The team embarked on a project to upgrade a car's engine, focusing on increasing air intake and cooling system efficiency. They started by removing the stock hood and installing new 60mm diameter air filters across the entire front of the car, which significantly increased air flow into the engine.

This change had an impact on the engine's sound and appearance, making it "sound a lot cooler" due to the four new air filters allowing each cylinder to be heard individually. The team also planned to explore electric power steering as a potential alternative to the power steering pump, which was initially installed but proved to be too large for its intended use.

To proceed with the project, the team decided to delete the power steering and focus on completing the necessary modifications. They cut in half the bracket used for the power steering system, hoping to reuse it for the serpentine belt tensioner without the original threaded holes. However, this proved to be a challenge, as they were unable to get the new ITBs (intake throttle body) to fit without compromising its performance.

The team eventually found a solution by cutting the bracket and modifying it to accommodate the new components. They successfully fitted the ITBs with just enough clearance over other components, allowing them to proceed with the project. This required them to chop up the hood to accommodate the larger components, which added to the complexity of the upgrade.

With the power steering issue resolved, the team turned their attention to installing a new throttle cable from a 1996-2000 Civic DX. They successfully replaced the stock throttle cable, which proved to be slightly longer and required some creative problem-solving to fit into the existing setup.

Once the throttle cable was installed, the team connected the battery and checked the connections. The car's engine was able to run, but it struggled to start due to various tuning issues that needed to be addressed. The team cracked open the throttle to get a glimpse of the combustion process and witnessed the engine firing, which proved to be a successful test.

The project's outcome was mixed, with the team acknowledging that they would need to fine-tune the engine further to achieve optimal performance. They planned to take the car to a dyno to fine-tune the tuning and prepare it for track testing in future episodes. The team expressed excitement about the possibilities of this upgrade and looked forward to sharing their progress in subsequent videos.

As the project came to a close, the team realized that they had overcome numerous challenges and successfully implemented a complex upgrade on their vehicle. They acknowledged that there was still work to be done, but they were confident that with further tuning and fine-tuning, they could unlock the full potential of this engine upgrade.

WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: enthis is our $500 Civic and this is a $5,000 set of itbs now we've already PL out about $30,000 worth of Parts into this car from wheels and tires to brakes suspension a whole new engine and a completely refreshed interior but it's still falling a little short of our goal which is beating a brand new Civic typ R at the track yeah so today we're going to install these itbs and a set of cams to see if that's all that's standing between us and beating our goal as always before we install the new stuff we got to take off the old stuff so that means getting the uh intake manifold and everything surrounding it off and getting the valve cover off and getting down to the cams and to make sure that we don't screw anything up we got the boys from drag cartel here to give us a hand so it should make it pretty easy all right why' you say right at the end cuz right so you might be wondering why we're going to be changing the cam shafts well the cams that we're going to be going to are going to allow us to make a little bit more power at higher end uh we're also going to be doing upgraded valve spring which is going to allow us to crank up to about 9,000 RPMs so I'm pretty happy about that what why do we replace Springs well so you need more Seat pressure at high RPMs if you have a you know stock sping just start floating because the valve itself has inertia and that can overcome the pressure of the spring itself so if you're at those High revs mhm it floats like you said exactly so you need a stronger spring to push it back into place that's right and then you can get into those crazy 9 10,000 RPM numbers if you have enough valve spring so we're going to have a double spring set up here and that'll keep our valves closing uh consistently at really high RPMs I love learning I love lamp Okay stock cams are out making quick progress we've got to compress our valve springs just put a tool on on this bar and use a little bit of Leverage compress your spring take everything apart and the new Springs can go in nice and easy now we just got to repeat that process 15 more times might be wondering hey if the Springs are taken out what's keeping the valves from falling into the cylinder well the drag cartel guys brought a little fitting that pressurizes the cylinder and keeps the valves in the up position and allows us to change the Springs with the head still on the engine a lot of time get used to this so a good set of cam shafts for performance application is going to have a little bit more lift which means the lobe is a little bit taller which means it opens the valve a little bit further and it'll have more duration which is the kind of sharpness of the curve there you can you can see this is pretty wide which means it's going to hold the valve open for a little bit longer before it closes back up so that let just suck more air in push more air out and ultimately move more air which is what a Performance Engine needs to do to make power I mean it's an air pump it's an air pump yeah pump more air make more power nice all right the drag Cartel Boys just finished up putting in the cams we're going to fire it up make sure it still runs and then get to tackle in the itbs who gets to do the honors rock paper scissors yeah three times Wow have you ever seen job defeated at rock paper scissors before kanan's gotten me a few times a time or two let's just do key on make sure check no leaks you know mhm mhm MH fill her up give her a cran Cola woo yeah yeah okay the job is halfway done well sounds great solid work now we get to replace this basketball fans your time is finally here and for those of you looking to win big this season today's sponsor DraftKings has a special offer just for you all new customers who bet $5 will get $200 in bonus bets instantly download the DraftKings app now okay you can even use that $200 in bonus bets on DraftKings same game parlay it lets you combine multiple bets from the same game including Player points rebounds assists and more if you already signed up for DraftKings no sweat buddy all customers can get same game parlay or SGP X if your bet doesn't hit Max reward limits appli so download the draftking Sportsbook app now new customers use promo code donut bet just $5 on any wager and you'll get $200 in bonus bets instantly that's promo code donut only at draftking Sportsbook all right so this is our stock intake manifold and throttle body there you go oh we've got one throttle body here which opens when you hit the throttle and then that one hole is responsible for sucking all the air that your engine needs to use in and then it gets distributed to each cylinder by way of this manifold this one is 65 mm across and these are each 60 mm across so we've gone from a 65 mm hole to basically 240 mm of hole so we're going to get a lot more air into the engine and it's also going to sound a lot cooler because we've got four of these things just letting us listen to each cylinder all right that up I just want to see how far we have to go to get to that look like about a half inch I mean it's like that's that's not happening or more yeah it appears we've come to an impact here why gentlemen well our power steering pump is making contact with the stack right here we can't get it to come over far well we're definitely doing itvs so I guess we're going to delete the power steering that we just installed maybe this is a good time to explore electric power steering we might have to I mean is this bracketry going to be in the way too no so once this is off you could just literally stop that should make it pretty easy right why'd you say right at the end why' you say right at the end okay so we are going to do something about our power steering we're not exactly sure what but one thing that needs to happen is the bracket needs to be cut uh in half so me and Nolan together are going to cut it four hands one angle grinder goes wow oh yeah no problem we left these two threaded holes in hopes that we'll be able to reuse them for our serpentine belt tensioner without those we're going to have to go to a whole different setup for a serpentine belt so fingers crossed on that we're going to do a little test fit see how it looks and hope that we've got all the room in the world oh man something feels like it's making contact like I'm not tripping right job take that oh yeah it's just sitting right on there yeah looks like you going to have to Lop it completely FL looks like unfortunately we're going to have to lose this threaded hole which means we lose the ability to use the tensioner that we had so back to the saw on definitely resting on that thing still cut more again all right so after a bunch of cutting and grinding we got the itbs to fit with just enough clearance over here oh yeah baby oh boy wow that looks pretty cool I am pretty bummed we're going to have to chop the hood up we'll we'll think of something this is all going to require a rune obviously ly between the cams the itbs themselves and the bigger fuel injectors this thing should fire up hopefully but it's not going to run great you all right yes we need to hook up the throttles too yeah we need to hook up the throttles that should be pretty easy all right so we're replacing our throttle cable with one from a 96 to a 2000 Civic DX I think it's just a little bit longer and we'll work with our setup oh there it goes wow look at that here you can pull the stock one out now feed the uh the other one in oh baby there you go yeah this is going to be tight there you go and then I'll stand by to test the throttle okay all the connectors are connected the battery is also connected there's a few odds and ends that still need to be dealt with what really matters is finding out if this thing runs hit it yeah I mean that's uh close to what I expected you can tell it can run but it really doesn't want to right now I'm going to crack the throttle just a little bit see what happen W all right that was sick did you see that fire all right it runs dude sort of yes yes we got to get it tuned but we knew that there's a lot of things we got to do in this thing unfortunately I don't think we're going to be able to take it to the tracks in this episode so next time make sure you hit that subscribe button cuz we're going to get all the parts we need for this thing going to get it tuned and take it to that Dyno then finally take it to the track and see if we can beat that freaking 2023 typ bar dude I know we got it I know we got it so thank you for watching we'll see you next timethis is our $500 Civic and this is a $5,000 set of itbs now we've already PL out about $30,000 worth of Parts into this car from wheels and tires to brakes suspension a whole new engine and a completely refreshed interior but it's still falling a little short of our goal which is beating a brand new Civic typ R at the track yeah so today we're going to install these itbs and a set of cams to see if that's all that's standing between us and beating our goal as always before we install the new stuff we got to take off the old stuff so that means getting the uh intake manifold and everything surrounding it off and getting the valve cover off and getting down to the cams and to make sure that we don't screw anything up we got the boys from drag cartel here to give us a hand so it should make it pretty easy all right why' you say right at the end cuz right so you might be wondering why we're going to be changing the cam shafts well the cams that we're going to be going to are going to allow us to make a little bit more power at higher end uh we're also going to be doing upgraded valve spring which is going to allow us to crank up to about 9,000 RPMs so I'm pretty happy about that what why do we replace Springs well so you need more Seat pressure at high RPMs if you have a you know stock sping just start floating because the valve itself has inertia and that can overcome the pressure of the spring itself so if you're at those High revs mhm it floats like you said exactly so you need a stronger spring to push it back into place that's right and then you can get into those crazy 9 10,000 RPM numbers if you have enough valve spring so we're going to have a double spring set up here and that'll keep our valves closing uh consistently at really high RPMs I love learning I love lamp Okay stock cams are out making quick progress we've got to compress our valve springs just put a tool on on this bar and use a little bit of Leverage compress your spring take everything apart and the new Springs can go in nice and easy now we just got to repeat that process 15 more times might be wondering hey if the Springs are taken out what's keeping the valves from falling into the cylinder well the drag cartel guys brought a little fitting that pressurizes the cylinder and keeps the valves in the up position and allows us to change the Springs with the head still on the engine a lot of time get used to this so a good set of cam shafts for performance application is going to have a little bit more lift which means the lobe is a little bit taller which means it opens the valve a little bit further and it'll have more duration which is the kind of sharpness of the curve there you can you can see this is pretty wide which means it's going to hold the valve open for a little bit longer before it closes back up so that let just suck more air in push more air out and ultimately move more air which is what a Performance Engine needs to do to make power I mean it's an air pump it's an air pump yeah pump more air make more power nice all right the drag Cartel Boys just finished up putting in the cams we're going to fire it up make sure it still runs and then get to tackle in the itbs who gets to do the honors rock paper scissors yeah three times Wow have you ever seen job defeated at rock paper scissors before kanan's gotten me a few times a time or two let's just do key on make sure check no leaks you know mhm mhm MH fill her up give her a cran Cola woo yeah yeah okay the job is halfway done well sounds great solid work now we get to replace this basketball fans your time is finally here and for those of you looking to win big this season today's sponsor DraftKings has a special offer just for you all new customers who bet $5 will get $200 in bonus bets instantly download the DraftKings app now okay you can even use that $200 in bonus bets on DraftKings same game parlay it lets you combine multiple bets from the same game including Player points rebounds assists and more if you already signed up for DraftKings no sweat buddy all customers can get same game parlay or SGP X if your bet doesn't hit Max reward limits appli so download the draftking Sportsbook app now new customers use promo code donut bet just $5 on any wager and you'll get $200 in bonus bets instantly that's promo code donut only at draftking Sportsbook all right so this is our stock intake manifold and throttle body there you go oh we've got one throttle body here which opens when you hit the throttle and then that one hole is responsible for sucking all the air that your engine needs to use in and then it gets distributed to each cylinder by way of this manifold this one is 65 mm across and these are each 60 mm across so we've gone from a 65 mm hole to basically 240 mm of hole so we're going to get a lot more air into the engine and it's also going to sound a lot cooler because we've got four of these things just letting us listen to each cylinder all right that up I just want to see how far we have to go to get to that look like about a half inch I mean it's like that's that's not happening or more yeah it appears we've come to an impact here why gentlemen well our power steering pump is making contact with the stack right here we can't get it to come over far well we're definitely doing itvs so I guess we're going to delete the power steering that we just installed maybe this is a good time to explore electric power steering we might have to I mean is this bracketry going to be in the way too no so once this is off you could just literally stop that should make it pretty easy right why'd you say right at the end why' you say right at the end okay so we are going to do something about our power steering we're not exactly sure what but one thing that needs to happen is the bracket needs to be cut uh in half so me and Nolan together are going to cut it four hands one angle grinder goes wow oh yeah no problem we left these two threaded holes in hopes that we'll be able to reuse them for our serpentine belt tensioner without those we're going to have to go to a whole different setup for a serpentine belt so fingers crossed on that we're going to do a little test fit see how it looks and hope that we've got all the room in the world oh man something feels like it's making contact like I'm not tripping right job take that oh yeah it's just sitting right on there yeah looks like you going to have to Lop it completely FL looks like unfortunately we're going to have to lose this threaded hole which means we lose the ability to use the tensioner that we had so back to the saw on definitely resting on that thing still cut more again all right so after a bunch of cutting and grinding we got the itbs to fit with just enough clearance over here oh yeah baby oh boy wow that looks pretty cool I am pretty bummed we're going to have to chop the hood up we'll we'll think of something this is all going to require a rune obviously ly between the cams the itbs themselves and the bigger fuel injectors this thing should fire up hopefully but it's not going to run great you all right yes we need to hook up the throttles too yeah we need to hook up the throttles that should be pretty easy all right so we're replacing our throttle cable with one from a 96 to a 2000 Civic DX I think it's just a little bit longer and we'll work with our setup oh there it goes wow look at that here you can pull the stock one out now feed the uh the other one in oh baby there you go yeah this is going to be tight there you go and then I'll stand by to test the throttle okay all the connectors are connected the battery is also connected there's a few odds and ends that still need to be dealt with what really matters is finding out if this thing runs hit it yeah I mean that's uh close to what I expected you can tell it can run but it really doesn't want to right now I'm going to crack the throttle just a little bit see what happen W all right that was sick did you see that fire all right it runs dude sort of yes yes we got to get it tuned but we knew that there's a lot of things we got to do in this thing unfortunately I don't think we're going to be able to take it to the tracks in this episode so next time make sure you hit that subscribe button cuz we're going to get all the parts we need for this thing going to get it tuned and take it to that Dyno then finally take it to the track and see if we can beat that freaking 2023 typ bar dude I know we got it I know we got it so thank you for watching we'll see you next time