Ek9 Ctr

[EG30]

Saw an EK9 CTR on the street just now in the City in Perth. Probably owned by one of our forum members.

Looked very mint in championship white, 1st one I've seen in orig condition in the flesh. It came all the way from Queensland to Perth.

Are they aval as a grey import in Aust? ie do specialised importers bring them in? I know the EP3's will be aval in Aust very soon, but I like the EK better over the EP ( not keen on the electric power steering ) despite having a better drivetrain.

http://img374.imageshack.us/img374/3540/p03270723222tt8.th.jpg (http://img374.imageshack.us/my.php?image=p03270723222tt8.jpg)

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[spetz]

That's f'ing HAAWWWT AZ!

[Zdster]

These can only be imported if you can prove that you have owned the car overseas (and were a resident) for a year.

They arent available as grey imports though. There are a few floating around Australia, but not many.

[bennjamin]

otheriwase its easy enough to simply rip everything off and install it on another local AUDM EK chassis.

[Perry]

noooo the owner took the Jap rego sticker off

[EG30]

Ok only as a personal import then. Thanks for the info zdster.

I'll look into the possiblity of getting a fren to own and bring one in from the UK or HK. Trouble being the car is getting old in the UK and underbody corrosion is a real problem and very hard to find an unmolested EK9 in HK, where EP3 are very easy to find there.

Best to find someone in Japan who has looked after the car and owned it for a year already and get that person to come over on a working visa and bring the car over. A lot of mucking around and paperwork but saves me living there for a year with no income. I know this guy who got the owner of a TVR Tuscan to bring the car in this way.

[VT3C]

yeah i've seen that one once up in Osbourne Park !!

I want to meet the owner !!

can only be a personal import :D

[mrwillz]

theres mayb 5-6 ek9 in aus?
good spot
white is nice
black even nicer
or yello :p

[Kazaf]

theres mayb 5-6 ek9 in aus?
good spot
white is nice
black even nicer
or yello :p

Never actually seen a black or yellow EK9 before
I thought it was only CW?

[SiReal]

nice - my neck hurts.

[rhk]

i knew that it was an ek9 on the last cruise haha.

i was like "omg lookee!" as the car drove by galleria (i think it was galleria anyway not sure about northern suburbs) and everyone turned too late :(

[EG30]

Just spoke to my fren Salvatore in Japan who is a backyard car dealer and English teacher, a rough EK9 can be had for around $6-7K AUD and mint late models around $10-12K. He had an EF9 2 years ago, bought it for $600 and on-sold it for $1700 a few weeks later. He reckons the EFs are hard to come by now and most are either wrecked or shipped to NZ many year ago.

bringing the EK9 in would be the biggest problem, need him to own it for a year if the current owner doesn't want to visit Aust and all up would cost $18-20K for the roughie and $25-28K for a mint one. Cost of keeping the car on the road and insured for a year is not cheap in jp.

here is a bunky one he found on the net for me in his prefecture, asking $AUD 7500

http://img133.imageshack.us/img133/5571/ryu14809img600x45011743sm5.th.jpg (http://img133.imageshack.us/my.php?image=ryu14809img600x45011743sm5.jpg)

[90LAN]

if that civic ek9 came from brisbane
it is a aussie shell with the ek9 parts swapped over
my mate worked on the car it was owned by a certain panel shop
just check the vin tags easy as
how do i know the guy who bought it came from perth

[EG30]

thanks for the info 90LAN

that makes sense the prev owner owned a panel shop, too $$$ to pay someone to respray the whole shell in CW colour and R&R everything else. He would have been able to get his workers to work on the car when the panel shop is not busy as well as able to write some/most/all of the costs off as shop expenses proivided the shop turns over enough.

for me that would be too hard/expensive excercise and the car is never a EK9 with the factory reo on the shell and forever a EK CXi or GLi on the rego papers.

[90LAN]

just have a good look at it
the work is pretty good u wouldnt be able to tell the difference
by the way car sold for 21K

[EG30]

$21K well well worth it, a lot more desirable than a stock DC2R. I would been very happy with it myself despite being a replica.

for me to do the same it would cost $8 to $10K for a good clean EK to start with and a good donar car which wouldn't be cheap oe easy to find plus the labour for the R&R and paint and the rest.

[andyhui01]

if that civic ek9 came from brisbane
it is a aussie shell with the ek9 parts swapped over
my mate worked on the car it was owned by a certain panel shop
just check the vin tags easy as
how do i know the guy who bought it came from perth

there are lots of minor bits and pieces that has to be changed besides the panels to make it a real EK9, if you guys have noticed, CEK9's use a 5-nut rims compared to a 4-nut on the Normal civic, I know most conversion are done by using Spacers and converting them to 5 nuts... I've seen a few conversions from a EJ Civic to a EK civic in Malaysia, there was one that just used a Spacer, dropped a B16C, changed the headlights, seats, all the cosmetic stuff and another one did every single thing including buying the entire suspension set from a CTR, taking apart the entire car and re-welding it to EK9 standards and if you drive them both on a track, you'll feel the vast difference. Only after they did all that, it started driving like a real EK9.

and EG30, if you're really looking for an EK9, take the 99 one's instead of the 97's like the one in the picture, it looks much better.

[90LAN]

there are lots of minor bits and pieces that has to be changed besides the panels to make it a real EK9, if you guys have noticed, CEK9's use a 5-nut rims compared to a 4-nut on the Normal civic, I know most conversion are done by using Spacers and converting them to 5 nuts... I've seen a few conversions from a EJ Civic to a EK civic in Malaysia, there was one that just used a Spacer, dropped a B16C, changed the headlights, seats, all the cosmetic stuff and another one did every single thing including buying the entire suspension set from a CTR, taking apart the entire car and re-welding it to EK9 standards and if you drive them both on a track, you'll feel the vast difference. Only after they did all that, it started driving like a real EK9.

and EG30, if you're really looking for an EK9, take the 99 one's instead of the 97's like the one in the picture, it looks much better.

well im running oem ctr 5 stud coversion and its as easy as 123 to change over!
im talking about this particular ctr as i have seen its tranformation
its not that hard to do if you have a complete ctr and a ek shell
just swap every thing over, but were not talking about particular cars in Malaysia that sound half arse dodgy using spacers are we?
if you can read between the lines the car used a oz shell due to the fact it was not a personal import so it could not be registered so the next best thing that could be done was to tranfer the goodies over!

[nigs]

Lol?......

[Mugen_B16B]

there are lots of minor bits and pieces that has to be changed besides the panels to make it a real EK9, if you guys have noticed, CEK9's use a 5-nut rims compared to a 4-nut on the Normal civic, I know most conversion are done by using Spacers and converting them to 5 nuts... I've seen a few conversions from a EJ Civic to a EK civic in Malaysia, there was one that just used a Spacer, dropped a B16C, changed the headlights, seats, all the cosmetic stuff and another one did every single thing including buying the entire suspension set from a CTR, taking apart the entire car and re-welding it to EK9 standards and if you drive them both on a track, you'll feel the vast difference. Only after they did all that, it started driving like a real EK9.

and EG30, if you're really looking for an EK9, take the 99 one's instead of the 97's like the one in the picture, it looks much better.

b16c??!!! must some uber engine!

[EK4R]

b16c??!!! must some uber engine!

i got one of them in my Ek12

ps. 96-98 EK9 killz 99-00 EK9 in terms of looks and ofcos almost every 99-00 civic has that front.

[Drew]

not keen on the electric power steering

EPS is great... My CH9 SiR has it and so do NSX's

[jackosimm]

damn thats hot!

qld too, have never seen it before