So, what has been done during those two months? Well, juding by my last post I had finished the 4-pot brake installation and was ready to order my new shoes from europe. Unfortunately, the order from europe for the 18x8.5 & 18x9.5 +12 wheels, got rejected... yes, rejected! why? Since they CAN NOT ship to australia, of all the countries.. australia wasn't on their list.
I must admit, it did bum me out quite abit; though I managed to square a deal with a mate and managed to snap up the work meister s1's instead. Once that was out of the way, I was ready to place my order for some poly-urethane pineapples & solid steering spacers.
In the process, I decided to take the plunge and purchase the following:
- Pivot Boost gauge
- Pivot Water Temp gauge
- Pivot Oil Temp gauge
- Pivot Volt stabilizer
Overall, a fair bit of money was spent.
Couple weeks after the pineapples & steering spacers arrived I managed to find some spare time to pop into my mates and have a good old time trying to slip the pineapples on the rear subframe. Note, it was an absolute nightmare attempting to slip the full rings onto the subframe in the middle of the street with very little tool assistance. Nonetheless, after a good 2 - 3 hrs we managed to have them fitted and took it for a test slide. Definately succeeded in its purpose to eliminate axel tramp, which was refreshing.
Till then, not much has happened apart from the odd height adjustment. I've now lowered the rear so it sits flush with the rear quarter lip, as the front just sits on the front guard. Roughly 5cm is my lowest point off the ground now, compared to the previous 10cm. 30mm Spacers are needed for the rear to be pumped out abit more, and a possible guard lipping.
Only recently, significant changes have been made on the car. Roughly a week or two ago, pop'd into my mate dazza's place to do a full service since its been well overdue; afterwards we decided to remove the straight pipe exhaust system that was bolted on months back, and replaced it with an Apexi N1 3.5" exhaust system with a de-cat pipe. This definately got my stomach tickling, but till this day.. I miss the agressive roar that the straight pipes made. After bolting on the Apexi n1, we managed to pop some flames on first start up with the de-cat pipe in (vid will be up soon!).
The following day, I found myself bored as you would imagine when you're on holidays.. So I decided to mount the pivot gauges and install the volt stabilizer. For those reading, who may be interested in purchasing a volt stabilizer... I say, its not worth it.. really doesn't make much of a difference with the unit alone; make sure you replace all the earthing cables before installing the unit, that way you'd be sure to expect an improvement.
You may be thinking, what now? Well, after this point i've got 3 weeks of uni left before my long holiday.. After those three weeks, back to work and back to modding. First on the list at the moment is a new clutch, heading towards a 5-puk cushion button at this stage and then snapping up a greddy e-manage for a proper power tune, would be dropping it into Trent from uras for a dyno and tune to extract every last kw. At the moment, i'm running less than stock boost, which is absolute no fun for me anymore.. so soon we shall see some significant improvements, until then takecare!
Enjoy the updated pics!
