Civic EG6 SIR2 overhaul.

[R11CH]

Thread copied from another forum so please make sense of the time frame.

Carrying on from the members section My Civic EG6 SIR2.

This is how the car was when i picked it up in June last year 2010.

she had only been in the UK for just under a year and had 10100KM on the clock and came with the following:
Enkei RPF1's
J's Racing front bumper intake duct
Honda integra type R recaro seats
Nardi steering wheel
Spoon sports gear knob
J's Racing front upper strut brace
J's Racing 4-2-1 manifold
Spoon Sports N1 catback exhaust system
Honda integra type R rocker cover
Meister R zeta–s coilovers

Before i drove the car i cleaned, washed, scrubbed and then two staged under sealed the whole underneath of car which took me 2 weeks to complete (drying time etc..) as she is rust free i wanted to keep it this way, unfortunately i didn't get many pictures of this

I then gave her a full service all fluids, cambelt, ht leads, dizzy, plugs, fuel filter, air filter, oil and oil filter,the full lot. after that i decided i was going to leave the car alone and just drive it but that only lasted for 2 months as i broke the clutch

So with that broken it was time for a new clutch a Competition stage 2 clutch and i had the standard flywheel lightened and resurfaced

With that fitted i thought i might as well go the whole way while the car is off the road and replace every bush, bearing, ball joint, arms, tyres the lot as you do lol

So far this is my spec list which believe it or not i have every part sat in my room waiting to be fitted but with 12hour days working and only weekends to do it all its going to take till after Christmas till shes ready but least it should be fun on track next year

Edit: Parts have been fitted

Wheels and tyres:
Enkei RPF1's 16x7 ET35.
Goodyear Eagle F1 tyres 215/40/16. (Road)
Custom machined up 5mm wheel spacers with bore nose and separate spigot rings for each set of wheels.
Forged 70mm long wheel studs.
Rays engineering security wheel nuts. (soon to be swapped for steel nuts)
Tyresure, tyre pressure and temperature monitoring system.
Speedline Comp2's 16x7 ET35 (Track)
Toyo R888 GG 195/50/16 (Track)

EXTERIOR MODIFICATIONS:
J's Racing front bumper intake duct.
JDM wind deflectors.
Spoon carbon spoiler.
Spoon Carbon front lip
APR GT3 mirrors
TRS tow strap, hidden for road use.

INTERIOR MODIFICATIONS:
Apexi Power FC EL Hand Commander
Alloy throttle pedal.
Honda integra recaro seat for passenger.
Cobra suzuka carbon Kevlar fixed bucket seat for driver ( Super light!)
Buddy club drivers seat rail.
Ricco Racing 4 point 3" harnesses.
Nardi steering wheel.
Spoon sports gear knob.
Tyresure temp and pressure display unit.
Fan override switch with warning light set on carbon back panel.
Rear seats removed, Rear floor painted gloss black.

BRAKES MODIFICATIONS:
Cusco Master cylinder stopper.
Ferodo DS2500 front and rear brake pads.
Hel rear braided lines.
Integra Type R 1" brake master cylinder and servo.
Motul RBF660 brake fluid.
Integra Type R rear 260mm brake conversion.
Wilwood dynalite 4pot front callipers.
Wilwood 310mm disc's with billet bell houses.
Wilwood front braided lines.

SUSPENSION MODIFICATIONS:
ASR rear subframe brace.
Front and Rear polyurethane anti roll bar bushes.
ITR 96 spec anti roll bars 24mm front, 22mm rear. both powder coated whiteline silver
Function 7 Rear billet aluminium lower control arms.
Function 7 spherical drop links.
J's Racing front upper strut brace.
New OEM Honda lower ball joints.
Meister R Zeta S Coilovers with 10KG front-8KG rear. hope to upgrade to Quantum's in the near future!
New OEM Honda front wishbones, powder coated gloss black and fitted with Super flex poly bushes
New OEM Honda stabiliser arm bushes
New OEM Honda Rear trialling arm bushes, Powder coated gloss black trailing arms.
Powder coated Gloss black front knuckles/ hubs, new OEM Honda bearings, forged wheel studs.
New OEM Honda outer track rod ends.
SPD chassis brace.
Spc front camber and castor arms.
Cyberspeed rear camber arms.
Cyberspeed rear toe arms.
Geometry alignment and suspension adjusted to suit, all done at Sumo Power and TGM Sport.

TRANSMISSION MODIFICATIONS:
Competition Clutch kit stage 2 including release bearing.
Energy Suspension Gear linkage bushes.
Factory Honda LSD fitted.
Integra Type R Gear linkage and shifter.
AMSOIL gearbox oil.

ENGINE MODIFICATIONS:
Apexi Power FC ECU, Mapped by Mase.
Buddy Club oil cap
Energy Suspension Engine mount bushes
Honda integra type R cam cover.
J's Racing 4-2-1 manifold, (Fully lagged)
J's Racing Tsuchinoko Air Intake Kit Carbon.
JPerformance alloy radiator.
NGK Iridium spark plugs
Spal 12" cooling fan.
Spoon Low temp thermostat.
Spoon Sports N1 catback exhaust system (Fully Lagged)
Tegiwa decat pipe (Lagged)
PWJ Baffled sump.
Odyssey Extreme Racing 30 Battery.
Custom catch can and breather setup
Custom Fast idle thermo valve blanking plate for throttle body, coolant lines removed from throttle body and Idle air control valve

Theres probably some bits i have missed along the way but i most defiantly have my work cut out
I will try and keep this as updated as i can with every part i fit.

 

[R11CH]

So far i have the engine and gearbox back together after replacing the clutch and many other bits and pieces,

Got the hubs and knuckles split and sent the arms off to the powder coaters so i got on with cleaning the hubs up and fitting the new longer wheel studs

Test fitting the wilwood disc to the hubs

Rays engineering wheel nuts

Went to check the valve clearances but was far to cold for that so just replaced the rocker cover gasket, vtec gasket and end cam seal

New oem gasket

Decided to clean up the meister R and fit the new 10kg springs

two done just the other two to go

 

[R11CH]

Update.

As the other weekend my car was coved in a foot of snow i decided to abort from Sussex and go to Somerset for a piss up with some mates so didn't get much done

This week my parts at the powder coaters finally got done after a 3 week wait :censored:
so today i got the Bearings, hubs, Ball joints etc. all pressed back in and so now its all ready for tomorrow other than the front camber arms not turning back up yet

pics

and the teg arb's powder coated

Shall update tomorrow.

 

[R11CH]

Managed to man up today and brave the cold and get on with the car.

so first things first was to remove the old front lower arms, brakes, track rod ends and knuckles

then to fit the new parts, front lower arms, knuckles, track rod ends, ARB + droplinks and so on, also had to re fit the drive shafts

Superflex bushes fitted to lower arms

and lube all the bushes with Millers rubber grease

passenger side complete with driveshaft fitted minus the ARB, now the other side

and finally the ARB

Now all i have to do is put the car back on the wheels and spend an afternoon torquing all the bolts up as there all only finger tight for the moment :thumbs:

I will be putting the old 262mm brake set-up, lower arms well the whole lot basically up for sale on here soon as its all got plenty of life left in all the bushes and discs etc if anyone is interested.

 

[R11CH]

Little update

Managed to fit a few things and torque up all the Suspension arm bolts up (while under load)

Spc camber/castor arms fitted

SPD lower brace fitted also fitted the manifold back on

Energy suspension gear linkage bushes fitted to ITR gear linkage

Fitted my ITR 1" master cylinder and servo
Old one on the left new on the right, also bench bleed before fitting.

Finaly fitted and pipes moved into position

Will crack on tomorrow and get the new rad fitted, gearbox filled back up, intake pipe back on and may fit the wilwoods as well.

 

[R11CH]

Thanks for the comments guys :thumbs:

little update,

Got the alloy radiator and Spal fan fitted, gearbox filled back up and started her up still running sweet as a nut. Also got one of the Wilwoods fitted.

just a quick few of the brakes fitted as i will take more photos tomorrow.

All slapped on quickly just make sure everything does still fit

Literately fag paper clearance

All fitted and bolted up

Ferodo DS2500 pads fitted

Just the other side to do along with re fitting the arch liners, front bumper and a little bit of wiring for the new fan, fan switch and fan switch warning light then the FRONT is complete.... ish lol

 

[R11CH]

Well fitted the other wilwood brake today and sorted the wiring out for my fan switch etc.. front bumpers on and arch lining fitted but didn't get photos of this as was getting dark also took some photos of what i did yesterday.

Gearbox and engine oil

Ferodo DS2500 pads

Right hand side brake fitted

Little snap shot of my wiring skills, soldering the old plug back onto the new fan

Engine bay completed for the mean time

I will at a later stage get a different power steering cooler and purchase an oil cooler and combine them both on the alloy plate next to the radiator

New radiator fitted

snap shot underneath

More to come next weekend, should get the rear of the car stripped and arms off to the powder coaters :thumbs:

 

[R11CH]

Ok little update, been really busy the past few weekends so not got a great deal done but i did manage to get the rear of the car stripped off today,

Anyway to the pics

New handbrake cables to be fitted yet

Got the whole rear end off in less than an hour and no snapped bolts got to love Imported cars and air impact guns :thumbs:

Next stripped down the trialling arms ready for the powder coaters

yet to clean the hubs

Bushes had seen better days

New ARB compared to the tiny stock SIR one

Double checking that i have all the right bolts for the LCA's

Front Wheels fitted with 3mm spacers for the meant time till i get the Geometry done

This is how the car is sitting at the moment

All i got to do now is dismantle the rear coilovers clean and reassemble and same with the hubs then its just a case of the powder coaters getting the parts powder coated this week so i can then reassemble the rear end of the car next weekend :headbang:

 

[R11CH]

ot bored one night this week so decided to strip down my rear meister R coilovers clean and reassemble with the 8KG springs

Really need to tidy up the work bench

One complete

Springs everywhere

Unfortunatly the powder coaters let me down once again and didnt get the trialling arms and harness bar done :censored: but still lots of other bits and pieces to do over the weekend so will update later

 

[R11CH]

Got a few more bits done over last weekend and couple nights this week, Finally got my parts back from the powdercoaters so had the fun job of getting them all ready for fitting this weekend (weather permitting)

Both coilovers dismantled, cleaned and 8KG springs fitted

New handbrake cables, now fitted

Hubs all cleaned up, and sprayed over with high temp paint

Rear trialling arms powder coated, all shiney and new bushes fitted

Hub fitted to trialling arms

Both arms ready to be fitted, all bolts copper greased up to help stop the corrosion in the bushes

Shall update over the weekend with lots of other shiney parts and goodies

 

[R11CH]

Managed to get on with some bits today, didn't get as much done as i was hoping but never the less the end is near

Cyberspeed toe, camber arms and Function 7 lca's

oooo

ASR brace

One side all up and together, just loading all the suspension up to torque up all the bolts

Both sides now complete and TEG arb fitted, All bushes lubed with Millers lube and torqued to correct torques

Energy sus arb bushes

Function 7 spherical droplinks

Couple random pics

Not to much more to go till its can go back on its wheels for the first time in nearly? **** me 4 months bloody hell lol that went quick :censored:

 

[R11CH]

Not much of an update but had the decat welded up during the week and the Honda rear bearing/ hub nut caps arrived.

Tegiwa decat pipe welded up.

Sprayed some high temp paint over the weld to protect it from the elements as didn't have access to a tig welder and stainless steel wire so just miged it up.

and finally heat wrapped it (not really happy with the end result of the wrapping, looks a bit **** to me so may do it again)

Honda rear bearing/ hub nut caps (think im taking this a little to far now lol)

This weekend i should have the brakes back on the rear and system bleed through and finally go for a test drive then back on the drive for some fresh oil and filter and book it in for a geometry session in Southampton

 

[R11CH]

Rear brakes are on but the brake fluid didn't turn up in time so will have to bleed them next weekend.

New EBC 260mm Rear disc's VS the standard SIR disc's

one side complete, Integra 98spec callipers and ferodo DS2500 pads fitted

Integra 98spec rear callipers

Other side complete

Ferodo DS2500 pads fitted

Hel braided lines

bring on next weekend :headbang:

 

[R11CH]

Little update.... Got the car's GEO done and suspension set up at Sumo Power Friday and WOW what a place Sumo Power is... never been anywhere like it all so friendly and the place is just sooo clean!!! anyway GEO is done and im very very happy with the way the car handles now so much better its like driving a different car even Sumo power was very impressed with the work i had done, the way the car is and drove but suggested i lower the car a little more to get the best out of it so looking to to sort something out with that soon.

Unfortunately i didn't get any pictures of the car on the ramps at Sumo but here is one from the dyno day. Promise to get a photo shoot done soon.

Also while at Sumo Power i couldn't resist buying one of theses
The J's Racing Tsuchinoko Air Intake Kit in Carbon

100% real carbon fibre unlike the cheaper replicas and so much lighter and thinner than the replicas due to no fibreglass

Hopefully will be purchasing a Skunk2 IM to match this up to and building a sealed cold air box for the J's Filter so that it don't get the heat soak from the engine bay and makes the most out of the J's bumper duct too.

Also purchased this a few weeks ago
New Apexi Power FC and new EL type Commander

Still waiting for the conversion harness from Stew @ PPW

So still plenty todo :thumbs:



All this in one evening Haha.

 

[RoEk9]

Great work! Some serious parts used, definatly one of the nicest egs on the forum

 

[M.1]

Posted on this on the members ride's section and I am sticking to my words here as well.

Time, dedication and effort. Just can't beat it; Love it man.

 

[wooks]

Lovely attention to detail

 

[Civicfacelift]

freshest eg ive ever seen by a mile

 

[Vtec6000]

Great work everything looks so clean

 

[matt o]

serious time effort and attention to detail here top work!