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Hi all, thought i’d put up a few pics of my Milano Red 30th Anniversary edition EP3 Civic Type-R just to share the work so far! :wink:
I’ve only had the car a couple of months, but in this time I think i’ve achieved quite a lot and am really pleased how it’s come up. When I purchased it, I could see there was a good car underneath and it had a Spoon exhaust, coilovers and an AEM air-intake kit as little extras BUT..... despite the reasonable asking price to be fair, it was dirty, needed a thorough polish, full valet inside and a good service........ at 91k, the 75k big service hadn’t been done!!
icardfp:
The following pictures were taken about half an hour after I bought it, ahead of the 3+ hour drive home;
First job a couple of days later.......... a jolly good clean!!
Next up was the dash. It had been carbon wrapped with the door handles and heater control knobs. These look ok but the centre console just wasn’t to my personal taste, so had to be changed. This is how it looked;
I wanted to have my Alpine stereo fitted so when at our local car audio centre having new speakers, tweeters etc fitted as well, a plan was hatched for something a bit different! They stripped off all the carbon wrap off the centre console and found what was underneath was a chipped and scratched silver console (great!icardfp so the plan was to fill it, sand it all down, primer it, spray it and laquer it while also fitting and smoothing in a single din fascia adaptor
I went down to check on the car mid way and found this;
Then looked at the car and found this;
Bit of a mess but the final results were great and it looked like the single din space was factory BUT....... the part of it between the stereo and control knobs just wouldn’t settle and kept 'reacting'.... After a few attempts of sanding it down and re-doing it over a few days, it kept coming back up and looked like this;
Different, but not perfect!
It had to stay like this for a wee while though as the car went off to have 2 days at our local Honda main dealer for the full 75k service amongst other things, where I had the new Jazz Si as my courtesy car. Superb car for what it was, but apparantly it had an iV-TEC.... but I couldn't really notice it!!
I just wasn’t happy though with the fascia on my car, so good old eBay again;
These were fitted and I moved onto other small things;
BEFORE
DURING;
........ and finally, these are the latest pics. The red wheel centres are now on and looking much better
Cleaned up engine bay with brand new Honda battery and Spoon 'socks'
These add about 5 bhp each!
Valeted and wet vac’ed interior is now really looking the part *** and i've also fitted brand new genuine Honda mats, an Armster arm rest fitted and the centre console now all sorted
The standard silver centre console parts have been fitted with an aftermarket single din fascia adaptor. Not a perfect match to the console, but i’m very happy;
With the time of year though, it's proving VERY hard to keep the interior in this condition, so good old eBay came up with the goods again with these tailored seat covers, especially for the Recaro seats as found in the Civic/Integra models etc. The quality is better than the photo suggests tbh;
Overall, theres a few dings here and there and still a bit of paint fade on the passenger side as well as a fag burn on the passenger seat from the previous owner grrrrr, BUT...... it’s not bad for 91,000 miles imo/
I’ve only had the car a couple of months, but in this time I think i’ve achieved quite a lot and am really pleased how it’s come up. When I purchased it, I could see there was a good car underneath and it had a Spoon exhaust, coilovers and an AEM air-intake kit as little extras BUT..... despite the reasonable asking price to be fair, it was dirty, needed a thorough polish, full valet inside and a good service........ at 91k, the 75k big service hadn’t been done!!
icardfp: The following pictures were taken about half an hour after I bought it, ahead of the 3+ hour drive home;
First job a couple of days later.......... a jolly good clean!!
Next up was the dash. It had been carbon wrapped with the door handles and heater control knobs. These look ok but the centre console just wasn’t to my personal taste, so had to be changed. This is how it looked;
I wanted to have my Alpine stereo fitted so when at our local car audio centre having new speakers, tweeters etc fitted as well, a plan was hatched for something a bit different! They stripped off all the carbon wrap off the centre console and found what was underneath was a chipped and scratched silver console (great!
icardfp so the plan was to fill it, sand it all down, primer it, spray it and laquer it while also fitting and smoothing in a single din fascia adaptorI went down to check on the car mid way and found this;
Then looked at the car and found this;
Bit of a mess but the final results were great and it looked like the single din space was factory BUT....... the part of it between the stereo and control knobs just wouldn’t settle and kept 'reacting'.... After a few attempts of sanding it down and re-doing it over a few days, it kept coming back up and looked like this;
Different, but not perfect!
It had to stay like this for a wee while though as the car went off to have 2 days at our local Honda main dealer for the full 75k service amongst other things, where I had the new Jazz Si as my courtesy car. Superb car for what it was, but apparantly it had an iV-TEC.... but I couldn't really notice it!!
I just wasn’t happy though with the fascia on my car, so good old eBay again;
These were fitted and I moved onto other small things;
BEFORE
DURING;
........ and finally, these are the latest pics. The red wheel centres are now on and looking much better
Cleaned up engine bay with brand new Honda battery and Spoon 'socks'
These add about 5 bhp each!
Valeted and wet vac’ed interior is now really looking the part *** and i've also fitted brand new genuine Honda mats, an Armster arm rest fitted and the centre console now all sorted
The standard silver centre console parts have been fitted with an aftermarket single din fascia adaptor. Not a perfect match to the console, but i’m very happy;
With the time of year though, it's proving VERY hard to keep the interior in this condition, so good old eBay came up with the goods again with these tailored seat covers, especially for the Recaro seats as found in the Civic/Integra models etc. The quality is better than the photo suggests tbh;
Overall, theres a few dings here and there and still a bit of paint fade on the passenger side as well as a fag burn on the passenger seat from the previous owner grrrrr, BUT...... it’s not bad for 91,000 miles imo
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