HippY Posted August 10, 2016 Report Share Posted August 10, 2016 for the past few night I was dreaming driving and e46 compact, driving it in Leeds and europe. I guess I have to get a part time job Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dann2707 Posted August 11, 2016 Report Share Posted August 11, 2016 Road trip is going well. 550 miles down and Boris is loving it. No niggles at all and haven't been taking it easy. So glad I stripped him more before coming! More tripping to come when I'm home 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ItsMatt Posted August 11, 2016 Report Share Posted August 11, 2016 2 hours ago, dann2707 said: So glad I stripped him more before coming! 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CurtisRider Posted August 11, 2016 Report Share Posted August 11, 2016 Toilet/shower/kitchenette block now assembled for the workshop I'll fit and plumb it all in at some point but for now it can stay as a shell (well it'll get clad and receive a door then stay like that for a while). Actual workshop stuff should be happening next week, I'm very excited! New beams going in so the crappy supports can go and then I can whack in some lighting which will make a bit of a difference for me as it sucks working at night with flood lights. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Luke Rainbird Posted August 12, 2016 Report Share Posted August 12, 2016 Prior warning: I'm going to bring a hammock and live in your workshop. I'll catch mice and rats to earn my keep. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CurtisRider Posted August 12, 2016 Report Share Posted August 12, 2016 More than welcome, I kind of want to as well! I'm afraid my ridiculously fluffy cat is on mouse duties though... I'm really excited to get this done, It's about as close to a dream workshop as I'll ever get, once I buy a ramp it'll be super. There is another side to the building that is surplus to requirement so that may end up becoming a store room for multiple vehicles 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MadManMike Posted August 12, 2016 Author Report Share Posted August 12, 2016 Anyway, what I was going to post, was that I wondered if anyone here knows of a place to get a respray done cheap. Happy to sand back the car and de-grease it ready for spray... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SamKidney Posted August 13, 2016 Report Share Posted August 13, 2016 306 has gone I own another Civic. (The fifth one ive had now I think) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dann2707 Posted August 14, 2016 Report Share Posted August 14, 2016 Will upload some pics from the roadtrip! I didn't take that many as I was too bothered about driving. Got loads of footage though so will be looking at that later. This was from our first campsite in Ullswater, Lake district 20160806_181742 by dann2707, on Flickr 20160806_181759 by dann2707, on Flickr Abi with joes airsoft goggles on looked like some really disappointing superhero with the smoke from the bbq behind her 20160806_202556_HDR by dann2707, on Flickr 20160806_212959 by dann2707, on Flickr 20160807_152737 by dann2707, on Flickr Moving onto wales, the views were pretty unbelievable. This road was fairly scary with the sheer drop off the end at pretty much all times! 20160808_143104 by dann2707, on Flickr 20160808_143106 by dann2707, on Flickr 20160808_143108 by dann2707, on Flickr At this point a few people had to go home so it was just me, abs, farim and alistair 20160808_152655 by dann2707, on Flickr Ali washed my car for me the ultimate honey 20160808_163143 by dann2707, on Flickr 20160808_205019 by dann2707, on Flickr Tried to get a picture of the tent, worst photo ever 20160808_222246 by dann2707, on Flickr 20160809_194116 by dann2707, on Flickr 20160809_194123 by dann2707, on Flickr Second to last campsites nearest pub had a massive f**king moose on the wall 20160809_210801_HDR by dann2707, on Flickr 20160809_200003 by dann2707, on Flickr Fortunately the campsite had a cracking view 20160810_125834 by dann2707, on Flickr Ali bummed my car It was ok 20160810_125901 by dann2707, on Flickr car didn't get that dirty throughout! 20160814_150433 by dann2707, on Flickr All in all, it was a f**king fantastic trip. I did find sleeping in the tent tedious after a bit though as I didn't sleep well which doesn't go down for setting you up for the following day of driving a lot! The roads around wales were incredible though, just every single road was perfect for a well set up clio. really want to go back. We did the evo triangle too which is something else. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TROYston Posted August 14, 2016 Report Share Posted August 14, 2016 Looks like a great little trip, need to sort mine out and then go for a drive around wales! Also... I need a small plate for the front of mine a little touch that looks great 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dann2707 Posted August 14, 2016 Report Share Posted August 14, 2016 And another update from tonight. Finally got home to my place and neeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeed to tinker. Got my race heater a few weeks ago so the heater matrix and lower dash needs to come out to get to it etc. Removed the upper dash and airbag 20160814_164306 by dann2707, on Flickr 20160814_172531_HDR by dann2707, on Flickr 20160814_165621 by dann2707, on Flickr I then started removing the heater matrix plastics 20160814_181156 by dann2707, on Flickr Plenty of insulation removed too! 20160814_182939 by dann2707, on Flickr Got to remove the actual matrix next, not sure how it comes off from the plastic clip @Chambers_RS how did you go about yours? 20160814_182949 by dann2707, on Flickr Decided i'm going to have the upper dash. It's going to be fun to fabricate the middle panels as i'm wanting to keep the radio. Hoping to have a panel and just have loads of flick switches on, all the same make and size so it looks tidy and have them labelled with 3d metal sticky tape (not sure of the name) 20160814_190733 by dann2707, on Flickr 20160814_184111 by dann2707, on Flickr Removed a fair chunk of weight though and thats just the insulation and plastics tonight. Got my @bristolnate door cards to go on the front soon too. Really wish I ordered the rears too Gutted I missed out as it really would have tidied the rear. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mark W Posted August 14, 2016 Report Share Posted August 14, 2016 Told you Wales was good One conversion from this thread now. Need to go rip around there again before I get rid of my Mazda. For the radio, do you listen to the actual radio radio or is it just stuff being played by your phone/MP3 player of choice? If it's the latter, could you not bin the radio itself off and just get one of those dinky amps to play whatever you're playing music from through your speakers? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JD™ Posted August 14, 2016 Report Share Posted August 14, 2016 Yea, some sort of Bluetooth amp buried somewhere would seem perfect. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dann2707 Posted August 14, 2016 Report Share Posted August 14, 2016 (edited) 19 minutes ago, Mark W said: Told you Wales was good One conversion from this thread now. Need to go rip around there again before I get rid of my Mazda. For the radio, do you listen to the actual radio radio or is it just stuff being played by your phone/MP3 player of choice? If it's the latter, could you not bin the radio itself off and just get one of those dinky amps to play whatever you're playing music from through your speakers? It was so so good! The evo triangle was immense, just checking footage now. Got a link to the amp you speak of? That would make so much sense as I only ever use my aux cable. this was funny Edited August 14, 2016 by dann2707 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mark W Posted August 14, 2016 Report Share Posted August 14, 2016 Can't seem to find the one I was looking at now. Was planning on doing the same thing to my car, found one with a bunch of good reviews that was ~£30. The one I saw was pretty small and mega stripped out so it didn't have any 'nice' facia or anything like that, but even a fancy looking one like this is only 250g~, which I assume will be lighter than your radio? Also, it'll be great for powering your left sperker and your right sperker. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jolfa Posted August 14, 2016 Report Share Posted August 14, 2016 Any small amp will do, all I had in my old Mondeo was a standard little sub amp in the glove box, the only downside to it was it got very hot on hot days, but if it was mounted somewhere air can get to it, it'd be no problem at all Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dann2707 Posted August 15, 2016 Report Share Posted August 15, 2016 Nice one, cheers guys. Will look into that in the future! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JD™ Posted August 15, 2016 Report Share Posted August 15, 2016 This looks like it would do the job. Probably worth a punt for the money. If you wanted to skip the Bluetooth aspect, there's a product linked from that page which is a fiver... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TROYston Posted August 15, 2016 Report Share Posted August 15, 2016 3 hours ago, JD™ said: This looks like it would do the job. Probably worth a punt for the money. If you wanted to skip the Bluetooth aspect, there's a product linked from that page which is a fiver... How would it be wired to be powered? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JD™ Posted August 15, 2016 Report Share Posted August 15, 2016 Just takes a 12v input. Just have to butcher one of the gazillions of 12v adaptors everyone has in a draw someone to get the connector then wire that up to a switched live off the ignition. I have realised that that one isn't actually bluetooth though, not sure what I was on when I posted it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SamKidney Posted August 15, 2016 Report Share Posted August 15, 2016 Got one of the ball joints replaced on the new (to me) civic, and did some prodding with my test light to find the suspect fuse I knew would be the cause for my head unit not powering up. Tomorrow I tackle the tiny bit of rust that's present and then make a start pulling the B16 out of the VTi Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CurtisRider Posted August 15, 2016 Report Share Posted August 15, 2016 Replaced the water pump on the E46, bit of a faff to do! It seems to run fine so that's a relief. I need to get a belt stretcher in order to refit the AC belt which is annoying! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SamKidney Posted August 16, 2016 Report Share Posted August 16, 2016 (edited) 10 hours ago, CurtisRider said: Replaced the water pump on the E46, bit of a faff to do! It seems to run fine so that's a relief. I need to get a belt stretcher in order to refit the AC belt which is annoying! You just have to wind them on. Get it wrapped all the way round the crank, and partly on the other, then turn the engine round by hand in the correct direction and it'll pull itself on. Edited August 16, 2016 by SamKidney Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jolfa Posted August 16, 2016 Report Share Posted August 16, 2016 (edited) That's how I do it on cars with pain in the arse tensioners, get it 80% on then flick the key, easy Or turn it by hand if you're not as lazy/impatient as me Edited August 16, 2016 by Jolfa 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AdamR28 Posted August 16, 2016 Report Share Posted August 16, 2016 That's ace Sketchy as f**k, but ace... 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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