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Where would be my best bet to source a quality plastic (not fibreglass) Mugen RR kit or Type R kit. I know MARS performance has them on ebay at the moment and I was contemplating going through them.
Bought a fair few parts through mars and very happy with the product although some members here on the forums have had some bad reviews from them so I'm not entirely sure.
if you're from melb or syd
i ordered mine through ontherunmotorsports, its in PP, fitment was good (will need 2 people to install)
Hmm, I can't find a mount kit to put the mounting points on the conventional side of the engine bay for an EU1 (I guess I could try and cut the original ones out of the EP3 and see if they can be fitted in the EU1 but I don't know if you might end up with it out of alignment slightly
Starting to think an FD does make more sense even if they're more expensive and I can't use as many of the EP3 parts. Like EJ1, I'm thinking an FD1 is the way to do it, despite an FD2 just needing a simple engine number change since they'd just view it as one K20 being changed for another K20. At least the FD1 has the engine on the same side as the FD2, and stock FD2 parts are available, as well as aftermarket ones. I wonder if any Honda dealers get FD1's with shagged engines as trade-ins? That would be about the cheapest way to get one I think
Picking one up tomorrow actually for an extremely good price. I'm considering myself very very lucky at this stage, Hopefully the R18 and it's drivetrain is worth reasonable money so I can put it towards my build funding.
Plus by building an FD2R an FD2 sport chassis is a bad choice in my opinion. You have various features which it differs from the FD2R as well as a sunroof which will weaken it's structural integrity, After all this will be built for response and handling not just to look good. :)
Let the FD2R conversion commence I say!
Any chance you can let me know roughly what you've managed to score it for after you've gotten it?
Hey EJ1 goodluck on the build, I thought long and hard about it but chose the Boost option. FD2 subframes can be bought new from Honda for $600, otherwise any rearend wrecked FD2 sort will do. Not sure if you read this article but it give you a idea as to whats possible.
http://www.hondatuningmagazine.com/f...n/viewall.html
Is the FD1 an auto or maual ur looking at ? as Im expecting to need another motor next year at some stage...
Thanks Stevil,
Actually picked up an FD1 manual. Just waiting for my jzx100 to sell then I'm ordering a FD2R specific motor from spoon, Takes around 1 and a half months to be built brand new with no mileage.
My current motor only has 57,000km with service history and books if it interests you more....
Yeah def interested mate, plenty of wrecked fd1s around but the lower the km the better. My fd has been thrashed senseless at the track and I know whilst its still going strong I expect it will need to be replaced at some stage next year.
What would an R18 long motor with drivetrain go for these days out of curiosity?
Not much, a few wreckers indicated most end up being bought n shipped to africa, something like $1K for a motor/autobox. Been quoted similiar number as there aint much demand for the R18.