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[jayrs]

never fitted a K&N on a little engine like that mate, mainly cos i never had one really, but my xr2 years ago had a K&N, and it sounded great, could hear it sucking like a sl@g, sounded so good
and for £17 for that mate, bargin for sure!

Yea you can hear it sucking from from the inside of the car. It drowns out the screaming engine when I rev it hard

[hb69]

It does sound pretty good.

In honesty, and im pretty sure Ken would approve, it needs a pair of twin 36's. The video of mine makes me want that noise back in my life

[MK2 Jamie]

Not much has keen done recently due to lack of money. I lost the passengers side end cap of the rear bumper on the motorway yesterday. Looked in my rear view mirror to see it bouncing down the motorway and cars swerving round it It had come off before by the looks of it and ken had tried to repair but I think hes not so dapper with a spanner anymore in his old age.
Tonight I discovered the joys off having a carb'ed engine and decided to get some videos and pictures. Me and fiend were filming in a car park and on one pass the car popped loudly and flamed as a man was getting into his car, fiend heard him saying "Jesus F**cking christ" then continue to swear as he got into his car


Video still:

[Minstral]

you hooligan jaime
good poppin though

[hb69]

Ken probably turned the fuelling up for just this reason

[Tweek]

Loud too, love it

[jonyb4]

looking good lol, little confused to how you do it though, dont you turn the ignition off, throttle it, then back on and it pops?

[MK2 Jamie]

Yea mate thats how it works. Dont work on injection cars though.

[jonyb4]

ah right lol, my mate use to do it with hs 2.0 dolly

[MK2 Jamie]

A small update. Me and Aaron got bored the other night so we took the panhard rob and anti roll bar off my car and sprayed them with some moondust silver spray paint we had laying about from one of our old mk3's. Il let the pics do the talking


Anti roll bar was a proper baxtered to refit:


All fitted:

Sporting a rather fashionable head torch:

Mine and Aarons failed attempt at trying to put camber on my rear wheels:

[hb69]

Why have you got a rear arb?

[MK2 Jamie]

Ghia's came with a rear arb

[hb69]

Sure Ken didnt fit it?

[MK2 Jamie]

I thought he might have done but then dismissed the idea when I saw it was actually bolted to the car and not stuck on with tape painted gold.

[Minstral]

I thought he might have done but then dismissed the idea when I saw it was actually bolted to the car and not stuck on with tape painted gold.

true

[EUFez]

Fooking love this car! Makes me want to get rid of the Mk3...

[MK2 Jamie]

Cant wait to get it slammed on coilovers

[rst-steve]

Really cool project this, nice to see some pics of the car after hearing about it

The wheels, exhaust and lowerment all make a big difference........... rare car these days

[emblem]

Yeah as steve metioned, after hearing about this the other week, i had to have a look

Very Nice............

[MK2 Jamie]

Thanks guys Hope you're enjoying the Rs Turbo!

[rst-steve]

Definatly, took it for a drive round the courtyside for a bit on sunday evening, was all good!

Its been sat in the garage avoiding the rain since tho lol

[MK2 Jamie]

Good to know your up holding Aarons tradition of not driving if its even remotely wet out! haha not that you would get much traction in the wet anyway!

[rst-steve]

oooooh yes, defo keeping it from the rain!! i did laugh and say that to aaron when we were talking, i think we're very similar in our views on the car!

......... i'll be buying a de-humidifier soon LOL!

[MK2 Jamie]

I haven't updated recently mainly because I haven't had any money. I fitted an adjustable panhard rod not long ago and these arrive in the post today, brand new in the box headlight protectors

20 year + old alcohol whipe that hadn't dried out (I opened it)

Fitted:




Adjustable Panhard Rod:

[rst-steve]

Nice addition that, wouldn't mind a setof them on the turbo!

lol @ the alcohol wipe!!!

[MK2 Jamie]

Keep an eye out mate they come up for sale every so often on ebay and here. I think Aaron has a couple of sets in his aladdin's cave of assorted RS parts in his room

[black2]

Good to see another tidy mk2 on the forum

Where did you purchase the panhard rod from? As i would'nt mind one for my mk2.

Gareth.

[knuckles]

nice job on the arb

is it a right pain to get the arb to pop into the drop links ?

ive got to fit one hopefully next week

[MK2 Jamie]

What you mean pop it into the drop link mate? They bolt onto the same mount that the shock bolts onto the beam with...using the same bolt infact. Then it bolts onto the bootfloor with the mount that you can see in the picture. Its a fiddly job so id recommend having an extra pair hands or maybe I was jut being a girl about it

[knuckles]

What you mean pop it into the drop link mate? They bolt onto the same mount that the shock bolts onto the beam with...using the same bolt infact. Then it bolts onto the bootfloor with the mount that you can see in the picture. Its a fiddly job so id recommend having an extra pair hands or maybe I was jut being a girl about it

i see the mount and have all the relevant bits to fit it but the roll bar has two round bits on end which i guess need to be pushed into the drop link bushes.

seems a really tight fit !

[MK2 Jamie]

This is how mine is set up buddy

[knuckles]

cheers for the pic fella

gonna be interesting fitting the arb
plenty of swearing on standby

[MK2 Jamie]

Yea its not fun haha I got so stressed out at one point

[MK2 Jamie]

The fact the front was sitting so high was really starting to bother me, so today I cut a coil off of the front springs and im so much happier with how its sit now. It will do until I get coilovers.

[hb69]

No rubbing?