Right, I'll give this a quick update.
Seeing as my life is in this build, here's the personal part haha. Finished up with uni after 5 years, graduated from Heriot Watt University in Mechancical Engineering (Masters) with a Distinction. So happy its done and that I achieved the result I was capable of, obviously had to take a selfie when I got my result!
I'm off to the Midlands after summer to start my graduate job with JLR! So will be attending more events down south.
So with uni done, Steve (
@Steve M ) and I went up to Banzai at Crail, cars got some really cool attention and met the guys at Chasing7 who were all ace. Check out this pic of my car I found and the video that Jack Green got of the day, my car makes a few appearances!
After this I started working through the issues with the car that have been annoying me. This included an oil leak, but of course nothings ever simple with my car. Turns out my car uses and NSX VTEC solenoid, so when I went to change the gasket a standard B series one wouldn't fit. B series in the packet (left), NSX is what came off (right). And of course the NSX gasket was double the price from Honda haha. Huge thanks to Matt for helping me with getting the right gasket here (
@tenz78 ).
Moving on, I was getting a really bad rotational noise from the front right sound, I thought it was warped discs (again) as we replaced the wheel bearings when we fitted the extended studs a couple of years ago. Perfect time to fit my 282's I got off Nicole (
@nicole_ ) last year, so fitted them with MG 282mm Pagid discs and the half worn DS2500's she gave me with the callipers, as well as a 1" MB6 MC I got off Ryan (
@Ryan-EK9 ) about 4 years ago haha. Everyone says you have to bend the stock brake lines to fit the MB6 MC but I just unclipped them from the retaining bracket on the firewall and the fit fine. Getting it into place was a complete pain in the ass though haha. Thoughts on the brake upgrade is that they feel amazing, pedal travel is much shorter and I can't overheat them which is great for now! Although white wheels and DS2500's make me want to slit my wrists.
This didnt fix my issue, so I swapped the hub over to a spare that Steve had and this fixed the noise instantly. The old wheel bearing felt disgusting, so I reckon we must have bent the flange fitting the studs which wore the bearing excessively. Dean (
@Deans96r ) gave me some spare studs he had and Steve fitted a new bearing, ball joint and studs to the good hub, so thats another thing fixed!
About that time we all (Steve, Dean, Tam and Chris
@Bushell ) went for a drive and I have to say I love my car
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Since then I've changed the steering rack bushes and compliance bushes in an attempt to fix my knock but it's not worked. Only bushes I haven't replaced in the car are the engine mounts and front camber arms. Other possibility is the steering rack but I'm getting fed up trying to find it now. Serviced the car as its ow 5300 miles since the new engine went in, very little metal on the sump plug which is obviously a good thing. The engine uses no oil which is a bonus!
Done the usual cleaning of the wheels, stuck with what I did last year: wash, de-iron, clay, polish and seal. Seems to work!
Here are the final recent pics, some are crap because they're from my phone.
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Got Scottish Car Show tomorrow which should be good! The car's starting to show its age in terms of bodywork, but its now done 121K miles so this is to be expected I suppose. Still annoying but I'll get it sorted in time.
I've also owned the car for 6 years now. Not bad for a first car!
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