the wifes EK civic - d16y8 turbo

[lucas]

Hey guys, we bit of an update

Painted and fitted the ek9 rep lip








Won a set of rx7 fd3s seats on ebay for £20 had to fabricate and chop up the civic rails to get them to fit :0
Most bolt holes lined up perfectly and as the rx7 pans are thick fiberglass It was easier to drill holes for bolts
The civic rail had the recliner built in and the rx7 on was not only bigger.. but separate from the rails, didnt want them welded in because of past experience.

So..



Choped the recliner bit off








Then that left the other rail, back bolts lines up perfect and for the front one I drilled a hole right through and used a big bolt with a spacer ( also had to use a 15mm spacer for all bolt holes as the civic mounting holed are wider apart !
Done this on the other rail aswell





Test fitted and its SOLID!



Built up the rest of the plastics and fitted the other seat!



Looks and feels great ! Big improvement over the standard seats


Painted the new wing.




Fitted and attended japfest at knockhill










Got my batman plate for the shows

[mercutio]

seats look cool

[bigbfer]

Look braw lucas, am no a huge fan of matt black tbh, but that on any car lol am a painter lol a like a shiny gloss finsh keep up the good work bud

[bb1boy]

Great job on the seats, dude!!

[lucas]

Cheers guys, had a good day at the Scottish car show on sunday

[lucas]

not updated in a while...

went and spent About a grand on the next part of the build, time for some boost

got myself a td04
ebay intercooler
hks bov
cusco oil cooler
cusco lines
cusco thermostatic sandwich plate
oil pressure and temp gauges
full new exaushst
rc injectors
turbo timer etc etc

went ahead and fitted the turbo

We got an oil relocation kit as the sandwich plate wouldn't fit past the bits on the block and also got a skunk2 2.5" cat back for a bit of an upgrade from standard.

Not got all the pics but will upload more later













Our 8 year old son wanted to help so he changed over one of the alloys
























and the oil relocation kit with the oil lines and cooler

[Drax]

really great work there mate!! that a 13 row oil cooler? love the fact that your son is helping with any luck my son in 7 years time will be the same

[Merlin]

Sounds interesting. You should remove the oil pressure sensor from the sandwich plate and install a capillary line to the sensor. It gets round the chance that the oil pressure sender will snap off the sandwich plate and piss oil everywhere

[lucas]

We got it all connected up but its got a boost leak
And its losing power :/

A bit messy just now but it will be getting the engine bay wire tucked and painted soon.

[Doggo]

not updated in a while...

Probably sensible to lie low after running that skater over.