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2mm 40 pack. I’ve used 22 sheets so far, so should comfortably have enough to do the drivers side floor under the seat and around the rear wheel wells with what I have left

Road noise is annoying.... exhaust noise is awesome ?

Little bit of progress yesterday reassembling the engine. Waiting on a few parts to turn up that were missing before I can put the engine back in the car. I also pushed on with sound deadening the interior of the car. I took JoelyP’s recommendation and went for Silent Coat sound deadening. Hopefully it’ll do a nice job of cutting out some of the road noise for the 295 section rear tyres!

Then I got home and found more goodies had turned up. My back boxes turned up, Vibrant Street Power silencers (3” inlet 2x2.5” outlet). they’re REALLY nicely made and look awesome with the APR tips.... can’t wait to hear what they sound like

More goodies today! First up, I bought and fitted these Forge Motorsport’s turbo blankets. These tied with the ceramic coated hotside (manifolds, turbine housing/downpipes) should do a nice job of keeping engine bay temps down... whether there’s a performance benefit, who knows.... there has been a few papers published to suggest that there is, but I’m more interested in increasing the longevity of the hoses and loom around the hottest parts of the engine

Hopefully the first of many parts deliveries turned up to day. My Haltech elite managed to win the race with my engine and turned up first, aswell as the exhaust tips for my custom exhaust system These are APR TPK0006 exhaust tips. They’re 3.5” slash cut, double walled tips originally intended for APR’s Mk7 Golf R exhaust system. I think they should look bloody awesome.... not too big like R35 GTR tips but big enough to nicely fill the space in the back bumper. They weren’t cheap, but they’re REALLY nicely made, pics don’t really do them justice

If it keeps happening I might look at reinforcing that section of metal to stop it from bending. It looks like there would be plenty of room to weld a triangle on the back of it that should reinforce it sufficient

With the engine on its way back home, it’s spurred me on to sorting other bits and bobs on the car. the first was an irritating problem of the interior lights staying on regardless on door being open or closed. Even with the lights turned off and the boot light unplugged, it still drained the battery after a couple of days. I’ve had this problem since the car came back from the respray.... which was the first source of confusion as they didn’t remove anything that should have effected this electrical circuit After lots of checks, many messages with JoelyP, I managed to track the problem down to the boot switch. On removal and inspection the issue was obvious. The boot release hand had been pulled too hard, bending the mounting bracket. This meant that the rocker arm that breaks the electrical contact wasn’t getting the nudge it needed from the lock mechanism. A quick tweak on the vice and it was good as gold. I can only assume that whilst in the body shop when they’ve refitted the boot they’ve had an issue with the disengagement of the lock and pulled the lever too hard.

She’s coming home

And yes, you’ve read it incorrectly. Standard unleaded will still be called standard unleaded, just with 10% ethanol. All variants of Super Unleaded are staying 5% ethanol for the foreseeable future

An extra 5% in ethanol really isnt going to make THAT much of a difference. Yeah, it may be the final nail in the coffin for 25 year old + rubber fuel hose, but most of us should be replacing them by now anyway.

Box hill will be RAMMED with bikes on when the restrictions ease, I’d be astounded if you could get a single car in there, never mind a group

Considering what 48p’s cost before becoming NLA, that’s a bargain

Correct

Welcome back fella!

They should be 48p’s

Personally found the later electronic system much more natural to drive than the earlier hydraulic system. What they did to the calibration I’m not sure, but it’s deffinately a better system

Happy birthday buddy!

Yeah, unfortunately it has been halted yet again...... the Elite ECU has been sent back to Haltech for inspection.... the best way to describe the problem is that the Elite thinks the ignition switch is being turned on and off rapidly, which in turn is triggering a safety mode that stops the engine revving past 5000 rpm. one of these days everything will go smoothly

I’m 99.9% sure I have a set

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