Sam's build thread

**Sydneykid** · 07-03-2018, 01:00 PM

Originally Posted by sambb

Simon hang on - AWD civics!!! please tell

Yep, Japan only 4WD EG Civic 4 door, ran similar running gear to the HRV Gen 1 with a viscous in the middle = Real Time AWD.

Cheers
Gary

**simon k** · 07-03-2018, 06:49 PM

Originally Posted by Sydneykid

Yep, Japan only 4WD EG Civic 4 door, ran similar running gear to the HRV Gen 1 with a viscous in the middle = Real Time AWD.

Cheers
Gary

yep, RT4wd - they were sold worldwide as a wagon, in Australia in 1988 & 1989 with a SOHC carb motor. They disappeared pretty quickly, I guess replaced by CRV

They were called a 'Shuttle' everywhere but here. Ugly as hell, but look pretty cool lowered a bit and with some nice wheels

here's a good little article about them

The reasonable and amazing, Honda Civic Shuttle.

I have a very long term project of putting the running gear into one of my minis, I'll get there one day

**sambb** · 07-03-2018, 08:27 PM

I remember those now! pretty sure I've seen a couple of them. Love that pic of the guy jumping it calm as you like. Nice project.

**Sydneykid** · 08-03-2018, 08:06 AM

There was the Shuttle (Civic Wagon) ................

But there as also a 4 Door Civic Sedan in the EG (5th gen) that came with 4WD, was originally Japan only but there was a LHD version, so US or Europe, a few made their way to NZ, called the RTSi.

There's a video of a LHD one doing a 4WD donut ...........

Cheers
Gary

**simon k** · 08-03-2018, 10:41 AM

Originally Posted by Sydneykid

But there as also a 4 Door Civic Sedan in the EG (5th gen) that came with 4WD, was originally Japan only but there was a LHD version, so US or Europe, a few made their way to NZ, called the RTSi.

There's a video of a LHD one doing a 4WD donut ...........

Cheers
Gary

that's cool - I never knew it existed, not at all surprised. I wonder what it would have done to their market share if they'd kept with it like Subaru

really makes me keen to get back in to my mini conversion... I have the running gear from one of the wagons, and I still have the other one as a complete-ish car, and a pair of twin cam injected motors, I just need the inspiration to get stuck in again. Unfortunately the car I want to put it in also requires heeeaapps of body work... I'm capable, but have trouble with motivation

**sambb** · 08-03-2018, 07:47 PM

campsite set up on friday

Our topgear table - $2K regas and $1k2 yokos

Squeezing some sighting runs up the esses in before sunset

Saturday up the esses.

Esses results. Times are irrelevant since the club has admitted to a timing offset for sector 1 that they don't seem to want to disclose. I'm not sure if that's even true, as my last run was an absolute cracker and was down as slower than everything else and a guy who got a similar time to me on the last run checked his gopro and the time stamps were way faster than the time he got too. Last year without an LSD or coilovers apparently I went 2.7 seconds quicker which is just bollocks on a 30 second run. But hey the placings are apparently legit so I'll take it.

staged up at the top for day 2 Mountain Straight before heading down to the start line. Car looks less edgy than I was!

The queue leading up the hump in the mountain straight where we start.

Its hard to be ****ty at the guy that drops oil across the top of the mountain and ruins your second run when its your best mate. Yep that's my saucepan collecting whats left of his power steering fluid.

Final results for day 2. My goal was to try to crack top 10 (was 13th last year) and managed a 5th so absolutely stoked with that. Panorama is a scary place all round but the esses on day 1 is nothing compared to day 2 for having you absolutely peaking before each run. Once I got the first run out of the way this year (which I really treated as a way to finally suss the line over the crest which has always terrified me) I felt pretty calm because I new the car was just sweet and so I could really think about what I needed to do on each run. I was super stoked about my bottom splits relative to the rest of the guys and was just elated that I was able to build on my times throughout the day rather than blow my wad early and then have everyone go past me later - suspension changes have a lot to do with that.

**sambb** · 08-03-2018, 07:51 PM

might be a random logging jpeg at the end of last post but cant get rid of it. too many coopers. mystery??

**sambb** · 08-03-2018, 08:05 PM

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Gary is a genius. My Diverter valve adapter pipe arrived today so I spliced it into the throttle body inlet pipe, repositioned the DV to that spot, capped off the normal DV inlet pipe that's on the steel hard pipe that exits the compressor and then ran a very ugly 1in pipe that I got from work across from the DV to the TIP. School pick up is no time to be testing boost drops mid corner bit I can tell you the theory of moving the DV to this position must be fundamentally sound because I have virtually zero compressor surge on lift off like I had before. The DV operation is just as audible but what I had really noticed after I de-mufflered the compressor outlet was how bad the ch ch ch ch compressor stutter was. With the DV in this position though, the DV exhausts as per usual but it seems as though the pressure wave isn't reaching all the way back to the compressor causing it to stutter. Hopefully now the pressure dump happens pre throttle plate and the air is still sailing down the induction pipes and intercooler and it will help reduce boost drop on small throttle lifts on the track.