Just another EE9 track car...

EE9 CVC · Post by **EE9 CVC** » Mon Aug 17, 2009 9:12 pm

Rich4thGen wrote:Agreed, but I may have to comproimise as the standard wheel is 350mm and is just way too big. 325mm would be ideal really

More likely to get a 330mm, make sure you get one that moves it closer to the driver as this will also move it further from your knees.

Rich4thGen · Post by **Rich4thGen** » Mon Aug 17, 2009 9:41 pm

EE9 CVC wrote:More likely to get a 330mm, make sure you get one that moves it closer to the driver as this will also move it further from your knees.

good tip, cheers Ian

Rich4thGen · Post by **Rich4thGen** » Sun Aug 23, 2009 11:17 pm

quiet weekend this one, just did my rocker and a clean of the engine bay...

Went for nighthawk black, has a lightly blue tinge which is cool.

Post by **widowmaker** » Sun Aug 23, 2009 11:20 pm

Looking nice, ready for JAE

It would look better with a silver 'Type R style' oil cap

EE9 CVC · Post by **EE9 CVC** » Sun Aug 23, 2009 11:30 pm

Smart

Rich4thGen · Post by **Rich4thGen** » Sun Aug 23, 2009 11:35 pm

widowmaker wrote:Looking nice, ready for JAE

It would look better with a silver 'Type R style' oil cap

chuck me a price

Post by **Tahir** » Mon Aug 24, 2009 1:09 am

Nice Rich, looks better than before.

Rich4thGen · Post by **Rich4thGen** » Sun Sep 27, 2009 3:44 pm

Still keeping myself busy with little civic, have just been lazy again with updates.

FINALLY got to the bottom of the knocking coming from my right front. Cut a long story short, my local garage managed to mess this up twice - I needed a new TRE and SRE which they 1. Managed to fit the wrong part and 2. when replacing it with the right part that I sourced they just bodged it all back together. When putting the ball joint together they had used a normal nut instead of a castle lock washer and didn't renew the locking washer on the TRE - SRE connection. This meant whilst driving my TRE and SRE where undoing from each other - dangerous.

This was the old washer they had tried to use:

This is what I have replced it with:

Meanwhile, have had a few things delivered from ebay:

A nice 320mm wheel with boss for £30. Not bad:

and fitted a few engine tidy bits from Mr. Widowmaker:

and cleaned out my throttle body:

and during all this I have reached a landmark in the cars history:

Post by **Tahir** » Sun Sep 27, 2009 4:51 pm

Great updates.

EE9 CVC · Post by **EE9 CVC** » Sun Sep 27, 2009 5:51 pm

Nice

Rich4thGen · Post by **Rich4thGen** » Fri Nov 20, 2009 1:27 pm

Not been up to much car wise recently as have moved flats and been consumed with work, both at work and in my spare time

However, some work was required after some unknown numpty pranged my car in a private road where i park for work. No note, no nothing, just a dented wing and door

So managed to source a door and a wing from alih369 which luckily were also red and almost a perfect colour match, just a tad faded which should come up with a bit of T-cut.

Have no pictures of the damage specifically but you can see from this pic that the door was monged

don't think I've ever taken it aprt so quickly! With a second set of hands the door was replaced and the wing was off in an hour!

Have to say cheers to ali369, the door came up a treat:

Have to say it looks good, just needs another few T-cuts, a clay and a good polish.

And it should soon be finished as the kind Danx is providing me with a replacement bump strip

And then I can get back on with buying mods for it

browne174 · Post by **browne174** » Fri Nov 20, 2009 7:23 pm

looking good

how much is that lowered by?

Lacey4g · Post by **Lacey4g** » Fri Nov 20, 2009 8:13 pm

Car looks lush mate, i really like the cold air feed holes looks well nice!
shiny

Post by **Marc_EE9** » Fri Nov 20, 2009 8:15 pm

i havent checked this thread for a while

good updates rich

Rich4thGen · Post by **Rich4thGen** » Fri Nov 20, 2009 10:32 pm

browne174 wrote:looking good

how much is that lowered by?

Thanks. Lowered by 40mm but needs to be lower at the back if I'm honest.

Lacey4g wrote:Car looks lush mate, i really like the cold air feed holes looks well nice!
shiny

Cheers! They're a good little mod I reckon

Marc_VT wrote:i havent checked this thread for a while

good updates rich

Cheers mate!