Socks

Im going to make it this year yes :)

Great shots these dude!

Ok!

So I finally have a racing seat in the car and have removed the Recaro SR3. Best thing ive ever done too!

Took a trip to Motordrive seats, they are amazing and did a fantastic job making me a tailor made seat!

Then took the car to see Sam @ ARC Autosport and got him to weld in some mounting tubes and get it in the car.

Still using it with the stock seatbelt at the moment. However, even with that it really does hold you in place!

I also fitted a Quick Release Steering Wheel Boss & DS3000 Front Pads.

So with Blyton Looming!

A good wash.

Then off to Blyton with some mates again we went!

The extra tyre size, the brake pads, the seat. All came together and transformed the car! The thing is on chuffing rails! You can litterly throw it around and it just grips, doesn't want to wobble or oversteer or try and kill you, its very controllable at the limit. So impressed with it!

Cant wait for the next one :D

Much prefer those wheels!

Looks mega dude! Nothing wrong with getting to a spec your happy with and maintaining it!

Rotten luck about the sill man. If these cars have been over here long enough it can happen to them!
Such a shame youve had nothing but bad luck so far too, these cars are usually pretty good.

Rear brakes look great now! Keep it up!

Alot of dickheads on FB too haha.

Welcome back along!

On 21/05/2018, 08:55:55, Calum122 said:

Gorgeous little car!

 

You using this more than your Glanza then these days?

Cheers lad.

Glanza is parked up (fully working tho lol!) at the moment, needs some bits improving I haven't got time to do yet. It'll get sorted tho, it isn't going anywhere!

20 hours ago, TimD said:

How did you get on with the water temps and coolant being pushed into the overflow?

Mine did that, eventually it got so bad the car got hot and cause problems with the head and block.

Not at Blyton this coming Saturday any chance are you? Friend of mine is out and I'm in the area so was going to pop in and say hi.

The above headgasket/ARP Bolts fixed the issue.
I didn't think it was the gasket, as I sniff tested it, compression tested it and couldn't replicate the fault on the road. Only on track.

But now.... Drive it hard all I want, in 25 deg ambient. Water gauge didn't move from 82c (the thermostat temp). A triple core civic rad seems to be enough cooling capacity for the mean time anyways.

So! Onto Cadwell!

With new bigger tyres on the front, the old ones had done 5 track days

And new brakes, disks were warped big time after the late braking at Blyton last time, so new disks and inspect the pads....

Another day in them yet :p...... (which there was lol!)

So off we went to Cadwell, this with a good handful of mates. Think there was 4 EP3s, Dc2 & Mk5 Zetec S Fez too.

My good friend Joe, (Red EP3 with black lip) again had some good fun on track with him as you'll see in the video....

Didnt go so well for the Fez tho!

He lost it through hall bends :s

Anyhoo, was a mega day! Car performed Amazing all day. Only used low boost again all day, it really was enough! Grip was so much better, altho a little scrubbage, I will get away with a slight arch roll! (on the front)

New Brake Pads and a few other little mods for the next one!

Enjoy the video. We were getting times down into the high 1:40s which is pretty respectable!

GoPro went flat towards the end of the day so most of this is late morning where we were still getting a feel for the track/grip levels again.

https://youtu.be/Jp0HVoMK_bM

So! Id been having an issue with the coolant slowly moving into the overflow bottle over time (2-3 track sessions) but then not moving back.

Having replaced the thermostat, rad cap, radiator. etc trying to sort it throughout the year. I decided to bite the bullet and do the head-gasket just to rule it out.

Also would give me an opportunity to see inside the engine to see what the score is!

So! Off came the head!

It looks great inside, obv carbon built up which backs up the mileage.....
But the bores and head looked great! So gave her a scrub up!

Thats better

Then re-assembled with a new Toyota Gasket and these:

All torqued down tight, and Cadwell Park around the corner. Time to see how we do on those Water Temps!

On 10/04/2018, 09:32:27, Calum122 said:

Fantastic stuff!

 

Car looks great.

Cheers Dude!

On 11/04/2018, 06:29:19, SKINY said:

Lovely colour in them, 2 questions, how big is your fmic core ? Where did you get the wee plugs for the rear that where leaking ?

Cheers

Cheers man. Its just the usual Blitz size. Not overly big. etc

Toyota.

On 16/04/2018, 12:26:02, adzy said:

Nice build socks.

how do you find the civic rad for coolant temps? I struggled with mine on track, but like you was also seeing over 120 degrees oil.

currently fitting an oil cooler so I'm hoping with 30 degrees or more pulled out of the oil should help the coolant. Also think my coolant was probably slightly too concentrated which would have led to poorer cooling.

Cheers dude.

Coolant temps are fine now. On a hot ambient day on track cant get it over the thermostat temp (82c).
Oil Cooler wise, I can still get oil up to too hot, but its after much longer sessions, so maybe a bigger core at some point, but its not a concern right now!

On 16/04/2018, 13:15:11, wakeabby14 said:

Dont suppose you would swap your top mount kit for a ram horn kit from wepr ;) Wish i went top mount now gutted haha! £250 was a bargain for that kit.  Great GT! 

The kits ok. Collector is a bit poor flow wise. Fitted perfectly tho, no complaints for what I paid for it!

This is mega, shit luck with the plug, I feel your pain, had it myself.

Im still game.

Looks Great!

Awesome shots Gee. Interested to see how it holds up to decent power also!

So!
I did several track days with the above setup last year.
Improving the car each time, in small ways.

Adding:
Cusco BMCS
Triple Core Civic Radiator (This one was important as temps on track are hard to manage)
Oil Breather System that can cope with added boost
Paddle Clutch again to cope with more boost#

My own civic rad brackets:

All fitted up.

Then started putting breather system together which was a complete DIY job that turned out great!

Then I ended up getting this kit for £250! lol. Couldn't turn that down that's for sure.

Sent the turbo off to good ole Liam to get rebuilt, with a Billet Wheel. Liam does a great job as always.

Get it all fitted up:

Got an AVCR off a local for sale page on fb for £100!

Got it all finished:

Then it was mapping time.

Made good power too!

lol whoops. Sorry engine

Anyways, onto Blyton for a shakedown!

Car performed so well all day. The tyres on the front were fucked, this was there 5th track day. So i turned it down to 0.9bar, even then was spinning at this corner exit.

So much fun tho!

The amount of people that came over and asked first of all wtf was under the hood but then said its hilarious to watch on track.
Mixture of the tripod thing and the noise it makes. It puts on a show haha!

It was a great day, nice to see GlanzaMac too who popped in to say high! Slowly over the afternoon it got more and more moist until it eventually caught me out on the brakes and it span lol. I nearly held it but it was going round!

Then a video of the highlights with some good battles!

All good fun! Cadwell again next in May!

So. As it is now. Its running and no faults.

Just needs finishing off in places and boost turning up!

Watch this space...

On 06/09/2017, 00:04:47, MarcChurch said:

Matt, how do you manage to run -2° of camber?

I've got the same setup as you..Shocks and springs with the whiteline camber bolts and I thought they could only adjust to -1.5° camber?

 

Marc.

Whiteline Camber Bolts dude. Swap them out to the other hole of the 2 in the strut/hub ;)

Yeh its one of Busseys mates I think...

Looks mega this Tim!

PM On Route

+1 for Miesters for road use.

On full soft they are acceptable!

2 minutes ago, 5e colin said:

GREAT JOB  guys we neeeded a new view 

 

please also fix the 2mb/gb limit for the pics  when putting them  strait from laptop to club 

cheeeers 5e colin

 

I believe that is sorted. Try it and see Colin :)?

Just now, crispyeel said:

Not showing active users at the bottom of the main forum page either chaps?

Its at the top now under Stats.

We may mod it back to the bottom. We are concentrating on core functionality at the mo :)

Well, me and TrisK spent 6 hours ironing out bugs and faults.

We are running on a much newer version of IPB now.

There are still faults and bugs that we need to iron out, however by all means report them to us in this Thread!

So Far we are aware of:

• Attachment Images not displaying correctly on existing posts FIXED
• No UKSO Logo at the top FIXED
• Old Quotes don't format correctly FIXED
• Club Members cant reply to topics in announcements FIXED
• Image attachment size FIXED
• Emoticon display issue  FIXED
• Wiki Missing FIXED
• Mobile View Issue with Recent Topics FIXED
• Traders Banners not displaying correctly FIXED
• Cant pay via PayPal from the store
• F/s template not on new f/s adds

We are working hard to iron out these bugs, bare with us!

Kind Regards
UKSO Team

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