Today we finished installation the power steering cooler and intalled new HID kits into the headlamps, which are now back on the car and connected up. We also made brackets to install the engine oil cooler - this will be installed on wednesday.

 

You outta pull that radiator out and give it a good cleaning while it's convenient. Quite the graveyard you've got going there.

 

Yeah I did actually clean it a bit after that photo was taken actually! The Evo IX front bumper really lets bugs collect on your radiator!

 

while everything is out you really though on a Turbo, hey after all it's only money....good job so far guy's !!!

 

Didn't you have mesh in there?


BTW: I'm salivating over these projectors like Homer over donuts!

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Turbo will be next years DIY project! I'm going from 96Bhp 1.6 to a fully RRM souped-up 2.4 - so I think its gonna be hugely fast to me as it is!

Im using proper Evo IX black mesh on that bumper, which lets a lot through. Looks great though.

 

Kevin, not everybody has pockets as deep as yours... j/k


Hey, I read you're selling that turboed beauty? Damn shame... but yeah, it's for a good cause though. Sorry for the OT guys...

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96HP!!! I thought the UK RA came with a small turbo in there?!?


Isn't the base model Civic equipped with way more than 100HP these days??? 96HP sounds like a rip-off to me... then again, I'd kill for that steering wheel.

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No workz, the wife got pissed when she found out about me selling the car, so she agreed to help me mod it more in the spring, so she didn't have to tell me twice the car STAYS!!

 

Yeah, our Lancer range is pathetic. We get 96Bhp 1.6, and 132Bhp 2.0 only.

Its the Colt Ralliart Version-R that has the turbo. 1.5 Mivec Turbo infact - but it looks and drives gash.

Thats probably why it doesnt sell well... The Civic here on the other hand has 150bhp VTEC, and 200bhp VTEC.

The trim levels in the UK do not change the engine size either.

The Lancer Ralliart, is a trim level on either the 1.6 or the 2.0 that basically adds skirts, momo wheel, stiffer suspension and a strut bar, but no bigger engine. I bought the 1.6 Lancer Ralliart - mainly coz of the momo wheel.

 

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Oh well, now you've got it all: Momo wheel AND a real engine!


@Kevin: That's so cool man! Maybe I'll even get to finally see the damn thing one day!

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Maybe I missed this, by what are you driving around in right now?

 

I'm driving around in a Mitsubishi 5 door Colt Ralliart Version-R - my mums car. 1.5 Turbo Mivec. It's ok, but its got NO power before 3500rpm at all, you can floor it and it wont accelerate at all. At 3500rpm you get a little pull, not much - 0-60 in 8s. It looks gash too. I am however going to be buying a 1.5 3 door colt diesel soon as my runabout, because they get 70mpg and 0-60 in 9s and 161ft lbs of Torque.

 

Why the hell can't they sell cars like that over here

 

Mitsu have only just started selling them in the UK. The engine is infact a Volkswagen engine.