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  2. Dave
    Haha, totally agree! For the extra cost per tank, the mpg and performance more than make up for it! 🤓
  3. dr_broon
    That E10 is absolute dog turd.. Only e5 goes in ours, especially after it ruined the injectors in Karen's accord. It's like a double bonus of super unleaded in top of not being E10 👌
  4. Dave
    Yeah, all sorted and driving amazing. Had been using that E10 unleaded fuel for a bit, but yesterday filled her up with E5 Esso super and the difference is unreal. She normally averages around 44 to 47mpg on that. On the E5, she's showing 53mpg (know that will probs go down a bit)! What got me was acceleration. On our way back from town 50/60mph limit, we got stuck behind a numpty who was slowing down to 26mph for 45mph bends! Gayle was in Foxy, her wee 70 late Micra, and pulled out and passed him on a bit where there's a very short straight. Knowing I'd need to be quick I dropped her into 2nd as normal and went for it. She accelerated so quick I hit the limiter in 2nd and had to quickly change up to 3rd! She doesn't usually accelerate that quick! E5 deffo makes a difference! So happy, got a car I always look back at when walking away, which I love the look of, it's quick and cheap as chips to run! All is good in Lexy's world! Bloody love this car!
  5. dr_broon
    Will have to have a spy at that 👍
  6. Dave
    It's mega tight mate. If you take the glovebox out you'll see that wee space I was on about. You might be able to cut some of it away (it's all plastic I think) to get all the cables through.
  7. Dave
    Deffo mate, been ages again lol Wish I'd got my finger out this year as DD was invited to a classic car show at BoNess, although we would have been away on hols anyways. She's already invited fir next year's show though which is nice. My good mate Iain volunteers to work on steam trains and some of the guys there are the organisers of the show. He told them about DD and they want her up there at the next show. 🙂
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  9. dr_broon
    Nice one matey, I like Kelso 👍 We'll have to get together after winter.. Give you some time to get that deck back in the road 😉
  10. Dave
    Moving to Kelso in the borders mate, it's about 20 odd mile from here, nit too far but further into the borders. Closer to your direction lol. The village has been fine but the land with this house is too much to maintain, so bought a lovely detached bungalow with garage and a lot smaller garden. Will give us a lot more free time, and Kelso is our favourite borders town. Plenty to do there, plus it gets its fair share of classic car shows too along at the events ground. Win win!
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  13. dr_broon
    All looking good, and glad you got the shifter problem sussed. My head unit just won't fit in with all the various plugs and adapters connected to it... Such a small space
  14. dr_broon
    Know the feeling about being lazy, 😂 Are you moving far bud?
  15. dr_broon
    Nice one. Sounds like the nightmare I had swapping the wheels on the stepwagon before going away.. Was supposed to be quick, but resulted in a snapped wheel stud, and replacing what could well have been the original brake pads given how they almost fell to bits.. Took bloody hours. Is she back sorted now mate?
  16. dr_broon
    I still love the go kart deck, but we've just done 100 miles out so round Cornwall in the stepwagon in the summer and it was spot on for comfort. Karen's civic is quite nice as a daily though.
  17. btjtaylor
    Thanks, it's an alpine unit so even though it's new I think it fits with the 90s-ish vibe of the car. It's no doubt the brand I would've gone for if I had the money back in the day haha. It has RGB lighting so I can change it to march the dash which is nice (I'm being picky but I don't like it when the colours don't match!) The car came with a pretty retro looking JVC CD player but only 1 channel was working for some reason and it had a really shoddy aftermarket Bluetooth kit (calls only) with wires bodged in all over the place so I thought it was best to bin it all and fit something new I did consider not bothering with a head unit but even though the build leans towards track car, I've been in cars which are totally stripped before and whilst you might be able to get an extra 20kg out by removing the heater, stereo, half the dash, etc, it makes the car unusable for anything other than trailering really Yes he basically said he managed to get it all down the side by sticking a pair of long noise pliers through the popped out hazard switch and holding the cables out of the way of the head unit I've stripped everything from the front seats back and deleted the air con (it was broken anyway) so I'm not even sure I'll be able to hear the radio over the rattling but that's about the extent of the weight reduction for now. It should be a lightweight chassis anyway as it doesn't have a sunroof or other luxury features 😂
  18. Dave started following MB2 K-Swap Civic project - from base spec to race spec and Dr_Broon's VTI 'deck
  19. Dave
    Great progress mate! Those head units are a bugger to fit in our civics. Trick I've found is there us a slight gap in the dash on the left side at the back of where the head unit sits. You can just about manage to poke the excess cables down there when sliding the head unit in, then pull them through from the glovebox side (with glovebox removed). It's tight but makes it easier to get the unit fully in. Nice choice of head unit by the way!
  20. btjtaylor
    Thank you very much for confirming this and your post - makes my car build a lot easier as I was expecting to have to modify the stock seat structure (which in itself is a problem because my passenger seat was accidentally disposed of - best not to ask)
  21. btjtaylor
    Got this photo from my father in law this morning that he got the head unit in in about 5 mins on the first try, always the way 🙃
  22. btjtaylor
    More progress MB6 dash installed and MB6 cluster fitted Modified the centre console slightly (basically just removing the tray in front of the gear stick) to accommodate the shifter box Cut a hole in the back of the glovebox and mounted the ECU inside Installed a steering wheel boss and OMP 300mm wheel Unfortunately I wasted a couple of hours trying to get the head unit to fit in the dash as I was struggling with all the spiders web of cables behind so I couldn't get it rolling today 🥲 but it's a marathon not a sprint!
  23. Dave
    It's easier to just replace the arm complete mate, they come ready to fit straight on.
  24. Dave
    Meant to update this! Got the ABS fault sorted, was right rear abs sensor. Was supposed to be a 10 min job to remove/fit, only one 10mm bolt! Said bolt was rounded to he'll, so took time to get that out. Then the sensor itself wouldn't come out! In the end had to remove brake caliper, caliper carrier and brake disk so I could hammer the sensor out! What a faff. New one fitted, all back together and abs light now gone!😀 Also had her in for her MOT which she failed. Didn't fail on much tbh, handbrake efficiency, broken o/s/f coil spring. Couple of advisories for o/s/f ARB drop link and a tyre slightly perishing. Got everything done except the tyre as I'm gonna replace all 4 soon anyways so she now has a clean bill of health. Still driving nice, and love her to bits!
  25. btjtaylor
    No pics unfortunately as had my head down but some good progress on the car: Engine back in the car and running without any timing codes, great success! Managed to fix an issue with the shifter, I wasn't able to select 1st or 2nd gear. I tried getting another set of shifter cables as the ones I had with the shifter were a bit too short and didn't look like the pictures of "correct" sets i'd seen. Turns out I had set the gearbox cable bracket up wrong - for future reference the brackets should be in the "forward" position as per this image (thanks to the helpful soul on facebook who pointed this out when I posted a last ditch question in a kswap group!): Started to fit an MB6 VTI dashboard that I was kindly gifted by a chap called Sam who I bought a few other bits off. My original one had the fake wood trim which wasn't my favourite and some absolute vandal had attached a phone holder directly to it with wood screws! Removed the passenger airbag, removed the cover from it and refitted the cover back into the dash to cover the ugly hole that was left Another solid day on it and I reckon first drive soon (a very short one out of VTEC as driving on the wrong engine map, with open headers on 15 year old budget tyres isn't the greatest idea!!)
  26. Dave
    Me being lazy! Lol Don't think she'll need anything tbh, maybe the usual handbrake adjusted but other than that hoping she passes when I get her booked in. In the middle of moving house again so will get her seen to after that. Got a mate who has a recovery vehicle and his rates are decent so he'll be moving her to her new garage in October🙂
  27. Dave
    Think I prefer comfort now, getting old! Days of lowered and beefed up suspension long behind me now. Even the TypeS I feel is as stiff as I'll ever go suspension wise. DD and Gayle's wee Foxt Micra feel like a floating carpets compared to Lexy lol. Can see Steppy on a nice set of 18" dishes alloys though at some point, think it would really suit them mate!
  28. Psilos
    Hello everyone. I'm bringing this old topic back on top. Does anyone know if there is a cable reel for ma9(or Rover that matches) with cruise control cables in it? Must have one plug for the horn, one for the airbag and one for the CC. And what cruise control switch match with the ma9 steering wheel? Do we have any part codes?
  29. btjtaylor
    Spent the bank holiday installing the new timing chain/guides/tensioner, service manual print outs in hand and triple checking everything. All sealed up now, should be able to get the engine back in next weekend, all being well. Chain that was on was stretched - not by as much as some i've seen but the main difference I noticed is the chain tensioner was quite far extended whereas the new one is much less extended, maybe it couldn't take up the slack or something jumped on first start. Anyway, hopefully this is all sorted now. Also changed the crank pulley seal as I don't ever want to be going in there again!
  30. dan1
    Mate this all looks great! So exciting Glad the timing chain bits didn't cause any harm
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