EF7 hybrid ZC/D16a6 Turbo. Indexed - Page 14

doo0T!doo0T! · 31st May 2007, 05:14 PM

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Originally Posted by turbozxi

Haha, who certed it and what did it cost if you don't mind me asking?
Its a shame the lexan is no lighter then the factory glass thats a lot of work for not to much gain. Mint job though.
Your cars looking like a Ev0 5 somehow

8)

Neil Fraser of Fraser cars 08004CERTZ, good bloke, level headed and sensible. (he also listens to what you say which is unlike a lot of people in his profession)
It was $420, a little more than I thought but at least he's reputable.

He seemed to really like the car and had good things to say about the way it handled, the brakes and the supension set-up/spring rates etc.

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9 degrees of toe in :shock:

actually it was mm......not degrees

and shame on you mike for taking pics of the shop when the floor was dirty & messy !!!!

Oh yeah i knew that, dont know why I wrote degrees, 9 degrees would be ridiculas.
Whatever you did certianly made a difference though, it is handling like a dream now i cant wait to fling it around Taupo.
I just hope I dont fling it right off!!!
Harden up about your floor. At least it's painted, mine you cant lie down on with out putting down sacks first.

turbozxi · 4th June 2007, 06:11 PM

Cheers for that, I just tried reading through the thread to see what you did about your brakes? Got to about page 3 and gave up. What are running.

doo0T!doo0T! · 5th June 2007, 09:11 AM

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Originally Posted by turbozxi

Cheers for that, I just tried reading through the thread to see what you did about your brakes? Got to about page 3 and gave up. What are running.

Legend twin pot calipers, and a 15/16th master cylindar, otherwise stock.
Seems to do the job I just need much better pad material, it's tricky to find good pads for the legend calipers, apparently NSX ones fit but you can imagine the price of those bad boys.

Bananaman · 5th June 2007, 09:13 AM

How did you get on at Taupo over the weekend? Car running sweet?

doo0T!doo0T! · 5th June 2007, 09:38 AM

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How did you get on at Taupo over the weekend? Car running sweet?

Awsome fun.

Awsome day, i had such a blast.
Managed to toast my LSD in the first few laps and from then on it was clunking and grinding around every left hander and making it seriously oversteer especially on the two left hand sweepers.

Righthanders were a different story it went through them like there was no tomorrow and gave me a taste of what the car would be like once all the problems are ironed out.

Over all for a maiden voyage it went pretty damn well, no overheating issues, oil temp stayed right down, as did the water.

It got frustrating at the end of the day though, when my MSD gets hot the resistance rises and the magnetic field starts to fuck with the RPM sensor in the dizzy. It keeps tricking the computer into thinking it's redlining and it cuts the ignition. Having the ignition cut in and out on full boost is pretty violent so I couldn't really give it assholes.
We had the exact same problem on the dyno and apparently Mark Scully had the same problem on his civic before he ditched his MSD.
I need to magnetically shield all my electronics, or ditch the MSD.

I also fried my lift pump right at the end of the day and the surge tank emptied and the main fuel pump kept taking in air. Gay because i couldn't go out on the never ending final run.

And another thing, one of my brand new harnesses had already expired, the dick heads clipped the wrong date on the tag.
I also couldn't take passengers because I didn't have a full cage so I have no incar footage boooo.

Bananaman · 5th June 2007, 09:42 AM

Thats the fun of building a car tho. Testing until it is perfect then get stuck in

Good stuff dude

doo0T!doo0T! · 5th June 2007, 10:22 AM

Oh yeah and I forgot to mention I spun three times.
Once on cold tyres a complete 360 and kept going
and twice through the chicane before the front straight in exactly the same way both times.
No flat spots on the R888's though luckily.
Here's some pics, the missus was in charge of the camera for the day so dont blame me if you dont like them

doo0T!doo0T! · 5th June 2007, 10:39 AM

Flyby videos

SLOTEG · 5th June 2007, 11:01 AM

slutted i missed this
your cars too bloody quiet, open up that dump pipe!!!!!!!!!

doo0T!doo0T! · 5th June 2007, 11:13 AM

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Originally Posted by SLOTEG

slutted i missed this
your cars too bloody quiet, open up that dump pipe!!!!!!!!!

Dump pipe wasn't fitted at all, I bought it down but forgot the spacer I need to fit it (otherwise it hits the castor rod) i also forgot the blanking plate for the rear exhaust system. i planned to jack the car up during the day and remove the whole system and just have the dump pipe.
The car feels a lot slower when exclusively using the rear exhaust, much less throttle responce and more lag.

I was gutted about that too but ah well I was just stoked to not have the car shit it'self to be honest.

btw it's not blowing any blue at all now after a good thrash, I think the blue smoke it was still puffing a bit since the turbo was re-built was down to the fact that it was run in using fully synthetic 5-30 and it didn't get a chance to wear in. Seems to be run it now though

turbozxi · 5th June 2007, 12:50 PM

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Originally Posted by doo0T!doo0T!

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Cheers for that, I just tried reading through the thread to see what you did about your brakes? Got to about page 3 and gave up. What are running.

Legend twin pot calipers, and a 15/16th master cylindar, otherwise stock.
Seems to do the job I just need much better pad material, it's tricky to find good pads for the legend calipers, apparently NSX ones fit but you can imagine the price of those bad boys.

How did you go about mounting the legend calipers could you use legend disc's as well?

What I would do for pads is get some custom made from Race Brakes just take in the old backing plates and get some made up to suit what you need. Fairly expensive but definitely the best you can get locally.

doo0T!doo0T! · 5th June 2007, 01:33 PM

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Originally Posted by turbozxi

What I would do for pads is get some custom made from Race Brakes just take in the old backing plates and get some made up to suit what you need. Fairly expensive but definitely the best you can get locally.

Yeah I thougth about doing that but cant afford it, at that price I'd rather just keep feeding in the shit pads I have a mean discount at repco anyway

the legend calipers bolted straight on, I'm actually using EG civic disks but I think they are 100% the same as EF7/EF3.

badcf4 · 5th June 2007, 01:44 PM

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when my msd gets hot

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I need to magnetically shield all my electronics, or ditch the MSD.

or find a way to cool your msd ???

turbozxi · 5th June 2007, 01:46 PM

Ha thats cool! what year or style legend was it? I would like to use larger disc's also if possible my car had real bad braking issues previously.

I assume there just up the front aye?

Hayce · 5th June 2007, 01:47 PM

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Originally Posted by doo0T!doo0T!

ditch the MSD.

Solution.

Great to see this out and running around the paddock!!

turbozxi · 5th June 2007, 01:47 PM

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when my msd gets hot

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I need to magnetically shield all my electronics, or ditch the MSD.

or find a way to cool your msd ???

I would just get rid of it. Thats what I did anyway.

doo0T!doo0T! · 5th June 2007, 02:22 PM

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Originally Posted by turbozxi

Ha thats cool! what year or style legend was it? I would like to use larger disc's also if possible my car had real bad braking issues previously.

I assume there just up the front aye?

Cant remember, i got them off Nigels car, I'm pretty sure it was the first of the old '80's V6 legends, either that or the turbo one sorry cant remember.
CA6? Nah dont quote me.

yeah i'll probably end up taking the Mallory off and selling it but first i want to put the rev limit back up to 7500 and see how the car feels, at the moment I forgot it was still on 6000 when I had it at the track

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I'm happy with my disc size for now, small discs = less unsprung weight and they seem to be doing the job I only had scary brake fade once and my Dad said he saw plumes of smoke coming off the pads as i pulled up at the end of the front straight, i was seeing how deep I could go before hitting the pics and went in a bit hot, nearly went up the ass of SIRdan's big wagon, with my inside rear wheel locked up, it was a close call 8O
The fade had dissappeared by the next time I needed the brakes so it was all pretty normal. The pads in it are just cheap shit, i nearly used them all up in one day, they were squealling like a bitch (metal on metal) on my last outing.

i havn't taken the wheels off to check the damage yet but I'm expecting somthing nasty.

turbozxi · 5th June 2007, 02:30 PM

Cheers I'll have a look around the wreckers got any pics of your brakes? I may just take my own advise and get decent pads as well and see how it goes.

DanSir · 5th June 2007, 02:50 PM

and there I was thinking..oh hes just getting close so he can get past after the corner.. surely if the 1300kg ish Wagon pulled up that little thing must be fine..

I must say though, the Motul fluid and Ferodo pads do wonders in the Wagon no serious fade. I think the Accords brake are a decent size from factory though.

I be sure to move over next time I see you coming

doo0T!doo0T! · 5th June 2007, 03:06 PM

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and there I was thinking..oh hes just getting close so he can get past after the corner.. surely if the 1300kg ish Wagon pulled up that little thing must be fine..

I must say though, the Motul fluid and Ferodo pads do wonders in the Wagon no serious fade. I think the Accords brake are a decent size from factory though.

I be sure to move over next time I see you coming

Yeah pulling up is one thing I just got on the picks a little later than I probably should have and the ass of your wagon was getting bigger very fast. The gap got very small very quickly and i possibly sharted in my race suit just a little bit 8O
I dont think there's too much wrong with my brakes because thats where I seemed to be making most of my ground on people.
it certainly wasn't in the corners where it should have been as the crunching diff was making things a bit of a handful.
I had a ball behind the wheel of randalls EF3, once I'd got used to the totally different nature of the car.

americ_ian · 5th June 2007, 03:13 PM

im glad ya made it! it was good seeing it out on the track!

doo0T!doo0T! · 5th June 2007, 03:19 PM

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im glad ya made it! it was good seeing it out on the track!

Cheers, you'll see a bit more of it too if I get my way!

Your car was mental thats all i have to say. I hope you dont sell it like you have every other car! Cage it and rage it. :twisted:

americ_ian · 5th June 2007, 10:08 PM

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im glad ya made it! it was good seeing it out on the track!

Cheers, you'll see a bit more of it too if I get my way!

Your car was mental thats all i have to say. I hope you dont sell it like you have every other car! Cage it and rage it. :twisted:

thats the plan!

nemesisteg · 6th June 2007, 08:04 AM

ian just gets scared :wink: good to see everyones having such a rockin time at these events, seems im missing them all and it sucks fat hairy balls to say the least!!! clunking round one corner may just be a CV and not the diff?? hey im no mechanic but just an idea. anyways glad ya had fun out on the track thats what its all about!! iron out the minor imperfections and away ya go again!!

nzcivicracer · 6th June 2007, 08:25 AM

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I dont think there's too much wrong with my brakes because thats where I seemed to be making most of my ground on people.
it certainly wasn't in the corners where it should have been as the crunching diff was making things a bit of a handful.
I had a ball behind the wheel of randalls EF3, once I'd got used to the totally different nature of the car.

I thought your brakes were pretty good, most likely because of your larger calipers/pads. If you were running a race compound they would be awesome!!! I think the lightness of our EF's also helps with the later braking
Glad you enjoyed my EF3, your EF7 was fun once I got my confidence in it!!! Once you get those few minor issues sorted out its going to be a very quick & fun little car! 8)
Better throw the dump pipe on next time, I reckon the throttle response will be awesome :wink:

Ian, your car is stupidly fast

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Bananaman Senior Member 7,000rpm (Peak Power) Join Date: Jun 2004 Posts: 4,110 Location: Foxton Beach	Thats the fun of building a car tho. Testing until it is perfect then get stuck in Good stuff dude __________________ It is better to have a Honda and no Money, than it is to have Money and no Honda.

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doo0T!doo0T! Senior Member 7,000rpm (Peak Power) Join Date: Feb 2004 Posts: 3,937 Location: Auckland	Oh yeah and I forgot to mention I spun three times. Once on cold tyres a complete 360 and kept going and twice through the chicane before the front straight in exactly the same way both times. No flat spots on the R888's though luckily. Here's some pics, the missus was in charge of the camera for the day so dont blame me if you dont like them __________________ Mugen無限Power EF7 CRX Turbo track car EJ7 "EK Coupe" Soon2BH2B

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DanSir Senior Member 3,000rpm (Grandma Drag) Join Date: May 2005 Posts: 220 Location: Auckland	and there I was thinking..oh hes just getting close so he can get past after the corner.. surely if the 1300kg ish Wagon pulled up that little thing must be fine.. I must say though, the Motul fluid and Ferodo pads do wonders in the Wagon no serious fade. I think the Accords brake are a decent size from factory though. I be sure to move over next time I see you coming __________________ -GF-DC2R- 99 Integra Type R Past Hondas -CF2 97- SiR Accord US Wagon -DA6 90- Integra XSI

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turbozxi Senior Member 7,000rpm (Peak Power) Join Date: Feb 2002 Posts: 4,090 Location: Auckland	Cheers for that, I just tried reading through the thread to see what you did about your brakes? Got to about page 3 and gave up. What are running.

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turbozxi Senior Member 7,000rpm (Peak Power) Join Date: Feb 2002 Posts: 4,090 Location: Auckland	Ha thats cool! what year or style legend was it? I would like to use larger disc's also if possible my car had real bad braking issues previously. I assume there just up the front aye?

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turbozxi Senior Member 7,000rpm (Peak Power) Join Date: Feb 2002 Posts: 4,090 Location: Auckland	Cheers I'll have a look around the wreckers got any pics of your brakes? I may just take my own advise and get decent pads as well and see how it goes.

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americ_ian Senior Member 18,000rpm+ Honda F1! Join Date: Jul 2004 Posts: 10,192 Location: Hamilton	im glad ya made it! it was good seeing it out on the track! __________________ Ex D16a Ex b16a, ex b18cr, ex h22a turbo, ex h2b, ex k20a.... Current: F20c!!!!!! Bastard child Toyota ae86 with honda powa!! weaksauce.org www.41.co.nz

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nemesisteg Senior Member 7,000rpm (Peak Power) Join Date: Nov 2005 Posts: 2,732 Location: Cambridge	ian just gets scared :wink: good to see everyones having such a rockin time at these events, seems im missing them all and it sucks fat hairy balls to say the least!!! clunking round one corner may just be a CV and not the diff?? hey im no mechanic but just an idea. anyways glad ya had fun out on the track thats what its all about!! iron out the minor imperfections and away ya go again!!