Did some work on the car today, slightly unplanned but everything worked out pretty nicely once I decided to be brave and take the bumper off myself.
My newly fitted HID kit had a few issues, so I had a new ballast sent out. In the process of fitting this yesterday I managed to drop the wire clip that holds the back of the headlight bulb in place - usually you need not unplug them, but as the wires on the back of the H7R bulbs are not detachable you have to unhook it, put the bulb in place, then pop it back in before fastening the clip in place.
Sods law dictated it was the passenger side clip that I dropped, it went down past the standard airbox scoop, somewhere between the fog light and the resonator box, not without removing the arch liner and fishing it out of the undertray
. So with a non functioning headlight it meant I would have to sort it today, and if I drove around the clip might fall out somewhere and its not available separately from the headlight
This morning I took the arch liner off to get at the clip and it seemed pretty easy, lots of plastic clips but not as fragile or fiddly as I expected by looking at it, so I decided to fit the proper cold air feed and carbon ducts for my air intake, and the GP pack front splitter that I bought....next thing you know, my car was like this...
Brute force and ignorance, and undoing two bolts, required to remove the hilariously convoluted standard 'cold air feed' and resonator boxes....this draws air in through a small opening in the inner wing, sends it down through the big 'box' resonator you see there, then back up into the bottom of the airbox through a pipe.
The mugen airbox I've fitted comes in two parts, the first being a larger volume and smoothed carbon fibre box for the filter, that is not too dissimilar to the OEM item. The second part is the cold air feed, this replaces all of the above with a straight bit of ducting that takes cold air directly from a scoop that goes in place of the foglight.
Put it all back together again:
I like the GP pack splitter, the gloss black breaks up the look of the front end a bit compared to the standard lower bumper, and with the foglight ducts as well I think it looks that bit meaner.
As for the intake...but this point I was utterly frozen and elected to go indoors after 4 hours spent largely lying on the floor by the front bumper.
Next week I am having my Mfactory LSD fitted, and all my brake parts - rich, if you've not got around to having it done yet, I'd consider asking Eightspeed for a quote as they are very competitive!
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