Welcome to the third and final part of my Civic Type R story, a fitting tribute to a truly amazing car! The next thing I wanted was a big loud exhaust, so I decided to go for the M2 stainless steel with the right and upwards Japanese "kick" style. I also bought a unsilenced centre pipe too, I believe it was Supersprint but can't remember exactly. It looked the business and sounded amazing! (I'l try to get a video up on Instagram later on). After having the boring K&N cone filter on for quite a while I decided to change the air intake to the Tegiwa carbon airbox. It should of cost £350 but I got it in a sale for around £280. It is a blatant copy of the Gruppe M, which are priced around £650-£780 new! Even the second hand ones were usually more expensive than a new Tegiwa copy. Tegiwa's customer service and deliveries are pretty woeful I found though. The parts came with no instructions and it took me about 3 weeks and numerous complains to get them sent via email. Then when I later ordered the silicone intake pipe off them (which cost me £50) they sent me the small silicone breather pipe instead (which cost £18), and it took me ages and loads of hassle to get it changed!
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Welcome to part 2 of my goodbye post to my Honda Civic Type R. This post is going to be quite picture heavy. While I was away on a family holiday to Disney World in Florida, I booked my car in to a friends bodyshop to have quite a lot of work done on it. Click here to view their Facebook page and see all of their amazing work. They do a lot of work on expensive high performance cars and are second to none, and I had total faith in them to give me the best finish possible, and they didn't disappoint! First of all I had a Mugen (replica) splitter fitted to the bumper, which made the car look a lot more aggressive. It was a cheap(ish) fibreglass splitter bought off Ebay, and required a bit of modification to make it fit to the original bumper properly. It was then painted and put onto the car. Then came the bodywork cleanup and respray. The bumper and front wings had quite a few stone chips and the doors had the usual (annoying!) dints that more than likely came about in supermarket car parks.
Now I've finally managed to buy myself a van, it's time to say goodbye to my Honda Civic Type R. I'm really sad to see it go, but I simply cannot afford to run this along side my van and Peugeot 205 GTi :(. It's been an absolutely brilliant car, never missed a beat and extremely fun to drive. It's definitely going to be missed... After landing a job driving buses when I turned 19, I managed to save up enough money to afford the car (and insurance) I wanted for a very long time, a Honda Civic Type R EP3. I managed to find one at a local car dealership, literally a mile up the road from me, and purchased it for about £3200 with about 90k miles on it. The insurance was a sting though, the lowest quote I managed to get was around £1600 from Admiral, but that didn't stop me buying it as I just loved the car so much. Honda Civic Type R EP3 Facts & Figure
The Civic was in decent condition but as soon as I got it home I began work on cleaning it up, inside and out.
To continue where I left off in Part 1 of this story, after lowering the car and getting it looking quite good, it was time to join the club and hit the shows. My first car show was French Car Show at Donington Park, only half an hour drive from where I live... ...and straight from the show I made the short journey to Tamworth to buy a set of alloys! Was a great day for me and the little pug.
This came with a major problem though, one that is quite funny looking back, but a massive pain in the backside at the time. I fitted the alloys on a friends drive, and he lives on a very steep hill. After fitting them, I drove off his drive, and got stuck across the road... For as long as I can remember I had a massive fascination for cars and driving, and becoming 17 and legal to drive couldn't come soon enough. I passed my driving test a few months later and was ready to hit the road and become independent. There was only 1 problem...I had a low paid job and had no chance affording the insane insurance prices I was being quoted. To give you an idea of the sort of prices I was being quoted for insurance, I was looking at a very basic first car such as a 10 year old Citroen Saxo 1.1 litre, worth roughly £1000. Nothing special, just to get from A to B and get valuable driving experience. The cheapest quotes I was getting were in the region of £3000, 3 times more than the cars value, and there was no way of getting this down. But then came the biggest surprise of my life. On my 18th birthday I opened a small jewellery box, and inside was a set of Peugeot keys, and hidden on a neighbours drive was a Peugeot 106 1.1 Independence. It wasn't flash and it didn't stand out, but it was my first car, my pride and joy, and the most amazing surprise I could ever of dreamt of after waking up that morning. I was free, and that's when my driving adventure began...
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