The Lunchbox

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DATE of original upload: 17-10-2016

Also I attended a Yez Racing Wakefield track day about a month ago, 2nd time at wakefield, first time with new motor. Boy was it fun, started out at 1:20, then forgot I had dampenings all on 0 for street (couldn't figure why car was sliding out), straight away I was getting constant 1:15's. Through out the day I learnt the car on track more and more and kept pushing, managing a 1:13 at best! I'm keen to get back asap to beat that time. Plan to go back with same tyres but apparently if I run higher PSI than I was (30 before going out) I'll be a lot better. Wakefield is all right hand turns apart for 1, so the front left gets the most beating. In the pic below, you can see where side wall was flexing, these are only street spec nitto's. But I'll be looking into upgrading to a good performance Advan AD08 as they run at WTAC.



Pic of washing once back from track day, followed by quick 5 minute youtube video of few laps, including my 1:13, and a bit of drifting at end

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DATE of original upload: 06-11-2016

**UPDATE**

2 weeks ago I did another Wakefield track day, unfortunately no footage as my GoPro legit decided to corrupt all footage... rather annoyed especially as I started to get constant 1:13.6's, 1:13.9's etc and managed to get a 1:13.0! So happy, but all 4 tyres have rooted themselves, time to give them a rest and save for some new ones, next year though after my Japan trip in Feb!

Also not sure if I posted in here, but my passenger indicator plastic bracket on the back of it has been snapped off since I bought the EF9 SiR front, so it would always sit out and only be secured by the side screw.. So I decided to be productive yesterday and fixed it.. Used some spare sheet metal, cut it to have the tooth type bracket thingo and then decided to just yolo it and cable tie in as I wasn't bothered to glue it and hold it there. Probably took me all of 10-20 minutes and it works! Very happy with the outcome, finally sits correct! (excuse the cracked paint, been a while since last respray haha, car is also very dirty, usually not bothered to wash it these days to be honest..)






DATE of original upload: 19-12-2016

So here to do another big update. I have finally got around to installing a CRX seat as my passenger seat, I went about making the brackets to relocate the bolt holes between CRX seat and ED Civic rails. For the passenger side I had to weld 2 pieces of thick metal together, like 4mm thick or something as the hole difference was 80mm.. Other side was only 30mm so could get away with the one piece. Also required to cut a bit out of the seat pan for the bracket to fit in, but cutting this area did not affect the set's flex.




Annnnnd heres how a pic of how it looks next to my Bride, I love the CRX seat it looks way better than the ED Civic seats. I do have a drivers CRX seat as well which I will copy the brackets and install soon.


Also recently attended the JDMYard Honda Show Off EOYM which I managed to take out the 'Best OldSkool Pre 92' award, so happy to of won it as there was some other tough competitors there, originally only going to see the other builds put on display and not to win an award, but happy I did so. Will soon share the photographers photos taken on the day, they are quite some piece of an artwork.

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DATE of original upload: 24-02-2017

So I've just returned from a 3 week Japan trip, returning trip was good to get back there, had an amazing time. Was going to update what part I bought over there from a EF9 but theres something a little more disturbing that has occurred with the lunchbox since I'm back.

Last night I pulled her outa the garage after sitting in there for 3 weeks, keen beans to drive it. Got snapchat ready for the perfect '1st start up' vid, but when I turn the key it doesn't start. All that seems to happen is starter turns really fast, can see the crank pulley spinning but the motor itself isn't really 'shaking/cranking' like it would when you start a working car (if you all get me?) Sent a vid to a few mates, they believe theres a possibility the timing has somehow jumped a tooth or two. Tomorrow we are going to remove the rocker cover and investigate. Hopefully it hasn't, and if it has its done no/bare minimal damage..


DATE of original upload: 26-02-2017

**UPDATE on motor**

So took a loot at the motor today, ugh.. when I was moving my dizzy and leads back from my daily DA9 to civic (had issues on DA9 with dizzy or leads, so was attempting to pin point what was wrong) I managed to somehow put the dizzy in the wrong way, as it was night time and dark i saw the upper bolt location and the back were aligned with motor, so as you do I took it for grant all was good and slapped in the bolts. In doing so when attempting to start the car, it locked the intake cam in place, which pulled the belt off of it. Result was I skipped 5-6 teeth, yep.. we thought motor was most likely stuffed, well definitely the valves. Anyways with nothing to lose, re did the timing, obviously put dizzy in correctly and started it. First initial start out it did sound like bent valves, tried again in case it was just because the car hadn't been started in a while and what do you know, idle picked up normal as it always does, motor also sounds fine when revving it. Took it for a spin to check it still had the same power, driving normal was fine, final test was to give it the beans from 1st gear (also just wanted to give it a hit) and we are still chirping into 3rd!

So I'm very happy no valves were bent and no damage done to motor! So now its time to hunt down some wheels to run on the track, taking the 949 6UL's 15x8 +36 into consideration.

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DATE of original upload: 07-03-2017

I've managed to get my hands on the good old discontinued Fastline Performance shifter, keen to put it in. I am considering purchasing the Innovative shift linkages as they will come with the universal joint thing, as mine is extremely lose and slops everywhere..



Now.. regarding the whole track wheel ordeal I've been on about for some time.. A friend lent me his Buddy club P1's to test fit and if I like I can purchase from him for cheap, they are a 15 x 8 +32 which makes them sit in a little bit compared to my Work Equip 01's. But then I thought what about using my Works for track, I was once told not to use 2/3 piece wheels as they will snap/buckle/explode due to the bolts + dish. But a friend who has a ED track car just did a track day on SSR MK2 which is exactly what I was told not to use in regards to 2/3 piece wheels.. So I did some googling and turns out a lot of MX-5 owners apparently use the Work Equip 01's on track and have no problems, and others use different 2/3 piece wheels on track, even the Osaka JDM 5 Mart folks use their own designed 2/3 piece rim on track.. As I wanted a wider offset on the front and not the rear, the works would be a good idea as well as I can just swap out the barrel for a greater offset barrel, of course thats after finding one... More research/thought continues, please if anyone has knowledge on this topic feel free to comment. Here's some pics with the P1's on car (if i do end up using the Works for track, I'll probably buy the P1's still but use for daily, they look quite neat)





DATE of original upload: 16-03-2017

So past few days I have been installing my EF9 SiR cluster, I've had it sitting around for maybe half a year now lol.. Just followed a pinout of the cluster against my ED6 workshop manual for the cluster wiring, more of it I was able to just re-pin into the EF9 SiR plugs. Only have the 2 door signals left.. I have photos but for some reason the photo host I use (photobucket) doesn't seem to want to work at the moment, so I'll have to keep trying.


DATE of original upload: 19-03-2017

So I'll post the photos after this little blurb.. I got the plugs SiR side, labelled each one and then started de-pinning the ED6 ones, as certain wires couldn't just be clipped straight into the SiR ones, actually I used all of them.. Then for whatever was left on the SiR side I just put in spare ones I had, some wires had to be piggy backed to another (going off the guide I was using) but everything was fairly straight forward. Wired in the VSS, the electronic VSS I bought fits, but the bracket to bolt into the gearbox is just too short (shown in one of the pics) so me being me, I just jammed it in there and it works. I will make a bracket or something for it soon, but for now not too bothered.

In 2 of the photos you'll see I took a 8 pin plug and cut 1 pin off either side, turning it into a 6 pin plug, as the SiR requires it and it's apparently the hardest one to find.. It works perfectly! Comparison of the cable VSS vs electronic VSS to check everything is same size. And yeah the final product. I can now read past 8000RPM which is good, as my redline is set to 8400RPM. Have the open doors and few other little goodies, and also the check engine light as the ED6 Carby cluster doesn't have one, and now I have the shift light set up through it with the Hondata!








Here's some photos of the final product! Very happy with how it turned out, gives a complete different feel when driving, not sure how but it does, and at night with the cluster lit up it's even cooler, so SiR!

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DATE of original upload: 10-04-201

So today I decided to attend to my sloppy shift linkage universal joint, it's been horrible for a while with massive amounts of 'play', and since I came back from Japan I picked up a Fastline Performance shifter (which are discontinued/rare-ish) so thought now would be a good time to over haul everything. I was going to purchase the Innovative replacement but a mate said let's just 'rebuild' it.

First off is a photo just showing it before we started, it sloppy left, right and center on the 2 different joints. So we grinded off the bins to separate the joint from linkage and then the joint itself. The bitch pin side of the joint you are presented with a black rubber/metal outer insert for either side with a white nylon plastic inner piece. Straight away we found a large gap between the nylon piece against the inside of the metal T piece where the bitch pin goes in to. We thought of a few method to pack this out, but in the end (after walking around bunnings) decided to go with these PVC piping pieces as you can see in the 3rd photo. So what I did was file down the threaded side as the inlet was better suited for the T piece, then once it just fitted inside the T piece I cut off the smooth side/filed down and in she went! Next up I got the dremel and grinded out inside of it a few mill so the black outa rubber/metal insert could slide in. Once this was done for either side, all was reassembled with some greased and put back into the joint bracket.

For the pin holding the bracket to linkage I actually didn't get any photos of it as my mate was working on that piece as I did the above.. But once you grind of the pins either side, tap out the metal shaft which runs through it. He then tapped and threaded holes either end. One end is bigger then the other, I believe the 2 sizes were 8mm and 6mm but will double check those sizes later on. Once that was done, we bolted it in from either side with washers and she was shmick! Reassembled that to the joint and job was done!




LEFT = original nylon piece MIDDLE = new custom PVC piece RIGHT = PVC piece before modding




I then bolted it all back up to the car along with the new Fastline Performance shifter. It feels a lot better with everything done + the new shifter, I did try it first with my original DC2R one, much better. Still a little bit of play, but I believe this is from a few other areas, as there are multiple points in the entire shifting system. The rubber boot which goes around the ball towards the bottom of the shifter seems to move around a lot when the shifter is moved, also noticed the bushing underneath the car at the back of the linkages (takes 2 x 12mm bolts into chassis) flexes ALOT when moving back and forth on the shift.. The thought of a nice billet piece for there, I feel would make a good difference. I've read the bitch pin itself can cause some play.. BUT having said all that, what we've done today took a few hours, 2 x $2.50 pieces from bunnings and then your left over bolts in the garage, very happy with the result and keen to test it out at Eastern Creek later this month, along with Wakefield at the very start of next month! I will get some photos of the shifter in car tomorrow!

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DATE of original upload: 16-12-2017

So it's been a while (since start of the year) since I've uploaded.. Busy with life itself especially with uni + work, but still not excuse for not keeping the build thread updated. Then of course Photobucket did the whole blocking photo thing unless you pay $400 to have photo's view no 3rd party forums again.. So I started going through uploading all the photos again to Flickr and then here, but just got told yesterday by a friend there is a Google Chrome plugin which allows you to view it. I will still go through and upload everything to Flickr and re link in case people don't know of the plugin.

I'll go back to where I last posted (May 2017 this year haha) and continue from there, many track days ahve occured since!

RTDC a club I signed up with this year (however probably shouldn't have I don't hear much from them), held a track day at Sydney Motor Sport Park on the North Circuit configuration, boy its a fun track, high speeds but at times felt like the NA B18C needed a turbo Much longer than Wakefield, sitting in 3rd to 5th most of the time, hitting over 200km on the main straight then 170km through first turn. 35 degrees day meant my second hand RS3's were getting a beating, nuffin like melting rubber aye. Exhaust also managed to melt the bumper too. Ended up with a 1.20.XX PB by the end of the day, sat around the mid of the time board, happy with the out come. Once I went home and watched the footage I know where I need to improve, however probably won't go back until next year, very fast track for my little civic, but thats no excuse I also put together a YouTube video which I'll link below!

Quite a few photos, the photographers on the day did an amazing job. Thanks to RTDC for holding a well organised and smooth track day!

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DATE of original upload: 16-12-2017

A month after the SMSP track day posted above, my clutch slave started to leak I noticed yet still worked just topped up the master. Then a few days later it finally let go and there was zero action. So I ordered and installed a new slave, believe this one was a EK one for my Hasport Cable to Hydro converter. Works nicely, there was more adjustment on it so had to try figure out the sweet spot, and even to this day I'm still not 100% on it, I keep adjusting it here and there to different bite points, but cannot find a sweet spot for me..



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Nothing much happened for the next month, since start of year I've always had a daily so the civic truely became the weekend/fun car/race car. I still take it about to work/daily duties now and then. Few pics with it and my mates AE101 Corolla w/Silvertop

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DATE of original upload: 20-12-2017

A month later I attended the Greaser x Trak-Life Wakefield Track day. Fun day, some fast car's out. However this was the first track day I've attended and the car has turned on me.. Track time commenced 9am, by 9:30am I gave it the beans down the straight on my first 'fast' lap and as I did so the lower alternator bolt decided it didn't want to be holding the alternator and it would rather fall out and be in the organsiers S15 A050 semi slick behind me.. Spent all day going around Goulburn trying to find a shop to repair bolt and I offered to repair the guys tyre (he ended up getting a Pb on the repaired tyre, and we now good friends and his my brake pad/disc supplier now ).. Then turns out bit of the bolt snapped off, so had to return to town and find somewhere that had a bolt which would work, eventually found the exact same bolt just with a normal hex head instead of the OEM square head. Once all back together it was already 2:30pm, track closes at 4pm. Was going to just drive home but everyone ghee'd me to return to the track and so I did. Previous Pb is a 1.13.00 flat, didn't beat it but I managed to get down to a 1.14.00 in the YouTube vid I'll link below.

The PB 1.13.00 was set on street Nitto NT830's, this time I had the same worn Hankook RS3's from Eastern Creek earlier this year, time for new tyres gary! Still a very fun day in the end and was able to drive the car home. Thanks Greaser x Trak-Life for holding an awesome day, and sorry Phil for the tyre :P

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Here's some more photos that came about a week later from the Greaser x Trak-Life track day. Nothing since has happened with the car it's just resting. The lower alternator bolt seems to be holding up. I will be required to get new pads + rotors soon as my current ones have been on the car for over 2hrs now and they were used when I put them on, when I did the DA9 big brake upgrade :P

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DATE of original upload: 20-12-2017

As mentioned above, I was in need of a brake refreshment. Currently I've done all these track days of second hand, no name pads and discs and braking hasn't been overly great but was still decent enough. Time to ballse up and enter the proper track stuff. My mate who I popped the S15 tyre for, he runs a brake company called Intima. I bought their SR pads which are the track with a lil daily spec ones, they then have a daily and a full track spec pad as well. Very cheap too! He also hooked me up with some fresh DBA T3 track rotors as well which look very nice. Thank you so much Intima/Phil for looking after me, the feed back on the pads themselves are amazing, so responsive, and as I'll mention in other posts for track, I was able to do 10 hard consistent laps jumping on the brakes late (as I can now do that) and they did not fail one bit!

Also, I bought a fresh set of Hankook Ventus RS3's, 195 for the rear and bumped up to the 225's for up front, JDMyard had a sale on as the RS3's are now discontinued..

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DATE of original upload: 27-12-2017

Next up was Honda Nationals, a competition put together where all different Honda's race in a time attacks styled track day. Each car is organised into 5 different classes, based off a point system which is affected by each individual modification on their car. I was placed in class 3 only just, was 0.3 points from being in class 4, class 5 being the fastest/highest mod class where the big boys run. The trackday was held at Winton Raceway down in Victoria, 2 hours-ish north of Melbourne. My father towed the civic down with me, we raced on the Saturday (which was his 50th birthday), then drove back on the Sunday which was fathers day. It was a very successful day, the car held up well, first time there with the new motor, started in the 1.50's and each session took 1-2 seconds off my PB bringing it down to a 1.45. Was on a 1.43 lap as I was 2-3 seconds up on my sectors, yet when I came to the final turn just before the finish line I got fuel starve. Quickly went petrol station after to fill up but I was too late coming back, as no more sessions were to be held. We packed up, chatted with interstate mates, watched the awards, chilled around then returned to the pub for a feed and drinks. Then returned home the next day. Such an awesome weekend!

Just want to thank my father for towing the car down and back, especially on his 50th for the track day and fathers day for driving back. His always supported my passion for cars as he loves them too (just too old to bother to pay for one ) and without his help I wouldn't of had the car towed down, and the times his leant a helping hand to work on the car is awesome! Thanks dad!

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DATE of original upload: 27-12-2017

After Honda Nationals was another Wakefield day, this time held by Circuit Club. A very busy day on track with 70 cars there, more then 10 cars on the track at once, quite annoying as it was hard to get a clear lap. But towards the second half the day the highly modified cars started getting problems, reducing in numbers and giving more space on the track. I was able to beat my PB of a 1.13.00 with a 1.12.00!! Very happy, was unable to get into the 1.11's but the car did not break all day and was able to drive home, so I'm happy! Unfortunately no footage as my GoPro decided it wanted to corrupt my SD card, making me very annoyed, but hey its a GoPro, seem to pay top dollar for a piece of shit that constantly has problems, yolo.. Will return to get into that 1.11!







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Track days aside, as some know Joey from The Chronicles visited Australia for the World Time Attack Challenge 2017 to vlog/blog, and so JDMyard decided to host a meet as well, we all laughed as we felt Joey would be disappointed with the quality of cars we have here vs the show spec cars in the US. But having said that it seems he still enjoyed himself. Heres a few snaps from the day. I only stayed for an hour or two, I think I'm getting a little old for the whole car meet thing, but was good to catch up with mates!

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DATE of original upload: 01-01-2018

Recently track day about a month ago was Wakefield again for the annual Nugget Nationals day! Most of them come up from Melbourne, good to see many coming from interest to race and enjoy cars! Driving down it decided to start pouring rain at 5:30am to the point my wipers couldn't move fast enough, even reduced speed to 70km as I was hitting huge puddles and it was throwing the car everywhere... good fun..

It continued to rain until just after lunch, however we all went out and started setting wet times, track in the rain is actually so fun, I was suprised how well my car was holding up.. On the first session everyone was going slow, after 1 lap I realised I could somewhat grip, I was bouncing off limiter down the straight for fun! Had dad in the car as well wiping the window for me, really need to fix the heater zzz... Ended up setting the quickest time for the wet that day, which was a 1.26 (1.28 in the YouTube video below!).

Once things dried up just after lunch, we started getting some heat into the track and the times started getting better and better.. I ended up by the last session, revisiting my PB of 1.12.00 with a 1.12.1, however this was with 2 wet sections of the track, one being a river running across the apex onto the main straight which I had to slow down through or I'd start spinning heaps. I also started dropping off Vtec coming out of the hair pin, you can hear in the video on the last one, vtec drops off and comes back on. Turns out there wasn't a lot of oil, even though the day before I did a flush and topped to level.. ANYWAYS, this was the hardest I've ever gone at Wakefield and any track, just decided I needed to go crazy if I wanted quicker times and the car just stuck the whole was. I was doing 7-10 hard laps consistently each session, tyres and brakes not letting go one bit at all. Started going faster through the big sweeper before the fish hook too. The fact I was right on my PB with a wet track + coming off Vtec, that only tells me theres definately a 1.10 there, and I plan to get it next Wakefield day which is actually the 29th January, this month!

Here is a video (once I've finished editing I'll upload) and photos from the day, was an awesome day. Thanks Nugget Nationals x EXE Crew for putting on an awesome track day as always, I'll see you guys next time you come up, or maybe I'll come down to Melbourne!

*VIDEO*

(Whoops going 100km in this pic hehe)

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DATE of original upload: 27-12-2018

So up to date yay, I can now continue to post with all the new things I'm going to be doing, I'll stay on top of it as well, promise!

Merry xmas and happy new year to everyone. I used this break time to attend to a few things on the car, however didn't do heaps as it's quite hot here in Australia atm lol..

So first thing on my list was to grind down some of the rear section of the exhaust and fix them up and make it look nicer. Here is a before and after, however the after pic wasn't the final product (forgot to take another, its on car now so I'll have to take another one later..). For the final product I took a chisel and hammer and hit all the little balls off aas I use a MIG welder without gas. Yes I know not as pretty as with gas or a TIG, but I'm able to do decent flat welds as is without it looking like pigeon shit.. Apart from the small splatting, that's because I ran out of anti-splat.. I then also painted the welds black with heat proof paint so they wouldn't rust..




So I've been wanting to remove the sub/amp + 6x9's that sit on the parcel shelf as I always had to remove at track, was always a pain, had to take terminals off battery etc was annoying plus turns out it all weights 19kg anyways jesus.. However on its last drive on Friday to work I decided to unplug it and see how it would be with just the front speakers, and the conclusion from that was I pulled over on the motorway after 10 minutes and plugged it all back in.. It's horrible without. Then coincidentally the next day in the car trip down south for my mothers birthday, I found a guy in Melbourne (I'm in Sydney) with an EG who was actually at H Nationals with me this year, he had the same trouble as me and want's that comfort for the random drives around town and the drives to the track. His solution was to create a 'false floor' which had 4 lids, 1 in the boot and 3 across the back seat. Underneath the boot lid was a built in box for the sub, attached to the lid itself, with one of the front ones with the amp under that. Spoke to him about it, as I said above he want's to pump the beats so with this setup it allows that, then once at track he just removes the lids and that takes out all the weight, then the wood used only weighed 5kg easy!

So with this I will essentially follow his design as it's a very smart way to do it. I have the plugs underneath secured in such a way that unplugging it at the track will take 2 seconds and cause no hassle at all! I will start designing this once my roll cage has been fitted which will determine if I still keep rear seats or not, the roll cage should be happening at the end of this month by a local shop!





DATE of original upload: 17-01-2018

Updates updates!!

So decided to drop the tank in search to an answer in regards to my whole fuel starve issue I continue to come about whilst on the track. Sometimes it even happens on half tank, which isnt fun at all.. I was some what hoping the fuel pump was dangling off or something but nope, still secured the same as when I first installed for the B swap. However I had it resting on a black rubber thing you can see in the photo below, absolutely no idea why. So we scrapped that and extended the hose so the pump could sit at the bottom of the craddle. With this done I'm hoping it will help, doubt it but you never know. I'll have to wait to my next track day at the end of this month!

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Once this was done I turned the car on to test drive, but then noticed coolant was leaking from somewhere on the radiator, oh yay.. So a little story, a while ago the passenger upper radiator bracket rubber actually fell out, decided it would rather not be in the car. I was never bothered to fix it so left it as is. Whats been happening is its been rubbing against the chassis for the headlight section, and what do you know we have a hole.. Lucky for me my mate can alloy weld so I took the radiator off to him to fix! Also I've had oil leaking from the vtec solenoid on track days after a long daay of thrashing so got a new genuine honda gasket kit for the vtec solenoid from my friend.







Annnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnd, I've finally managed to purchase a set of rims I've wanted since I pretty much owned the car. Got them for a bargain, they are referbished and awesome specs (15x7 +20) (if only 8" wide..).... Zender Turbos!!!

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DATE of original upload: 03-02-2018

Okay so heres a photo of my radiator which my mate welded up the hole which occured last week, very happy with the outcome, and it no longer leaks woo! I also grinded back the chassis where it was rubbing on the radiator, now I have correct brackets/rubbers in it shouldn't touch the chassis, but I decided to grind it back anyways juuuust in case..



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DATE of original upload: 03-02-2018

So as many people would know, the ED civic doesn't come with a rear sway bar bracket, however you can run the OEM CRX one. Using the OEM brackets allows the chassis rail around the bracket to flex alot, it's thing weak 30 year old metal. So what I decided to do with make up some beefier brackets out of 6mm thick mild steel, however I also cut a piece and slipped it into the chassis rail with bolts welded to it, to somewhat double plate the chassis. With this application now done it's A LOT stronger, shaking the rear sway bar moves the entire car now.

First off I finally got some gas for my welder + this nice little $12 dolley from bunnings. I marked up the chassis rail hole to cut it into a square which would allow me to slip the 6mm bar in. With this we then made up the rear sway bar bracket, the OEM one uses 2 bolts, on this I decided to go with 4 bolt holes on the chassis rail just for extra strength and why not. Marked everything up, cut it all, welded it all. Then used 5mm think sheet for some webbing. With that done, cleaned it all up and painted rust prooft paint. Next we got some more bar and drilled same holes as per the bracket to slip into the chassis. Then welded some bolts to it so I don't have to double nut them under the car to tighten. As you'll see, I had to cut some funny angles on them, thats so they could sit correctly inside the rail.

With everything done it's very solid, we did stand back and wonder if over kill but eh why not, the chassis on these are so weak it's a good idea to double plate. Track in 1 week so I'm keen to see how it goes!




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DATE of original upload: 13-02-2018

So 2 weeks ago I attended another Wakefield day. Car was booked in for a roll cage the following week, so the plan was to hit the 1.10's regardless of the cost. Temps for the day were 32 degrees so not ideal, but that wasn't going to stop me. Started the day off in the 1.13's/1.12's, very hot, tyres all over the joint. Had to adjust my usual dampening settings as it felt too twitchy with the new rear sway bar brackets. I usually run 5 clicks less from max, but went 10 from max at the rear which help a lot, fine tuning later to 7 from max.

With that sorted I all of a sudden jumped to a 1.11.7, with a 1.11.2 the following lap. For a few more sessions sat around the 1.11's and then towards the end of the day I magically got a 1.10.9! Was so happy, good to have my crew there all exchanging high fives in the pits, felt like I won the F1 series! I decided however the .9 could be better, so I went back out to get another 1.10.9 followed by a 1.10.8! Not much difference but to get more 1.10's it should it wasn't a fluke, especially with the temperatures. Sooo happy with the car, I sense a low 1.10 on a cooler day but it is what it is.

Anyways, as mentioned the car has been dropped off the a local shop which deals in a lot of roll cages for drift cars, they are taking on the civic for a bolt in half cage, keen to see the result. Also purchased a new bucket seat for the cage, stay tuned to see what I purchased!

Here's a few photos of the day, quite a few because they are all too good! Also the YouTube video of my laps, last lap is the 1.10.8, followed by some drifting hehe! On time sheet I was position 4 (William Mitchell)