irf
Sunday 24th September 2006, 23:03
hey guys, been quite busy. changed the oil, filters, plugs, distributor cap, leads, rotor arm etc and did a bit of polishing as well.
this is the car when i got it home and just gave it a wash. looks ok but very dull, hardly any reflection and sooooo many swirl marks:cry:
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v304/irf200/13092006001.jpg
so i got the clay bar out. this picture is of the clay after only half the bonnet was done!!!!!
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v304/irf200/claybonnet.jpg
this was the other half!!!!
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v304/irf200/claybonnet2.jpg
anyway, done the whole car, started with meguiars stage 1 on the wing. dunno if you can see the difference with this crappy phone pic, but standing there the difference was very obvious between the wing and door
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v304/irf200/frontwingpolished-1.jpg
forgot to take a pic of the whol car afterwards, but then i had just clayed it, done stage 1 meguiars, autoglym resin polish and then autoglym extra gloss protection over the whole car so was understandably knackered!!!!!!
well, here's a pic of the bonnet anyway
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v304/irf200/17092006002.jpg
now that thats done, i've got an mbc and a boost gauge from my old car, so it would be rude not to use it:biggrin:
i understand that on an otherwise standard car, the limit is 13psi. would this be right?
i WILL most definetly be going for one of these aftermarket chips, but am broke at the mo, so will have to do.
also, where are you guys sourcing parts from? with my sx it was literally just having to phone a certain specialist and they had everything imagineable, cheap too.
so where could i for example get a decat from?
last question(finally), i'm not gonna go as extreme as i did on my sx, will be aiming for a fast road set up, whatever that means, so will the standard ecu cope as far as fuelling demands are concerened with a full exhaust, induction, rica etc?
thanks for any help guys, sorry for the long post:sorry:
edit. forgot, its quite restrictive above 5k, is that normal?
this is the car when i got it home and just gave it a wash. looks ok but very dull, hardly any reflection and sooooo many swirl marks:cry:
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v304/irf200/13092006001.jpg
so i got the clay bar out. this picture is of the clay after only half the bonnet was done!!!!!
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v304/irf200/claybonnet.jpg
this was the other half!!!!
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v304/irf200/claybonnet2.jpg
anyway, done the whole car, started with meguiars stage 1 on the wing. dunno if you can see the difference with this crappy phone pic, but standing there the difference was very obvious between the wing and door
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v304/irf200/frontwingpolished-1.jpg
forgot to take a pic of the whol car afterwards, but then i had just clayed it, done stage 1 meguiars, autoglym resin polish and then autoglym extra gloss protection over the whole car so was understandably knackered!!!!!!
well, here's a pic of the bonnet anyway
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v304/irf200/17092006002.jpg
now that thats done, i've got an mbc and a boost gauge from my old car, so it would be rude not to use it:biggrin:
i understand that on an otherwise standard car, the limit is 13psi. would this be right?
i WILL most definetly be going for one of these aftermarket chips, but am broke at the mo, so will have to do.
also, where are you guys sourcing parts from? with my sx it was literally just having to phone a certain specialist and they had everything imagineable, cheap too.
so where could i for example get a decat from?
last question(finally), i'm not gonna go as extreme as i did on my sx, will be aiming for a fast road set up, whatever that means, so will the standard ecu cope as far as fuelling demands are concerened with a full exhaust, induction, rica etc?
thanks for any help guys, sorry for the long post:sorry:
edit. forgot, its quite restrictive above 5k, is that normal?