Rexanne - Gold s2 restoration project

[johnnyboy]

I look forward to hearing how to do this - my heater control bulb has gone as well...
 
John

[mpk490p]

easy to change pull all the heater controls off remove the top gearstick surround and you will see two screws for the centre panel, there are another 2 located just above the heater controls, under the little dash ledge, you should be able to pull the whole centre panel out and the bulb is on the top left

I look forward to hearing how to do this - my heater control bulb has gone as well...
 
John

[TiddlesRX7]

Any new year updates on the old girl Steve?

Ade

[Steve-A]

Quite a few actually mate. I have rather neglected this corner of the internet, sorry! Cutting a long story short his is whats happened since september....

My clutch slave died, but I managed to bodge one up using a piston from a spare mx5 one I have. They appear to be the same internally.



I had a second shot at skimming my rear discs to remove a little pedal vibration, which was successful

As much as I liked having the original stereo I was getting frustrated that it was knackered and wasn\'t loud enough to be heard over the exhaust on the motorway, so it went in the bin and a modern one got hidden in the glove box.



While I was ebaying I bought these too.....

[Steve-A]

At the end of November my exhaust decided to fall to bits, so I fired up the welder and replaced the knackered slip joint section. I also welded up a rather large crack in my headers.



I was starting to build quite a collection of parts up to go with the motorcycle throttle bodies, an IDA manifold, FC CAS, FD trailing coils, injection fuel pump and a Megasquirt kit.




Over christmas the Megasquirt got built.



I\'ve got a Megaview to go with my Megasquirt to go in the old radio space in the dash. This give me live readouts of all the engine data, AFRS, injector duty cycles, spark advance etc and allows basic modifications to the tune without a laptop.



And I started work on making adapters to mount the Suzuki 52mm bodies to the manifold, eventually port matching them to the manifold and welding them to the bodies.



A couple of weeks ago I bought a boring Nissan Micra for cheap and pulled Rexanne back into the garden to start the conversion proper

[Steve-A]

Next up was to make a 13b to 12a adapter plate, as I wasn\'t able to source a 12a IDA manifold. I was happy enough to do this as I means I\'m all set for a 13b swap in the future....



This lot came out of the engine bay.



followed by the interior....



So I could tackle the re-looming for fuel injection.



And that brings us up to this week :bandit

[Steve-A]

Finally this week I\'ve been able to get the throttle bodies mounted up on the block for the first time.



Then I got wild with the soldering iron and wired them in.




Most of the interior is back and I\'m now wiring up a new fuse and relay board with fresh wires from the battery to supply all my new electronic with nice clean 12v and earth.



So thats my plan for the weekend. Once that\'s done I need to mount my swirl pot and new pumps then I\'ll be ready to try turning the key!!!! :3gears-rh

I\'m hoping to have her back on the road by the end of February. If I get time I\'m hoping to have a second shot at my suspension mounts on the axel, I want to lower them an inch or so to give myself some more negative travel in the back

[Casey]

Well, not much has been happening then Steve :Laugh:Laugh:god

[Steve-A]

haha I guess not. Better get my act together and make some more progress :Giggle

I all honesty it looks like a lot there, but that is spread over a number of months. It\'s been all go since christmas really. I\'m on a bit of a deadline to get it sorted as my insurance company said \'we don\'t do Micras\' after I\'d bought it, but they\'d swap my insurance over for free as long as it was short term, I said a month so I\'ve got a month do get the conversion done!

[re japi]

Awesome

[TiddlesRX7]

Yep not much to see here. Oh well I check back in a couple of months then!

[Steve-A]

It lives! Engine bay is fairly tidy now with all the wiring wrapped up.



Had some issues with my FD coils, so I\'m running 4 FB coils, and so far so good.



Here\'s some clips of how she sounds

http://youtu.be/hZM-oQ7p9Bg

And how she was looking in tonights sunset

[re japi]

Damn, i think im in love... Awesome sound. Good work!

[mpk490p]

wow some good progress there! think mine has moved once or twice in the last few months!

[TiddlesRX7]

Nice one Steve. Good work