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Tomorrow night test fitting chaps! Then let the refurb commence!!

I was shocked and amazed.....I was shamazed!

About 10mm is the shortest with cutting the top of the forks as not interfere with the clamping, the pinch bolt need turning down also as so not to interfere and denting damper, turned my bolts down by putting the bolt in a drill and turning it on then using a grinder shaved some off whilst it was spinning. Did not want to weld on the damper though by moving the clamp for the gas expansion issues in doing so.

Well, although I dont want her out on the road just now, she's been called back into active duty. The TypeR is in dealership again with a list of faults! See roxy's thread for whats going on this time! Begining to think I should have either A: kept the TypeS or B: kept Ruby! So, I went out to the garage last week because she hadn't been fired up for a while (turns out it was over 3 months since she was last started!) so wanted to get her free'd up and make sure everything was fine. Connected up the battery, whipped off the HT leads as I didnt want her to fire up straight away, wanted her to turn over and get the oil moving first to protect the engine. Popped the leads back on, turned the key..................and she burst straight into life like she'd been running all day! Then thought I'd move her out into the drive and just drive her back and forth a few times, making sure everything was free and not siezed. Didnt want to take her out onto the road though due to salt/ wet roads. I thought she might have been a bit stiff, brakesand stuff maybe seized. But in true DD style, she was absolutely perfect! Would not have known she'd been sitting laid up for so long! So tonight, had to get her back on the road due to having no car. First drive was to go away to the other side of Edinburgh to pick up Jim and his Mrs from hospital, and she drove perfectly. Such a beautiful car to drive, so smooth and does everything just right, she's a joy and pleasure to drive. Just love DD to bits, and she's a true reminder of what Hondas are all about. Well, the older Hondas anyway! And the looks she gets always makes me smile! Will just have to make sure I keep the crap washed off her and then give her a good power wash before she retires back into the garage when I finally get the TypeR back. So if you see DD out and about, give her a wave!

Had a mega busy day actually. Mainly wanted to start rust proofing. Stone chipped the whole front area. Removed the air con ready for a turbo. Some plonker had put coolant in the washer bottle. That's all come out for a clean anyway. Also cleaned and sealed the rear arches and realigned the rbumper rear bumper. Fitted new oem rad hoses and new clips. Went and picked up a bag of new bolts replace all those crusty bolts on there. Work in progress!

... What is stock height?

the usual scenario

Have voted had to vote for the car I entered in the end

better had phil

He's quite tall, I'm sure he could use a dwarf as a step ladder.

yeh the speakers sound really good there theres a video on here by the pictures. the only issue is the plastic covers rattle a bit when im turning the music up. thats because when i cut the housing i had to cut one of the holes so the speaker would fit. so one one of the hooks on the plastic doesnt sit in anything. im jus thinking of a way to sort that out or myabe make a new housing jus need to see how it will all work without comprising sound quality

I better get my vote in then

Well happy to say that she alive again lol nice cheap fix for once. And it's pulling a lot better now too

ye its EK mate 96-01 spec civic

Thanks mate! Yeah, see thats the problem. Even with it's faults, I love the style of the car and the performance. And the safety! There is nothing else out there that I actually would want to sell her to get. Nothing has the stunning interior, they all look bland in comparison. Same goes for the exterior, there's nothing newish that looks anywhere as good as the FN2. And have to agree, Clarksons review is totally bullshit. I've found the handling is really sharp, and the power is more than enough. Mine is totally standard mechanical wise, standard air box/filter etc. Have thought about changing the ECU to Hondata as have heard really good reviews about it. But in honesty think it's bad that the FN2's need a new ECU just to make them drive better, Honda should have made them properly from the start. I think a lot has to do with them trying to get the cars to meet the tougher emmissions requirements for the EU, so they may have rushed the development of them a bit leaving the cars with "issues". But for the money, they are deffo better looking than most of the rivals out there. They still look new even after all this time, and look better than the current 9th gen Civic, which seems to have lost the cutting edge look of the FN's FK's etc.

I dont do discrete i just out n out stair n dribble

Gr8 stuff no more sweating power n the fogs look epic

expensive?

wow fair play mate!! probably done more work in this amount of time than grant has done in about 6 months!!

We all i cay say about it is it dosent collapse at full throttle n sound nice wen vtec kicks in

i know

ah good

I'm gonna buy there kit. 1600 quid. Add my own injectors fuel pump ecu etc and get mapped locally. Over 2k I guess But tried and tested. Nice quality..

Yippee got them on there yet what you waiting for lol

They have arrived ! !!

Forgot about that, thanks for the idea. But my drls are big, would involve a lot of cutting. Also they have to be angled which means brightness will decrease. Anyway I decided to install them because I found a place that I like. A slight variation to the first pic. Will install them by the end of the week and report back

yeeeesss !!!! last and new

Wheels and tyres arrived today, delivery man decided to scare the hell out of everyone at 7am banging on the door like it was the end of the world, haha. Went to fit them but found the spigot rings were a size too big, so rang Rim-Style and they promised they'll get the proper ones shipped out today which isn't too bad. Hopefully they come tomorrow so I can get them on. Only took one wheel off but it had no weights on it and the tyre was showing canvas so hopefully these will sort out the skitishness at motorway speeds. Might stop spinning when pulling off at normal speeds as well Couple of pictures of the exhaust:

Yeah, it was a long journey. Now about the lights. The heater panel is lit by two led strips. I don't have pics so I made this in Paint. This is the heater panel with everything disassembled including the buttons. Think it as a 3D object. So one strip goes at the top and the other on the bottom. The led strips are the green lines on the picture. This way the light is evenly distributed. And all the buttons have led with resistor soldered directly on the button board.

Forgot to paste the damn link lol http://pages.ebay.com/link/?nav=item.view&id=371153003534&alt=web

Just because someone else enters your car it doesn't mean you'll get any votes, look at mine haha!! But joking aside, i'm still proud to be put forward in the first place though!!

My nomination is @dr_broon 's clean vti deck.. Shows I have joined the deck club Build thread: http://civic5.com/forum/topic/1401-dr-broons-vti-deck/

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Nav - Honda Civic VTI-S - Bristol, UK, V***MWT 25. stone119 - V1## FPN - Bristol 26. jonnyricer - east sussex - v*** FVN 27. HotRod_07 - South Shields - R*** ANC 28. MBSIX - North East, England [V--- ODM] 29.Disco - w***nlf (Angus) 30.NoVa - BHAM - T*** LPV 31.Dan - Newcastle - R***ORX 32. Rad1 - Portsmouth - R***HSX 33.lly1982 - Kent - R*** EBA - B18 Turbo Owned by my mate Ahsan now. 34. chris - west midlands - v***dtf 35.Moe, North West - M** MHK 36. got boost - blackwood, south wales - t*** *rh 37. Civboy - Essex R***VTF 38. mb6_ingram - Cambridgeshire V715 *** Not sure if its a private plate but looks good. 39. muhib899 - East London - B18C4 T***CSH 40.leaper1989 - st ives, cambridgeshire - v***MPX 41. zedmb6 - east midlands - T*** KWE 42.davieo_04 - N.I - R***TGM - 43. 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Gumtree Guy - Harrow - L** TSH (R.I.P written off) 109. Burbleboy - Glasgow - A** FTN 110. VTI-sAlex - Nottingham - T**LRT 111. Col - Oxfordshire - T*** YDC 112. simm3r - London - V*** KSF 113, not mine- lincolnshire - T**PEG (registered on the behalf of a customer) 114.phill1975-gloucestershire - r***jdm (used to belong to beaniexx) 115. crxmb6 - Shropshire - P*** OLU 116. MBK89 - Isle of Wight R*** VOR 117. Alygna - Villiers le Bel (France) - B*-***-EF 118. Simpo- Bridgwater- R*^*ABK 119. Big T - Aberdeenshire R***OAN 120. Eg9adz - Wiltshire T***MYB 121. Crazy Mark - Dublin, Ireland V***FLE, now 99 CE **** (MC2) 122. Murray- Forres, Morayshire J**DUV (private plate, it was on a R plate) 123.Jimbob738-Jacksdale,Nottingham V**2 AJ0 MB6 VTIS boooyallll! 124. Bluemoon -Paignton Devon W616 RLA 125. vtec-maniac, Eastbourne - T657 YDC 126. Sangerman90 - Aberdeen - R***OAN 127. p-con_91 - st albans - R**MHC 128. 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