***Official What did you do to your EK today***

[Alvis]

^ wow looks like it just rolled out of the show room! lol

Thanks mate!

Damn what did you use to clean the bay?

love clean bays.

Thanks Snappy, to tell you the truth I just used an old wet singlet and polish to shine up the painted areas, airbox and then just used what was left on the rag around the engine bay - should probably use wd-40 next time... and just Autosol metal polish for bar and manifold cover

[viinnh]

painted my rocker cover silver, intake silver and my heat shield wrinkle black then a coat of silver over
before

after


photos dont do justice

[IEVAQ8]

i just finished bleeding my brakes.............fuk its a pain when everything is new and has been sitting around with heaps of air in the lines....lol

at least the main bleed is done, once its driving again i will re bleed.....

my custom brake set-up if anyone is interested consists of:

jdm itr 96 spec hub, trailing arm & brake upgrade front & rear 4x114.3
282mm prelude discs front 4x114.3
HRV calipers front
ek9 HEL braided brake lines

some pics maybe tomorrow

[rubixcube]

what are the caliper numbers for 96 spec dc2r rear brakes do you know off hand?

[kyzz]

262mm if your talking about brakes..

56mm piston

[rubixcube]

Ok so what's necessary to fit them to an EK? Do you *have* to do a hub swap to 4x114.3 ITR hubs? What about front? I really just want bigger rotors... mine are so tiny...

[mocchi]

Ok so what's necessary to fit them to an EK? Do you *have* to do a hub swap to 4x114.3 ITR hubs? What about front? I really just want bigger rotors... mine are so tiny...

get ek1 gli calipers/rotors. should bolt on to your cxi if you have cxi.
ek1 gli is 262 as well afaik. an ek1 gli my friend has 262mm stock from factory.
25th yr annoversary one if that would make any difference.

[IEVAQ8]

I bought & am using vtir integra rear pads...if that helps...
I also have the stock jdm itr 96spec front calipers if ur interested with the discs that u could just re-drill to 4x100

[kyzz]

you're looking at a brake conversion so yeah hub swap, new rims (or you could get your ones re-gauged) i think fron'ts and backs are the same on the ITRs, should be easy enough if you know what you're doing. need disk, calipers, hub, piston and 4x114.3 rims off the top of my head

[rubixcube]

I've got multi fit 4x100/4x114.3 rims so that's not an issue. So what's the difference in calipers between the EK and ITR? Just bigger pistons in the ITR? I feel like a bit of a noob lol but honestly there are so many brake swap setups.. honda certainly do a great job with making everything interchangeable. I'm competent mechanically, just working out exactly what the right parts are is important to me obviously, don't want to be getting things that don't bolt straight on!

edit: waaaiitt a minute... did a google search.. is the rear 96 spec calipers 7CLP13S? I already have these... I thought they'd be different - are the rotors on the 96ITR just bigger in the rear or something?
double edit: and these are the fronts? this guy did it easy as hell by just milling the bracket front ITR swap

[1996_EK_Civic]

put a deposit down on my rims, should arrive tuesday-ish

[Alvis]

put a deposit down on my rims, should arrive tuesday-ish

Nice. Any teaser pics of what rims look like... or "you gonna make me find out the hard way"?