Washed

I gave the Civic a wash, it had been neglected for ages over winter so I thought I'd show it some love. Now that is has no registration plates on it looks a little more evil at the front.

-5 Civic

I feel sorry for my Civic being sat alone and cold on the driveway. The weather has been insanely cold for English standards over the last week, some places were tipping -20 Celsius, that is pretty damn cold for Yorkshire. Once the weather clears up around March time I will hopefully commence preparing the Civic for competitive racing.

project-eg6 is still alive

After a few months of no progress and no posts maybe some of you wonder what's happened to my EG6. Well it's still with me, not totally road going at the moment though due to having it declared SORN and no tax. I have some major plans for this car over the next year but first I have to put it on hold whilst I save up for my own place with a garage and driveway before progress can begin.

Here is the current state of the car now.

Hasport EG6

I seriously love time attack Civic EG6's. This one is without doubt wildest one around. The Front Wing is probably OTT but I'm sure it does serve a good purpose similar to Chris Rado's F-Wing. Soon I am hoping to turn my EG6 into some sort of semi-professional racing car over the next year.

This is great inspiration for all those who love the EG6 Civic.

Video

Night Shooting

Just practising some night time photography with my car and showing off my hid kits and led rear number plate lights. Due to the different coloured lights all around it was hard to get a good white balance, and again exposing a Black car is never easy at night.

Exhaust Problem

I heard a little blowing sound coming from the underneath near the centre of my car, which can only really mean one thing. So I got it up on the ramp and had a look over and confirmed a hole had appeared in the silencer on the mid-section of the Fujitsubo system.




Clearly its still a bit low for UK roads and speed bumps as you can see the scrape marks have worn away the thickness of the metal over time. I have the car booked in with Zorstec next Wednesday to make a up a whole new centre section pipe without the silencer this time, should sound pretty good I'm hoping!

Experiments | Nikon 70-300mm Lens

I borrowed a different lens from my work, as stated in the title its a 70-300mm Nikon lens. I've used this before at work but never really had much time to play around, my current lens is the 18-70mm Nikon but you can't get that same soft blur effect when you use the zoom quite extensively on this 300mm lens. Here are a few shots just experimenting with different angles etc.

70mm



300mm

Cleaning

So it was a sunny but windy Sunday afternoon this bank holiday so I decided I'd give the car a little inspection and check the oil and other fluids. In order to do this on a nice level surface on my driveway I would have to remove my front bumper as the Spoon lip would get ripped straight off due to the crazy steep driveway I am lucky to have. I checked all the levels and they were all ok, so no worries there. As you can see now that the bumper is off, I have mounted the second set of HID ballast boxes behind the bumper which are for the fog lights.





One thing I have been meaning to do is clean the exhaust tip, the inside of it mainly as it has loads of carbon build up and looks pretty nasty, so I got the trust wire brush out and a little bit of Autosol and off I went scrubbing away. The results speak for themselves really, great looking exhaust system the Fujitsubo Power Getter.

Photoshoot | R33 GT-R & EG6 SiR

So here's my first attempt with my new Nikon D70 at a photoshoot. I called up my friend with it being a sunny day and me being pretty eager to test out the new toy. He agreed to come along for a nice drive and some photo's at some point along the way. I was completely shocked that even a standard GT-R is extremely fast, no wonder they are called Godzilla! After having a blast on some of the windy roads that England has to offer we had a bite to eat then decided on an industrial location for the shoot, below are the results. I welcome any comments and criticism as this is my first real shoot with the new camera, I think they turned out quite well, perhaps I should have set the ISO to 200 instead of 320 to reduce grain.













I really think the photo's are a vast improvement on the previous calibre, I look forward to hearing your opinions.

Full quality versions can be found here | R33 & EG6 Flickr