Tim - 93 red Del Sol - T

[B005HA]

Hi guys I'm not really new on here been a member since start of 2009 lol but i thought I should introduce myself/my car and get to know some of you.

I'm from Wollongong NSW and currently study PE Teaching, my ride is a re 93 del sol.
The car is turbo charged running a custom garrett/turbonetics turbo the engine is decompressed running forged pistons and rods + arp bolts. I'm running the car now on about 4-5 psi on the daily sometimes on 8psi, the motor is built to handle 20psi all day safely however when you can't get the power to the ground there's no point!

That's what I'm working on atm, I've got a qauife LSD coming and billet driveshafts which i'll be installing in the next week likely and I have a bunch of parts from the US including tein flex coilovers, 22mm rear swaybar, ebc slotted rotors front and rear + red stuff pads, mishimoto black intercooler (stealthier lol), boost and oil pressure gauges and probably a few other things i can't recall.

I'm also about to order some Enkei RPF1's (16x8) so i can fit some good tread, prob looking at getting falken rt-615's on them. the only other things I'm looking at doing in short term is some billet engine mounts and i wanna get rid of the gay bodykit my car came with and replace it with a more conservative mugen kit. Oh and I wanna do a dc2r brake upgrade on the front.

Car is a bit of a money-pit but I love it lol. I do all my work on my cars so that saves a fair bit of money. This is the third honda I've had, my last car was an EK hatch and in 2009 i had another del sol. I've also owned two s13's an audi s3, 3 swift gti's (one turbo) a bmw 318i (hurl) and a toyota starlet lol. I love my FWD's!
I notice a few people don't rate the del sol and give it slack however i believe it's a great chassis and it's very underrated, has a great motor in it too.

Here are some pics of the car, I'm sure I've missed heaps about the car lol. Feel free to ask me anything, more than happy to answer any Q's!

[dc292177917]

imo 19mm RSB is enuf unless u r upgrading to DC2R FSB as well
the OEM 14mm RSB makes the sol quite tail happy already i cant imagine how will it go with the 22mm lol

[Snoop_gee]

Nice del sol u got there! @-@
Welcome to OZHonda.

[DLO01]

Shaweet! Turbo delsols are GREAT! Welcome to Ozhonda land.

[EG5VTI]

Welcome. Mad little cars they are.

[B005HA]

Thanks guys! I've done a bunch of mods recently! I'll update tonight and provide some pictures

[cielo1889]

sweet ride, looking forward for the update

[B005HA]

Ok guys I'll go into more detail and will list all my modifications and future plans as well as show the progression of my car. I'll be sure to take photos of every mod I do and have done and take some videos of my car. I'd like to buy a drift HD camera pretty soon so i should be able to get some pretty cool videos up :P

Mods:

Engine:
Forged lower compression pistons
Titanium rods
ARP studs and bolts
ACL race bearings
Metal head gasket
Garret TO4E .60 A/R turbo
MSD external SS blaster coil
NGK Leads and NGK Iridium plugs
Drag turbo manifold
3-3.5 inch turbo back exhaust
External 42mm Tial Wastgate
Front mount Intercooler with 2.5 inch piping
Run on a Microtech LT8-S

Suspension and Handling:
16x8 RPF1 +38mm
Falken FK452 225/45/16
Progress Rear swaybar 22mm
Tein Flex coilovers
EBC slotted Rotors
Redstuff pads on the front and Greenstuff on the rear
Engine Damper
standard front brace

Body and Audio:
Some body kit lol
15% tint
Autometer ultralight 2 gauges oil pressure and boost gauges
Pioneer MVH-8200 BT headunit
Pioneer Type R 6.5 inch rear speakers
Soundstream 6.5 inch trx splits
Soundstream stealth 500W 4 ch Amp

I'm sure I've forgotten some stuff, I'll add it if i remember

parts I have currently that are waiting to be installed are:
-Qauife mechanical LSD
-Heavy duty Driveshafts
-Mishimoto Z bar black intercooler
-LED white dash lights :P

Parts for the future include
-Billet engine mounts
-Skunk 2 Megapower RR exhaust 76mm (ordered)
-Subframe Brace