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Hello there guys and girls, my name Is Mark Gompertz and I am sort of new to the Honda scene. I've just found this forum so thought I'd introduce myself and make a thread to upload progress pictures up! So to start off.. I picked up this little big beauty from a car auction site (copart) for a fair price! Intentionally bought it to take its running gear out and put in my old micra! () But as soon as I sat in and started playing with its little gadgets like the air con, light dimmer switch, electric Windows and electric sunroof, half leather interior, seeing how much boot space there was! And then I drove it.. It was such a smooth, responsive car that handled amazingly with that LSD differential, and then you put your foot down and stuff happens! The b18c4 engine ran like it had just left the factory even being on 138,000 miles. I fell in love with it that day. (The light dimmer switch was what won me over...) The previous owner had put on a private plate and left it still assigned to the car V37 NAM which looks a bit like Vietnam which is where the the name has came from! I've had a few people mention it to me in the street like "hey it says Vietnam haha!" It's comical and brightens my day ! Lol Back to the present! 7 months and 10,000 miles have passed by and I have fiddled with a few things modification wise.. I've put bucket seats and a harness in (ran out of gas to weld brackets for the passenger harness) I've ghetto lowered it, but will buy some coilovers when I get the funds! some mega wide 16" junk dregs on with a little amount of stretch on the back, I've put rear camber bolts in to make the rear wheels legal, running something like 4-5 deg of camber ive put on vtis front and rear bumpers and side skirts as my standard bumpers were a bit battered and fogs were bus and they had the lips still on ive stripped out the interior from the back seats to the boot ive cut out slots in the bumper do reduce all that drag added a HONDA sunstrip which is mega race car HID's team heko wind deflectors red cam cover purply pink led sidelights bumper ties rear tie bar and tow hook engine wise I've put a skunk2 pro inlet manifold on, s2000 air filter, Magnacore HT leads, new OEM Honda stem seals and other various stem seals when I put a new head gasket on i got a hole of a ram horn exhaust manifold from a friend of mine that was on his b18 CR-X! my initial plan was to make a full front to back system, but.. I'm not a very subtle type of person so as you can see from the pictures I went for a bumper exit! 4-1 to a stainless 9 degree 3" bend and a 3" straight pipe to the bumper, it sounds pretty mega up the revs and pulled a lot better than when I had the standard system onł Took her to Japshow 2016 on the Micra Sports Club stand Monster truck mode enabled! At my local track on Anglesey, Trac Mon. And then I finally got round to lowering it! Also put in HID's in and took the roof bars off Sunstrip and sticker from when I went on Anglesey track! Red cam cover, s2000 filter and skunk 2 pro inlet manifold, bit of a mess but it looks a lot more tidy now I got rid of the unnessasary hoses and the IAB canister and cabon canister i picked up this exhaust manifold from a friend, had a crack in port no.4 that needed welding up which I got my dad to do as he is amazing at fiddly welding jobs and always manages to make it look neat What the system looks like in full here it is on the car! Pretty much all visable when you take the bumper off which is easy with the bumper ties As you'd expect it is quite loud.. I will be putting a silencer in the middle of the pipe from just after the bend to just before the inside of the bumper soon but it's not my main priority at the moment it pops when you tickle the throttle on overdrive at 2k revs which is fun, and sounds like a racing bike at around 6-8k Ive ordered some exhaust Spring hooks so that the collectors are tight together as I have a slight blow coming from the join, and will put some exhaust paste around to seal In the past couple days I have spaced up the bonnet 20mm and put in purpely pink led sidelights which are pretty And to bring this massive introduction of myself and Vietnam to a close (until I post up here next, the most recent mod I have done is swap over the faces from a set of integra clocks I acquired off eBay for a bargain price, and stuck them to my OEM dials, and pt in the yellow needles, still need to do the temp and fuel gauges and change the colour of the illumination lights but once it's all done it'll be great! I hope you enjoy my pretty much DIY/ghetto build, I'll be uploading pictures and some videos from now on, some of you may already know me and I already know a couple but it's nice to meet you all and fingers crossed I meet you guys at some meets /shows! Peace! -Mark

Done a few little bits this week maybe not to everyone's tastes but I like it lol

Nice ankle choppers!

I'm nearly always in qualifying trim

Looks like you only have a pint in the fuel tank

And a clean

So my exhaust has recently been doing my own head in. It's not too bad just tootling along but any sort of hill or push of the accelerator that's when car alarms start going off and houses are falling down. Not ideal So I've decided to go for a full stainless system to the back! But due to being low the back box I have got don't fit between the bumper and ground. So that gives me the perfect opportunity to go ahead with one of my other mad, pointless and OTT plans... cutting out the wheel well and making it a flat floor.. So that is exactly what I done yesterday.. i died a little inside but deep down I knew that the finished product would pay off well and it'll look awesome. i set out cutting around the wheel well, chiselled off the soundproofing and cleaned up the metal around where I'll be welding this morning i picket up a 2x1 sheet of 1mm steel and 2x1 sheet of 0.9mm Aluminium. i traced around the cut out wheel well and added on an inch or so all around so that I had plenty to play with and trim down if needed i then placed it in the boot, measures where I needed to fold to step up the boot, this will also give the new floor extra strength. placed it back in the boot and everything still lined up great i then set to making the second piece that comes up (last picture) same process, made a cardboard template and cut that out the sheet metal too, slotted into position and made markings on where to fold for weldind onto the top piece, this will also give it strength it is coming along really well, it was daunting at first but once you set your mind to it and you don't rush there's not much that can go wrong tomorrow will consist of trimming the top piece to the cleaned area of metal on the car, then weld it all up and apply body sealer, and paint underneath to protect from rust apart from making more room for the big back box I got the other reason for cutting the boot out is so that I can make a big diffuser hence why I bought a sheet of aluminuim but the diffuser may wait for a bit until my exhaust is nearly done, so that I know where to mount everything and just make everything as easy as possibly for myself