Yeah that's my question too. i couldn't feel or see it and it was the best picture i was able to take from that narrow angle with my phone...are the pedals mounted with rivets ?
cant see clear from the image ,if yes,a drill is your best friend for this.
Indeed. lovely customer cars and a great personal collection
Looks like a good service thatRecently a Friend of mine pointed me towards a facebook ad for an EK9 recaro seat in switzerland with a fair price. I was a bit sceptic and probably wouldn't have checked out after a 3hour drive only. Luckily i was in that area anyway and thought i'd give it a look. and long story short. I have a Spare EK9 OEM recaro.
As you would expect it has several wear and tear problems, the common problems with the OEM Recaros, but otherwise it's in good shape:
And aside from the seat rail and the missing bottom net (which i have NOS spare's in stock) it's complete:
I'm not sure yet what will happen to this seat, but meanwhile i guess i have more than enough parts to rebuild multiple seats and that's probably what i will do. never a bad thing to have spares i guess:
Also a reader recently pointed me to a relatively new Japanese Company Studio 6 Zero / Studio Roku Zero. They're basically a high-level upholstry shop with somewhat close ties to some of the Honda RnD team. I didn't find that part, but some said the guys were even part of the interieur team of Honda at some point? They make custom refurbishment of all kind of seats, specially Honda. But what is really cool is that they started to reproduce a high-end replica of the original Honda Jersey fabric, which is currently not available anywhere:
Here you can see original colour samples. I think they didn't reproduce all colours in the end but yeah, the red one is definitely available.
According to my google-translating of their facebook, they prefer to refurbish actual seats in their shop, but also got plenty of requests for making replacement covers.
They say they can do it, but are afraid that the re-made covers will not fit 100% as the original foam below might have deformed and worn out after the years and the covers will not fit. Here's an example of their work:
We'll see. i might ask them if they will sell me a few meters of the jersey fabric so i can use them to have my seats reworked, the remaining covers i will use what i have in stock, i guess. but that's a winter project. so no hurry.
They actually bought the same machine which was used to make the original fabric hence why they are so good. There was a built by legends video on you tube about them. I didn’t think you could buy as they were busy with their own refurbishments!Recently a Friend of mine pointed me towards a facebook ad for an EK9 recaro seat in switzerland with a fair price. I was a bit sceptic and probably wouldn't have checked out after a 3hour drive only. Luckily i was in that area anyway and thought i'd give it a look. and long story short. I have a Spare EK9 OEM recaro.
As you would expect it has several wear and tear problems, the common problems with the OEM Recaros, but otherwise it's in good shape:
And aside from the seat rail and the missing bottom net (which i have NOS spare's in stock) it's complete:
I'm not sure yet what will happen to this seat, but meanwhile i guess i have more than enough parts to rebuild multiple seats and that's probably what i will do. never a bad thing to have spares i guess:
Also a reader recently pointed me to a relatively new Japanese Company Studio 6 Zero / Studio Roku Zero. They're basically a high-level upholstry shop with somewhat close ties to some of the Honda RnD team. I didn't find that part, but some said the guys were even part of the interieur team of Honda at some point? They make custom refurbishment of all kind of seats, specially Honda. But what is really cool is that they started to reproduce a high-end replica of the original Honda Jersey fabric, which is currently not available anywhere:
Here you can see original colour samples. I think they didn't reproduce all colours in the end but yeah, the red one is definitely available.
According to my google-translating of their facebook, they prefer to refurbish actual seats in their shop, but also got plenty of requests for making replacement covers.
They say they can do it, but are afraid that the re-made covers will not fit 100% as the original foam below might have deformed and worn out after the years and the covers will not fit. Here's an example of their work:
We'll see. i might ask them if they will sell me a few meters of the jersey fabric so i can use them to have my seats reworked, the remaining covers i will use what i have in stock, i guess. but that's a winter project. so no hurry.
Yeah RokuZero are the group from Honda back in the 90s who were on the interior team. all fabrics are made to the original spec. at this time they wont ship out here. but will do you a set of seats if you send them to them.Recently a Friend of mine pointed me towards a facebook ad for an EK9 recaro seat in switzerland with a fair price. I was a bit sceptic and probably wouldn't have checked out after a 3hour drive only. Luckily i was in that area anyway and thought i'd give it a look. and long story short. I have a Spare EK9 OEM recaro.
As you would expect it has several wear and tear problems, the common problems with the OEM Recaros, but otherwise it's in good shape:
And aside from the seat rail and the missing bottom net (which i have NOS spare's in stock) it's complete:
I'm not sure yet what will happen to this seat, but meanwhile i guess i have more than enough parts to rebuild multiple seats and that's probably what i will do. never a bad thing to have spares i guess:
Also a reader recently pointed me to a relatively new Japanese Company Studio 6 Zero / Studio Roku Zero. They're basically a high-level upholstry shop with somewhat close ties to some of the Honda RnD team. I didn't find that part, but some said the guys were even part of the interieur team of Honda at some point? They make custom refurbishment of all kind of seats, specially Honda. But what is really cool is that they started to reproduce a high-end replica of the original Honda Jersey fabric, which is currently not available anywhere:
Here you can see original colour samples. I think they didn't reproduce all colours in the end but yeah, the red one is definitely available.
According to my google-translating of their facebook, they prefer to refurbish actual seats in their shop, but also got plenty of requests for making replacement covers.
They say they can do it, but are afraid that the re-made covers will not fit 100% as the original foam below might have deformed and worn out after the years and the covers will not fit. Here's an example of their work:
We'll see. i might ask them if they will sell me a few meters of the jersey fabric so i can use them to have my seats reworked, the remaining covers i will use what i have in stock, i guess. but that's a winter project. so no hurry.
the original company still had the machine, they didnt buy it.
I don't know any production numbers, but one can assume that only a fraction of all EK9s are Rx's. first of all because they were inly introduced for the late facelift model, and second because it was most probably quite a bit more expensive.
Mine is also an Rx, Also a very late production model, one of the very last ones.After owning my EK9 for so many years now, i just found out that my EK9 is actually not a standard TypeR, but an TypeRx special edition! I'm quite excited and shocked i didn't know this all the time!
Let's look deep into the differences between the regular TypeR and the Rx version and how i figured this out.
Honda made two special Editions of the EK9, one is the N1 or Racing "light-weight" edition, which is an EK9 inteneded to be modified for racing (So all A/C and HiFi got removed, and it came with standard (non-recaro) seats, as it was thought they're going to be raplced anyway with full bucket seats of the drivers choice, The second one was the Type Rx (or Type R-X):
The Rx was only introduced in December 1999 for the last two production years (facelift "kouki" model only), when Honda realized that many EK9 buyers wanted to have a bit more comfort features. So they factory installed:
- Keyless Entry
- Pioneer Audio system with uprated Speakers and CD-player
- Metal pedals
- Red stitched shifter boot
- Retracting door mirors.
- A center console in glossy carbon fiber look (vs the matte carbon fiber look in the standard EK9).
- A different wiring harness for the above features.
The engine, suspension, drivetrain and outside appearance are exactly the same as the standard EK9.
So the differences are really minor, but definitely make a change in comfort. I never looked closer onto it, so i thought an EK9 Rx would be more obvious to distinguish from the regular ones and that's why i never actually went deeper into the topic, always assuming that my EK9 is just a standard Facelift Car. There is no special badging, vin-number or anything else except the mentioned feature that lets you know if it's an Rx or not.
Well, what can i say? I'm more than happy to find out my Car is even rarer than i thought
Information is sparse and even in the official year 2000 EK9 sales brochure, t here is only one small part showing the Rx special features:
In the same brochure there's also a little model comparison between the Standard EK9, the Rx and the "Racing" version:
It seems there was a special leaflet brochure, showing the Rx's features a bit more detailed. I foun this one in an EK9 Facebook group and i'll try to obtain an original one of those, so i can get better scans and to have my car's documentation complete.Front and Rear pages:
Inside pages:
Luckily i also own an original Honda special Rx Car parts manual (Parts list News), issued on the 7th December 1999, which was an add-on to the regular spare parts catalogue und shows all the special parts of the Rx in detail:
See the following photos with all the special features and part numbers, highlighted in yellow. On the first page, a different wiring harness is shown, which was required for the keyless entry and the retracting door mirrors.
So how did i find out? I wanted to install the Mugen EK9 pedals, which are said to fit the EK9 facelift model. When i wanted to install them, i figured out that there are already some metal pedals which would make it impossible to install those. They seemed factory installed too, and not some cheap aftermarket items. After investigating a bit, somebody told me those are Type Rx pedals. I was quite surprized and started to investigate a bit more, and then i slowly realized that my Car has all the Rx exclusive features - and here we are. My TypeR is actually an even rarer TypeRx!
As yo can see, my Pedals are a bit dirty but still in good shape. The fact that those are so special made me realize that i might give them a bit of TLC to have them fresh and shiny again.
Nice. yeah i just saw that production of the Rx started withMine is also an Rx, Also a very late production model, one of the very last ones.
I have that Type Rx brochure if you want scans of it
also have new brake and clutch pedal covers available if you ever fancy refreshing them
The first Rx model was VIN EK9-1201361 the VINs 1200001-1360 were just normal EK9 faceliftsand racebases.
Exactly. and in this page from the official japanese year 2000 EK9 sales brochure, you can see that all three models (TypeR, Type Rx and Racing version) were sold at the same time. so i assume not all serial numbers above 1361 are RX's.
No and no.
