Testing the water at the moment. I have been thinking about going back racing in some form and cannot justify having the GTM sat there doing nothing.
2007 Libra, originally factory built, was used daily by the owner and racked up 60k.. when I bought the car from forum member Roger it was in quite a poor state. At the time it had a B16A2 civic SIR engine, I rebuilt a B18C6 Type R engine and fitted that, along with a S80 LSD gearbox, with short 4th gear and 4.78 FD. Fidanza aluminium flywheel and new clutch. The engine had new bearings, re hone, new rings stem seals valves lapped, new gaskets and belts..runs brilliantly. Has a 4-2-1 manifold and 2.5 inch system, sounds awesome in Vtec and revs eagerly right round to 8600rpm.
Had all the wishbones etc off shotblasted and painted, new ball joints, rod ends, wheels powder coated inc full size spare, new protech shocks, rose jointed focus st170 gear change. At this time new mk2.5 tubular rear wishbones were fitted too. Car has the AP brakes, cable gear change, 2.7 turns to lock quick rack, front and rear ARBs etc. all the desirable bits. The car also had proper 1 piece driveshafts made and all new CV joints last year as the "factory" ones were garbage welded MGF/Honda and I managed to split one. Also recently had new headlights and rear bullseye lights.
Can't remember exactly how long the MOT is, I think around 6 months left. Has 2 link pipes, decay fitted currently and a 200cell sports catted pipe for MOT.
Bad bits
Some of the interior trim is a bit rough round the edges being hard on it. Certainly above normal kit car standard though.
I had the car painted and whilst it looks good they didn't do as good a job as I'd like, it served its purpose to freshen the car up but there is the odd blemish here and there and a couple of crazing repairs have unfortunately come back through.
The car could do with proper geometry / tracking setup. I didn't get round to doing this as I was going to do it once I'd fitted the Z cars rear wishbone kit. As it happens I still haven't had the kit... so onto that...the kit is paid for and so I'm told finished but not yet powder coated. I could either get my money back direct from Z cars if they sell it to someone else, or let it go with the car albeit not fitted, for £1000 more. (Bare in mind the kit is £1500).
I'm not 100% on this yet but I think £7500 with the kit and £6500 without is reasonable. I wouldn't describe the car as perfect but I would value a Honda Libra over a K series so at this price point you could certainly spend a few quid on it if you wished to upgrade things further without ending up with too much money in the car.
