MY EP3

[kpowell911]

Does it work when you drive?

Welcome to the DVD player in the car club! haha

Course it does, McDonalds Car park with a 19 year old sket here I come!

TBH, This is the only car Ive not had a DVD player in, I had one in a Rover 100 Daily I used when I had my gold Clio, it was worth more than the car!

15 Mins to do the dash mate, ALOT easier than it looks

 

[Philip.]

The dash is literally the only bit putting me off buying a double din with screen.
That and the fact my car's up for sale now, lol!

 

[mr bognor]

No short shifter kit on the gear stick :nono:

Course it does, McDonalds Car park with a 19 year old sket here I come!

TBH, This is the only car Ive not had a DVD player in, I had one in a Rover 100 Daily I used when I had my gold Clio, it was worth more than the car!

15 Mins to do the dash mate, ALOT easier than it looks

 

[DB.]

Course it does, McDonalds Car park with a 19 year old sket here I come!

I can picture it now. (Cough - 17-18)

 

[kpowell911]

I can picture it now. (Cough - 17-18)

Skinny pale and white

 

[kpowell911]

Started the door Builds today, Still waiting on my tweeter pods from Honda, So just did the deadening, trimming and MDF Baffles

Whipped the door card off:

This pony thing was there before:

Ripped all the old stuff out, and started deadedning the outer skin

Then Sealed as best I could, the inner skin,

Mounted some 24mm MDF Baffles and the Woofer:

All fits back on invisibly once the door cards on

Had to trim the inner door skin with tin strips to clear the woofer magnet, and inner door card slightly with a stanley blade, but nothing too major! With the exception of the deadening should go back to stock pretty easily!



Waiting for the tweeter mounts and more deadening to do the other side!

 

[kpowell911]

The rest of my sound deadening and my Tweeter Pods came. Some Civics came with these optional Tweeters in the mirror covers, but they were rare. People on eBay seem to think this means they are rare and expensive. Fortunately, Honda has an awesome online parts site, Called Lings Honda. Its basically a website where you can order parts online. Each car has Schemetics/Exploded Diagrams (similar to an R/C Car manual!) So I found the tweeters pods and bought them for £8.50ish each



I had football training so didnt start till 8:30pm, armed with a Xenon Lantern Light, I started, was finished by 11pm!

I finished up the right hand door, (deadening,trimmed and added MDF Baffles)

All fitted back together like new Cant really tell anythings changed!

Close up of the Tweeter Holders

Ive ordered my Amplifier now, its only a cheap 4 Channel, it will provide the following:



Channel 1 & 2 will send 90wrms to Each Door Componant

Channel 3 & 4 will be bridged sending 320wrms @ 4ohm to my Subwoofer (im used the 10x that but never mind)



Here's the sub in a generic 1.5 CUFT Sealed Box

Now the amp was ordered, I decided to start running the wiring for the amplifier. Just a 4 Gauge kit. To keep interfearence at a minimum,
Ive ran the Power wire down the left hand side, and will run the RCA's, Remote Turn on Cable & Reverse Camera wiring down the centre. This meant taking out the centre console. Been a Honda, there were plenty of guides online and it came out with 6 screws:

I simply followed some existing loom and zip tied the cables to it:

Out came the rear bench

I then ran the power Cable all the way down the left hand side upto the Glove box. I didnt bother putting it through into the engine bay, as Im not ready to power up yet, so for now its stashed behind the glove box:

Heres the grommit I'll push through

More to come

 

[Slammed172]

Tidy install lad.

Lol at the tweeter eBay rarity's.

 

[DB.]

Skinny pale and white

Lol Just saw this, pfffft. Tanned and exotic ftw. You enjoy Tulisa, Nicole Sherzingerlinger is where it's at.

Looks like a tidy install, can you not get a smaller box, looks like a lot of wasted space in the box? Would free up some boot space and look more subtle too.

 

[imprezaworks]

A sub......bloody hell i didnt think anyone had them anymore.

 

[Sir_Dave]

A sub......bloody hell i didnt think anyone had them anymore.

Ha ha, same. This thread just took me back 13 years to being 17 :clap:

 

[imprezaworks]

15 years for me lol. The sub just ruined a perfectly nice car imho

 

[kpowell911]

Lol Just saw this, pfffft. Tanned and exotic ftw. You enjoy Tulisa, Nicole Sherzingerlinger is where it's at.

Looks like a tidy install, can you not get a smaller box, looks like a lot of wasted space in the box? Would free up some boot space and look more subtle too.

Tulisa's too fat and tanned Although she is almost the correct amount of Chav! In fact when she was younger she was PERFECT!!

BOOM

You've saw the things Im on

Smaller box wouldn't benefit the sub. Im not just going to plonk it in there, Ill sink the amps etc, it will look fairly subtle.

A Sub has hardly ruined the car, especially @ 320wrms.

IF anyone has heard a standard Type R (or in fact any standard system in prfetty much any car, 182s have horrific stereos!), they will understand why I've done it lol. You're just been old!

The only thing thats been in my boot since I bought the car is a pair of F50 Football boots and a football lol.

 

[JackJack]

Tweeter pods are cool.

 

[kpowell911]

So the Amp arrived...

Because Id gone about it the hard way, and ran the power cable from the boot to the engine bay, as opposed to the engine bay to the boot, Id made it very difficult to feed the power wire from the cabin into the engine bay! I borrowed a flexi rod off my CCTV installing pal, removed the Tegiwa M Air Intake and pushed this through into the cabin.

Flipped down the Glovebox and out it came

Taped the power wire to the rod and pulled it through

So thats that. Only issue now is I need to crimp the terminals on to the wires, but my crimps are poor, So Im gonna ask my mate to crimp my connectors on with his high end crimps.

I need to find and earth in the boot, but Im struggling, so off to do a bit of research!

 

[kpowell911]

Fresh rubber Went for 4x Toyo T1R's, got them for a decent price. Currently have P Zero's, but these worked out £40 a corner cheaper! Ive heard they arent the best for the winter, but 8mm of new tread vs 2mm of old tread is surely better.

Dont need them on till Xmas time, but had a decent month at work so got them whilst I had some spare cash

 

[Slammed172]

I bought two of these the other day and it's been shitty wet weather and they performing pretty good at the moment.

Considering they're 70 a pop from Camskill compared to anything half decent at 130 a pop, it's definitely worth it.

 

[kpowell911]

Damn, I paid £78 each lol!

 

[Slammed172]

Lol, ALWAYS check Camskill, it usually pwns all.

 

[kpowell911]

Right, small update....

I was forever getting the piss ripped out of me for the pathetic Key you get with an Ep3. It looks like its from an Austin Metro. I usually type "Civic Type R EP3" into ebay when I am bored and I came across this!

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/390485776577?ssPageName=STRK:MEWNX:IT&_trksid=p3984.m1497.l2649

I whacked in an offer of £12 and it arrived 2 days later....

You start with this,

And basically, transfer the innards of your stock blipper into it, then get the key cut to the plain blade. I havent yet got the Blade cut, but as you are using the stock circuit board, no re programming etc is needed, its basically a shell.

Simple Job

And you end up with (IMO much better)

Also seen a few EP3's pull off the track look really well, Im not sure I can pull it off, but This little lot cost me around £20 2nd hand, so no big loss if I dont like it

 

[DB.]

Decent improvement, welcome to the 21st century.

 

[Slammed172]

Not seen someone do that before, that's cool. I gotta admit the key is laughable, but I don't think i'd go to extent of changing it.

 

[kpowell911]

Because Racecar? No?

I quite like it, Ill get a better picture when it stops raining so I can wash it first!

 

[JonC219]

Works on that car IMO Jap car prerogative

 

[.GAZ.]

Because Towbar...

 

[The Chubby Pirate]

Tow hooks when not on track....

 

[Ray Gin]

Looks absolutely terrible. Every chav around here has one on their car.

 

[The Chubby Pirate]

Looks absolutely terrible. Every chav around here has one on their car.

And I'll bet half those weapons have no idea what it's actually for!

 

[Mr Burns]

I like the ride height and the key fob, but that's about it. Fair play to you though, each to their own and all that.

 

[106GTi97]

I've just bought a premier 55, really like it. Sadly though I think in about 3-4 years every chav will have one. I've already seen some earlier 02 plate ones ruined with multi coloured wheels and outrageous exhausts

 

[Daniel]

I love the car, but that towing thing is just dreadful. What were you thinking???

 

[DB.]

Agree with the tow comments, why would you?

 

[Philip.]

Not keen on that Keith, sorry pal! :dapprove:

 

[kpowell911]

Lol I expected some hate too, as I say im not 100% on it, may come off, mainly cause I keep banging my leg on it aswell haha!

 

[kpowell911]

I've just bought a premier 55, really like it. Sadly though I think in about 3-4 years every chav will have one. I've already seen some earlier 02 plate ones ruined with multi coloured wheels and outrageous exhausts

LOL Its always been a Chav car. Even when it was brand new it was a Chav Car. Stop giving a s**t about everyone else and enjoy your car. The majority of performance cars can be considered Chav, f**k it

Im chavvy as f**k anyway so the car fits me lol.

I was looking at a DC5, but Im REALLY Considering Charging this. Its where I want it in terms of looks, both inside and out, and its in very good condition. Although Spending £3-4k grand on (if I got some 2nd hand stuff) wouldnt really add any value to an already depreciating genre of car, if I got a Full Exhaust/Charger Kit/diff and brakes, Id have a pretty capable 300bhp car that I like, and could sell the parts on come resale?

But then you could suggest selling the car, buying a ready modified example, or even something like an Evo/Impreza?

 

[106GTi97]

LStop giving a s**t about everyone else and enjoy your car.

Think you've mistaken me for someone else :S I'm not a fan of some of your 'mods' but each to their own, but never said it was s**t ?

 

[kpowell911]

I didn't say you called mine s**t mate, I said stop worrying that you think your car is/will be Chav in a few years, just enjoy it for what it is You like it, so enjoy it

 

[DB.]

I saw this in real life today, I shook my head and said 'Oh dear', it looks bigger in real life! lol

You were walking out the door when I was on the bench so didn't get a chance to say hello, sure I'll catch you over the next 2 weeks!

 

[mr bognor]

Not for me but then i just spent £ 58 on a FD2 gear knob from Japan

 

[Philip.]

Not for me but then i just spent £ 58 on a FD2 gear knob from Japan

£50+ on gear knobs is the way forward!