Orkney - New Home To A TII!

[Grieve]

Hey all, introduced myself on here a little while ago but thought I should let folk know what I\'ve let myself into!  First off, this is my first performance car...but got a lot of mates up here with simlar cars - 200sx, 3000gt, and an FD to name a few. Here\'s a link to the obligatory pictures!

http://s1137.photobucket.com/albums/n506/davidgrieve89/

So I bought her at the end of February, spur of the moment type thing which involved a 1600 mile round trip.  She\'s in dire need of a respray, and has a few issues such as:

Wiper switch has stopped working altogether
Oil cap has fallen off(?!)
May need new wheel bearings on the front

All in all, its not that bad, only has 66k on it and for £1200 I can\'t complain!  Plans are to get my new secret wheels on, which will be here next week hopefully, then deck it HSD\'s, and play with the engine.  Kinda\' hoping for a reliable 300bhp, not sure if that\'s realistic or...?  It\'s going to be a long term project anyway.  Also have a straight through exhaust home and ready to fit, and a mechanical boost gauge to see if it spikes.  Can anyone tell me where to find the gasket from the turbo to the downpipe?!  Strangest looking thing ever!!

Anyways, any comments or advice on where to get bits etc will be greatly appreciated.

David

[TiddlesRX7]

Welcome to the club mate. Hope your FC is as good to you as mine has been to me. The wiper switch is a common problem. You need to find someone breaking one or someone with a spare. You can repair them but its a bit fiddly I believe. You probably will get boost spikes with a free flowing exhaust. You may even hit fuel cut so may need an FCD to stop that. Any questions just post a thread in the 2nd gen section.

Ade

[papercutout]

Although I\'d just go straight for an ECU that\'s been mapped for 0.9bar boost, exhaust, filter and FMIC...

You\'ll need to port the wastegate if it\'s a 3" exhaust too.

Looks nice though, good luck with it!

[Grieve]

Cheers guys.  Does anyone know where you can get that weird shaped gasket for the front pipe?  3 holes?  Strangest thing I\'ve ever seen!!

Yeah that\'s my plan I think, but most of the performance stuff will be done next year after my respray and coilovers are purchased!  What sort of ECU do folk go for?

[Lacey]

Nice!! Is that a 10th anniversary edition?

[Grieve]

Also, any idea where I could get a gearbox mount from?!  Cheers guys, any advice appreciated!!

[papercutout]

Turbo - downpipe, I don\'t think I actually even have a gasket. I need to check though as when I start my car cold I keep getting a blowing noise recently, so might be that. Was fine for 6 months or so though!

I run an R-magic ECU, but make sure whatever ECU you get is mapped for upto 0.9 bar boost, not 0.7bar. Otherwise they\'re fairly generic. L18M imports them for a reasonable price.

Gearbox mount - solid or original? Flicksterr has solid mounts (imported from the states I think, but Nickson motorsport might well do them now), original would be from Mazda.

[B.Martin]

Looks good, good luck with it. I love fc TII\'s in white!

[Grieve]

Lacey - I don\'t think so...if it is, nobody has told me and it hasn\'t got any plaques or anything! I\'m assuming that\'s how I would know?

Cheers for the advice papercutout! Got my eyes on a power FC right now, but we\'ll see how that goes. I\'ll bear that in mind about the gearbox mount.

Got my exhaust system on yesterday, it is far too loud.  That is all...haha!

[Grieve]

Bit of an update is in order I think, finally got my new wheels home after waiting what seemed an age:



Panasport G7s!  17x8.5J on the front, 17x9.5J on the back.  No idea what the offset is, tyres are on already so will find out someday.  Hopefully get them fitted at somepoint this week, if not the weekend!  Bargain at £600, just been refurbed too!  Also have a set of Defi BF\'s with the control unit II and all wires etc coming home shortly.  All is good in the Orcadian camp!

Thought I\'d also upload all my pictures properly, as I finally worked out how :cool.

[TiddlesRX7]

Nice Hope you\'ve bought some spacers to go with them though.

[papercutout]

And a change of wheel nuts! You\'ll need ones with a 17mm hex head (or \'tuner\' nuts), because nothing bigger fits in there! Either spacers on the front (likely), or you\'ll need to take some metal off the big lump that is on the calipers. This is fine, 1-3mm or so is all good. I have some 16" 8.5J\'s, I think they\'re about ET38. I THINK you\'ll want between 5mm and 8mm spacers on the front. Any more than that and you\'ll not have enough thread to do the nuts up tight enough really (trust me, I tried it with 10mm slip-ons.)


The wheels look great with a satin black centre though! It\'d be great to get the offset of the 9.5J\'s!

[Grieve]

Cheers again guys!  It was very much another spur of the moment thing, seen them on ebay and promptly forgot about them but contacted the seller and...you see it!  Yeah I found out about the nuts the hard way, but I can soon get some nuts.  

Off topic, what would be the thoughts on using an ECU mapped for 98 ron and running it on 95 ron?  As we have no super unleaded in the isles...yahoo...!

[dthebuk]

Off topic, what would be the thoughts on using an ECU mapped for 98 ron and running it on 95 ron?  As we have no super unleaded in the isles...yahoo...!

purchase some octane booster, i\'d suggest. Heard of rotarys going bangs when imported from japan and being used with uk fuel.

Also please slam it to the ground on those wheels :InLove

[Grieve]

So that stuff is actually worth buying?  Heard so many mixed reviews on octane booster I don\'t know what to make of it!  My mate has a 200sx mapped on our .... fuel which seems a bit stupid to me, only guy in the world to get a car remapped for 95 ron!  What about a power FC...?  I am fairly clueless in the ECU department, sorry for all the questions guys!  Oh, and I\'m hoping to purchase HSD\'s next so it will be slammed!!  Watch this space!