Danb

Was speaking to Dean yesterday about some cleaning bits (banana gloss shampoo, vc wheel cleaner & superfoam), paid at just before 5pm and they have just been delivered! Spot on!! Cant wait to test them this weekend (weather permitting!)

Dean sending you a pm as i want some other bits with my snow foam

Yeah 1 litre bottles will be good

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Well i was bored on sunday, so i decided i would do some spraying, the mirrors i have were finished in the black abs plastic from new and i never painted them (was day before a show - this was 18 months ago!) and they were fading to grey, also my grille has seen better days, so painted them both in a gloss black. Primer Paint Drying - mrs wasnt happy about the conservatory decorations! Grille Mirrors Really happy with the finish off them, and colour match aint too bad. I said i was going to refurb my green track wheels myself, but found somewhere who will do it for £35 a wheel (inc tyre off/on balancing) so going to be taking my spare pair to them this weekend for them to do.

How much is anglessey, when i looked at sorting somethign out years ago, it wasnt that much dearer than cadwell park.

Very good, as rick said its like the good old days if tgtt! I remember when Sam organised a track day at llandow, had some of the Irish lads come over and lots of starlets 50 or so - was great! Reckon if something like that could be organised it be great! Just trying to find somewhere centralish

heard that mike didnt want to put the spoiler on it, and that they had to do something to it to make it a show.

Cost around £90-180 for a 4 cylinder manifold, depends on how many layers and colour aswell

Fitted a short shifter at weekend, makes a massive difference in the throw and driveability So over the next 4-6 weeks the car will be off to TD (all being well) for its new management, then when its back i can start to tidy the car up a bit for next year, need to paint the grille and the wing mirrors, as they are just finished in black pastic at the moment,so they will be going gloss black the same as the bonnet/roof/boot. Also going to refurb my track wheels aswell, will be in the same colour, the paints starting to lift and peel. If i have the time, will also tidy up the interior and give that a quick respray as thats chipped in a few places due to normal wear and tear. Also i thought id add a quick spec list:: Engine RB25 – rebuilt engine (new water pump, cambelt kit inc pulleys) CP Pistons 0.5mm overbore, Eagle Rods, ACL race engine bearings, ARP headstuds, Cometic headgasket 1.3mm N1 Oil pump, Crank Collar Oil control modifications to head Tomei poncams Plazmaman Style Inlet Exhaust Innovations Steam Pipe manifold – coated in ceramic black Garrett GT35r turbo (0.63 housing) Tial MVS 44 wastegate in red Koyo Radiator Mocal Oil Cooler Large Front mounted intercooler Custom downpipe (wastegate plumbed back in) Japspeed cat back exhaust RX7 850cc Injectors with custom collars Tuning developments fuel pump Transmission RB25 gearbox Clutchmasters FX400 Clutch Clutchmasters Flywheel Custom Prop Braided clutch line Nismo 2 Way diff Shortshifter Electronics Stri Racing Gauges (oil temp & pressure, water temp, boost) Stri Shift Light Blitz DSBC Spec R Boost controller Power FC &Hand controller Chassis Apex coilovers Apex front tension rods Apex rear camber arms Apex toe rods Apex traction rods Solid subframe bushes Front Upper and lower & Rear Strut braces Nismo Power brace Weld in roll cage with side bars Braking Evo brembo front calipers EBC Orangestuff pads Godspeed discs Skyline R33 rear calipers Hydraulic handbrake HEL braided lines Larger BMC and stopper Wheels URAS NS01 wheels 17x9 (track) Nismo LMGT2 Wheels 17x9 (daily) Body/Interior EPR Racing 25mm front vented wings Flared rear arches URAS Style Kit – Front/rear bumper & side skirts Japspeed big gay wing LED Rear lights Custom vented bonnet Finished in Mercedes white & gloss black with Kawasaki green interior/wheels. Sabelt 3” Harnesses Cobra Monaco S bucket seats

ive got the manifold on my skyline done, was done in Oz where the manifold came from and its spot on, you can touch the manifold like after 5-10minutes of going for a drive and not burn yourself. I know the Tuning Developments Starlet had their WEPR manifold dont a few years ago and nick was happy with it.

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I cant really give it any abuse, as its on a sort of custom base map on power fc and weve not done any significant boost runs when we set it up. There was a delay at my end, and i wasnt supposed to be running on the PFC for this long, so it will be going to Tuning Developments in the next month or so, then it can be mapped properly on the wolf. Cant wait!

cheers guys I miss my startlet and will be going back to some sort of smaller track based car in a couple of years as i get married next year and want to start a family, so will be selling this at some point but will still have a weekend play toy - would love a mk1 grey starlet- who knows!

That takes us up until the last month or so Ive finally got my injectors all sorted out now, just awaiting on my new seals to arrive. Car at JAE: Car featured in Octobers Banzai issue :

Custom downpipe with screamer plumbed back in for now. Oh and she now moves July 2012 Thought id another pic of my engine bay added an sfs breather hose that I got off boost junkies at japfest a few weeks ago. Started running the engine in - done around 160 or so miles, but start getting a miss fire after 20mons or so, nailed it down to coil packs so been ringing round last week to find out prices and who had what stock etc, ended up gettin some yellow jackets from performance wise - went to them via there website as rsp don't do them anymore , worked out at £270 delivered (plus customs if it gets stopped). Come with a 2 year warranty and from reviews on skyline austrailia seem like a good choice and £150 cheaper than splitfires Hopefully be here within a week This fixed my missfire issue So was able to start to do some proper mileage on the engine and get it ran in. I also ordered my new ecu a wolf V500 from Tuning Developments, it will allow me to remove the MAF that sits in front of the turbo, and replace it for onboard map sensor - so much better then the link ECU, and 100 times better then the power fc and its 20year old technology.

Bit more of an update from earlier this year Out with the old SR Cleaning the engine bay up Painting new subframe and gearbox Test fit Front slam panel cut and radiator mounted After speaking to a few people who have ran some ebay manifolds, i decided that i would sell it and buy a proper steam pipe (mild steel) manifold from austrailia. ended up costing me around £600 second hand by the time postage and customs where paid for - still aroudn half price of what they are new.

August 2011 Well the engines not been at the top of the priority list (just bought a house) but here's the engine finally all built up - just need to put the rocker covers back on. I have opted for a holset hx35 turbo - just need to sort me some injectors now I also bought some second hand tomei poncams, so these were added to the engine build. After doing some reasearch, instead of spedning £600 on some 740cc injectors, the rx7 secondary 850cc ijectors fit, they just need a custom collar making up - so I decided i will go down this route as it should cost me around £2-250 max! A nice saving Having owned the holset for around a month or so, I started to worry that the turbo wouldnt give me what i wanted without being a bit laggy, luckily a friend of a firend was selling a garrett gt35 turbo that was pushing 600bhp on his evo, so i decided to buy that and sell the holset.

In April/May 2011 I had some spare money and thought id spend it on a conversion i always wanted to do since getting my S14 - putting an RB engine in to my car! So i set about looking around for an R33 (opted for a 25 as opposed to a 26 as its easier to do), i was going to scrap the shell so i wasnt too concerned about the body work, just the engine and modifications were important to me - the plan was to run about 400bhp on a standard engine but with a metal head gasket. Anyway i found a GTST in london in black - little bit of rust, with an RSP hybrid, fmic, power fc, and other supporting modifcations and was pushing 350bhp and just needed bigger injectors,so the deal was done and i would go back down the following week to pick the car up. On the way home, i discovered that the car was smoking towards the top of the rev range and was only running on 5 cylinders, i quick compression test found that cylinder 1 had 40 psi compression, the rest were very healthy. I stripped the car of its parts to sell to recoup some of the money that i shelled out for the car - the idea was that the money recouped would pay for the conversion, and for modifications to take it too a safe 400. When Nick removed the engine and stripped it down, 3 of the ringlands had been damage, number 1 have of the piston was disloged and had scored the block - i was hoping that i could just buy some used pistons, and put some fresh rings and new bearings and do that, however with the scored block, this wasnt an option. I mulled it over for a few weeks whilst nick and mike worked some prices out for me, and before i knew it, i had agreed that we would forge the engine Cometic head gasket set CP pistons eagle rods ACL race series bearings N1 pump new water pump ARP bolts also having work carried out on the block head and crank to help the oil flow. All the parts are currently with the machine shop - just waiting on the N1 pump which is currently on back order in japan. I have also treated myself to a new plenum to go onto the car aswell

passed its MOT 2 days before Japfest 2 (2011), so trundled down to Rockingham for its first outing, and went out and did a track session as a bit of a shake down to see what it felt like - all good - no problems! Then it was off to JAE - not much of a car show - just an excuse for a drink with the Tuning Developments lot after a busy summer When it was reshelled, the intercooler was damaged, so i bought a new one, however was missold it - and it was smaller than i needed it to be, so finally got a larger one and fitted that I attended an SXOC rolling road day at Dyno Demon towards the end of 2010, the car made 315bhp at just under 1.1 bar - (SR20, Norris Designs 28 Hyrbid, nismo 555s, Z32 maf, Nistune ECU, FMIC), Nick mapped the car, and i asked for a safer map then what he would usually do - as the engine has done around 135k, but had a bottom end rebuild by nissan at 60k, but wanted to air on the side of caution. I also decided to mess around with the interior, i dropped on a set of Cobra Monaco seats (suited my fat arse!) and also some Sabelt 4 point harnesses. when i first bought the 200, i treated myself to some Defi Gauges, however i wanted a 60mm boost gauge and fancied a change, so i sold them and bought some Stri gauges (cheaper then 2nd hand defis!) and the same quality - very impressed! I also got a Stri shift light aswell to match.... 60mm boost gauge on drivers door - vent mounted 3x52mm (oil pressure/temp and water temp) - below the controller unit and digital RPM readout for stri shiftlight Stri shift light I also decided to buy a Japspeed BGW - thought it would finish the car off nicely I also dropped on a pair off Nismo split rims, that i decided to refurb in the colours of the car

Well seeing as im bored at work, what better ways then to create this, showing the start of my project to where it is up to currently - sorry for all the pictures So my car started its life out as a UK 95 S14, i owned this for around 10 months and noticed the rust was starting to get the better of the shell, and it would be needing a lot of welding for its next MOT. Luckily Tuning Developments bought a drift spec s14 silvia import that was a part finished project - they bought it to break for parts, and the shell was immaculate, plus it had a welded in roll cage, so we struck a deal between us to reshell my engine into this one Removing my SR20 from my old maroon UK shell ( Summer 2010) Picture of the engine... The new donor shell Engine and box fitted The interior was a bit patchy, so whilst nick was working on some other customers cars, i repainted the interior (same colour) The first road test and getting the car ready for its MOT

welcome bell end

cool

car wont be ready for the 14th, but would be up for doing soemthing at oulton next year - blyton is a bit too tight for me.

ive been around for about 5/6 years, maybe not of been posting, but always checking the forums and seeing whats going on. One of the reasons that I never liked UKSC and why i spent alot of my time over on tgtt, was due to the way the forum was run, it felt like a dictatorship.