TheBooosh...!
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Hi Guys,
I hope you are all doing well. I haven't posted on here in quite a while and thought it was the right time to start a new thread whilst we do the shell swap and upgrades to our Civic.
We originally built the car over the back end of 2013 ready for 2014. Started its life as a 1.5lsi in grey. The work started pretty much straight away with removing the engine and preparing the bay for a fresh coat of paint whilst the D16y8 block was away with the machinists. The car never undertook any major changes to the styling it just sat nicely with some 282's behind some FanBlade wheels.
The engine spec was pretty simple yet effective.
D16y8
New OEM Honda oil pump
New OEM Honda water pump
New OEM Honda timing belt kit
New OEM Honda head gasket
ARP head studs
Ferrera Stem seals
Over bored .5mm
Eagle rods
Vitara pistons
ACL race bearings
RC 550cc injectors
p28 ecu
obd2a to obd1 harness
Ebay T04e turbo
Ebay inter cooler
Tial waste gate
Tial BOV
Log manifold
MidDevelopments 2.5'' down pipe
MidDevelopments 2.5'' exhaust
MidDevelopments 2.5'' inter cooler hard pipes
Mushroom filter
Tuned on Neptune and made 302hp at 1 bar of boost to which I feel was a very quick car, BUT we were pretty much maxed on the turbo and inter cooler and we wanted pure reliability and the car was looking a bit tatty. So this year we have decided to re-shell the car along with a few upgrades.
New upgrades are as follows -
Bisimoto cam
Bisimoto cam pulley
Bisimoto springs and titanium retainers
Head re skimmed
Cometic head gasket
Gates Racing kevlar timing belt
Precision 5431e turbo
MidDevelopments stainless manifold
MidDevelopments 2.75'' down pipe
MidDevelopments 2.75'' single box exhaust
MidDevelopments 2.5'' short route inter cooler hard pipes
MidDevelopments 3'' intake pipe
MidDevelopments catch can
Ported head
Back door inter cooler
K&N Filter
Hondata s300
Boost by gear
1.5 bar boost (Ish)
4 pot brake setup
Stitch welded Ek4 subframe
Non PS Ek9 steering rack
15x8 wheels
225 50 15 tyres
LSD box (with the intention of building a super strong box with a plated diff in the near future)
I have probably forgotten lots but I will add them as I go along.
Although we are hoping for some good figures reliability is the main focus so that we can get lots of seat time on track ready for entering a race series next year. We are also hoping that with the LSD box, boost by gear and wider tyres we get better superb traction.
Pictures are of the new shell and how the engine sits now all timed up and ready for the sump to be fitted after we weld the bung in for the temp sensor.
More updates to follow.
Thanks for looking
Ben
I hope you are all doing well. I haven't posted on here in quite a while and thought it was the right time to start a new thread whilst we do the shell swap and upgrades to our Civic.
We originally built the car over the back end of 2013 ready for 2014. Started its life as a 1.5lsi in grey. The work started pretty much straight away with removing the engine and preparing the bay for a fresh coat of paint whilst the D16y8 block was away with the machinists. The car never undertook any major changes to the styling it just sat nicely with some 282's behind some FanBlade wheels.
The engine spec was pretty simple yet effective.
D16y8
New OEM Honda oil pump
New OEM Honda water pump
New OEM Honda timing belt kit
New OEM Honda head gasket
ARP head studs
Ferrera Stem seals
Over bored .5mm
Eagle rods
Vitara pistons
ACL race bearings
RC 550cc injectors
p28 ecu
obd2a to obd1 harness
Ebay T04e turbo
Ebay inter cooler
Tial waste gate
Tial BOV
Log manifold
MidDevelopments 2.5'' down pipe
MidDevelopments 2.5'' exhaust
MidDevelopments 2.5'' inter cooler hard pipes
Mushroom filter
Tuned on Neptune and made 302hp at 1 bar of boost to which I feel was a very quick car, BUT we were pretty much maxed on the turbo and inter cooler and we wanted pure reliability and the car was looking a bit tatty. So this year we have decided to re-shell the car along with a few upgrades.
New upgrades are as follows -
Bisimoto cam
Bisimoto cam pulley
Bisimoto springs and titanium retainers
Head re skimmed
Cometic head gasket
Gates Racing kevlar timing belt
Precision 5431e turbo
MidDevelopments stainless manifold
MidDevelopments 2.75'' down pipe
MidDevelopments 2.75'' single box exhaust
MidDevelopments 2.5'' short route inter cooler hard pipes
MidDevelopments 3'' intake pipe
MidDevelopments catch can
Ported head
Back door inter cooler
K&N Filter
Hondata s300
Boost by gear
1.5 bar boost (Ish)
4 pot brake setup
Stitch welded Ek4 subframe
Non PS Ek9 steering rack
15x8 wheels
225 50 15 tyres
LSD box (with the intention of building a super strong box with a plated diff in the near future)
I have probably forgotten lots but I will add them as I go along.
Although we are hoping for some good figures reliability is the main focus so that we can get lots of seat time on track ready for entering a race series next year. We are also hoping that with the LSD box, boost by gear and wider tyres we get better superb traction.
Pictures are of the new shell and how the engine sits now all timed up and ready for the sump to be fitted after we weld the bung in for the temp sensor.
More updates to follow.
Thanks for looking
Ben
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