My civic, Kasumi


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And out.....

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Went to town, washing and degreasing the full car ready to go to FRD for her replacement arches and slam panel

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Comparison of drivers and passenger

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MG towing a Honda, very rare sight

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Outside FRD awaiting her car cancer removal

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Work time, seeing how bad the drivers arch is

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Unfortunately being let down had brought the progress pretty much to a halt. Any who the story continued...... Some anti rust ****

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Couldn't resist but get some OEM headlight protectors, don't see these come about often!

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The headlights were showing typical fade so tried to give them a bit of a clean up, using toothpaste

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Quite a few pictures of paint prep and arch repair work

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So while stripping the car down, my mate Tom tried to convince me to remove the sound proofing between the dash and the firewall, so I said if it weighed more than 2kg it was a gonner......

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...so that wasn't going back in! So some work on the engine bay

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S2000 clutch master cylinder

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My fancy heavyset hoses and vac lines, my purple 4 mm vac line hadn't arrived at this point and the 8mm stuff looked more pinky, they are changing how they make it so they can get a better colour match

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Loom connectors, which I need to pin my looms out onto

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Polishing my fuel rail again

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There is more to come, ill dig out pictures and update this again
 
A big part of this build was not originally planned but it was my uni dissertation project, so here goes...

....Turbocharging of a Honda B16a engine

The idea for my dissertation was to improve both performance and efficiency of my engine, so ordered most parts to date

I needed a quick spool turbocharger that would work with the high revving engine, so I started with a Garrett GT28rs

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Denso 550 cc injectors suited the setup so I got some of them
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HKS filter, pretty obvious....
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With all the fresh paint and the dress up items, I wanted a manifold that would perform well and look good and I pretty much loved the PLM top mount turbo manifold and down pipe from the moment I saw it

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Mock fitting
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Then next was my intercooler choice, I wasn't too sure what to get so in the end I went for a brand I knew and measured the face of the car and the space between the bumper and the slam panel and bought the biggest one I could find
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Mock fitting
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Thats as far as the turbo project got before the car went to M.A. Autos for paint. Unfortunately with cock-ups from both parties, I retrieved the car where it sat on my drive for around 3/4 weeks before a very good friend of mine put me in contact with one of his friends who was a painter. After he looked at the car in pieces he said he would do it and asked me to put the car back together to check shut lines and that everything was there, he came again and we arranged for the start of march for him to paint the car.

Getting picked up for paint round 3!
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Her new home until she is painted
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Whilst in for paint, got a few more items

Competition clutch
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Then I got the engine soda blasted, unfortunately it got inside the engine so I had to whip the head off and it was absolutely everywhere. I wasn't very happy and I had a long hard think and decided to go all out now and forge it, so I ordered some:
81 mm CP pistons
Eagle H beam rods
ARP Headstuds
 
So to kick it all off a change of turbo, nothing to brag about just a Garrett GT3076R, well it was advertised as a Garrett GT3076 but me and a few of my mates who know turbochargers more than me said it was the 'R' also gave it a bit of a clean

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T3 Gasket

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Obviously needed a Plastigauge to determine bearing sizes
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Sandwich plate
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Needed to make sure my brakes were up to the task, so after frantically looking at different setups like mg tf 4 pot and turning down some spoon sports 4 potters I got some EP3 civic 300 mm front brakes, only problem was they are 5 stud and I wanted to stay 4 stud
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Making a tool to hold the centre of the discs
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Redrilled

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Test Fitted
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Just need to space the disc away from the carrier as its fouling atm, but think I have solved that, will wait until the car returns from paint before I know for sure

Also getting the wheels ready for polishing and painting involved drilling and tapping the holes for the new split rim bolts

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