Lower Degrees?
 

Okay, so upon purchasing my new car my friends were stoaked
(civic fanatics,lol)
they mentioned to me about
Removing 2 Hoses & I Think Plugging/Capping Them
I'm not too fairly aware of what they ment but they said instead of the car running from 400degrees it will drop the degrees to 100degrees. They told me "you'll be running your car alot cooler"

Anybody have a clue what part of the car they were talking about?
Also is it a good thing to do? Pros/Cons?

Thanks you so much guys.

(Oh yeah, found out my car is a D16Y7, friend said it was v-tec, correct me if im wrong but he said from hearing it, it was vtec :D)

Any car should run at the temp. Usually around 185 to 195 degrees. I do not know what is your friend is talking about. I think they're pulling your leg.

they are talking about unpluging the water lines that run threw the intake manifold and cap them so when the car is at runing temp the hot water doesnt go through the intake manifold. making it a colder temp. and also if your engine is d16y7 thats non-vtec unless someone swap the heads and put a vtec head on it.

If it's what 94 is talking about, those hoses admit coolant to parts of the intake manifold to preheat the air so the car will idle better in cold weather. I don't think removing them would give a noticeable performance gain, as the main air path is not preheated.

If your car has a fast idle control valve, it depends on that water circuit to sense the engine temperature and slow down the idle after it warms up slightly. With the water off, it will constantly idle too fast when the weather is below 60 F. The valve will never warm up and close like it should.

Certainly in a warm climate you can do without that system, and it does reduce some potential coolant leak points. But don't look for anything miraculous. The Honda engineers were pretty good.

Alright, i see then. thanks for that help guys, Oh 94HB im gonna double check it again, be positive.

^ look for the vtec solenoid on the back left side of the head. that the 100% way to check. it looks like this

http://thm-a03.yimg.com/image/aa15fa2a08b6f27c

the blue looking thing sticking out? or the silver thing?

the brownish solenoid thing sticking up.

ah, the brownish solenoid is the silver looking thing.

okay well im off to school in 10 minutes but when i get home im looking to completely clean my baby up. as well as making my girl wash it haha

Once i look further i'll re-read the engine type and say what it is around noon PST. thanks 94HB

It is possible to put the VTEC head from a D16Y8 onto a D16Y7 block and effectively make it a D16Y8. In other words the bottom half of the engine (with the number on it) is the same, only the head is different for VTEC.