gotovato
Greenie N00B Member
Hey all,
most of you know this part of the story but I picked up my 2007 SI coupe in August and have been enjoying it ever since. It was originally intended to be my fun summer daily while my speed lost its motor early in the season. Being in Canada, Ontario, i only have like 5 good months to enjoy driving/track days and i was not about to sit the season out. So I bought the civic to fill its place in the mean time...this civic has already done 8 track days(between august and october) in my ownership...its gone through 2 full sets of pads and rotors up front...with the TSX(this is like an oem bbk for civic) brake setup lol...its safe to say i will be DRIVING this thing.
I have a pretty extensive build thread for my mazda so i figured id start one here for the civic. Learned alot building/driving the mazda. Im sure it will be helpful here.
The civic...even on stock suspension with intake header and an Etune ONLY was just that good on track. The chassis is better, the engine is better. The car overall seems just happier to be on track. Not to mention how freaking quick it is. I gave my turbo buddies a very hard time this summer with this little thing. That's why it will now be my main track car while my mazda goes back to street mode.
Mods as of now: Ktuned 3.5" CAI, skunk2 alpha header(stock header back with borla muffler), 50*vtc gear, rdx injectors(410cc vs stock 300cc), skunk2 radiator, TSX brake setup, competition 6 puck sprung clutch, tuned on hondata by Etunez, CMC delay delete, slave delay delete and a progress 22mm RSB.
next up mods: J37(70mm) TB with hybrid adapter, 07 TSX Cams, 3" Catback, Fortune auto 510 coilovers(ordered with 10k front 16k rear swift springs), wheel and tire package(get some 255's on this thing)
First track day with this car. Calabogie motorsports park. This was a blast
Competing in local time attack series "Ontario Time Attack"
Competition clutch failed on me...was installed by the previous owner and after seeing his instagram and how he drove...no wonder it failed on my lol. (my clutch on my other car failed earlier this season as well..i did 2 clutch jobs this year wooo)
these pads were Cobalt ER2 endurance racing pads....these
lasted about 3.5 track days...the last track day i was stopping just on the backing plate...WHOOOPS
good to the last drop as they say...i am investigating the possibilities of converting my mazda BBK to work on the civic...or ill do another one of the honda OEM BBKs which uses brembo 4 piston mono block calipers from an acura TL type S. Other beauty if the civic is easy brake master cylinder upgrade options for when you need more volume for that BBK life. god its just so easy...
Currently the car is just chilling. Ive parted out some of my "fancy" parts from my mazda build and that will fund a few things on this civic. Over the winter i will be looking for a wheel setup for this thing, as well as maybe a head and block(for future motor build) otherwise that will be about it for now. Goal is to just get seat time with this car.
most of you know this part of the story but I picked up my 2007 SI coupe in August and have been enjoying it ever since. It was originally intended to be my fun summer daily while my speed lost its motor early in the season. Being in Canada, Ontario, i only have like 5 good months to enjoy driving/track days and i was not about to sit the season out. So I bought the civic to fill its place in the mean time...this civic has already done 8 track days(between august and october) in my ownership...its gone through 2 full sets of pads and rotors up front...with the TSX(this is like an oem bbk for civic) brake setup lol...its safe to say i will be DRIVING this thing.
I have a pretty extensive build thread for my mazda so i figured id start one here for the civic. Learned alot building/driving the mazda. Im sure it will be helpful here.
The civic...even on stock suspension with intake header and an Etune ONLY was just that good on track. The chassis is better, the engine is better. The car overall seems just happier to be on track. Not to mention how freaking quick it is. I gave my turbo buddies a very hard time this summer with this little thing. That's why it will now be my main track car while my mazda goes back to street mode.
Mods as of now: Ktuned 3.5" CAI, skunk2 alpha header(stock header back with borla muffler), 50*vtc gear, rdx injectors(410cc vs stock 300cc), skunk2 radiator, TSX brake setup, competition 6 puck sprung clutch, tuned on hondata by Etunez, CMC delay delete, slave delay delete and a progress 22mm RSB.
next up mods: J37(70mm) TB with hybrid adapter, 07 TSX Cams, 3" Catback, Fortune auto 510 coilovers(ordered with 10k front 16k rear swift springs), wheel and tire package(get some 255's on this thing)
First track day with this car. Calabogie motorsports park. This was a blast
Competing in local time attack series "Ontario Time Attack"
Competition clutch failed on me...was installed by the previous owner and after seeing his instagram and how he drove...no wonder it failed on my lol. (my clutch on my other car failed earlier this season as well..i did 2 clutch jobs this year wooo)
these pads were Cobalt ER2 endurance racing pads....these
lasted about 3.5 track days...the last track day i was stopping just on the backing plate...WHOOOPS
good to the last drop as they say...i am investigating the possibilities of converting my mazda BBK to work on the civic...or ill do another one of the honda OEM BBKs which uses brembo 4 piston mono block calipers from an acura TL type S. Other beauty if the civic is easy brake master cylinder upgrade options for when you need more volume for that BBK life. god its just so easy...
Currently the car is just chilling. Ive parted out some of my "fancy" parts from my mazda build and that will fund a few things on this civic. Over the winter i will be looking for a wheel setup for this thing, as well as maybe a head and block(for future motor build) otherwise that will be about it for now. Goal is to just get seat time with this car.
