98luder’s Weblog

I wanted to take this opportunity to give a thanks to the individuals and shops that have supported me in this build project.

-Special thanks to individuals that have bought parts off me because that helps me finance my build and the project, without you guys it would be very difficult and pay for all the parts/machine work and to do what i did with the civic.
SPECIAL THANKS to my wife for her support and tolerance of the project. I know it takes a lot of time and money to do a project like this, thank you 🙂
Thank you to the following people
-Randie G., M. Naiken, Dillon A.,Kevin and Lam, Scott “General Shang”, Christian/OG9166, J.Masse, Jason Katman, Gil Salazar, Ryan@Rywire, all the southside guys Aanand/Larry/Bobo/Tony and the rest of your guys crew :), Pat S. from MFactory, Brandon@inline4, Avery Y., Yee Vang, “Mac” Dale, Jimmy w/AE86, Pkw1, Ben Leung,  Mike “SuperK”, Richie@STRD, Gerald@InvisionAuto, Kenny “Kaje”, Scott “AcousticAudio”, Marty Quon, Raul Ramirez@Checkerdsports, Tyler Zeman
There are many more people that i might not remeber off the top of my head right now.

-Special thanks to the shops that have also helped me along the way with this build. Without your help and support this build would be much more difficult 🙂
-Freeman@Velocity Shop Velocity shop link
-Ben@AJ Racing A&J Racing
-Gil@ Circuit hero Circuit Hero link
-Ryan@ Rywire Rywire link
-Yohann@ EDO performance EDO Performance link
-Chris@Red Shift Motorsports RedShift Motorsports link
-John@Curry Acura for all your OEM honda/acura partsCurry Acura’s website

Inspiration for my build
-I have to start off with my build and love for Honda cars stems from the old Option magazines i used to flip through as a kid. You become caught in a dream of owning a car because it looks so cool. Then you start to learn more about the mechanics of the machine; and you realize how things work and how cool everything is when you put it together and it is working in unison. The biggest inspiration of a build is when you finally have everything together and test it out on the race track. All the research, hard work, money, culminating to that one event. It’s a very exciting and satisfying feeling when everything is working and your adrenalin is pumping.

-Also, much of my inspiration for building civic came from the FF Squad and Katman, both based out of California.
FF Squad link
FF Squad videos

-Spoon Sports and their philosophy on building and racing cars.
Building a well balanced vehicle(ie power/chassis weight/chassis reinforcement, suspension, tires/traction, brakes, reliability/longevity) is worth more than just power power power.
Spoon sports Japan
Ben@A&J racing (Spoon Canadian distributor), i loved your eg2 and ek9 back in the day 🙂

-Mugen, heh of course, because what Honda guy could not love Mugen 🙂 Thank you Nori for making my visit to Mugen Japan, AWESOME. Link to Mugen Japan

-Gil Salazars’ DC2 integra, Nice guy that has helped me out with info and insight. Not to mention helping me out with Circuit hero parts. Thanks Gil 🙂
Pics from the Chronicles
Pic’s from the Hondatuning article

-Jason Katman’s eg civic, inspiration and sharing his knowledge with the general Honda community, and being a nice guy 🙂
Pic’s from the Superstreet article

-Philip Robles’s eg civic, seeing Phil and how he moded up his civic just inspires me. I mean just look at that civic, this guys runs 15 by 9 with 275/35/15…. come on, that’s just pure awesome 🙂
Pic’s from the Superstreet article
discussing Phil’s project EG

I will keep adding to this page as there are too many people out there to thank.