Tags: civic
Car Build > MIT Honda Civic – Reassembly
MIT Motorsport lecturer Alan Clarke emailed a few progress photos recently showing the reassembly of my MIT/KiwiMotoring Honda Civic. The students have been working hard to put the car back together, and it's really exciting to see how it's coming along so quickly now as they approach the end of Certificate in Motorsport (Level 2) course...
Car Build > MIT Honda Civic – Sourcing an Engine
After having the MIT/KiwiMotoring Honda Civic completely repainted on the outside, inside and underneath, it was time for the students to move on to the next stage of the Certificate in Motorsport (Level 2) course - Engine Construction and Operation...
Car Build > MIT Honda Civic – Painting the Car
Wow, it's been nearly 4 months since my last blog post about the MIT/KiwiMotoring Honda Civic! Time sure flies when you're trying to juggle multiple projects at once...
Car Build > MIT Honda Civic – The Roll Cage
Great progress has been made on the MIT/KiwiMotoring Honda Civic over the over the last few weeks, so I headed up to Auckland to have a look at the nearly completed roll cage...
Car Build > MIT Honda Civic – 3rd Time Lucky?
Here's another update for the KiwiMotoring/MIT Honda Civic project, and once again there has been a slight change of plans after it was discovered that the rust in the black car was worse than expected...
Car Build > MIT Honda Civic – Stripping the Car
The first stage of the KiwiMotoring/MIT Honda Civic car build project involves stripping the cars down to an almost-bare shell...
Car Build > MIT Honda Civic – A Plan is Formed
Upon arriving back in New Zealand from my brief trip to Japan for the Tokyo Motor Show, I stopped off at the School of Automotive and Vehicle Technology in Pukekohe again to talk to Alan about what I had been thinking about since I saw him last...
Car Build > MIT Honda Civic – Introduction
In November of last year, I headed up to Auckland to begin my automotive-themed trip to Tokyo, Japan with a friend of mine. I had a number of stops to make before I arrived at Auckland Airport, including a quick stopover at Possum Bourne Motorsport to drop off the dash from my Series 1 RX-7 so they could recreate it using a combination of fibre glass and carbon fibre. As I pulled up to their workshop, I noticed a bunch of brightly coloured Honda Civic EG hatches in the workshop across the alleyway. "That's interesting", I thought to myself - then wandered into Possum Bourne Motorsport as I had originally planned...
Video > SS2000 Honda Civic at Manfeild
Listen to Brent Thompson's Honda K20A powered EG Civic scream in race 3 of the SS2000 class at Round 5 of the IRC Series at Manfeild. Brent starts off in 17th place due to a handicap start, and manages to finish 4th with a best lap time of 1:16.962.
More information about the SS2000 Series can be found here.
- Brent Shaw