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Anyone have experience with those two?

I use my Type R as my daily driver and take it to 3-4 track days / year (buttonwillow, streets, chuckawalla). Stock pads are wearing thin on the Type R so I'm considering replacing with Raybestos ST43 or Project Mu Club Racer. Anyone here have experience with them? Whats your preference for a...

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I purchased the Eibach 25mm myself then received the AFE Front + Rear kit from my parents for my birthday. Which should I actually install? I know StigJDM was running the Eibach rear sway last I saw, though he recently had a break at Buttonwillow. Which do you guys thinks gives the best turn-in...

Some dickhead in a Suburban tried to squeeze around my Type R in a parking lot and pulled off half the front splitter/spoiler and ran. Looking for OEM replacement. Anyone selling? In the Los Angeles area, I could pickup locally.

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I just filled up from '10 miles' of range left and it only took 9.7 gallons. Feels like it is warning low fuel super early.

I could see it being a challenge in a drag race since the SRT4 could make 400whp+ with less than $2k in mods. But also...y u buy fwd car to drag race? Civic Type R no doubt dominates an SRT4 on any road course

Streets of Willow is not a high HP track. Big Willow is. That said, I was at Streets in December (in my DC5) and saw a bone stock Type R with 19" RE71s drop a 1:23.5 with a passenger. Go down to 18s + Hondata + sway bar, and it could definitely be a 1:20-1:21 car for under $40k

I've lived in Los Angeles (Now) and the SF Bay Area (2004-2010). Both have good car scenes. LA is about 20% more affordable(very relative since its more expensive than most of the US) and has better weather plus most of the JDM importers are down here (Evasive, Spoon, etc). Pros: Lots of car...

True dat. The other thing is...you have to tune the driving dynamics to your racing style. Some drivers prefer to have a way looser rear-end at the track, some prefer more neutral, vastly different suspension and sway bar setup depending on what the driver feels comfortable driving fast with.

Buy the Type R to reduce its handling performance? Y tho

Just intercooler and smaller rims with wider tires. Then depending on the track feel, might add bigger F/R swaybars. I doubt many aftermarket coil overs will outperform Honda’s engineering investment. Don’t need much more power either. The only cars I saw in the same realm of laptimes last time...

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Full frontal PPF for under $2k should be easily possible, at least in SoCal. I got full frontal PPF + ceramic pro silver for $1800. Don't get ripped off. At this point, I've had the coating for about 3 months daily driving on LA streets and freeways and it still looks damn near like it came off...

If it was gonna be a weekend or track only car, i'd strongly consider the 1LE. It is better from the factory for track days. For DD + track car, FK8 ALL DAY

If you track the car, you'll want to upgrade the intercooler. The stock one heat soaks after about 10 mins of track driving, which = less power and more chance of knock.

Lookin for a spare FK8 ECU so I don't have downtime sending to Hondata or KTuner. Live around Los Angeles and can do local pickup/payment

Make sure you get to turn during the test drive. Then the addiction will be complete. I went from a barely legal motor swapped, full Progress suspension DC5 to a CW Type R and have no regrets. 1. I was surprised how silent the FK8 is for how much power it makes. 2. The transmission feels even...

I've only ever owned and driven manual transmission cars (2 x DC5 Type S and this CTR). I'm also getting the second gear grind occasionally. Sometimes when I shift quickly, sometimes when I shift slow. Fortunately, I'm not into drag racing but it is surprising. RSX Type S had this issue going...