Some of you may remember my last coupe ( http://www.honda-tech.com/zerothread?id=2034610 ), which I had for almost five years (first car, pride and joy). The car was stolen in October of 2007 (less than two weeks before my 21st birthday) and was confirmed has having been taken to Mexico. I bought an Audi S4 ( http://www.honda-tech.com/zerothread?id=2282292 ) to get me by, but I soon realized the headache of German cars (blown turbos, amongst a horde of other shit that went wrong). Fixed that car up, sold it, and after a long search, I finally found another coupe with *relatively* low miles (127k).Page 1: Introduction, parts, coilovers and wheels installed
Page 2: Personal steering wheel, NRG hub/quick release, FLP shifter, Prothane bushings, Good-USA rear camber kits, suspension headache
Page 3: RTA bushings, a few shots after a full detail
Here it was when I bought it (original paint too, always garaged 
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Well, I got ahold of some suspension parts from my buddy's company that I'm testing out...
Among which, I also have all of this:
Not pictured are the ITR rear LCAs, but both front and rear LCAs have spherical bearings in place.. The only rubber is the dust seals 
Also in store, are roll-center adjusters, custom front/rear camber kits, rear toe adjusters, and rear trailing arm bushings (spherical bearings, of course), as well as modified tie rods, compliance bushings (hardest rubber available), and sway bar bushings and end links.
The rear of the car will be treated with an ASR subframe brace along with their 24mm sway bar and spherical end links.
For interior, I opted to go with simple things for now (no crazy JDM conversions here). A Personal NeoGrinta 350mm steering wheel, ITR shift boot (it was part of the package lol), NRG hub and quick release, Blox shift knob (not too thrilled about it, but whatever), and an optional center console. I originally ordered a Buddy Club short shifter, but it was a single bend so I traded that for a Skunk2 shifter. I decided to change my route and ordered a brand new Type R shifter, but came across an offer I couldn't pass up... So soon to be arriving at my house is a FastLine Performance RR shifter, that I'll mate up with some Energy Suspension shifter bushings. Oh yeah, and tomorrow I'm getting the alarm taken care off, which will include everything available, with a stealth install, as well as a standalone GPS unit (Dear Mexico, you're not getting my car this time).
Powerwise, oh well. I'm not doing much because I currently enjoy my 38mpg average. I took off the resonator for the intake, and picked up a J-spec Type R exhaust that had the rear section (tail pipe) lengthened to fit coupes/sedans (that's the only difference, for those who didn't know).
For the footwork, I picked up some black 16x7 SSR Type Cs wrapped in 215/45 Falken RT-615s. (I don't care that it's 0.6% out of spec -- it will be taken to the track). I also scavenged up some rear disks, that I'll piece together with a 91 Civic EX 15/16 master cylinder, as well as a non-abs 40-40 proportioning valve. In the near future, I *may* decide to order a Wilwood front/rear upgrade from FastBrakes.com.
As for exterior, it's stock right now. I *may* get it painted soon (considering I cant stand driving a red car), but that's $3500 I can't justify spending right now when it's gonna see the track. And no, no cheap paint jobs because if you see my last cars, I'm a perfectionist. I'd rather have a 9/10 oem red paint job than a $500 paint job that looks good from 30 feet away. I also have a "special" lip on order from Japan, so I'll see that in about 6-8 more weeks. Pictures will be posted when it's installed; until then, it's on the DL.
Anyway, today I was tired of staring at a huge pile of crap in my room, so first things first, I grabbed the coilovers and let my back bake in the sun for six hours while I tried to figure out how to mount the reservoirs. Oh yeah, I also decided to pull out my cruise control while I was at it, as I was contemplating using a hole saw so I could place the reservoirs on the shock tower and it was in the way. Either way, I didn't need cruise control because the steering wheel's going on soon anyway.
Here's the stance (I haven't adjusted the height at all yet, but I will asap when I get the adjusting wrenches from my friend) :
And here's how I mounted the rear (under the trunk)
I still have to dial in the suspension (its got high/low speed dampening adjustment on the reservoirs, which you can see in the above picture, as well as the rebound or whatever on the top of the shock itself) and I have to run to Ace tomorrow to get some of those D clamp brackets to hold the hoses in place better.
Updates will be in the near future as I start piecing it together more.
Modified by SoCal EJ1 at 1:45 PM 7/30/2008
| Quote, originally posted by GoodEyeSniper » |
| It's not Delivery, It's SoCal EJ1. |
Good USA
"Build" thread: http://www.honda-tech.com/zerothread/2327024
all race teams mount them in the engine bay; ease of adjustment, safety. come on now your better than this.
....LOL
