Big Supes

Hey Dieter, I noticed small bubbles coming from this bulkhead hose after filling the water system back up on mine, but without the nose of the car in the air. I thought it was trapped air as the pipe is the highest of the lot, higher than the radiator.

Nice work chaps. It feels nice refreshing the front of the engine with new OE parts. Re the UK turbo cooler, I always thought that duct from the bonnet vent was designed to cool cylinder six as that's generally the cylinder that gets hot and takes a beating. It also has the added EGR heat. I plan on putting mine back on.

As someone who PPF's and vinyl wraps cars and boats for a living, I can vouch for PPF being a workable solution, but it's better to get the fundamentals corrected first and use PPF as a protector.

When mine comes off, you're welcome to it mate. Unfortunately, I'm not sure when that will be. I'm still negotiating with my wallet if I can stretch a little fuel system on mine before taking it to SRD for mapping.

2k for stock wheels sounds a bit of a reach. I wonder if anyone would actually pay that.

Now that's a job I really don't fancy doing anytime soon.

In need of a replacement. I've seen fibreglass reproductions or I don't mind one that has surface rust as I can tidy up. Cheers

Hmm... PM me a price.

Ahh, yes. Thanks for confirming, chaps. I wasn't going mad lol. @Homer @evinX So, today I swapped the oem wings back on and found myself attending to some rust on the seals while I was there. I'm really looking forward to having the opportunity to get under the car and attack any surface rust and underseal the car. It'll most likely happen when I drop the rear subframe to refresh it along with the diff and suspension arms. The rusty patches were taken back and coated with POR-15 and then hammerited for now. The front bumper and lights are back on too! It's a car again! Hopefully the front OE fitment discs will be here tomorrow so I can fit the UK brakes and bleed the whole system. Next to bleed will be the clutch and then it's just a case of buttoning up the undertray and inner arch liners, bung off the TRC line, hook up throttle cables, fit the front seats and then off to the MOT station. Once it's MOT'd it'll probably be time to take it off the road until the new year.

I should be sorted for this now mate, but thanks anyway.

Nicely done peeps.

Fitted new boot gas struts, bled the engine cooling system and refurbed the UK-Spec front brakes yesterday and today. Hey @Homer how did you find installing those gas struts? I bought the same ones you posted in your build thread. They work fine after a bit of fudging as what they showed on the instructions was very different to what was originally on my car to begin with. I ended up removing the oem strut mount on the car, cutting it down and sticking it back through the car so I could use stainless nuts on the bracket. So, regarding my front wheel and brake set up/saga, I've decided to go down the route of putting the UK-Spec brakes and stock wings back on for now. When I take the car off the road for winter, I'll sell the front wheels and buy a fresh pair of Professors with 0 offset which will allow for the K Sports with no need for spacers or any kind of faffing around. The NUR wings will be going back up for sale as sadly there's still too much wheel poke for them. My front brakes were pretty tired and definitely needed the refurb. I'll feel confident asking for stronger money when I come to sell these now. It's nice to see the car finally off axle stands. If the weather permits, tomorrow I'll get the lights and front bumper in and on.

Good to see this one has sold. Hope you got what you wanted for it.

Nice, thanks mate. I'll drop him a message. Just looking at options at the moment, tbh. I'm not sure if the NUR wider wings are going to be wide enough until I drop the car off the axle stands. I'm waiting on a quote from SSR for new rims to swap the barrels onto, but in the meantime, I'm considering hacking up a pair of oem wings to widen for the wheels. I just don't want to cut up my original wings.

Putting the feelers out there. Anyone got a pair they no longer need? I can do a deal with a pair of NUR +40mm (total) carbon front wings if someone wants to swap.

Thanks matey, I'm not going to lie. Including the removal of the twins, it's been a lot of hard work on top of my day-to-day. Hoping to have it MOT-ready by the end of next week.

Wow, what a beauty. That will surely go for a pretty penny....

Gave the fully refurbished rear calipers a quick make over and fitted them along with new shoes, pads and discs. Knocked out and replaced for longer front hub studs. Offered up the front wheel and brakes with the 20mm spacer. Sadly it was still a bit too tight in there so I put a 5mm extra spacer in there and now it fits. I'm not quite sure this set up is going to work so I may have to revisit getting a new rim from SSR and swap over the barrel.

Wowzer, that's some funky wiring techniques right there!

Awesome, cheers mate. I used a GPS app to calibrate the speedo after the transmission swap and opted to keep it approx 5mph out as I get impatient enough with people driving under the speed limit.

Yeah, I totally agree. The 10k tach would be mostly wasted on me. I wasn't aware that the oem tacho was way off. It would definitely be nice to get an accurate reading. Do you know how they go about calibrating it?

Printed at work and installed with GR's blessing. It was either this or a replica TRD dial, but tbh, the dial was a bit dull as they had laminated it with quite a thick laminate. I like this option as it's more fitting for the car/trans set up.

Ouch. I recognise the car, but can't place it.

Yeah, I'll be honest... it's been my dream since owning the car. I just didn't want to rush into going single. Looking forward to getting the car off the axles stands and going for a gentle test drive.

Worth giving Keron a try.