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Thanks Phil!

A few photos of the car last race day!

@Glanza-Ben thanks mate! I'm glad you like our build

@maddox710 oh yeah we used to wheel spin and torque steer coming out of every 2nd gear corner. Quite scary especially in this old school track because there is very little runoff.

It's the first time we're driving the car again after not being able to race with it in the previous leg and a rather problematic 1st leg with the car. We're now on a new (and quite experimental) ECU setup using a re-chipped Honda ECU tuned using CROME after it became apparent torwards the last legs of the last year's season, and the previous endurance race that our piggy back E-Manage Ultimate just wouldn't cut it anymore. Because of this new setup and a shortage in 3 map sensors we're running lower boost levels than what we would normally run. (3 out of 3 GM 3-bar map sensors we boug

Exactly. I mean the machining part is easier said than done, but short of fitting an AEM system on my car this is way more cost effective.

@shorty I'll need to ask my tuner for the more technical details but the broad strokes of the whole conversion are as follows 1st you need to adapt a civic distributor and mate it to the 4e head assembly. This is so that the honda ECU can get a signal it can understand. This is sort of the heavy lifting part because you need to machine and weld a bracket and machine the actual distributor to make it work with the 4EFTE head. After that you need to rewire the engine harness to match the rechipped obd1 honda ecu you've chosen. There are a lot of honda ecus that can be rechipped. I think we a

Car is now done! Leaving for this weekend's race

Few pics of the car working out the few remaining bugs and some fine tuning. Civic distributor/spark plug leads on the 4e This allows us to run the chipped Honda ECU. Also no more batch firing! Sequential injection FTW!

@kbond yes same as the ones they use in SOHC turbo Civic builds. I think the engine code is G16B – found both in the Vitara and Esteem. Do keep in mind that since this is 75mm you will have to bore out your block. the compression ratio is very low. you can see from my photos in the previous pages a compression test is around 130psi per cylinder on average. But this allows us to run loads of boost - and that's where we've compensated. Nope it doesn't fit straight into the 4E rods. Just like what they need to do in the SOHC turbo builds you will need to have your rods re-pinned by a machine

kbond what did you want to know exactly?

Thanks!

Ladies and gents our race car running on a Crome chipped HONDA ECU It's ALIVE!

New rear quarter window just arrived from Japan!

Hahaha! True @wickedep During that last half of that last race leg – because our boost controller was malfunctioning it suddenly decided it wanted to over boost. We accidentally confirmed that the vitara pistons could handle up to 1.5bar consistently LOL!

@wickedep Thanks! Means a lot coming from you guys!

@pick1 I really hope so don't really like racing with hondas

@morgey Thanks! because of the extensive rewiring we had to skip using the Starlet for the race this weekend. In the meantime I'll be driving my EK9 just to get some points in the time attack competition. I'll write a more detailed post about the ECU conversion once its complete – hopefully within the next 2 weeks.

Sorry for the lack of updates. It's been quite busy lately and I haven't found the time to organize my thoughts concerning recent developments with our race car. Anyway, the race series we participate in has started this year's season last March 1st. My brother because of a personal emergency wasn't able to race, so I went alone. Now if you recall this is the first race the car has been in since that 6 hour endurance race we joined towards the end of 2013. And if anyone who has joined any endurance race knows – doesn't matter if your car survives the race; things will eventually break, whi

Trying out new lighter shoes. Swapped out the 17" GTR Gunmetal Work CR-KAIs for 17" Bronze Kosei Direzzas

Dashboard test fit

LOL not sure I follow what you meant @maddox710

Steering column is now in place!

Ladies and Gents, the fabbed LHD firewall. We tried to preserve all the proper OEM holes... unlike with old firewall that had the shitty conversion job where they just created new holes to save time. Out with the old firewall Fire in a hole! Fitting the new LHD firewall Let's weld it up! Like it came from the factory! A few more welds... Firewall conversion done! Brake and clutch masters test mounted Perfect pedal positions

@fremjay very clever fiber work to cut and piece it together in the right orientation... For cars that have LHD versions that are available locally we just buy the local version of the dashboard (like in my EK9) Unfortunately the Glanza/Reflet has never been released at all locally so we have to modify the dashboard for now. Meanwhile I've already sourced out an LHD dashboard from an NA EP91 but it will take months to arrive.