Honda appreciation thread
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Great idea to get a bit more activity going in the Honda section. I'm a huge fan - of the 8 cars I've ever had, 4 have been Hondas!
My two below. (I must get some better photos of them soon!)
2014 Civic Tourer 1.6 i-DTEC SR. Absolutely love loading it up and going on a long journey with the bikes
2005 S2000 GT. This was day I picked it up just before backing it into my modest little garage (first house, best I could do!).
More info about both in my garage
P.S you may notice the tourer riding low at the rear. It was nowhere near it's 570ish kg load limit. If anyone knows how to prevent this I'd be all ears. New springs? It's only just ticked over 70000 miles.
My two below. (I must get some better photos of them soon!)
2014 Civic Tourer 1.6 i-DTEC SR. Absolutely love loading it up and going on a long journey with the bikes
2005 S2000 GT. This was day I picked it up just before backing it into my modest little garage (first house, best I could do!).
More info about both in my garage
P.S you may notice the tourer riding low at the rear. It was nowhere near it's 570ish kg load limit. If anyone knows how to prevent this I'd be all ears. New springs? It's only just ticked over 70000 miles.
Edited by mstrbkr on Wednesday 1st July 21:12
mstrbkr said:
Great idea to get a bit more activity going in the Honda section. I'm a huge fan - of the 8 cars I've ever had, 4 have been Hondas!
My two below. (I must get some better photos of them soon!)
2014 Civic Tourer 1.6 i-DTEC SR. Absolutely love loading it up and going on a long journey with the bikes
2005 S2000 GT. This was day I picked it up just before backing it into my modest little garage (first house, best I could do!).
More info about both in my garage
P.S you may notice the tourer riding low at the rear. It was nowhere near it's 570ish kg load limit. If anyone knows how to prevent this I'd be all ears. New springs? It's only just ticked over 70000 miles.
Good man! I'm on 6 and counting including 1 EP3 Type R and 2 ATRs. Always wanted an S2000 but can't fit in them! My two below. (I must get some better photos of them soon!)
2014 Civic Tourer 1.6 i-DTEC SR. Absolutely love loading it up and going on a long journey with the bikes
2005 S2000 GT. This was day I picked it up just before backing it into my modest little garage (first house, best I could do!).
More info about both in my garage
P.S you may notice the tourer riding low at the rear. It was nowhere near it's 570ish kg load limit. If anyone knows how to prevent this I'd be all ears. New springs? It's only just ticked over 70000 miles.
Edited by mstrbkr on Wednesday 1st July 21:12
Low-rider could be because of the torsion beam set up? My Accord Tourer is still on the original springs at 225k....although you can feel it!
Great thread!
My first Honda was a 97 JDM DC2, with a load of extra goodies:
ARC air intake, Mugen manifold, Stainless steel full cat-back system, 5Zigen back box, 282mm AP disks on front, 98spec calipers, Bride drivers seat rail (lowered), Oil temp & pressure A-pillar guages, 15" Volks TE37's.
Sold for £3,800 (gulp) back in 2012
The following year I purchased a 1999 Accord Type R - still my fave Honda
Pirates Black- pretty much standard apart from the K&N Typhoon and mongoose cat-back exhaust system. Oh and mine had the arm-rest too!
I sold that for £1,600 (gulp) back in 2015
I sold the ATR as I badly needed an estate car by that point- so I did the sensible thing and brought a 2004 Accord Tourer 2.4 petrol Exec with 6-speed manual.
Fully loaded with all the toys, for £2,000 at around 97,000 miles.
5 years later and I've still got the tourer- now on 151,000 miles. It's been brilliant- can carry every everything, goes well, and is great for our monthly visits down to family in Cornwall.
It's now our sensible car, alongside our 3.0si Z4 roadster, TVR Chimaera, and TVR Tuscan.
I'll be keeping it until it dies!
My first Honda was a 97 JDM DC2, with a load of extra goodies:
ARC air intake, Mugen manifold, Stainless steel full cat-back system, 5Zigen back box, 282mm AP disks on front, 98spec calipers, Bride drivers seat rail (lowered), Oil temp & pressure A-pillar guages, 15" Volks TE37's.
Sold for £3,800 (gulp) back in 2012
The following year I purchased a 1999 Accord Type R - still my fave Honda
Pirates Black- pretty much standard apart from the K&N Typhoon and mongoose cat-back exhaust system. Oh and mine had the arm-rest too!
I sold that for £1,600 (gulp) back in 2015
I sold the ATR as I badly needed an estate car by that point- so I did the sensible thing and brought a 2004 Accord Tourer 2.4 petrol Exec with 6-speed manual.
Fully loaded with all the toys, for £2,000 at around 97,000 miles.
5 years later and I've still got the tourer- now on 151,000 miles. It's been brilliant- can carry every everything, goes well, and is great for our monthly visits down to family in Cornwall.
It's now our sensible car, alongside our 3.0si Z4 roadster, TVR Chimaera, and TVR Tuscan.
I'll be keeping it until it dies!
I thought I’d share my 17 or so year history with Hondas in case anyone is interested! Sorry for the crappy pics, photobucket is lame.
It all starts in 2003, looking for a cheap to run car, my grandad (who as my mentor and sidekick in most shenanigans quite often lead me astray!) spotted a 1998 Honda Civic for sale locally, so off we went, and, er, bought it. No haggling, no test drive. Just off we went, I promised not to modify it
Anyway, I modified it, lots, B16 swap, lots of VTI bits, coilovers, CF bonnet and for a short while it had a turbo (went bang twice) then eventually died after hitting a Mondeo.
Luckily a friend and I had bought another EK (that the aforementioned turbo kit came from) which we had stripped to a shell, so all the bits from the crashed car went to that one and off we went again with more mods and lots of cool JDM y0! Bits.
I Sold that and had a brief flirtation with a 200SX which nearly bankrupted me and got sold when I moved in with my Mrs.... but I wanted another Honda, so I bought this lovely Tahiti green EJ9...
Which was completely shagged but very cheap. I sold this on shortly afterwards and bought what I would now kill to own again. A white EJ6 coupe. Loved this car.
It all starts in 2003, looking for a cheap to run car, my grandad (who as my mentor and sidekick in most shenanigans quite often lead me astray!) spotted a 1998 Honda Civic for sale locally, so off we went, and, er, bought it. No haggling, no test drive. Just off we went, I promised not to modify it
Anyway, I modified it, lots, B16 swap, lots of VTI bits, coilovers, CF bonnet and for a short while it had a turbo (went bang twice) then eventually died after hitting a Mondeo.
Luckily a friend and I had bought another EK (that the aforementioned turbo kit came from) which we had stripped to a shell, so all the bits from the crashed car went to that one and off we went again with more mods and lots of cool JDM y0! Bits.
I Sold that and had a brief flirtation with a 200SX which nearly bankrupted me and got sold when I moved in with my Mrs.... but I wanted another Honda, so I bought this lovely Tahiti green EJ9...
Which was completely shagged but very cheap. I sold this on shortly afterwards and bought what I would now kill to own again. A white EJ6 coupe. Loved this car.
I was on holiday when someone I knew from a friend of a friend offered me a Prelude, id never had one, never wanted one, but I bought it anyway. It was a Motegi 5th gen with a f
ked gearbox, great car, 2 gearboxes later and lots of mods I decided it was too expensive and sold it on..
I drove some boring cars for a bit and got bored. I then spotted a Del Sol in a local paper and on a whim I bought it for (I think) £300. Then a mate crashed his MB6, and knowing how easy the swap into a Del Sol is, I bought that.
I also resprayed the Del Sol and spent lots more on mods.
Then sold it again when I moved house with a promise not to buy any more hondas (I had a company car by now)
Which lasted a short while, then I bought another Del Sol, which I rattle canned satin black... then sold again.
ked gearbox, great car, 2 gearboxes later and lots of mods I decided it was too expensive and sold it on..I drove some boring cars for a bit and got bored. I then spotted a Del Sol in a local paper and on a whim I bought it for (I think) £300. Then a mate crashed his MB6, and knowing how easy the swap into a Del Sol is, I bought that.
I also resprayed the Del Sol and spent lots more on mods.
Then sold it again when I moved house with a promise not to buy any more hondas (I had a company car by now)
Which lasted a short while, then I bought another Del Sol, which I rattle canned satin black... then sold again.
I went a while but I’d always wanted an EP3 and I bought a lovely, completely standard, 1 owner car...
And spent 6 years changing everything on it.
360bhp, Rotrex supercharged, LSD, Brembos, bilsteins, loads of interior changes etc etc.
I also bought a Jazz last year, but that went again as it was rusty underneath.
I’ve also bought and sold a few EP3 over the last few years, and broken a couple of EG/EK so I’ve had more than my fair share. I also once owned an ATR for 5 minutes, but got my money back as it started misfiring at the end of the chaps road!
Hope you enjoyed!
And spent 6 years changing everything on it.
360bhp, Rotrex supercharged, LSD, Brembos, bilsteins, loads of interior changes etc etc.
I also bought a Jazz last year, but that went again as it was rusty underneath.
I’ve also bought and sold a few EP3 over the last few years, and broken a couple of EG/EK so I’ve had more than my fair share. I also once owned an ATR for 5 minutes, but got my money back as it started misfiring at the end of the chaps road!
Hope you enjoyed!
Thought I should oblige as we haven't had a CRZ yet. Bought in January to replace my Peugeot RCZ.
It could really do with another 20-30hp which the face-lift fixed to a degree. An interesting place to sit and relatively fun car to drive though. Its very good in heavy traffic and you can seemingly coast in gear forever.
You can get it to move around a little when driving hard.
It could really do with another 20-30hp which the face-lift fixed to a degree. An interesting place to sit and relatively fun car to drive though. Its very good in heavy traffic and you can seemingly coast in gear forever.
You can get it to move around a little when driving hard.
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