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Sucess Story : Il commence par bricoler sa CRX puis ouvre un garage !

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C'est l'histoire d'un passionné (Romain qui vient de Paris, il est sur le forum :??: ) qui commence par tripoter un peu sa Honda, et va finir par ouvrir un garage de préparation en Angleterre.

Il a appris l'anglais en bricolant sa Civic CRX. Et a commencé à se passionner pour les bagnoles au moment de sa conduite accompagnée.

Comme quoi les passionnés ont parfois de quoi faire des pros
ça donne des idées ?

LANGUAGE OF TUNING: ROMAIN LEVESQUE’S CRX PT 1

JULY 26, 2012
BY BRYN MUSSELWHITE
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Have you ever questioned your levels of dedication? Quite often a project will put you to the test, whether there is a particular engineering problem to solve, or maybe it’s a case of putting in extra work hours to just get the funds together, ultimately the responsibility is yours and yours alone. Nobody made you buy that rusty shell, or base model and nobody forced you to create something that hadn’t been done before. All too often we hear people blame something else for what is entirely their own doing.

Not so with Romain Levesque, originally from just south of Paris in France but now based in the south of England, Romain has moved country and learnt a new language whilst building his incredible UK Time Attack spec Civic CRX.

His story is inspirational, so if you ever doubted you could do something, no matter what style or manufacturer turns your key, read on. If you want straight tech spec, then look out for part two. For us though the real story lies with the man and for Romain, it was always about the Civic, as he explains, “I wasn’t too much in to cars before I was sixteen, but from 16-18 in France you can learn to drive with somebody in the car.”

Romain like most of us learnt alongside his parents, in mother Levesque’s EK Civic 1.4, which he ended up with after he passed his test. Again we’re sure you’ll understand what came next, “So I started to modify it…”

But why? Is our next question. What pivotal moment meant that instead of just driving and enjoying the freedom meant that you had to change what was there? “Haha, hmmm… I went to Toulouse in the south of France to study engineering, one of my friends had a Hyundai Coupe and he started to modify that. So I did the same, first I bought an air filter, I got some 15s and new tyres, lowered it… Silencer, cat back then a full system.”

That Civic went back to Mum after college and that’s when Romain bought his first car, sticking with what he knew, “I bought a Civic ED7, forth gen with a D16A9 engine. 1.6 16 valve… That’s where everything started.”

At this time we’re still in France, around nine years ago. Romain saying of the tuning scene there, “It’s illegal in France, you’re not even allowed to change rims… It’s the French way, just easier to say it’s not allowed.”

This means two things, one it’s not that widespread, and two it can be pretty expensive. So with a remap coming in at over 2000euros, it was time for Romain to put his engineering background to good use, “All the information was coming from America, so I did some research and a friend had an ECU with an Eprom burner. So I fitted that and tried to learn English, tried to learn mapping,” put simply, “I started to map my own car with what I had.”

Finalement il est parti en Angleterre, pour ouvrir son garage de prépa (Eurospec)
L'histoire complète est sur Speedhunters

Message édité par WildOne le 27-07-2012 à 14:24:03

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