R1PPU's EJ9 Build Up


R1PPU said:
Haha yeah my bad! They were all really good man, just didn't have time to go through them! Will do that this weekend, thanks again for the pics :) Car back up the road now?
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Yeah man it's back home. Hopefully have it sorted tonight.
 
jesse888 said:
Must admit, I wasn't expecting saqibs face when I heard him speak and looked up!
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@Saqib is a ledge mate... I was taking pics of rippu trackside and missed a conversation he was having with dave and craig, just caught the closing statement 'get tae f**k pal, know what I mean?' with a proper G Town twang. I could not stop laughing, absolute quality like, mans a legend
 
robthedoc said:
@Saqib is a ledge mate... I was taking pics of rippu trackside and missed a conversation he was having with dave and craig, just caught the closing statement 'get tae f**k pal, know what I mean?' with a proper G Town twang. I could not stop laughing, absolute quality like, mans a legend
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Agreed, legend.
 
Right, figure I better give this some sort of update haha. Apologies in advance for the mix of phone pictures and selfies....

So going back a couple of weeks, @Steve M and my mates Greg and Glenn came to visit me on Coventry. Friday night we went out (less said about that, the better...),



Saturday was spent cleaning the cars for Japfest 2 and trying to sort out a radiator for Steve's coupe due to a stone sticking a hole through it when he was on his way to mines on the Friday.



Sunday was Japfest, and as seen by my previous post, it was SICK. Was on the EK9.org stand it was great, the guys were awesome. Big thanks to @nicole_ for organising that. Thanks again to @Saqib for the following picture.

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And thanks to @jjenningsjj for this one.

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Went on track and the car was faultless! Stripped the interior out again prior to this and stiffened up my suspension a bit. The tyres went off about halfway through the session but that was because I forgot to lower the pressures from road pressures. A cool down lap later and the car was spot on again. Was my first time taking the civic on track, great fun. Greg went out with me to see if he could help with my lines etc as he used to race Formula Fords.





@robthedoc got these awesome pictures of me on track, thats @DBMatt infront of me in the first pic!


3 by Rippu Duggal, on Flickr


4 by Rippu Duggal, on Flickr

Got a few pictures in the garages afterwards too.


6 by Rippu Duggal, on Flickr


8 by Rippu Duggal, on Flickr
As it worked out, I had to take the civic to work the next day (normally car share and take my friends 108 as my cars too "impractical" :alone:). Queue a selfie...



Fast forward a week and I went to Mimms with the his. guys and gals. Top bunch, as was everyone else there. Really nice to finally meet a lot of people from the Honda scene that I've been talking to for years via the forums and Facebook. Can deffo see the appeal of Mimms!


2 by Rippu Duggal, on Flickr

Heard over the speakers that track time was available...went to enquire, the guy who did my briefing at Japfest was there and after recognising me and having a chat about the last time I was on, he sorted me out with some track time for free... top lad!!

About to go on:





Dropped the tyre pressures this time, knew the track a bit better and was really enjoying myself! As you can see in the video below, I got a bit annoyed at the DC2 and MB6 as I was trying to pass them, I was so much quicker on the corners but they just outdragged me in the straights haha. Joys of the D14! Got past them eventually though :nice: You'll also see my slight "incident" at the end...


Basically, was too busy looking at the car behind me at the double left hander and turned in too late... Car met cone, cone went under the car and out the back, taking the lip with it haha. Luckily this was the only damage, all fine though :)

So yeah, an eventful few weeks! Had an awesome time seeing my mates from home and meeting loads of new people :nice:
 
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That's an awesome update, I did similar at japfest(looking at fk2 behind me and going wide)
Free tracktime? Jammy ****!
So you'll be a regular on the tracktime now?
 
I felt the marshalling was non existent at japfest but it's never that great at a show anyway so thought nothing of it.
What was it like a mimms? See any flags?
 
jesse888 said:
That's an awesome update, I did similar at japfest(looking at fk2 behind me and going wide)
Free tracktime? Jammy ****!
So you'll be a regular on the tracktime now?
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Haha I'm glad I'm not the only one that's done it!

Yeah, the guy was a total legend! Didn't have to go for a formal briefing either, just got my wristbands and window pass and all was good.

Going to try to get onto Knockhill when I get the chance man, not sure if it'll be this year as I leave Coventry on the 12th of September then I'm back to uni on the 14th!

nicole_ said:
FREE TRACKTIME

what :run:

awesome pics as always :D
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Yeah can't complain at all :D

Thanks! Most of the ones I took were crap tbh haha.

Glad you managed to get some money back from the session though! That weather was horrendous! Just started to rain as my session finished.

jesse888 said:
I felt the marshalling was non existent at japfest but it's never that great at a show anyway so thought nothing of it.
What was it like a mimms? See any flags?
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Only really saw 1 yellow when a guy spun at the hairpin, other than that didn't see any!



Also here's some on track pics that I got tagged in on FB :)



 
I'm definitely spoilt by brands hatch, hardly ever get caught up in traffic for more than afew corners without the blue flags going mad.
Seen them black flag afew guys that wouldn't let me through aswell!
 
jesse888 said:
I'm definitely spoilt by brands hatch, hardly ever get caught up in traffic for more than afew corners without the blue flags going mad.
Seen them black flag afew guys that wouldn't let me through aswell!
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Yeah I felt like the DC2 and MB6 should've been blue flagged, I caught them and followed for about half a lap, then slowed down to let a car past then caught them again pretty quickly. I reckon it probably took me about 3-4 laps to get past just due to the lack of power on my part haha.
 
nicole_ said:
I love this! Do you have another splitter or have you got it sorted mega quick!?lol
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Haha thanks! Think this is one of my favourite pics of the car!

Got it sorted quickly, I'm happy to use it on track but needs to look good day to day at the same time :p
 
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