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Over the last few weeks I have been working on the interior of the car removing as much as possible. All carpet and trim has been removed as well as sound deadening that had been added to the doors. The doors will be replaced with either carbon or fiberglass when I get it caged. Dash removed to get to the heater and a/c parts. Fair bit of weight when you add it all up. I then had to decide on dash, I made a mould of the origional one and started to plan my additions/changes. Initial plan was to make the whole thing from fiberglass and then have it flocked. The first one I made looked good but needed many strengthening changes to be made and lots of additional supports to be added. Its total weight was just too much. I then took a look at the origional dash, I removed its foamy pleathery coating and was left with a quite light base to work with. I made some modifications to this and added a recessed screen holder for my touch screen. The plan is to eventually have two large screens on the left and a smaller one on the right. These will display live engine data, maps, itunes, shift lights or anything else I need/program. Going to crinkle coat it matt black so I can respray it if I make any changes later down the line. While I was removing the sound deadening I noticed my ECU says "mines" on it, can anyone shed any light on this. Is this an upgrade?

I had to rebuild my engine after it lost compression and refused to start when warm. This was a few months ago now and the engine has now been run in. This was my first engine rebuild, did a few things wrong, did a few right but learnt a LOT! Engine coming out Blaock halfs stripped painted and baked in the oven Block halfs put back together with all new ACL bearings, genuine gaskets and seals, newage rods, new rings and skimmed flywheel with new Exceedy clutch. Heads were stripped inspected and rebuilt with new valve seals. Valves seats were reground I made a basic holder to keep valves in the right order while they were cleaned I also took the oppertunity to port and polish the heads The intake manifold got ported but not polished and was treated to a new coat of paint. Fuel rails got chopped and I did the parallel fuel mod as I had purchased an Aeromotive FPR Engine going back together And the engine back in Started first time! But made a ticking noise, turned out I had managed to trap the thin inspection plate that is under the clutch between the block and the gearbox Straightened out the plate and refitted the engine. Started and drove well! But it was leaking oil, after a fair bit of shouting and peering around the engine bay I found where it was coming from! Had to take the engine out again as oil was leeking from behind the clutch. It was the plastic plate. This got replaced and I dropped the engine in again. So with all this practice I am pretty quick at getting the engine in/out now!

Keith Michaels gave me a fantastic deal on my renewal. Give them a call, they do SIDC discount.

I have done the roofs of a few nissans. It really is easy. I put it on then cut off the excess with a very sharp scalpel. With the nissans we had to put it on in two strips, cant see the joins like. If you do decide to do it make sure you get medium tack vinyl and change it every two years as it will take the lacquer off your car if you don't.

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I would not normally post something like this so publically but I am so shocked by his fraudulant behaviour that I really think he needs to be stopped.

It defiantly is: Both domain names were registered by the same address. A quick look on companies house shows that the name he is trading under now is a company that was created on 29/07/2009 but has an action to be struck off. To be trading under this name now claiming to be LTD is VERY dodgy! Publicly accessible details are below. ---------------------------------- old domain name/company name Domain name: flat4online.co.uk Registrant: Flat4online Ltd Trading as: Flat4online Ltd Registrant type: UK Limited Company, (Company number: SC354469) Registrant's address: Unit 7 North Street Alexandria Alexandria G83 0EA United Kingdom Name & Registered Office: FLAT4ONLINE LIMITED UNIT 7 NORTH STREET ALEXANDRIA WEST DUNBARTONSHIRE UNITED KINGDOM G83 0EA Company No. SC354469 Status: Active Date of Incorporation: 03/02/2009 Country of Origin: United Kingdom Company Type: Private Limited Company Nature of Business (SIC(03)): 5030 - Sale of motor vehicle parts etc. Accounting Reference Date: 28/02 Last Accounts Made Up To: 28/02/2010 (TOTAL EXEMPTION FULL) Next Accounts Due: 30/11/2011 Last Return Made Up To: 03/02/2010 Next Return Due: 03/03/2011 ---------------------------------- New domain name/ company name Domain name: japanesemotorspares.co.uk Registrant: Japanese Motor Spares Ltd Registrant type: Other UK Entity (e.g. clubs, associations, many universities) Registrant's address: Unit 7 North Street Alexandria G83 0EA United Kingdom Name & Registered Office: JAPANESEMOTORSPARES LTD UNIT 7 NORTH STREET ALEXANDRIA WEST DUNBARTONSHIRE UNITED KINGDOM G83 0EA Company No. SC363228 Status: Active - Proposal to Strike off Date of Incorporation: 29/07/2009 Country of Origin: United Kingdom Company Type: Private Limited Company Nature of Business (SIC(03)): None Supplied Accounting Reference Date: 31/07 Last Accounts Made Up To: (NO ACCOUNTS FILED) Next Accounts Due: 29/04/2011 Last Return Made Up To: Next Return Due: 26/08/2010 OVERDUE ----------------------------------

Thats me booked in for the saturday night. Update list please

Made a hole in the radiator when it was removed?

Yeah jasonW I was thinking mid afternoon on the Friday but I am flexible with time. See what Lewis and Brian wanna do. Is Feckdeamon coming? I am no CB expert but I have a REALLY old one here from a boat I used to own, I was gunna use that. there are ones on eBay that look quite good for around 40 quid all in. Seems cheaper than wallis talkies with better range. Maplin sell both wire in and hand held ones quite cheap too. Any thoughts?

Radios sound like a good idea, how about using CB's?

red all the way! will stand out better than the blue

I have a set of these on the bug (not RIGHT now cause I have the winter tyres on) and they are awesome, they are quite a heavy tyre however and yes run em a bit harder. Awesome in the corners and really good in the wet. Yet to track them but so far they are performing on par with the F1's (Eagle that is)

Do that then use fishing line to pull it off. I used a citrus based sticky stuff remover then gave the whole panel a polish and wax.

Mine does the same. Think its telling you it wants new brakes.

So true!

Do you mean MAF (Mass Air Flow)? http://shop.ebay.co.uk/?_from=R40&_trksid=p5197.m570.l1313&_nkw=maf+impreza&_sacat=See-All-Categories

Just got a call from a mate who went to the cinema at union square and then got followed and pulled on market street/guild street. 3pts for front tints (very very light smoke) advisory for tyre and may have to do a MOT or vehicle test as he running no cat! Seems like grampian po po's latest money maker! IF YOU ARE RUNNING ANY TINT ON FRONT WINDOWS REMOVE IT! Seems I was VERY lucky!

3 per window. Same cops I had, drivin a Disco TD6. A lad on JDMTAS got 6pts last week for his back wheels sticking out past his body. Seems they are crackin down hard on modded cars as they aint after speeders in this weather.

Seems the po po are cracking down on it as I just heard of two more folks last night getting pulled over. One guy got 6pts the other none. Both had to remove the tints there and then or face getting car towed. They checked my car quite thoughly and even looked for a cat and went to town checking tread. They measured my untinted front windscreen and it was 81% - legal is 80%. They stated that no aftermarket tint is legal on the fronts. Glad I got the nice cops rather than the 2 that busted my mate and gave him 6 points there and then!

Nah no tickets, they were even happy to remove the tints for me. Genuinly two really nice cops, saw them and got a wave this morning on the way to work.

Well my time was up! Had em on for almost a year with nearly daily driving with no issues and then got pulled last night at 2am driving into town to pick the missus up from work. Cops were really nice about it and even removed the tint for me. Supposed to let 70% light through the window so lets just say with 8% it failed! They were nice and even checked my tyres for tread and car for any other defects it may have They found nothing else wrong and after a wee chat I was on my way. Ohh well, now I need to get used to people being able to see in.

Glad to hear you got it sorted.

pm me if you need to know a way to open bonnet. Not something I want to post publicly

gearbox speed sensor would be my guess or the cable between?