ReelMotion Dyno Day Video

Dave C's video of the dyno day a few weeks back - Love it!

Interior Carbon Bling

Now, whilst trawling Japan auctions I came across some carbon trim which I had only ever seen once before years ago. No where in the UK or even the States, but in Japan. The reason I had seen this before was because a certain chap although living in Japan, used to be a regular poster on the itr-dc5 forum and of course, as far as I know this trim is only made in Japan (for reasons unbeknowst to me).

The trim in question is a carbon fibre speedometer surround. A very nice touch which I'm surprised no one in the UK or the States has copied circa 9 years! Anyway enough chit chat, here are the pictures.

Awaiting to inspect :)

Close Up

Front

Rear with sticky areas

Takata Harness

So a good opportunity came up to purchase a 6 point Takata Harness. It's lovely but to be honest, side by side I prefer the Willans...Compulsive buying FAIL (-_-)
I'll decide in the new year what to do..

R1R's, RS2's and ad08's

This happened earlier in the year, but better late than never.

I was evaluating tyre reviews in order to decide what rubber my Volks would get. I wanted track/road hybrid tyres, essentially one step down from semi slicks in terms of track performance.

For a long time I was going to go for Hankook RS2's as they had many good reviews and were a decent price.

Hankook RS2

However, it had come to my attention that UK distributors were finally going to bring over Yokohama's new ad08 tyre. I had seen lots of very positive reviews on the ad08's; one in particular stood out - tyre rack review - extreme performance summer tyres. 'Race tyre handling' in my eyes put them above the RE-11's as dry handling appeals to me more than wet (wet handling is the RE-11's trump card + we can't get them in the UK...).
So with many positive ad08 reviews and a price hike of the RS2's at the start of the year it was provisionally decided, my Volk's soles would be a set of Yoko ad08's.

Yokoham ad08

Toyo has always been very popular amongst drivers, in particular their R888 semi slick tyres which are used in UK Time Attack.
They had brought out their R1R track/road tyre which for some reason not many people had tried. As such I wanted to find some reviews on these to see if they were worth considering over the Yoko's.

However, when I saw the first picture of them I was shocked.
For a while now I was under the impression that I had Toyo T1R tyres (road tyre). Thinking about it I can't actually remember checking the make although I'm sure I carried this out (I know this does not make sense).
Seeing a picture of the R1R I recognised them immediately, those were my tyres!

Toyo R1R

My track day at Brands now started to make more sense. Yes, I will still admit the drivers around me were not exactly the fastest around, but when I've got FRSU, uprated brakes and Toyo R1R's on that's quite an upgrade.

I of course proceeded to go outside and double check my tyres and found the answer as to why I hadn't remembered the type. The only lettering I could see on the tyres was "Trampio R1R". You really had to inspect the entire wheel to find 'Toyo' which was in tiny tiny writing. 'Trampio' doesn't really stick in the mind as a tyre model so I must've combined the T and 1R to form T1R....

Having never heard of Toyo Trampio in the UK, it turns out this was the older name plate for Proxy and only available in Japan. This means I probably have one of the last remaining sets of Trampio R1R's around unless someone is stockpiling them ha ha.

Dyno Day @ SRR

So Dave C from Reelmotion organised a K20 dyno day at Surrey Rolling Road (SRR). Great day out as expected and I was a very happy chappy by the end of it.

Dave had told me DC5's in stock form usually produced between 205 to the low 210's on the SRR dyno. Anything above 210 was consider a very healthy engine.

On my final run, my car made 216.6 bhp on 97 ron fuel (I was desperate for fuel on the way to Mallory the week before). The DC5 is tuned to 100 ron, so most owners (including me) run with Shell VPower (99 ron). I was a very happy man. Even Charlie from SRR commented how it was a very good figure for a stock DC5; a healthy engine indeed!

Note: Official Honda figures quote DC5 power output as 217 bhp

My run:



  And dyno graph

Some pictures of the Tegs on the day.

And last but not least I had to post this up as it's one of my all time favourite exhausts - J's Racing 70RR FX. Crazy loud that you could feel the vibrations in your ears.

Rays FTW

It's no secret that I wanted CE28s however I hadn't previously divulged the specs I had chosen:

• Rays Volk Racing CE28n
• 17 x 7.5 ET50
• Diamond Black custom colour (anodized)

Note: OEM wheels are 17 x 7 ET60

I maybe could have gone with a lower offset but anything below ET45 runs the risk of rubbing against the arches. The next available offset down from 50 was 43 so you see why I made my choice. I was going to run camber settings for performance gains, not so that I could fit wider wheels or run a lower offset. In saying this though, I wish I'd been brave and gone wider with a lower offset at the front (rubbing is less of an issue) for two reasons:

1. It's a FF car so more grip generated at the front driven wheels is a bonus and perhaps would induce more oversteer
2. I need a wider stance at the front, the reason why shall be revealed in a later post if you can't guess already ;)

Aside from looking gorgeous, the CE's have significant performance gains as they are forged monoblock wheels. Forged monoblock combine lightweight construction with the highest level of stability. The light weight construction noticeably reduces the volume of rotating and unsprung mass whilst increasing the wheel's stability and load bearing capacity. Decreasing the rotational mass would effectively increases acceleration.

Wheel weights:

• OEM Wheel Weight: 8.8kg
• CE28 Wheel Weight: 6.75kg

A saving of 2.05kg per corner and 8.2kg of unsprung and rotational mass in total!

Anyway, here are some pictures.

And re-capping back to a previous post, the centre caps that will go with each wheel.

A great combo in my opinion.

Track Day @ Mallory Park

I had been looking for an opportunity for over a year to go with Hondas On Track (HOT) on one of their track days. The day had finally come when one of their organised track days coincided with me being available. The weather had other ideas - FAIL =(