I think mine is running Red and Green… rock hard pedal, almost slightly too high for heel and toe unless you are properly on it…
Might need to get another MC on stock…What calipers are you running?
A few more bits done on the car but I’ve no photos of progress, so you’ll have to make do with a random one…
Pallet delivery anyone?
ha that certainly works!
Running Blue front and green rear with same calliper set up as you - perfect pedal
Just checked mine now I’m home… I’m blue and green also… AP5000’s 4 pots on front and the old 2-pot fronts on the rear.
Thanks chaps, it looks like I might need to get a blue on stock as im on orange and green… Are you both running the smaller blue on the front circuit?
Mocking up the front lower engine steady. This is v1.0, overall it’s been a ball ache as its just not quite manufactured correctly, so I’ve taken a tungsten burr to 6061 billet…V2.0 uses larger rod ends and a stainless tie bar. Not road car friendly but it’s not moving!
Shuffled the stuff about in the barnstruggled for space…how to wind the southerners up!
nice, mine uses rod end on the engine side but has a rather solid poly bush at the the other
is that stready attached just on the one bolt on the gearbox? or above the rose joint aswell, hard to tell from the angle.
looks braced to the two bottom gearbox bolts with the rose joint in the middle
Correct.
Bolted front and back like most front honda conversion gearbox mounts. That installed picture doesn’t show the top part of the brace but it will make sense when you look at this one.
did you make those mounts si? or are they an off the shelf item?
Brilliant thread, loving the build, well done, keep it coming. And I join the queue with barn envy!
Off nearly six months since an update, better make it a good one then lad!
Front end is looking good with the loom fastened in, fuse box and relays now mounted to the chassis rather than wheel arch liners which I don’t have and don’t intend to use. I’ll probably just use a thin vertical guard to keep stones and crap out. Washer bottle also mounted. Ohlins remote reservoir canisters secured to lower windscreen surround. The only real notable exception is fixing the battery in place (its loosely mounted ATM) and to put in the kill switch.
Front bonnet catch also painted up and reinstalled. Not sure if I’ll continue to use it when the bodywork gets bought but it was on stock!
Front lower engine mount v2.0 now completed and installed using M12 rod ends to 304 stainless tiebar so its rigid. V3.0 would use an opposing LH/RH thread but the chap I used to make the tie bar was puzzled/couldn’t do it. I’ll swap it at a later point.
Rear engine mount (4th one) has been shaped and welded, painted and bolted up. Also sourced and cleaned up and painted an intermediate shaft heat shield as there wasn’t one on the civic I bought, also visible in the photo above.
I started messing about with the wiring, all those bits are fun?
I’ve got hold of an addition type r engine loom and de pinned it. It sounds daft but I don’t intend to use this loom initially its with a view to do something at a later date. What I’m looking at is split up the engine loom to allow a better wiring route and also remove any additional and unused wiring. I’ve also bought the various pins from the US as the UK isn’t the easiest for sourcing jap stuff to allow me to repin where necessary.
You can see on the cam cover that the loom is then re covered in adhesive heat shrink and overbraid so it should look good and functional once its eventually done, its just time consuming!
What remains of the standard S1 loom has now been installed in slightly different way so a can remove it more easily if needed and don’t have to drop the fuel tank to do this. It’s been fixed using P clips to some of the many holes that were in the chassis and drops through the round fuel pump cover.
I don’t really need this but I’ve justified it to myself on the basis that it does make life easier for a number of things. The biggest is plumbing for the oil lines as the subframe is completely uncut and I’m not keen on messing with the cage (for now). Its a proper 4-2-1 rather than my current 4-1 and has much longer primaries and secondaries so should hopefully give a few more ponies and will future proof if I go for a built increased capacity NA engine…oh and lastly its looks bloody lovely.
Its a test piece at the moment, finished manifold will be a while off and 8" silencer even further off!
At this point I was then in a position to repatriate the build back home after building some new stabling.
The amount of parts I’ve amassed is quite something as the back of that truck was full and it didn’t include all the stuff I forgot…like 6 driveshafts! It did attract a bit of attention going down the M62 like that in all its naked glory :oops
Got the black car out to meet its new stable mate, at least that still works (even though the MOT expired in July…oops).
Parked up in its new home
Now its home I’ve been able to crack on with a few things.
Eliseparts gear cables fitted up the the shifter. You can also see the floors that I painted with silver Por months back a bit better in the photo and yes those are holes in the chassis floor where the last owner bolted stuff through it. These will just have a simple rubber blanking gromet put in them. I’ve got some paint on-stock which I’m probably going to over coat the por with as I’m not a great fan of this paint.
These cables are not a direct fit to a honda linkage for anyone considering copying this. It needs custom ends plus the lengths shortening, nothing complicated.
I’ve a fully functioning shift mechanism now and its lovely. So much better and positive compared to the black car. You can see in that photo I still need to cut the heater sill pipe down and plum the oil cooler
I mentioned the loom before, you’ll see here the complete engine loom is back in (using the standard one for now). The other one is going to do something fancy later on. The ECU will go on the bulkhead in the cabin also.
Cam cover has been removed and swapped for one I’ve painted a matt grey which looks pretty good. The gold one has also been re sprayed as a tester I might use for the final colour.
Up front the last few jobs are being done too, Radiator cowl has been trimmed and fitted along with the wiper motor cover. I will be probably be swapping out the rod ends as they are too short really. I think S2 items are longer so I’m going to try these before considering doing anything fancy.
I’ve also given the car a good clean as there was quite a bit of fine dust covering everything from where it was stored.
Probably the final bits extracted from the civic. O2 sensors and also part of the ECU harness from behind the dash, jap stuff is so easy to work on it took about 30 mintues to dismatle the dash extract that then put it back! White tub is a box of bits I forgot to bring over with me, it has a few bits in to go back on plus more dust!
I’m very happy with the new stabling now they are both back home. I hope to be able to make more progress on actually building the car as it would be nice to try and get it up and running next year. As you’ll see I’m not going to rush things just to get it finished so this will easily go over two years in the build. I’ve just got to keep to the plan and not change stuff to much as I go along!
Looking good 
great to see an update, I have looked regularly to see if any further updates. I’ve moved from barn envy to stable envy now… 
Good luck moving forward, a few winter nights work there…
Scope creep was always my biggest problem. New ideas would pop into my head and I would end up undooing all the work I had just done to incorporate something else.
The update was long over due! The ‘stable’ is for the purpose of the planners and exploits an existing permission I had. It also had to be a timber building too, the joys of living in a listed building…
As a whole there is quite a bit to do but its all good fun. It’s nice being able to pop down from the house and spend an hour just ticking a few jobs off.