Hey guys, My euro is now 2 years into it's build so i'm a little late lol...but anyway here goes.
I picked the car up dead stock off a newly wedded couple, it was barely driven hence it only having 47 000km's on the clock, at first sight i could tell it was neat, not a mark on it inside and out, it drove beautifully and it hadn't been in any sort of prang. It ticked all the boxes so i picked it up.
Within about a month i had purchased an Injen cold air intake and BuddyClub N+ coilovers..
So this is pretty much where i thought the modding would stop, wheels to possibly come later on but i was in no rush....it didn't quite work that way.
Work Emotion CR Kai's came a month or so later in 18x8.5+38 in matte bronze.
Not long later i started searching for power in engine mods, i started off with an RRC inlet manifold which is off the civic fd2 type r, i decided to take the plunge and spend the extra $150 on the RRC instead of the RBC because of the slightly bigger inlet and runners...it probably wasn't worth it lol but it may be beneficial later with the bigger internal mods...
I now decided to do a bit of maintenance, a proper service including a valve check/adjustment, really the tappets shouldn't be out of adjustment at only 50 000km's but being a mechanic I checked them for piece of mind.
Next on the performance side came some headers, i chose comptech at the time because they had good reviews, but they didn't make much difference with the standard cat and cat-back, the headers themselves having such small runners didn't help either.
and a small exterior mod...
The Comptech headers only lasted about 3 months 'till i decided they were too small and were only going to be a restriction to power down the track, so i sold them off and bought some PLM 4-2-1 headers with a 2.5" mid pipe and high flow cat fabricated by Jimmy at BYP. Then i chucked it on the dyno for some power runs... 126.8kw was the final number.
So at this stage a tuning option was coming to mind, as most will know the Hondata Flashpro was out for the Acura TSX in America but there were limited options for us in AUS unless you were willing to lose cruise control and VSA and run kpro. One day a guy by the name of Jhim Carlo came into my work place (Peter Warren Honda) and after seeing him and my foreman play around with the ECU and Honda diagnostic scan tool i decided to have a chat with him, he had basically told me that he was going to be the aus euro guinea pig and see if he could program the 06-07 TSX ECU to his car and then tune it using flashpro, and i thought to myself if this ECU programs i know what i'm doing to my car next. My foreman was able to get the immobiliser programmed and Jhim was off to BYP racing to get it tuned. So a few weeks later...
Before tune day came i added a few little extras to the engine...
works fuel rail
50 degree VTC inlet cam gear
Ingalls torque damper and also a J35 68mm throttle body
So it was time to tune, i drove the car to work one saturday morning to program the immobiliser then i was off to BYP, i had flashpro base map uploaded to drive on until monday when the dyno tune would take place, already on this map the car felt so much better, however it was terrible on fuel with vtec engaging at 3500rpm and it had a few flat spots throughout the rev range. Monday came and after a long process the tune was done and the car felt great, it felt very torquey and smooth when revving it out...Final number was 145.6kw and 230nm.
sitting nicely with it's new power
Cusco strut brace installed
type r red rocker cover
got carbon wrapping to get rid of the ugly wood grain...
DC5R rear 'H' badge
So after about 6 months of enjoying my tuned accord euro i decided i wanted even more punch, so I got the rest of my exhaust done, 2.5" Y pipe and lukey ultra flow mufflers and then tossed up wether i should do a k frank setup or just cam the original k24 head. I decided to get some Drag Cartel 2.2 endurance cams with a supertech valvetrain dual valve springs etc. Also i decided to throw in a k20 oil pump to get it revving upwards of 8000rpm.
I picked the car up dead stock off a newly wedded couple, it was barely driven hence it only having 47 000km's on the clock, at first sight i could tell it was neat, not a mark on it inside and out, it drove beautifully and it hadn't been in any sort of prang. It ticked all the boxes so i picked it up.
Within about a month i had purchased an Injen cold air intake and BuddyClub N+ coilovers..
So this is pretty much where i thought the modding would stop, wheels to possibly come later on but i was in no rush....it didn't quite work that way.
Work Emotion CR Kai's came a month or so later in 18x8.5+38 in matte bronze.
Not long later i started searching for power in engine mods, i started off with an RRC inlet manifold which is off the civic fd2 type r, i decided to take the plunge and spend the extra $150 on the RRC instead of the RBC because of the slightly bigger inlet and runners...it probably wasn't worth it lol but it may be beneficial later with the bigger internal mods...
I now decided to do a bit of maintenance, a proper service including a valve check/adjustment, really the tappets shouldn't be out of adjustment at only 50 000km's but being a mechanic I checked them for piece of mind.
Next on the performance side came some headers, i chose comptech at the time because they had good reviews, but they didn't make much difference with the standard cat and cat-back, the headers themselves having such small runners didn't help either.
and a small exterior mod...
The Comptech headers only lasted about 3 months 'till i decided they were too small and were only going to be a restriction to power down the track, so i sold them off and bought some PLM 4-2-1 headers with a 2.5" mid pipe and high flow cat fabricated by Jimmy at BYP. Then i chucked it on the dyno for some power runs... 126.8kw was the final number.
So at this stage a tuning option was coming to mind, as most will know the Hondata Flashpro was out for the Acura TSX in America but there were limited options for us in AUS unless you were willing to lose cruise control and VSA and run kpro. One day a guy by the name of Jhim Carlo came into my work place (Peter Warren Honda) and after seeing him and my foreman play around with the ECU and Honda diagnostic scan tool i decided to have a chat with him, he had basically told me that he was going to be the aus euro guinea pig and see if he could program the 06-07 TSX ECU to his car and then tune it using flashpro, and i thought to myself if this ECU programs i know what i'm doing to my car next. My foreman was able to get the immobiliser programmed and Jhim was off to BYP racing to get it tuned. So a few weeks later...
Before tune day came i added a few little extras to the engine...
works fuel rail
50 degree VTC inlet cam gear
Ingalls torque damper and also a J35 68mm throttle body
So it was time to tune, i drove the car to work one saturday morning to program the immobiliser then i was off to BYP, i had flashpro base map uploaded to drive on until monday when the dyno tune would take place, already on this map the car felt so much better, however it was terrible on fuel with vtec engaging at 3500rpm and it had a few flat spots throughout the rev range. Monday came and after a long process the tune was done and the car felt great, it felt very torquey and smooth when revving it out...Final number was 145.6kw and 230nm.
sitting nicely with it's new power
Cusco strut brace installed
type r red rocker cover
got carbon wrapping to get rid of the ugly wood grain...
DC5R rear 'H' badge
So after about 6 months of enjoying my tuned accord euro i decided i wanted even more punch, so I got the rest of my exhaust done, 2.5" Y pipe and lukey ultra flow mufflers and then tossed up wether i should do a k frank setup or just cam the original k24 head. I decided to get some Drag Cartel 2.2 endurance cams with a supertech valvetrain dual valve springs etc. Also i decided to throw in a k20 oil pump to get it revving upwards of 8000rpm.
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