My 1989 FC Vert Turbo II

[m1tch]

What colour are the Pegsus rims? I sold a set a while back lol

[rising son]

gold with silver lip m1tch

[grinder]

ali - its says your location as manchester

but its a big place so you could be on any side of it ! LOL

Im in Coppull , so about 6 miles south of Wigan

Your car is looking nice though

i have some HKS gauges in mine at the mo , tempted to get shut and replace with the cheapo digital ones ( i think they look really smart ! )

[m1tch]

gold with silver lip m1tch

Ah ok, I think the guy I sold them to refurbed them and painted the centres gunmetal, what size are they? Mine were 8.5x17 and 10x17

[rising son]

same size m1tch , they came on my GTR when i bought it, gtr has te37s now

[ali303]

ali - its says your location as manchester

but its a big place so you could be on any side of it ! LOL

Im in Coppull , so about 6 miles south of Wigan

Haha blimey how did I miss that, so it does! I\'m just a few miles south of the city centre so you\'re just a short journey round the M60 from me!

[grinder]

certainly sounds like it

if we get some meets arranged next year you will have to see if you can bob over for one or two of them

[B.Martin]

If its mid/late next year, there is a chance i could come too. Depending on the fate of the FC when i come home

[ali303]

I put the splitter back on and actually secured it this time using plenty of industry standard cable ties. No doubt it\'ll scrape on everything but I\'ll see how it goes. Either it\'ll fall off or it\'ll hit something so hard that it\'ll rip the wings off instead. Should be interesting!

Also woke up to find the sides covered in mud. Looks like those roundabouts were a bit dirty last night :Thumbsup!



I\'m just going to focus on functional parts for it from now on and making sure everything\'s working in time for the first drift days this year. I\'d love to dump all my money into it but I\'m going to try and stick it on a classic policy come renewal time in March which means I\'ll need another car to keep my NCB so will need moneys for that.

I really need to get the DTSS eliminators in but after doing some reading on it i think it\'s a bit of a big job to tackle by myself on my drive - I know it\'s cheeky but grinder do you think we could team up and tackle it one weekend!?

[grinder]

its not cheeky at all to ask mate ...

i did it on the drive way ( many moons ago though )

aslong as you have all the tools etc.. its not a overly big job

IIRC you have to get the back discs off .. thats took me about 6 hrs on the JDM cab - so that could be a hassle

I know shaun helped me out last time .. so i can always ask him to provide some help aswell ( i know he likes tinkering )

if you have a quick look thru some of my threads you will see what tools you need .. have a look on how i did the DTSS and how i did the disc and pads ( shows you how to remove the rear disc and pads )

if you are happy to have it off the road for a few days etc..

might be worth jacking it up , remove both back wheels and try and do both sides at the same time ?

[papercutout]

You need:
Couple of sockets (17mm and 19mm I think), and a socket that you can use to push the old bush out in a BIG vice (mine were so seized in we used a cutter and a hammer in the end). Plusgas or similar would also be good.

Remove wheel
Loosen driveshaft bolt (32mm?)
Remove caliper
Undo hub
Smashinate old bushes out
Press new ones in
Reverse of above.


It\'s time consuming, but if your DTSS bushes aren\'t too hard to get out, it\'s not a particularly challenging job. Go for it IMO! Just on a weekend.

[ali303]

Thanks for the advice guys! After this weekend I don\'t mind taking the car off the road for a short while to get it done as I\'ll have my daily back by then. I\'m just more worried about getting halfway through the job, getting stuck and then not being able to drive the car anywhere to get some help! It\'ll probably be next weekend when I get chance to look at it so I\'ve got some time to prepare myself at least.

[dthebuk]

I found getting the half shafts out and "undoing" the hub\'s to be the hardest bits. They require a fair bit of beating/strength. Unfortunately with mine the half shaft was fused to the hub so I had to angle grind it out.

As ben says, getting the bushes in and out is pretty easy if you have a decent vice and some sockets. Or if you don\'t wanna remove it all from the car you could try using a threaded rod and some meaty washers to try and just unscrew it

[ali303]

Made a start on the DTSS eliminator job and it didn\'t take long for something to go wrong - the upper bolt on the brake calliper bracket has sheared and as it\'s on the back of the bracket it\'s pretty inaccessible. So now I\'m stuck with a car that I doubt is safe to drive anywhere and a sheared bolt that I doubt I have the tools to get it out.

It\'s the upper one of the bolt shown (pic taken from the Mazdatrix site)



I\'m not going to have another free weekend for a long time now so I really just need to take it somewhere to get the job done as soon as possible so I can start getting to some skidding days! Anyone got any suggestions as to where I could take it?

[B.Martin]

Wgt are not to far from you? Have you considered them?