Silver EJ9 Build

[Fanard]

Okay, so not that far back I purchased a silver ej9 1.4 for £1k, I thought it was a good deal, the car was in good condition with only 83k miles. I had been looking around for one that was affordable for a while with the intention of doing it up. This is the car standard (sorry about bad pictures)

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Future plans include:
- Ek9 spoiler
- Ek9 rear lip
- Seats
- Steering wheel
- Engine bay clean up
And very far in the future I hope to eventually do an engine swap.

 

[Fanard]

So the first thing I wanted to do was change the grill on the front to the Mugen one, its not genuine but still looks a lot better than the last.

 

[elchunk]

nice, thats a type R rep grill though. The mugen grill looks like this.

http://img373.imageshack.us/img373/9264/dsc01429mm1.jpg

 

[Fanard]

The next thing I was wanting to do was to get the ek9 splitter which I did... Fitted that the next day

 

[Fanard]

nice, thats a type R rep grill though. The mugen grill looks like this.

http://img373.imageshack.us/img373/9264/dsc01429mm1.jpg

Oh yes, of course, my mistake!

 

[Fanard]

Next on my agenda was the back box, I needed to get rid of that pea shooter at the back, so I looked around and found the Japspeed 4" back box. I must say i'm very happy with it!

 

[Fanard]

I soon moved de-wipering the back window and spraying the plate holder, little details make a big difference!

 

[Fanard]

Picked up a Mugen oil cap off ebay as well as some Mugen seat belt pads and a novelty Japan flag air freshner. Also picked up a cheap gear knob.

 

[Fanard]

So the next big thing was alloys! Took me ages to decide what i wanted, but finally chose the classic Rota Grids due to fitment being a hassle with other wheels. Decided to go 15"x7J with a 185/45/15. Also got round to spraying my splitter to match the car.

 

[Fanard]

So, I was left with a huge arch gap! So i've been looking for coilovers for a while and recently found some from a friend that was breaking his ej9, picked some weitech's up for £400 and fitted them on monday. Also fitted some camber arms on the rear.
Another plan of mine was to get my side skirts colour matched which I did about a two weeks ago.

 

[Fanard]

Bought some clear side indicators and some LED rear plate lights

 

[elchunk]

why did you go for 185 tires?

 

[m90polk]

why did you go for 185 tires?

x2, thats a crazy stretch if so

 

[m90polk]

Actually I think he meant 195 just looked at the pictures again and no stretch like a 185 would have on a 7" wheel

 

[Fanard]

Actually I think he meant 195 just looked at the pictures again and no stretch like a 185 would have on a 7" wheel

Nope I meant 185, there is a very little amount of stretch but if you see it in person it does look good. Anyway it's all about personal opinion