Going to start this thread for members to post up what they did each day to there zed. I will start with getting my MOT this morning. So what did you do today on your 300?:cool3:

stuck some RX-8 seats in today :D heated and everything :P [ATTACH=CONFIG]79817[/ATTACH]

 

Sweet how did you find fitting them?

 

look good buddy!

I drove my car from norwich to nottingham today.to get the shells/bearing things done,u know the bottem end and to convert the rear twin turbo subframe into a n.a.rear end. This now will make my car quicker off the line and gets rid of all useless tired and wobbly hicass stuff as well so no lockout for me.oh.at Mark Darbys place.whislt there i had a quick lookaround at his car.very nice in the flesh. And i also see Tomfromthenorth car was there two having this and that and the third done. Nice sidemounts tom.now on train home.then ill pick me car up again when i come home next from next trip away at work. In three weeks time.all is good.

Wasn't too bad, just cut the brackets off all the seats. Then bolted the old zed ones to the RX seats using box section

Thank you Automodz, today I have done some mileage, i've been on full boost in an impreza, my zed an Evo V and probably the equivalent in a dash 8 aircraft and an intercity :lol:

 

So I picked it up with the following and probably more:

Competition clutch and 5kg flywheel

Full diagnostic

Underseal

Laugh out loud A3 intercoolers

Ash spec 2.5 inch intercooler piping

Biiiiig oil cooler

Huge radiator

Air con delete,

Whole world of crap removed, carbon canister etc, a large box of it.

Uprated recirc valves that now somehow, dump, honk a tiny bit and give compressor surge, spaceship noises because racecar haha

New fuel lines odds and sods a nice tidy up all round.

 

So I left a load of little black 11s across nottingham in the wet with a new paddle clutch then wafted up the motorway. This isn't an exageration, there is no lag. Auto turbos, auto cams, 16psi with a tight drivetrain no AC and a selin dual apexi and maf set up with 2.5inch pipes! The result is that you apply 1cm of throttle at 60/70 in 5th and it is "whoosh-whach-ts-ts-ts-ts" K SPORTS!!!! It is bloody nuts!

 

I then had a good passenger in my cousins new evo, long review short, it's kneck whipping fast because it has close gears and traction like he is cheating on a playstation. Great car.

 

 

I had a good poke round spin doctor's car too, mate it's lovely, :thumbup1: couldn't find a blemish insde or out, lovely clean interior.

 

And finally the clutch has softened up loads and is significant more progressive than it was 400 miles ago, thats right it has been a good day :biggrin:

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Well done Tom, hope to see the car in the metal one day.

Lovely, be nice to see what difference it makes on the dyno

Thanks guys, it will be at TOTB :-) I don't know what it would do on a dyno, it did 430 and 460 ft lbs, I think it is more now perhaps 20/30 bhp but it's more the fact that I can just drive it now. The brakes are front flip powerful, If I want to I can upshift abuseively and keep the turbos spooled for an indulgent giggle, or boost in 4th for a torque overtake and it doesn't conplain. But the responsiveness is... its like a non turbo, and it runs so much cooler now, I am not squinting through a heat haze coming off the nose any more, and If I drive it quickly it is like a cold morning from start to finish.

I'm going for a drive :biggrin:

Thanks for your comments Tom, i like your side mounts. there large arnt they. oh, and in your words what are these,how much and were did u get.

Uprated recirc valves that now somehow, dump, honk a tiny bit and give compressor surge, spaceship noises because racecar haha

well done Tom

Its a BDE performance rebuild kit for the stock recirc valves. Mine were doing the goose honk which sounds nothing like a goose, it sounds like blowing over the top of a milk bottle, or running a wet finger round a wine glass top, somewhere between those two noises.

 

If you go on the BDE site they only sell about 4 things, pulleys, engine mounts, fuel rails and these "goose honk killers"

 

The honk is because the valve is like a plunger/piston and a spring, the spring gets worn, (made worse by increased boost) the noise is it recirculating while on boost. The kit is just a stiffer spring that holds it closed more firmly.

 

So now it is a little bit too stiff but that is actually benificial, it recircs enough air to relieve stress as it is designed to, but some goes back through the turbo blades and chatters, and some stays ready to be eaten by the engine after an upshift, really really responsive, zero lag on upshifts.

The full description of what is going on with "Goose Honk" is:

 

http://bde-performance.com/goose_how.htm

 

Nothing really to do with increased boost pressure or parts wearing out. The noise is in fact masked by stock

filter boxes and is exposed by changing to aftermarket filters and especially the move to the Selin/dual filter

setup.

:oops: you learn something new every day :)

 

Well today I had a mini zed date with Mondo who very kindly swapped my passenger seat for a lovely fresh looking one, one that isn't upholstered in black nasty tape and looking like something from the dark scary corner found at the back of an Ann Summers.

 

Then, rather later than I should have, I hit the road North to Elgin. Now I know that I am a bit strange and I like cars a bit too much (a walk round the metro centre car park is a decent day out if you ask me) but I had an awesome drive up the road.

 

I did about 270 miles in cruise control at 75 never touching the brakes, like an 80s arcade game I sidestepped between the 3 lanes manouvering around the thinly spread traffic consisting mostly of lorries and tankers, however tonights graphics were definitely more playstation 4 than zx spectrum. Like a never ending artwork from a bottle of Glenfiddich the cairngorms rolled by, scattered with stag and topped with patches of snow, and as I clicked the wipers to their most furious setting, patches of fog rolled down the valley sides like 5 storey cotton wool balls to lie in staggered file down my route.

 

By this point my fuel was running low, in a more modern car it should recognise you are in Scotland and put the fuel light on at a half tank, a little blue and white flag next to it with the caption "it's a canny push to the next village matey!".

 

Stubborn and optimistic I passed a quarter of a tank as I watched myself drive past the last garage in Aviemore, then a sign "Elgin 60 miles". I flicked the BY-CAS to 4WS and was in full momentum mode, to brake now risked me becoming the AA's most costly customer, punching through the fog patches like a spitfire (or possibly the red barron) I did the last 60 miles in 60 minutes, my heart in my mouth. If my fuel gauge had one of those second tell tale needles, like you get on the rev counters of old touring cars to show the high water mark of max RPM, it would show that it hadn't just explored the bottom of the empty part of the gauge, but was well and truly pioneering into the bottom of the Marianas trench and sticking in a flag!

 

As I pulled up I did my now habitual walk-round feeling my calipers, a result of warping a 3 foot stack of brake discs, I grade the temperature on a relative to a fresh cup of tea scale, tonight they were all iced frapachino.

 

:)

:oops: you learn something new every day :)

 

Well today I had a mini zed date with Mondo who very kindly swapped my passenger seat for a lovely fresh looking one, one that isn't upholstered in black nasty tape and looking like something from the dark scary corner found at the back of an Ann Summers.

 

Then, rather later than I should have, I hit the road North to Elgin. Now I know that I am a bit strange and I like cars a bit too much (a walk round the metro centre car park is a decent day out if you ask me) but I had an awesome drive up the road.

 

I did about 270 miles in cruise control at 75 never touching the brakes, like an 80s arcade game I sidestepped between the 3 lanes manouvering around the thinly spread traffic consisting mostly of lorries and tankers, however tonights graphics were definitely more playstation 4 than zx spectrum. Like a never ending artwork from a bottle of Glenfiddich the cairngorms rolled by, scattered with stag and topped with patches of snow, and as I clicked the wipers to their most furious setting, patches of fog rolled down the valley sides like 5 storey cotton wool balls to lie in staggered file down my route.

 

By this point my fuel was running low, in a more modern car it should recognise you are in Scotland and put the fuel light on at a half tank, a little blue and white flag next to it with the caption "it's a canny push to the next village matey!".

 

Stubborn and optimistic I passed a quarter of a tank as I watched myself drive past the last garage in Aviemore, then a sign "Elgin 60 miles". I flicked the BY-CAS to 4WS and was in full momentum mode, to brake now risked me becoming the AA's most costly customer, punching through the fog patches like a spitfire (or possibly the red barron) I did the last 60 miles in 60 minutes, my heart in my mouth. If my fuel gauge had one of those second tell tale needles, like you get on the rev counters of old touring cars to show the high water mark of max RPM, it would show that it hadn't just explored the bottom of the empty part of the gauge, but was well and truly pioneering into the bottom of the Marianas trench and sticking in a flag!

 

As I pulled up I did my now habitual walk-round feeling my calipers, a result of warping a 3 foot stack of brake discs, I grade the temperature on a relative to a fresh cup of tea scale, tonight they were all iced frapachino.

 

:)

 

:lol: A true epic tale which was most enjoyed with a half melted Mars ice cream and hectic scrolling of the mouse wheel grasping for the next line:bow:

:lol: A true epic tale which was most enjoyed with a half melted Mars ice cream and hectic scrolling of the mouse wheel grasping for the next line:bow:

 

Does anyone else (apart from me) think that Tom should write some form of novel or something? He's suitably verbose and articulate, as I was explaining to him yesterday... he's clearly born to command people's collective attention with the English language! :thumbup1:

Ordered new wheel bearings and kingpins,(cheers Mike)hopefully after fitting these my vibration that I've had for five years will go:-),

Put my new fgk exhaust on with h middle sounds a lot better and cleaner

Took it for a quick 25 mile round trip to the tackle shop today, running nicely. Aside from a leaking rear shock, damn it, at least the starter motor didn't fall off this time. Defiantly needs more go goes though. Then I parked it on my bomb site, I mean driveway sat there and drank a carton or tropical juice and admired it in the sun on my front step.

Then I got back to smashing up rocks and coughing up snot :)

Nice (not you coughing up snot) red and black is very complimentary

Cheers man, day 4 now seems to be relenting lol.

Thank you Automodz, today I have done some mileage, i've been on full boost in an impreza, my zed an Evo V and probably the equivalent in a dash 8 aircraft and an intercity :lol:

 

So I picked it up with the following and probably more:

Competition clutch and 5kg flywheel

Full diagnostic

Underseal

Laugh out loud A3 intercoolers

Ash spec 2.5 inch intercooler piping

Biiiiig oil cooler

Huge radiator

Air con delete,

Whole world of crap removed, carbon canister etc, a large box of it.

Uprated recirc valves that now somehow, dump, honk a tiny bit and give compressor surge, spaceship noises because racecar haha

New fuel lines odds and sods a nice tidy up all round.

 

So I left a load of little black 11s across nottingham in the wet with a new paddle clutch then wafted up the motorway. This isn't an exageration, there is no lag. Auto turbos, auto cams, 16psi with a tight drivetrain no AC and a selin dual apexi and maf set up with 2.5inch pipes! The result is that you apply 1cm of throttle at 60/70 in 5th and it is "whoosh-whach-ts-ts-ts-ts" K SPORTS!!!! It is bloody nuts!

 

I then had a good passenger in my cousins new evo, long review short, it's kneck whipping fast because it has close gears and traction like he is cheating on a playstation. Great car.

 

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I had a good poke round spin doctor's car too, mate it's lovely, :thumbup1: couldn't find a blemish insde or out, lovely clean interior.

 

And finally the clutch has softened up loads and is significant more progressive than it was 400 miles ago, thats right it has been a good day :biggrin:

 

What intercooler a did you say you have? Ones off an A3?

No I meant A3 like a big sheet of paper :lol: they are huge. Hang on Ill get the link.

 

I like the idea of sitting in the sun car watching too mate :)

 

Managed to get round to changing the tail lights over. And had to strip the console as there is a wiring problem the radio goes off when the headlights are put on and the speakers aint working so need to sus that bugger oot.

http://www.conceptzperformance.com/Cart/description.php?II=3306&Car_Type=300&UID=2014060809141031.48.55.132

 

Pricey I know but I had so much done in the nose of the car I was going for buy expensive buy once, and save on labour at the same time. The car is noticeably faster, smoother, it must be 30 bhp because its not even a subtle increase it is something you can feel in your neck.

Makes perfect sense to me make, I only wondered as I've been meaning to go get an intercooler off a golf or a3 to see if I can make it fit lol, plenty of them about.

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Managed to get round to changing the tail lights over. And had to strip the console as there is a wiring problem the radio goes off when the headlights are put on and the speakers aint working so need to sus that bugger oot.

 

Uk rear bumper, ukz plate...a vert...pardon? I thought they were all imports.

There is probably a selection of iveco diesel ones or something that will work, I wish I had a picture of stock vs these monsters but they are so much bigger and beefier and not plastic lol.

 

I was worried about increasing lag, as I have two really small turbos that have to pump up two massive metal boxes before getting the air to the engine. Well as sensible as that sounds and that you would expect it to reduce response, it is a lot more responsive. I wish I wasn't feeling so crap or I would be out in the car now, but I feel I should be on my A game before driving that thing in the wet.