Hi Guys,
My name is Nick (Tex is my nickname from school and D2 TEX is my private plate) I live in North wales near a town called Pwllheli and i\'m 24. I\'ve been a Honda nut for years now but made the move into boost when I bought my Nissan Skyline R33 GTR. I sold the GTR two weeks ago an on tuesday I drove up to Glasgow to pick up my new toy :)
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Its a 94 RX7 Efini and was a bit of an impulse buy. The spec is as follows:
Exterior:
Re-Amemiya full lip kit
Work Meister 2 piece 17\' alloys
Fully adjustable GT spoiler
Interior:
Recaro half bucket
Nardi steering wheel
Trust gear knob
Chasis:
JIC magic fully adjustable coilovers
Half roll cage
Front upper strut brace
Performance:
Joe Bounds R exhaust system
HKS twin filters
HKS boost and temp gauges
Paddle clutch
Dump Valve
Electrical:
Electrical earthing fully re-conditioned
Fully remapped for UK fuel
Alpine double Din md/cd player
It apparently had a rebuild before it was imported which i\'m not 100% on but it does fire up first time and pulls like a train. Its got a few issue\'s which i\'ll post about elsewhere but they aren\'t anything major. I\'m really happy with the car and it handles superbly. Its as quick as my GTR was but handles better and i love the noise it makes :InLove
My car history is as follows:
Here goes:
Started off with an 85 polo coupe and promptly wrote it off within three days :oops:
Second car was a 90 5 door Daihatsu charade which lasted me a long time but sadly got written off by a bus in a car park
Third car was the first car i\'d owned and not actually crashed :P It was a 95 Fiat cinquecento sporting (cheap insurance after the previous mishaps)
Fourth was my first Honda and i loved it, It was a 4th gen Civic VT on a J plate, i lowered it and put an exhaust on and was very happy until a cheap CRX VT came along and i sold the civic to fund it. The civic later ended up like this:
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Fifth car as ive already mentioned was a 1990 CRX VT in white which i did loads to including Gaz coilovers, DC 4-1 manifold, Dc exhaust etc etc
In the end it looked like this:
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Thats the only photo i have of it with the coilovers on
6th car was a 1989 CRX SiR in Gunmetal grey which i went to town on as you can see from my for sale ad:
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The car is a 1989 G reg Gunmetal grey SiR with sunroof
Its got 140k kilometers on the clock and has just recieved a full service including cambelt and air con belt change
The spec is as follows:
UK spec glass headlights
Custom front bumper with number plate re-located
B16A1 140k kilometers
5 speed box with no crunches
Exhaust:
DC sports center section with custom made stainless De-cat
RActive backbox with 4 1/2 inch slash cut backbox
chassis:
AVO coilovers with spax progressive bump stops
Front upper, rear upper and rear lower strut braces
Center brace that goes between the front and rear seats
MG Big brake conversion using rover 620 calipers and pads (only been on car since feb)
Wheels and tyres:
17" OZ Chrono evolution alloys with 3 nankang pro sport ns2 tyres and one that i got from quick fit the other week. (one new nankang needed soon)
Interior:
REVO short shifter with Momo gearnob
Momo corse steering wheel
SiR steel dials with custom EL backlight
UV Needles
Corbeau Forza sport 2000 fixed buckets
3 point harnesses with mot passable buckle
JDM 1.5 Black cord rear seat
UKDM VT leather door cards with SiR chrome strip
CRX-UK Mats in red
ICE:
Kenwood CD Mask head unit
Kenwood dual mags Components front and rear
Kenwood 1000 watt amp
2*Kenwood 12" subs
Security:
Toad Ai606 alarm with central locking and immobiliser
The car was dyno\'d at the scotland meet last year when it had a supersprint manifold and a different exhaust.
it made 179bhp at the fly
I sold the SiR to buy my current Honda which is a 1987 Civic GT with a B20 :twisted:
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CAR SPEC:
1987 civic GT (white) With a B20B
Mods:
B20b crv-tec conversion
B16a1 head 10 thou milled(port+polish)
Hasport mount kit
golden eagle vtec oil line
ITR intake manifold
345cc injectors
AEM adjustable cam pulleys
Mapped PWO ecu
DC sports 4-1 header
2 1/2" full stainless system
full race AP-Racing 4 paddle clutch + flywheel
2x cobra monico buckets
sparco 3 point harnesses
Lowered - Koni yellow adj rear shocks / spax springs
Lowered - stock front torsion bars/shocks
CRX 16v EBC turbo groove discs / green stuff pads
15" Rota Slipstreams
PERFORMANCE:
Last RR\'d @ 188bhp with 150 lbs/ft torque!
0-60 ~ 5.6 sec
1/4 mile ~ 13.6 @ 101 road tyres (before ecu upgrade, intake)
T- speed ~ 136mph (gear/rev limit)
I\'m nearly finished with a full bare shell rebuild of the GT now which i have been keeping a diary of (not been updated for a while though) Details and pics can be found here (http://board.hondacrx.co.uk/phpBB2/modules.php?set_albumName=album688&op=modload&name=gallery&file=index&include=view_album.php) and here (http://board.hondacrx.co.uk/phpbb2/viewtopic.php?t=33250)
After I started the rebuild on the civic I stumbled accross a JDM 96 spec Integra type R which i got a cracking deal on and promptly bought.
It went from this:
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To this:
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and:
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Once i\'d finished what i planned to do to the Teg i started to look for the next step and had always wanted a skyline so decided to find myself one. Lucky for me a mate of mine had just imported one through his company and offered me a cracking px on it with my teg so i went for it :D
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I didn\'t really mod the Skyline as it already had basic mods fitted so i just tidied the wheels up with a fresh colour scheme and basically enjoyed the car for what it was (and spent loads on fuel :crackup: )
As I said the skyline was sold to a mate of mine 2 weeks ago and 5 hours later ended up like this:
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Not a straight panel on it :(
So thats my car history done with. Sorry if it was too long and boring for you but its the best way i could think of introducing myself and showing what sort of things i\'m in to :D
Cheers for reading and Hi :wave
Nick
Welcome! :D
FD looks really nice!.... Take it you like white cars then? lol.
Oh and you think the GTR drinks fuel........ welcome to a whole new world of petrol consumption!
Kewl write up!
Should get you to write up my race reports!!!
Do like the arse end of your new rex......noticed there is a bit of a white thing going on!!
Very good write up !
The RX7 certainly gets my approval !! Love the white!
And your other cars, ahve certainly been interesting!
Hello and Welcome.:wave
Very nice mate !!
You dont seem to have much luck with the people you have sold your cars too lol.
Love the white R33....beautiful car !!!
Loving the Rex.
very nice tex. you bought McCalys rx. considered it for myself just didnt have the readies at the time! good purchase! :Thumbs-up
That\'s a nice REX mate, I nearly bought it about 18mths ago from a guy near Preston :)
Cheers for the welcome guys :Thumbs-up
Yeah i bought the car off Mccaly up in Glasgow. As ive said above its got a few issues but they aren\'t anything that can\'t be sorted and all in all i\'m very happy with it :wiggle
Nick
Nick nice collect you have had over the past, love the GTR though the RX is a stunner. Is white a preferred colour choice? Or is it what people have to spay a car to get you to impulse buy it, lol only joking you have a lovely looking car.
It\'s a very nice looking car in the flesh, has a lot of presence and sits really nice on the coilovers, pictures don\'t do it justice!
Awesome car mate, but get some jenolite jelly for your rust spots, it\'ll sort them out in no time!
Hello and welcome mate. You like your white cars don\'t ya hehe. I must admit i do love the fd in white. I wish i would have bought a white one instead of red. You car looks identical to keirons old car. Sadly this car was broke up recently, all the bits sold and the body sent to the scrapyard:eek
nooooo y send it to scrapyard!!! the white motor looks awesome - you should have fun cleaning that evryday lol.
Bet you were disappointed when you went from the teg to the R33 werent you? :)
Nice rex, nice teg too mate. Lotta respect for those cars.
Quote from: BobfishBet you were disappointed when you went from the teg to the R33 werent you? :)
LMAO
Welcome to the club buddy. You look like you have some mint roads around you!
welcome dude.... white is definately the best colour :Thumbs-up
Hey Nick, your new ride looks very nice indeed, what tail Lights have you got on your rex there ?
it is a Re-A rear light spoiler
cheers fella, thanks for the info.
My RX7 is now for sale as i\'ve just been offered a once in a lifetime engine for my Civic and i\'ll need the money from the RX7\'s sale to pay for it.
I know the ad says i\'m open to px\'s but unless the px is a cheap one with plenty of cash my way then i can\'t do it.
£5750 as is or £5500 without the HID\'s and the head unit.
The car is booked in with Mazda this week for a compression test so i can see if an engine rebuild has been done in the past.
http://www.pistonheads.com/sales/258231.htm
Cheers
Nick
Welcome to the club.
I also have a white fd (Bathurst 96 jap import). I love cars in white the best colour.
Especially when polished and cruising at night, every one can see ya.!!!
Nice write up, enjoyed reading it
Good luck with the car mate
Regards,
Regards,
Michaelb
OOOO NOOOO
I have just read your post above, you are selling it...shame..
Any way good luck with the sale
Regards,
Michaelb
welcome mate, im also a honda head, always will be i love um, iv had a few EE9\'s the one i have at the moment iv put a k20lump in it its 245bhp plus 50shot of nos
i usually paint it a diffrent colour every year cos i get bored to quick lol
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this is it when it had its original engine it was just under 220bhp at the fly pluys a 75 shot of gas
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this is my first ee9
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and this is my runaround at the moment
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