Forums Forums StuyMac: Honda Civic VTi - SiR Race car.

With experiance with rallying and doing track sessions get the lowest ratio in the box!!

This will increasse acceleration and hence improve times.

dont worry about the top end speeds etc as you wont even see that speed!

The only concern is having to change gear more quickly between each gear so get a shot shifter etc to reduce the time.

but cconering becomes better and quicker!

The car already has a short shifter which Ive had to modify (Cut and re-weld) to bring the lever back towards the driver a little.

Carl, who also races a Civic (EF9) has a close box in his car, and a couple of times has hit the limiter in 5th on the faster circuits, however, the box in his car is a bit of an unknown as the box came fitted to the car and he has never burst it open to have a look inside.

Well, I went for the 4.928 in the end. The kit includes the uprated crownwheel, and an uprated mainshaft for the gear box, as in essence, you are putting more torque through the gearbox...

...gonna be fun stripping this down to fit it

when u think it will all be bolted together mate? will have to get a wee video up on utube for us

Few more bits turned up now....

Coilovers:



6 pt Harness:



Cage....

Looking gud stu

Loking good stu indeed

they your clubs there or my great grandads

Cage now painted:



..and twin loop exhaust:

very nice stu.

when you getting your gearbox bits?

Still waiting for the final drive kit to arrive.

Prolly gonna be over the xmas break though, a friend is going to be working on his car and has said I can use the garage whilst he is there, so clutch and final drive will be done at the same time along with the exhaust.

Might try and get the cage in over the weekend if the weather is ok

Cage went in over the weekend

It not fixed in just yet, but the main thing is that its nearly in position (only a few mm out) and ready to get bolted in. Took a bit longer than I thought, as I needed to cut the dash to get it in...

nice 1 mate.... how far until race standard has the car got to go?

To get the car actually to race and safety regs all it needs is the seat and harness fitting (I have these at home) and I still need to buy an extinguisher, and ignition cut off

The other bis I want to do, are fit the clutch, final drive kit, coilovers and exhaust which Ive got, just not fitted, and I think Ill also be buying some competition pads for the brakes, and the wheels need shodding with some Toyo 888 tyres

Gonna be spending a lot of time on it over Christmas, and hope to have it ready for some trackdays / test sessions in the new year - its also still 100% road legal

not long at all then

how much would it be insurance wise after all the mods roughly? (for normal road driving)

what size 888's are you going for? www.reyland.co.uk apprantley do the cheapest.