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I'm back!
The civic was abit of a problem child the whole weekend tbh. Engine ran faultless so I should be very happy about that, it's on roughly 1700miles now and no sign of a pressure loss.
The tune is off and I think I'm over heating it abit as it drops the AFRs down to basically flat 10s on track(abit too rich really)
Was alittle disappointed with the straight line pace tbh, wasn't much in top speed from my buddies dc2 which I found strange, the engine Defo pulls hard on the street though!
Issues:
1. So you know about the above boost pipe/tyre shredding issue(strange)
2. I had melted the wastegate gasket on a lap so had next to no boost as its all leaking away before the turbo
3. Cv joint boots are leaking like mad(cannot stop it even with jubilee clips!
4. A bolt onto the gearbox had come loose and that was putting gear oil all down the underside of the car, eventually hitting the exhaust and burning off, I look back in the rear view at like 140mph and see LOTS of smoke behind me! Had me worried for a while but it seemed to fade if I didn't Rev so high so short shifted the rest of the lap. Must have looked epic being overtaken by an old civic smoking like a train at 140odd lol
5. (Yes the issues keep coming) cracked both front brake discs, not alittle bit either! I'll picture later.
Had to find a local business called "special brakes.de" and after a chat he says I was running too weak a rear pad and that's overloading the front and cracking the disc. Nearly €500 later I'm leaving with a new set of EBC high carbon front discs and a set of HAWK dtc-60 rear pads.
Had made a massive difference to braking distance tbf but I can lock the rear very easily now and my last lap of the trip was chirping the rears into most corners(wasn't even a hard lap)
6. Somehow the nut that holds the track rod end on the hub had come very loose(2/3 more turns and the nut would have fallen off)
So that made the handling alittle "iffy"
7. I think the alignment tech didn't do up the camber arm adjustment bolts tight enough as they'd come loose and that was able to just move about under load which also gave some pretty interesting handling characteristics! Obvs as the camber changes the toe changes massively too.
A combo of 6 and 7 VERY nearly put me into a wall at id guess a good 70-80mph. Managed to just miss the wall but we banged the curb hard and had alittle launch off of that, very lucky to have managed to slow the car down for the next corner aswell.
So yeah plenty of issues and we where working on the car late most nights to get it back out the next day. All these issues plus the massively effected confidence from the alignment playing up meant that my 3rd lap on the Saturday morning(generally not your fastest lap) was my fastest lap of 8:20.
Alittle disappointed tbh as I know I've got more and obvs so has the car when it works.
Plenty of bits I need to do for next year so I can go back and go faster.
Sorry for the massive update but I've had plenty going on this weekend, going back tonight to collect my brothers ep3(span a bearing coming out the last corner of the track)
