Hi,
So I recently got a friend's civic (1999, D16Y7, LX trim) that had a blown head gasket. It's... a turd. Was rally raced or something for a while. Oh, and it has 330,000 miles on the engine.
As far as I know it's pure stock besides bolt-ons (air intake, coilovers, braces). But even with the pathetic state of it, and with a head gasket I threw on in an evening, the car pulls. Not like "hang on to your pockets" but it wants to go in a way my old red civic (1998, D16y8, EX trim) never does. It's making me look at my car and go "Well.. What's up?"
My question here is, what are some possible reasons for the discrepancies? Where should I begin trying to hunt down the now-obvious lack of power in my daily?
They're both 1.6 liters, within a year of each other, both have 300k+ miles, and my car should have shorter gearing (or at least similar). Could it be the other car's hard suspension not soaking up the acceleration? A bad catalytic converter blocking air flow? At what point would the cylinder compressions make this kind of difference?
So I recently got a friend's civic (1999, D16Y7, LX trim) that had a blown head gasket. It's... a turd. Was rally raced or something for a while. Oh, and it has 330,000 miles on the engine.
As far as I know it's pure stock besides bolt-ons (air intake, coilovers, braces). But even with the pathetic state of it, and with a head gasket I threw on in an evening, the car pulls. Not like "hang on to your pockets" but it wants to go in a way my old red civic (1998, D16y8, EX trim) never does. It's making me look at my car and go "Well.. What's up?"
My question here is, what are some possible reasons for the discrepancies? Where should I begin trying to hunt down the now-obvious lack of power in my daily?
They're both 1.6 liters, within a year of each other, both have 300k+ miles, and my car should have shorter gearing (or at least similar). Could it be the other car's hard suspension not soaking up the acceleration? A bad catalytic converter blocking air flow? At what point would the cylinder compressions make this kind of difference?