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Today I did something to my car (volume 2)
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Some posters at the meet will remember the difficulty in selecting gears or that awful bang each gear change my car had :eek:
Time to put that right
Out with a limiter I made earlier
The offending part in situ. Looks fine doesn't it?
2 nuts, 2 screws and its out. The handy part
Looks fine eh.... :eek:
So I put it all back together and while I was there tightened up the aux belt
Something that took as long as that job was cleaning the tools afterwards
But worth it. The car now drives beautifully again, smooth gear changes no horrible bang every time I stop it no vague wobbling gear lever. Bliss :cool:0 -
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hmm no ones posted on this thread in 3 days
Just put new reg plates on today.
Been busy with a cylinder head and turbo but no pics of that.... Plus busy with other stuff aswell.... Maybe tomorrow I'll put up something
New Plates will look sweet, remember seeing them old ones last friday sure! :pac:0 -
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Ah killer man, here's the one I got if you are interested (good signal with it still) - http://url.ie/jfgdIt's a 5cm aerial. Black alluminium!
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MetzgerMeister wrote: »Why the hell would you buy broken plastic??? :pac::pac:
If free plastic is needed I have a load to get rid of. Just let me know, take the lot
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Haven't done a whole heap since coming back from the Nürburgring in August, but that will change over the next while. I purchased an EGR bypass kit from eBay a couple of weeks ago and only got around to fitting it today.
It's a straightforward enough piece, and the swap was pretty straightforward too although a touch messy.
Once installed, it doesn't look the out of place which is good. Although on the original EGR valve, there's a bracket cast onto it to allow the top engine cover to be secured to it, which the EGR blank doesn't have. Thankfully, once the engine cover is in plane, the remaining bolt on the left hand-side is more than enough to keep it in place and rattle free. I secured the bolt that no longer has a home to the engine cover, so there's no missing bolts when you look under the bonnet.
As I expected though, the car showed a CEL and when further investigated was read as 'P0401 - Exhaust Gas Recirculation "a" Flow Insufficient Detected'. I've reset it but will be looking to get it mapped out of the car as soon as possible. Other than that, throttle response has been greatly improved although I can't say I notice any power difference and I haven't gone on a long enough drive to check for an improvement in MPG.
I provisionally sold my 3SDM wheels this morning and put a deposit down on another set not long afterwards. I've been trying to get a set of these for as long as I've had the car but could never come by the right set for the right money. Should be collecting them Tuesday, I'm am quite excite.
Next updates will be a comprehensive service with perhaps a front suspension overhaul with uprated M3 parts. After that, I'll be sending it for fresh paint and maybe the addition of some new exterior bits & bobs. Roll on 2014 0 -
Done this today. Mosconi 120.4 class AB amplifier installed. 120w RMS x 4
Front speakers are still stock while the rear speakers are 2 ways coaxial Pioneer.
I was a bit concerned at the way the front was going to sound, but I was pleasantly surprised, they actually sounded good.
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While the install's are always interesting to see, and a lot of thought goes into them ... would you not have a slight concern about looping the live feed round so that its right beside the negative terminal of the battery? Looks like its asking for trouble to my amateur eye?
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While the install's are always interesting to see, and a lot of thought goes into them ... would you not have a slight concern about looping the live feed round so that its right beside the negative terminal of the battery? Looks like its asking for trouble to my amateur eye?
You have to connect to the positive lead of the battery connector, which is ultimately close to the negative. Now if those wire were "nude" yes of course that would be asking for troubles, but this are well protected and the wire going to the fuse is not going to detach itself any time soon.
When you connect the positive and negative wire back to the amp, they are only 1cm away from each other too. Not really an issue as long as everything is secure.
Worse case scenario, the main fuse blows, and that does not go further than that.0 -
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Marcinek_55 wrote: »hahah i mean i have some broken plastics on my car and i need new one haha
I know your pain. Hopefully there's no interior panels you need to replace. Those little plastic pop clips are a pain in the arse. :mad:0
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