Headlight Swap

After a little bit of thought I decided I never really liked the Denji Projector headlights to be honest. I set out to find a set of oem Civic headlights, bought some from a member off the CivicLife.net forum only to find them with broken brackets and totally filthy, but nonetheless I cleaned them up and gave them to my friend. He would then take them apart, clean them thoroughly and paint the top and bottom sections of the lights in a HT black paint to give them a more evil look.

Here are the results, the only thing I need to do now is paint the indicators in the same style.






Overall I'm pretty pleased with the result, I totally prefer the oem style headlights, next on the cards is a 50W HID kit for them as the standard bulbs are very poor after downgrading from HID's.

New size number plate

Decided I didn't like the size and shape of the import number plate I had on, I printed one off at work which is a standard Euro size plate and it looks much better, plus it gives better clearance for the radiator too which I prefer.




I also fitted a fire extinguisher too, not really sure why, I think it looks more like a race car having an extinguisher in the boot.

Clean Again

Its been ages since I actually gave my EG6 a bit of TLC. I thought I'd give it a bath and a quick detail polish so it could be proud of the paintwork once again. I wish I had the whole day to spend cleaning it because I know I could but the English weather does not permit a full day of cleaning without it raining halfway through or just after you've finished polishing. I managed to tidy up the engine and engine bay too, the VTEC solenoid has started to leak slightly so I got rid of the seepage and it looks much better now. We also gave Michelle's EJ9 a wash and a polish too so I got a couple of shots of them together for the first time. Be sure to check the progress of the EJ9 at http://project-ej9.blogspot.com/

Apologies for the utter rubbish photographs, my camera's digital view finder has cracked and I am basically pointing and hoping it captures what I wanted. Nikon D90 ftw eventually!

Service No. 2

Its about that time again for the service on the EG6, I've done quite a few miles with it since I got her so now its time to refresh pretty much everything to repay it for its reliability.



Service Parts;

Comma 10w40 Semi-synthetic oil
Mintex 1144 Extreme Front Brake Pads
Bluprint Oil filter
Bluprint Fuel Filter
NGK Iridium Spark Plugs

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