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its so big and heavy it probably cant pass the civic on a road like the dragon
 
Well its been nearly two months with zero updates so here we go.

1. I bought a house and finally moved out of my crappy apartment. The downside is now im 20 minutes from work instead of 3 minutes. The upside however is that it came with an awesome garage/shop thats friggin massive.

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2. I ended up buying Flashpro from a co-worker which means that a catless downpipe and intake are in my near future. I played around with the easy stuff like getting rid of the rev hang, lowering the vtec engagement to 4800 rpms, giving the car launch control.

3. Recently got back from the Dragon for Tougefest...it was an experience.
 
bry_si said:
The upside however is that it came with an awesome garage/shop thats friggin massive.
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bry_si said:
Well its been nearly two months with zero updates so here we go.

1. I bought a house and finally moved out of my crappy apartment. The downside is now im 20 minutes from work instead of 3 minutes. The upside however is that it came with an awesome garage/shop thats friggin massive.
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Definitely jealous of the epic garage space you have there. I'm limited to what I can do with a traditional two car garage, I'm not hurting for space, but more 'shop area' is a good thing! Nice purchase.
 
Hope everyone had a great Thanksgiving (if you celebrate it in your country). As for black friday, I didnt get to ball out like I wanted to but I got some new Hawk HP+ pads for the front and ordered the Professional Awesome splitter rods to add some rigidity and support for the bumper. I also signed up for my last track day at Atlanta Motorsports Park on Dec 11th with Jzilla Track Days. Ive got about a week and a half to get the car checked out and ready for that event.
 
Over the weekend I got the splitter rods delivered Saturday morning and as soon as I got back from Cars and Coffee, I spent the rest of the day getting these installed. I honestly didnt have a plan of attack since Ive never done this before and there were any install videos of these exact rods being installed on anything else. Luckily throughout the process I recorded some video that will hopefully be up before the end of the year...maybe. After the install since I had the front wheels off the car I knocked out the front brake pads which gave me a total time of about 6,5 hours for everything (plus a trip to the store for a step bit and some hardware).

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I really wasnt looking forward to fighting with this bumper because when I did the first install it took me forever to get it back on the car.

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But it went a lot smoother this time around

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I think I pulled out maybe a half pound of leaves out from under the bumper and in and around the crash beam from the last dragon trip a few weeks ago.

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The Professional Awesome hardware is fantastic. Its pretty straightforward and needs no instructions

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I did not end up using the flat bolts because of the placement issues underneath the splitter so I went to Lowes and got some M8 x 1.25 16mm and 20mm stainless steel bolts. If I ever end up designing a legit chassis mounted splitter than I will use the flat sided bolts.

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The rods themselves were 18" long. For the length I was going for, I ended up cutting them to 8". The lower and upper hardware had a countersunk depth of 1.5" which gave me plenty of adjustment to set the rod length.

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Its not the prettiest job in the world but it gave me the space to fit a 13mm wrench in to tighten the M8x1.25 16mm bolts down into the upper hardware mounts.

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I ended up running the M8x1.25 20mm bolts up through the bottom of the splitter. The length was perfect as to compensate for the splitter thickness and the thread depth of the lower hardware mounts.

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Im back from Atlanta and what a weekend it was. As I stated earlier in the month, I signed up for the Treat Yourself track event at Atlanta Motorsports Park with Jzilla Track Days. I signed up for the Blue Group which is solos but with point-by's in certain straightaways. As the group progressed they opened up passing with point-bys on either side of the track. Since it was raining, we had the option to have our windows closed with point-bys being executed with turn signals. I have never driven this track before and in the rain it made things...interesting. The rain was heavy at times and misty at times with one session being almost completely dry. I drove down on the blue wheels which had the Continental all seasons and brought the Falkens with me but never threw them on the car. It was probably the smarter decision with how unpredictable the weather was. I did two sessions without adjusting tire pressure and then by the 3rd session had dropped the front down to 26 psi and the rear to 28 psi and had way better results. It was also on the 3rd session that I started tracking my time and saw great improvements. The 4th session was by far the wettest and was off pace by 4 seconds from my best time of the day and the last session turned into a oil field with absolutely zero grip and a Miata spinning out in front of me and hitting a tire wall. All in all, I had a blast out there and cant wait to come back and do it in the dry.

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Hope everyone had a great holiday.

I have been going back and forth on what to get next for the Civic. Ive been looking at a downpipe and intake, maybe an aftermarket wheel and quick release hub, or maybe some seats. Well, Monday I made a purchase on a Corbeau FX1 wide seat. Power mods would be cool but I dont see them playing a huge roll in the build atm and would rather focus on some safety features.

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good choice. keeping you planted in turns will help lap times too im sure. always a hard choice when decided mods, can only imagine its harder when you actually race the car. are you going to put a resistor in for the air bag to keep the light off?
 
Janz3n said:
good choice. keeping you planted in turns will help lap times too im sure. always a hard choice when decided mods, can only imagine its harder when you actually race the car. are you going to put a resistor in for the air bag to keep the light off?
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