[hamshonads]

Looking good!


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Thanks!

 

[hamshonads]

Got around to fixing my backup camera today.

My original must have got moisture in it at some point, it was heavily fogged from inside the car on the display as seen here.. but nothing noticeable on the outside

I found a chinese knock off on amazon with the same part number (camera only)

From honda you have to buy the pigtail/mount/camera all as one unit. And the cheapest i found was $300 + cad 😳

The amazon unit was 50$ shipped, so i took the gamble

Here's a shot of it next to the oem unit

Left - oem Right - knockoff

The online reviews were a mixed bag, some had failure due to moisture and MANY had the qc issue of the image being inverted.. lol

Well turns out mine is inverted 🤣

The factory mount unfortunately only lets the camera key in one way. But i figured if i eventually have to bite the bullet and buy a honda unit, it comes with a new mount.. so i decided lets dremel this one and see if we can make it work with a flipped camera

Factory mount - marked my initial cut with a sharpie

Ended up having to remove alot of material, but heres the finished product

And the backside opened up, unfortunately this will expose it to weather so ill fix this once the camera is mounted in

With the mount prepped i turned my attention to the camera itself. With a few people haveing moisture issues i figured i would run a bead of CA glue around the seam to try and seal it up better.

I also raided my RC room for some marine grease, figured id use it on the o-ring for the wire connection and for the main housing that clips into the trunk. Just an extra precaution

My rRC stash also came in handy when i lost one of the mounting screws. Found a 1.5mm allen key that was close in size and it threaded right in (lower right corner)

And finally to seal up the back i just ran a thick bead of clear silicone into it, should do the trick

 

[hamshonads]

Before installing it back in the car i added one more bead of CA glue around the lens edge just to hopefully fend of more moisture

And heres the final result! It works great, and all 3 modes function as they should. I will update back if it fails early.. but heres to hoping it doesn't!

 

[hamshonads]

While i was in the shop i started prepping the last few bits on the car for HS competition

Starting with the front service or "crash bolts"

Factory - 16mm

Service bolt - 15mm

Out with the old and in with the new..

I used a ratchet strap to pull the new found movement in the strut, tied it around the base and back to the tow hook on the opposite side and sinched it down tight

This saved me from wrestling it tight and trying to tighten the bolts at the same time. Is it really a dumb idea if it works? 🤔

Next was to pull the cowl off and see if i could get any movement out of the top hats. Long story short.. not really. But on the passenger side i did get slight movement

You can see the clean paint mark here that it did move a smidge..

H street gains 🤣

I will get it on the alignment rack in the next few days to see what i obtained! For now heres a few pics of the visual camber gain on each side

Left

Right

 

[jn2k108]

When I ordered my crash bolts, it didn't come with washers. LOL. Putting them on, I didn't bother with ratchet straps. Just threw them on and tightened. Worked out fine.

 

[hamshonads]

When I ordered my crash bolts, it didn't come with washers. LOL. Putting them on, I didn't bother with ratchet straps. Just threw them on and tightened. Worked out fine.

Strange, i wonder if there is an updated part number. I recall the person behind the desk saying there was two but i dont recall why we chose the one we did.. either way it was the same story as the crash bolts in my FA5, 1mm less diameter

iirc yours wasnt able to get much on camber the one side?

 

[hamshonads]

The numbers are in, we threw the car on the rack tonight to reset the toe and see what camber we achieved

Numbers

The passenger side ended up being -1.2 after all was said and done but i forgot to get a picture of that

Normally id be more picky about side to side symmetry.. but this is HS, gotta take what we can get 🤣


We also mounted up a new set of 660s..
event coming up this sunday. Most likely be rained out so im hoping to give these a scrub on the street before the event

My RPF1's are in desperate need of a clean. The winmax pads in my FA5 dust horribly, curious to see what the dynamic friction do on the fb6.. so far so good, but i havent driven them in anger yet.. yet 😎

6 tires deep in the backseat LOL

The old set probably still have a few events on them..

 

[jn2k108]

Strange, i wonder if there is an updated part number. I recall the person behind the desk saying there was two but i dont recall why we chose the one we did.. either way it was the same story as the crash bolts in my FA5, 1mm less diameter

iirc yours wasnt able to get much on camber the one side?

Yes. Fast forward to this year the rf spring broke. Got new front struts and springs and now both sides are at .9. Most likely old suspension will pull more camber


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[hamshonads]

Yes. Fast forward to this year the rf spring broke. Got new front struts and springs and now both sides are at .9. Most likely old suspension will pull more camber


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Thats an admirable amount for our cars, and even on both sides no less

 

[hamshonads]

Competed in the first autocross for the 9th gen this weekend. Car overall performed great, easy to drive.. transitions quick and felt stable (no suprise characteristics) May look into koni yellows for the rear soon but im in no rush -- not looking to go with a bigger bar then the 22mm progress, it rotated enough for my liking and im gonna winter drive this thing

Ended up with a 3rd outta 91 in PAX and 1/7 in H-street

 

[hamshonads]

Bonus pic with my friends STS crx Si

9th gen is SO HUGE lol

 

[jn2k108]

Bonus pic with my friends STS crx Si

9th gen is SO HUGE lol

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Between this car and the STS CRX, I rather drive STS. Everything just works. HS sucks! LOL.

That was a tight course! So much steering input.

 

[hamshonads]

Between this car and the STS CRX, I rather drive STS. Everything just works. HS sucks! LOL.

That was a tight course! So much steering input.

Yeah the sts car would be alot more fun to race! However the 8hrs spent on the road to compete would suck ass in a crx 🤣

They trailer theirs, understandably

 

[jn2k108]

Yeah the sts car would be alot more fun to race! However the 8hrs spent on the road to compete would suck ass in a crx

They trailer theirs, understandably

We drive the sts car out to Lincoln. It wasn’t bad. I actually was able to stay awake and averaged 40 mpgs lol


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[hamshonads]

Made the 8hr round trip down to mission on Saturday for an autocross. First time with this club, was a fun event and i brought home my first top pax in the 9th gen!

 

[kev604]

I use to do autocross at Mission when I was in University but that was a long long time ago. Now kids, family and work come first.

 

[hamshonads]

I use to do autocross at Mission when I was in University but that was a long long time ago. Now kids, family and work come first.

Which club was that with? I thought the pad in Pitt Meadows was always the "go to" spot before we lost it. These clubs have only been using mission for about 2 years now, there's just nothing else available. The Okanagan is no better either

 

[hamshonads]

With snow in the forecast i thought it was high time to switch to my winter setup on the Si

I got lucky and picked up a set of 2012 EX wheels for 100$ last summer, I then wrapped them in Bridgestone WS90's ~ arguably one of the hottest tires for snow performance.

These have a few thousand kms on them from my last years winter car (07 civic dx-g) but im really looking forward to ripping snowy backroads with them on the 9th gen

Also had a gnarly cone mark from the last autocross to polish off (whooops)

Cone mark gone ~ winter tog setup engaged

 

[hamshonads]

Also wanted to mention how awesome this thing has been as a daily for me thus far, 4000km, 2 autocross events, a couple road trips and its helped me with multiple weekend house projects..

example

The civic really does it all 🤣

Also went and picked up some body panels for my latest rebuild 👀

The new rebuild is a 2006 civic Si coupe in ASM. Part of me considered doing a build thread over on 8thcivic.com but that thread is even more dead than this one. crickets le sigh

 

[jn2k108]

Hawtttt. Much want


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