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20/07/2026

Insane woman argues with fibreglass

Throwback to three? Maybe four years ago? Repairing and fitting the bodykit to the Pinkvic prior to it being sent of for paint. One sideskirt fought me the entire time and took a whole day longer than the other one did to fit (which, the easy one was a straight bolt on deal) 🤣🤣

Not the way you want to end your day - but unfortunately the way we had to! On a trailer! Unfortunately, we couldn’t eve...
12/07/2026

Not the way you want to end your day - but unfortunately the way we had to! On a trailer!

Unfortunately, we couldn’t even make it to the start line for the first lap as the car developed a fuel leak from the fuel pulse dampener. So - we sat around and watched everyone else race for a bit and enjoyed seeing the driving!

Thank you as always to Mx5 Racing WA Inc. for hosting a fantastic day as always - they’re always putting in the hard work to make sure the rest of us can have good race days.

Time for a new fuel rail setup - so we can go full custom and stop messing about with 30 year old Honda parts!

We have survived testing! The car did 50 kilometres of driving today without complaint - so the last thing left to do is...
11/07/2026

We have survived testing!

The car did 50 kilometres of driving today without complaint - so the last thing left to do is bleed the brakes (as they’re a tad squishy) and then its on to the Wanneroo Raceway main track tomorrow!

🎶MASSIVE celebration today🎉 - she is back together and running beautifully! This was a massive 8 hour day, pulled togeth...
08/07/2026

🎶MASSIVE celebration today🎉 - she is back together and running beautifully!

This was a massive 8 hour day, pulled together with the help of Shea Horton Victoria

Driveshafts back in, all lines tightened in to their final position, oil cooler pressure checked, exhaust manifold back on, and a whole bunch more.

On fuel prime the fuel rail was leaking quite severely - which narrowed down to the banjo fitting by the fuel pulse dampener. Unfortunately, the fuel pulse dampener had damaged threads so was not sitting correctly. This and a bad banjo washer led to a big headache in trying to find an aptly sized washer and a undamaged pulse dampener on extremely short notice.

Thankfully, after nearly 40 minutes of searching through the various wrecks - we found that the fuel dampener on our 88’ CRX is exactly the same and was also in pristine working condition!

The motor runs BEAUTIFULLY now. With VTEC kicking in strong once more, and suspension feeling tighter than ever.

UNFORTUNATELY - it looks like the diaphragm in the OEM brake booster is seized solid. So the brakes are currently unboosted. We’ll be on the phone with the lads at veales tomorrow to see if we can sort one before race day on Sunday!

07/07/2026

Just things đźš—

After an absolutely monumental 18 hours over the past two days, everything that needs to go back in to the engine bay of...
04/07/2026

After an absolutely monumental 18 hours over the past two days, everything that needs to go back in to the engine bay of the Pinkvic is in the engine bay!

New fuel line made of Raceworks fittings, new hoses pretty much everywhere, a LOT of looming - cutting and joining cables to tuck them in “neat” locations, intake manifold gasket, and so so much more.

All of this birthed from what was meant to be just an Oil Cooler install 🤣🤣

We still have to re-fit the driveshafts, replace the transmission shift selector seal, and then turn everything on and see if it all works!

First photo is what it looks like now - with many sins fixed. The others are progress pics.

I am tired. And sore.

Imagine my surprise when i went to pickup what i thought was my old Spoon filter and it folded in half in my hands - yep...
03/07/2026

Imagine my surprise when i went to pickup what i thought was my old Spoon filter and it folded in half in my hands - yep, grabbed the lid for the brake cleaner instead 🤣🤣

After being delayed a few weeks - my factory “non-oil-cooler” rear water pipe has rocked up. Proper sight for sore eyes!...
02/07/2026

After being delayed a few weeks - my factory “non-oil-cooler” rear water pipe has rocked up. Proper sight for sore eyes! I was worried it’d never get here. Just in time as well, as it’s just under 10 days to the next race.

We also managed to find another OEM driveshaft seal - so this weekend will be a mad rush to get the car finished!

Bit of a miserable day for it - and unfortunately that describes our successes for today as well. After spending the day...
28/06/2026

Bit of a miserable day for it - and unfortunately that describes our successes for today as well.

After spending the day getting pelted with rain so we could get the Pinkvic re-assembled for next fortnights Wanneroo main track event, we discovered quite a few issues.

The sandwich adaptor for our oil cooler fouls on all parts of the engine block -unless- it is mounted upside down / with the main ports pointing straight up. However, this now means that the main steel water pipe that runs behind the motor and feeds the water pump fouls on the fitting points for the oil pressure and oil temperature gauge. Which, unfortunately, are two gauges i’m not prepared to race a 9,100RPM B16 without (regardless of how many fancy features & protections the Link ecu has!).

Obviously, one of those is a pretty easy fix by just using a T-piece off of the factory oil pressure sender. And the other one we can “clearance” the rear coolant pipe a few mm’s to keep the much smaller temperature sender in that spot….

HOWEVER

Throughout all of this other planning and adjusting we had the unfortunate luck of damaging one of the driveshaft seals… which had to be brought in from Japan. And whilst i’d normally go for an aftermarket solution - i’ve learnt that the genuine Honda seals fit slightly more snug than the aftermarket units regardless of them both being listed as the same size (much like our discovery with the rear main seal).

Now, the race begins to get replacements in a time frame that still allows for us to get the car back together and reliably tested before maxing out fifth gear on track 🤣

I’m a little nervous at this point, but hopefully we can pull it together!

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