Chandler Posted May 14, 2015 Share Posted May 14, 2015 brilliant mate, cracking work on the painting Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
noodels Posted May 14, 2015 Share Posted May 14, 2015 spaymax ? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Grant Posted May 15, 2015 Share Posted May 15, 2015 Good work! As Kink said, brave on the matey spraying outdoors with no protection! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jayhoath83 Posted May 15, 2015 Share Posted May 15, 2015 Gr8 job dude these cars are a future classic so its good to see 1 being restored 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
noodels Posted May 15, 2015 Share Posted May 15, 2015 Gr8 job dude these cars are a future classic so its good to see 1 being restoredYep are going up in value now Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dinochips Posted May 15, 2015 Author Share Posted May 15, 2015 small add to the sotroy as got to go prep the civic for japfest ina sec. So I wanted to take a break from fixing stuff and customize a little and the best place to start was the wheels. As they will defo be replaced so I thought painting them wont hurt took them into work. masked them up and sprayed them with some high gloss 2pack black Done i do like black wheels on a silver car but until I have the fund to get some Works emotions these will have to do ( dont keep them for long as you will soon see) 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dinochips Posted May 26, 2015 Author Share Posted May 26, 2015 SO to power on the thread a little more heres a few more progress shots Beforeduringafterstill lots to clean up but will get there in the future. CLUTCH change time some of the tools needed It was very cold but we were determind to get it done. pretty much involved dropping the front subframe 3inches to get to the top gearbox bolts and pulling everything out. 3 hours later Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dinochips Posted May 26, 2015 Author Share Posted May 26, 2015 Old clutch was completely dead so RPC stage 1 clutch went in fine and all put back together in 2 days wasnt muc space to work but thanks to flat mate got it done few other things that I replaced whilst it was in the air whch i can't be botherd to put pics up of are Both front and rear track rod armsfront lower wishbones because got some new less rusty ones for super cheapdrivers side ABS sensor and ABS gear ring With the car now driving loads better was time to sort the alignment and get rid of the funny wobble when i let of he gasWe found we could only do the front in this session as the caster adjustment had seized up with is very common in s2k's Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dinochips Posted May 26, 2015 Author Share Posted May 26, 2015 mid progress shot of my babies So the car was pull in a straight line finally but still had a the wobble problem when i lift off. So decided to change the exhaust LOL I am not kidding when I say this exhaust was on the car for a total 10 minutes as It was the pure meaning of drone so where did I go next Japspeed cat back system This system was alot better but still didnt have the sond i was looking for sooooooooooooooo DECAT pipe not the best one out there ut it worked and gave he car I nice note t it for now but still go a beter idea i wan to try out. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dinochips Posted May 26, 2015 Author Share Posted May 26, 2015 anyway Back to the wobble issue. I decied to change the tyres. funny enugh I managed to get aset of 17's which good tyres for £130 only issue was the tyres where smaller than i thought which made the car look stupid. So hoping this cured the wobble issue took it out for a drive and found it made it worse. Next thing to attack was rear caster and alignment hoping this was the cause. SO chucked it in dads work shop and spent the day sorting oout the siezed bolts. We fixed them by super heating the bolts screwing a wheel nut on the end and using a jackhammer to smashing the Fook out of it until it popped out the other side which worked a treat. I then spent the rest of the day with the laser alignment tool to set the tracking perfect sorting out this problem. I also replaced all the caster bolts and nuts with new ones and I hate spending £80 on 4 bolts and 4 nuts. So after a long drive back to london I was rather p**sed the car still wobbled when i lifted off the gas and when it dose it at 70mph it really wasnt fun so the next step was tyres. I managed to source a set of 4 Perilli Pzero's for a very good price chucked them on the back of the s2k and took it to the garage up the road. I was so relieved that after a full tyre change and 4 wheel tracking the s2k finally handled like it should which means now I had a base platform to really start improving. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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