1320 Racing's civic drag build
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rs250nut
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Not my tipple mate im a cider man, it was some **** left over from a party.
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sick.
rs250nut
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These are the seats I am going to me using in the civic
With a carbon/kelvar shell they are very light weighing 5-6 kg each as opposed to the stock seats with weigh 26kg each. I needed some brackets to mount the seats but did not fancy paying £70-80 a pair for what is a little bit of folded aluminium, had a little look on ebay for some materials that would be suitable, picked up some 75mm x 6mm aluminium bar for the uprights which cost close to £20 and some 38mm x 38mm aluminium angle for the rails which also cost around £20. Armed with some basic hand tools and a cordless drill I got to work.
After a lot of sawing and filing they looked like this, not to shabby really and saved me a bunch of money, I may get them anodized.
With a carbon/kelvar shell they are very light weighing 5-6 kg each as opposed to the stock seats with weigh 26kg each. I needed some brackets to mount the seats but did not fancy paying £70-80 a pair for what is a little bit of folded aluminium, had a little look on ebay for some materials that would be suitable, picked up some 75mm x 6mm aluminium bar for the uprights which cost close to £20 and some 38mm x 38mm aluminium angle for the rails which also cost around £20. Armed with some basic hand tools and a cordless drill I got to work.
After a lot of sawing and filing they looked like this, not to shabby really and saved me a bunch of money, I may get them anodized.
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nice project dude.
but cant help but think this every time i see them seats. lol
http://26.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_kumhv58df51qz5d8go1_500.gif
but cant help but think this every time i see them seats. lol
http://26.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_kumhv58df51qz5d8go1_500.gif
rs250nut
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I actually lol'ed when I read that.
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Had a spare five minutes at the weekend so finished heat wrapping the exhaust manifold
Completed it in two pieces and ended up being quite a tidy job, when I do this again I will make sure I have a painters suit and mask to hand as afterwards I itched all over and also soak the wrap in water, it makes it easier to work with.
Also fitted the inlet manifold with the throttle, injectors, fuel rail and fpr, starting to look like a proper engine now
Completed it in two pieces and ended up being quite a tidy job, when I do this again I will make sure I have a painters suit and mask to hand as afterwards I itched all over and also soak the wrap in water, it makes it easier to work with.
Also fitted the inlet manifold with the throttle, injectors, fuel rail and fpr, starting to look like a proper engine now
ramboteamjon
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haha Rich!! ^
looks mental mate!!
looks mental mate!!
rs250nut
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Small update, had a delivery from Honda
I want to replace all of the old manky bolts for new ones and replace all of the rubber seals for gearbox, water pipe and did not have a two post mount so brought a brand new one.
Had a little look at the intermediate shaft while its off the car, it looked in a bad way and had a noisy bearing so I decided to rebuild it, I did not take any pics of me taking it apart but will when I re assemble it.
A few more bits from Honda to put it back together with the relevant part numbers if any of you guys wish to do the same.
After I taped up the bearing faces it got blasted and then buffed on a wire wheel, came out real clean.
Sent off to the paint shop with a few other bits I had knocking about.
As I broke my last rocker I had to get a new one, up came this replica mugen one on flea bay for £30, when I got it it had flaky paint etc and did not fancy having it sand blasted like the previous rocker cover, I ended up having to remove the internal baffle to clean the sand out. So with this one I sent it off to one of my customers who has an acid bath.
Removed every trace of paint and grime and came up clean as a whistle, with the original breather tube removed I tapped the redundant hole with a m12x1.5 tap so I can block it off, I fired up my newly acquired ac/dc tig and set to work welding some -10 bungs in the front of it for the breather system
Only managed to weld in one as I ran out of gas, damn 9 litre bottle.
I want to replace all of the old manky bolts for new ones and replace all of the rubber seals for gearbox, water pipe and did not have a two post mount so brought a brand new one.
Had a little look at the intermediate shaft while its off the car, it looked in a bad way and had a noisy bearing so I decided to rebuild it, I did not take any pics of me taking it apart but will when I re assemble it.
A few more bits from Honda to put it back together with the relevant part numbers if any of you guys wish to do the same.
After I taped up the bearing faces it got blasted and then buffed on a wire wheel, came out real clean.
Sent off to the paint shop with a few other bits I had knocking about.
As I broke my last rocker I had to get a new one, up came this replica mugen one on flea bay for £30, when I got it it had flaky paint etc and did not fancy having it sand blasted like the previous rocker cover, I ended up having to remove the internal baffle to clean the sand out. So with this one I sent it off to one of my customers who has an acid bath.
Removed every trace of paint and grime and came up clean as a whistle, with the original breather tube removed I tapped the redundant hole with a m12x1.5 tap so I can block it off, I fired up my newly acquired ac/dc tig and set to work welding some -10 bungs in the front of it for the breather system
Only managed to weld in one as I ran out of gas, damn 9 litre bottle.
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