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Timeattack EJ1

Track built Civic EJ1
German Timeattack Masters Pocket Rocket

29/05/2026

Updates on the front sway bar 🙆🏽‍♂️

Back from vacation and cut the chassis some more 🥲
Mounting plates for the sway bar are in and the driver's side is almost finished, just need to close the clearance-cut for the lever. "Just".
Big thanks to for challenging and discussing this conversion 💪🏽

Brake line mounting point was relocated to that of EK Civics. Well, almost: it's a bit further up (lowered racecar) and approx. 10mm further in front to not interfere with the external reservoirs of my coilovers. Drilled and cut the OEM bracket out and welded it to the new position OEM style 👌🏽

Additionally, folded a sheet of metal to close the firewall opening I cut due to my relocated rear engine mount. Turned out okay (including mounting point for under-dash-harness for OEM routing), will look much better when painted.

23/05/2026

In preparation to mount the anti sway bar style, the base plates were fitted (easy). Now some space needs to be made in the wheel house (future work), the brake lines need to be relocated (future future work), beaides removing all the sticky protection from the wheel houses... there's quite some work in this setup. More details soon.

Fun fact: If a base plate falls into the shell, you can either cut the shell open - or trace that part to an opening from the interior: it's all connected 👀 Random fact, don't ask me how I know lol.

17/05/2026

ASR Revolver fitted to Integra DC2 Type R trailing arms.
Just beautiful.

16/05/2026

Rear axles done 💪🏽

Short version: installed the revolvers in trailing arms and they're awesome 💪🏽

Long version: For the past two years I've been running poor man's five lug swap (prelude wheel bearings on EG6 axles with Mazda 626 Protege nuts) and I think on street setups this works for a while.
Downside is that the wheel bearing halves are not fully sitting on the hubs, just approx. 70% are on the hub. The bearings started to squeeze out grease, so over time they eventually give up; track abuse will just accelerate that process. There are kits out there that help mitigate this ( 5 sthd rear hub kit I think), but the short hub and wide bearing remain a challenge. About time for a change and helped me with a set of Integra DC2 trailing arms 🙆🏽‍♂️
Old bushings pressed out, drilled the fastening holes, revolvers pressed in, delrin bushing and insert can be inserted by hand -- great fitment, great product, as usual 🙏🏽
Thank you for making the personal connection 🤝🏽

Curious though: who else dug up rusty particles while drilling the fastening holes?
I saw quite some deep-restorations for Civics and Civic trailing arms, removing the bubs from the trailing arms and all. But never saw anyone separate these metal sheets (even though it's advisable as it seems)?
Following and how they treat potentially rusting shells, I can't be the first one stumbling across this?

14/05/2026

"New" valve cover ready 🙆🏽‍♂️

Dug up my 2019 valve cover with the two Dash10 fittings, received some great help from , added more breather holes to the baffled plate in the cover -- and am very happy how this whole operation turned out.
COP ready, new wrinkle paint and looks amazing. Especially compared to the D17 cover. Nobody wants that 🤪

29/04/2026

Engine relocated: 35mm backwards, 9mm to the passenger side 🙆🏽‍♂️

Why? 1) to bring the heaviest part in the car closer to the Center of Mass, 2) to balance left-to-right weight distribution (always a challenge with a golden era Honda engine in an LHD chassis), 3) to make more space for the radiator + radiator duct, 4) to accommodate for the wider track width I want to run in front, 5) to see if i can pull this off 👀

One mounting hole on the transmission case is a bit of a challenge (last pic), there's not a lot of space. However, I sacrificed an old D16 oil pump that was lying around and sourced the flathead M12x1.25 bolt 🌚

And of course there are weight savings involved: approx. 1.5kg in total (32%) 💪🏽

Big thank you to everyone who was involved in bringing this plan to life 🤝🏽
challenged my design ideas ✅
provided the raw material (25CrMo4 for the PU bushing housings, 3mm domex steel plate) ✅
PU inserts ✅
cutting the domex plate ✅
machined the PU inserts und inner sleeves ✅

15/04/2026

Still working on the engine relocation 🤷🏽‍♂️
This takes a lot longer than I anticipated, but progress is happening.
Just need to finalize some welds, then all of this can be painted and I'll get to those thousand other things on my list.

I'm curious for the final engine bay looks 🤔
And of course: how the handling is affected by this change 💪🏽

More updates soon.

11/03/2026

Custom motor mounts 🙆🏽‍♂️🤦🏽‍♂️

The engine will be repositioned within the engine bay. 35mm backwards, 9mm to the passenger side -- and I hope all the carefully CAD-designed parts are on point. (Ok the T bracket is not, that I already know 👀).

Who was involved to get this crazy plan to life:
challenged my design ideas ✅
provided the raw material (25CrMo4 for the PU bushings, 3mm domex steel plate) ✅
PU inserts will be used ✅
cut this extremely hard domex steel plate ✅
machined the PU inserts und inner bushings ✅

Now it's on me to do the final machining and welding, so this holds an engine in place 💪🏽
Thank you guys 🤝🏽
Now let's make this 36.14mm step happen 🤓

27/02/2026

Tech talk & updates

After talking to my engine builder I slightly reworked the combustion chambers and measured for how much the volume changed (result: +.50ml).
And I will repeat this exercise when the new valves are fitted.
New valves? Indeed. Switching from Ferrea Competition 6000 to Ferrea Competition Plus. After just one season 🤦🏽‍♂️

Why? Well, as I learned, the valves lengthened. Most likely due to the stress the cam profile puts on them when hammering into the valve seats at 8k rpm 😏

The major weakness is the undercut of the valve stems. The 6000 series valve stems had .60mm, while the new ones have just .20mm undercut. This should help a lot:
After we checked the 6000 series that ran for just one season (Thank you 🙏🏽), turns out the undercut is the weakest point and for two valves the material was stretched (resulting in a reduced undercut diameter), even a few hundreds of a mm.

So they are a great choice if you drag race and regularly rebuild your engine anyway, but not if you are looking for a durable solution with such an aggressive cam, a setuo that works more than just one season... you have to go all in 🥲
So, Competition Plus it is 🙆🏽‍♂️

The new valve seats also settled a bit, I was losing compression on some valves. Hence the engine disassembly, the checking, now the new valves.

Finally, I enlarged the block windows between cyl. 1&2 and between cyl. 3&4. Hope I can get a bit more power out of the little D16 💪🏽

21/02/2026

Old vs. new: the air duct

With support from I got a new headlamp air intake. It's lighter (120g lol) it flows much better and works with the orignal mounting points. 👌🏽

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