sorry for spamming old thread but has anyone who carried out the 282mm brake conversion ever have trouble with calliper hitting bottom of shock fork?i have a pre-facelift ek civic with facelift hubs,CTR callipers and a EJ9 steering rack!when i fully lock wheels the pot on back of calliper is...
Yeah lots of updates man just trying to organise all the pictures!the car is currently on the floor ready for powerplant to be put in!ill organise pictures and stuff today and update some more!Im hoping between 800-900kg!
So this is just all parts update with the most recent spec list!Car is nearly built!building rest of engine this weekend!
The new Bride!After spending this much time and money on the car i said id treat myself to a nice seat!and once again less weight!
Bride Zeta 2
Tegiwa 2.5'' manifold...
So bought a set of Kosei p1's!They wernt in the best of shapes so time to refurb them!Never doing wheels again ha torture of a job!
First coat of primer!
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Over this whole build i went from a road/track car to full on track car!I was mad for loosing as much weight as possible!so i went away and bought some goodies!
Fibreglass boot,bonnet and wings!Also bought a full set of lexan polycarbonate windows!
So that should help keep my weight...
So dont know where to even start ha
Totally forgot i even started a build thread on this site!
So that was the cage painted black!Now for the interior of the car!
So that was the inside all painted up!So time for cage back in!
So small update again!
Started to cut unwanted panels in the car!
So was going to cut out 4 holes below the window and the T section in the middle but scraped this idea and went all out!
So polybush kit arrived from Tegiwa!
Also started preparing cage for...
So over the weekend i got the mounting plates for roll cage welded in!
Havent been cleaned up yet but this is the idea!
so once these were all in and welded!next was to align the bolt holes to be drilled!
i marked the holes and then removed the cage as trying to drill holes...
so sealed up the underneath of car and then got tank and lines ran back in
now i started concentrating on the front wings!they were all different colours so going to paint them black!leaving engine bay same colour for now!
So my OMP 6 point bolt in cage arrived!
Done a...
My 3 EK's in garage!EK2-EK3-EK4(project on the right)
So engine spec so far is as follows!
B16A bottom end
Bored and honed 82mm
Forged and lightened crank
ACL race bearings
ACL con rods
APR headbolt kit
Buddyclub flywheel
AEM crank pulley
ITR inlet manifold
Port and polished to...