Type R and VTEC owners

ChrisD. · 25 Feb 2012 at 21:04

Where you are in the country will play a huge factor into where you get it serviced.

I would look at lowering springs, Eibach rear camber adjusters, fronts adjusting bolts and a typical FRSU. It'll transform the care. Then get the pads as you say along with braided hoses.

rjk · 25 Feb 2012 at 21:12

Stoke on Trent. So Warrington is a 30-40 minute drive

I don't really fancy spending all that money on upgrading suspension etc.
If I was doing regular track sessions then maybe but for road use, surely it is not required?

ChrisD. · 25 Feb 2012 at 21:15

Not required, but totally transforms the car, it's not a lot of money, especially when you're on about spending £400 or so on an exhaust? Same gets you a FRSU, camber adjusters and springs.... handling and the way the car feels > sound IMO.

Considering your location, go to Grinspeed or TDI North.

Muffin` · 25 Feb 2012 at 21:15

rjkoneill said:
Stoke on Trent. So Warrington is a 30-40 minute drive

I don't really fancy spending all that money on upgrading suspension etc.
If I was doing regular track sessions then maybe but for road use, surely it is not required?

It'll bring more benefit on B road blasts than a back box

dale1uk · 25 Feb 2012 at 21:22

rjkoneill said:
Stoke on Trent. So Warrington is a 30-40 minute drive

I don't really fancy spending all that money on upgrading suspension etc.
If I was doing regular track sessions then maybe but for road use, surely it is not required?

I had rear camber arms, front camber bolts, and a FRSU on my ep3 and it totally transformed the car, would highly recommend it . I decided to stick with the standard springs and rear anti roll bar to save some cost, and never felt like i need to do more to the suspension for road driving and my 2 trips to the Nurburgring.

JediFragger · 25 Feb 2012 at 21:26

I had a FRSU setup done last Summer at ABP and was a great mod. Well worth doing tbh

rjk · 25 Feb 2012 at 21:45

Interesting. May can off the idea of a catback and look at that then.

Starting point for a good set up? Go gently, im in noob territory now guys.

saitrix · 25 Feb 2012 at 21:52

MilanoChris said:
Dan, I hope you haven't crashed my old car. lol

No! Just an accident happened 100m infront on the M6, got stuck there for ~3 hours in the middle of the night, only about 10 mins after having a play with this other DC2. So naturally we met up and chatted and he offered to buy mine, lol.

dale1uk · 25 Feb 2012 at 22:04

rjkoneill said:
Interesting. May can off the idea of a catback and look at that then.

Starting point for a good set up? Go gently, im in noob territory now guys.

To get a proper FRSU you will need to fit adjustable rear camber arms, and front camber bolts. This will allow adjustment of toe and camber, on all 4 wheels. Cant remember what settings I had on mine, but it wasnt too aggressive as I didnt want to scrub the tyres.

Expect to pay about £100 - £150 for the camber arms and bolts, and another £100 to get it set up. The arms and bolts are easy to fit yourself, but the garage should fit them for a small charge if required.

rjk · 25 Feb 2012 at 22:24

Brands or examples to look into? Any tried and tested brand/model?

dale1uk · 25 Feb 2012 at 23:07

I just got a pair of D2 adjustable rear arms for £70 of eBay. There are other makes with prices tags of almost double that, but I didn't see the need to spend the extra. Any brand of front camber bolt will be fine, they're all the same and pretty much the same price, £20-£30.

Edit: Not from this seller, but these are the ones I used: www.ebay.co.uk/itm/D2-Rear-Camber-a...arts_Vehicles_CarParts_SM&hash=item4cfe7971b0 Couldn't fault them tbh

ChrisD. · 25 Feb 2012 at 23:19

dale1uk said:
I just got a pair of D2 adjustable rear arms for £70 of eBay. There are other makes with prices tags of almost double that, but I didn't see the need to spend the extra. Any brand of front camber bolt will be fine, they're all the same and pretty much the same price, £20-£30.

Edit: Not from this seller, but these are the ones I used: www.ebay.co.uk/itm/D2-Rear-Camber-a...arts_Vehicles_CarParts_SM&hash=item4cfe7971b0 Couldn't fault them tbh

D2 arms will rust and fall apart or seize. There's a reason they're cheap.

ChrisD. · 25 Feb 2012 at 23:21

rjkoneill said:
Brands or examples to look into? Any tried and tested brand/model?

Eibach SPC for rear camber arms, any front ones will do.

dale1uk · 25 Feb 2012 at 23:24

MilanoChris said:
D2 arms will rust and fall apart or seize. There's a reason they're cheap.

Fair enough, only going of my experience with them. I had mine on for over 2 years and just put copper grease on the threads and never had any issues.

ChrisD. · 25 Feb 2012 at 23:26

You must be lucky then, most D2 products fall apart at the sign of daylight.

dale1uk · 25 Feb 2012 at 23:31

MilanoChris said:
You must be lucky then, most D2 products fall apart at the sign of daylight.

Glad I was lucky then

Out of interest, have you had a JDM rear anti roll bar on any of your ep3s? Was one thing I wanted to do to mine but never got round to it.

ChrisD. · 25 Feb 2012 at 23:36

Nope.

JediFragger · 26 Feb 2012 at 01:00

rjkoneill said:
Brands or examples to look into? Any tried and tested brand/model?

Eibach Arms are the Daddy m8, D2's etc have reliability problems. Trust the German Engineering

Also, ABP Motorsport in Crewe are great at doing the setups so not too far to travel :cool:

lee1101 · 26 Feb 2012 at 01:45

Any opinions on the k&n typhoon? Seems to be a lot of mixed opinions on them. I'm just after a little bit more of a throaty noise

may try the hondata mod as suggested

-Ad- · 26 Feb 2012 at 08:14

MilanoChris said:
Eibach SPC for rear camber arms, any front ones will do.

Agreed.

Pity they discontinued the SPC front Aluuuminum arms for the front of a DC2 :/

By far the best designed arms out there.