my gf tells me ooh, i saw a car just like yours today, and i say was it ralliart?, she says yeah it was an oz ralley, whats the difference?, .....ooh sweety do we have to have this talk again...?

 

When your g/f gets pissed because you can spot a Ralliart in the middle of a parking lot, only by seeing a tiny bit of it while passing by at 50mph, yet you can't find something right in front of you inside the fridge.

 

Weird, my intake side(with the Mivec) is hydraulic lifters. My exhaust side is adjustable... Dont tell me the differences between models expand over to the engine... ill just die.

Reminds me of hunting 97 model engine heads for Mirages(only ones with adj intake and exhaust)

 

yup both sides of mine are adjustable

 

THAT'S RIGHT!

 

when it's so dark in the back seat at night you are forced to install additional lighting to see your sh|t

 

had the same noise, they said it was the rubber boot on the strut was too big, i.e. it was sticking out through the spring coils so that when I would hit a bump the coils would try to compress andhit it...they trimed the rubber and the noise appears to be gone...

 

Is that in inches or mm? If it's inches, that's a bigger gap than there needs to be. If mm, that's a way smaller gap than spec'd, and I'd be interested to know it works like that.

I gapped mine *slightly* smaller than spec when I did my adjustment. I want to say I did .25mm exhaust and .17mm intake, while spec is .30mm (.012in)and .20mm (.008in).

Next adjustment (one of these weekends) I'll try the next smaller feeler gauge for each.

 

oops lol i though in you post it was in inches. so yeah its ininche lol

 

yeah i know if you bring in your car with modded parts to the dealership and if its the part that is making the problem they do not honor your warrenty. now i just hit 30K miles and i want to bring it in to adjust the valves and such. would i have to put on the stock down pipe and hide my AFC in the glovebox? or since its just a check up would they care that i have no cat and i have some computer tuning? if so, is there away where i can just go there to get my valves adjusted? sorry off topic but i just wanted to know b4 i brought it in today

 

"Bring" it in today. sorry for the grammer just woke up.

 

I'd recommend picking up a set of feeler gauges and doing the adjustment yourself if you're that worried about your mods voiding the warranty. It's really not very hard.

If you're bent on bringing it in to the dealer, I'd say leave the DP alone, but put the S-AFC in the glovebox. No sense in leaving that out in plain sight.

 

alright cool thanks!

 

This is really funny.. My good friend has a civic ex with very sticky auto x tires and RPF1 9lb enkies. I had the same tires and was fallowing him around a big fast curve and his car was on 3 wheels and I could of went about 30-40mph faster on the same curve. Thats when you know your driving a ralliart.

When your at a scca autocross and you beat everyone in your class by 10 seconds.

When you in a scca event and you pull better lap times than new corvettes and WRX's and even a STI.

1 more when you race a SLK320 and and beat him and at the next traffic light he asks you if you have a v6!! Thats when you know you have a ralliart