hey! how's it goin'....new member here, figured I'd introduce myself. My name is Sean, I'm 19, live in Louisiana, in college at Northwestern State University as a nursing major with a minor in commercial and industrial art. So far my 1997 EX is visually stock, save for a set of 16" white motegi wheels wrapped in Pirelli P-zero neros. I don't consider it ricey....more sophisticated and clean looking than anything else, however I've been accused of being a ricer for the wheels alone. Internals have potential I just need to pick up a nice I/H/E setup. So far I've had my diminuitive y8 bored .35 over with JE pistons and connecting rods, crower cam, skunk 2 cam gear, and a new set of rockers, valve springs, etc. Got it on the dyno after the pistons and cam but I didn't really like my results. That's when I put on everything else....sort of a full rebuild with a lighter gear to clean up the variations in the power band. Looking at somewhere along the lines of 148 to the wheels....just need to strap on a supercharger and the I/H/E, then I'll probably be satisfied. That's all I got for now....later!

 

Sounds great. Welcome. Post pics.

 

whats the CR? and what do you mean by a lighter gear?

 

Hehe just found the new smileys....
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LOL...yea i noticed them..and thank you whoever organized them to where all you have to do is scroll down..before it was a paint to see them all

 

I'm sorry I don't completely understand the CR question. I'm not aquainted with all the jargon. This is just a shot in the dark, but if you are asking about the connecting rods they are basically the same as the stock ones, but made out of a lighter metal, they are also JE.

The lighter gear thing was the new cam gear that I had put on, it didn't add any power but it cleaned up what I already had.

 

I think he was asking for the compression ratio. Oh, and which Motegi Racing wheels do you have? I've been thinking about getting the FF6 in silver.

 

Welcome to the site!! Great to have you here!! Thanks for joining us!!

~Amanda

 

right, compression ratio. and i think the idea behind that gear is the adjustability, not just the light weight.

 

you would be correct, not sure on CR but I'll find out, I have the same motegi wheels everyone else has just in white (so yeah that'd be the MR7)