my ek3 build

[ProjectJDM]

Great build mate... Great read too

 

[joeleoek]

cheers everyone, obviously its no ek9 but i love it!

lovin the build man . love the colour . did you manage to fit the tegiwa brake stopper. mine did not fit due to the inlet pipe being in the way

Thankyou matey, just the engine and stuff lettin the car down really, and the ride height and the rear drums lol.

yeh i fitted mine, u can see it in the engine bay picture with the aem intake. Mine left quite alot of room for the intake though. I have read that some people have just chopped a bit off the edge of the brake stopper, mabye u could try that

 

[joeleoek]

Konradinu - iv just been looking through your build and i like it alot lol very nice!! i am looking for a backbox just like your, could you tell me where you bought yours from plz? The piping from my backbox is straight and doesnt curve over the lca u see, so it knocks on the lca all the time, does my head in!

 

[joeleoek]

was a propa nice day so thought i would do my brakes, pads replaced, brake lines replaced and fluid changed. I also bought a backbox off aza yesterday and put that on today.

heres one of the old pads, pretty damn thin!!

Hheres the new backbox, its So much lighter than my old one, bit quieter and doenst bang on the lca.

 

[joeleoek]

got my rear lip sorted yesterday, fitment is not 100% yet but it gives u an idea.Delivery was really quick and was well packaged thanks Andy! Its booked in for a colourcode on monday with a few other imperfections in the paintwork. Exhaust also sits alot nicer now, heres a before picture and a few after ones

 

[andy:]

i haven't been in this section for a while, just noticed your build up joe there now lol, it's looking really well bud, starting to take shape

 

[joeleoek]

Cheers Andy!
I bought a polished rocker cover a while ago and decided to wack it on the old civ! Was a bit rough around the edges so i did more sanding and polishing and this is how it turned out. I just hope it doesnt go rusty when water gets on it.

 

[joeleoek]

rear lip finally colour coded and a scratch on the bumpstrip has also been done. Took a few quick photos but the car was very dirty. Gna give it a propa clean tomorrow before going on the rolling road.







Heres a little drop on photoshop!

 

[konradinu]

eyy man i'm sry i didn't respond to your reply. the back box i got it with the car but as i can see you got everything sorted out. lovin the way everything is coming together. keep up the good work

 

[joeleoek]

gave the car the best clean,polish and wax of its life yesterday. Firstly i went 2 moterworld and got some cleaning stuff then got to work.

heres my neighbours jag, which is a similar colour

also my cambelt and oem replacement plugs came in the post

And finally my sprint sw96 reps should be getting ordered when they are eventually in stock!!

 

[dalylimk]

really good read man alot of effort has gone into it and it show congrats and enjoy it maby alot of people on here including myself will learn a few bits from you

 

[joeleoek]

really good read man alot of effort has gone into it and it show congrats and enjoy it maby alot of people on here including myself will learn a few bits from you

wow thankyou very much!! This is my first ever real build project so i don't really have any experience but i have learnt alot from other people in person and on the net.

 

[ek3civic]

hi m8 great job on your project ek3 didyou remove your trims on the doors to spray them or just mask up ?

 

[joeleoek]

i removed mine which is a bit time consuming. but once u know how to do one side the other side is dead easy.

 

[joeleoek]

My girlfriend decided to buy me some coilovers the other night,she said she wasnt taking enough interest in my hobby lol so she put £300 towards some meister r zeta s and some cyberspeed lca's for me. I am very jammy i no!!. I also got my wheels today(Thanks to Eternal blue on her) so i havnt stopped grinning since the postman had arrived. Iv got a Tenzo R front strut brace which needs to go on and a polybush front control arm kit on the way soon aswel as the front bushes are fooked. So next week some time il do the whole suspension in one go!

Jerrick at Meister r is a really great guy to deal with and the quality in their products really shows. The box came with full instructions, arrived the morning after i ordered them and it was all packaged so nicely.

Got a load of free stickers aswel but i dnno where to put them yet

I went for some 16" rota circuit 8's in the end as they came up on ek9.org so snatched them up.

She was failing to unwrap them miserabley lol

one wheel on

Just shows how **** my old wheels are, curbed like hell

Best day ever! even the dogs are happy haha

 

[Gav-EK9]

looking good mate one sound girl you have yourself there doing that for you, im lucky if i get a bj and a pizza whats next for the car then ?

 

[eternal blue 2000]

glad you got the wheels ok bud.

i spent ages getting them clean and didnt even put them on my car !
so its good to see what they look like on.

looking good

 

[Michael Flare]

Tilt ur stock spoiler. U will be extremely happy, trust me. It's easy to do and u can find directions here on ek9.org with a thread called "standard spoiler tilt."

 

[ProjectJDM]

Wheels look sweet mate

Keep the updates coming

 

[joeleoek]

looking good mate one sound girl you have yourself there doing that for you, im lucky if i get a bj and a pizza whats next for the car then ?

haha that made me laugh! I know m8 im very lucky but im usually the same as you but i don't even get the bj lol erm next up is getting some bodywork sorted ie. rear arch and some minor scratches.