With the splitter at final-ish height is was time to get out another cereal box.
That looks better. Kind of. It'll look better in motion. Hopefully.
Decided to violently remove the plastidip from the new wheels. These will be new daily wheels and I really don't like black wheels on a black car.
Finally, the new ABS sensor came and we have ABS again! Yay! Looking forward to Sunday. This car is making me happy again.
Usually the UPS guy doesn't show up until after dark on tire day. Today he was early!
Going to have to go see my tire guy tomorrow. I love new shoes.
I literally installed exact tires last night
They're good tires. We ran them on the Civic last year for OLOA. They do tire things very well.
Fun fact though. The proper size tire for my car is a 225/50R17. It's 25.9 inches tall. Michelin makes a PS4 in 305/30R19. That tire is 26.2 inches tall. I totally have room for that. Height wise at least.
In reply to mazdeuce - Seth :
Lol
i did 200 miles on shakedown twisties. I went from A048 to R888 to these. A052 next
Two things.
1. The ECS is sooooooo quiet. Just a lovely tire. I forgot how much I like them.
2. These are 8th gen Civic Si wheels? I think? They're heavy and universally non loved by Civic people, but I think they look really good on this car.
In reply to mazdeuce - Seth :
These are some of the last Civic Si wheels that weren't a directional design. Also, they do look quite good on the car. I'm a fan!
2013 was the last year before they went to the directional design. these are the 2009-2012 Wheels.
The ECS truly is a great do everything tire. It's still plenty fast enough to be fun at auto-x/track stuff, but it's daily driver quiet and so good in the rain.
Those look good! 
I'd like to see a tire shootout between the Yokohama S Drives and Extreme Contact Sport. Maybe it's already happened and I didn't know it? Off to the Google...
captainawesome said:I'd like to see a tire shootout between the Yokohama S Drives and Extreme Contact Sport. Maybe it's already happened and I didn't know it? Off to the Google...
I'm pretty confident the ECS will wipe the floor with the s drive.
Our ND has the S Drive and I don't have any complaints other than it's maybe a bit loud. It certainly has more grip than you can use at street speeds. Back to back would be a good test though. Who wants to mail me a set of S Drives? 
I’ve run a set on my e30 and recently put a set on my wife’s Elantra GT. Noise is a thing. The grip seems to make all of that disappear though.
Mazdadeuce and I had a lot of fun today, and despite my best efforts...... pushing the Accord as hard as I could ..........I was unable to damage the splitter hard enough to actually rip it off, and in reality it didn't even touch that hard! despite the fact that we were autocrossing on the surface of the Moon today. The car performs very very well, and I am very excited to do one lap. The on-road compliance with the ECS's as a result of their the nice soft sidewall is just absolutely phenomenal and they are also very very quiet. it's going to be an absolutely unbelievably enjoyable car to drive around the country
We did indeed have a good time. The car is at an interesting place development wise. It basically feels like a low-ish power track capable from the factory car with an absurdly aggressive brake pad. It's easy to drive up to the 95% level, at which point additional pushing gets hard on the tires/car with very little additional speed. At least autocrossing. If you bought a new car like this to autocross you'd be super excited to start developing it. Speaking of new cars, this little guy was at the event yesterday and it's magic.
Also, this showed up. Internet points for identifying it from my terrible pictures.
We've got a higher speed test coming up this weekend and I don't think I need to change much if anything about the car before then.
In reply to mazdeuce - Seth :
Berkeley with doritos!
berkeley yea it is. Stretched 9 inches, tube frame, yada yada yada. It was cool.
In reply to mazdeuce - Seth :
How did the N do vs. the competition?
Pete Gossett said:In reply to mazdeuce - Seth :
How did the N do vs. the competition?
SMOKING. still waiting on official results. PAX results put him within 3/4 of a second on the Fastest PAX FWD time of the day. and the N was the fastest FWD time of the day in Raw time.
Daniel Mccelvey(3 national championships in CS) put down a 55.9XX in a 2018 Focus ST and the N driver put down a 55.7XX.
In reply to spacecadet :
Wow!
Been driving the car. The splitter scrapes in only a few places on my normal commute, all on ins and outs of parking lots where they're sculpted to allow for drainage. I think it actually rubs less than the Volt.
Picked up this tiny little battery.
Here it is next to the stock battery.
And in place in the stock location.
If this works out I'll pull the stock battery tray and all that nonsense at well. I drove to pick up the kids with it yesterday and it works great. Four starts and it's like it's not even there. The big question is not whether it works, but for how long it works and what kills it.
it's interesting that it might be better/cheaper to run two of those in parallel instead of boosting up to the -6... maybe?
is this an "amazon" exclusive thing?
Hmmm .....are there hi-zoot hand fabricated custom brake duct snorkels hiding behind the 'splitter' ?
So I'll leave it to Seth to debrief the Testing we did today, but it went well.
Seth really..... REALLY nailed the stealth portion of this build.
I was driving to the TnT event this morning and I'm slowly gaining ground on this black car in front of me on i-30 ... it's not until i'm literally ON TOP OF IT and about to pass it, that I realize it's Seth.
Will debrief tomorrow. Left at just after 4:00 am. 640 miles including the 40 or so laps on track. Tire temp data. Color changing brake paint. Got home a bit after 7:00. I can live in this car for a week no problem.
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