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Old Mar 9, 2008 | 09:40 PM
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im gunna polish the honda logo and text so its chrome like.









 
Old Mar 9, 2008 | 09:42 PM
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looks good and im glad to say soon i will be joining the ef civic club haha hopefully pick her up in a week or 2
 
Old Mar 9, 2008 | 09:43 PM
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looks good and im glad to say soon i will be joining the ef civic club haha hopefully pick her up in a week or 2

lol...sounds good!
 
Old Mar 9, 2008 | 09:58 PM
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It looks real good, you didnt miss a spot on it
 
Old Mar 9, 2008 | 10:44 PM
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How difficult is it to get a valve cover off?
 
Old Mar 9, 2008 | 10:52 PM
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9 bolts that are torqued to like 9ft pounds, take off the intake hose...call it a day!


putting it back on is the hard part....if you over tighten the bolts, broken stud. Broken studs which take lots of drilling, easy outing, retaping, jb weld, helicoils and all that crap......


(i had a broken oil pan stud which was this weekends project....not fun!)
 
Old Mar 10, 2008 | 04:19 AM
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I also broke a stud when putting mine back on a while ago, a true bitch to fix! Cover looks good.
 
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