Just bought a Black FD!

[Warthog]

Welcome to the world of power.:wave

[Bulla]

Doesn\'t it rain in Japan?

It sure does, but many peeps on here have fallen foul of crap jap rubber giving them a scare.

Bulla

[evo_ray]

Welcome to the world of power.:wave

Thank You :wave

Looking forward to my first drive in a couple of weeks time:3gears-rh

I hope it\'ll give me a bigger grin than my Evo did.......and that was a large grin:D.  In fact, I still grin when I think about that car......

Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhh, the pleasures of the motor car :InLove

[sam]

It sure does, but many peeps on here have fallen foul of crap jap rubber giving them a scare.

Bulla

I think it\'s more to do with the tarmac in Japan and their rubber compounds to suit. I\'ve still got Jap tyres on my GT4 and they are fine in dry and snow, but any wetness and it\'s slide time... which is why I\'ve kept them on for the fun factor!:driving

Can understand why you should change tho with a RWD with that much power!
Bit more controllable in a 200bhp 4WD..!

[evo_ray]

It sure does, but many peeps on here have fallen foul of crap jap rubber giving them a scare.

Bulla

Thanks for the advice.

......And the expenses continue to mount!!!!!  Are you lot welcoming me or trying to scare me off!

The car is fitted with the original wheels (I think), gold colour 5 spoke.  So I will probably want to get a different set of rims and will probably get them covered in a good rubber too.

Just hoping that March will be a nice dry month!!

[Bulla]

Ha ha sorry, just dont want you to damage your new pride and joy. I\'m sure you\'ll love it. I ran mine on jap tyres for a couple of months and they were no problem in the dry, but give it in any boost in the wet and the back would go even at low speeds. Swapped them out for some toyos and the difference was unreal.

Enjoy your new motor !

Bulla

[elford_tim]

Is there anyone out there that has fitted a replica C1 kit?  If so, how did it go??

I doubt that you can read too much into someone\'s/anyone\'s experience fitting a "replica" kit unless you\'re buying from exactly the same source as said person. A lot of "replicas" are knocked up by a bloke in a shed, using a bad mould off another "replica" etc blah blah.

I\'m very wary of knockoff kit and that is something I\'ve learned by buying "cheap" in the past. In the long run, it was almost always false economy because it ended up costing more. These days I\'d rather pay for quality (and buy used if I can\'t/don\'t want to afford buying new). If you get a bad fitting knockoff kit that requires lots of additional hours at the bodyshop and a couple of tins of filler in order to fit at all, you aren\'t going to be too happy either.

As everybody else has said, spend the money on getting the mechanical side of the car sorted first. As your research on this and other forums has most likely shown to you, FDs are bargain supercars mostly in the buying them stakes and as you\'re just finding out they aren\'t the cheapest cars to own. There\'s not much point if you have it sitting pretty on your drive because you chose to spend the money on cosmetics instead of the basic safety mods suggested here.

Not trying to discourage you in any way as I think these are great cars - do things right and you\'ll have a lot of fun with it :Thumbsup!.

[evo_ray]

This is the beauty of forums......all this sincere advice!  I think I\'ve already talked myself out of a replica kit and probably out of a veilside kit as I \'ve seen a few others that take my fancy.

My pleasure in cars has always been in the performance stakes first and foremost, looks are secondary......so I take all the advice and will be ensuring that the car is mechanically sound and looked after BEFORE i tart her up!

I hope you are all saving some well looked after second hand parts for me....I will be shopping real soon!!!

[olly-civic]

have black fd\'s been abolished from japan, there seems to be millions of them arriving everyweek! lol, hope yours brings u all the smiles and brown stains mine has brought to me lol

[evo_ray]

have black fd\'s been abolished from japan, there seems to be millions of them arriving everyweek! lol, hope yours brings u all the smiles and brown stains mine has brought to me lol

Maybe they don\'t like the rubber they are on so are leaving their country in droves (or should that be convoys?)

Thanks, can\'t wait to get behind the wheel and I\'ll make sure i put some plastic on the seat before i put my foot down :2eek