What have you done to your car today?

[subieboy]

 Koom said:

Painted some bits where the rust got removed. Then pulled the old chunks of rust out of the boot gasket. I think my car should officially be a classic now that I\'m working on rust more than performance!

Yep

[Kiwi_Fozze]

1500km in the last week and a bit, new clutch well bedded in. faaaark its fun

[Roo]

 kwi_fozze said:

1500km in the last week and a bit, new clutch well bedded in. faaaark its fun

Your posts about the clutch keep reminding me I need to do mine

Sorry might have missed it, did you go standard or h/d?

[Kiwi_Fozze]

sti OEM part, from wingers. engagement is a little heavier than before, but i put that down to how hot the old pressure plate got LOL

there were blue spots on it.... i really should take pics of it.

[Roo]

 kwi_fozze said:

sti OEM part, from wingers. engagement is a little heavier than before, but i put that down to how hot the old pressure plate got LOL

there were blue spots on it.... i really should take pics of it.

Sweet, thinking I might go genuine too but haven\'t got prices yet haha.

Yes pics of pressure plate!

I think I have a pressure plate somewhere around here from my pulsar that had heat spots from 4 days driving after the engine conversion.

And a clutch disc in two pieces from the same clutch lol must dig them out for a laugh

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 Roo']

[quote name='kwi_fozze said:

sti OEM part, from wingers. engagement is a little heavier than before, but i put that down to how hot the old pressure plate got LOL

there were blue spots on it.... i really should take pics of it.

/quote]

Sweet, thinking I might go genuine too but haven\'t got prices yet haha.

Yes pics of pressure plate!

I think I have a pressure plate somewhere around here from my pulsar that had heat spots from 4 days driving after the engine conversion.

And a clutch disc in two pieces from the same clutch lol must dig them out for a laugh

Missus blew my libi clutch doin circles. Completely nuked one side of a h/d daikin to be fair it was on its way out. The lining was completely missing one side and half gone on the other. Bellhousing looked like a candy floss factory.

Genuine are cheap compared to exedy h/d and theyre uprated 20-30% same as exedy. Just dont buy the release bearing gen theyre massive money like over $100 aftermarket $40-60.

Copy of invoice in my garage thread but I think 360ish so 400 incl bearing.

[Kiwi_Fozze]

Funny thing is, pressure plate and clutch genuine parts are exedy parts

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[Guest]

 kwi_fozze said:

Funny thing is, pressure plate and clutch genuine parts are exedy parts

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Most are exedy/daikin or valeo. Doesnt mean they are or arent same spec tho does it

[funkytown]

drove it with the full rev range this morning!! ;D ;D dccd open and it broke traction in 4th..

hold on!!!!

i can also confirm anyone doing motorsport what a difference ducting the oil cooler makes, following Tonys design i now have results on how good it really is.

Stable oil temps are VERY important for any track going subaru.

[tma]

My saga of installing a tablet in the 250T continues. After finding out that my original clean wiring was almost perfect _after_ feverishly splicing cables to track down noise coming through the ground, I started removing all the old cabling from the aftermarket TV set. 5 hours later, I have a truly ridiculous mass of wires which have come out which were threaded all over the damn car. It was a damn joke.

Noise is/was coming through the USB charging cable and through the audio output of the tablet - even when using the stock cigarette lighter socket rather than my wired-up secondary..

Putting all shrouds, trim and carpet back this lunch and wrapping the USB charging cable through a ferrite core. Hopefully the noise won\'t be there, or else I guess I\'m going over the ground wires in the engine bay which probably need to be done anyway. So tempting to do a hack-job with a ground loop isolator, but I want to do it cleanly...

[boon]

You\'ll have a shitty ground in there, I virtually guarantee it. What sort of noise is it? Does it go up and down with revs?

Probably best off getting a transformer-based ground-loop isolator from Jaycar or something like Stinger if you want to pay for the bling.

[tma]

Totally, that\'s what I presume too. Higher-pitched noise that occurs that starts while on / pre-ignition. That\'s what led me to believe the aftermarket TV installation "birds nest" was the culprit, rather than potentially the alternator (am I wrong about this?). Noise does increase with revs however, so I might be chasing two sources for all I know.

I\'ll go the ground loop isolator if I need to. I\'d prefer to do this cleanly and properly and possibly negate the bit of sound quality loss through using an isolator.

While I was doing a bit of reading on this before I started attacking the car, some people have pointing out that ferrite cores (usually come with TVs and the like) have sometimes been shown to reduce noise to a similar level of a ground-loop isolator. Could be BS, but they presumably exist for a reason..

Edit: Bleh.. it ended up being the secondary cig lighter socket I wired up. Serves me right for using something that was pretty poor quality. This project has made me feel like an idiot every step of the way. At least I\'ve learnt a lot..

[Jimbob]

Went to start up the sprinter and no stat engine turns but not firing. Checked fuses but none blown. Kicked it as tools are other end of town

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[QBALLZ]

Pulled the rear hubs to get the bearings changed after putting up with the noise for long enough I also kept having visions of them failing and my wheels burying themselves into wheel well in truly spectacular fashion.

While at it I inspected the rotors for wear and all the pads as well.

The drivers side made a terrible sound \'free-wheeling\' after I removed it, bearings are well past there best days. No play though, just felt like there may be some pitting on the races, possibly from the seals perishing and allowing all sorts of nasty\'s inside

The passengers side had a small amount of play, and a bit of noise when \'free-wheeling\'.

Looking forward to noise free motoring once again ;D

[Joker]

drove it 370 km\'s

and partied hard with this bunch of people on the weekend

was fab

[pedro]

Great photo joker...I spot a kawasaki samuri...Pretty rare these days..

[Joker]

OS is all about Rare/fun/Quirky : what you cant see is the Datsun 240K or 1200 2door sedan/120Y/Crown Wagon\'s/Stargazer Celica and so on

That pic is taken by a guy with a 260C standing on the boot of my MkVI Escort

[ODB]

Was Mr West there?

Shame his vert is still in shop. Coolest car in OS by a country mile

[Joker]

He missed it by a day, the R30\'s in the front (yep 2x) are from opposite ends of the country, Invercargill and Auckland

[Ninja8)]

Car started to bind during slow sharp corners which made me :\'( about the DCCD centre diff.

Drained rear diff today and....

[Guest hate-evoz]

[Guest]

Oh fuk. Better than your first thought tho.

[Roo]

Oh wow

[rex-leggy]

shame about the diff!!

i have ordered a heap of new shiny bits

new stroker pistons

crower i beam rods

main and bigend bearings acl race

arp case bolt kit

gates timing belt

12mm oil pump

and ej22 darton dry sleeves

im now poor but have what i need for bulletproof (touch wood) engine ;D

[Guest]

 rex-leggy said:

shame about the diff!!

i have ordered a heap of new shiny bits

new stroker pistons

crower i beam rods

main and bigend bearings acl race

arp case bolt kit

gates timing belt

12mm oil pump

and ej22 darton dry sleeves

im now poor but have what i need for bulletproof (touch wood) engine ;D

Asset rich cash poor is the term.