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Yea going to do some hidden bits first and if it turns out alright, continue with the shown stuff, but otherwise just buy a kilo of 0.6 I did a little course in welding to get done techniques down and they covered some things panel steel things, so hopefully not going in completely blind

Did the same on recent sale, can confirm pretty good so far. Have only done 2-3mm steel for the moment but does what it says on the packet. Using 0.8mm wire, so looking forward to starting on panels soon

So you're the sadist who's cars at Steve's shop. I do wonder how he keeps that place afloat with Fraser and Josh there storing equally long builds there (I mean, not as long as Steve's Escort....) but hey, you're in good hands at least. But anywho, I see someone put a k24 in a lotus with an e153, so I assume your application is plausible too.

There's some case law somewhere about that. Something something if the incident wasn't caused or contributed by a thing that would fail a WOF then you're covered still.

I've never heard of Bilstein or Koni shocks not passed with perch sitting on a single circlip groove in all my decades in hondas. Always easy to argue both brands are able to be sourced from repco etc as OEM replacements. I've heard of people failing when there's multiple grooves as those are not OEM grooves and there's concerns over if that was suitable, and I've also heard of Wofs being a visual inspection and electrical tape strategically used 🤭 Hondas have different perch heights too, like the DA Integra one is flat perch because it's longer spring and EF civic is a 1.5 inch tall cup perch. So me swapping out the DA perch onto my factory EF shocks lowered my car by 1.5 inches. Was it legal? Dunno. Do I continue to be a degenerate? Yes

Meeting next Thursday 27th at 6.30pm at angry chicken petone /Woolworths car park (see pic below). It's under the nzhondas banner, but you know, car community spirit is dying a bit and I'm trying to revive it without charging $10 at the door like others... All welcome, doesn't need to be Honda etc

Yea, be a goodn

I wouldn't bother going through Police, pretty sure there's a check box on the Motor Vehicle Register at NZTA. Could easily request all the information about a vehicle with information on ownership redacted. It's a 10 second query if was still there

Yea did a dohc zc in a shuttle as well with no electronic issues, however even dohc zc are getting pretty rare these days too. Probably a sohc VTEC from an EK is going to be the cheapest opportunity, but the you'll still need to adapt up to an obd2 ecu, or pay for an ever-so-increasingly expensive obd1 ecu ($200-300 odd, but chippable)

Ohai, I posted on your FB post today. Didn't realise you were OSer. Happy to chat through wizardry if you do want to go down the path of stupidity on engine swaps. Local friend pioneering it all is happy to share details. Cool build though, love dedication to the mundane beauty

As for the rear beam, could potentially use the Honda logo like I'm using? Looks to be veeeery similar design to your civic, but with more modern parts and 4x100

Cool build, I'm going to try steal your k series intake on my Honda, I think it'd be pretty good match for the spaces I have to deal with in my build. Re: knuckles, have you considered trying to get a Honda Fit knuckle to work? I'm using GD knuckles with evo 7 shocks.... With some work.... But I might be a nicer fit on yours? Taper from the bottom ball joint and steering rack worked perfect on mine, so hopefully works for you too. Bonus if you can use GE knuckles as you can upgrade to 282mm discs easily too

The main problem I have with the process is they're expecting me to submit a design to get approved, but Im not an engineer (happy to fab things, but plan wasnt to do final welding myself). When I asked engineer, they told me to talk to certifier. Talked to certifier and they want me to go to design approval. Ultimately I don't want to spend $150 to go for design approval for them to laugh me away and stop wasting their time. I have all the enthusiasm for learning, but seemingly no one who's interested to teach

Anyone gone through design approval process with lvvta/TAC? Ol' m8 Julian thinks my cars too modded and wants to put me up against the design approval, but aside from lvvta website not sending the CCM, the Internet seems pretty quiet on it.