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Evening all, those of you who have kept an ear to the ground recently will know of my little crash that I had. This prompted the need for a loan because A) the peoples fence wasnt going to repair itself and B) my car needed some money thrown at it.
So, I've been buying bits for about 2 weeks now, I thought it might be a good idea to get a project thread going as most of the work will be happening next weekend (Sat/Sun/Mon) I've got all 3 days off, working solid through the day from early morning, and through the night until early hours. It WILL get done that weekend
So, this is how it stands at the moment:
WHATS TO DO:
PENDING - New front and rear bumpers
DONE - Debadged grille
DONE - New exhaust center section
DONE - New cat
DONE - Sportex 4" oval backbox
DONE - Lower 60mm all round - Jamex shocks and springs
PENDING - Full colour coding
PENDING - White steelies :P
PENDING - Depo fronts
PENDING - Black MHW rears
DONE - Calibra front seats
DONE - Fix the damage to the floor pan in the boot (will be done when we fit the new bumpers)
DONE - Full service (new plugs, leads, oil flush, new oil, new oil filter, fuel filter, air filter, drain coolant system and redo, new brake pads)
FUTURE POSSIBILITIES AND PLANS:
GSi Spoiler
GSi Front bumper
GSi skirts (or stienmetz, not sure, they look a bit nicer)
Cesaros, Speedline Allessios or Compomotive MO's
Possibly tint windows
ENGINE TROUBLES:
As of about 1 week ago, I've lost all power, its extremely jerky in all gears at all revs, max speed is about 65mph downhill, rev limiter is at 3,000rpm ish. In an attempt to fix this, the following are being done:
**DONE**
DONE - New cat
DONE - New lambda sensor
DONE - New air flow meter
DONE - New engine coolant temp sensor
DONE - Clean EGR valve
**DONE**
If it doesn't run OK after this then something has majorly gone wrong...
Comments and suggestions extremely welcome, as you can see, I've bought a lot of bits already, my bedroom is full of parts and boxes etc... Theres still a loooong way to go
Obviously, there will be progress pics of all of this after enxt weekend when it all begins... I hope to get the lowering done, at the same time i'll do brake pads becuase i'll have the wheels off, once its lowered i'll do the exhaust fit the cat and the backbox, already fitted new centre section. After that, its all little jobs, the full service needs doing, all the sensors need replacing/cleaning/testing, filters need doing, oil flushing etc... once all of those are done, the bumpers will come into play, along with straightening out my back end... Either that or I'll fit the leathers in the front, not sure, will see how it goes...
So, I've been buying bits for about 2 weeks now, I thought it might be a good idea to get a project thread going as most of the work will be happening next weekend (Sat/Sun/Mon) I've got all 3 days off, working solid through the day from early morning, and through the night until early hours. It WILL get done that weekend
So, this is how it stands at the moment:
WHATS TO DO:
PENDING - New front and rear bumpers
DONE - Debadged grille
DONE - New exhaust center section
DONE - New cat
DONE - Sportex 4" oval backbox
DONE - Lower 60mm all round - Jamex shocks and springs
PENDING - Full colour coding
PENDING - White steelies :P
PENDING - Depo fronts
PENDING - Black MHW rears
DONE - Calibra front seats
DONE - Fix the damage to the floor pan in the boot (will be done when we fit the new bumpers)
DONE - Full service (new plugs, leads, oil flush, new oil, new oil filter, fuel filter, air filter, drain coolant system and redo, new brake pads)
FUTURE POSSIBILITIES AND PLANS:
GSi Spoiler
GSi Front bumper
GSi skirts (or stienmetz, not sure, they look a bit nicer)
Cesaros, Speedline Allessios or Compomotive MO's
Possibly tint windows
ENGINE TROUBLES:
As of about 1 week ago, I've lost all power, its extremely jerky in all gears at all revs, max speed is about 65mph downhill, rev limiter is at 3,000rpm ish. In an attempt to fix this, the following are being done:
**DONE**
DONE - New cat
DONE - New lambda sensor
DONE - New air flow meter
DONE - New engine coolant temp sensor
DONE - Clean EGR valve
**DONE**
If it doesn't run OK after this then something has majorly gone wrong...
Comments and suggestions extremely welcome, as you can see, I've bought a lot of bits already, my bedroom is full of parts and boxes etc... Theres still a loooong way to go
Obviously, there will be progress pics of all of this after enxt weekend when it all begins... I hope to get the lowering done, at the same time i'll do brake pads becuase i'll have the wheels off, once its lowered i'll do the exhaust fit the cat and the backbox, already fitted new centre section. After that, its all little jobs, the full service needs doing, all the sensors need replacing/cleaning/testing, filters need doing, oil flushing etc... once all of those are done, the bumpers will come into play, along with straightening out my back end... Either that or I'll fit the leathers in the front, not sure, will see how it goes...
Would like to see things as they update 'cos i've got same coloured car hah.
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