Hey guys, I keep coming onto the forum to check out some of the builds and the for sale sections, so thought it was time to update my thread.
Small update. Thought I would post this up before the larger jobs commence over the coming days and weeks so I can keep everything up to date.
Lovely scratch from god knows who. Also have a knock on the rear bumper with one of the fittings broken. This was when it was dirty, looks worse when clean.
And onto the positive...
Old steering wheel off, new boss fitted:
New wheel on:
New AEM air filter tucked in there:
New 16 row oil cooler and Mocal Thermostatic Sandwich Plate.
Just need some stainless lines making up with 1/2 BSP connections then I can rock out on track without fear of hitting anywhere near 150c hopefully!
I also stuck in some new cooler spark plugs and Magnecor KV85 ignition leads.
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Small update: Had a go at the rear suspension setup.
Starting taking the arms and wishbones off. Look at that lovely rusty chassis rail.
Cue plenty of snapped bolts from removing the rear LCA's.
Long story short, replaced the following arms with uprated Hardrace bushes:
2x LCA's + new Honda bolts
2x UCA's
2x Mugen Gold 5-ways with new Honda damper bolts
2x rear Hardrace ARB D link bushes and new honda bolts for the Hardrace ARB droplinks.
Painted the d link bush holders, tie bar and ARB itself.
Rust treated and painted the chassis rail.
re-painted the rear callipers
The only things I've not changed are the rear compensator arms as they will need cutting off and replacing, and I have some fresh new Honda bolts for these too. Thanks to Matt for popping over and providing a much needed bolt and a general hand one evening as the LCA's just wouldn't fit back in straight. Gave me that extra oomph to crack on with the rest of the job as it's not the most fun job to do.
So the rear is nearly there suspension wise.
Then I broke my left index finger and may lose my nail due to jumping out the car too quickly and not moving my hand out the way quick enough from the closing door. Very annoying. Reason being I couldn't get into gear and didn't want to be late for work... Silly me. Regardless, the amount of air in my clutch system was insane - I have a leak somewhere, but it must of been brought to light from the car sitting at a high angle (nose down) for a while. All is well for now and I can select gears again.
So with one hand I'm limited, but managed to get my bumper off on Sunday:
Got the hacksaw out and DIY'd it to promote more air flow into the engine bay and onto the rad. Nothing clean but not bad for a one handed job. Less subtle and not as much to my taste but needs must.
So that's it for now.
Oh and this is what £45 looks like in Honda rip-off-price bolts
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Soooo finally fitted the new front fork, had the rear compensator arms fitted as I generallty didn't want to tackle it without ramps and gave it to a local company to sort the geo and tracking out.
It now handles fantastic. Much tighter and much easy to feed the throttle to control the backend - Dampers are on a softer setting on the rear and I may make them softer all round as currently they are bumpy as hell, but the damper and spring re-bound is amazingly controlled and precise. Really rate Mugen coilovers for what they are and how little they cost.