What have you done to your car today?

mccarf · 2 Sep 2018 at 19:12

I changed the headlights on my british civic over to euro headlights ready for the Finnish registration

pokerking · 2 Sep 2018 at 21:04

Anybody tried ceramic coating there car? Bought some from Amazon so am going to give it a try tomorrow!

Just arrived :/

GSXRMovistar · 2 Sep 2018 at 21:35

Finally got around to de-chroming the missus motor, now ready for a proper clean and detail next week.

Cleisthenes · 2 Sep 2018 at 21:45

GSXRMovistar said:
Finally got around to de-chroming the missus motor, now ready for for a proper clean and detail next week.

May I ask how you went about doing that?

Dis86 · 2 Sep 2018 at 21:54

Did it to the gfs mini a little while back. Plastikote was my friend.

GSXRMovistar · 2 Sep 2018 at 22:00

Cleisthenes said:
May I ask how you went about doing that?

For the side badges

1. Heat up badge with hair dryer or hot air gun
2. Use dental floss to separate the badge from the car
3. Peel off the remaining adhesive (again using heat to help)
4. Clean area with WD40 or adhesive remover
5. Mount new badges

For the front badge, it was a complete an utter ball ache, originally planned to remove it before spraying. However even with removing the air box and moving the radiator back you need the arms of a 5 year old and a degree in gynaecological to be able to reach the mounting clips; so after scratching my arms to shreads and rather than taking the whole front bumper off I decided to spray in situ. Masked up and as above used Plastikote.

tom_e · 2 Sep 2018 at 22:07

Changed my dead battery.

Meaker · 2 Sep 2018 at 22:08

Detailed the engine, used a dremel wire brush on some of the bay to remove some rust and used a high temperature black paint. The prop was also pretty bad so I used again the dremel this time with a light grinding head and then painted that black with 4-5 coats. Some of the screws needed a touch up too.

Still have some areas like the engine mount that makes it look a bit old but I had a detail brush and that's a large area so i'll tackle that next week perhaps

GhostWKD · 3 Sep 2018 at 21:41

Noble got new wheels fitted and new front suspension fitted also. Still want to get helper springs though as setting the coilovers to the right height the springs are loose at full extension...

Excuse the terrible photo, lighting wasn't the best by the time I got around to fitting everything.

Meaker · 4 Sep 2018 at 14:55

Very nice Ghost, how different is the ride?

Mine is still in the shop getting the wheels done, I want it back lol.

GhostWKD · 5 Sep 2018 at 00:18

To be honest I've not really driven it much on the new suspension yet. The stiffer rear suspension went on when one of the old shocks was blown and the car needed its MOT. The fronts are now on but I'm madly getting the car ready to be mapped on Tuesday. Got a larger fuel pump and larger injectors to fit before then so the car hasn't yet made it out of the garage (which is a complete lie as I took it out for that photo then put it back in

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Love getting wheels back from being redone, there's something incredibly satisfying about pristine wheels!

Frozennova · 5 Sep 2018 at 13:00

Visted RGS Motorsport to rent their dyno for a couple of hours this morning, didn't make the peak power I was hoping for but its right where I wanted it to be torque wise until 6000rpm. Absolutely nothing left on the table as it was hitting MBT up top and wouldnt make any more power with more spark and a TD04 is useless over 1Bar boost

Meaker · 5 Sep 2018 at 14:01

Had the CMOS been reset on the control computer or did you travel back in time (date reading 29th Jan 2002)

Akagi · 6 Sep 2018 at 00:30

Picked up my Compressor wheels for the 'rolla. Theyre in decent nick! And got a pair of PS3's for the front and will run the PZero's on the back so as not to waste them. (one has 3.8mm the other 5.5mm)

Which side is the one that wears the slowest again? Offside?

Also had some fun with a 17 Plate Cooper S. Seemed pretty much neck and neck when we were both at full chat, I think I was creeping up on him slowly. Pretty happy with that... Looked it up when I got home, power and weight both basically identical.

Wish I had the torque of that thing though. He just put his foot down and it went, I have to row through the gears and rev the nads off of it. Although, it is good fun doing that too...

rodenal · 6 Sep 2018 at 07:31

Doubt you'll notice much wear difference across the back axle tbh but yeah in theory the offside will wear slower on the front of a fwd car

LEUVEN · 6 Sep 2018 at 15:47

Got the wheel alignment done.
Happy with the results, front left was at maximum adjustment due to sitting on lower springs.

acemastr · 6 Sep 2018 at 15:51

mmmm torque curve... bet that takes off at 2500rpm

Frozennova · 6 Sep 2018 at 17:15

acemastr said:
mmmm torque curve... bet that takes off at 2500rpm

It does, and it pulls really well right to the limiter at 7500rpm. Its only just occured to me that it now makes the same power at 3400rpm as a stock 1.8 MX5 makes peak :eek:

Meaker · 6 Sep 2018 at 21:17

Do you have your original curve?

Frozennova · 6 Sep 2018 at 21:36

Meaker said:
Do you have your original curve?

I have a fair few dyno printouts from the car in my ownership. Didn't grab anything other than that one yesterday. I think the 264hp number from that dyno is conservative knowing what this particular engine/turbo/fuel combo has made a various boost levels, and a lot less spark advance than the current tune. I'm bothered by numbers on a bit of paper though, it drives great, and punches above its weight at places like Santa Pod

Images linked so I don't fill the thread with loads of huge images

Stock https://i.imgur.com/chH4KyC.jpg
A few months after the turbo conversion - https://i.imgur.com/XGhf2KH.png
After a less restrictive exhaust (Lower powered run) and demise of engine number 1 tune - https://i.imgur.com/bmoEdLM.jpg