Dirty EG6

Again, nothing much to update on but I have a few things in the pipeline which will be happening pretty soon. The Lenso BSX wheels should be arriving next week some point then all I need to do is order the Yokohama tires to go with them and I'll have a new set of shoes for the EG6.

Next is to generally tidy up the outside of the car, the small scratches, chips and poor surfaces will be all rectified at the body shop their the car will also receive a full machine polish to bring back out the unique paintwork. Lastly is a few minor and small things to update such as smaller front and rear number plates in 12" by 6" which will look a whole lot better than the huge one's I currently have fitted, another minor thing will be replacing the missing front inner arch lining and the broken interior wing mirror cover to tidy up the inside.

Here's how she looks at the moment, the reason she is looking so dirty and neglected is because I said that I wouldn't bother cleaning the car until I install my new wheels so obviously its been a while since I cleaned it!

BMC CDA Intake

So I finally got round to ordering the correct size hose for the air intake side of the BMC filter instead of using the rather poor plastic reducer pipe they supply you with. The problem before was that it would pop off under WOT which is obviously no good so I replaced it with an 80-70mm reducer which was a tight fit but with a bit of elbow grease and boiling hot water I convinced it to fit.

Before


After

Random . . .

I went for a some dinner with my girlfriend only to find this pretty comical note left under my wiper. Even though the English is poor its still a compliment in my eyes.



Also I captured a pretty nice shot of the EG6 whilst up in the Lakes at Ullswater on some crazy touge style B road over looking the lake.

Lenso BSX

Ok so after looking for something similar to the BBS LM wheel I discovered this particular wheel through a source at work, its a Lenso BSX wheel which I think looks almost as good as the BBS LM wheel I love so much. The fitment I will be going for is 16 x 7.5 Inch with 195/45/R16 Yokohama S-Drive tires. I'm hoping I can get some money together soon for the summer time so the car will look stush with those sexy wheels on.

The image is from Oulton Park Time Attack event last weekend and were on a Renault Clio in 15" size.

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