Marky_J's DC2 - The story so far...

[Marky_J]

First things first, appologies for the epicly long first post on here!

It’s all copy & pasted from another forum (Track-Ninjas - Build It, Race It, Break It, Repeat) so sorry if it jumps around a bit! And as much as I love taking pictures, it’s generally the last thing I think of when doing anything to my car so there’s not a lot of ‘in progress’ shots, but you’ll get the general idea!

I bought the car looking like this as a fresh import about 4 years ago:

Spec:
’96 Spec JDM Honda Integra Type-R (DC2)
Pretty much stock other than:
HKS Hi-Power exhaust
HKS mushroom air filter
Momo Race steering wheel
Toyo T1-R tyres

A few more shots of her when I first bought her:

Bodywork wasn’t perfect, but mechanically it seemed pretty mint and no obvious rust.

My long term plan with the car was to keep it pretty much as-is, and enjoy it as one of the best handling FWD cars of all time…but it doesn’t take long before you want more!
Although mechanically minded, I’ve never really had a car I’ve needed to do any major work on, so the first year of ownership was spent mostly racking up the miles and tidying bits up:

All stripped down for a check over and a bit of underseal. Still amazed me how clean it was for its age:

Mugen reservoir covers and Cusco brake master cylinder stopper added:

Then it started to develop a hellish knock when setting off/changing gear. Engine mounts inspected and found to be less then perfect so replaced with some firmer billet jobbies:

(these were on for about a year until I’d had enough of the constant cabin vibration so replaced them with OEM with poly inserts)

Also sorted out the classic DC2 leak from the rear light seals – new seals and a lick of paint in the boot area to tidy up the small amount of surface rust that had developed:

Seat bolster on the OEM Recaros are also prone to a bit of sagging after a few years so I bought a replacement bolster from Capital Seating and set about replacing it:
Before (doesn’t look as bad as it felt):

During:

After:

 

[Marky_J]

Although the ’96 spec DC2 is generally regarded as being the most ‘raw’ of the different versions of the DC2, it is let down massively by the stock brakes – 262mm discs up front to be precise.

So the modding bug took place and I bought a set of Prelude callipers, carriers, discs and Ferrodo DS2500 pads:
Spacing the carriers correctly (only took a couple of shims/washers) I got the callipers mounted and thought I was onto a winner…

…but they fouled the OEM 15” wheels... nothing a little tickle with a grinder can’t sort though!

And fitted behind my other recent purchase of a set of 16” Buddyclub P1 alloys with Hankook RS-2 rubber (215/45/R16):

The combination of the brakes and tyres completely transformed the car….T1-R’s will now be known as the devils tyre!!

A few more road trips and I was really getting to love this car, but decided I needed harnesses to hold me in place to feel more what the car was doing etc. As I still wasn’t ‘modding’ the car, I wanted to keep it looking tidy, keep the interior and retain the general usability of the car I went for Sabelt 3-point harnesses with buckle on the rear strap to allow quick removal to lower the seat for accessing rear seats etc.

I also added an OMP rear strut brace to try and unbranded C-Pillar brace to try and add a bit more rigidity to the chassis. I’m sure the effects are mostly physiological but they look good

Took the car to Monster Motorsport in Loughborough for a rolling road day. The DC2 is never going to be a fast car in straight lines, but I was curious as to how the engine was performing 15 years after it was made.

Suffice to say I was happy with the 190bhp peak power (by this time I had also swapped the HKS intake for a less…..well, **** intake – a Carbon Fibre ITG Maxogen).

So by now I was really loving how the car handled, and saw an event advertised on the ITR-DC2 forum for a sprint/track day at Curborough, intended really for beginners to track days to get a feel for their car on a ‘track’ but without other cars around them etc. Naturally I jumped at the chance, though I needed some better rubber.
At the time I wasn’t sure quite what route I was going with the car so looked out for some cheap ‘track wheels’. Eventually I picked up a set of old Evo 3 (I think) wheels for around £70, and fitted some second hand Toyo R888’s. Wanting a track colour I didn’t want to go down the predictable route of red, orange, Takata green etc. My gf suggested pink, so fluorescent pink it was!

At Curborough there was around 20 cars there, glorious sunshine, BBQ etc…generally it was an awesome day out to get a bit of a feel for what the car can do. Not the most exciting of tracks but served me a purpose!

Only problem is that I now wanted more!

The car was notably soft and you could feel the geometry changing under cornering, so I took the car off the road for a couple of weeks and fully re-bushed it using Hardrace bushes and OEM droplinks.

The car was notably stiffer and I had more confidence of what I was going to do in a corner.

 

[Marky_J]

Racked up a few more miles before booking another day at Teesside Autodrome with Coog & Ash:

Even got the old girl to cock a leg up

Awesome day, so much better to be on a proper track – more time on track, more time to learn the car, the corners, what the car will do etc.

That’s it, I had ‘the bug’!!

By now a mate of mine was stripping his DC2 race car so I got a set of BC Racing coilovers, and Cyberspeed/Hardrace front and rear camber & toe arms off him.
I fitted them all then up to see Stevie at Grinspeed in Preston who did a cracking job setting the geometry up!

Nothing to do with the story but you may remember it snowed a lot Winter 2010/11…poor Teggy got stranded on my front garden (then promptly cracked her windscreen when I eventually got her back in my garage, grr!):

But that soon went and normality resumed…

 

[Marky_J]

Now as much as I loved my exhaust, it was becoming a bit of a pain:

It is an under-axle design so with the number of lows I was running it was catching all the time. The picture above shows what happens with the front wheels just off the ground. In all honesty it only sounded good with the de-cat fitted, and despite it not been the loudest system in the world, I was a little worried about noise levels as some tracks can be quite picky. Added to which I didn’t want the back box digging in on a curb on track!

So out with the old and in with the new. A Mugen Twinloop was promptly sourced. Not exactly my favourite in terms of styling but it does make a lovely note that’s not too in your face, plenty of ground clearance and plenty quiet enough for any track I hope! (Again, no pics though!)

And at the same time I thought I’d best fit a sump baffle to stop oil starvation when out on track.
Just used a kit from Tegiwa, cheap and does the job (one of the lads at work welded it in for me).
All cleaned up for welding:

Fitted:

And back on the car:

So then onto Cadwell:

The car felt amazing now, a slight tendency to oversteer with the new geometry setup but very easy to hold now that I was really getting to grips with the LSD.

It was nothing compared to the Westfields and Ariel Atom there in the dry, but once the rain came, the track got quieter and I had some amazing fun properly learning the track. My OEM rims were now wrapped in Yokohama AD08’s - 195/50/R15 which were incredible in the wet. So I spent pretty much all afternoon playing with an old track prepped M3, and loved every minute of it

Very very pleased with how the car handles now, and not wanting to get into blowing loads of money on the engine yet so only one thing for it…..cage!!

Thankfully Santa was very good to me Xmas 2011 …

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I should have included in the above info that in July 2011 I got married and used the Teg as the wedding car
(Some of the ribbons blew off on the morning run up to the venue )

 

[Marky_J]

As mentioned previously, Santa (or more specifically my wife) was very good to me at Christmas 2011 delivering a shiny new OMP bolt in cage.

Great bit of kit for the money – arrives in two main sections which are sleeved together and bolted to form the completed cage. The kit came with door bars and their mounting bosses to weld on where required, and cut & bent mounting plates all in compliance with the MSA rules.

Now I should point out that I am building this car predominantly as a track car and for occasional weekend fun etc. I have no intention on racing, but where necessary I am trying to stick to MSA rules in case I ever have a change of heart, or ever sell the car to someone who does want to race….i guess it also implies a certain level of safety so stops me making wrong decisions about stuff too!

A guy I know through work offered to do the necessary welding in of plates etc at his house/workshop so over Christmas I headed down and got on with the job.

In the day we got the cage in, feet welded in and drilled as required and door bars mounted which was a lot quicker than I expected!

Main delay was actually a result of us modifying the cage a little. Coog has the same cage in his car, but as standard it sits a little too far forward for my liking so we had to modify the rear mounts to allow it to push back an inch or so. B-Pillar brackets also required re-fitting due to this.

So once back home I cracked on with giving the welded areas a lick of paint and under seal.

So now I had to get on with tidying up the interior. Yeah it’s gunna be a track car but I need some comforts…like paint on the inside

Anyway, out comes my friend mr grinder again and hacked off a load of brackets etc no longer used (for rear seats etc). Coog popped round for a nosey and got giddy with my camera:

(spaced front wings out a bit but they’ve gone a bit more since this pic was taken)

(Chaos!)

Brackets all removed so gave the interiors a lick of Hamerite smooth white spray. Floor was brushed ages ago and will be staying this way!

It’s no show car but looks loads better than before:

I removed the old machine gun ariel and replaced with a rubber grommet and sealant – reception isn’t so good but looks better
Rear wiring loom them promptly chopped apart to simplify, taped up, re-routed and re-fitted. Not the best of pics but looks a lot tider than before. And less likely to be damaged.

At this stage I was still a bit unsure about what to do with harnesses, but in the end I decided that fixing harnesses down to the floor behind the seats was only ever going to result in a broken spine if I was to crash so back to my mates with a length of CDS tube and sit back and watch as he fabricates a harness bar.

No pics again but I then dropped the cage and strut brace off for powder coating at a place local to my work - DFB Contracting. 24 hours later I collected the cage and lightened my wallet by a grand total of £55 – bargain!

 

[Marky_J]

Rear half of cage in place:

Joint between the two halves of the cage showing the colour off a bit better:

Dash loom back in place (was previously removed to allow me to drive the car without the dash in place)

Cage means standard door cards will not fit. Window and mirror switches will therefore not fit in the door so I made new window switches - to be mounted either side of the dash:

(mirror switch is still a work in progress!)

Snow stopped play so I went to the pub instead

Coog came round for tea and was a massive help, getting cage finally bolted in place, both seats in, 2 new harnesses, rear ARB bushes replaced and a few minor bits of wiring. Starting to looking like a race car now!

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So its finally dawned on me how long there is left till Donington so i need to get my ass into gear! Progress over the last couple of days has been mostly tidying bits up and those fiddly little jobs that no-one sees, but they take up all the time, anyway, leccy windows all working now with their new switches, all the dash and its extra panels/inserts are now fitted, door bars are in (on quick release pins) and cage padding is in (need a bit more though).

Passenger door bar:

Padding & stuff:

Vents in:

Harnesses tidied up:

New interior light (Ninjago LED keyring):

It's pretty much ready to roll now, but before Donny i would still like to check valve clearances and fit the oil cooler that i've just ordered (if it comes in time)...and obviously an oil change!

 

[Marky_J]

Mixed results today. Oil cooler turned up Friday which was good news, was out all day Saturday so Sunday was my day on the car. Bit of a late start due to laziness but still plenty of time to crack on with what i wanted to do. Finished interior other than hoover all the crap off the floor, got working stereo and everything lol.

Finally decided it was time to bin off the air-con, so....

...out came this lot:

Swapped the uber heavy steel front engine mount in favour of a non air-con alloy version:

interior stuff is still in but massive weight savings - compressor was unbelievably heavy!

So then onto the cooler:

Plan was to bin off OEM oil warmer/cooler, then stick thermo sandwich plate in its place. Inlet manifold off for easy access, all going well until i discovered i needed a 30mm socket which i didn't have :evil:
So bay is now sat like this, need to get a socket tomorrow and crack on for next weekend

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Good news at last!

With the right tools, jobs are so much easier! OEM oil cooler/warmer removed, Mocal oil cooler now fitted:

Had to fit it vertically as the kit i bought was for a civic so the hoses were a little too short to fit horizontally but shouldn't cause any problems.

Dropped in some new oil and new coolant and she fired up no problems, just need to bleed the system and we're away

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Car all packed for Donington:

Rest of the pics of the day are on my facbook page:
Donington GP Trackday | Facebook

Overall i was mega happy with how the car handled. Goemetry etc hasn't changed since its last outings so no suprises there but the cage has defo added more rigidity to the car as it says much more stable and predictable in corners. Had Hou in as a passenger most of the time, but the session i did on my own the car did feel more nimble than before. Could be physcological, could be me getting more used to the car, but i'd like to think its the weight i've stripped out

Only issue i had was the car developing an allergic reaction to coolant. Spitting 10/15mm worth of water from the tank on every session :?
Had me baffled at the time but since getting home i think it's down to how i removed/bypassed the oem oil cooler, so should be a failry straight forward fix, just a little time consuming

Also, as a slight aside here, i stuck all the old interior (plastics, carpet etc) in the boot of the Audi on sunday to take to the tip - theres a hell of a lot more than i thought lol :

 

[Marky_J]

Post-Donington, progress has been slow at best, anyway back end of last week i set about sorting the overheating issue. This went as far as stripped the inlet manifold off, ripping out a slection of hoses and fittings and leaving it at that as now i need to source some bits & bobs. All a bit demoralising really so when i had a spare hour this weekend i got my rear carbon panels in:

Not the most exciting of progress, but still progress!

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Grrr, got engine bay all back together last night. Oil Pressure sender relocated on a T-peice. Oil Temp now in a blanking plug on the back of the block. Water temp gauge fitted. OEM oil/water heat exchanger blocked off correctly! Started it up to bleed the coolant and the sodding rad cap is still leaking :evil:

Just when i thought everything was going well

Not a major issue i know but still annoying!

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Should probably add to this thread that coolant system is now 100% functioning correctly - Cusco 1.3 Bar rad cap, new (working) fan switch, and correctly bled, and all is good

Got some seats to collect in a couple of weeks but doubt they will be fitted before Blyton tbh.

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Blyton is getting ever close so i figured i should follow in Hous steps and make myself a 'to-do' list:
- bleed brakes (just bought some ATE Super Blue fluid from CRN, £12.50 a litre - bargin!!)
- bleed clutch (really just so i can stick the HEL braided line in that i've had lying around for ages)
- buy fuel
- pack car

....doesn't seem right that list :? Thats normally the stuff i do the night before the trackday lol.

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Managed to knock half my jobs off my very extensive 'to-do' list last night...

HEL braided clutch line fitted
Replaced brake fluid with some ATE Super Blue Racing stuff:

Other than a quick spin to make sure all is well, that's me ready to go

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Just realised how long it is since i actually updated anything on here!

At Blyton in April, the car went well with no issues encountered other than a couple of crunches of the gearbox. The car is on 100,000+ miles now and to the best of my knowledge, the box has never been off the car so rather than risk it, i figured this was tiem to swap the clutch...and whilst i'm at it, the flywheel.

Bought a Fidanza 3.4Kg flywheel (OEM is something like 7.7Kg) and Exedy OEM clutch. Round to Coogs to do the swap as he has a car port, and vast experience in changing clutches...and a decent supply of tea!

Box off and clutch off, OEM flywheel:

OEM clutch (still loads of meat left on so really didn't need replacign at all!):

Flywheels at the side of each other - weight difference is crazy:

So all back together and working fine in time for Cadwell - cheers Coog


I should mention i fitted some new stickers too

Also bought myself what i believe to be a bargin off ebay. OMP Grip fibreglass seat + side mounts for £62. Hou kindly colelcted it from me as it was based in Leeds.
I was going to make my own fixed mounts but to be honest i was running out of time and ability before Cadwell so i just bought a Buddlyclub replica sliding rail. Got it fitted but it will need some mods to allow me to run the seat a bit lower. Other than the angle been all wrong, it is a comfortable seat for me and have to say i did feel the difference at Cadwell. With the seat and harnesses you just don't need to think about falling off your seat on every corner
Pics to follow!

After all this i hit Cadwell and had a cracking, but tiring, time - read my review on the blog HERE

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Finally got round to unpackign the car from Cadwell this weekend. Discovered that 2 of my 888s had stuck together which i put down to the fact that we were rushed off site so they were very hot when they went in the boot! No biggie but something i've learned for next time.

My heart sank however when i saw this in one of my almost new AD08's:

Thankfully it hadn't gone all the way through so got away with it.

Also went to go pick up a fibreglass bonnet at the weekend, only to discover that it didn't fit in my boot...have to return in the week with the roof bars on! Opinions needed though people - it's a fibreglass bonnet with a fairly subtle vent...like this infact:

The one i'm buying is currently black but does need some tidying up. Should I:

1. Paint it satin black for cheapness and to match my wing mirrors?
2. Get it painted Camp White to match the rest of the car?

 

[Marky_J]

Spent a bit of time out with the car last night trying to get the seat positioned right. Eventually came to the conclusion that i need to modify the rails so sorting that today.

Seat looks something (well, exactly) like this at the mo:

The problem is that the fibreglass frame of the seat is 400mm wide, the rails fitted to the OEM mounting points are about 390mm apart on the extreme ends of the slotted mounting holes. This means you can't lower the seat any more than flush with the top of the rail...which isn't much lower than OEM, and isn't that comfortable either as it means the angle of the seat can't be set right...So i've chopped the mounting tabs off the rails, and getting them welded back on a bit further apart. Only issue then may be the mechanism for the slider could be in the way. All in all i think i've failed with buying these rails (genuine Buddyclub ones are the same for reference!), and should have gone with my initial plan to make a fixed one! :roll:

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Modified rails went back in last night and i can now drop the rear of the seat to the lowest mounting slot. On the run in to work this morning it felt a lot more comfortable, but i guess only a long run will really tell. Looking promising though

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Couple of fairly minor updates...

Buddyclub seat rail is now succesfully modified and the seat now drops between the rails so i can get the height and angle i wanted. Just hacksawed the brackets off one of the rails and got them welded back on about 15mm further out. Spot on now, hopefully no more dodgy back pains after track time now

I also got the bonnet (thanks to Hou for the hand loading it onto the Tegs roof rack, and for tea )
It weights literally sod all - really quite suprised TBH.
It did come with those crappy cheapo bonnet pins but for security reasons i decided to invest in some proper lockable aerocatches. (Great service from JJC as ever!)
Last weekend it dawned on me how close we are to Japfest so i had to make progress...

New bonnet with pins removed:

OEM bonnet temporarily removed:

New bonnet temporarily fitted:

I love the look so satin black is defo gunna be the way forward! At this point i stopped taking pics, but basically i got the bonnet pins fitted to the slam panel, and areocatches fitted. Took it off the car again and fibreglassed up a couple of minor dings. Hopefully get prep finished tonight and get some paint on it.

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Well, got the bonnet fitted last night. Can't say I'm 100% happy with the paint finish but hopefully it'll either sort itself out after a couple of coats of Cheery Glaze, or I'll just stop giving a ****.

Bonnet pins just need a bit of fine tuning though as they're miles off lining up properly ... more holes = more weight saving though...just a shame i have to sort them tonight in the rain

Only issue i noticed this morning is that the vent recess fills up with water and then pours down into the bay...hope the eninge doesn't flood.... :roll:

Looking forward to Japfest but really don't know why i've bothered loading my 888's now - think they'll be coming back out of the boot and just run on my street tyres (RS2's)...or maybe take the AD08's for a proper AD08 vs RS2 comparison since Coog is running RS2's in the same sessions as me.... :?:

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Not updated for a while so just getting my thread back up to date…

As many of you know, I took the Teg to Donington for Japfest2. As always, loved the track, and the car performed pretty faultlessly…other than the seized calliper in the morning causing the rear brake to lock on for about 10 mins journey from mine to Coogs. Wound the piston in and out a few times and got it a bit freer, but truth be told, I need to rebuild it sometime in the not too distant future. Front brakes are also pretty much at the end of their life, so will likely need replacing before the next outing.

What Donington did highlight to me though, was just how desperately I needed to swap my front sub frame. About 18 months ago I was doing some work on the front suspension and one of the captives nuts became non-captive. I managed to get things lined up through a small drain hole, and tighten it up pretty good at the time, but gradually it has loosened a bit and there’s no access for a spanner, so now I can’t tighten it up anymore, and you can hear the front arm clunk around under braking/power.

Thankfully Coog happened to have a spare subframe from his re-build project, so I gave it a lick of paint:

Got everything stripped down and attacked the offending sub-frame with drill and grinder until i could get a spanner in to undo the bolt

Off

Also gave the gear linkages a lick of paint, and some new bushes will go on before I re-assemble.

Started putting it all back together then realised I’d forgotten to attached the rear engine mount, so I took it back off and decided I’d had enough for the day!

Hopefully get things back together tonight, though I have noticed a couple of small pools of oil under the car this morning so something’s obviously leaking :roll: …probably the power steering lines that I had to disturb to remove the subframe… Will investigate tonight.

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From the "Official" Gallery
i love the tow strap how it looks like a dogs tongue flapping in the wind

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Spent about 3 hours under the car last night and got it about 90% back together. The oil patches on the ground were PAS fluid from where i hadn't quite nipped up one of the fittings, so panic over. Just need to re-fit the cat, and turn the gear stick through 180 degrees as i re-assembled it wrong

Also discovered that the slight oil leak i thought was from between the box and block is actually from a driveshaft seal seaping round, so hopefully a nice easy fix sometime soon

Fingers crossed she'll be back on the road tonight, no clunks or anything

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Well, drove the car properly for the first time this morning since the recent work.

Gear change defo feels a lot more positive now with the new bushes, and as expected, the new subframe has stopped all the creaking and banging from the non-captive-fixings. Does feel nicer to drive in that sense, but that was half of my cars character

Overall very happy with it all though

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Nothing to up-date as such yet, but MOT is due Sunday (still not actually booked a test though). New front discs and pads have arrived so will be fitted over the weekend, and i've also ordered a caliper rebuild kit for the rear to prevent more issues like at Japfest 2! If that turns up today/tomorrow then it could be a fun weekend doing that!

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Well, got rear caliper rebuilt ok...ish. In many ways it was quite easy, but there were a couple of bits that were crazy fiddly. Got it all back together and it seems to work ok though....but piston still felt quite stiff to wind back in :?

Should be fine for MOT though. Swapped front discs & pads and found one of the piston dust seals had a 10mm split, and all the seals on the slider pins are showing their age. Think i'm gunna have to bite the bullet and rebuild all the calipers sometime in the not too distant future - joy

Anyway, all back together, fronts still bedding in but all feels good

Not properly attacked the white glue stuff on the doors yet, just tried it in one small area. Seemed to take some time rubbing with white spirit before it started moving - probably needs to be left to do it's thing rather than continuous rubbing i guess? Can see that it'll get there in the end though Job for another day.

 

[Marky_J]

So after stressing myself out with Forza last night i decided that i needed to get out and do something constructive so i finally got myself into gear to fit my carbon door cards. Not such a simple job though as they are designed for fully stripped out cars, whereas i still have inside door latch/lock mechanism, and speakers... a bit of drilling and cutting is in order

First i attacked the door to strip and remaining major components (i've aleady wire tucked the door so to speak and clipped all wires to the inside. The glue stuff left on the door i scraped off pretty easy actually with an old credit card, and most of it is going to be covered so that's how it will stay:

Marked and drilled a hole for the latch/lock control arms to poke through, and also started marking for the speaker holes...

But then the ASDA delivery guy turned up so i gave in for the night cos i was hungry
Hopefully get more done this weekend

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Bit more of an update...

Finished modding the door cards and got them fitted:

Also just taken delivery of my new 10mm hubcentric spacers. Made by 2K Motorsport and Performance (specialising in customer machining/fabrication) to my drawing/design at a very competitive rate:

Though when trial fitting on some spare hubs i had, i decided they could be a bugger to remove so i drill and tapped some M8 holes to allow me to wind some M8 bolts in to push them off the hub face:

Much better:

Not actually fitted them yet though as i need to get some longer studs. Got a full set of four but will have a play around with different combos on next track day

Incidentally, if anyone is looking for some 10mm spacers, please let me know - 2K's machine shop made another set up in 4x114 so they're sat waiting for a buyer - give me a shout and i can out you in touch

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Nothing more to update, but went out on a bike ride with the mrs at the weekend and took the Teg.... still makes a great workhorse

 

[jordan101]

top work mate, and by far the best write up to a build i have seen in a long time im getting married in 2014 and i fi suggested using my old evo for a wedding car the mrs would have slapped me around haha

 

[Marky_J]

top work mate, and by far the best write up to a build i have seen in a long time im getting married in 2014 and i fi suggested using my old evo for a wedding car the mrs would have slapped me around haha

Thanks for the kind words mate.

I thought my mrs was gunna kill me when half the bows flew off after a bit of vtec action on the way there but it all worked out in the end

 

[fatboi]

best and most detailed build up ive read in a long time mate. enjoyed reading it and waiting for updates
good work so far (y)

 

[Harvey]

Love the carbon door cards mate, if you don't mind me asking, how much where the sheets? Also how did you go about making the template for them. Oh and and was sort of screws did you use to attach them to the door?

Cheers,

Harvey

 

[Ellis]

Great write up and work mate! Very logical approach youve taken to your mods.

Just out of curiosity though, hiw did the whole dc2 wedding car go down with the mrs? Been contemplating doung this myself for a while now also ha

 

[Boyle]

What a build!! Car looks amazing

Love the full write up, keep up the good work

 

[walle]

just read through and what a great build! Very very good Keep up the minted work!

 

[wishy]

Awesome build thread , attention to detail is amazing. A lot of hard work has went in to it.

 

[NeilVtec]

Great Build & Car! keep it up

 

[Marky_J]

Thanks again for all the kind words guys

Really enjoyed every step of the build so far, and dare i say it, the car's about where i wanted it to be. Track car but with a few luxuries kept so i can still drive it relatively comfortably on the road when ever i want/need to. Just gotta get on with enjoying it now

Love the carbon door cards mate, if you don't mind me asking, how much where the sheets? Also how did you go about making the template for them. Oh and and was sort of screws did you use to attach them to the door?

I actually just bought the door cards from Galway Carbon. Loads of other tasty bits on there so make sure you have plenty on your credit card before you have a look! Could be made from a fairly simple card template i guess but i was in a bit of a rush at the time. They're just screwed on with some self tapping screws. They doo rattle a bit at certain revs though so i'll have to sort some kinda packing behind them at some stage.

Great write up and work mate! Very logical approach youve taken to your mods.

Just out of curiosity though, hiw did the whole dc2 wedding car go down with the mrs? Been contemplating doung this myself for a while now also ha

To be honest our whole wedding was about us doing it the way we wanted to do it, not the conventional way, so the car was a fairly obvious choice by both of us. I think she was pleased i was able to have my own touches on the day