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^^^^Damn man, hope you are insured. That is possibly my 'worst case scenario' :O
Cusco brake stopper is easy enough to get from any of the traders here and no doubt ebay. Easy as to install, takes ten minutes :thumbsup: absolutely worth every penny. Simple mod with a great result :)
Changed my Engine oil (Castrol Edge 5-30 ), oil filter and gearbox oil (OEM Honda ).
Put on an EK4 rear sway bar.
And installed pre face lift fog lights from JDMyard.
wash the car, gettin it ready for tommorow, an it rains :(
Installed ek9 cupholders will wash car tomorrow
got ek4 rear engine bracket and lhs engine bracket
ordered innovative mounts coming
I put my car back together today
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girls like scars (on cars) ;)
im surprised how that turned out! nice diy :D very ghetto...
yeah good DIY repair job man. looks like a mad drift car now haha
GDM' yo ;) hahaQuote:
Originally Posted by bummy
haha, yeah that was somewhat of the idea..Quote:
Originally Posted by DNYALL
too bad everyone's going to look at my car now wondering how the hell I was drifting in a FWD.
cable ties are ur best friend lol
ordered more renovation bits for it
brought new front bumper, ordered new headlights, cleaned out engine bay. was a good day for the ek.
Installed rear discs in 5 hrs with bleeding very easy conversion. Washed rimms and car looking sexy as usual.
Got Proxes 4s put on all my Sprintharts, no more flat spots in old tyres and car is looking awesome with them on!
spray painted my chrome headlight inserts black :) will post pics up tomorrow when completed
clutched pooped itself! such a inconvenient thing, and bad timing, coming to end of semester with skool work an all :(
clutch master decided to pack up and let go...............
so i got a new 1 and changed it
This is a What did you do to your EK thread, not a what ****ed up to my car thread.
ordered a new extreme hd clutch as exedy seems to over priced should b in by thurs hopefully, an the car running by monday....
How much was clutch.. I think I will be needing one soon, but I don't want to spend a whole heap as planing on selling up next year
was $330 at autobarn... exedy hd was $400... an they cant make it any cheaper
finished painting and re-installing my headlights annnnnnnd made myself a splash guard!! :D
/\ /\ /\ Pics Please
cleaned it and took it to lakeside on the sunday for a jdm show and watched the sprints
picking clutch up on saturday and paying for a track day
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Originally Posted by BIGTYM
heres the facebook album lol
and if you want pics of the splash guard i can get them later on
sorry didn't post the link my bad..
I would have payed the extra for the Exedy personally. R&D go a long way and Exedy have been in the game forever. I'm sure the 'extreme' will be sweet though. :thumbsup:Quote:
Originally Posted by mugen_ctr
I installed a 'Fastline' extended shifter. To try and make my car feel even more like a race car hahaha It is sweet though, highly recommend it, feels awesome :thumbsup:
umm chris wtf u selling?Quote:
Originally Posted by BIGTYM
Purchased a grandma spec ek
please please post a pic of the interior! :)Quote:
Originally Posted by DNYALL
his in love gonna get a euro to match his gf's one. then they gonna wear matching cloths.. and ... OMG lol what a fag .. LOL JK JK hahaha chris gonna hurt me next time he sees me :pQuote:
Originally Posted by anzai
I was thinking the same, but at 400 just for D-series hd clutch, not really worth the dough, if it was b-series in there, definite exedy all the way, but will let ppl know how it goes, just hope the guys ordered the right one, since i kept telling them theres different types clutchesQuote:
Originally Posted by DNYALL
thrashed it trying to blow the gearbox
Yer bro I'm gonna repaint the EM1 for 2011 Autosalon. Then sell up. I been test driving CL9's for the missus and fell in love with the K series.Quote:
Originally Posted by anzai
So I'm gonna get one. Still tossing up between DC5r & CL7R replica build.
Pretty much Sangy. Only reason I ended with the EM1 in the first place is cuz the missus bought a del sol before me and I loved the B16. Now It's been 4 years time for bigger and better engine.Quote:
Originally Posted by sangyz
not cool man, what happened to ek represent??Quote:
Originally Posted by BIGTYM
did you check ebay from the US, exchange rate is real good atm, could of probably got a decent deal.Quote:
Originally Posted by mugen_ctr
400 that would be the price of the hdbc of the exedy range surely?
keeping the std flywheel weight?
Did not think of that, lol, will have to check, saw a few packages with flywheels included as well, mite needa reconsider getting the xtreme clutch now, hope can stil get a refund at autobarnQuote:
Originally Posted by DNYALL
400 is the rrp, an since only reptuable place i could find, thats what they all charge for hd, hdbc is bit more pricey, flywheel will be kept standard, if not will get lighter flywheel if i do go for exedy package from the states
today i got a letter in the mail, saying that "i have been seen driving on 'x' road at 'x' time by 'x' police office in an 'un-roadworthy' state. You must now report to williamstown police station for a full check this sat 2nd october. I called him and he said there will be VIC roads reps there as well as EPA reps there. There are a fair few cars going in that day, he said they are starting at 9am and going all day... Looks like the car could be relegated to track duty only for a bit...
whoa.. didnt know coppers could do such thing.... how u planing to by pass this mike? looks like a long journey if u do intend on keeping it a daily, considering the amount of work required to make it road legal again :S
yeah its a struggle. engine number is really the only thing that i will struggle with and possibly the ITB's even though i can cover them up with a boxed closed setup. I have a spare axle back with tiny tip and i still have the original interior and exterior parts, i can raise it easy enough and my tires are fine for roadworthy. My SRS light is consistently on which could work against me as well... engine number is my achilles heel...
Just hope it goes all smooth for you, best to get stock steering wheel in, if they find out u changed ur steering wheel, ur b in a pickle of a fight... or just cut the wire for srs light..... btw, Iev had few mates not pass because they had coil-overs, than again some who have since they didnt reliaze they had them in an jacked it up lol, so its really hit an miss, just hope they dont pick up on ur coil-overs, or else u be goin back there again
If ur catch can is vented atmo, that also mite be a problem, but easy one to fix, but other than that, id assume everything else should b smooth sailing for you
And i also believe u need a recline-able seat to pass seeing you got that maaaad as bride bucket seat, as in the event of a accident the rear passengers cant exit through drivers side, as again friends have also been defected for that reason, thats all i can think of atm to help you
if u needa borrow stockie suspension, let me know :)
Yer mike if you need to borrow any stock parts let me know im happy for you to borrow my shit to help you pass, then swap back!
sorri mr perfect......u happy with my edited post now????Quote:
Originally Posted by Tai
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Originally Posted by DNYALL
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Originally Posted by DNYALL
dude, i feel for u hard......
i've had mates get fuked up there hard.....
but call me if u want and i'll try best with some pointers in getting away with it....
they will basically turn the car upside down and inside out to find anything they can.........
example, my mates r32 skyline......we spent 3 days making all back to dead stock, there nuthing to pick on it..........in the end they fuked him for having the parcel shelf (metal section) slightly trimmed to fit the speakers...(structually damaging the car) so they cancelled the rego untill he got it all fixed....
pm sent....
bloody hell, that's probably the most nazi/communist/anti-social thing the police have done that I've hard of to the car community
be good if they took bribes to save time like other countries lol
next they will do you for is having a tissue box on the parcel shelf... "in event of a crash, the box would fly to the front and cut ur eras off"Quote:
Originally Posted by IEVAQ8
rofl.. sounds like something they would do .. ==Quote:
Originally Posted by m3ntAL_l2
Hey guys thanks for all your affoers for help and advice :thumbsup: much appreciated. But to be honest I am throwing in the towel and canceling my rego myself. Car will become track only so won't be completely gone, just not on the streets anymore. This day was always going to come eventually, I had a pretty good run driving it daily in this state for almost two years without hassels.
I will never drive in williamstown again btw.......
Like I said, I can't get out of it when it comes to engine number and not being engineered/registered to the car. And like you said IEVAQ8, they will not give me any chances and will go through everything, remember I have drilled holes in the floor of the car for things like harness mounts, battery in the boot was done by me, more holes drilled there. I'm running ITB's which I really don't think the EPA will like to much, even if i do box them up, which I can but I don't think it will make much difference.
I can conceal the ECU because it looks like stock anyway, coil-overs could be a problem no doubt, i have the seats and all interior trim so interior prob isn't a problem. SRS light, i can just remove the globe so thats not a problem. Seeing as how thorough they will be I really can't see them letting me go.
Gameover for me, for now anyway. Also gives me an excuse to take my civic even further in regards to track work ;) still dissapointing, i just got it looking just as I had wanted it, lowered to its lowest point and poked out wheels that didn't scrub at all. Just means now, i have to go through the pain of getting permits to move the bastard around....
Thanks again for the help guys :thumbsup:
its a such a shame that it had to end like this, ur car was by far one of the best looking one in the country, i agree Williams town ruined it for you man, as every other meet was fine, but i guess like u said, gives u more of a reason to do outrageous mods to it, maybe rear diffuser an welded in roll cage?
The beast shall be lost on the roads but not forgotten, whats gonna b ur new daily?
Thanks for the comments mate :thumbsup:
We'll see how much further i take it. i have a few surprises in the garage that need to be installed still and a cage isn't out of the question but hard to justify spending money on it now. we'll see what happens. I have said similar things befor and then done the complete opposite.
New daily will be my parents 80 series cruiser for a while untill i can afford a decent daily. Or possibly i might drive my mates VR manual v6 wagon :/ we'll see.
Thought it i'd let ya know that i just found out Atjo with the air-bagged white honda odyssey has suffered the same fate as me. He was seen driving in point cook and received the same letter, to be looked over at williamstown this sat........ no one is safe it seems :/
so they just take your pic and say come and see us basically? bloody tossers... this only a melb thing atm?
haha no pic needed, simply seen driving on the road. they thought it looked un-roadworthy and wrote my plates down and sent the letter. I technically have not been defected yet, i just have to report to the station to be looked over by the EPA/VIC roads and the police.
fk that, sounds stupid in my mind, so, based on some wanker, you have to take time off of work (assuming youre a contractor, losing out on a days wage) to go to some shite arse inspection station
I'd send them a letter back saying I dont have the time to leave work as Im working on a project over the next 6 months which needs my attention, attached with a boss's note, etc
damn mike, sorry to hear that u have to take it off the road.
not even that, just word of mouth, a punch in the computer data system, an ur booked into a session lol, its all down to the discretion of the police officer on duty, if he thinks ur car is in a unroad worthy state, thats it, no need to explain as to why he booked u in.....
yeah sucks hard but not much i can do about it.
It was a policecar that saw me driving and it has happened to two other people i know with hondas and they all are meant to go to the same inspection day. I am canceling my rego so that i don't have to go to the day and waste time trying to get my car passed when i know it will never pass. Just show them my canceled rego forms and i'm done. not keen to deal with their rubbish for a day...
since its a full time track car now, time to through the straight pipe on now lol, its still bs how only a quick glance at anyones car, an they can deem it unroad worthy... , there are plenty of shit boxes out there deemed unfit, yet cops dont do crap bout it
but thats the game boys! we live for this. nothing much we can do
:) Sad time in Melb OzHonda history we lost on the best street Hondas out there.
very true. its the risk we take when we mod our cars. All we can do is drive as safe as possible and hope for the best.Quote:
Originally Posted by sangyz
Chris, thanks for the kind words man, much appreciated :thumbsup:Quote:
Originally Posted by BIGTYM
its sad but unfortunately its getting harder to drive modified cars on the street.Quote:
Originally Posted by DNYALL
similar situation happened to me, i got TMU'd and that was the end of that.
good luck on the car mate, least you have a define purpose for it now ;)
hey john, its igor. what's TMU and is that the reason why you parted out?Quote:
Originally Posted by googed
oh you mean highway patrol. anyway, sad to hear whats happened. you had one of the cleanest dc2. now im contemplating to just sell my car and drive a stock dc2r =(Quote:
Originally Posted by anzai
took hud caps off. rolling on black steelies
Got the clutch, turns out they orderd a B16a2 clutch, an not D16, 220mm vs 212mm, idiots, now gotta wait another 2-3 days before i get it
Hopeless those big autoshops honestly... why couldn't Honda have just put a B16B is every Civic!
Because it costs more
most of them shops dont even know that hondas even came vtec sohc, had to explain to them the differences an give them the part number for the correct order, some fine customer service rite there lolQuote:
Originally Posted by Alvis
Wow John where have u been hiding bro.Quote:
Originally Posted by googed
So you got defected by the sounds of things. You still got the car or did you sell it.
Igor don't be silly. Keep going with your ek1 bro it's looking so good. If somethings happens with the po-po then think about selling it. But don't change your plans just cuz other people are getting defected. We can't all drive around in stock cars bro.Quote:
Originally Posted by anzai
Damn the man I say. Modified hondas 4 life!!!
Today I officially canceled my rego and drove home from work on a day permit with no number plates. Sad day :(
I went to Autobahn to get my ITB filters. The guy came out and measured my trumpets inner and outer size, called uni-filter and ordered them, came a week later and were spot on fitting. Some of the people that work at big places like that are pretty on it.Quote:
Originally Posted by mugen_ctr
Usually with clutches etc you go by engine code to order the right part.
Hell yeah mate, don't give in until you have no other option!! Your EK would be easy to clear if you got defected, you'll be fine man :thumbsup:Quote:
Originally Posted by BIGTYM
Yeah it is def harder these days than it was, use to not even worry about it 3 years ago but I have been completely paranoid for the last year or so. just waiting for it to happen...Quote:
Originally Posted by googed
What does TMU mean?
Tmu = Traffic management unit, there pretty responsible for patrolling the streets, an are handy with defect notices :(
so mike what are the plans for the car, now that is un rego'd???
full track spec, or gonna sit on it and try find a way to get it rego'd???
been following this for the last bit and just wanted to put my 2 cents worth in and say I'm sorry to hear about the defect DNYALL. Without a doubt your car would be more safe than some of those other sh#tboxes running around out there and no defect notice for them I'm sure... anyway, sounds like you prepped yourself and saw it coming sooner rather than later...
But I think it'd be a nice and fitting accolade for you to give OzHonda an official tribute thread with some of your cars pics in all it's great Honda glory :)
or video footage of ur time attacks :D
dropped the car off at the panel beaters to get my new front bar painted & door panels colour coded.
hopefully get it back before the weekend. :D
Good to hear ur going ahead with the colour coding at panel beater mate - post up some pics when you get it back :)
just finished taking out the sound deadening in my EK.
Brake conversion on tuesday up to 282 and DC2 calipers
Thanks mate :) Yeah Im keen to and will try get some sort of thread sorted out when i have some solid spare time :thumbsup:Quote:
Originally Posted by Alvis
Man, i'm not gonna bother trying to get it rego'd/RWC untill i want to part out and sell. Eventually I ill part out completely and put the car back to stock (b16 motor, interior etc) and then try sell the car in stock form. I would love to go full track spec (welded cage etc) but hard to justify the extra money needed, now that I have a Mortgage to worry about.... Although now that i don't have to worry about driving it on the road, it does give me a lot more options. We shall see how far i take it, i'm not even sure myself.Quote:
Originally Posted by Riced_Civic
What pads are you using? try and get Andy to get you some of those strange no name pads he gets in, they are AWESOME!! trust me man, seriously good. I have ad three sets now and loving them :thumbsup:Quote:
Originally Posted by Riced_Civic