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Next up is something special. With the k24 the engine was now taller and as such the manifold was hard up against the underside of the car. So I took the car to kis Motorsport for them to make a new exhaust manifold. I'll let the pictures do the talking. The quality on this...

So bought some new wheels. Konig ultragrams 8j front 7j rear. As cool as it looks I couldn't actually move the car 😂. The wheel would smash the front bumper and arch near the front and rear. Somehow the tyres which were fine on a 7j alloy are now bigger or more square on a 8j. So I bought...

Bit of an update. Tore the old engine down and its in a sorry state. Bearing material everywhere 😬. Number 1 Conrod has let go. I think the engine was just tired. Seems to be the case of a lot of k20's. Most are over 100k miles and revving them to 8.8k just takes it toll eventually...

Nah it revs bad enough on the motorway. Tbh a JDM 4th and 5th would fix that as it packs the gears closer together.

It was an ex race engine so I think it's just worn out. I had oil pressure issues last year with a knackered pump and I think the mains have taken the brunt of it. With the mains so loose on clearance I think the bigends were just starved.

Here's a flying lap around castle combe. Feel if I chuck a k24 in I'll miss the high revs. The more torque lower down will help out especially in corners like tower corner where 3rd is too high and 4th a tad too low.

After the trackday had the car alignment sorted by cooksport. Good bunch of guys will definitely be having my suspension setups sorted by them from now on. After that it was the spa trackday I had booked...... Nice picture of the morning of the trackday. So was doing my sighting laps all...

After going on track it seems a lot better on the rear, doesn't sit on the back wheels anymore. The angle of the coilovers just wasn't right, I'd have to weld in upright turrets to make it work. Soo ended up cocking up my alignment the day before the track day. I have something like 3mm toe...

Few more updates. Decided rear didn't look good with the massive tuck so changed to a 10mm camber shim. I've also taken a leaf out of a few lads books on here and have sound insulated the inside using dynomat and a sound absorber. All the panels definitely have a nice sound when giving them...

Been a bit quiet updating. As previously said didn't like the rear end so had some 24.7mm torsion bars made to try and stiffen it up. Same bars as the R5 extra vans. And have also added another degree of camber. (-2 total now) and made the toe parallel to hopefully liven up the rear end to...

Update time Chucked some sound deadening in the boot to try and tame some of the sound as old car problems. Not sure if it's made any difference but every little helps I guess. Bought some different side mounts for the seat and managed to get it sat in the right position finally! The...

Haven't updated this in a while. Started noticing the oil pressure gauge wasn't doing a lot so sent it off for repair. It kind of now reads some pressure, still ain't a lot but I'm just going to send it till the oil light comes on 😂 Heres a before and after of the sensor being repaired. Also...

Cheers man! Im trying to make a mould to make a carbon roof. Being a bit of a mong with the fibreglass but hopefully it comes off the car soon and see what it looks like. If it works I'll make more for other people as the Achilles heel of any mk1 is a leaking sunroof. I used buzzweld PIO...

Line up of me and my mates cars after a successful trackday with everyone driving home for once! Getting it sideways down the corkscrew Made a start on the roof too so hopefully I can get that fitted soon as the sunroof was pissing me off during the trackday 😂

Haven't updated this in a while because not a lot has broken on the car 😂 Added a tow hook to the car as it doesn't have one on the front. I tuck it behind the bumper when not in use so keeps it nice and clean looking. Sprayed the door pockets too as with all mk1's they all go a bit funny...

Been driving the car for a bit now. Exhaust is a tad loud at motorway speeds so will look into sorting that out before I ever take it to the nurburgring. Also fitted the fog lamps back in. Looks so much better now!

Also had the front bumper painted so can't wait to get that back on the car!

So had the car mapped today by jcal! Been fighting a few coolant leaks and had them all sorted, couldn't put a crazy amount of miles on the car as it's running 410cc injectors over the stock ones so the fueling was a tad off, especially low down rpm. Drove down to Swansea banged it on the...

My mate seen this driving around the other week in Cardiff I'm sure! Mentioned the plate and said had to be a f4r in it 😂

Need to properly check the Speedo is calibrated right using the GPS on the phone. But it's pretty short 😂, but then I'm not used to having a nearly 9k limiter 😆. Mapping is next Saturday if everything goes to plan 😬

Got the car all sorted for its MOT, she's slowly looking a bit more rusty underneath but still structurally solid so need to sort it out before it gets worst and costs a bomb to fix. It is 29 years old so its going well. Also the aux belt jumped a few ribs when I booted it. Don't think it...

Pushed the car outside for the first time in years! Started it up and noticed the oil pressure gauge is working so that's a positive! All of the pressure with the high cold start idle. Chucked the very dented bonnet on 🙈. Need to get that sprayed some time! Off it went for its...

Been fiddling with the dash clocks again. This is as neat as it's going to get really without me spending £350 to have someone cut me custom dials. Slowly trying to get the lights to work too. So have the oil pressure warning and engine management lights working. The battery light does work...

Finally the hubs turned back up so got on with fitting them. Brakes are all on just need someone to give me a hand on bleeding them. Also started the car up today for first time.

Also started on painting the rear arches and found a crack in one of the discs... So new genuine discs and brembo pads have been ordered with RPF fluid.

Been playing with the speedometer clocks. Was going to go down the arduino route but this little clock came up cheap so bought it instead. Took the clock apart away from the main metal case and was left with this. Glued it to the backside of the arcylic backlighting board. Had to shave...

My man on the exhaust manifold! Didn't expect it would work that perfect mating up to the exhaust system!! 😂

I've used them on my old M5. Pretty decent tyre but like with any cheap tyre the wear rate is higher but thats the offset of having grip. They did go through a faze of having golf balls pop out on the sidewalls but I never had such an issue.

Been busy with the car but with all the small bits. When I fitted the throttle cable I found the pedal to be too heavy. The Honda throttle wheel is smaller in diameter compared to the Clio one. So adapter the Honda throttle body to accept the Clio wheel and spring so it feels like normal on...