Rallye Red, #1699 accounted for, with lots of pictures

[romiata]

If you don't mind me asking, where did you get the brochure from? My dealer didn't have any when I picked up the car unfortunately, and I've been calling dealerships around town asking for one or two or three.

I found it on eBay for $12.99, but I just met the sales manager from a local Honda dealership (who also purchased a black Type R!!) today and he said he had a stack of them I'll see if I can get a few and if I do, maybe you can pay for the shipping and I'll send it to you? But it's not guaranteed...

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[romiata]

Another addition was a dashcam by VanTrue. It does forward and cabin recordings, in HD, as well as a parking feature that detects motion. Here it is installed:

It also has a small LCD that shows both views:

Here is the link to their website:
http://www.vantrue.net/Goods/detail/gid/5.html

I found it on eBay for $164 shipped, if anyone is interested.

It did fantastic at the track last week. I'll post a video shortly...

 

[SpeedRacerCTR]

Congrats on the red R sweet pics and love the garage set up... am set to get a red R soon as well just waiting

 

[romiata]

Random meeting with another Type R owner yesterday
I have to say that I really love the Crystal Black Pearl color!

 

[romiata]

Went crazy with the Wheels On app today, out of curiosity lol Threw some SSR, Work and Volks on...

I'm still a believer that Volk TE37's in bronze make every vehicle better

This looks really good imo:

 

[LiveLaughRide84]

Awesome man! I'm trying to find one for msrp!

 

[tenchi]

where did you find the trunk mat? think i might one!

 

[romiata]

where did you find the trunk mat? think i might one!

I actually got it from a local dealership. I've bought a ton of things from them and they marked it down to like $114 (from I believe $134 or something like that). It was delivered there in like 2 or 3 days too. Ebay has them listed at like $148 or so.
It is worth having imo.. I put a lot of things in my cars, including taking the trash to the local compactor. Since I daily drive the type r, I know I'll need it lol

 

[romiata]

Dash cam video of my first run at Dominion Raceway about 2 weeks ago. Don't mind the first 5 min or so, as we we just getting ready. There isn't any audio, but my buddy came back to remind me to remove the license plate from my windshield...
I'll post a few more, but each is 10 min long

 

[romiata]

Here is one from a little later. It started to rain a little, but it was close to the end of that session.
Also we drove around the facility to let the cars cool down. That's my buddies Golf R (stage 2) and my other buddies slightly modified M3

 

[romiata]

A couple of small updates. I was able to do another Track Attack last week. This one happened right after a pretty severe thunder storm, which resulted in a wet track. We didn't go as hard as the last day, but I ended up moving up behind the pace car. Another great turn out too! For the last session, I had a Spa Yellow S2K directly behind me. I'll upload a video of those runs...

 

[romiata]

Also, I had the ceramic coating applied the second week I had the car. We used CQuartz Ceramiic Coating. The entire process was almost 8 hours, but included a hand wash, polish, minor paint correction, and final application of the coating. Here are a few photos from that:

 

[romiata]

Also added the Honda Access window visors. Pretty straight forward, except for one part that isn't described in the instructions: pull the "screw" and housing apart before installing them lol

Visors and OEM interior center illumination kit, that I haven't installed yet. Those instructions are like a book lol

Drivers side door installed

And DS passenger

Pull these apart. Be careful not to lose them lol I did drop one and it's a pain to locate them

Here are the clips that hold the visors. Install the housing before attaching the visor

Passenger side complete

And the final look

(Sorry for the double pic, but I can't delete this one for some reason)

 

[romiata]

I test fit a pair of HRE 840R three piece staggered wheels today. They are 19x8.5/10's that are a bit worn. I don't think I'll be able to use them though The cost to rebarrel/lip them is not cost effective. I also would have considered powder coating them, possibly matte black faces with gloss black lips

 

[romiata]

While we had the wheels off, I decided to rotate them. I have almost 2300 miles now, but there was already more wear on the fronts. Also measures the offset . I thought they were said to be +45, but it is +60.

After the rotation, I had to calibrate the TPMS's from our Vehicle Menu