EF Honda Civic Si Hatch Engine LEAKDOWN How To

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Do you want to understand the health of your engine? Noticed some oil consumption?
A compression test helps, but a leakdown test is much better at learning about the health of your engine.
This video covers will show you how to perform a leakdown procedure on a 1990 Honda Civic Si, but this procedure is the same for all Hondas, and all cars really. Please do yourself a favor and DO NOT BUY the Harbor Freight Leakdown Tester (See here:xxxxxxx), but just save yourself a headache and buy this one:
OTC Leakdown Tester: amzn.to/3hedqdl
If your leakdown % is acceptable (healthy is 6-12%, generally), awesome! If not, you just throw your ear up to the intake, the oil filler/pcv area, or the exhaust pipe. You'll hear air at one of them. If it's the intake or exhaust, congrats, you just need a valve job! If it's the rings, well.... that sucks.
If anyone sees any crazy deals on B16s, let me know!
#efcivic #civicsi #efhatch

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6 сен 2024

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@treasureseekerintheway3515 Год назад

B series for sure is my vote. In the meantime you can put engine restore in the oil to help reduce oil consumption and boost compression. Project farm has an older video on it's great results.

@addvancedgarage Год назад

I tried that, didn't help much at all. :( Exciting update in the next week or two!

@treasureseekerintheway3515 Год назад

@@addvancedgarage I am looking forward to the update for sure! I am glad I found your second channel. I really enjoy seeing your vehicle projects.

@justind1180 Год назад

my a6 is doing the exact same thing, at 160k miles. There is black soot that comes out of the tailpipe on cold start and then it stops and it'll burn some oil at higher RPMS. I kind of figured it was the rings but it runs so good like yours and I don't want to rebuild it atm, sooo it's definitely just staying in there for now. B series are getting so expensive, I do have an extra a6 I purchased a while back so that'll probably be the route I go if anything happens. Thanks for the video!

@addvancedgarage Год назад

It’s weird man. 160k isn’t even that high for a Honda. Idc about the oil consumption but w a white car it’s like impossible to keep clean in the back w it doing this.

@justind1180 Год назад

@@addvancedgarage for sure. Mine is Tahitian green so it’s a little less noticeable luckily

@justind1180 Год назад

@@addvancedgarage I was going to try to use a fully synthetic oil and see if it helps. My oil also gets black like immediately after I change it too. Which is shitty

@addvancedgarage Год назад

@@justind1180 Love that color!

@addvancedgarage Год назад

@@justind1180 It doesn't. I'm using mobil 1. No difference.

@9mmghost 9 месяцев назад

Beautiful car a real mans car

@caveone-365 Год назад

OTC makes decent tools, and they're one of the more affordable brands. Yeah if it were coming out, either a B-Series or what I would swap in, a K20 or K24 😁 K-Series is one of the best flowing cylinder heads. Obviously there is a ton of aftermarket for K's and B's so either way...

@addvancedgarage Год назад

I think a K is too hack for a mostly original Si like this; I know it can be done cleanly, but I think an OEM+ build is more appropriate, so B16/18 w quality parts would be perfect. Plus... man... aesthetically the headers on the B facing forwards looks so much better than the K, which just looks backwards.

@caveone-365 Год назад

@@addvancedgarage yeah I can see your points. Yes a B series would technically be more 'period correct' especially if you're going for preservation and more of an OEM+++ type of deal. There are a lot of B series out there so you'd definitely have no problem finding one/ building it how you want!🙂

@ishotasheriff9340 10 месяцев назад

What are the wheels on your honda insight ? I am looking for the ref for my ef

@VWJawbreaker Год назад

All 4 plugs look ok? None of them look like they’re burning oil? Did I kiss that somewhere ?

@addvancedgarage Год назад

Plugs look a little dark, problem is blowby; engine needs rings, and to do that you need to pull it, and if you're doing that, I don't want to put something without Vtec back in tbh.

@VWJawbreaker Год назад

@@addvancedgarage somehow missed the blow by…. Yep, don’t blame you one bit. K series, built bottom end to handle a turbo? Would make that thing fun as hell to drive if you want to dive in that far.

@addvancedgarage Год назад

@@VWJawbreaker Probably go b-series as they drop right in and are more OEM+. K swaps are neat but too much for a survivor Si like this imho. If it was a repainted DX, sure

@VWJawbreaker Год назад

@@addvancedgarage look forward to seeing the progress when the time comes