The Civic home safe and sound. Very muddy from the off field at Winton, theres grass dangling off the underneath and components inside the engine bay/wheel wells. It'll need a good clean once I return from the UK.

I'd like for a big discussion post on the car which will probably happen in the following post, most likely in the new year, where I'll go over the car as a whole and what I want to do with it, and what changes will be required to do so.

Muddy situation

Here's the mud I mentioned. As for the last photo here, this is the spring from the bonnet latch. In a few photos in the previous post from Winton you may notice the bonnet was sometimes lifting up... At the end of the last 2 sessions on Sunday it was really hard to open it, I had to move the latch in car whilst the missus pulled on the bonnet, in the end I couldn't even open it. Today I had to yank it really hard, once it finally opened the spring fell out. Time for bonnet pins?

Honed Development rear tie rod kit

I ordered a few more Honed parts prior to leaving as I will be finally installing the kit. I was chatting with Grant from Honed at the time, and he asked if I'd like to test fit their rear toe arms for the ED/EF, check for any body contact during suspension travel, and take some wheel alignment measurements before they released the product.

Definitely wasn't going to say no! These toe arms along with the eccentric kit will make rear toe adjustment so nice, especially with the option of the toe arms to make small increments at the track without needing to wheel align.

I've never enjoyed adjusting rear toe during my string alignments as I have to shove a bar up between the RTA and body to pre it out, whilst tightening the bolt with the other hand.

All of Honed Development's parts are nicely packaged, it's a shame to open them!

OEM rear toe arm (compensator arm is the correct term)

Comparison

Part of the testing was to see the min/max I could achieve, I'll include the stats below. Keep in mind the toe arm is mostly 'wound in' on the toothed setting, resulting in the max toe out figure being low, but by extending the arm on the teeth you'd achieve a lot more.

Each tooth step is 4mm at the arm, resulting in a 1mm adjustment at the rim, which is where we take the wheel alignment steps from.

The trailing arm bushing was hitting the chassis on max toe in, but no one would ever run that amount of toe in.