What have you done to your car today......

[Incognegro]

Great drive to North London, Had the lower sills vinyl wrapped in a near perfect Stardust Silver match wrap, to protect paint against stone chips!! and numberplate reccess chrome wrapped for maximum illumination! Brilliant Job by Totally Dynamic... then onto Bespoke performance (who never spotted the wrap) to have chassis checked for a waxoil, its all in great health so was just whipped and told its good for another year at least

One front LED sidelight was out so had both replaced with new white LEDs in. Fab!!

All in all a brilliant day.

[The Nige]

Oh dear when was my last post?

Off with the not so old on with new, MOT tomorrow 9:am.
Cheers

[aide]

One click softer all round and raised rear by 10mm.
Wash and Wax.
17:50 Eurotunnel.
500km of Perfect GT Bliss coming up

[The Nige]

8:45 spirited drive along the A40 returning to MOT centre for 9:00.
Go for coffee, remembering to return at 10:30. Passed with no advisories.

good result.

Cheers Nigel

[Byker28i]

aide said:

One click softer all round and raised rear by 10mm.
Wash and Wax.
17:50 Eurotunnel.
500km of Perfect GT Bliss coming up

Nice - have fun

[jamieduff1981]

Got a scumshuttle to Dundee and drove mine home freshly serviced and MOT'd rather gingerly in rain with lots of standing water, in the dark.

Boooooooo

Off out this morning to get new wiper blades. They passed their best on the drive home (by tearing one blade half off). Good game...

[firewallguy]

Fitted my Saikou Michi catch can that I had made up in the States including a custom bracket that utilizes the bolts holding the airbox on.



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Hopefully no more oil dripping onto the manifolds on track-days [

[jamieduff1981]

Changed wiper blades and went on a circa 100 mile fish and chips trip.

Question - has anyone else driven a short induction 4.5 with Joolz's generic chip but with cats installed? I did today and it was bloody awful. You'd have thought it was a Porsche or something. Absolutely gutless!

I just "tweaked" it and tried again. I am writing this with a grin. It's back to its old self again - which is to say "rather quick".

[NilsP]

jamieduff1981 said:

Changed wiper blades and went on a circa 100 mile fish and chips trip.

Question - has anyone else driven a short induction 4.5 with Joolz's generic chip but with cats installed? I did today and it was bloody awful. You'd have thought it was a Porsche or something. Absolutely gutless!

I just "tweaked" it and tried again. I am writing this with a grin. It's back to its old self again - which is to say "rather quick".

Mine is like that at the time.
Altough I cant really drive it.
Really need a remap from Joolz but its near impossible for me.
I need to take a week off in order to get there, map it and drive back
Maybe i'll get it done by passion for engineering here in Belgium

Edited by NilsP on Monday 17th August 10:22

[Byker28i]

Had the immobiliser kick in last week in the outside lane of the motorway, cut the fuel pump and no starter. Didn't feel like disconnecting the battery on the hard shoulder so got recovered. Thing was fine when we got home, drove it off the recovery truck.

Spent yesterday going through every connection, wire from front to back. Found some insulation nibbled and droppings behind the rear seats but no sign of damaged wiring. Repaired all that and couldn't reproduce the fault even with moving everything around.
Also found the mouse has been nibbling the plastic bag holding the cable ties in my toolchest.

There's currently a mousetrap in the helmet holder space and another 5 surrounding the car in various areas plus two more near his bedding. War has begun

[Gazzab]

NilsP said:

jamieduff1981 said:

Changed wiper blades and went on a circa 100 mile fish and chips trip.

Question - has anyone else driven a short induction 4.5 with Joolz's generic chip but with cats installed? I did today and it was bloody awful. You'd have thought it was a Porsche or something. Absolutely gutless!

I just "tweaked" it and tried again. I am writing this with a grin. It's back to its old self again - which is to say "rather quick".

Mine is like that at the time.
Altough I cant really drive it.
Really need a remap from Joolz but its near impossible for me.
I need to take a week off in order to get there, map it and drive back
Maybe i'll get it done by powers performance here in Belgium

Am sure you have this covered but its worth fixing everything else before deciding it needs a remap eg throttle pots.

[NilsP]

Gazzab said:

Am sure you have this covered but its worth fixing everything else before deciding it needs a remap eg throttle pots.

No i mean mine has the generic chip with the short induction and cats.
It runs fine. Just idles too low when cold. It stalls under 50C.
The cats will be replaced by cherry bombs and a remap for smoother running and power bump
I'm sure they can map it out when i go for my 12k service and remap, decat + full geo and nitrons
I can't drive it because i STILL haven't got my plate.
1year, 2 months and counting

[gruffalo]

I picked mine up from a SRT8SIX after a service and MOT, she is purring like a pussy cat.

Also while I was there booked her in for her body off chassis restoration which will be completed over the winter, it really is looking a bit tatty underneath now.

Actually read that as all over, top side is more stone chip than paint but that bit is not being done.

[HarryW]

What's the going rate for a body off refresh now, mines whilst a solid 96 car is getting a bit flakey in places....

[gruffalo]

HarryW said:

What's the going rate for a body off refresh now, mines whilst a solid 96 car is getting a bit flakey in places....

Been told £8K for every thing to be done, full chassis and suspension arm refresh, brake and fuel lines, Dampers serviced and all new bushes and new heat shielding.

Out riggers on mine will be replaced as will any of the tubing near the exhausts that is getting a bit thin. I am having the rear anti roll bar mounts strengthened as I have destroyed those and some additional chassis stiffening done while they are at it.

The chassis then gets zinc primed, powder coated and the a polyurethane coating over that to protect it all from stone chips.

[ukkid35]

I picked up another dozen parts from Classic Powder Coating in Uxbridge, most of which I won't need for a few weeks so I've left them wrapped. Great service and price, no idea about quality or longevity, I mean they look great to me but I'm new to this.

[pmessling]

All my front suspension was powder coated there Paul when I lived in the area. It's till looking good on the car three years later so you should be good and washes off well.

[ukkid35]

pmessling said:

All my front suspension was powder coated there Paul when I lived in the area. It's till looking good on the car three years later so you should be good and washes off well.

Good to know thank you.

Some people get addicticted to tattoos, I'm getting a taste for powder coating - anything that comes off the car is a candidate!

[pmessling]

ukkid35 said:

Good to know thank you.

Some people get addicticted to tattoos, I'm getting a taste for powder coating - anything that comes off the car is a candidate!

Mines similar but if it can be removed and made in stainless steel then I'll do the same.

[Byff]

Finally took delivery of my refurbished calipers from GodSpeed brakes. I asked for lime green, but they only have Kawasaki green which just wasn't loud enough so at much expense, had them re-coloured again. I've spent the last 5hrs carefully fitting, bleeding air out and bedding in some EBC Blue stuff pads with new discs and I can honestly say - I love it!