No compromise Supercharged ek9 build

[stevenEK9]

GET IT MAPPED

I know what power this was putting out as one of the previous owners had it on a RR up in aberdeen and it was also compared in a straight line to a completely standard EK9

Not going to post any more, pm me if you want more details

Some effort in cleaning it up, dedicated for sure. Have heard this before and does sound cool with the charger

 

[JDMJNKY]

This is insane. In my 10yrs I've never came across a c's compressor! WOW! I would buy the car just for that. You have made some awesome mod's, and have did a great job refreshing all those bits. My only advice instead of watching you mess w/ all those intakes would have been to make or have made an aftercooler since it is supercharged, but anyway great job!!!!

 

[type-r-mad]

project is coming along well bud, see you cleaned those coilovers up a bit more, came out good, you got them on yet?

whats next?

 

[689R]

Wouldnt bother getting it mapped by mase man, what if you change something else or it goes wrong, have to wait on him coming back to america aha.

Nahnah PerformanceTek is just Gerry. Henrys works for himself under the name TripleH performance, TripleH Performance, triplehperformance,.

Henry normally uses crome(chipped p28 ecu) for simple builds and DTA for builds that require more comprehensive management.

 

[aRc]

good work, it's a credit to you!

 

[henryp]

unreal dude. love it.

 

[Firas]

Thanks again guys for the kind words. Much appreciated

GET IT MAPPED

I know what power this was putting out as one of the previous owners had it on a RR up in aberdeen and it was also compared in a straight line to a completely standard EK9

Not going to post any more, pm me if you want more details

Some effort in cleaning it up, dedicated for sure. Have heard this before and does sound cool with the charger

Yup steven tell me about it. A faulty lambda sensor and worn out spark plugs werent doing it a world of good. It was bought as a project car and the condition it was in was refected in the price i paid for it. Just like any imported car mapped for jap fuel it needs a map to run on uk fuel and a good one at that. The map is top on my list once i get myself insured back on it

Cheers man must admit though watching your project thread was a big inspiration for me. I Probably spent tooo much time in the garage cleaning it and gettig things in order but i really enjoyed doing it and learned alot at the same time. oh and yeh the sound of the charger is unreal. drowns out the sound of spoon its that loud lol

project is coming along well bud, see you cleaned those coilovers up a bit more, came out good, you got them on yet?

whats next?

cheers aaron mate. haha yeh gave them a once over when i got back home but they were pretty much mint when i picked them up from you anyways. They arent on the car yet as i thought its probably easiest to get them fitted along with the control arms when they get here at the same time.

Next on the list is a new standalone and a remap if all goes to plan mate.

Wouldnt bother getting it mapped by mase man, what if you change something else or it goes wrong, have to wait on him coming back to america aha.

Nahnah PerformanceTek is just Gerry. Henrys works for himself under the name TripleH performance, TripleH Performance, triplehperformance,.

Henry normally uses crome(chipped p28 ecu) for simple builds and DTA for builds that require more comprehensive management.

Yeh exactly man plus i dont think i would get hold of mase anyways. I really would like to stick to a local tuner as long as the service is good but like i said mate if it means i will get the best service possible i dont mind travelling to see will, just it will be an inconvenience if i get any other work carried out or if something goes wrong.

 

[majeed]

fook me, alot of money spent on this 9

 

[zeff]

congrats on the car man..two thumbs up..btw..are you a muslim? i saw on your table where your laptop is layed a blue figuring with arabic scriptures on it...

 

[storiee!]

its a seriously clean car with a sick amount of money spent on it fair play lad!! best of look with the big figures!! let use all know

 

[dhdavectr]

this is one crazy build don't think ive ever seen someone go into the finest details like polishing up the springs on the exhaust clamps

 

[importchoice]

Fantastic build so far. Will be keeping an eye on this. Good Luck

 

[linh-ej9]

duno how i missed this thread, top work!

 

[eternal blue 2000]

duno how i missed this thread, top work!

same here!!

was a great read,credit to you sir

 

[Dunsy]

Tidy! i like it

Although...i would have gone for a set of low offset 16s and made the porsche brakes fit. that would have made it really stand out!!

 

[Firas]

Thanks for the comments lads. Progress has slowed abit as i have started uni and the car is now off the road over the winter. bought an mb3 civic as a runaround to tide me over the winter months.

Dunsy im gutted the porsche calipers set up never worked out as it would have been a monstrous set up. if i ever get bored of the reggas i will buy a set of 16" wheels and get brackets machined for them, however realistically i think i will be investing in spoon brakes once a second hand set pop up as love the reggas too much.

 

[Firas]

havent updated the thread in a while so here are some more recent updates:

update:

Been busy this week with rebuilding a pitbike engine for my wee bro and striping down the carbs on my go kart so only managed to get a few things done to the car this week.

The pit bikes kick start idler gear was broken so the casings had to be split to get to them. Turns out that the shaft also snapped so i just put it back together for the moment until i manage to source a new gearset.

Managed to get the carbs off of the go kart aswell this week to clean them up as the floats were stuck and leaking fuel everywhere.

For those who are interested the carbs came off of this monster . Its gsxr powered go kart, which has kept me busy over the winter.

Anyways back to the car:

First job was to get my old tyres swapped over as they were of a lower profile. Also got the tyres filled with nitrogen instead of air for a change.

Before:

after (excuse, car was pretty manky when i came back from the tyre fitters)

I dont know if its just a placebo effect but the tyres do feel more grippy with nitrogen. im yet to properly test them out though

When i came back i started installing the mugen foot pedals.

before:

after

 

[Firas]

I had to remove the radiator cooling plate to drill a hole out for the bonnet alarm switch so i took the opportunity to remove the bonnet catch to give it a good clean and paint

bonnet catch off the car:

i used an old toothbrush and a combination of autoglym engine degreaser and white spirit to clean it up.

i let it soak for about 30 mins

and then gave it a good blast with the brush

came out good but i stil want happy

so went over it with the polishing kit

and although it looked better i still decided to paint it in some of the vht anodized gold paint

 

[Firas]

Also fitted a few more anodised bolts around the car as i had a couple left over

Also got this small camera a while ago but forgot about it at the back of the cupboard so will get a bracket made for that this week. hoping to use it maybe for track days or road trips/b road blasts ect.For the price it seems like a pretty good camera with decent quality footage.

Also got my skunk2 control arms in brushed silver through the door this week

So mock fitted them with the bc coilovers and beaks tie bar to see what the set up will look like under the car. i was pretty happy with them especailly since they should save abit of weight over oem control arms and the bushes are meant to be stiffer too. Hopefully get them fitted as soon as i get the new bolts i ordered today from honda.

Things never seem to be straight forward with this car. Went to fit the tein bonnet lifters and as i was undoing the nut on the bonnet, it snapped in half

got the drill and carefully drilled it out.

then retapped it using tap that i borrowed from a metal fabricator down the road.

finally got it fitted along with a green anodized washer to go with

out with the old one

in with the new

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overall im very happy with the quality of the tein bonnet lifter over the generic one i had on before, although the tein ones arent as powerful

some of you may remember that a bit of cutting and adjusting was needed to get the aem long arm to fit due to the throttle body sticking out further on my set up so it was no surprise that the fixing point for the bolt holding it down was also displaced so i drilled a new one since i had the drill and tap handy

done

minor job but the squint position of the jubilee clips was also bugging me since the civic meet so i moved them in the correct place.

 

[Firas]

next day i tried fitting the coilovers and control arms but i couldnt get the bolts holding them on to budge even with a breaker bar. so took it into a garage to get the bolts loosened off but they couldnt get them out and i didnt want them to use and air gun incase the bolts snapped and i would end up having to walk home lol. i ordered replacements bolts from honda so as soon as they get here i will just get them out with an air gun and if they snap i will just drill them out but need to wait for he replacements first.

so managed to get 2 of the 8 bolts i need from honda today as it was in stock. £10 for 2 bolts is bloody extortionate imo. whats worse is they want £90 for arb rear drop links. just hope i dont end up snapping mines when i take them off.

The bracket holding the horn on was rusted so that came out for a lick of paint.

next i wanted to freshen up the strut brace and i also wanted the colour of the strut brace to match the colour of the rocker cover and supercharger so i removed it and took it next door

off the car

These are the brackets and bolts holding the strut brace on. the brackets were custom made to move the strut brace forward and allow it to clear the supercharger. i recently painted them anthracite but i wasnt happy as it started to flake. i decided to get them done in vht wrinckle red to match the rocker cover and strut brace and also to give them more of an oem look.

strut brace bolts looking abit dull

so decided to give them a blast with the vht anodized gold paint

same with the spark plug cover. although painted recently there were a few imperfections that i wanted to sort out. i kept it anthracite as its similar to the oem colour honda used.

whipped it off

got the nitomors paint stripper and vht wrinckle paint out

everything down to the bare, hosed/dried and wiped down with white spirit i was ready to get painting.