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Yeh got the car all welded but no battery disconnected left all engine bay as was ecu and everything disconnected though. Having had a scan through internet seems i need hazzard switch plugged in for indicators to work so should solve that. And possibly and earth for the other issues. Will get to car tomorrow or friday and keep use updated :)

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Madmanmike - just been trawling through this thread. See you have an oil issue.

Have you done a compression test? That would soon show issues with rings/ valves. Also i like the Crankcase breather theory. I dont know that engine at all. But itll either have a fixed port orifice or pcv valve. If these become bad, particlarly the Pcv, itll cause high vacuum in the crankcase. So literally hoover oil into intake manifold. Freezing could be an option, though doubtful as the blowby contains water which could in theory freeze. But the oily residues should counter that.

Easy way to see if pcv is working is to remove oil cap with engine running. Place hand or peice of card over top. Should jiggle about, or get held in place lightly. Serious vacuum would indicate a pcv valve stuck open, no vacuum or positive pressure would indicate pcv clogged or too much blowby... Rings....

Just bare in mind crankcase breathing usually has pipe before and after throttle.

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Today was a good day, tomorrow will be better.

Took these into work.

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Fitted them in my lunch break. Put them in the Panda.

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Went to Halfords and bought a set of 13cm and 6x4' speakers and a head unit.

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I also bought a new bar, a wire brush, a pritt stick of copper grease.

I fitted the speakers.

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I fitted the wheels.

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I absolutely annihilated it to Prawns to pick up the jack and his C spanners.

Then I absolutely annihilated it back home.

Then whilst the bonnet was warm I peeled the rest of the vinyl off the bonnet.

Tomorrow I am raising and levelling the suspension, bleeding the brakes, machine polishing.

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I quite like the black wheels.

Because.

Black wheels look chavy.

The dent in the rear bumper looks like I don't care about it.

The exhaust looks chavy.

The tow bar is hilarious.

The mismatched body panels make it look like a shed.

But it's going to be properly fast when I'm done with it.

Sleeper innit.

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Looks so much better with the smaller BBS Jardo, but please ditch the tow-bar. (Y)

Thanks.

The tow bar just adds to the comedy value. I want to get a sticker made that says ''Want a tow? You might get there quicker?'' with an arrow pointing to the tow bar, just for comedy lols.

If I remove the tow bar, I've got to replace the lower bumper. If I replace the lower bumper I should really replace the bumper. If I replace the rear bumper I should probably do the front bumper too. If I replace the front and rear bumpers it will look even worse having a passenger door and bonnet the wrong shade, so I'll have to replace those. Then I'll have to sort the lacquer peel on the drivers rear 1/4 because it will let the rest of the car down. Then the rust on the drivers door will annoy me so I'll replace that. Then I'll get the hump that half the clips on the sill trims are broken and replace them. Then it will annoy me that the outside looks nice but the inside is shit. So I'll replace the door cards, but then they will look new and the seats will look rubbish, so I'll end up replacing them. Then I'll get annoyed that there are holes in the dash top and I'll replace that, then I'll get the hump that the centre console has a broken clip so it rattles and I'll replace that. Then the cracked handbrake surround will annoy me and I'll replace that too.

Then before you know it I've spent £0000's on a £1500 shed that's still only worth £1500 and it'll owe me weeks worth of my life.

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Is the teg going to be a road car or just track? Id be tempted to remove all traces of the alarm. They cause more issues than anything.

Its going to be a road car also. For weekend blasts with my pals ( celica gt4, soarer, and imprezza ) also i dont have a lock up for the car so defs need to keep the alarm in.

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You can't just replace the lower bumper, you have to change the whole thing, that towing sticker is both long winded and cheesy/unfunny as f**k and that front grille is hurting me right in the OCD, please get the correct grille.

The wheels however are a massive improvement and I'm still jealous of the car (especially the price of it) in general.

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I'm glad to have been of service to you; hopefully I've pissed you off proportionally to the level of pissoffery I've felt from you haha.

I've bought the right grille now, don't worry. It's in the post.

I've also just spent the last half hour enquiring about cars being broken and getting atlas grey panels for it. Ffs.

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Rapid de-chav at your services.

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Today was a frustrating but productive day, I got what I needed to get done in the end. It's just so aggravating when the rain is so on and off, and you just get into something and you've got to stop because it starts chucking it down.
The other day I started peeling off the carbon wrapped bonnet. Because it was offensive.
With it came half of the paint, revealing an incredibly faded and damaged bonnet.
I wish I hadn't started it!
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So I had that to finish today too.
Got up at half 7, jacked the suspension up and bled the brakes.
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Then I finished peeling off the bonnet, whilst it was chucking it down.
So I washed it quickly too fairy thoroughly.
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Then took it for a test drive.
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I'm happy with the ride height now it has settled, it's visibly low. But not stupidly low, and it doesn't scuff or bottom out any more.
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This has however opened up a few other issues, now that I can properly drive the car the front end is in real need of a rebuild. The steering is incredibly wandery (is that even a word?) at the front, and the suspension is frankly terrible.
They're only cheap coilovers, and I know I was spoilt with the HR coilovers on my S3, but these are truly atrocious.
So they'll need changing, and I may as well polybush things whilst I'm there and convert to a manual quick rack.
I'll get collecting parts...
Then I went down to the workshop to put the car on the ramp and spanner check a few bits and see if it was just loose stuff. It wasn't.
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Then I hooned it home, and all was going well. Engine felt strong, brakes felt better now they're bled. Yeah, happy.
Around about now I'm going to start talking about cleaning things, so if you're of a miserable disposition about cleaning cars then press the ALT button and F4 at the same time.
So I got home and washed the car again.
Then broke out my best friend.
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The bonnet was SO bad.
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This took many hours.
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Now, not to blow my own trumpet....
But that's a total transformation from the day I bought it!
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Happy with that :)
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Car is now back at a sensible level of noise.

Shame it's only going to last until April, the whole offside sill collapsed when I sent it up on the ramp :( The arches are f**ked, the "chassis" legs that run along the floor plan are f**ked, the shell at the offside front is going rotten, the nearside rear sill section is so so rotten it's gone through, the suspension mounting points for the rear axle are scabby and the brake pipes need doing.

:(

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Ah, in that case it makes sense to do it all at once. May as well replace the turbo with a hybrid whilst the manifold is off ;)

FMIC wise on yours you need:

2x 76-63mm 90 degree silicone reducing elbows

2x 63mm 90 degree silicone elbows

2x 63mm 90 degree alloy elbows

1x 63mm straight alloy joiner (100mm length)

1x 63mm straight silicone coupler

JCS Hi-Grip jubilee clamps

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Are panels actually the wrong colour jardo? On the before pics the bonnet/tailgate look wrong but they look spot on after.

They are a slightly different shade of grey, but after much tarting up and many products they have come out a much better match.

From any more than a meter away you wouldn't notice.

The car has had a pretty shoddy respray, so everything from the bottom of the windows up is a little bit brighter than the rest of the car, so no matter what I do with the doors the paint is always going to be a bit shit.

I'm seriously considering just blowing £2000 from my savings to have the whole car blown over in Volcano Black (same colour as Prawns A3), it's so solid that I think a respray wouldn't actually be a loss of money.

£1500 on the car, £1000 on doing it up mechanically and £1500-2000 on a paint job, £4500 doesn't buy you much in two door 1.8t Mk2 circles. And certainly not a freshly painted K04'd car.

We'll see.

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Ah, in that case it makes sense to do it all at once. May as well replace the turbo with a hybrid whilst the manifold is off ;)

It would certainly make sense - have been considering the possibility of grabbing a BBT k418t (or even just the B) somewhere down the line. Realistically I don't know whether or not I want to go as far as throwing rods etc in there and going for a full rebuild so I'll stick with the stock 023 for now and think about that somewhere down the line. Turbo is far from the bottleneck at present so I'll play wiht the other bits first.

Cheers for the pipework list. Do you know if that setup will allow me to retain fogs? I assume with 90s off the core it will and not too fussed about having to trim the rear of the bumper but would be nice to keep the lights themselves. Wasn't too sure whether I could get away with 45s off the core for flow but I'd imagine that'd definitely stop me keeping them!

Edit; Oh and Jardo, leave the paint for now. Stick the money to one side for when you get bored of it in a few weeks...

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