What have you done to your car today?

[Timmah]

Fitted a Zerosports intercool deflector/splitter! Snug as a rug! Also ran some upper cylinder cleaner through, only used half a bottle as it ran out of pressure. Quite peeved about that

[Swindog]

Still searching for a white bumper with lip.

[subieboy]

Tuned up the primary boost levels to appropriate levels... No more warning(s) from boost controller. Way more consistent = better 2ndary stage boost

[Kiwi_Fozze]

helped out a mate after he put a rod through his block at one of the major intersections in greenlane...

[ADIKT]

 kwi_fozze said:

helped out a mate after he put a rod through his block at one of the major intersections in greenlane...

Wtf was he doing to do that at a major intersection??

[92LEGESI]

was it a launch ? ;D

[Kiwi_Fozze]

in an automatic toyota vitz? i think not. had been making big end noise, and it just let go on him.

*edit* the conrod welded itself to the crank and snaparoo...

[92LEGESI]

did you manage to find the bits of the block ? if it was rush hour that would suck

*edit bcos of the *edit, if it did exit the block did you find it ?

[ADIKT]

Reminds me of my POS auto nissan prairie sr20. Big end was gone. Kept driving untill it blew up. Smoke and oil for a few hundred meters up the road.

[Kiwi_Fozze]

no luck on the bits of block, but i nearly assed over in the oil puddle trying to push it up around the corner. as for rush hour, thank god no, cnr abbotts rd was bloody busy at just on 8, i'd hate to do it at rush hour!!!!

[ADIKT]

 kwi_fozze said:

no luck on the bits of block, but i nearly assed over in the oil puddle trying to push it up around the corner. as for rush hour, thank god no, cnr abbotts rd was bloody busy at just on 8, i'd hate to do it at rush hour!!!!

Top of abbots way? I drove through there at 7 30 tonight

[DRFVDR]

Took delivery of our new vehicle ( as in brand new ) for work

[wrxguy]

Checked out my weight loss!

Sound deadning 9.6 kg. and not all of it is out yet!

Interior trims and plastic parts & bits and pieces 21.9 kg

1 rear door window electrics 2.4 kg

1 bar removed from rear door 1.2 kg

Head liner 1.9 kg

Still got 1 rear door to remove bar and electrics from yet!

All my handy work will be negated when I install rollcage!!

[funkytown]

37kgs.. now thats handy.

[wrxguy]

 funkytown said:

37kgs.. now thats handy.

Like I said, that isnt all thats to come out!

[G-unit]

oil and filter change, 10w 30 valvaline engine armour oil

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 wrxguy']

[quote name='funkytown said:

37kgs.. now thats handy.

/quote]

Like I said, that isnt all thats to come out!

not bad weight loss, last time I weighed my car it was 1160kg (dry weight) pretty happy down from the 1270 from factory. quite big savings can be had if you go extreme, looking to get mine below 1100kg.

[petrolheadjman]

Gonna try start it tonight,

Getting sick of this not working thing! must be something simple i'm missing

[wrxguy]

 ballsrburning']

[quote name='funkytown said:

37kgs.. now thats handy.

/quote]

Like I said, that isnt all thats to come out!

not bad weight loss, last time I weighed my car it was 1160kg (dry weight) pretty happy down from the 1270 from factory. quite big savings can be had if you go extreme, looking to get mine below 1100kg.

If it isnt gunna be used its comin out! I need to get the inner workings for the 2 front doors from a manual window winder and dump the electrics to save a bit of weight! Anyone have any manual non electric door inners goin cheap?!!!

Ive even cut out the upright metal brace thats in front of the radiator so it gives it the wrc look! Straight thru to the radiator!

Once its all finished and built I will see if i can get it onto the vehicle scales down by the port to get a final finished weight.

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 wrxguy']

[quote name='funkytown said:

37kgs.. now thats handy.

/quote]

Like I said, that isnt all thats to come out!

not bad weight loss, last time I weighed my car it was 1160kg (dry weight) pretty happy down from the 1270 from factory. quite big savings can be had if you go extreme, looking to get mine below 1100kg.

If it isnt gunna be used its comin out! I need to get the inner workings for the 2 front doors from a manual window winder and dump the electrics to save a bit of weight! Anyone have any manual non electric door inners goin cheap?!!!

Ive even cut out the upright metal brace thats in front of the radiator so it gives it the wrc look! Straight thru to the radiator!

Once its all finished and built I will see if i can get it onto the vehicle scales down by the port to get a final finished weight.

took me ages to source the manual window mechanisms not that easy to get. i cut the whole door too on the front, just gutted the rear doors and covered in alloy plate. I am hoping the teins i put in the car are lighter than the oem suspension items. The equal length headers i put on and the after market upipe should be a little lighter as I had oem items before so hopefully i can drop a little weight there.

Next is removing the glass from rear window. Then a re-weigh to see where we are, I have added some stuff which is heavier than before, so I guess unless I change panels and stuff its going to be hard to hit below 1100kg.

[Marky]

That's an impressive drop!

Today I managed to put in new suspension, looks much, much better and corners flat as a pancake. A large blue pancake but... anyway

Before:

After:

Sitting at about 105mm or so, time for a cert. Pretty firm - doesn't agree with chch roads so good but given the jandal it's a much different car to before.

[wrxguy]

Yea bro. I got a sheet of .9mm alloy from the local aluminium joinery. Was something like 50 buks for a 2.4mx1.2m sheet. Thats what the door cards will be replaced with & to cover the hole into the boot. I have emptied the rear door with one more to be done so more weight savings there!

6 point rollcage kit arrived yesterday. $490 for a 6 point kit minus side intrusion bars. I have a mate workin at a steel place so ill get the extra lengths from him to make side intrusion and some braces.

I gotta move some stuff into storage that i wont be needing until rebuild. Hopefully that can get done today!

[ADIKT]

 wrxguy said:

Yea bro. I got a sheet of .9mm alloy from the local aluminium joinery. Was something like 50 buks for a 2.4mx1.2m sheet. Thats what the door cards will be replaced with & to cover the hole into the boot. I have emptied the rear door with one more to be done so more weight savings there!

6 point rollcage kit arrived yesterday. $490 for a 6 point kit minus side intrusion bars. I have a mate workin at a steel place so ill get the extra lengths from him to make side intrusion and some braces.

I gotta move some stuff into storage that i wont be needing until rebuild. Hopefully that can get done today!

Are you doing the cage yourself?

[wrxguy]

I will be helping out where I can but apart from welding up some glut cradles when I was working at the timber yard the last time i used a welder was when I did my trade cert course after leaving high school! Me thinks my welding skills maybe a bit rusty! Just like my rollcage will be if I dont get it into the car and paperwork done very soon!!! I'm happy to do the seams in the front and rear but I will leave the important life saving bit to one of the guys I know who has been doing a heap of welding lately!

[ryn]

Replaced knock sensor and wiper linkages.