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Amazing work on the car mate looking very nice
Loving the Wheels
Amazing work on the car mate looking very nice
Loving the Wheels
Si's second attempt at a Honda...
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The Js racing looks great and I'm not so sure that's restricting you. Alan at solid fab makes great exhausts but Ive never been convinced that his headers make good power. Well made but The primaries always looked too short to me. I've said it to people in the past but the ignored me, installed the headers and got low results.
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So I haven't updated this in a while! ha
Been away with work again on and off for a few months, so thats given me a chance to save a bit of dough. Few things on the car have changed, mainly to make the car a little easier to live with.
The J's racing intake was swapped for a Gruppe M. As much as I love the look of the J's box, it is a pain to remove and fit constantly to be able to gain access to anything in the bay due to its size. It took me a while but I managed to find a genuine Gruppe M for sale at an absolute steal! So snapped it up sharpish. I kept hold of the J's all of this time, and have only just put it up for sale. Lol
Next up was the cat back. Whoever advised me to get a 3" catback is obviously already deaf! Couldn't stand the drone at 70-80 mph. Swapped it out for a Tegiwa exhaust, knowing that it was based off of the Fujitsubo RMOA1 and it was quiet in comparison.
Did a test in the car:
3" @ 70mph = 97dB
2.5" @ 70mph = 84dB
Hopefully I'm quiet enough for track as well now.
I had the mapped tweaked as well so the car could adjust to the different mods. I was expecting to loose power with the 2.5" and potential make it back up with the new induction.
Well I made 227.5hp, and a grand total increase of......1.5hp!!!!
Since I've been back I've turned my attention to suspension, picked up an entire running gear and subframe cheap. So went and collected it all in the BreadVan:
Sent off to be shot blasted then powder coated:
Didn't get any picture of swapping everything over, but went with the SuperPro bush kit and added a JDM rear ARB.
Got some new rubber for the works before I put them back on. Really didn't like the stretch last time, so proper sized tyres. 235/40's. They look chunky here!
Didn't really fit too well with my current camber settings.
Ive had to run a bit more camber than I initially wanted but they are under there so I'm happy. In the future I'll look into rolling the arches further and flaring them out slightly more.
Thats it really for the time being. I've got a trackway booked for the 24th May at Brands which I'm proper looking forward to.
Then it's out of the country come mid June for 6 months again. Great opportunity to save money but just sucks leaving home for so long.
Also in a dilemma of what to do with the car when I get back. Options I like the sound of include:
1) K24 Frank swap on ITB's
2) TTS Rotrex supercharged
3) Sell up and get another DC2
I have a real hankering for another DC2 again (All above mods are dependant on insurance)
Out of those 3 options let me know what your personally choice would be to go...I'm really undecided. Cheers.
Been away with work again on and off for a few months, so thats given me a chance to save a bit of dough. Few things on the car have changed, mainly to make the car a little easier to live with.
The J's racing intake was swapped for a Gruppe M. As much as I love the look of the J's box, it is a pain to remove and fit constantly to be able to gain access to anything in the bay due to its size. It took me a while but I managed to find a genuine Gruppe M for sale at an absolute steal! So snapped it up sharpish. I kept hold of the J's all of this time, and have only just put it up for sale. Lol
Next up was the cat back. Whoever advised me to get a 3" catback is obviously already deaf! Couldn't stand the drone at 70-80 mph. Swapped it out for a Tegiwa exhaust, knowing that it was based off of the Fujitsubo RMOA1 and it was quiet in comparison.
Did a test in the car:
3" @ 70mph = 97dB
2.5" @ 70mph = 84dB
Hopefully I'm quiet enough for track as well now.
I had the mapped tweaked as well so the car could adjust to the different mods. I was expecting to loose power with the 2.5" and potential make it back up with the new induction.
Well I made 227.5hp, and a grand total increase of......1.5hp!!!!
Since I've been back I've turned my attention to suspension, picked up an entire running gear and subframe cheap. So went and collected it all in the BreadVan:
Sent off to be shot blasted then powder coated:
Didn't get any picture of swapping everything over, but went with the SuperPro bush kit and added a JDM rear ARB.
Got some new rubber for the works before I put them back on. Really didn't like the stretch last time, so proper sized tyres. 235/40's. They look chunky here!
Didn't really fit too well with my current camber settings.
Ive had to run a bit more camber than I initially wanted but they are under there so I'm happy. In the future I'll look into rolling the arches further and flaring them out slightly more.
Thats it really for the time being. I've got a trackway booked for the 24th May at Brands which I'm proper looking forward to.
Then it's out of the country come mid June for 6 months again. Great opportunity to save money but just sucks leaving home for so long.
Also in a dilemma of what to do with the car when I get back. Options I like the sound of include:
1) K24 Frank swap on ITB's
2) TTS Rotrex supercharged
3) Sell up and get another DC2
I have a real hankering for another DC2 again (All above mods are dependant on insurance)
Out of those 3 options let me know what your personally choice would be to go...I'm really undecided. Cheers.
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So yesterday I did my 1st ever track day! :lol:
Car was absolutely amazing! Used a bit of oil, used a lot of fuel and used all of my brake pads but was totally worth it!
Took some tuition at the beginning of the day which I'm glad I did (I'm not the most confident of drivers after the accident in my Integra).
A mate of mine came along as well and had a drive of the EP. He's had a Jordan in the past and now has an S15 and was pretty surprised at the handling of the civic.
There were a lot of serious cars out there from a Mk1 Escort to a couple of Ginneta's, so I found myself pulling over to the right quite a lot to let them past (was probably quite annoying having a newb out there! lol) For me it was more about trying to learn the lines, braking points and gearing rather than all out speed. With the car being my daily still I didn't want to push it to the extreme, I know I wasn't fast, but I still had an awesome time.
Brake pedal got really spongy right at the end of the day (5 minutes left) so I decided to come off and call it a day. Drove over to Bluewater for some food and it was a very sketchy drive! Had a look at the pads and I found out the problem pretty fast!!!
Drivers side had a bit left on it...another track day left in these right??
Luckily I took my spare OEM pads along with me, so after an emergency brake change in bluewater I was back on the road
Some footage of me in the car, not quick and not very good lines, but I was learning and improving. 3rd gear was a bit of pain on this session (weird as it was fine on the next one) and I changed to 4th instead of 2nd at one point lol (The rear windscreen was the only place we could find to mount the Go Pro as my mate couldn't find any of the other mounts, sorry about the glare on the windscreen!)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WaJPFI183pU&app=desktop
My mate in the car, is a lot quicker than me, but said he didn't want to push the car too far as it isn't his obviously. About 12 minutes in he is overtaken by a GTR on the straight but he's managing to keep up with him in the corners haha
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wN9RseGf0ck&app=desktop
All in all was a brilliant day, and I'm considering doing another evening session on the 2nd June with a mate in his EP3 before I deploy.
Only real thing that was noticeable was the lack of an LSD, found a few times on accelerating out of the corners getting a bit of wheel spin. Easily overcome though by just not applying so much power too early.
Car was absolutely amazing! Used a bit of oil, used a lot of fuel and used all of my brake pads but was totally worth it!
Took some tuition at the beginning of the day which I'm glad I did (I'm not the most confident of drivers after the accident in my Integra).
A mate of mine came along as well and had a drive of the EP. He's had a Jordan in the past and now has an S15 and was pretty surprised at the handling of the civic.
There were a lot of serious cars out there from a Mk1 Escort to a couple of Ginneta's, so I found myself pulling over to the right quite a lot to let them past (was probably quite annoying having a newb out there! lol) For me it was more about trying to learn the lines, braking points and gearing rather than all out speed. With the car being my daily still I didn't want to push it to the extreme, I know I wasn't fast, but I still had an awesome time.
Brake pedal got really spongy right at the end of the day (5 minutes left) so I decided to come off and call it a day. Drove over to Bluewater for some food and it was a very sketchy drive! Had a look at the pads and I found out the problem pretty fast!!!
Drivers side had a bit left on it...another track day left in these right??
Luckily I took my spare OEM pads along with me, so after an emergency brake change in bluewater I was back on the road
Some footage of me in the car, not quick and not very good lines, but I was learning and improving. 3rd gear was a bit of pain on this session (weird as it was fine on the next one) and I changed to 4th instead of 2nd at one point lol (The rear windscreen was the only place we could find to mount the Go Pro as my mate couldn't find any of the other mounts, sorry about the glare on the windscreen!)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WaJPFI183pU&app=desktop
My mate in the car, is a lot quicker than me, but said he didn't want to push the car too far as it isn't his obviously. About 12 minutes in he is overtaken by a GTR on the straight but he's managing to keep up with him in the corners haha
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wN9RseGf0ck&app=desktop
All in all was a brilliant day, and I'm considering doing another evening session on the 2nd June with a mate in his EP3 before I deploy.
Only real thing that was noticeable was the lack of an LSD, found a few times on accelerating out of the corners getting a bit of wheel spin. Easily overcome though by just not applying so much power too early.
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Well folks, that's me done for 2016
Done the last bit of work on the car the other day, going to go to Players at Goodwood on Saturday for my last show of the year and then next week I'll be locking the car away and leaving the country until December
Going to do a tonne of saving whilst I'm away, and try and make my mind up as to what I want to do with the EP. Currently as it stands the car needs a fair bit of money spending on it to get it back up to scratch. Currently needs:
New coilovers (Yellowspeeds are shot and not happy with the spring rates)
Front brake discs & pads
Major service (valve clearance + fuel filter)
Alignment again as tracking is massively out after Brands
Rear arches rolling flatter and re painting after the paint cracked
So yeh, well over another £1.5K there to be spent. But most of it is wear and tear items along with general maintenance. If I do keep the EP and do a service on it I'll be doing a bit of a health check on the engine as well.
I've been burning quite a bit of oil recently, and a mate noted that it's smoking a fair amount in Vtec. The car is running quite rough compared to when I 1st had it.
So for peace of mind I'm going to do a compression test when I do the valve clearance's and see if anything is fairly obvious. I'll also do a leak down test whilst I'm there as well. Hopefully It's nothing more than the valve stem seals needing replaced.....but I'll have to wait and see....fingers crossed
Also check out this sound coming from the car going over a bumpy road!! I think its the coilovers as there is loads of movement in them when the wheels are in the air. Sounds like the car is about to fall apart!!!
Although I have a major want for an older Honda again (mainly a DC2) It'll mainly be down to Insurance prices tbh, and wether I can part with the EP after spending so much money & time on it. Will have to wait and see come 2017.
Anyway whilst I spend the next 6 months racking my brains over what I want to do with the car I'll leave you with a couple of picture of the car that my mate took at Brands.
My mate just gone past an E36
I never did play around with the damping, but check out that body roll!
The rest of the pictures can be found here if you fancy having a look:
http://s1092.photobucket.com/user/scoleshill92/library/Civic EP3/Trackday at Brands 24-05-16?sort=3&page=1
I'll probably log in every now and again to check everyone else's builds, but there won't be any updates on mine until 2017
Done the last bit of work on the car the other day, going to go to Players at Goodwood on Saturday for my last show of the year and then next week I'll be locking the car away and leaving the country until December
Going to do a tonne of saving whilst I'm away, and try and make my mind up as to what I want to do with the EP. Currently as it stands the car needs a fair bit of money spending on it to get it back up to scratch. Currently needs:
New coilovers (Yellowspeeds are shot and not happy with the spring rates)
Front brake discs & pads
Major service (valve clearance + fuel filter)
Alignment again as tracking is massively out after Brands
Rear arches rolling flatter and re painting after the paint cracked
So yeh, well over another £1.5K there to be spent. But most of it is wear and tear items along with general maintenance. If I do keep the EP and do a service on it I'll be doing a bit of a health check on the engine as well.
I've been burning quite a bit of oil recently, and a mate noted that it's smoking a fair amount in Vtec. The car is running quite rough compared to when I 1st had it.
So for peace of mind I'm going to do a compression test when I do the valve clearance's and see if anything is fairly obvious. I'll also do a leak down test whilst I'm there as well. Hopefully It's nothing more than the valve stem seals needing replaced.....but I'll have to wait and see....fingers crossed
Also check out this sound coming from the car going over a bumpy road!! I think its the coilovers as there is loads of movement in them when the wheels are in the air. Sounds like the car is about to fall apart!!!
Although I have a major want for an older Honda again (mainly a DC2) It'll mainly be down to Insurance prices tbh, and wether I can part with the EP after spending so much money & time on it. Will have to wait and see come 2017.
Anyway whilst I spend the next 6 months racking my brains over what I want to do with the car I'll leave you with a couple of picture of the car that my mate took at Brands.
My mate just gone past an E36
I never did play around with the damping, but check out that body roll!
The rest of the pictures can be found here if you fancy having a look:
http://s1092.photobucket.com/user/scoleshill92/library/Civic EP3/Trackday at Brands 24-05-16?sort=3&page=1
I'll probably log in every now and again to check everyone else's builds, but there won't be any updates on mine until 2017