Nicole's turbo black ek9

[ijwhiteman]

Impressed much! Such an inspiration to all members especially our female members!

Great job keep it up! Car looks so mint!

 

[mikeW]

On instagram i only saw this on the ek9 wheels, the itr wheels look superb in bronze on there

I like the attention to detail. Bay is looking sweet

 

[EK4Sure]

Saw this at Mimms and was really impressed as well, so very clean!

 

[LoganK]

Probably one of my fav looking engine bays, suits the car perfectly!

 

[King Sir]

the blacked out engine bay is way nicer and the whales ***** intake had to go teg box looks way better how did u get it to sit so well in the bay mine is all over the place and forced into a corner sits well but doesnt look right

 

[matt o]

i saw your IG. good updates! not sure why you removed the whale-***** intake but hey... your car mate

Because they are all noise and not much else! Dc2 airbox/ek9 airbox is next best thing to aem v2 (had all on my car at different stages)

 

[Turfy]

Gorgeous car!
The wheels came up really well after u resprayed em!
Lovely finish!

 

[Bushell]

Just gets better and better this car, love it top work

 

[tomCTR]

Nice update, the car really does look tidy!

Fair play for the effort you've put in on the car!

 

[zero9]

Because they are all noise and not much else! Dc2 airbox/ek9 airbox is next best thing to aem v2 (had all on my car at different stages)

well then now i do know! cheers mate!

 

[Saqib]

This is now my favourite black '9!

 

[tobiasnugent]

Its crap this

 

[Dan_EK4]

Absolute minter! That paint is looking ridiculous how much the reflections are showing, didn't realise it had a pearl finish either! Excellent work on the car, keep the updates coming!

 

[fatboi]

Beautiful bay! And such a clean car. Good work!

Any chance on a colour code for that bronze and for the cam cover colour?

Thanks

 

[StevieG]

This is mint! The bronze teg wheels look awesome.
Looks well on track

 

[Maffy]

This looks absolutely amazing!! Pictures are really really good. Beautiful example of a Black EK9!

 

[nicole_]

such lovely comments thanks everyone!
I love my car far too much!lol


Following on from the last update..!
Went to the Yorkshire dales to see a friend and his little red beast! I know I have the ek9, but these little french hatchbacks will always have my heart haha. The GTI is on itb's, such a nice example and just epic fun, the noise! <3
Oh, and the roads here are just incredible!

On to the next weekend, woke up early before work to swap my wheels over...ready for some track time at Japfest

I loved the actual show itself, such variety and some really lovely examples about

really wasn't keen on the track. Had two sessions where it luckily dried up for both of them! Absolutely loved my tyres, what a difference to Cadwell on road tyres! Bit sketchy when they had mud on them and were cold but were brilliant Absolutely hated the track - was sent round the whole show from the stand to get on and it took 40 mins to get through the crowds and was late getting on track so was pretty flustered as it was. Felt a bit lost on track for the majority of it, surface is horrendous and really unsettled the car, was a boring fast loop that I felt didnt really suit the ek9 at all? The evo's flying past must have been loving it but the highlight for me was two little chicanes and thats about as exciting as it got! Really gave the poor car some abuse not being able to decide what gear to be in for 75% of the corners/bends, but I guess it's something I'll learn over time
little bit of footage from the side of the track

http://pinsta.me/p/717573888282253494_7402613

tyres after 2 sessions

I think my engine mounts had been going for a while beforehand as recently I'd been getting a massive slap/knock from the engine moving when changing down gears etc, so bought these pretty little lightweight things! <3

Went to fit them and realised I didnt have the bracket/bolts with them that I needed to fit, but in the mean time got my torque mounts off!
safe to say the passenger side one was pretty f*cked!

some post-japfest cleaning..

crappy iphone shot, but i love my paint

went to a local car show, took some honda photos

chilling with some more hondas on a random night out in the nice weather

Kindly got these parts off a friend to tidy up my bay a little bit!
so off came the old tatty bits -

Skunk2 battery tie

Mishimoto rad stay

Powdercoeted gunmetal grey power sterring bracket

 

[nicole_]

Took the car to get the alignment done earlier this week, had a lot of toe out on the back which i think might have been the cause of my wondering back end on track, so now have toe in and very slight toe out on the front.

and a little underneath shot

valve clearances are being done next Monday and then Cadwell next month!
Got two of my engine mounts on now but the weather got too bad to do the rear one so will have to attempt that another day. Absolutely loving the difference already though

and a few pretty shots from a JDMfresh meet

Credit to Stylecase for these! Love them

 

[5alldaway]

no words man.....................................................

 

[JDM_Dan]

Nice EuroR there