The Knobosaurus DC5R

[ZIPPIE Type-S]

i was looking hondata and they actually cut away the intake tube also.

[knobosaurus]

Yeah they do. I found it to be too much of a hassle chopping it since its a confined space with awkward tool positioning.

[ZIPPIE Type-S]

Did you modify your intake ducting to the air box??

[Jimmer]

Nice install on the Vlip... Has anyone actually put the later version of the lip pictured on the blue one onto a preface teg?

thanks.
James

[Batchy]

Love your work man!!

Would love to see the white beast in the real.

I have not run into you yet

[knobosaurus]

Did you modify your intake ducting to the air box??

Nope not yet. I might just hold out for a gruppem intake

Nice install on the Vlip... Has anyone actually put the later version of the lip pictured on the blue one onto a preface teg?

thanks.
James

Cheers James. Haven't seen the newer lip installed yet but I would be quite sure that it's far easier to installs

Love your work man!!

Would love to see the white beast in the real.

I have not run into you yet

Cheers bud. As far as I was aware, there we're only about 3 active dc5r owners including myself. Is yours an Arctic blue one?

[Batchy]

Yer mate, with white rims

Been in SA for almost a year now

[mountfranklin]

admirining your dc5r dude. good to see some diy jobs! hope to get mine soon =/

[knobosaurus]

Cheers bud.

Update 25/06/13:

I was going to wait a few days to post this but some people (eLtrix) insisted they found out what this big surprise was ASAP.

After about a month of collecting parts and slowly working over the weekends to make ends meet, I'm please to announce, AS FAR AS I KNOW, I'm the first Australian DC5R owner to have retrofitted:



That's right. An S2000 AP1 cluster.

I got myself a used AP1 cluster from a bloke off the itr-dc5 forum over in the UK. They had a harness pre-wired and ready to go in the car. Sadly, after I received it and checked the wiring, the bloke had done it wrong and in turn, stuffed up the harness plugs. Stopped by an auto electrical guru and they quoted $600 + parts just to fix the wiring. Yeah, no. Asked my dad to do it and he finished it in about an hour without new parts. Having an engineer/ electrician by trade and an awesome dad is probably all I could ask for



The dc5r cluster has two main plugs and the AP1 has 4 so even with a conversion harness, some wires would have to be tapped from the ECU, MCU and even from the A/C panel.



The analogue signal to the DC5 cluster needed to be converted to a digital signal hence, the popular motorbike speedo modifier; speedhohealer was used. Also, the ECT signal needed to be adjusted since the gauge on the AP1 panel read on a difference scale to the DC5.



The wiring was in fact, the easy part of the install as the cluster was substantially smaller than the dc5 one which required a filling shround (manufactured by dad out of Aluminium). Cutting Al isn't simple especially if it's an intricate pattern. Lucky we had a tool. It slowly punches out small squares and essentially nibbles at the sheet. Took me a while to cut it all:



Dad gave a couple of coats of matte black and now looks absolute stealth.



Fitting it in required a couple of extra brackets and tedious measuring, bending, measuring bending, drilling. Even required dropping the steering wheel past the lever adjustment range (Pulling out a greasy bolt).



The speedohealer calibration value I used was +6100% (In comparison to the +3650% of that indicated on ClubRSX).

Overall, about 20-30 hours of labour since it was the first time fitting in something like this. I might start charging for this

Took a couple of drives in varying speed zones (40 kph, 60 kph, 90 kph) and I'm as happy as I can be with it now.

[ZIPPIE Type-S]

Nice dash, and only 67k on it...
How many K's on orig cluster??

[Shakeel]

Nice work Knobby!

You have such a low km DC5R

[wongy]

Nice work, looks good

[Jax-DC5R]

Looks good man! I'd love to do this but I'm Sure it's costly! Only recently noticed that people in the states do it! Keep being unique

[knobosaurus]

Nice dash, and only 67k on it...
How many K's on orig cluster??

hehe that's for me and a prospective buyer in the late late late late future to know :P

Nice work, looks good

Thanks Wongsy. Need more updates from you.

Nice work Knobby!

You have such a low km DC5R

I'm always aspiring to be as great as you O'Neil. Low km indeed. Probably close to the lowest in Australia :P

Looks good man! I'd love to do this but I'm Sure it's costly! Only recently noticed that people in the states do it! Keep being unique

Representing Australia. Cheers bruh.

[eLtrix]

Huhaha harrassing at its finest.