Project Tamama

Day 18 - Finaly finished!

Day 18

Damn what a hot day, but my dad came over early and we got stuck in!

1st up was fitting the drive shaft back in, after removing it totaly and cleaning it all up - it popped back in just fine - and stayed locked in place - hurray!

So next up we fitted the front bumper back on after spraying the grills black, and we re-fitted a few bits of under tray and such. I also sorted out why i had no reversing lights - the fuse had gone - well at least it was an easy fix !

So we then set the tracking - would it make it off the drive? you know it would!

And once set i took it for a gentle drive to the nearest shell garage for some optimax goodness!

By now the oil temp was at a steady 85-90 deg C, it was only 2pm and i felt the need to erm.. .test VTEC?

Good lord is all i can say! Wheel span in 1st, get into 2nd and vtec kicked in at 6K ish and i short shifted at just over 8K - opps still in B16A2 mode - into 3rd and i took her to 8.5K - come on it can go more!! 4th gear up to 9K.

Holy jeeebus its quick - i quickly ran outta road and left myself plenty of stopping distance as to bed the brakes in gently.

Boy am i impressed and happy - and a little scared, i need to take it easy for a good while till i get used to the power and the steering is.... well yes its heavey compared to P/S - well durrr, but with only 2.5 turns lock to lock - it don't take much turning to make a turn anyway, so like everything else its gonna take some getting used to!

Ive also got some odds and sodds to sort out - like the jdm wind deflectors and jap size number plates and giving it a damn good wash! but all in good time! more importantly it needs a new cam belt - im not taking any chances of it snapping! :D

And so onto one of my fav parts - the thank yous!

Without the kind help and support of the following people none of this could have happened:

To start it has to be my dear long time suffering wife Claudette for putting up with..well me and my constant car related stuff and spending too much money and always being in the garage

My parents! Mum and dad you've been amazing coming over most days to help me and make food and drinks - youve both been fantastic i dont think i can ever thank you for the help youve both been to me!

The rest are in no real order just as i think of you all theres so many!!

Perrymoo - Pez
Mr_Ben - Ben
Spoon_civic - Rich
Civic_EG_Northants - Ben
Civic Disturbance - Chris Lee
EddyESi - Eddy
Spider - Iain
chrisellis - Chris E
Spodder
ProjectVTi - Kyle
B16Beg - Luke
Jonion - Jon
A2KLAU - Albert

And eveyone else from Honda revs, SXOC, CSC, and all the other forums im seen on - thanks to you all for your support and kind words!

All the guys at Acordis in Coventry where i work - John Field, Chris monk, Chris mouser, Pete B, Steve Goz, my manager Paul for letting me bring in stuff to do at work! and all the rest of you guys!

Im in debt to you all Thank you so much!!!

The car will be at JAE in just over a weeks time (21st-23rd of july) so i hope to see most of you there so i can thank you in person!

Heres some quick piccys i took before coming in!











Chris Gordon

posted by Chris_Gee @ 4:54 PM