Jump to content

Dave

Administrators
 View Profile  See their activity

  • Posts

    10,502

  • Joined

  • Last visited

  • Days Won

    402

 Content Type 

Everything posted by Dave

  1. Dave
    So, some photos. This was after 2and coat of silver (now just finished 3rd coat) And one of the other wheels, sanded, wet n dried and waiting for paint.
  2. Dave
    Update: Started to refurb her Cades alloys (DD's posh shoes) The rimes being polished were in a terrible state tbh, and I accidentally kerbed one a while back. Glad to hear that all 4 have now been sanded, repaired, prepped and the the first one is now into paint. So far had 2 coats of etch primer, two coats of high build primer and now onto the silver (1 coat so far). Was going to make a video on this, but because we were in the middle of moving house all my camera gear is packed away including tripods etc so can't. Will however get photos up asap!
  3. Dave
    Doh I didn't look closely enough at photo and thought it was a B18! lol Nice swap!!!! We need to see more of this!
  4. Dave
    Time for this months competition. Enter the civic you want to see win COTM. It can be any members civic or even your own, all are welcome! Remember to add a photo of the car, and a link to its topic/project thread in members cars. Lets see them folks!!
  5. Dave
    She looks clean mate, nice base to start with. For headlights, have a look at our "How to" guides and you will see how to give them the dark "TypeR" look, or if your handy with the tools there's one for converting to projectors! All can be done. As you've noticed parts for these off the shelf are basically non existant, so we need to fabricate/adapt parts. For body styling, easy route is the VTiS Rear skirt and side skirts (can see you already have the VTi front lip fitted). You can also adapt bits from MGZS to fit depending on the look you are going for. Looking forward to following this one! Enjoy the club mate!
  6. Dave
    Looking forward to this!!!! Do you have the engine/parts needed already or is the sourcing still to happen?
  7. Dave

    My new german

    Dave replied to dogg1210's topic in Other cars

    pmsl yes, the wheel colour additciton you had has spread to the rest of the car!!
  8. Dave

    My new german

    Dave replied to dogg1210's topic in Other cars

    Here we go again lol
  9. Dave
    Like it!! Man the attention to detail on this is unbelievable Jake, I MUST see this in the metal one day. It's now on my bucket list!!
  10. Dave
    Exactly as they have little or no way of disposing off them.......and they cost so much to replace these EV's will either be scrapped or written off come battery replacement time. So 6, maybe 7 years out of your brand new EV (which probably cost at least 23 grand upwards) means wasting money......and as said above, when you work out the pollution to make against the life of the car....it makes no sense! Big up the modern classics I say!
  11. Dave
    I like him! He thinks exactly the same way as us! Good read and good valid points although there are counter points to those as well which is only to be expected. Think the main point being that our cars still need oil/petrol to run, where as these "EV"'s (sorry, I can't bring myself to call them "cars") mean a reduction in fossil fuels/resources, but not a total reduction as factories producing these ev's still need fossil fuels to run and make the parts. But on the front of petrol/diesel cars, he is totally on point. An old modern classic can do the job of a daily almost as well (sometimes on par even) the only let down being fuel economy and safety. But surely if everyone was driving cars which weren't as safe and csoy as new ones, they would drive more carefully, therefore reducing fatalities through accidents? Its a minefield I tell you! lol Really enjoyed that read, and hope more people choose to save/use modern classics than buy new cars.
  12. Dave
    Looks totally amazing, that suspension looks top banana mate. I really need to do this to DD, love how it looks all brand new under there and how it drives must feel like a new car!
  13. Dave
    Haha! know that feeling!! They must change minutes at precisely the same time or it will cause you to crash! Least that's how my ocd see's it! lol Going to do a how to guide on this too so be easy for any members to do the same
  14. Dave
    I've sourced the English version of the installation manual (was in the middle of translating it from Polish to English then though ah ta hell with this, there must be an English version somewhere! lol) Doesn't look to bad to wire up to be honest, pretty straight forward so going to be ordering up all the neccessary rolls of cable I'm gonna need. Going to take a while as stuff ain't arriving quick and will need to take DD off the road to do it all but will be sweet once done!
  15. Dave
    I'm almost positive the UTCOMP can display tyre pressures too Alex. Have a look o their website https://www.reveltronics.com/en/ and also in their forum too, lots of info, diagrams and what sensors are available. Deffo better than that wee pissy clock we have there as standard! lol Plus the bulbs gone on DD's clock so I'm damned if I'm taking the radio etc out just to change it, might aswell go all in and fit a nice new display! Oh, and I've just got the UTCOMP-3, but there's also a UTCOMP-Pro version now which has more ports and a choice of screens
  16. Dave
    Decided to start 2 projects on DD while we're stuck under this lock-down. First one is I'm refurbing her Cades alloys as I really want these back on her! We're not getting snow so want to take her winter rims back off. The Cades had the polished lip, but what I've noticed with polished alloys/diamond cut alloys is that no matter how careful you are not to damage them, the lacquer never has good adhesion so eventually water/crap gets under and starts to lift it/start corroding the wheel. So, decided that I'm stripping the wheels back, getting them uber smooth then spraying the whole wheel bright silver. This will mean they are easy to fix if the paint gets chipped etc (which being my daily driver now, there's more chance of that happening!) Got one wheel done and ready to go into paint but been taking ages for the paint/other materials to arrive. Will get photos of the progress once we're fully into it. Project 2 is one that I have had on my shelf in the garage for years! I bought one of the UTCOMP displays that member Mike Photo had fitted to his MB2. It's basically the same thing as the trip computers modern cars have built in nowadays. I had originally intended to fit this into Ruby, but never got round to it. I still had the 2 spare centre consoles that I bought, so have started modding one of them to fit the display into. I've removed the crappy OEM clock, and fabricated a new plastic filler piece to go into the hole that's left. I'll then cut out a hole in this to fit the display, which will take up the entire space that the oem clock did. For an idea of what I'm doing, have a look at Mikes mb2 interior. I'm also planning to do a Double din conversion on DD too, which again is why I had bought the two spare consoles. The display itself os OLED and has miltiple configuations for displaying Clock, MPG, miles left in tank, outside temp, inside temp, speed, etc. It's a mega lot of wiring to do, absolute spaghetti of wiring but I love a challenge. Most of the pick ups will involve tapping into her ecu wiring so needing to get wiring diagrams of that. Will probably get the display unit mod done first the do the double din further down the line as both these mods will involve her spending some time off the road. Again, will get some photos of things and what I've done so far. Might even try and put together a how too for this as it may be something other members are interested in fitting to their civics to bring them right up to date.
  17. Dave
    awwwww....but we all love you just the same! lol
  18. Dave
    lol no worries bud
  19. Dave
    Not sure mate, I've got similar ones on DD but bought them such a long time ago and got them cheap as they were from Adam (former admin on here and good mate) Try searching ebay for them bud see how much they average on there, although know they are pretty damn rare!
  20. Dave
    Link to for sale ad in classifieds: I can get more photos of them off the car too this weekend, all packed up in there box again.
  21. Dave
    Have indeed mate. She can go a lot lower than in the pics, I had them wound up high as I don't like cars that are mega low.
  22. Dave
    Not sold them MeisterR's yet due to this covid-19 stuff. They're in the for sale section mate if you want to have a look. @SaTaNeAtChEeSe
  23. Dave
    And the winner this for March is Aerokek! Well done mate,and stunning Aerodeck!
  24. Dave
    Spring rates will most likely be wrong though bud so might have "interesting handling" and it may sit funny on them.
  25. Dave
    Voting will close this weekend. C'mon folks, if you haven't voted, get your vote in now!
×
×
  • Create New...