Tuning up car for winter
 

Hey guys,

i just got my winter beater and i want to overhaul the sucker to make sure shes gonna run perfect through the winter. The car is a 92 cx hatch with a 99 B18B1 and 00 GSR tranny. I have picked up some stuff but im also looking to see if you think i should get something different and also where i could get the stuff im missing for fairly cheap.

Stuff i have:
-2 Bottles of Seafoam motor treatment
-3 bottles of honda MTF
-4.4 liter's of Castrol Syntec full synthetic motor oil (5W30)
-NGK spark plugs from honda ( the haynes said NGK PZFR5-11 and the honda guy gave me ZFR5F-11, same thing?)
-Motomaster pre-mixed coolant

I still need to get:
-Oil filter for 99LS, didnt wanna get the motormaster one at CT and couldnt find the Fram synthetic one.
-Spark plug wires, dont have part number.......wondering if i should check honda or get some bosch ($$$) from CT?
-Fuel filter (for teg or civic?)
-Dot 3 brake fluid/Clutch fluid, any recommendations on a brand or is it all basically the same ****?
-Cap & Rotor, stock acura or accell kit($$$$)

Thanks in advance for any input you guys can give me.

ya, don't get the motomaster oil filter, they are crap, I went through a big thing a few oil changes ago, I posted it....I recomend dealer, cheaper than the fram (or the same price) and better I think....

just gotta find out if the oil filter on an SiR is the same as the filter on a B18B1 and i can get it from parkway.

Does anyone know if the plug wires for an SiR are the same as a B18B and also is the cap and rotor the same aswell?

You're a paid member, why don't you buy the parts you need from Parkway Honda? You'll get OEM parts at a price better then CT.

I did, i got the plugs and MTF at honda but i need to find out if the SiR wires, rotor and cap are the same as the integra ones and also if the oil filter is the same too so then i can get it from parkway aswell.

How does this sound:
NGK spark plug wires $95
NGK cap $35 NGK rotor $23

seems like alot to me and i would rather get OEM but dont have part numbers for acura stuff:(

-Oil filter for 99LS, didnt wanna get the motormaster one at CT and couldnt find the Fram synthetic one.
-Spark plug wires, dont have part number.......wondering if i should check honda or get some bosch ($$$) from CT?
-Fuel filter (for teg or civic?)
-Dot 3 brake fluid/Clutch fluid, any recommendations on a brand or is it all basically the same ****?
-Cap & Rotor, stock acura or accell kit($$$$)

update to above,
-spark plug wires are the same for all b series so im gonan grab some wires for a B16A2 which is the 00 SiR motor right?
-Fuel filter i am guessing should be for a 92 CX as i doubt u would change the filter when doing the swap?
-Cap & Rotor are the same between the B16A2 and B18B so im gonna get the SiR Cap and Rotor aswell.

Ne idea on pricing for the plug wires, cap and Rotor from parkway?

Bro, don't use the CT coolant. You never know if that'd kill your rad in the long run. Always use OEM fluids when possible, unless you know what you're using is a definitely step up from OEM (e.g., AMSoil or Redline oil, etc.).

I would recommend getting true synthetic oil too instead of Castrol, especially in the winter. They're not that much more expensive. When Redline was on sale at CT, they went for like $9 per 1L!

well i put CT coolant in my other car and it works fine so i dont see the coolant being a problem.

The castrol is a full synthetic oil (Syntec), i was looking at amsoil but it was like $10 a bottle.

Just picked up a cap, rotor and oem oil filter for $47 from Parkway. Brett says he hasnt seen to many tcc peeps in there, whats going on guys:P?

i've had non-honda coolant in my car for over a year and my rad seems fine but now i'm using oem because i read somewhere that coolants from another source can rot and damage your rad over time. maybe its a marketing gimmick by honda to get you to buy their stuff -- i dunno.

yeah i dunno, ill prolly get flamed for saying this but i dont think the type of coolant will make much of a difference. Pretty much its anti-freeze and water (50/50), how much different could they be?

changed the oil to 5W30 full synthetic with half a bottle of seafoam, changed the cap and rotor and the car is running better alwready.

Hopefully tommorow changing the plugs, seafoam in the vacuum line, new tranny fluid, new coolant and some seafoam in the gas tank will make even more improvement.