holla!!! came up with the idea of doing some work on my car last week and i am now glad its all over!!! it was one of them that i wish i never started,
firstly i fitted the water/meth injection that i bought a few months back and i am glad that i managed to get it all hidden, cheers again mattfduk for the uk spec rear washer bottle:god anyways here are some pics that i got while on me ciggy breaks!! haha
this is the bottle i got and its surprisin how much it holds!!!
(http://i9.photobucket.com/albums/a52/leeincivic/rx7%20pics/P1010240.jpg)
i then mounted the pump behind the rear panel where the toolkit usually sits (toolkit for sale if anyone wants it?) and routed all the wiring and plastic tubing through the car all neat and discreet :) also put in a switch by my battery so i dont always have it on (blue switch on the side)
(http://i9.photobucket.com/albums/a52/leeincivic/rx7%20pics/P1010244.jpg)
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then mounted the nozzle in a small straight silicone piece just before the intake elbow using devils own adapter, good bit of kit and saves getting a olet welded onto any pipe,
(http://i9.photobucket.com/albums/a52/leeincivic/rx7%20pics/P1010300.jpg)
ALL DONE :driving
then i came up with the idea of painting my engine bay, the car was originally red and now that the car is white it let it down loads when the bonnet was up,
anyways i started off with this mess
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then after alot of removing, masking, papering, degreasing, drying, de-masking and then replacing i ended up with this:mmmm
(http://i9.photobucket.com/albums/a52/leeincivic/rx7%20pics/P1010299.jpg)
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am made up with how it turned out and totally changes the look of the bay!
let me know ya thoughts fellas
ps word to the wise, i know i painted it but if i had the chance to pay someone i would!! its a ballache!! haha
:Thumbsup! nice work
how did you paint the engine bay matey..... spray can?
Jono
I like the idea that you painted the bay black! Why didn`t i think of that. Looks good mate.
looks good :D i bet your pleased
how good of a finish did you get with the paint??
i just sprayed mine a couple of week ago but i dont have an engine in lol
i used spray cans that i got made up but were great nozzles and sprayed evenly and wide. some pictures on my rebuild thread.
Thats excellent mate if you didn\'t take the engine out.
Top work with the water injection system too :Thumbs-up
Adam
Quote from: Jono FD3;587889how did you paint the engine bay matey..... spray can?
Jono
yeah well i tried spraying with a can only and used hammerite smooth which looked rubbish tbh, so what i ended up doing is painting it with a brush with hammerite smooth and then rattle can of satin black over the top,
Quote from: karl_tate;587894looks good :D i bet your pleased
how good of a finish did you get with the paint??
i just sprayed mine a couple of week ago but i dont have an engine in lol
i used spray cans that i got made up but were great nozzles and sprayed evenly and wide. some pictures on my rebuild thread.
good finish yeah i was quite surprised really, and durable too by the feels of things, wish i had the engine out tho!! lol really was alot of masking etc etc and would of been much easier without it,
cheers guys:cheers
looks top lee good effort
looks WAY better with the black! Good effort :)
What AI did you go for? And wheres your screenwash bottle now? :p
Superb work, I reckon you just added £500 to the value of your car there.
Lee, whats the water injection like? Has it dropped temps much? Did you get the controller with it? I say you had asked a question about the kit on his ebay page, what size jet are you using? Was gonna order one tomorrow.
Quote from: JBerg;588104looks WAY better with the black! Good effort :)
What AI did you go for? And wheres your screenwash bottle now? :p
i have gone total bare arse mate so dont have a rear washer anymore, ya can still use the meth to wash your windows anyways coz the blue screenwash you can buy anywhere supposedly is a 30-40% meth mix anyway from what i have read
Quote from: Red and Single;588170Superb work, I reckon you just added £500 to the value of your car there.
WAHOOO!!! lol :Thumbsup!
Quote from: mattywhitt;588182Lee, whats the water injection like? Has it dropped temps much? Did you get the controller with it? I say you had asked a question about the kit on his ebay page, what size jet are you using? Was gonna order one tomorrow.
i tried it for the first time today but realised that i forgot to purge the water through so it spluttered a bit as water reached the nozzle, gonna purge it tomoz tho so all should be good:Laugh never bothered with the controller i have gone with the stage 1 kit, only for the fact i bought it off my mate and got for good moneys!! lol i have got a 3gph nozzle fitted at the min but will see what its like when i start using it more and that
this is the kit i got for anyone interested http://www.alcohol-injection.com/water-injection-kits-1/universal-19/universal-stage-1-8.html
great work looking good, i always get pee\'d off with my engine bay but im too lazy to go through that much effort to respray it :D
would of completely said against it on wed coz it felt like it was never endin but really if ya got the time its easy :Thumbs-up
Wicked Lee looks a treat. Id be interested in how it performs. Are you changing the boost or just making it more reliable
am not gonna map it for power till i get it rebuilt mate am jus goin down the reliable route for the time bein
:wiggle
might be stupid asking this, but is that a stock rad? im pretty sure mine isnt in that possition?
yeah its a stock rad, gonna be gettin a koyo very soon tho, i know mine moved to that position when i fitted the greddy front mount matey,
Cant understand how the hammerite smooth didnt look good on its own. did it go all orange peely?
it was just mega thin and would not coat well even tried the smooth in a rattle can and looked crap aswell!!
yea, the spray hammerite takes a while to bring the colour through.... a good 3 coats to eliminate the colour underneath, so to get a spot on job you would probably be looking at 5-6 coats!
Jono
glad i stuck with 1 coat of brush on hammerite smooth then 3-4 coats of rattle can satin black then :Laugh
plus the smooth out of rattle can never even seemed to dry even after a good 3 hours of jus sitting there, maybe i got a bad can??:2Confused
Hows the water injection going then? Cooling well?
Seen you parked at work tonight on my way out looks really cool.
Quote from: mattywhitt;589263Hows the water injection going then? Cooling well?
still not tried it matey, gonna be next week now i think so will post up as soon as i get some good comparisons
Quote from: marcusd666;589349Seen you parked at work tonight on my way out looks really cool.
cheers matey, yeah thought i would treat it to a couple of gallon of fuel to get to work and back!!! haha where bouts ya workin mate?
Quote from: leeincivic;cheers matey, yeah thought i would treat it to a couple of gallon of fuel to get to work and back!!! haha where bouts ya workin mate?
I`m over in the stringer building 149 across from hawker you picked a good day to take her for a spin :Giggle