CW DC5- K20 FAK

[Jinis dust]

Then I was up at croft circuit the week after for a track day that's organised through the ford RS owners club.
Needed some new rubber, so thought I'd try these,
Federal 595 RSR's

All fitted

Drove up to croft the following Friday, camped up there all weekend.
Out on track all day Saturday, was wet in the morning so took it steady, but still bout lost it at one point lol!
Here's a vid of the first morning session, was first time at this track and wet..https://vimeo.com/175088991

And this was in the afternoon once the track had dried up, and I had a bit more confidence.
Had a really good battle with a supercharged ST and 2 Clio sports, I did get past them all eventually lol! https://vimeo.com/175090216

Did a good job of scrubbing them new tyres in haha

Not car related, but we got a local pizza shop to deliver us nearly £200 worth of pizza haha!

Also set my self a new miles to a full tank record.. 105 haha!

More updates to follow


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[Chris.]

How did you find the RS-R's on track? Have you tried any other tyres on track to compare?

 

[Jinis dust]

Found them amazing, but, can't compare them to anything really, as I've never tried any semi slicks, only road tyres.
Ad08r's next I think


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[Chris.]

I've got them on my Evo, they aren't as good as AD08R on track however they nearly are. But they are a lot cheaper! So I think I'll stick with them till I get my sump baffle in and I go to a proper semi slick tyre.

 

[Jinis dust]

That's what a lot of people say, but, you get a extra 2-2.5mm tread on the ad08r's.
Sump baffles on my list!



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[Chris.]

They cost me £85 a corner, AD08R's are £130 the last time I checked so a fair difference.

 

[Jinis dust]

Think I paid £80 ea a corner, ad08's about £100 a corner


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[Jinis dust]

Right, so after croft I decided to paint my callipers, as they was starting to look real sorry for them selves.

So I whipped them off, only to find the pads needed replacing too, whipped the pads out and the seals were buggered too haha.

So they've been treated to a full rebuild with paint after seeing the thread in here.

Before I touched them

Pads out

Broken dust seals

Stripped them all out and gave everything a good clean

Old pads

Taped up

Primed

Painted

New shims and seals

Brembo stickers on and lacquered up,
DS2500 pads to go in. They held up good at croft so I've gone for the same again.

New shims in

All back together

Jobs a fish!

Happy days



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[Kev.W]

Looking much better dude! A job I need to look into doing at some point, mine have gone pink over most of them

 

[Jinis dust]

Looking much better dude! A job I need to look into doing at some point, mine have gone pink over most of them

Thanks pal!

Make such a big difference to really freshening it up


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[Chris.]

Nice work but there are much better pads around.

 

[Jinis dust]

I also set about getting my oil temp gauge wired in once and for all,
I opted to put the actual temp sensor in where the sump plug goes, so went for one of these adaptors..

Using some hondabond HT to seal it

I then jacked it up and attempted to "snatch" it, went well, only lost about 50ml of oil lol!

Ran the cable through the bulk head with the rest of them and down the back out the way of heat.
So all wired up now and working a treat!

While I was under the car there was still oil collecting down there -.-
But from the drivers side this time, so I followed it up and decided it's the VTEC solenoid gasket. Next job..
New gasket and solenoid off.
I also asked for the "spool gasket" which I thought was the round one on the top of the solenoid. Turns out it's not, so I've just left that one.

Gave it all a good clean up, ( I know you won't see it, but it's nice to know haha)

You can see here how flat the old one is vs the new one

Removed the actual solenoid to find I had the wrong gasket. So I just hondabond'd it

Slight bit of sealant on the new gasket too

No pictures of putting it back on as you can't really see it.
But I cleaned all the surface first then put it on, there is 3x 10mm long bolts that hold it on, you just have to feel your way.
After recent checks it's all dry under there.. Finally!

Now, getting a little more recent,
Attended the fast car festival at donnington on the Sunday, was a real good show with a very wide verity of cars.
The ITR DC5 club stand was heaving!
Jokes, there was me and Chris Martin on it, another dc5 come and parked with us briefly, didn't say hello or stay there long though haha.

Need to have my bonnet open to show off all my hard work

Also I booked a 20min track session, thought it would be rude not to seems as I was already there.

As I was on track a new mini infront of me burst out in smoke (later found out it was his coolant pipe had split) leaking fluid all on the track, just after a long straight doing about 120, as I braked for for the corner the abs kicked in and I thought I was going into the tyre wallBut all was okay luckily!
Got chatting to the lad after and he very kindly gave me his later 2 track sessions which I very much enjoyed. Anywayyy,
Few pics, still watermarked because I'm too tight to buy them

Chasing my mate in his mk1 RS

Bit of track action
https://vimeo.com/178221011
Overall the car performed well on track, again! And I'm well chuffed with it to say the least. Loved donnington once I finally got used to the track.

Enjoy the read, pictures and video





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[Godsequal]

Haha. Love on the second track photo you can see dannydc2 hunting you in his k-swapped eg.

 

[Chris.]

He's sold that now.

 

[Jinis dust]

yeah him and that black clio was flying, I couldn't keep up for **** lol.

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[Jinis dust]

My head lights looked real poor and I was thinking about new ones, as the difference is night and day,
But first decided to try giving them a good spruce up.
So, here's before

During, notice all the yellow crap coming off them!

One done

Job done, really happy with them for now, so no major rush for new ones as of yet, (would love some though )

I went down to the tegiwa breakfast meet they had not long back, was a good little meet, didn't get any photos though.
I did finally get my hands on a scoop though, so can finally cover the holes in my scuttle, and some nice carbon goodness

Also got some oil and a filter, been 4500 hard miles since turboing, with a fair bit of track time.

Out with the old lovely stuff

In with the new, time for some more VTEC'in
Met up with a few of the lads at a mini meet

Also I've finally got the Teg booked back in at TDI north to wind the boost up, roll on sept 16th!

And finally I'll leave you with this, not a dc5 but still a Honda heart, was down at a local meet (MFN) AE86 with a f20 on bodies
So awesome!

Thanks


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[Jinis dust]

Right, been a while so I think it's update time!

Long post, lots of pictures, finally had the boost wound up!

Maybe a few of you might of seen this on FB but I woke up on The last bank holiday with a lovely surprise...

Yup, some little crettin decided to smash my window and steal my camera, fuming! It was in a bag so they got lucky that it was in there I guess. Oh well, you live and learn.

Tried sorting through insurance first but they told me a 14 week wait for the glass.. Haha I don't think so.

So, temporary

I ended up ordering one from integrastella on eBay, speedy delivery but, BUT it was scratched to hell and back

Gutted! So with not wanting to happen again I arranged to go to his unit and collect a new one. Got there with a choice of 3 which were all unblemished.

Pretty sound bloke tbf, showed me round all the cars he was breaking and his own r35 which was awesome. Couple of NSX shells lol and a excrement load of dc5's' s2k's and ep3's..

If you ever need anything and are quite close, go and collect it. Amazing place lol!

So then I set about getting the old one out.. Wow that window bonding stuff is hard to cut, surprised I've got any fingers left

Old v new

All glued back in and job done.

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Then I was on to swapping a few bits before I went for mapping.

New air filter, twice the size

Yes I know my breather isn't in the catch can

Altered the screamer pipe so it was easier to take on/off with a "V" band and Had a proper 90degree mandrel bend welded in.

I had a little bit of intercooler pipe that was 2.25" compared to the rest at 2.5" so I upgraded that
Had to "tap" it for the IAT

comparing size..

all fitted

I removed the one way valve from the PCV seems as it now goes to a catch can

Few whacks with a hammer and pin and out it all came

Freeee flowingggg

Then I saw some avid billet mounts come up on the forum, which I really felt the car needs on track, so I snapped them up!
Oooo pretty

Went for the gear box one first, and guess what, it doesn't fit. Apparently you have to grind the bracket down ever so slightly

Jobs a fish.. After stripping down a load of bits

Then moved on to the opposite side,
Had to relocate the earth

I've also done the rear lower one but not got pictures as its quite awkward as im sure a lot of you know.

Cabin vibrations aren't as bad as I was expecting tbh. Don't get me wrong the shake the cabin and get worse as the revs go up, but racecar

While doing these I noticed one of my top mounts had split.

New one ordered and fitted

Good as new

And finally to finish off,
It was then Time to take a trip back up to TDI north to have the boost wound up, boost by gear set up and switchable maps.
All went well and it made a cracking 404bhp on high boost and 330 on the low boost. Feels like a totally different car!

https://vimeo.com/185814142

Thanks for reading


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[Jinis dust]

Also forgot to add,

I was driving around for 3 weeks with out any MOT haha!
As soon as I realised I got one the same day, anddd it failed. Only on tyres so I had to blip home and quickly swap wheels

It then passed with just "rear brake pads wearing thin" so that was on the to do list.

Since then I've had some new eagle f1's fitted. Okay in the dry and decent in the wet.

Been and had my tracking done again after changing the top mount

Got some new oem rear Honda pads
Stripped, fitted and back together

Had what was left of the RSR's put on oem wheels for track days or santa pod which I've been to again recently.

Best time I did was 13.36 so basically added over 100bhp to shave off 7 tenths of a second haha!

Spoke to this guy after and he's running about 440bhp so it was a close one. Really need the boost dropping loads in 2nd and a little at the top end of 3rd to help traction.
Makes me want/need kpro so I could alter my self.. but that's another thing on the "want" list lol
https://vimeo.com/190174480
And a inside view
https://vimeo.com/190174633

And that's it for now.

I've just "SORN" for over winter, kind of got plans, not 100% on what exactly, but got a idea. So I'll try and keep it updated!

Cheers

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[Jinis dust]

not much happening atm, just keeping the thread alive.

gave it a wash before
tucking it away at the beginning of December

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sold the rotas

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bought a Daily beater
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it's actually quite nice to have a car that you don't give a toss about, leave it where ever and not worry bout it.

removed back bumper and lights ready to POR15.



also got a little collection of parts going on more updates to follow, at some point

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[Jinis dust]

carrying on from the back bumper removal.
before, lots of horrible rust spots

the por 15 kit I got

found some old tyre from a track day

I started of with wire wheeling/ sanding alot of the paint off and scabby rust marks off

ordered a bigger tin of the paint as was sure the little one wouldn't be enough

then prepped and and painted as per instructions.

once I was happy, ( 3 coats of the stuff happy) I set about reassembling it,
all nuts and bolts have been replaced with stainless steel so hopefully no more rust!

ordered a pair of new bumper brackets as they both broke when I came to remove them

bumpers staying off for now till I can be bothered to re fit it.

pretty boring I know, but never the less, well worth doing for future proofing!
cheers

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