Ramzys EJ9
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I was like that once too! Youll get to a stage where your car will be how you want itJust keep at it mate!
Haha no chance! So hard to find in this fitment and colour
Thanks buddy
Will be a long time but eventually will get there
I know been after a set for a few months in 15 4x100 only see them coming up in the states
Great work again bud
keep up the good work, defiantly one of my favorite cars on the site . Liam_Jordan281
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You live near kahn (JDM-MK) with the EK hatch on hydraulics and the EK4 coupe ?
Solidp0wnd
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Sweet ride!
damnnn, keep that thing rollingg
damnnn, keep that thing rollingg
Andy_redevo4
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This is definitely in my top 3 cars on the site! Awesome work man!
Thanks buddy
Oo about an hour from me then mate
Umm i had them done AGES ago, got it from a company called 9KTuning
I need new ones now! Theres a company who does em online, i cant remember the name but ill have a search when i order them and update here
Will be a long time but eventually will get there
I know been after a set for a few months in 15 4x100 only see them coming up in the states
Great work again bud
Thanks dude! Keep at it dude. I got mine new so if you want em, thats what youll have to do! Bite the bullet and get em lol
Yeah man! Hes got an accord now lol
Thanks bro. Tegiwa rad isnt the best fitting tbh..if i were to get another rad i wouldnt get a tegiwa one! It cost me £90 somthing, and ill use it on maybe a long dc2 one and get a mount welded or go for a koyo one or somthing! Lot of em pop up so just keep looking!
Yeah lots of other plans which ill update below
Sweet ride!
damnnn, keep that thing rollingg
Will do mate! Thank you
Lovely looking car man
Cheers dude, keep at it and it will!
I LOVE THIS CAR! This absolutely my 'dreams come true'-setup! Everything! B18, suspension, detals and color! Everything exactly the same as I would to have in my car. I could say that you are my brother in fency about best EKsetup
Haha thanks man! I was the same, looked at so many cars and thought wish i could do this, do that! Eventually youll have it all done and be like damn! Have come a long way lol
This is definitely in my top 3 cars on the site! Awesome work man!
Cheers dude!! Theres alot of cars on here, u sure? haha
Thanks!
Well i havnt updated in a while, so heres a very long update lol
heres some snow pics for when it snowed here!
Passenger rear side ride height needs sorting, will do when i get a chance. The bush on that lca is ****ed so not sure if thats making it a bit lower! I defo made sure both rear sides were equal in measurement!
I also sourced an ek9 dash from a company in Sheffield
Moving on (the links are for the threads i started on civiclife.net so ignore them if you cant log onto there!) -
Basically as you know i purchased a double din ek9 dash, heater controls, cage, loom and vents. Alot of people were asking how to do this swap, you will need
- Ek9 Heater Matrix Facelift (i also got the blowers and ac unit with it too)
- Ek9 Heater Matrix Facelift loom
- Ek9 Cage Facelift (dont essentially need this but it has points where the main heater controls will screw onto)
- Ek9 Heater Controls Facelift + Loom
- Ek9 Dash (Dont need this but its black compared to my ej9 grey dash)
Only problem atm im facing is my rear dismisters dont work :S But ill be checking over fuses to see if a fuse has blown.
And a day to do it all!
As you know i wanted to do the ek9 double din swap as my heater matrix was leaking.
Heres the full story for those who want to read: http://www.civiclife...__fromsearch__1
Ill start with what happend first
- Bought a Miracle drying cloth via clean-your-car
- Massive!
- Washed my carpet and mats again for the second time
- Pics with some of the homies
- Raised it from the back as it was too low, perfect ride height now (for those wondering, i cracked my lip from the mounting point, but im going to get it painted before mimms so no worries).gif ":)) :))")
- Purchased some block-off's for the engine bay
- Fitted
- Got my EK9 Double Din Facelift dash
- Had a few issues, read here - http://www.civiclife...__fromsearch__1
- TYPE R y0!
- Dash stripped for the third time..
- Messsyyy
- Ek9 Dash at top, ej9 dash and cage, and then ek9 heater matrix and blowers (the company forgot to send the cage, as stated in the thread above)
- Random during shot
- ALL FITTED!
- No airbag tho, so will need a carbon block of from teishi soon!
- Then all hell broke lose..my heater matrix was leaking for the FOURTH MUTHEF*CKING TIME!
- Teh fook y0? It was the worst this time, Flood city!
- Tho after alot of research, thought it was the hoses which needed changing as we used some knackered ones last time, Read here - http://www.civiclife...__fromsearch__1
- COOLANT FOR DAYS (also bought new hoses to use, read thread above)
- Poor VOF
- Didnt let this phase us, thought **** it. Lets take it out for the fourth time, change o-rings and also Tiger seal was applied. Got up early and started. Original plans were to get the whole thing reconditioned, but he wanted £75 for that..so thought changing o-rings and somehow getting a sealant around it should work!
- HEATER MATRIX FOR DAYS
- Got my ek9 cage finally, as you can see it has mounting points in the middle for the oem ek9 center heater controls (bent and rusted to f00k may i add)
- Mr, Mo's Teg, how does he keep it so clean!?
- Oh another teg came along to help TypeRiter, best dc5 ive seen in the flesh! Awesome guy too..
Basically as you know i purchased a double din ek9 dash, heater controls, cage, loom and vents. Alot of people were asking how to do this swap, you will need
- Ek9 Heater Matrix Facelift (i also got the blowers and ac unit with it too)
- Ek9 Heater Matrix Facelift loom
- Ek9 Cage Facelift (dont essentially need this but it has points where the main heater controls will screw onto)
- Ek9 Heater Controls Facelift + Loom
- Ek9 Dash (Dont need this but its black compared to my ej9 grey dash)
Only problem atm im facing is my rear dismisters dont work :S But ill be checking over fuses to see if a fuse has blown.
And a day to do it all!
As you know i wanted to do the ek9 double din swap as my heater matrix was leaking.
Heres the full story for those who want to read: http://www.civiclife...__fromsearch__1
Ill start with what happend first
- Bought a Miracle drying cloth via clean-your-car
- Massive!
- Washed my carpet and mats again for the second time
- Pics with some of the homies
- Raised it from the back as it was too low, perfect ride height now (for those wondering, i cracked my lip from the mounting point, but im going to get it painted before mimms so no worries
- Purchased some block-off's for the engine bay
- Fitted
- Got my EK9 Double Din Facelift dash
- Had a few issues, read here - http://www.civiclife...__fromsearch__1
- TYPE R y0!
- Dash stripped for the third time..
- Messsyyy
- Ek9 Dash at top, ej9 dash and cage, and then ek9 heater matrix and blowers (the company forgot to send the cage, as stated in the thread above)
- Random during shot
- ALL FITTED!
- No airbag tho, so will need a carbon block of from teishi soon!
- Then all hell broke lose..my heater matrix was leaking for the FOURTH MUTHEF*CKING TIME!
- Teh fook y0? It was the worst this time, Flood city!
- Tho after alot of research, thought it was the hoses which needed changing as we used some knackered ones last time, Read here - http://www.civiclife...__fromsearch__1
- COOLANT FOR DAYS (also bought new hoses to use, read thread above)
- Poor VOF
- Didnt let this phase us, thought **** it. Lets take it out for the fourth time, change o-rings and also Tiger seal was applied. Got up early and started. Original plans were to get the whole thing reconditioned, but he wanted £75 for that..so thought changing o-rings and somehow getting a sealant around it should work!
- HEATER MATRIX FOR DAYS
- Got my ek9 cage finally, as you can see it has mounting points in the middle for the oem ek9 center heater controls (bent and rusted to f00k may i add)
- Mr, Mo's Teg, how does he keep it so clean!?
- Oh another teg came along to help
TypeRiter, best dc5 ive seen in the flesh! Awesome guy too..
- Oh..also picked up these..
- Genuine Arc Winglets baby! + OEM decal!
Finished late, went for a spirited drive and there is NO LEAK!!!
Finally can get **** going for mimms..
Plans are
- Paint Lip + Fit Arc's
- Refurb wheels
- Re-fit interior
- Wash Recaro's
- Touch up paint for the bay
Less then three weeks, lets go!
The next day i got a bit more done, bought some Plastic primer, Matt black paint and went Tescos for some Woolite Fabric Cleaner
Unfortunetly Tesco didnt have the Woolite Fabric Cleaner so i had to made do with Autoglym Interior Shampoo!
Heres how i started,
Firstly Removed the Rails -
Area for them to be washed! -
Got the hoover, pressure washer, interior shampoo and a spray bottle filled with hot water so i can spray it to lubricate the seats again as whilst im cleaning on an area, the others were getting dry.
How dirty they were, i focused mainly on the drivers side as the passenger side was always removed when working on the dash, so it was already clean! -
Gave them a squirt with the pressure washer, and dirt was just flowing off! Dirty Water -
All clean Just got to wait for them to dry, will be putting them on the Halogen heater.
I used a microfiber to wipe the seats and squeezed the water into this bucket, Dirty water! -
Will update again hopefully tomorrow if im not buzy, with them fitted to the car. Going to paint the rear plastics aswell and re-fit my rear seats!
- Genuine Arc Winglets baby! + OEM decal!
Finished late, went for a spirited drive and there is NO LEAK!!!
Finally can get **** going for mimms..
Plans are
- Paint Lip + Fit Arc's
- Refurb wheels
- Re-fit interior
- Wash Recaro's
- Touch up paint for the bay
Less then three weeks, lets go!
The next day i got a bit more done, bought some Plastic primer, Matt black paint and went Tescos for some Woolite Fabric Cleaner
Unfortunetly Tesco didnt have the Woolite Fabric Cleaner so i had to made do with Autoglym Interior Shampoo!
Heres how i started,
Firstly Removed the Rails -
Area for them to be washed! -
Got the hoover, pressure washer, interior shampoo and a spray bottle filled with hot water so i can spray it to lubricate the seats again as whilst im cleaning on an area, the others were getting dry.
How dirty they were, i focused mainly on the drivers side as the passenger side was always removed when working on the dash, so it was already clean! -
Gave them a squirt with the pressure washer, and dirt was just flowing off! Dirty Water -
All clean
Just got to wait for them to dry, will be putting them on the Halogen heater.
I used a microfiber to wipe the seats and squeezed the water into this bucket, Dirty water! -
Will update again hopefully tomorrow if im not buzy, with them fitted to the car. Going to paint the rear plastics aswell and re-fit my rear seats!
Heres an update on the seats. Most of the water was dry after i left them outside, so brought them inside and stuck the halogen heater on them. Gave the seats a turn every 30mins, facing them a differernt way so each area could get dry. Could see the water steaming off!
Before i fitted everything back in the car, gave it a proper clean with the water squirter from yesterday, and stuck the carpets, seats and plastics back in.
Couldnt have asked for a better result!
I also painted my rear plastics today, but bastard neighbour was cutting down tree's and pieces of wood were being flaked everywhere! I had no where else to paint them so will continue them next week Theyve been primered in Plastic primer and two coats of Matt Black, will give them the third coat next week
Going to get a couple bodyshop quotes on the lip and wheels this week =D
Before i fitted everything back in the car, gave it a proper clean with the water squirter from yesterday, and stuck the carpets, seats and plastics back in.
Couldnt have asked for a better result!
I also painted my rear plastics today, but bastard neighbour was cutting down tree's and pieces of wood were being flaked everywhere! I had no where else to paint them so will continue them next week
Theyve been primered in Plastic primer and two coats of Matt Black, will give them the third coat next week
Going to get a couple bodyshop quotes on the lip and wheels this week =D
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jheez i want those seats, wanna swap for anniversary editions?
jheez i want those seats, wanna swap for anniversary editions?
I love mine atm, uber clean. I do also love the anniversary ones, but mine are faultless so dont see any reason to change
Ill put em up for sale when i can afford some bride!
Thanks matt.
Heres the updates to what happend before the recent south mimms meet.
Well as you know i put my rear seats back in and sprayed my rear plastics -
I wouldnt recommend doing this as the paint chips off so easy, and the heat from the rear bulbs has melted away alot of the paint. Even tho i used scotch pads, plastic primer it didnt stick as good as i thought it would. Going to get some ek4 ones when i can.
Pond clearance
Pre Mimms collection of stickers and little mods to go on -
Ive always wanted to paint the wheels white. Always had in my mind a Grey Ek on white RPF1's and a white bay. I thought about getting the wheels refurbished. Then began the long search of finding a company who could do it less then a week before mimms. I needed the wheels done asap, and i couldnt find a big enough company who actually took the tyres off and refurbed the whole wheel - instead of those mobile companies who just do the outside - I went with BJV Engineering.Took them a week to do.
After an interesting journey through country roads in my own car (scrape scrape scrape) - dropped the wheels off
Got the lip painted and damage fixed -
BJV Dont paint plastic centre caps, so i had to paint my honda centre caps myself. Got some in a rattle can alongside some touch up paint for my bay -
Wheels were going champ white -
Got the scotch pad on the caps, and gave them 3 coats of high build primer and 3 coats of champ white -
Got the centre caps all dry and fitted the honda stickers -
Also painted my shifter in matt black as it was getting rusty flakes of dust for some reason -
All done, really happy with the result -
Ordered some enkei stickers..then i realized one are too big and the other are too small! So i need the size in the middle which ill order soon. IIRC the closest match i could work out was somthing like 52mm long and 12mm height -
Picked up the wheels. A friend said to make sure i was happy with the wheels as he had gone back three times due to over runs ect. I wasnt really happy but it wasnt a bad job. I Mean you would have to be REALLY picky to have them do it again. Plus with mimms so close i took them and paid the company. Id give the wheels 7.5/10 -
Got my centre caps fitted -
Spent like 2 hours polishing and waxing my wheels. Didnt have any other wheels sealant so just used AG SRP and AG HD Wax -
Stickers fitted (opted to use the small ones for now) -
Then decided to fit my arc winglets after i fitted the new decal. I need some smaller stickers as the ones i got are too big. Theyre from sumopower -
After my 6 hour wash, polish, wax, fit wheels, lip ect - the lip cracked in the same spot again. Really put a downer on the whole day as everything else was so mint!
Going to go back and have the painter plastic weld it, or use rivets or somthing to stop it breaking. This is the third time its going to be fixed there. Its an OEM Mugen lip, so is made out of abs therefore a tight fit so with a little bit of pressure it broke. Even tho i had three people helping me fit it lol -
All done! I also changed the amber bulbs from the chrome to normal amber bulbs as theyre a bit more brighter imo -
Was really happy bar from the lip breaking as i managed to fix the coolant leak aswell.
Met Tuan and Thoung at 9.30am before mimms and decided to wash the cars (2nd time for me in 2days lol), got his car lowered and washed aswell. Then met up with Hitmo and Typewriter for the convoy to mimms
Well as you know i put my rear seats back in and sprayed my rear plastics -
I wouldnt recommend doing this as the paint chips off so easy, and the heat from the rear bulbs has melted away alot of the paint. Even tho i used scotch pads, plastic primer it didnt stick as good as i thought it would. Going to get some ek4 ones when i can.
Pond clearance
Pre Mimms collection of stickers and little mods to go on -
Ive always wanted to paint the wheels white. Always had in my mind a Grey Ek on white RPF1's and a white bay. I thought about getting the wheels refurbished. Then began the long search of finding a company who could do it less then a week before mimms. I needed the wheels done asap, and i couldnt find a big enough company who actually took the tyres off and refurbed the whole wheel - instead of those mobile companies who just do the outside - I went with BJV Engineering.Took them a week to do.
After an interesting journey through country roads in my own car (scrape scrape scrape) - dropped the wheels off
Got the lip painted and damage fixed -
BJV Dont paint plastic centre caps, so i had to paint my honda centre caps myself. Got some in a rattle can alongside some touch up paint for my bay -
Wheels were going champ white -
Got the scotch pad on the caps, and gave them 3 coats of high build primer and 3 coats of champ white -
Got the centre caps all dry and fitted the honda stickers -
Also painted my shifter in matt black as it was getting rusty flakes of dust for some reason -
All done, really happy with the result -
Ordered some enkei stickers..then i realized one are too big and the other are too small! So i need the size in the middle which ill order soon. IIRC the closest match i could work out was somthing like 52mm long and 12mm height -
Picked up the wheels. A friend said to make sure i was happy with the wheels as he had gone back three times due to over runs ect. I wasnt really happy but it wasnt a bad job. I Mean you would have to be REALLY picky to have them do it again. Plus with mimms so close i took them and paid the company. Id give the wheels 7.5/10 -
Got my centre caps fitted -
Spent like 2 hours polishing and waxing my wheels. Didnt have any other wheels sealant so just used AG SRP and AG HD Wax -
Stickers fitted (opted to use the small ones for now) -
Then decided to fit my arc winglets after i fitted the new decal. I need some smaller stickers as the ones i got are too big. Theyre from sumopower -
After my 6 hour wash, polish, wax, fit wheels, lip ect - the lip cracked in the same spot again. Really put a downer on the whole day as everything else was so mint!
Going to go back and have the painter plastic weld it, or use rivets or somthing to stop it breaking. This is the third time its going to be fixed there. Its an OEM Mugen lip, so is made out of abs therefore a tight fit so with a little bit of pressure it broke. Even tho i had three people helping me fit it lol -
All done! I also changed the amber bulbs from the chrome to normal amber bulbs as theyre a bit more brighter imo
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Was really happy bar from the lip breaking as i managed to fix the coolant leak aswell.
Met Tuan and Thoung at 9.30am before mimms and decided to wash the cars (2nd time for me in 2days lol), got his car lowered and washed aswell. Then met up with Hitmo and Typewriter for the convoy to mimms
