del-sol
The Honda Del Sol is pretty cool. It's like a civic, except only 2 seats, and sportier. I guess it's a little sportier than the CRX which it replaced. BTW, if you can get your hands on a CRX HF, they get 50+mpg. HF is for High Fuel economy. They're also plenty torquey.
This 94 model Del Sol has a removable roof, and the rear windscreen rolls down. It belongs to my sister's neighbor Justin (I documented a clutch on his Hyundai a while back). He called Wednesday morning.
Wednesday afternoon Sean O. stopped by with his Mazda B2500. I worked on that all day today too. Thought done-not done. I'll relay that tale when it is done.
For now, be content with Justin's Honda.
So this thing is pretty loud. Tao Auto wanted a ton of money for an exhaust manifold, so he asked if i could help out. He originally wanted just an o2 sensor, but the manifold is cracked.
I took care of it. Probably saved him a couple hundered bucks or more.
When he tried to back out from Tao, they tried to down sell some headers to him cheaper. Headers are good for the track, but IMO don't do a lot on the street most times, esp with no other changes... plus the manifold i found is still way cheaper. And I'm cheap.. possibly even tawdry, but i hide it well ;)
Err.. Anyway
Cheap parts usually come with a little price of another kind. This time it was just a little weirdness. The manufacturer could have just not included the outer heat shielding at all. I would've been fine with that. They didn't include the inner shielding. I ended up having to re-use both old shields.
new vs old outer shield: 
Funny thing about the extra hole in the old heat shield. It needs to be there so you can CHECK THE OIL.
D'oh.
That's the dipstick jutting out in the pic for effect.
A couple of the bolt holes in the old shield were slopped out, so i added washers. I also had to add bolts/nuts where some were missing, and cut out a 2500rpm rattle on the center pipe... and of course, I installed the new O2 sensor.
So far the check engine light has not come back.
I had that done by about 10:30 I think. I spent most of the day after that on the B2500. I have to do it again tomorrow :( It'll work this time though. I'll post it tomorrow night prob'ly.