Updates on the way: almost finished installing the dash wiring, instrument cluster loom and CRV cluster purchased, fueling setup installed, rear wiring almost completed. When I stop spending every...
How much are discs for your car? Several of the mechanics I know don't machine discs, they just replace them (unless they're prohibitively expensive). On most cars, a standard quality pair of blank...
Lately, study has been coming first (for the first time ever, I submitted an assignment more than a week early), the new dash loom is sitting down in the footwells and I'm working out how to get the...
I have gotten it running, but not driving... I didn't get any pics of the setup on EFI, but I had a fuel pump in a paint tin of fuel on the passenger's side fender, the dash loom running across the...
So, after a long hiatus from updates and with lots of.. "life" happening in the meantime. My apologies about the severe lack of in progress pics. I'm still getting the hang of that (and the wife...
News update: ED is up and running on carbies... and I got it home! Three hours drive from south of Campbell town up to the Wyong area and the little ED made it fine. A good cloud of smoke is dumped...
The whole story changed when after ages of searching, an ED appeared! It was a good deal, D16Y1 (seized), dual carbs, 4-2-1 headers, Skunk2 lowering springs, Koni reds, all for a grand! That was put...
I've been a lurker and an occasional poster here, mainly since I didn't have much useful info to share, but I've had a project going on for the past few months...
I got a few steps further along on my ED project. Full story later, but today, I got the engine in my donor car running on the original wiring loom (a challenge, seeing how it was chopped and tucked...
At one of my local shops, I'm picking up Penrite 10w-50 for under $50 for a 5L bottle. I figure that's thin enough to save my car from the short trips I always end up doing and still being useful...
One of my mates is a retired cop/mechanic/everything else and has built his own boats, and rebuilt/modified several cars. One of the more fun ones is his shooting buggy. It was a Suzuki Sierra...
Hey, I've got 16s on my otherwise (almost) stock EK1, I reckon they look good. The tyre size is 205/45/r16 and I reckon it's just enough sidewall that it doesn't look like I'm going for rubber bands....
Are you taking about my car or yours? Mine has had some rough moments before I had it... If it's yours, you have my sypmathy, they're freakin expensive to get repaired...
When I get my new rims and licence back on monday, I'll take a stack of pics of my swaybar and everything associated (I think you'll need to replace your LCAs (Lower Control Arms), as CXI ones don't...
A few first suggestions, is if you find a GLI to take the dash (tacho) out of, grab the sway bar outta the front, it'll improve cornering a ton. The enlinks are important to get too. You'll need...
Hey Beeza, I'm not sure if you mentioned this (or have tried this) but I found that the easiest way to remove the TPS was to cut a line in the screw. I started it with the angle grinder and the...
Well, one of the best suggestions that I've heard is the bolt that holds your back seat down.
I've used one of the bolts that holds on my tail lights, and it's worked well enough.
Do you know how...
I pulled out my boot, backseats and plastic moulding... stripped the thing from the the end of the boot to the beginning of the doors.
Tucked in all my sub and speaker cables and ran an earth cable...
