Autocross civic EG 6

**autocross civic EG 6** · 20-03-2009 11:18 AM

Just thought I would let you know that I have now run my extensively modified 1994 EG 6 in the first 2 rounds of the 2009 Victorian Club Autocross Series and so far the results have been pretty satisfactory. In the first round at Deniliquin (NSW) I managed to win my class by just 2 tenths all up after 4 runs each totalling about 2 and a half minutes a run.(Best 3 are added together) I was 14th outright and ran as high as 7th outright in one run. (I am running in the up to 1600 cc modified class)
Last weekend round 2 of the series was held at Kyneton in Victoria (great for me as I live in Ballarat about an hour away whereas Deniliquin was half a day and an overnight stay away LOL ). I won my class again and got as high as 7th outright on 1 run in a field of around 65 cars. (Finished 12 outright overall) I am pretty certain I will make the top 10 on some tracks as after only 2 events I am still learning the car (although obviously beating the fourwheel drives and specials is not usually a realistic proposition). In both events I narrowly beat Eli Evans for the class win ( he won a round of the Australian Rally Championship last year and was coming 2nd o/r this year until he destroyed his STI in Canberra). He is a nice modest sort of a guy and is driving a pretty basic Ford Laser that I have to admit should not be as close to my times as it is. He says there is a target in the middle of my back which I guess means he plans to develop the car so he can beat me.

The Civic has been a real revelation for me. I just love the way the V tech kicks in and how quickly the car gets to the redline. You do need to understand what it is doing on loose surfaces particularly with the Kaaz LSD and need appropriate left foot braking to get the thing to turn in consistently and the torque steer is always present . Overall though the car is generating plenty of grip and good mid corner speed which is what it is all about.
Sorry about the long post but I just thought I would tell you what a great package the EG6 is. (although I suppose most of you already knew that)

Steve

**e240** · 20-03-2009 11:31 AM

pictures!!!!!

**zco** · 20-03-2009 11:37 AM

haha sounds good steve.. some pics of your EG6 with vtech would be good

**autocross civic EG 6** · 20-03-2009 11:45 AM

Originally Posted by zco

haha sounds good steve.. some pics of your EG6 with vtech would be good

I will try and post some when I can .(Not sure how to. LOL ) Sometimes people put footage of our events on youtube (my Suzuki Swift GTI was included in footage of a round last year ) so hopefully the EG6 will pop up sometime.I do have a video camera but have yet to install it in the car.
Steve

**I heart the SSS** · 20-03-2009 11:48 AM

Originally Posted by e240

pictures!!!!!

+1

**autocross civic EG 6** · 21-03-2009 01:56 PM

Am charging the batteries on the camera as I type this.

Hopefully will take some pictures of the car later today and then see if I can work out how to load them....

Steve

**Red_EG4** · 21-03-2009 05:24 PM

Follow this
http://www.ozhonda.com/forum/showthread.php?t=40478

or you can go to www.imageshack.us (becuase I think you need to sign up to photobucket.)
Hit browse, find your image and then upload.
Copy the code that has the [IMG][/IMG] tags wrapped around it.
then paste that on here.
looking forward to seeing the pics!

**autocross civic EG 6** · 21-03-2009 06:10 PM

http://img207.imageshack.us/gal.php?g=hondadash.jpg

**autocross civic EG 6** · 21-03-2009 06:15 PM

Does anyone know why the photos are so undersized with no detail ?

First time we have uploaded photos and these are pretty useless.I figure we need to load them individually to get good resolution. Bear with me as we fumble through this.

Steve

**autocross civic EG 6** · 21-03-2009 07:20 PM

**Red_EG4** · 21-03-2009 07:31 PM

here you go

**autocross civic EG 6** · 21-03-2009 07:42 PM

Wow. Thanks for that .

Maybe you can send me a PM sometime telling me how you got all the photos up. LOL I would like to put some of them on my profile page too. Is there any easy way of doing that?

Steve