lol i love your reasoning for the drift charm! brilliant! nice car dude

 

Loving the drift charm also and the de tango!

 

Nice work so far

Mark

 

Hello again!!!

Russell.

 

Hello Kitty! I am SO JDM!

C

 

Where u get that mate?

 

I made it

C

 

Deja vu!

 

If only I could say more. LoL

C

 

HELLO KITTY! JDM YO!

C

 

C

 

Ok so I was a bit cryptic and didn't give a lot of info...... But....... No-one likes my sticker or my boot release solenoid thingy?

Darn it..... You lot are really hard to please. Maybe I should get my tits out.

C

 

Nah I think it's awsome.

I take it you've got access to a laser cutter? I wouldn't be able to sleep with all the possibilities!

 

Cheers Ryan!

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I'm really going to have to up my game aren't I?

C

 

I've always hated the Mazda badge on my car. It needs a Eunos badge but I am too tight to buy one.

I had a moment of inspiration today while standing by a plotter cutter.

No more Mazda badge! WOOT!

C

 

Very subtle!

 

Lots has changed on my car since I last posted. I'll mostly let the pictures do the talking.

The rear spoiler got a bit more JDM -

Remember kids, every Hello Kitty adds 10 JDM points.

Japanese market only!

The bonnet prop got changed for Gas struts.

And I put in a nice yellow strut brace. Need to torque it properly yet tho.

I got some quite awesome valve caps.

More JDM points!

I pulled my car-pc out of the Volvo.

Made a new screen case.

Then got it all (quite roughly) installed,

Quick video here of the first power up. It is massively out of focus but I didn't want to cheat and do another take and pretend it was the first power up.

PC First Fire Up

C

 

There is a vented headlamp lid in progress.

But that's a bit of sanding away from completion.

The IL Motorsports boot lid lifter kit got installed.

So remote boot release and lift now works

Video of boot operation.

 

Then the numberplate got changed to an offset and the offside baby-tooth was pulled.

Shame I now have 10 holes in the bumper to fill!

Since tinting your lights will be an MOT fail next year I decided that was for me.

Then began the saga of the fake GV front lip. Long story short if you get a lip without red double sided tape on it then it didn't come direct from GV.

It all worked out in the end. Thanks to Tetsuya Garage!

One very GV spoiler fitted.

There is more to come. These things are never finished! Next priority is that horrible offset!

A quick thanks to the Phoenix fives boys n girl who have assisted. In particular Shogun, without whom I couldn't get my trolley jack out of the workshop.

C

 

Christ my girlfriend would love this! She into all that hello kitty. Only because she is a girl and wouldn't even know what JDM means!

Like the trick electronics! Very west coast customs!

 

Cheers! I had the pop up lights on the Volvo control-able from my iPhone. Will probably get Whisper doing that and a few more tricks.

C

 

You need to install MegaSquirt so you can control and adjust it via carPC.

 

Yeah that would be cool.

I did have a car with LPG once and the car pc was hitched into the LPG ECU.

I'm hoping to go FI one day. I can tie the car pc into whatever ECU thngamajig I end up with then

C

 

Posted these in the 'arrived in the post' thread but they may as well get a mention here.

Rota slipstreams. Courtesy of Mr Jibberingloon at NCB Motorsport. They are 15" 8j Et20. That should sort the 'sunken wheels' look I have on the Enkies. I'll swap them when the salt goes away and the Enkies will be stored away as winter tyres.

I'm working on a rather strange BGW addition at the moment. It's still in the design and prototype stage and once it is on I will probably hate it. But it's worth running with it even just for a bit because I will be amused by it.

I've acquired the Carbon wing but the stand/legs/supports (whatever they should be called) are a bit knackered. I'm designing my own replacements.

These are the prototypes which is why they are in 4mm mdf! Hot off the laser cutter

The upper mounts are a total guess. It will probably take three or four prototypes before I am happy with the wing angle. Once I am happy the cad file will be sent off to some company or other (not found one yet) that can waterjet them in ally for me (laser cutter here won't do metal

).

C

 

Nice. You have been busy.
My 1st mod was to loose the white dials too.

Thanks again for your help (via PM) when my boot failed.

 

Most welcome

C

 

hurry up and mount those slips!! love those wheels!

 

Amazing attention to detail here, I still can't get over the in car PC you chucked together... looks so professionally installed the way you've done it

Keep up the good work!! Oh yes, and get those wheels on already!!!

Russell.

 

I wish the winter would go away! I want to put my Slipstreams on!

I have had to console myself with a wander over to the plotter cutter at work and the creation of a new decal-

I'll not explain it, I'll let y'all guess (or Google).

Cerbs