Keef's Car Thread | Wheels on the Bus | 09/08/23

[Steele_obsidion]

I ave to agree, i like it as is. no lowering Necessary.

 

[homeforsummer]

Ditto. Looks great already, and presumably performs pretty well too. Leave it be on the suspension front.

 

[Perfect Balance]

Keef, leave your car as it is. Any lower and you'll look like a total dick.

Still trying to figure out how you came to that conlusion. My Civic was about that high before I lowered it.

Half an inch lower would be better, but since keef is tuning his car to do circles in a parking lot, he can't go much lower than that without running into major rubbing problems.

 

[eiriksmil]

I like it.

 

[Omnis]

Still trying to figure out how you came to that conlusion. My Civic was about that high before I lowered it.

Half an inch lower would be better, but since keef is tuning his car to do circles in a parking lot, he can't go much lower than that without running into major rubbing problems.

Well it looks like you found the reason.

 

[Perfect Balance]

So he'll look like a total dick if he runs into rubbing problems in an autocross as a result of lowering his vehicle?


Been to an autocross lately?

 

[Keef]

 

[Joey D]

Wow your mom is awesome, at least my mom only hits my dad's vehicles in the driveway. Although I get the garage so it's all good.

 

[Keef]

I used to share the garage, but then we had a garage sale. Now a bunch of junk that's worth a hundred dollars shares the garage with mom's car, which itself is worth approximately one rear bumper less than it was last night.

 

[Perfect Balance]

Didn't you JUST have the bodywork done?

 

[Philly]

What did he have done to it? Repairs from a wreck of a mis-fitting body kit ricer style?

 

[Keef]

Didn't you JUST have the bodywork done?

The passenger door had the dent removed, which worked out alright, but the dude did something underneath the molding. It looks like it's got superglue coming out from underneath on the bottom. That aspect of the free job wasn't worth it, and I want that redone. Also, the key scratches on the driver's door were removed.

I'm leaving it until I can afford a proper repair job. Both sides redone. Again. Not for free.

 

[Philly]

Why are you paying to fix your mom's accident? Shouldn't it at least be on her insurance?

 

[Casio]

Why are you paying to fix your mom's accident? Shouldn't it at least be on her insurance?

Yeah, I was about to say, I'd be bitch slapping your mum till she coughs up the money.

 

[Keef]

Money is tight right now, it's a family deal. So I'm going to have to wait quite a while. I got along fine with it busted before so I imagine I'll get used to it again. Pretty bummed that I can't show up to Import Alliance with a clean car though, because that was what the body work was all about.

 

[Perfect Balance]

Yeah you're gonna lose all JDM credibility with that dent there, you just won't make it at Import Alliance. You might as well give up on life while you're at it, since there is no other meaning to it if you can't impress the fanboys.

Btw, it wouldn't have mattered anyway, your car isn't near low enough for IA.

 

[Slicks]

You could start, keef, by polishing the living daylights out of the hit area. It won't make the dent go away, but all the scuffs surrounding it just may vamoos. Touch up the scratches, polish again, and you'll make the whole thing much less visible.

 

[homeforsummer]

And then while you're at it, remove the door card and give it a jolly good whack from the inside to remove the majority of the dent.

 

[Joey D]

Or you could just put a Band-Aid over it and be cheeky about the whole thing.

 

[Keef]

Or you could just put a Band-Aid over it and be cheeky about the whole thing.

I ordered a 10 inch long bandaid sticker last night actually. I've got a friend who makes stickers (he drifts a 240, imagine what his car looks like) and I could possibly have him make a big huge one.

 

[mustangGT90210]

Way to find a positive!

 

[Azuremen]

Just rust the door and put a VW tag on the car.

All the cool kids do it.

 

[Keef]

My quickest laps of the day weren't among these three, but whatevs. The second lap in particular had a crappy ending. Even if I'd have ironed them out perfectly I wouldn't have reached 2nd place. The S2000 and Cesar's (Speed Junkie) winning Miata were a good margin ahead of me. But it's still amusing that a Civic can even consider competing. I've got a few pictures of cars and stuff that I have yet to edit.

I'll also make a post in the Track Day thread but I need to edit another map of the track.

 

[Perfect Balance]

You really need a steering wheel Keef, it just looks like you were fumbling that thing around the whole time. Looks like fun though, the track is tighter than I was expecting.

Could have been a bit smoother on the save when you oversteered on the last lap though.



Also, I see Cesar's Miata at 3:51. 👍

Any videos of his runs?

 

[homeforsummer]

Do they do quick rack kits for the Civic? If anything that'd be more useful than an aftermarket wheel, even if it doesn't come with the same cool-points.

 

[TheBook]

I am currently in awe right now. Good driving, too 👍

I'd like to do something like this someday too.

 

[Joey D]

You attacked that time real good.

That track looked really short though, almost like a go-kart track. Maybe it's just because I'm used to the track we have near my house which is massive.

Oh and what kind of camera setup do you have?

 

[Omnis]

You really need a steering wheel Keef, it just looks like you were fumbling that thing around the whole time.

He needs one of these:



and with either this or this on it

 

[Keef]

That track looked really short though, almost like a go-kart track.

It is a kart track lol. Speaking of tight, I was upset when they changed the layout in the morning to include that first chicane. We started out coming out of the first corner and blasting down the straight. It turned out to be a good challenge though.

Oh and what kind of camera setup do you have?

I just used a typical point-and-shoot taped to a stick, which was taped to my passenger headrest.

And Cesar does have videos, buuuut...they won't come off his card for some reason. Neither of my computers would read his card at all, my camera would read his pics but not the videos, and his camera read everything just fine. I don't know what to do about that dilemma but download some recovery software, or take it to some computer nerds and have them scavenge for the lost data. Can you recover data off a solid-state drive?

Do they do quick rack kits for the Civic? If anything that'd be more useful than an aftermarket wheel, even if it doesn't come with the same cool-points.

No, and it sucks. They have "quick" manual racks, but those are still slower than this power rack. My old Del Sol's rack was a good bit quicker than this, but I haven't found anything on the internet of anyone swapping them easily. I did find a thing where a guy swapped the innards of an Integra GSR rack into an EM1 rack (mine), but that's the only mention of that I've ever found. It worked for him supposedly, and he does have pictures of it. I considered it a while ago but I'm only going to tear everything apart if I know it's going to work.

 

[Joey D]

Well that would explain why it looks like a go-kart track then.

And have you thought about something like this?
http://www.goprocamera.com/index.php?area=2&productid=5

I'm considering getting something like it just for the sheer novelty of taking videos of me driving. Also I could attach it to my buddy's autocross car and get some sweet shots that way too.