2002 Supercharged EP3 Civic Type R

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Popped by to have a quick look, battery is now in the boot.

Looks like we are going for a single pass intercooler, 2 inch piping. Maybe the end of next week?!

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Not sure if this will work, here's an attempt at a 0-60 run. I would say just under 6 seconds? (I need a VBOX really) and the standard car does about 6.4 according to wiki.

https://vimeo.com/176634206?ref=em-share

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Well there's an intercooler now in place...



Mockup of where the oil cooler will sit, behind the upper grill. You can see some of the pipe on the bottom left where the metal of the car has been 'fettled' to get it through.




More to come!

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I've had a short shifter on the car for a few months but it's just the bolt on type that does 'ok' but I spotted this on eBay and couldn't resist.

It's a Buddyclub short shifter, supposedly to be a very nice bit of kit to use!

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Cheers chaps.

Just need to decide if I bite the bullet and spunk £550 on a Solid Fabrications 3" exhaust now!

Hoping the car will be back this week from having the cooler fitted, I've missed it!

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Getting closer! Silicone elbows are here and test fitted, all pipework now in place. Just final checks and it'll be ready to go!!

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I actually really like it

There's something about an intercooler on a car that isn't supposed to have one that is pretty cool IMO.

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jezhumphrey75 said:

sorry aka, but why doesn't this guy just get a proper car like a golf r and be done with it?.

Says you

As per your last comment, I haven't seen this junk in a long time either!!

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richtea78 said:

jezhumphrey75 said:

sorry aka, but why doesn't this guy just get a proper car like a golf r and be done with it?.

Why don't you keep quiet when you've nothing nice to say?

Everyone's different and don't all like the same thing.

Don't worry chap, I work with him and he's just being a muppet because he's a little jealous girly girl

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Fingers crossed I may have the car back this Friday!!

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It's so close I can taste it

Final fit tomorrow, dyno run tomorrow.

All on and a bit of satin black around it to blend in.



Battery secured in the boot in box with breakers at each end.





It's like Christmas!!

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Martin_Hx said:

Don't blow it up!

You had to bloody say it didn't you!!

Hopefully not. Hence the intercooler, I'm pretty sure it would have died without it.

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More progress today. It's been decided I will need a dumpvalve as the vacumn on the intercooler is compressing the silicone hoses (if you know what I mean) so a Forge 008 Recirculating valve is going on.



Hard pipe for the throttlebody to inlet almost done.



Lower pipe for air filter - charger almost done.



Obviously I'll need to replace with some yellow hoses eventually.

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Almost there now, just some wiring to extend and then it's final fit and see how it feels!

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Hi mate.

No LSD at the moment, I'll get one soon when I have a new clutch also.

I did very well getting all of the parts seperately. It's been tough getting it all to work cohesively and I need to get the map tweaked when the cooler is finished too.

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We tried it to run after the throttle body, but as soon as the throttle closed there was a vacumn and all of the silicone hoses sucked themselves in.

Doing it this way seemed the right and logical way to do it.

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That's very awesome.

I don't think I'll get to that kind of power. I'll be happy with 300 TBH!

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Finally got the car back! Very happy with the intercooler and all the fabrication. Forge 008 Atmospheric dump valve gives it a bit more drama.

Booked back in for mapping on the 30th, plan is to check everything and then remove the restrictor (part of the TTS kit) that is currently by the air filter. This limits peak boost to 6psi, without it the charger will run 10psi on the same pulley (we have run the car with 10psi on one dyno run and peak power was up by 20bhp but the fuelling was too lean)

Also ordered a decat, decided I will stick with the standard exhaust but remove the cat to see if it helps with a bit more power but not too much noise!!

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I'm undecided on the cooler. I suppose I could paint one side and see how I feel.

I do quite like the bling though

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Had the decat fitted on Monday, also had a new rocker cover gasket yesterday.

It's all ready to go in for mapping tomorrow!! Excited.





Inlet temps are looking very healthy now, fingers crossed for some decent power tomorrow!!