[Cerberus]

I can't admit to any more than two pairs of HK pants that the much beloved bestowed upon me for Christmas.

 

[danjdm]

When last I updated the BGW was installed on the Stunt bootlid. With many stickers covering the trial-and-error holes that I had made during the faffing about stage of the process.

With the Mazda Picnic looming I decided it was time to install the Brilliant-Black bootlid and mount the BGW.

Hmmmmmm looks quite good with a plain bootlid!

Can you spot the small problem with the brilliant-black bootlid that I drove 50 miles to collect?

It's not brilliant-black. It's just plain old black. *COCKSOCKS*

Well it's better than green I suppose. But I am back on hunt for a brilliant-black bootlid with a high level brake light and no spoiler holes!

The measurements I have settled on place the rear foot mountings on the curve of the inner skin of the bootlid. On the stunt bootlid I didn't worry too much about it but on this one I wanted to be a little neater. There will be some re-enforcing plates added to the inner skin later. So for now a bit of dremmel action was called for!

With the clearance cut in the inner skin I transferred the measurements from stunt bootlid and made the holes.

I'll never feel happy about making holes in hole-free panels. It makes my tummy feel funny!

With the rear mounting feet attached I could line up the front ones. With the assistance of some electricians tape for support.

It wasn't long till the full gayness was restored!

I do like the KittyStikahBomb but that plus the BGW was too much. I much prefer the look now

Stunt bootlid will now disappear for a while. Before it returns in it's new fabulous form. Till then it's BGW all the way!

Then I had a delivery!!! Mr Shogun arrived! I asked him to steal me a handful of big assed washers from work. He decided that was far too pikey and made me some spreader plates! Frikkin awesome work dude! thank you!

He even assisted with fitting them, whilst I heckled.

Then I got some heckling for the state of my car. It was, to be fair, bloody filthy.....

So suitably shamed into it I broke out the buckets.

and she's now all clean and tidy for tomorrow!

It's raining now.......

cars looking wicked dude

 

[Cerberus]

Slightly out of sequence but I should document my nasty suspension knock I suppose!

A few weeks back we had the P5's alignment day at A-Line. Great day out. It's also a good opportunity to get under the car and have a snoop about.

The P5 frame rails are looking fine, very little scraping on them. The under seal all looks nice still. Very happy.

But........ (you knew it was coming!)

I found a little hole on the elbow between the silencer and rear 'can' of my HKS zorst. Dammit! Will need to weld that up then I thought to myself.

Next day A terrible suspension knock reared it's head. An F1 style tyre warming manoeuvre would create a terrible clicking clanging knock. I was a little worried that
an alignment bolt had stretched and was now chattering. So I needed to get the car up in the air as soon as I could to investigate. I set aside an evening after work
and recruited Shogun to come add a pair of hands to the job.

Upon arriving home that night the knocking noise dissipated! Replaced by the sound of the end of my HKS dragging along the road! F*cksticks!

But worse was to come, much much worse.

Amazingly that bodge repair was on the car when I brought it and had lasted 18 months in my ownership! So I am on the market for a replacement HKS!
If you have one the same (but not in bits) that you are looking to sell, please let me know!

I'm on a standard exhaust with a stainless de-cat fitted now. It's flippin awful

I reeeeeeealy miss my HKS. The standard one sounds rubbish and the exhaust tip is tiiiiny

No worries tho eh. Turn the music up and off we go.

Except my 4 channel amp, which drives the door speakers and headrest speakers, went pop...

No obvious signs of damage internally. So it is going off to Raydar and he's going to pass his expert eye over it.

It's a bit wierd having only the seat shakers working. You can't hear any music but you can still feel it! But the game of "I'll name that song with my arse" got boring really fast.

I'm making it into an opourtunity to upgrade and improve. The whole boot install, PC, relay board, both amps are out of the car and I'm designing a new install
that moves things around a little and will make the false boot floor fabrication a little more simple! Always turn a problem into a chance for an upgrade I say!

When life gives you lemons, don't make lemonade. Make life take the lemons back! Get mad! I don't want your damn lemons, what am I supposed to do with these? Demand to see life's manager! Make life rue the day it thought it could give Cave Johnson lemons! Do you know who I am? I'm the man who's gonna burn your house down! With the lemons! I'm gonna get my engineers to invent a combustible lemon that burns your house down!

 

[Redblackgold]

exactly the same thing happened to my HKS, have a look what i'm doing with mine on my thread...

 

[Cerberus]

exactly the same thing happened to my HKS, have a look what i'm doing with mine on my thread...

If I can't find a replacement I might take mine to be restored. If I can find a very clever zorst fabricator to do it.

Looks like you have a HKS Hiper? Mine was a HKS Super Dragger (I think that's the model, not 100% sure). I like your centre exit idea tho, that will look great!

 

[Redblackgold]

this is a superdrager....

i think yours is a hyper too...

 

[Cerberus]

Hmmm I'm not right then....
I thought the Hyper looked like this one:

Tho on the 'definitive exhaust thread' Tattoo Ron identifies this as a HKS Hyper.

(Pic stolen from that thread)

Which backs up your identification! That might help in trying to find a replacement one! cheers

 

[Redblackgold]

that top pic is a stock picture from a different car!

good luck finding one in good condition as both of ours are fucked, probably a vast majority are!

any half decent fab guy should be able to sort out what you've got with a few bits of pipe and another box....

 

[Cerberus]

Doh! Ok that makes sense then

Reconstruction may well be the way forward because, as you say, a vast majority have probably failed or are about to fail the same way

I don't think I fancy dropping £600 on a new one from sumopower. Especially if they can't be bothered to use actual product images on their site! Who's spending that sort of cash for something they can't have a look at?

What I need is a really good zorst fabricator in the West Midlands.

 

[Redblackgold]

i would never pay 600 for it! shit quality in all honesty....

im getting a local hot rod guy to do mine tonight

 

[Cerberus]

Be interested to see how that comes out! Let us know please?

I might have to pop to Colchester

 

[Redblackgold]

ill post pics in my thread....

 

[Vindi (Russell)]

Will be interested to see how this turns out as well... if you need the zorst fixing Cerbs, I know a man who can... he made the manifold and pipes for my kit car (the shadow, not the sprint) and they came out nice!

Russell.

 

[Redblackgold]

I have posted pics

 

[Cerberus]

Well I'm getting back to grips with things! Mozza's replacement exhaust served well for a few days before I purchased a used stainless cat back from Simon. I managed to forget to take a picture of it before I put it on. But it looks a lot like this one :

It sounds pretty good. Im happy

Whilst fitting it I spotted a screw in a tyre. So that was repaired by Nick at the meet. How lucky are we! Tyre services at our monthly. That's pretty damn cool.

MOT is due in 11 days so I have removed the tint from my old sidelights and will wallop them on for MOT day. I never did wire up the pop ups to pop on sidights so rather than cause confusion. Its only four screws.

Easy job with a bit of cellulose thinners.

I noticed last rain fall that the wax job Nathan had done was rather worn out. Water was no longer beading nicely on the panels. So I picked up some wax malarkey.

The much beloved and I set about removing a considerable amount of dirt and dust and grime.

And I popped the proper wheels back on after a quick clean.

She's looking pretty again

Let's hope she responds to a good polish by behaving herself for a bit!!!

 

[Cerberus]

One trip up a certain driveway and the showroom shine is now protected by a coating of dust. ROFL. One more rain shower will shift it

But the rain stayed off today so more MOT prep work got underway. Unfortunately I have been laid low by a tummy bug for the last few days so wasn't really feeling up to it. One quick call to senior P5 service network apprentice, Nathan and things were on track.

Last year I got an advisory for front drop links. Since my MOT man has a good memory he will be looking to make sure I changed them since he saw them last. Even though there is nothing wrong with them! Dammit! Whilst there I was pretty sure my track rod end boots were splitting so we changed those at the same time.

Up she goes!

I was really lucky to be able to call on Nathan. Leaving the house was a bit of a no no. I'm feeling a bit better but some crouching and twisting and heaving on spanner type movements did have me hurling again

I was quite right. The booties were very buggered. An instant MOT fail nowadays. Good that I had spotted the cracking earlier this year.

Shiny replacements!

Lovely job!

Next up the droplinks then!

Nothing wrong with the old ones! Grrrr!

Drivers side all fine. Nothing gave us any trouble at all.

Passengers side was also buggered!

Then came the problem. The bolts holding the drop link were severely shot. The shank of the lower one missing a good 2mm from it's diameter due to rust and movement. So we had to make a quick dash to B&Q (There#s a theme occurring there!) For some M10 bolts and nylocs. They only had 50mm bolts so they had to be cut down by 10mm. No problem to a man like me who owns an angle grinder and a bench grinder!

Job done. Car back on the floor. Only the catalyst and sidelights to refit and she is ready to be tested

 

[Vindi (Russell)]

Good stuff... so when is the MOT then? I'm hoping mine isn't too far away...

Russell.

 

[Mr Slow]

No castle nut with the replacement track rod links?

 

[Vindi (Russell)]

No castle nut with the replacement track rod links?

There wasn't one with mine so I reused the old one and got a new pin

Russell.

 

[Nas]

Quite the transformation this has made, looks like a great car / project. Looks very racer like.

Cheeky initial D slogans on the bumper!