
I suppose i should add this, the very next day my car was acting really bad and i pulled the CEL code with DSMlink and it was showing Random Cylinder Misfire. that day i replaced the Spark Plugs and Wires and it corrected the problem.
Im gonna cry if something else goes wrong.

AJ · 06-12-2006

Your shit's falling apart man, I think that Manual shit is just too much. LOL

carltalon · 06-12-2006

Sounds like normal dsm stuff to me. Ive actually had the CAS fall off hile driveing.

1slowdsm · 06-12-2006

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Originally Posted by DSMStyle

Your shit's falling apart man

Heck yeah it is! That's a lot of loose bolts.

Black97civic · 06-12-2006

Sounds like it is time for a solid day of torquing bolts down to spec, and using some loctite where appropriate.

dsm95gsxer · 06-12-2006

I've done 3.5 years of daily driving and never had that many bolts losen up, if any. Sounds like you have some gremlins in your engine compartment.

Gravy · 06-13-2006

$5 says someone in a civic looked at your car.

tpunx99GSX · 06-13-2006

actually the last person that looked at the car before i bought it was Road Race Engineering.

Gravy · 06-13-2006

Blows that theory to hell. Give it a one over, i know with the DSM i'm babysitting i shifted from first to second one time and the bracket holding the shifting linkage(sorry for the lack of better terms) came right off. Nothing like a 2 mile long drive home in second gear.