Been spending money!

[hawker182]

Just got off the phone and i\'m not going abroad for work so the RX stays, YAY, to celebrate i\'ve not long got home after visiting a few motorsport outlets today and now have a day of fun booked in for tomoro. Anyone removed their stock airfilter assembly? Have a nice new K&N cone sat on the dining room table .

Done abit of diggin around on the forums but cant seem to find any info for the Gen2. I\'m plannin to remove the flash to pass/sidelight lense but any other clever ideas to get some much needed cold air into the engine bay? anyone made a decent heat shield? Also any idea how to remove the airflow meter/air temp sensor thingy? Cant seem to get it out of the stock metal housing!

Am thinkin of routing some piping from the front bumper up into the bay but there aint much room, any ideas?

Was also thinking of taking the bodywork of the os headlamp cover and hacking a nice big hole into it then buying one of those vents and sticking that on, good idea or not lol? :rolleyes:

Also gonna be mouting a boost gauge somewhere in the dash, any clever ideas?

And i got some nice new silicon hoses to replace the boring stock ones and some good old elbow grease to give the engine bay a much needed CLEAN

I     CANT     WAIT

[TRex]

Not sure if to offer congrats or not on you not getting the posting(job).
 But you sound pleased anyway...  :cool

 With regard to getting info on these cars in these here parts, good luck, sod all info round here dude! It\'s a shame really, you need to go across on the US forums.  Loads of info, links etc, plus they are willing to jump in and offer help/advise!

 Anyway I\'ll give it a shot, removing the stock airbox is pretty simple.. why do you want to remove the airflow meter? Don\'t mess with it!
 Getting cold/fresh air into the intake is rather difficult as the FC is limited with regard to room and space for a proper job.
But there are many that have done really good jobs,... take a
 click here  as a bit more info.

 Get an \'A\' Pillar Pod for any gauges instead of stick/drilling em all over the dash etc.

 Silicon hoses are always a good mod for both purpose and \'bLiNg\'!

 Good luck

[hawker182]

Excellent that link has helped alot cheers

Yeah gonna try and fit a heatshield around the bottom and side of the filter with a cold air feed. Not quite sure how or where yet but am planning on spending all day at it tomor, will let ya know what i come up with.

Yeah think an A piller pod is the way to go, dont really wanna go drilling holes in the dash, see if i can pick one up tomor. And yeah the silicon hoses should look pretty cool as well as lasting a lifetime. Wanna try and get her up to scratch for RS

[TRex]

Good man..

 Take some snaps as you go along with any mods you do or come up with etc so as to maybe build a nice \'how to\'s\' file.


 rgds

[grinder]

im making a custom pod holder thing ( too cheap to buy one ) - so i will take pics as i go along

[Brett]

I\'ve already got me a boost guage.  Will post pics one day.....

[TRex]

Originally posted by grinder
im making a custom pod holder thing ( too cheap to buy one ) -  

  .............. A pillar Pods are £10 for single - £30. for Tripple.

 Dash Pods or standard console type are half those prices dude...

 How cheap is that! :rolleyes:

 Hope it comes out sweet really, but for that sort of money I\'ll buy a few. I\'ll deffo try something first but if the purchase cost factor is low, than I\'ll put out the dosh and get the proper thing.
 Because sometimes by cutting cost, the CAR ends up looking cheap for the sake of a few bob!

 As the chinese say. " Good ting no cheap, cheap ting no good"!

[grinder]

Originally posted by TRex
.............. A pillar Pods are £10 for single - £30. for Tripple.

 Dash Pods or standard console type are half those prices dude...

 How cheap is that! :rolleyes:

 Hope it comes out sweet really, but for that sort of money I\'ll buy a few. I\'ll deffo try something first but if the purchase cost factor is low, than I\'ll put out the dosh and get the proper thing.
 Because sometimes by cutting cost, the CAR ends up looking cheap for the sake of a few bob!

 As the chinese say. " Good ting no cheap, cheap ting no good"!

put it this way - not cheap enough for me !

im moving the cd player into the lower part of the console - then hoping to put 3 gauges above them

at the end of the day - its a tiny project - if it looks bad - then im the only person to blame - BUT - if you all like the idea - i thought of it first ( well ok i probably didnt !! )

i have the card board template all ready cut out - just need to transfer that to some metal and get the dremel out

i will take some pics as i do it

i like cheap mods

[TRex]

Oh, and I ain\'t made of money.... :bandit

 Grinder, glad you got the car sorted (M.O.T.)....

 HAve you done the work yourself? Did you buy new sills or what meterials etc........ What did you use to reprotect the underneath now that it\'s done?
 Any shots of anything what it was like or how it is now...

 rgds

[grinder]

yeah the car passed its MOT just fine !!

i did all the work my self - couldnt afford for someone else to do the work

the maths was 20 holes at 30 a hole - £600 - errr no thanks !!

search for a thread called "rusty rusty rust" - thats the passenger side - the drivers wasnt as bad - but still took some plating up

all the welding was done with 0.8mm MIG wire and 1mm metal plating - the rusty bits were found by using a crowbar and a chisel - it it was loose or looked weak - i smashed the hell out of it - this is a job i only wanted to do once - the damage i did was amazing - hole just opened up from nowhere

put it this way - i found one hole i just JUST get my little finger thru - but to get back to solid metal - it ended up about 8 inches long and 4 inches wide

cost me £3 for the metal - 6 foot by 18inchs , that was just cut to shape and welded in

where i welded the inside - that got 2 coats of hammerite ( smooth ) - looks really nice ( under the carpet !! )

the underside - all the rusty coloured stuff got 2 coats of the above and then the new metal and the hammerite got 2 coats of hammerite underseal with added waxoyl ( from halfrauds - £5 a tin )

i would advise any TII owner to get under there car NOW and have a real good look round - if its nice and sold - spend a few hours and £5 and re-underseal the car

thats what im going to do every year from now on - id rather spend £5 than 7 days welding the thing back together !!

and thats enough from me !! LOL

[TRex]

Ha ha I know what you mean dude..

 I have 3 FC\'s, One is mint and solid underneath and everywhere!
(EGI).
 ANd the T 2\'s..... well one has some damage at the front underbody from some k*ob placing the jack in the wrong place and the jack pratically went through the flooring!
 The other is fecked big style along where the floor pan joins the sills, yes yes the usual place!
 Again like you, found 2 small holes..... put it through an MoT last week  and it turned out to be the whole lenghts of the sills that are shag*ed on both sides........ did not expect that at all!!!!

 Anyways, getting that car done tomorrow and the other on Thursday.  Thought about having a go myself but thats just to much hassel, if I had a pit or a lift then I might, but it will be a bast*rd laying on the floor welding and shaping...  sod it...

 So I decided no DIY............ PSE instead............

 Gonna lace it with hammerite as well when it\'s all done!

 PITA but it\'s gotta be done! :bandit

[grinder]

will i did all mine on the drive way - no garage or nothing

it funny - cause i had an EGI and that was solid underneath - passed its MOT no probs - maybe they lightened the chassis too much on the TII inregards the weight saving and made it too thin ??

and i did put my jack thru the floor ( front driver side jacking point ) - thats what started all this off

all i way doing is checking the front bearings

im not bothered - its MOT and thats all that matters !!!

[Brett]

Out of intereset, how were the fron bearings? :rollin :rollin :rollin

[grinder]

the drivers side was really loose and i darnt check the passenger side !!

[TRex]

Stu

 Just searched and saw your thread \'RUSTY RUSTY RUST\'.

 Feck me fellar, grand job you did there :god  Respect.....

 I see you done it mostly from the insides of the car(welding)..
looks pretty good job.  The best thing now is that you know what you\'ve done and cause it\'s for you, you would of taken that extra little care on details to make it right and also last and last as you sure as hell do not want to do that again, hell no!

 Top marks on the photos too......... Gives peeps some hope if they find themselves in a hole one day..(sorry..lol)

 Good stuff dude, now feck off from the PC and get them bits and toys fitted to the car................ :p