Leather seats, green induction kit, side bars, grille.

[PatrickDorrian]

http://www.hr-v.co.uk/phpbb2/album_personal.php?user_id=22

Still can't work out how to get images to post here properly - anyway have a look and see what you think.

Mrtn - the seats were an utter b'stard to do but the difference is amazing, not least because i took the front seats to bits and joined all the springs together with cable ties so that you now sit on and rest against all the springs at once, not just the one you happen to be resting against. No more dead arse after a 3 hour drive.

Stainless steel exhaust has been booked for the 4th of july - i don't know what style i'm getting yet, just that the cat is coming off and staying off.

Cheers,
Patrick

[mrtn]

love the sidebars! we don't get these here, just the ones poking out at both ends.

also, nice to see phat tires, everybody's going thinner and thinner.

[PatrickDorrian]

I still like to yomp kerbs and take shortcuts - if i fitted alloys and low profiles i'd have no chance of doing the stuff that i do. It handles fine on the stock stuff, just use decent tyres and make sure there's enough air in them, once you get over the intial small wallow i can't fault the handling.

Sidebars were on ebay, £90 or so - fitted by my local honda dealer for £62. Original honda part so they couldn't refuse :-)

[Dick_Dastardly]

I like the cable tie Idea... My seat was fine for the first 50,000 miles, but since then I've been slowly sinking. If I sit in the passenger seat it feels like it did when new, but it's quite impractacle to drive from that side....

Nothing worse than a saggy seat!!!!!!!

[PatrickDorrian]

It's a piece of cake to do ... the only pain is removing the squab from the subframe, then undoing the bottom clips so you can take the foam out of the squab to get to the springs. Once you've done that, just use 30 or so cable ties to link all the springs together - jobs a good un.

My seats have only done 56,000 and they were awful - passenger included. I know for a fact that the base squab is the same both sides so you could just swap them around .... but if you're going to keep the car a while longer it's probably worth doing the job properly.

[RICHHRV]

Hi , where did you get the side mouldings and how much were they.???? I ask because on the bank holiday weekend a nice discovery driver opened his door into the side of me and left a nice big fat dent in the side and where it is would be hidden by these mouldings......

[PatrickDorrian]

Ebay :) Allsorts on there if you just keep looking!

[Hoovie]

Seats look fantastic!! are they Honda OEM leather covers you bought and fitted or aftermarket?
Really like the colour combo of Grey and Black there

[PatrickDorrian]

Yep, honda genuine parts - £300 from a nice chap in b'ham. I'd like to say they were easy to fit but i'd be lying, it was a time consuming fiddly job but the end result is worth it as they look factory standard once on.

The best thing with the grey inserts and blacked out windows is that they don't heat up too much in the sun - combine that with the aircon and there's no problems at all :)

[Team GOOOSH]

Ive just seen the photos of you Green induction kit. Just wondering has it made a noticable inprovement or just a louder/deeper sound? Be honest now!

I have a set of Genie extractors and a full sports exhaust system and found only a louder noise as the difference with my K&N air pod vs stock airbox.

[PatrickDorrian]

Honestly - it feels a little bit better in the mid range where it was a bit flat before. I doubt you'd see it on a timed run though, i'll freely admit to loving the sound of it above all else :-) Fuel cinsumption is better, seems the induction kit gives it a little more motorway cruising ability as i stay in 5th more and not in 4th for climbinb hills.

I'm off to get a full stainless exhaust next month, maybe the two together will make some difference but again, i'm doing it more because of how it will sound and look than how it makes it go.

[Team GOOOSH]

Be warned about going too big on pipe size.

Mine is only 2 inches through out currently. From behind the wheel it sounds like a Honda F1 motor, but out on the street she sounds very flatulent. My exhaust dealer says if i went bigger it would sound worse.

I run extractors, stock cat converter, lukey strait through muffler and hotdog resonator. Any less back pressure and i think you will find a lag in performace esspecially on mid rev range up shifts.

Cheers

[PatrickDorrian]

Hi Gooosh,

Im deliberately not going for drain pipe sized gauge :-) All i want is a nice burble at tickover, a nice throaty roar when i floor it and a pleasant thrum at speed ... i'm not going to go for one of these bean tin 5" bike cans for the back.

I'm toying between taking the 2nd cat off and leaving it on, apparently there's two kinds of cats. One is freeflow and one is not - the bloke at the exhaust place says he has some freeflow cats kicking around his yard, so if mines the wrong type he says he'll change it over.

The system will have a back box only, no centre muffler as this will improve ground clearance under the car - can't understand why anyone would fit something like that to the bottom of a 4x4.

should have come with sidepipes :d