TimGoj's Cosmic Ep3 - New to TRO

Tim Goj · Jun 28, 2016

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I'm new to Type-r owners, quite a regular poster over at EP civic and been meaning to register and get all sorted but for some reason i haven't!
so guys excuse the random text where it says updates as such as your seeing this as one huge post of progress since December when i got the car.
been trying to track down the old owner who swapped the ep3 in for a FK2 in kendal honda, would love to meet the previous owner as hugely grateful for the car!

So enough with the waffling heres the progress!

So guys after having my Ep2 for over 3 years and looking around at insurance thought it was time to upgrade, after living with my EP and messing about with it alot, i knew exactly what i was looking for........................ A low mileage EP3 in cosmic grey and preferably a Prem!.

I started looking around and found a 05 plate cosmic with lots of premier goodies including a subtle twin back box and rota titans, it was for sale in Kendal in Cumbria at a local Honda dealership, after emailing them and getting immediately put off by the response i got! i asked if the timing chain had been done and the response i got was priceless!

Hi Tim,

Firstly, I would like to thank you for your enquiry on our Civic Type R.

All Honda’s run off a timing belt, rather than a chain, this means they never need changing.

what a TIT!

So i kind of glanced over the car i liked it but it put me off as it seemed really unprofessional and lazy as they didn't know what they were selling!.

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[FONT=&amp]anyway after looking around and viewing a couple that were not really for me or had issues i came back to the car, i rang the dealership and started speaking to one of the Sales Rep's, he spoke to me about the car and we discussed it quite abit. the car sounded perfect! it wasn't a prem but it had all the prem gear on it in and low miles, and to top it of full service history with most of it being with honda themselves.

I decided after discussing the car alot with the rep that i would put down a deposit and we agreed on a price of & £5750 with a full service, full tank of fuel and 1 years warranty all thrown in, down from & £6k. We agreed that if the car wasn’t as described ( excellent condition inside and out) i would get my deposit back! Which i could not argue with!

after setting the day as the 5th of December the collection date could not come quick enough i was nervous and excited

This is what i was expecting

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[FONT=&amp]I noticed a few bits which just made it more exciting, i was told it had a back box, rota's and fog lights and nothing else! oh how wrong they were!

i got to the dealership after the serve flooding that you've probably all seen on the news, i test drove the car and was seriously impressed everywhere was flooded yet found somewhere dry enough to open it up a little and test it out! i was sold it runs and drives perfect!.

We got back to the dealership to close the deal and i decided to look under the bonnet......

The car has to a tegiwa strut brace, meister coilovers and a FRSU, and a Gruppe m Intake! what a bargin!

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[FONT=&amp]ever single route out of kendal was flooded to f**k everywhere was impossbile to go down without either killing the car or doing serious damage!, we found a route out that was the only out of kendal that was still able to be driven on, the gruppe m saved my ass big time!.

The splitter was not attached to the bumper and instead was just lipped round. when we ended up getting home and looked at the front of the car the splitter was gone! the water had pulled it off and swept it away and even if i had noticed if i stopped it would have risked the car! no chance

so at home annoyed but thankful put my previous splitter of my EP2 on the EP3 just untill i manage to get a cosmic splitter! could have been so much worse.

the majority of yesterday was used swapped parts over, double din from my ep2 into the ep3 and other little parts.

the carbon mugen spoiler is now fitted and awaiting the bonnet changing over and a few other details.

Here is how she stands at the moment!

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[FONT=&amp]Found the car has many other goodies![/FONT]
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JDM mats
Fog lights
Door insert tweeters
Skunk 2 Weighted Gear knob
Tegiwa short shifter

Gruppe M intake
Tegiwa Strutt brace
Meister Coilovers
Buddy club Camber arms and Camber bolts
Rota Titans on yoka's

After properly driving it in the dry and testing out what it can really do i was blown away! having drivven many other Ep's Including Standard EP3's the car felt completely different to them all. so decided to look through the paper work.
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Did a few little bits So far swapping parts over from my Ep2
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OEM Facelift head lights replaced with refurbed lights - HID'S transferred over aswell
Carbon Mugen Spoiler Transferred across
Pioneer Double Din Installed and bulbs replaced in gauges as 2 had blown
Leather gear gator was worn so swapped out for the EP2 Rubber gaitor - Will replace at some point
EP2 facelift splitter installed untill i can get it either re sprayed or a cosmic one!

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[FONT=&amp]At this moment in time i'm more than happy with the power so will get it looking mean for shows Next year!

Rate or hate welcome!

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K20A2 Engine and box
Gruppe M intake
SFS intake hose
IAC-V delete
Oil Sandwhich Plate
Hell Braided Brake lines
DS2000 front and rear pads
Tegiwa Brake Stopper
Tegiwa Front Upper Strut Brace
Tegiwa engine torque damper
Tegiwa Short Shifter Bushings
Energy Suspension Front and rear lower engine and gearbox mount inserts
Fujitsubo Legalis R - Cat back - Now running Dc sports Backbox couple'd with this B pipe
Fast road Set up By ABP motorsport
Type R battery Stay
Carbon Plug cover
Carbon Inlet cover
Refurbished Rocker Cover

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Premier interior
JDM matts
OEM tweeter Pods
Stack Oil Temp and pressure Gauges
Pioneer - avh-x2500bt Double din
JL audio speakers all round
Skunk 2 gear knob
Tegiwa Short shifter
Broadway Convexed Rear View mirror
F1 Style High level Rear Brake Lights
L.E.D interior Lights

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Carbon Tegiwa OEM style Bonnet
Carbon Mugen Grill
Carbon Mugen Spoiler
Lightly tinted Facelift tail lights
Refurbished Fog Lights
Heko Wind deflectors
Hella Horns - Stripped and painted Purple
Stuke Canards
De-badged and Stickers removed
Meister Coilovers currently around 60-70mm Drop
Buddy Club Rear Camber arms
Eibach front Camber bolts
Rota Torque's Wrapped in Yoke's & a set of Wolfrace JDM'S wrapped in Nankang NS2's

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[FONT=&amp]Hopefully This weekend the weathers better so i can clean this up big time! [/FONT]
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[FONT=&amp]Over the Moon With it so far! just making it my own and enjoying it!

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[FONT=&amp]Just another little one if you guys haven't seen Kendal on the news recently these are the photos from the day i went to collect the car.[/FONT]
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[FONT=&amp]on the way up there was a moderate amount of rain nothing over the top, as soon as we got there that was a completely different story! [/FONT]
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[FONT=&amp]So with a list as long as my arm planned to do or to get done i started making a list and pulling some bits i wanted together. [/FONT]
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[FONT=&amp]first up was to get the tracking sorted as it was ever so slightly out and making it a right royal pain in the wet if i give it any power! [/FONT]
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[FONT=&amp]car is in ace condition underneath but still on my list is to full clean and paint/protect the underside stopping any nasties in the future![/FONT]
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[FONT=&amp]also ordered this beauty from Spooner Restorations, sound guy definitely worth a look if you are after a refurb! [/FONT]
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[FONT=&amp]cleaned the engine bay up this weekend looks a lot lot better, still many things to come across from the ep2 big updates tomorrow and wednesday! [/FONT]

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[FONT=&amp]Few things turned up and got sorted some jobs from the EP2 over to this [/FONT]
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[FONT=&amp]First of all i cleaned the engine bay and removed the strut brace as it was massively pitted and faded so looked crap.[/FONT]
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[FONT=&amp]Swapped over my lights from my Ep2 which had been lightly smoked to get rid of the lexus look, [/FONT]
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[FONT=&amp]went to fit my inlet cover - Turns out the two brackets i needed are missing and couldn't find second hand ones anywhere [/FONT]
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[FONT=&amp]So the car on a previous update got tracked by formula one as it was out, they did the work but didn't lock the steering wheel to the brake. [/FONT]
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[FONT=&amp]First of was a trip to ABP motorsport for a fast road set-up - car drives absolutely awesome now and i cant believe the difference it has made.[/FONT]
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Loxy · Jun 28, 2016

Hello and welcome. :smt006

I'll read through the post properly later, but that car was owned by James Jackson or shanei I think his forum name was. He hasn't been on here for a while.

Miksey · Aug 1, 2016

Love the idea with the F1 style brake lights, might go for the same. What's that grey half-round surroundings behind the lights?

jimbodeeni · Aug 1, 2016

Nice thread! some cracking pictures.

RichE91 · Aug 1, 2016

Welcome in! Great thread, been through it all: you're doing it all right! Seems you were lucky the dealership had no idea what they were selling!

Yours suffers what mine did, mismatched colour between body and bumpers/ skirts, right PITA

Tim Goj · Aug 5, 2016

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Love the idea with the F1 style brake lights, might go for the same. What's that grey half-round surroundings behind the lights?

its an electric drum kit

Tim Goj · Aug 5, 2016

RichE91 said:
Welcome in! Great thread, been through it all: you're doing it all right! Seems you were lucky the dealership had no idea what they were selling!

Yours suffers what mine did, mismatched colour between body and bumpers/ skirts, right PITA

Thank you! moneys tight at the min as im just starting my own business up, so im trying to get bits done when, theres a little dent on the drivers arch that needs pulling out, ideally want the arch doing, wheels refurbed or replaced, but to be honest absolutely love these so more thhan likely just a refurb. then the roof and top spoiler im either thinking gloss black or carbon skin it with real carbon. but undecided yet.

then from there, buy another front bumper, smooth it again and have the lips and bumper repainted.

Tim Goj · Aug 5, 2016

thank you!

Tim Goj · Aug 5, 2016

Another update!

so guys due to internet issues haven't been able to keep you updated with the progress.

back at the start of july went to tunerfest with my best mate, awesome day shame it chucked it down all day! still awesome though!

cheeky picture of cocking a leg pulling onto a mates drive, not noticed it doing it before!

Cheeky clean.

Been having some issues with the front calipers sticking on, tried un-seizing them once which worked for all about 4 days then same again so ordered some OE spec calipers, £128 for the pair 5 year warranty! so much better, painted them cadburys purple, need to paint the rear calipers and carriers and front carriers, however ideally going to get a full new rear brake set up disc's pads and calipers ready for track days.

as i'm starting my own business and was sick of the crap i was getting on a daily basis from my work, handed in my notice with immediate effect and decided whack some parts on!

ported and polished inlet.

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not a bad job either! car is so much more responsive, picks up great, checked the fueling before and after as well as worried it would run lean, diagnositics show the fuel trim is slightly richer across the board than previous as expected due to faster flow in air/ amount of air. so cant complain.

also serviced the car, oil hamp shortie filter, and spark plugs, car purs like anything.

set about removing the air con pump as i had already removed the A/C as it wasnt working. and never use it.

removed it on my Ep2 and it did make a difference, so i thought what the hell, new tensioner pulley bought and fitted and new shortened belt fitted.

EP3 pump was a piece of cake to remove. EP3 pump my god no reason there is no guides, you have three options, drop the subframe, remove the A/C rad and normal or INLET the thing i did the day before!
my own fault for not checking!

anyways took me about 3 hours of messing trying to get to all the bolts and wiggling and trying not to drop the subframe much.

the result is fantastic! picks up again alot better and revs much free'er accelerates like no end!

took a friend out who has a supercharged mugen 200 and he thought it was mapped as it was pulling so hard. which is crazy as its not mapped.

had a play with a friend who has a mapped fn2 running 240bhp and he was pulling away from me, again had a little play after removing the A/C and fitting the inlet, kept with him and began pulling on him which i was shocked by.

as im going to be doing track days in it also cut the bumper as looking at buying a second to smooth and repaint to have the best of both worlds.

lowered the engine bay temps by 7-9 degrees depending on how im driving.

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Miksey · Aug 5, 2016

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its an electric drum kit

Oh my, I thought that's some kind of reflector or shield behind the light :lol:

Looks really clean and brought me to finally get a Mugen spoiler for mine. Wasn't sure if it will look good with the dual tip exhaust I got, so thanks for the pictures

Kelvinep3 · Aug 5, 2016

Stunning, absolutly stunning car mate. Keep on going!!

TuckR · Aug 5, 2016

Lot's of work gone into it already, coming along nicely mate keep it up.

Tim Goj · Sep 20, 2016

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Stunning, absolutly stunning car mate. Keep on going!!

Thank you!

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Tim Goj · Sep 20, 2016

tucker87 said:
Lot's of work gone into it already, coming along nicely mate keep it up.

Thank you means alot !

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Tim Goj · Sep 20, 2016

So guys sorry for the lack of updates its been a slow couple of months with changing jobs etc, firstly the carbon bonnet has been sold, it had a crack in it down to the carbon and i needed the money, my process was i can sell it now and get a fair bit for it than waiting till winter before the cold and ice gets into it and royally wrecks it.

Next up rear plastics got removed and the whole rear of the car got cleaned up

Picked up a set of gen takatas for the car

Also an SI badge for all the people that think they know civics its quality looking at the confusion trying to figure out if it was a sport or a type s

Did my first track day in it sunday, safe to say the ns2's were crap so a tyre change will be in order to run the yoks all round, all in all was really impressed with the car, things to do:

Lower slightly more about 20 mm as the back has raised slightly and to get the arms level with the floor,

New clutch with lightend flywheel

Rigid subframe braces

New pillow ball top mounts and get the frsu re done then get some body work bits done and then power

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Tim Goj · Sep 20, 2016

Did poo my pants a little after the track day on the way home there was a huge bang from in the back luckily was only doing about 30mph

Turns out i had been cocking a leg on some of the corners, un seated a spring and then when driving down the road it reaseated causing the bang!

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GeeWood · Sep 27, 2016

Subscribed to read over later! Looking good!

Tim Goj · Dec 29, 2016

So guys sorry for the lack of updates, will be post some more updates later in more detail few more things done to the car.

Ofside rear caliper
Ds2500 front pads
Brake flush
Black bonnet
Upper rear c pillar brace
Purple battery tie bar
Tegiwa harness bar
Tegiwa 4 2 1 manifold
Tegiwa civic cup drop links
Jdm front anti roll bar
K pro 4
Toyosports decat pipe now sold
2x front tyres
And thats it i think! Pictures to follow!

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LG87 · Dec 30, 2016

Nice work Tim, lovely clean car. Great mods too.

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