Your Mods To 2006-2011 FD Civics

[DuffyFD]

Have the mounts started to wear in duffy? .. Also do you use them for daily driving? .. Hope you don't mind me asking .. was looking at the boomba's vs the innovative .. although the boomba's look like the way to go.

Only driven 250 kms on them and they're settling down but initially it's like your dash is going through an earthquake!

Yeah my car is a daily, but they do transform the car. Makes you feel much more connected.

They're meant to full settle around 700-1000kms. So I can't really tell you how much more they're going to settle.

[Stevil]

lolmclol I also got the same mounts at the same time as Duffy, I've put 650k on em and handling has been transformed to something I actually didn't believe was possible. When you see the huge Rubber mounts the civic comes with its sort of explains the disconnected feel you get on the ragged edge.

I've struggle a fair bit with front end traction at the track. Basically trying to get power down outta tight 2nd gear corners was a miserable fail. Now I fuked up a little bit when I installed my mounts as I needed to slip a couple of washers under the bottom mount to fill an unexpected gap, now because of that my bottom mount has probably really only done 100km, the good news is I will do close to 3000km in the next 8 days which should give an idea as too whether the low rev vibration we both have during the so called bed in period improves.

I've also got a track day next thursday so it will be interesting to see what improvement these mounts have given me over the stockers, I'm hoping for 0.5 sec thou I'm an optimistic prick !! lol

[lolmclol]

Thank you Stevil and Duffy.

Yeah when I was speaking to one of the people over at boomba he was saying that the mounts are 56mm thick and the ones on the FD are 61mm thick, he advised to add on some washers to sustain the mounts, only thing I'm weary of is if there is any issues with this, like friction, clash of material properties on each other, probably just finding reason to stress for no reason hehe, out of curiousity do you have any pics of your install?

Thanks again for the feedback, much appreciated! Going to order these mounts, plus some base bushing for the shifter, have you guys considered the cable bushings?

[EGB]

I am currently running this Rear Hasport Engine mount, http://hasport.com/store/index.php/m...fd/fdrrtm.html - I was having issues with my headers hitting the chassis at high RPM shifts. After installation this no longer happened and as with the guys above, felt far more feedback. As the rear engine mount is the torque mount it stops the engine from moving back and forth during acceleration and shifting.

As for the cable bushings im using the Hybrid Racing spherical shifter bushings. I am unsure if they still make the spherical one as I could not see it on their website - But it does provide a slightly stronger shifter feel, but could also be placebo.

[lolmclol]

EGB, are you running a K series engine? Because I was looking at the Hybrid Racing ones, but the only ones I could see were for the K series. The hybrid racing ones look to be the better choice as opposed to the Corsport, TWM or Torque Solutions options.

Thanks a heap guys for your feedback, I really appreciate it! :-)

[EGB]

Im running a K series. Do you have a FD1 or FD2? As the rear mount above will only be for K Series FD2 - Rear mount connects from the Sump to subframe.

[DuffyFD]

I've got full shifter bushings + shortshifter done as well all from hasport US website. Made a world of difference.

[lolmclol]

R18 fd1 ;-(

Thanks for that Duffy! .. Another source to check out n_n

[xenonkuraz]

I installed shifter base bushings and a short shifter.

Much firmer now!

[xenonkuraz]

Anyone here got recaro/bride in their fd2?

[lolmclol]

Seen a few, only thing to be weary of is the issue involving the side airbag on the chair (purchasing FN2R, or FD2R seats will have the side airbag), if not there's a thread on 8thcivic with a run down guide on how the sensor works in the chair ;-).

Also don't forget, should you follow through with the bride/recaro seats, you also have the chance of defects (yellow sticker), as well as if you are in an accident it can cause problems with the insurance company (non ADA aproved (wrong acronym?) and lack of air bag).

Not trying to deter you, its just what runs through my head every time I have the urge to purchase some recaros.

Do want blue DC5 recaros <3 . Trading one kidney!


I did receive something nice today, the TWM Big Type R shift knob, and oh boy is this thing sexy D: shifting is effortless now its so great.

[black8thgen]

fd2r seats will not have the side airbags. i know because i had them on my car once

if u have an fd2 (which has side airbags), get the fn2r seats as they will just be a straight plug n play from what i have read