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So I didnt really stop racing over winter. july track day The weather in july was perfect conditions and last minute decision was made. With all the modifications to the rear and removing the abs fuse (it would lift a wheel and have a freak out) I was able to get my laps down to high 45. Seconds. Came back from that track day hungry for more so I decided to pull the brake lines from a non abs logo at pick a part and drop 5kg removing abs unit I changed the drivers seat to something a bit lighter and add strut brace I've had sitting around for a while. August track day I was excited to try out the new mods unfortunately the weather didn't want to be nice again. With the rear bar and the soft springs I had the best drift car. Removed one of the links and went back to under steering but that was more controlled than the oversteer. Nothing else to report apart from mud. missed September because of sickness October track day I decided to make a set of new sway bar ends that had a bit of adjustment in them to give myself some more adjustment incase the rain came again. The bottom hole is the same as the original and the other is about 100mm away. When I initially went out on track it felt really good, smoother than before didnt feel like I was floating on a cloud. But I couldn't achieve the same lap times as july. The silly thing about that day I was having understeer problems all day and chasing my tail playing with tyre pressure and driving lines but it didn't make any difference. Not until I got home later I realized I had the sway bar set at the middle hole. I assume that was the difference. Its definitely softer than before I think I will add more steel to try stiffen it up. Cant do Novembers day daughters birthday. I've got a full new suspension set up coming up for December day. At this I'll just say custom everything. Hopefully get a wof in the next week and get it ready for the drags. Thanks for looking

Rhd japan. Or alternatively join the " honda logo modified " facebook page there are plenty of posts on there about springs. Make sure you also get the adjustable panhard bar.

These are super jacked from factory. I notched my last one I was able to have 4 inch reset springs 2 inch lowering blocks front eye relocation 195/50r15 and with 2 inch drop spindles in the front. Still wasn't low enough so I flipped the load spring in the rear got it to about 60mm of ground clearance. The ride was surprisingly nice. Only problem is the wheels are quite far apart and would bottom out on everything. Looking good btw!

I have a smaller c notch lazer cut and folded ready to go down that rabbit hole? Haha

Is yours the early model? 86-89 had different style and fabric on seats, door cards had different material the early ones had a thinner rim plastic coated steering wheel? Crazy to think next year the early d21s are 40 years old. 1 year wof baby. Mines 1990. Dam

Good luck! I pulled mine apart 3 years ago to do the same rust repair. Now I have no idea how it goes back to together.

I've always thought it goes lighter with time. Dont know why they would change their mind now. Are they measuring it from the same location each time? Could one piece of glass have slightly more factory tint?

This is the appeal with cars, you can have the same chassis but use completely different parts to get a machine thats personalized for you. I've spoken to Brynn quite a bit about his set up. I think he had to get custom axles. I've just acquired the zcd16 from his 4wd integra for a swap at a later date. Atm my focus has been trying to keep it light and corner well. Power to come later. Brynn and I have talked about hrv and logo and capa which all share similar chassis. Last I spoke to him he was still on the lookout for the capa sway bar because it has a decent girth.

Thanks @cletus good information to have. You're definitely right. Before I go any further I'll look into blings suggestion.

Thanks @Bling that could definitely be an option.

This is potentially a long way around a fairly small problem. I've been using my honda logo on the track a bit recently and have realized it has a lot of under steer. Rear sway bar helped but really need to stiffen the front springs. Current front springs are 3kg. Unfortunately I haven't been able to find a spring that has similar dimensions. Nor have I been able to find a similar style strut that would suit the current configuration. What I EXPERIMENTED with so far to try and resolve this, is a set of honda fit gd3 coilovers with 65mm ID spring. Spring rate options and heights are now endless. They have the standard two bolt at the bottom mounting so that requires the honda fit knuckles which are surprisingly close match to the logo. Using the fit ball joint pressed into the logo bottom arm the logo axle slides into the fit hub. (They use the same bearing so will press out fit hub and use logo hub instead) The problem I have now is the tie rod location is about 40mm lower. So my question is.... FIT ^^^ VS LOGO^^^^ Q. What are my legal options for spacing up tie rod ends? Any suggestions would be great. Even if it means a completely different path to get the same results. I understand i will need cert. Please note: Logo tie rod already mounts on top of existing knuckles so cant flip it over. Thanks.

Thanks for the advice.

Thanks for the advice. I've already got a super thick front bar. The front spring rates are only 2kg or something like that. I have some fit coilovers that I've got to try make work at some stage. Up until then I'll make it work with cheap fixes.

Just ticked off the 3rd track day over the weekend. We had a good 6 weeks between days so I had a bit of time to try out improvements. First thing was trying to tackle the aggresive left front tyre wear by killing the understeer and body roll. I asked a few fellow fwd racers and they all said stiff rear / big bar. No factory rear sway for the logo this meant anything I did would need to be custom. I already had a rear sway bar from integra but it was only about 10mm to 12mm so didnt feel it was worth making it work because the difference wouldn't be noticeable. I was poking around the garage and I came across the 24.5mm torsion bars from my Narava. Then came across some honda fit sway bar links. Opened my parts drawer and found some starlet sway bar bushes. Started with making some mounts for the bar to mount to the axle. Originally wanted to mount it underneath facing forward but fuel tank was in the way. Facing backward and underneath fouls the panhard as it goes through its travel but the closer it is the arc of the arms doesn't interfere with the panhard. So I made mounts that mount it about level with the bottom on the back face of the axle. There is just enough room between the axle and panhard for everything. That was the trickiest part after that finding mounting for the body mounts was somewhat easier but still unsure if where I've actually put them is any bit legal but could cut them off and make them bolt on. (Just tacked in photo) When testing, I was finding the bar was shifting to the left potentially due the arc of the panhard when going over bumps. I've since put some bolt up hose clamps that seems to have stopped the problem. Also doing test drives it's now started lifting rear wheels when cornering hard and entering driveways. Other notable things I changed was trying out some semi slick ish tyres for the front the are pretty meaty but seem soft and they are cheap. So of course I needed another set of rims which of course needed a complete restoration. So blasted the centers and had Arrow wheels take out the buckle and weld the lips and re polish. Then painted the centers in gloss white. The improvements are definitely noticeable I can now keep my foot flat in 3rd gear going into t3 t4 at Hampton club circuit. I was lifting before entering previously. Just feels so much better all round. Could definitely do with a heavier front spring to stop the rear wheel lifting so high (was told almost 200mm high) but still in the testing stages and still managed to consistently be doing 46 seconds (dont know what it was before never had lap timer untill the last two sessions of the day) All in all everything was good had a small event with the hub nut starting to come loose but thankfully that was found quickly. Looking forward to the next day later this year going to take the winter off to do some other things while weather is crappier.

Thanks I'll give this a try