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Old 05-02-2018, 11:34 PM   #96 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by California98Civic View Post
Bank 1 O2 is the upstream one poking out of the exhaustmaniforld in fromt of the valve cover. There are methods for cleaning them. I have never tried. A replacement sensor for non v-tec-e engines is not very expensive. Yes, even without throwing a CEL it will mess up FE, since the ECU uses its signal to adjust AFR.
Mine is VTEC (not VTEC-E) so would that one be more? If so, would putting a non-VTEC one work?

Just a wildcard thought...would it be possible when replacing it to "trick" the O2 sensor into running leaner?
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