What I did to my car today

[adaxo]

Did you get your down pipes back from. Welding.

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Yes its done and will be fitted back tonight or tomorrow

[Davezj]

I replaced my 3 coil packs without removing the turbo outlet pipe across the top of the to let cover.
I didn't know you could do that until last night.

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[crazydriver81]

Finally got round to replace boost control solenoid - as suggested by @foxdie during last year's remap.

Jesus - my caar boosts now up to 0.9 bar (as programmed during remap) and holdss ~0.8bar. Finally the car flies. What a difference!

[Erni902]

Finally got round to replace boost control solenoid - as suggested by @foxdie during last year's remap.

Jesus - my caar boosts now up to 0.9 bar (as programmed during remap) and holdss ~0.8bar. Finally the car flies. What a difference!

I had the same problem years ago when Jason mapped my new one. Boost solenoid went tits on the dyno. Replaced it the day after and my god what a difference!! Makes you enjoy the car all over again!

[galantnight]

Hi all,
this to my car yesterday.
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[ersanalamin]

The speedo face came out at 100€ and has been made by a local shop (www.plasmatacho.de).

I think a group buy makes no sense, as this mod requires a 260kph speedo to be put into a VR4 cluster. So it would only work for areas, where kph and no converter chip is needed. However Ersan, you can get in touch with theses guys. They can make all kind of styles.

Hi Stefan could you please phone mr Ingo kopper? I ordered custom speedo face from him on july 6, paid in full (shipping included) with paypal. and I email him many times but No reply/confirmation/response from him since then. Does he try to rip my money off or what? please help.

[ersanalamin]

I replace stock ralliart carbon style dash panel with a new customze hydrographic carbon style dash panel. I modify the stock shift plate with evo 8 MR gear shft panel ring bezel (will make write up about this later on) and use mitsu carisma gear knob (retrimed with black leather). the result not bad. the color look more silver and blink blink than i expect. I dont like it but thats the only color available with that pattern. next i will choose darker color with the same carbon pattern if available. Will look on aliexpress for better darker color, and maybe replace steering wheel with evo 9 black momo steering wheel to match the customize gear shift panel. but for now just enjoy it for a while.

[Louis]

rear lights and spoiler

Dropped the resolution right down and made the vid 3g to get it to upload, but it is very blurry and you have to down load it to see it!!, any advice on upload ing a better quality vid pm me please

Video link to YouTube here: https://youtu.be/utLLOKtiyvA

[Davezj]

Look good. Not. Seen that look before.
After market light units let into the existing lenses.
Yes looks very swish.
Very custom. Original
Like it a lot.

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[Piers1989]

Indeed, looks very nice Louis!

[ersanalamin]

I also ordering custom hi vis dial from the same place with stefan. the order done 3 weeks ago. the seller showed me finish result and looks good. It was shipped, still OTW

[ersanalamin]

Not actually today job, has been fighting with it two weeks now, after discovered very nasty surprise in one of my front strut tower, which turns from a little, what looks like paint imperfection just below AC pipes, to a mohoosiive hole, when we lift AC pipes up and start digging it just turn in to dust, so its now patched and I said to myself, its last call to finish proper underseal job as if I leave it for much longer then it will be scrapper.

While I was there I decide to fit poly bushes everywhere, so parcel from states arrived and so far one side of the car is done, undersealed and poly bushed, also eventually, fitted ingalls camber correction ball joints, enjoy few photos.

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is your car lowered hence use the chamber correction upper ball joint? I think my car need the upper ball joint replacement but dont want aftermarket replacement ball joint due to improper snap ring fitting in the past, so i need upper ball joint like chamber correction kit construction with very minimal to no correction at all. My car is not lowered, but maybe a bit (17 inch rim, 235/45 tyre with 3 fingers gap to fender at front and rear) so whats is my option? is it suitable for my need?

http://www.ebay.com/itm/112474626935...84.m1436.l2649

or this?

http://www.ebay.com/itm/232341768431...84.m1436.l2649

[Confused]

Dropped the resolution right down and made the vid 3g to get it to upload, but it is very blurry and you have to down load it to see it!!, any advice on uploading a better quality vid pm me please

Storage and bandwidth will kill us if we start hosting videos (one video will be equivalent to thousands of photos) - please upload to YouTube and then embed using the Video button

[Louis]

Ta

[Louis]

I have always used Ingalls Adjustable Ball joints, they are a bit more expensive, but I have never had any issues with them.

http://www.ebay.com/itm/Ingalls-Engi...pWBBlj&vxp=mtr

[Confused]

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Constant throttle (well, within 2%), towing up a gentle incline at 60, around 0.6 bar of boost (of course no way of logging it) and lots of sudden dips in Load (at the top), matched up with dips in Airflow (blue in the middle) and AFR going from 13.9 to 16ish (purple scaled up to see the variations a little) - and WGDC pretty much solid at 55-57%

It's worse on LPG than petrol, so seems like a sparking issue, as LPG requires a stronger spark.


So, I ordered a new set of plugs, and this is the state of the old ones after ~35000 miles:

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1 & 3 both had oil down the plug tubes due to leaking plug seals.

A new set of Denso VK22 have gone in, as well as a different set of leads (the old ones from my Anglia before I fitted Magnecor ones to it) and on an initial run up the road they seem OK. But the real test will be this weekend when I tow again.

[Louis]

Look good. Not. Seen that look before.
After market light units let into the existing lenses.
Yes looks very swish.
Very custom. Original
Like it a lot.

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Seen it in videos from Japan before but not done the exact same.
Original work by Janis, but re finished and re worked to change the units to different options and a bit of custom work and wiring to get them the way I wanted them.
I will get a video link to you tube when I get a mo.
(they're not as straight forward as they look)

[ersanalamin]

I have always used Ingalls Adjustable Ball joints, they are a bit more expensive, but I have never had any issues with them.

http://www.ebay.com/itm/Ingalls-Engi...pWBBlj&vxp=mtr

is it adjustable? how further the adjustment range? is it still in stock alignment range? do you need chamber correction feature or is it just you want upper ball join replacement?

[Piers1989]

I have the +1.5 degree to +3 degree ingalls adjustable joints in the front of my car (on recommendation from here), and my local Kwik Fit did laser alignment with them (but I have to specially book it in as it's more time consuming than normally adjusting with the car sat on the ramp). You can imagine they need to lift the car, adjust, drop, measure, repeat.

That said they did the job well!

I got them from USA ebay for about half RRP.

[Louis]

Added video link in original post and added here

https://youtu.be/utLLOKtiyvA