My Euro 'Build' Thread

[hooyn]

whats the difference between cannon and a normal muffler ?

[SHOGUNOVDDRK]

Isnt that the idea ? Something subtle and nice , nice tone and the performance.....still shows everyone you spent money on your car
Id much rather that ,, than a gay looking cannon muffler screaming at every RPM everywhere you go. It looks nasty (think modified lancers and mirages with droopy cannons)

Straight piped Mirage VS Lancer with a Droopy Cannon.

WHO would win?

[johnprocter]

Straight piped Mirage VS Lancer with a Droopy Cannon.

WHO would win?

the random guy riding his bicycle on the side of the road

[SHOGUNOVDDRK]

Damn thats my car out...

[integral90]

whats the difference between cannon and a normal muffler ?

Shape and overall design. Cannons are generally straight-through where a normal muffler (oval muffler in this case) bounces the exhaust around a bit more

[integral90]

Update FFS

STILL NO TSX THROTTLE BODY. If it doesn't arrive on Monday I'm gonna demand the shop sends me back the extra I paid for express postage. This is buuuullllshit.

On a nicer note, some sexiness has occurred

Today the car got serviced. I watched the technician's bored look on his face as he drove the car into the workshop and parked it. I watched him lazily pop the bonnet and walk to it. I saw him lift the bonnet, then saw his eyes open and him freeze. It was the best feeling ever, he just stared into the engine bay in (what I like to think) was a mixture of suprise and awe. Then he called over one of the other technicians and they were both looking around knodding their heads and looking impressed, I hope. Then he got rid of my CEL . I assume it will come back in a week though, but I can just get them to reset it again I guess. With the new fully synthetic oil the car revs a lot smoother and I can feel a little more push up top (just compared to old oil which was FEO and very worn out).

I've been a little let down with the overall performance of the header and RBC. The car felt in no way like it had gained the (optimistic) 20kWatw I had hoped for. After some discussion with a few people I finally decided it was because the pod was really badly positioned. I looked at what was around the filter. The short intake arm transfered a lot of heat into the filter for starters. The filter was also sitting really close to a radiator hose and close behind the radiator. From the shape of the chassis I thought that a bit of air would actually tunnel up between the firewall and the headers and back into the engine, so there's a lot of heat. But worst of all, the filter was sitting about 3" above the transmission casing!!! With help from Bennjamin we somehow fit my Comptech icebox replica onto the RBC using the stock intake arm (a ridiculous feat, if you've ever tried).

I took it for a drive and there was that sort of constant surge feeling that you get from a car on a cold night but the kick was gone slightly. Apart from not being able to hear the vtec crossover, I could barely feel it. Conclusion; stock airbox can not flow enough air to benefit from RBC.

I tried to think of alternatives to get the best of both worlds. But no extension piping would fit into the stock arm to push the filter away from the heat and no other pipe would fit as the Euro's intake arm has so many holes for plugs etc. I knew the pod wouldn't fit inside the stock box as it's too small. Then I had an idea, "Why not use the bottom half of the intake box as a heat shield from the transmission, and most of the radiator and header heat?". It seemed like the perfect balance, by not enclosing the pod I would have no problem with it not getting enough air (even if some of the air is hot). And by having the bottom half there it gave me a direct cold air feed and blocked out a lot of the heat. It took a lot of adjusting of the intake arm and airbox/filter to make it all snuggly fit without things pushing themselves out of place. After a few attempts and a few new cuts on my hands it was all together. I think it looks pretty mean and not as amateurish as the last one. Once I was confident with it all I took it for a drive. The car had a lot better response and a bit more pep. Also at high rpm WOT the car pulled harder and it didn't bog into 2nd as hard (even though something is forcing the car to shift into 2nd slowly). Obviously this still isn't the finished intake, hopefully I'll end up with Justin's custom one but maybe not...

Here are some pictures of the current set up:



Also the muffler I decided on for the single pipe exhaust arrived today. My new Kakimoto Racing Muffler It's a mean piece of work, and I think it's the perfect balance between the looks of a cannon and an oval. I measured the muffler cut outs in the bumper to the muffler tip and it's gonna be a hell of a tight fit . Obviously I have no feedback for this yet, apart from the muffler being pretty heavy, maybe a tiny bit heavier than one of the stock mufflers (good thing there's only 1 of this ) . I bought the muffler from the user BulletBoy, he's an amazing trader, probably the finest I've dealt with on ozhonda. If he's selling something you want, BUY IT FROM HIM

Here's the muffler just sitting next to the stock ones to give a rough idea of what it will look like when it's fitted compared to the stock ones.



That'll all for now, again. Getting really annoyed about the throttle body, but nothing I can do I guess. Soon custom catback will be made up as well and when it's all done I'm putting a mother****in' Eva on a mother****in' dyno.

[BulletBoy]

glad the muffler got to you quickly man. i could see you really wanted that baby :P im counting on you to get me a sound clip so i can finally hear her. great build Liam, keep it up

[Rein]

Nice looking exhaust.. may i ask how much you bought it for? pm me if you like. thanks.

[integral90]

Nice looking exhaust.. may i ask how much you bought it for? pm me if you like. thanks.

Thanks! PM sent

[power_of_dreams]

just wondering, if you relocate the battery, will that allow you to use the icebox replica or are there still problems?

[integral90]

just wondering, if you relocate the battery, will that allow you to use the icebox replica or are there still problems?

The battery isn't the problem, it's the shape and length of the intake arm respective to the airbox. Also the plugs that go into the arm limit the amount you can rotate and bend it. Moving the battery would only allow you to have an intake pipe with less bends.

I'm not gonna try and use the Icebox replica becaue it simply can't flow enough air in to make use of the RBC. But for the time being the bottom part is a good heat shield + cold air feed.

You can see a bit from the pic that the battery isn't in the way compared to where the airbox sits

[Crapdaz]

imo the best option would be the SRI for the RBC as it sucks more air in little time and little length of piping.

you'll find better response with that than the CAI feed.