It was obvious that there would be al lot of “black gold” on our race car. Showoff Imports is the biggest European dealer of Seibon carbon therefore of course some nice products to show our customers. The hood already was carbon fibre but it was painted, we chose a new one. To save some weight on the back end the trunk should be replaced, carbon, what else! Probably the top peace of our carbon mania, the doors. They look great in real life, you have to trust me on that. Hard to capture on a photo but we sure tried.

Glass is also very heavy on a car, we replaced all the windows, except the front one (for now), with polycarbonate ones. They are made beautifully, just like the oem windows, just a hell of a lot lighter!

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Here we are again with a few updates. Due to the summer season with all the meetings and stuff we didn’t had much chance to make progress on the car. We are getting there but sometimes it goes slow.

To make the DC5 more like a proper  race-car we chose to change the entire look with a wide-body-kit. People have to notice some serious work is being done to our project. Since there are only a few wide-bodies for the DC5 we had little to choose from. We think the current one is the best looking one. It really was a pain to get it on the car. And for now it’s only on, the painter has a lot of work coming his way!

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Civic Club Holland hosts the “Honda Summer Showoff” event at Showoff Imports on June 13th. Click here for more info.

Because there was nothing more to strip from the car we finally decided it was time to start fiddling with the roll cage. We started with a prefabbed full weld-in cage. You can imagine it was a giant puzzle to find out witch part goes where, but it seems like we got the hang of it after some higher level discussions. Some piping needed some adjustments but that should be no problem for our team. After two days of struggling with the pipes, shot down knees and some good burn-marks this is where we ended up.

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We came across a new video from our friends over at RPM Online. New footage from the 2010 Streetpower event @ Circuit Park Zandvoort. Mainly Time Attack Semi Pro Street and a peak behind the scene at the inspection rounds. There will be another part soon, that will be the Pro Street with of course the DC5!!
Enjoy!!

Since you’ll be seeing a lot of video material from RPM Online on our website we thought it’s fair to introduce them to our public. We are familiar with the  founder of RPM Online, Peter Schwillens, for a few years now and are a big fan of his work. The video’s they produce are always a treat!

RPM Online is a team of performance and tuner enthusiasts who have combined this with their other hobby; media productions. They produce videos, photos and articles about this community, mainly in the so called Benelux region (Belgium, Netherlands, Luxembourg). The coverage is mostly performance based, such as the Time Attack events.

Visit RPM Online if you like to see more of them!

Here are the first video’s we shot ourselves on-board the DC5 in action on Circuit Park Zandvoort at the Streetpower 2010 event. Next time the car hits the tarmac it can only go faster!!!
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The first event in 2010, 14 March, was the last time the DC5 came in action in it’s “standard” form. With a time of 2.07:499 Ronald put himself on the 13th place in the final. The goal is set for September, beat the 13th place.

Time attack was only part of the action that took place at the Streetpower event. Our friends from RPMonline shot some great footage and made a great film. You will be seeing a lot more of them, so stay tuned.
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