EP3 Civic Type-Roadkill

[Sa Calobra]

They look better than OEMs a rare feat and hard to get right without looking chav. Personally I'd buy OEMs off the bay, keep yours and try both before deciding for definite

[chillbill]

OEM Enkeis do look ace on them. Alternatively you could get some EVO 8 Enkeis which, due to the slightly better ET, fill the arches even better:

[DanielSan]

Managed to find a link to mine last night, Fox Racing MS006 it seems
http://m.wheelbasealloys.com/alloy-wheels/fox-raci...

I think Evo 8 Enkei's are the number one choice but they seem to be getting pricey recently. Think I'd rather spend the money getting the roof painted and the couple of dents sorted. Need to sort a free weekend when I can machine polish the car also and see how much of it comes up nicely, there's a few scratches but I have a feeling they're only in the lacquer so nothing more than polishing, maybe a bit of wet sanding will sort them out.

[lickatysplit]

All I can see from that induction kit is heat soak. How is it getting cold air?

[DanielSan]

lickatysplit said:

All I can see from that induction kit is heat soak. How is it getting cold air?

By the car moving and a cold air feed... I ran the K&N one on my old car with a 4-2-1, decat and exhaust. That made 212bhp with no mapping. And want to know how many times it suffered heatsoak that affected performance? Once, sat in traffic for 20 minutes on a day it was around 28 degrees . That dip in performance lasted for the 5 seconds it took to get moving and get up to speed again. It got boring reading on forums how much heat soak it would suffer from, usually from someone trying to justify why they'd spent 600quid on a GruppeM

It can't have been bad, it lost nothing on a mates EP3 at the time that was running 245bhp N/A.

[TheTrash]

DanielSan said:

lickatysplit said:

All I can see from that induction kit is heat soak. How is it getting cold air?

By the car moving and a cold air feed... I ran the K&N one on my old car with a 4-2-1, decat and exhaust. That made 212bhp with no mapping. And want to know how many times it suffered heatsoak that affected performance? Once, sat in traffic for 20 minutes on a day it was around 28 degrees . That dip in performance lasted for the 5 seconds it took to get moving and get up to speed again. It got boring reading on forums how much heat soak it would suffer from, usually from someone trying to justify why they'd spent 600quid on a GruppeM

It can't have been bad, it lost nothing on a mates EP3 at the time that was running 245bhp N/A.

I agree, there's loads of room in the engine bay and at full chat it's going to be sucking quite a bit of fresh air in. EBC for the brakes though

[traffman]

Ive just installed the Password air chamber , it also relocates your battery below the air chamber , you do need the Odyssey 680 battery, i happened to have one lying around.
It looks the bks and sounds decent , ive noticed increased pick up and overall a general responsiveness throughout the rev range.

Now booked into Automek to have AP brakes fitted.

[DanielSan]

TheTrash said:

I agree, there's loads of room in the engine bay and at full chat it's going to be sucking quite a bit of fresh air in. EBC for the brakes though

I've tried DS2500's in the past and can't get on with them, they're too sharp on initial bite for how I brake. Yellowstuffs are a win so far, not too sharp on initial pressure then when I want to stand it on its nose just press harder.
Redstuffs on the other hand are fking st! They are genuinely dangerous in the way they just don't work