HID Xenon Kit

After having a HID kit on my previous car it was about time I upgrade the frankly poor bulbs that came with the EG6 and also only having one bulb that worked too was a major factor in upgrading. I bought the kit from HID's Direct in Manchester online and the kit arrived the next day which was pleasing, the kit is H3 fitment and 8000k colour temperature.

Also having projector headlights already I know that the HID's would look awesome shining through the glass orb's at night and give the car a really modern feel and look whilst improving the vision at night. I enlisted the help of my girlfriend and we cracked on for about 3 hours planning it out and completely removing the headlight units to make life easier and making sure it was all fitted 100%. To be honest it wasn't that hard to fit them into the headlight units and finding a place for the ballast boxes wasn't a problem either, mounting them on the front cross member and running the cables around the lights worked perfectly. Once we had finished we tested them out and they worked first time without a hitch which was satisfying, all we had to do now was wait until it got dark.






High quality images

Gran Turismo 4 Photo Travel

After playing Gran Turismo 4 for many years and now owning an EG6 SiR it becomes a pretty useful tool for experimenting with suspension set-ups and wheel choices. After messing around for hours just deciding on the right wheels and the right suspension height and camber angle's I took it out for a photo shoot in the Photo Travel mode. Here are the shots I thought were worthy.

Wheels | BBS LM 16"
Suspension |
Ride Height 100mm all round
Front Camber -3.2
Rear Camber -1.4

Engine Bay

Here are some updated images of my engine bay as it currently sits. Not done a great deal to it so far, just keeping it clean and maintaining.

Temptation.....

I was round at one of the local tyre fitting places we use at work and I just noticed they'd built up a set of replica BBS LM wheels. LM's are one of the most undisputed classic style wheels ever which is why I'm tempted to put a set of these on my Civic. I'm just waiting to see if they make them in 16x7" 4x100 fitment before I go ahead. I feel the 15x6.5" with 55 profile tyres cause a fair bit of understeer which I don't really enjoy much and running some 45 profile tyres would hopefully resolve this.

Huddersfield Meet - February 2009

Hey guys, it's been some time since I last made a post on here. Little has changed in the way of modifications but I've been out to a few meets recently to get some inspiration for my project. This time it was a small gathering of a few local owners of Toyota's and Honda's, the weather was cold but there was a fairly good turn out and some nice examples on show despite the freezing temperature's. Take a look at the pic's and see what you reckon, I'm still quite fond of the Toyota Starlet as its a great beginners tuning base car, the white EP82 is a great example.









Keep checking for some more posts as I have some more plans for the EG6.

EG6 | Photoshoot 2

Stage 1.1 | Fine Tuning

Well, it's been a while now since I've posted on here. Christmas and New Year combined with winter mean very slow progress and very low funds for the project. I have however managed to get a few more things done that are worthy of posting up.

I recently bought a SRS de-cat pipe after trying with another bigger de-cat pipe that didn't fit I was hoping that this one would be the correct size. I came to realise that the smaller sensor in the original catalytic converter was only a small 14x1.25 thread size and I would have to mill out a bung and tap a thread into this to incorporate the original sensor rather than just leaving it hanging out. I got this done with the aid of my Uncle and Step Dad.

Once the pipe was installed it was straight out for a test drive. To my pleasure the noise of the car had gone from very good to amazing, once the revs went into the VTEC mode it came alive with the sound of a finely tuned race car. Performance has felt a slight bit better also, but I'm currently looking out for a Field SFC-VTEC computer so I can fine tune the fuel and VTEC timing on the car to make the most of the modifications I have installed so far. Once this is done I shall be off to for a dyno run and tweaking session at my local tuning shop so we can see the results of all my tuning so far. I also got round to getting the car under sealed too with it being winter and lots of salt being on the roads it was a definite must. The car still looks like brand new underneath as you'll see from some of the images.

SRS De-cat pipe




Stay tuned for video's and high quality photographs coming next weekend with my friend stimu1us.