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[jonyb4]

Real leather doesn't. Its the hard rubber vinyl stuff that does that.

*cough* Leather recaros *cough*

believe me it does, enough wear on it and it peels slightly

that escort wheel i had was from a 160k escort van

[EUFez]

Real leather doesn't. Its the hard rubber vinyl stuff that does that.

*cough* Leather recaros *cough*

believe me it does, enough wear on it and it peels slightly

that escort wheel i had was from a 160k escort van

Does it really matter if it wears or not? He might not have it for a long time. Espically 160k LOL

[trecoll]

Yesterday I painted up the inlet manifold.

It isn't perfect, but will do the job. As the gaskets are expensive and I wasn't sure what mine is like, I didn't want to take it off, just in case. So I painted as much of it as I could in situe.
If you don't look too closely at it, its ok



I took off the cover, and took a wire brush to it (top half has been done...)


and then it got painted...


With the cover refitted;




As you can maybe see in this pic, I haven't done the lot!!


Also a little paint droppped onto the ISCV! lol

[Tweek]

Looks good, engine cover really sets it off

[jonyb4]

think it looked better silver imo

[- Danny Boy -]

Looks nice!

I think the red/black contrast is what he was after Jony. Red/silver would look naff.

[Tweek]

ugh, why would you paint it black?

them silver inlet pipes are one fo the 1.7's trademarks

Why not, it looks good. Danny has the idea

Although I do hope after a few heat cycles it takes just a little of the gloss off it.

[rsonblackwheels]

black and red looks spot om dude

bay looks super tidy

[trecoll]

Thanks people

Wayne, I think the photo looks glossier than it actually is...

[Ratspeed]

Looks good aginst the red cover, as said, bay is looking tidy

[jonyb4]

a little ford badge would complete that engine cover rob

see if dmb have one to size

[trecoll]

It would, and does.

There is one on there....

[jonyb4]

With the cover refitted;


Also a little paint droppped onto the ISCV! lol

not here there isnt


my mates lost a few of them silver screws on his

[trecoll]

With the cover refitted;


Also a little paint droppped onto the ISCV! lol

not here there isnt


my mates lost a few of them silver screws on his

Erm... It is

[knuckles]

look closer jony

ZOOOOMM IN

[Tweek]

look closer jony

ZOOOOMM IN

If it was any bigger it'd be taking up the whole photo

[jonyb4]

haha f**k me thats hard to see

[trecoll]

Heres a better picture for you jony

[jonyb4]

lol yes thats better

looks good, good job doing that tedias (sp) text with the sharpie, id of made a few mistakes i think

[EUFez]

You tit Jony.

Looks good mate, coming along nicely. Liking the black/red combo.

[jonyb4]

You tit Jony.

Looks good mate, coming along nicely. Liking the black/red combo.

lol admit it, it was hard to see

[EUFez]

You tit Jony.

Looks good mate, coming along nicely. Liking the black/red combo.

lol admit it, it was hard to see

It's hard to notice, but I could still see it there lol

[trecoll]

I gave simmo the artwork, he touched it up a bit and the final result = WIN!



So when I got home from work, I removed the old fiesta badge, and cleaned up the area...



and got the new vinyl sticker on!







Works quite well and subtly I think!

[jonyb4]

hmm thats a neat trick, suits the lights and the overall black/red theme


nice touch

[trecoll]

I had the week off work, and dedicated today to my car (Sunny weather!)

First thing on the adgenda, was to source vibration under breaking (from rear). I haven't done that, I couldn't find anything wrong. Will need to get the brake balance checked :?

Next, was a trip to Halfords to get some:



So that I could clean my ISCV and MAF as I had hesistation under low revs and slightly poor cold idle.



Before (MAF)


After (MAF)



Next was to move onto the spot lights in the front bumper. They hadn't been re-wired since the engine conversion, and a good job too. A stone hit one of them and cracked the lense, so it was filled with water!

The back had rusted abit too!


So i just removed them both.
Offside now looks like this!


With the nearside hole becoming the new resting place for the CAF.




I had issues with the idling on the car after doing the cleaning! It originally idled fine, but when I drove it, it was hunting at 1.5 - 2K. Then got worse and was idling at 3K.
After I removed the IGN fuse for about 30 seconds, to reset the ECU (Need to clarify I got the right fuse!!) I got the idle back down, not perfect, but that should just be the ECU relearning the values. Heres a video of the idle, car sounds lovely in it!!

[jonyb4]

just done the same with my iscv and maf, hasnt changed the idle, we should try the battery, and remove the memory that way


you had a cheek taking the mick of my mk4s paint on the front bumper, in that pick yours looks rough as heck

[trecoll]

The idle has cleared and is normal now.

The paintwork is a result of the splitter being ripped off on a speed bump, its just bodged back on atm.

[jonyb4]

what did you do to solve the idle?

[trecoll]

Drove it

[jonyb4]

lol

i might have some luck then

[trecoll]

Replacement equaliser arrived from the states yesterday, so I fitted that pretty swiftly.

Also upgraded the carpc to windows 7, sooo much quicker!! (will get an updated video at some point...)

Old equaliser;


New EQ in place;


It lights up blue;

So it goes with my sub's amp...

[jonyb4]

never seena need for a EQ really, the standard one in the H/U does me

(to a point!)


jesus that pc in the boot much be pretty good, my old pc could bearly run 7 lol

[trecoll]

I need an EQ as the audio is coming from a PC, not a head unit.

The PC itself was built nearly 2 years ago, its not a major spec;

1.6Ghz Atom 230 (Signle core) and 1GB Ram.

But, cause its not being used as a PC, I strip out any of the useless cr@p that I wouldn't use.

[jonyb4]

Ah, thats the same spec as my girlfriends netbook lol

[trecoll]

I've been taking advantage of the nice weather we've had recently and sprayed up my spare mirror cases and base plates! (Yeah, I know, long enough time coming!!)

Heres a few pictures from them, I'll hopefully get round to fitting on friday, when I clean the car for combe


^Started to flat them down, using primer and filler primer and loads and loads of wet sanding.


^Base plates with 2 coats of panther black on them. They had a total of 2 coats and 2 lacquer in the end.



^Mirror cases, 2 coats of rad red. (slight run in second picture) They had a total of 4 coats in the end. No Lacquer.


^Flatted back base plates.


^And partially polished back up


They are being left for the remainder of this week to fully harden, so hopefully this time they wont react so much. I'll assemble them onto the frames that are currently on the car, as one of the ones from these is brokeded anyways.




And today This arrived in the post (reason for selling both my other spoilers!)



Brand new, never used. The small bag of parts was sealed still!!

But wait, it comes with a box too!

... Inside the box!



Thats right! This is a brand new, never ever used, still sealed! Ford RS Spoiler!

The stamps:



It even turned up in the original Ford Box!!



Will spray this up myself for now and hopefully have it on in time for FiTP. If the finish turns out crap, I will get it done properly (but going by my new mirrors and my side skirts, I seem to have found the way to get a decent enough finish )