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Since I still had to fit the sensors for the Defi oil pressure and temp gauges I thught I may aswell do a couple of other little things at the same time, since the way I wanted to fit the sensors required the removal of the turbo and mani setup. The plan was to strip down and spray my road runner manifold, since it was looking a bit sorry for itself as you can see in the previous post above. I also thought I would port the wastegate on my ct9 since it has a bit of boost creep which I hoped to eradicate. So first off I took everything apart and rubbed down the mani to remove all the surface

Oh well, not heard of one like that,don't think there's any sera owners on here either, there's a faw over on tgtt though...

There was a similar option in starlets, the jdm one's anyway. It was an air purifier thing, basically so you could smoke in the car and it wouldn't smell, sounds similar anyway. It was a roof mounted thing, I'm sure Jay will be along with a pic at some point.

You can see the braid on them so quite obvious really. Are you still having brake problems or are they ok now?

Anybody what? That one sounds f*cked and I wouldn't touch it with barge pole.

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Cheers mate, they are very nice gauges. Yeah I've been meaning to get one for ages, the preaching is all true! In the words of Cleveland: "Thats nasty"

Where have I seen a photo like that before? Nice picture mate but I'd say the North side is better for pictures.

I would recommend it as the most effective handling mod for the money, it really does make the car handle much better, the back of the car really helps the car round the corners now rather than just skipping about uselessly. Cheers mate, it did come up pretty nice. I finally did a compression test on the new engine today and it came up as 175, 175, 176 and 180 from cylinders 1 to 4 so pretty healthy. However the car's been feeling a bit restricted and unhappy to rev recently so I'm wanting to get it back on a rolling road asap to see if its down on power or whether I'm just being my usual

I agree with the lady above, if its factory fitted its not a modification and doesn't need declared. Otherwise everyone with new bmw's or whatever would have to sit and declare every little optional extra they ticked in the brochure.

Its not showing you're running lean its showing your getting close to the fuel cut, with your mods and the colder weather the boost will be creeping up a little bit. First mod should be a boost gauge to see exactly what boost your running.

Just because the wheel is an inch more in diameter doesn't mean its any wider, 16 inch wheels generally start at 7 inch width. I had 205's on my 15inch rays but I'm gonna put 195's on them this time as I'll get more tire onto the ground and their 7 inches wide. My girlfriends mini has 165 tires on 7 inch wide wheels that are 13 inch diameter.

Yeah it was ,its the fact the exhaust hanger bracket was right in the way, I had to grind a bit of that out of the way to get the bolt through, but as you say totally worth it. Also I said its not a spider web, its not that messy. Cheers mate, definately a bit too much of both!

I was saying what the price was brand new from toyota to give him an idea, not what I'd expect him to sell it for. I was joking when I said between £60 and £200, giving the two extremes in my eyes.

I received my parts from the whiteline gb courtesy of Dave B and thought I'd waste no time in getting my rear arb fitted, I opted for the non-adjustable model as I'm doubtful I'd make full use of the adjustable one. It should have been easy to fit but having a crap drill hindered me and finding the exhaust hanger bracket right where I wanted to drill through the chassis made it even worse and quite a pain in the arse, however its now fitted... Is it worth it, simply yes. This is probably the best handling mod I've done to the car, it gives you much more feel through the corners and yo

Thats good, but might be a lesson to you to make sure everythings declared to save any worry if (touch wood) something like this ever happens again. My insurers have got 2 sides of A4 with all my mods. Going round a roundabout the wrong way is nothing compared to how they actually drive in china!

Lol, also 60 would be silly cheap! They're £150 new without the scoop and the scoop is another £50, both unpainted. So somewhere between £60 and £200.

With our type of coilovers the whole threaded shock will turn when using the top ring to adjust so yes when you turn that up on ours the car will become higher but with the trd ones only the locking ring will turn and compress the spring thus lowering the car. The threaded shock bit doesnt rotate on the trd's hence the lack of a bottom locking ring as you said,all you can do is compress the spring more or less to change the height and stiffness as one. All the lower ring on the cusco's does is lock the body of the shock so it can't turn, you don't use it to adjust the height but it needs to

Sunds right but as Rob said TRD coilovers aren't the same, they only adjust the height by compressing the spring therefore increasing the preload and stiffness. So yours will look like that, all you do is slacken off the bottom silver ring which is the locking one, then wind up the top silver ring which will compress the spring and lower the car, then tighten up the bottom ring again till it locks against the top one. The ride will become a fair bit harsher though, so its a compromise between lowered height and ride quality with them unfortunately.

You need a c spanner to adjust them and no doubt a lot of wd40 to loosen them but yes you do them on the car, I tried to adjust the height of my cusco coilovers yesterday but their seized and I ran out of wd40, they've only been on the car a year or so too. So it can be a big pain in the arse but is relatively simple. Anyway, here's mine: It depends on your coilovers on whether they have seperate height and spring pre load adjustment ie stiffness, my cusco's above do which means the height can change but stiffness will be the same. So to adjust the height you slacken off the big bottom ri

Ok, it just looked like one that used to be fully forged and owned by a mike. What turbo is it running just now, doesnt look like a ct9 manifold?

Yes, but it obviously won't go off between gear changes, just when off the throttle.

I boutgh my samce hoses from that ebay seller and I'd recommend him. Also I think the colant hoses for na and turbo ep's are the same. Gary (EP91STARLET) has a set of samco coolant hoses on his, they look the same as mine.

Strange, I'd put another one on because its there to act as a lock nut.

Yeah, thats how it is at both sides and how it show's it on fig 3 of the instructions which is the one that relates to this type of installation.