such lovely comments
thanks everyone!
I love my car far too much!lol
Following on from the last update..!
Went to the Yorkshire dales to see a friend and his little red beast! I know I have the ek9, but these little french hatchbacks will always have my heart haha. The GTI is on itb's, such a nice example and just epic fun, the noise! <3
Oh, and the roads here are just incredible!
On to the next weekend, woke up early before work to swap my wheels over...ready for some track time at Japfest
I loved the actual show itself, such variety and some really lovely examples about
really wasn't keen on the track. Had two sessions where it luckily dried up for both of them! Absolutely loved my tyres, what a difference to Cadwell on road tyres! Bit sketchy when they had mud on them and were cold but were brilliant
Absolutely hated the track - was sent round the whole show from the stand to get on and it took 40 mins to get through the crowds and was late getting on track so was pretty flustered as it was. Felt a bit lost on track for the majority of it, surface is horrendous and really unsettled the car, was a boring fast loop that I felt didnt really suit the ek9 at all? The evo's flying past must have been loving it but the highlight for me was two little chicanes and thats about as exciting as it got! Really gave the poor car some abuse not being able to decide what gear to be in for 75% of the corners/bends, but I guess it's something I'll learn over time
little bit of footage from the side of the track
http://pinsta.me/p/717573888282253494_7402613
tyres after 2 sessions
I think my engine mounts had been going for a while beforehand as recently I'd been getting a massive slap/knock from the engine moving when changing down gears etc, so bought these pretty little lightweight things! <3
Went to fit them and realised I didnt have the bracket/bolts with them that I needed to fit, but in the mean time got my torque mounts off!
safe to say the passenger side one was pretty f*cked!
some post-japfest cleaning..
crappy iphone shot, but i love my paint
went to a local car show, took some honda photos
chilling with some more hondas on a random night out in the nice weather
Kindly got these parts off a friend to tidy up my bay a little bit!
so off came the old tatty bits -
Skunk2 battery tie
Mishimoto rad stay
Powdercoeted gunmetal grey power sterring bracket