Wheels came in and they have plenty of caliper clearance! 16x7 +42 offset....

 

Did you have to use any shims for the rear calipers? A friend is running the same setup, EP3 SI calipers/rotors, Scarebird drum-to-disc conversion adapters, FastBrakes parking brake cable adapters to retain factory parking brake cables, and he had to use some shims to center his caliper on the rotor.

Thanks.

 

Interesting! No, I didn't use any shims. Maybe I need to take a good look at mine to make sure the rotor is perfectly centered. I've put, maybe, 600 miles on the car since doing the brakes and they are working.

The parking brake isn't as strong as I would like though. It holds for normal use, but doesn't want to hold on steeper hills.

 

Fancy shoes, GA'. Goin' to a party?

 

I gave the wife a choice between 5 wheels. Once she saw the costs, she chose the OZ's since they were the second least expensive. I was pushing for CE28 Club Racers, but neither of us liked the cost or wanted to wait 4 months to get them.

Probably need to update this thread more often.

Here's my son with a purchase that will help in the future...

 

Engine hording? Has it come to that?




P.S. Nice looking kid, by the way. But he needs a Honda t-shirt.

 

Looks great, this is an excellent post

 

Thanks! I sort of stopped updating this thread, but I finished the brake and wheel project. Been running the Accord master cylinder with 4 wheel disc brakes for a bit now...

 

Got the wife a new Accord 2.0 Sport and we spent some of our time and car budget toward that one for a while.

 

The Accord is now running a stage 3 Phearable tune on a Ktuner and we have the visual stuff done that we want. Next step for it will likely be wider wheels/tires when it needs new tires. Otherwise, it's probably done since it's the wife's daily and she drives about 40k miles per year.

With that done for now, I went back to work on the Fit a little bit. Installed a DC Sports header, Megan downpipe, AEM cold air intake, R18 throttle body, 310cc fuel injectors and flashed it with a Hondata tune. It sounds really aggressive with the Cat Cams camshaft, but it still makes very little power. Sounds and looks good though.




Next step for the Fit is taking out the transmission to install the Quaife differential and ClutchMasters clutch and flywheel.

 

Nice. Got any audio of the exhaust with that cam? Curious how it sounds.

 

I'm sorry, but I'm an idiot. I tried uploading it as a video, but the file was too large. Tried uploading an audio file, but it isn't an accepted format. I'll work more on it later.

 

https://streamable.com/ ?

 

I uploaded a couple of short videos to YouTube. I'm definitely not a videographer, but they should give an idea.

 

Cool, thanks for the effort!

 

Here's a sneak peek as to what's in the works...

 

A+ build thread!Very informative, and I've even gotten a few ideas of upgrades bro do on my own car.
Curious about your results with boost, your driveline setup is similar to what I'd like to do with mine in the near future.

 

Fit is prepped and loaded on the trailer to go to the fabricator tomorrow for the custom turbo kit...

 

Thanks for the update, this is really cool!

What ECU are you using? And does the turbo fit back there reasonably easily?

I don't know if I'll ever even get to it but I've been considering dropping one of those ebay kits in my GD1 just for fun. No intention of going all out and changing any internals so even something 120-150whp would be cool.

 

Factory ECU with a Hondata. It's a bit tight, but there is enough room for about any turbo.

Unfortunately, the eBay "kits" are just a manifold and turbo with a bunch of generic pipes. They would require a LOT of welding and fabrication.

My first purchase was a complete Top Fuel turbo kit, but once I got it here and looked over the parts I realized it would never make decent power. Wasted money on that one.