Craigblight86 Posted July 16, 2023 Share Posted July 16, 2023 On 6/18/2023 at 7:19 PM, Kaleverada said: Got round to fitting the MG spoiler I got from Craig on here. Quick lick of plastidip and looks the part I reckon Looks so good dude 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dave Posted July 20, 2023 Share Posted July 20, 2023 The spoiler looks nice with the black rear lip to. Top work mate! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kaleverada Posted February 27 Author Share Posted February 27 Haven’t posted in a little while, still not really got round to getting much done over the winter. Rust patches on the arches got worse but had to keep using the car for work so just gotta deal with them I guess. Would be nice to have them fixed up but cutting them out and repairing them, along with getting another rear door (patch at bottom isn’t reasonably fixable) wouldn’t really be feasible. Would end up being well over a grand to have arches cut out and new ones in and all the little scratches and dents sorted sadly. So, a couple days ago got round to fitting the rear camber arms, easy enough job, and very slightly increased the negative camber on the rear. One of the bolt holes needed a little bit of filing but other than that went on with no issues Also, I have a rear subframe brace, tie bar, and 24mm anti roll bar. But looking at the brace which the roll bar attaches to, it ain’t gonna fit. And with this having rear discs, the brake lines run around the rear subframe and are completely on the way of where it would mount. So after literally just staring at the underneath of the car for a while, contemplating life, as you do, I thought it will fit. But would mean drilling a couple more holes in the subframe, drilling the brace to make it fit properly and moving the brake lines to allow it to fit. Job for another day so I’m ignoring it for the time being. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kaleverada Posted February 27 Author Share Posted February 27 Next thing I’m gonna sort is the lca’s and coilovers and front camber arms/plates. Should all go on easily enough I hope, rear brake lines run down the lca’s so will re route those to tidy them up a little too. Bought two new front wishbones with all the bushes and hardrace compliance bushes too, rear toe arms on the way so will get those on when they arrive. Id bought new shifter rods too but they don’t fit so will have to sell them, either fit an ek or eg not too sure. Bought a completely different shifter setup too so that’ll be interesting to see what it’ll be like when it gets here. Changed steering wheel again (3rd time now) Had rear windows and rear lights tinted, clear side repeaters too. Bought a d16z6 intake mani to swap but haven’t got round to it, then bought another super clean one because why not, will have a new fuel rail and some other bits when they get here, only bought the second one as it was going really cheap and had brand new injectors with it, so one will be getting sold at some point I’d imagine. Just gonna keep going with it all and eventually swap a bigger engine into it when it’s affordable, come to really like the chassis so don’t want to get rid because of a couple rusty panels! Also got a 282mm front brake upgrade and fancy (expensive) discs to put on too. And a random oil cooler because why not 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kaleverada Posted February 27 Author Share Posted February 27 Oh, the backbox may have corroded badly and fallen off too…. Fully blame the council and them gritting the roads literally every night for about 2 months straight here… Having a new cat back made from Powerflow next week though 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dave Posted March 12 Share Posted March 12 How did the new exhaust go? Got ours made by Powerflow over 12 years ago, best part we ever got for the deck! Still going strong! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kaleverada Posted March 15 Author Share Posted March 15 On 3/12/2024 at 6:57 PM, Dave said: How did the new exhaust go? Got ours made by Powerflow over 12 years ago, best part we ever got for the deck! Still going strong! Yeah it’s nice! He did a 2inch cat back for me and welded on a backbox I already had, had a nicer bassy tone and seems to flow a little better which is nice! He wouldn’t cat delete it which is fair I can just do that myself when I get round to it, and all in all it wasn’t the most expensive job, was more than I wanted to pay if I’m honest, but a lot less than another place I had a quote from so I can’t moan too much right! Only issue is that I told him it’s blowing from somewhere I just don’t know where, and whether or not he actually checked I don’t know but he said he couldn’t hear or see it, yet it remains so I dunno. He said it could be the thickness of the Chinese manifold I have on, because it’s that thin it’s noisy, but I find that hard to believe if I’m honest. I don’t think it’s the manifold, I don’t think it’s where the mani meets the downpipe, so now that only leaves where the downpipe meets the cat. Hopefully when I decat it, it goes away then! Still got a huge parts pile to get fitted, managed to find a zs180 rear roll bar and all the fittings with it for quite cheap, new front wishbones and hard race compliance bushes, front ball joints, track rods, trailing arm polybushes, the 282 for the front and braided lines, the z6 intake mani and fuel rail, some Chinese ‘Bride’ universal seat rails to fit ‘Bride’ seats, coilovers, lca’s and toe arms. Think that’s about it…. Ooh and a new head unit haha. Annnnd new rocker cover and gasket when it gets here. Hmm, tegiwa brake stopper for the MC. Then I think that’s fully it! Got that different shifter set up all sorted too, not sure I’ve seen anyone else with it on as of yet? I’ll try get some photos and give it a little review. Fully worth it though, better than any generic short shifter / kswap replica ones that are about. Also that reminds me I have to fit the detent springs in the gearbox too….. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dave Posted March 22 Share Posted March 22 Wow! That's a whole load of nice parts and work right there! Regarding the blow in the exhaust, the join either side of the CAT would be the first place to check imo. Could be the flanges are a bit crusty, so unless they gave it a good clean up first would most likely start blowing there. If you can get it jacked up high enough, could hold a small piece of newspaper at the joins and see if it "flutters" when it's running. Was the manifold already fitted prior to the rest of the exhaust or did they fit that at same time? Looking forward to the pics mate! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kaleverada Posted March 26 Author Share Posted March 26 On 3/22/2024 at 9:09 PM, Dave said: Wow! That's a whole load of nice parts and work right there! Regarding the blow in the exhaust, the join either side of the CAT would be the first place to check imo. Could be the flanges are a bit crusty, so unless they gave it a good clean up first would most likely start blowing there. If you can get it jacked up high enough, could hold a small piece of newspaper at the joins and see if it "flutters" when it's running. Was the manifold already fitted prior to the rest of the exhaust or did they fit that at same time? Looking forward to the pics mate! Yeah it’s for sure the front join, the flanges are bent on the cat so it’s not sitting quite right but it’s not really too bad, spent the past hour attempting to bodge a decat on but it was a 2.5 inch one so miles off! Ended up getting Big Chiz and a hammer out and gutting the standard cat instead, seems to work fine! And no I fitted the manifold and downpipe a while ago, they just did a cat back for me. Though, I’m gonna have to go back there at some point soon to have them adjust the pipe that goes over the lca’s and move it to the right a bit. I was having a look at fitting the mgzs roll bar and the exhaust sits exactly where the mounting L plates go…..swear you can’t win with these cars, everythings a bodge or retro fit, but to be honest it’s kinda more fun that way right? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kaleverada Posted March 26 Author Share Posted March 26 Not too sure why the last 2 photos are upside down! But shows the cat back anyway, 2 inch, rear res and exhaust tip I had welding on, sits really well and no wobble anywhere which is always nice! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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