Any of you guys are home today before 4 o'clock ? Could pop in to have a look...

 

I'm about 10 minutes from home if you want to swing by

 

Yup, on my way....

 

FMIC pipes getting powder coated in black and a nice adition to the boots collection 18" Forged Works Emotion CR Kai

 

Are you coating the core too

What about the old SSR's

The new wheels look tidy

 

Eddited , just pipes , core was sprayed already, not for my liking but theres no way back .... SSR's are staying Jon, not sure about these , only got them as Peter is selling his Blob and it was silly not to snap them for that price...
I'd probably would sell them if someones interested as not very much keen on 18" ..i like my 17's ...

 

Depending on the job on the core I might be up for a swap if you want a silver one... If you ever want rid of those SSRs give me a shout

 

See the pick above , the core is fine fins are fine as well, the paint is foked ....

 

I know a few of the fins on mine have taken a battering from a loose stone, but I'm planning to paint one anyway so I may as well prep one that's been done before if you're interested

 

As above Jon suggested get painted yours core on black,will looks miles better,powdercoated pipework will looks good and those Works Emotion CR Kai looks just awesome


Looking good Mantas


Jura

 

Nice wheels, pity their 5x100

 

How will you paint the core?

 

A light dusting of etch primer followed by some satin black, probably VHT paint

 

Car looks amazing mate really really like that !

 

Change of plan , change of plan....i'm staying on a top mount for now... The car is not running right thought, so will have to check that AGAIN which is doing my head in.... when its raining it pulls well, when hot day it hesitates gains propper power aftef 5k rpm..... i dont think its smtn to do with the "big" turbo on a 2 ltr rather than map itself... After todays chat with some of the best ive got my eyes opened abit wider now.... FMIC will be up for sale with freshly satin black powdercoated pipes...

Was deciding regards the headers to gain the spool. will get oem one properly ported and ceramic coated... Fitting the injectors tomorrow.. that will be a hell of a job as the turbo is in a way of 2 bolts which hold the injector top bracket, will probably have to take the whole lot off again.... roll on monday...

 

Rich ported my headers, I know it's a messy job but not too difficult if you understand the process.

I'd be interested in how much you end up paying to get the headers coated - mine are in need of a re-wrap and might get done come turbo swap time including relocating the front O2 to the downpipe as that is better for ALS apparently - not that I want to make pointless noise on tunnel runs

 

Looking very nice Mantas, I'm normally an STi spoiler type of person on the Bugeye, but this just looks great with the lower version for some reason.

I'm guessing the FMIC pipes are not going to fit a classic, am I right?

 

Originaly no, but i have Some pipes from a classic fitment so we might get somewhere ... The powder coated pipes are comming back tomorrow, if you're interested we could sort smtn out i think...

 

I've got classic FMIC pipes already fitted, but they could do with a nice powercoat like yours in black. Maybe you could measure your black ones up against your classic ones and see if it looks a possibility?

 

You've got the pipes , but not the core then?

 

Done a deal, works to weds , love my 17"s , cheaper tyres to, and more comfy....

 

if it helps my OEM headers are harvey smith ported mated to a harvey smith 2 bolt up-pipe. both were bought to increase mid-range and increase spool on a standard vf35 and I can say that there has been an improvement in both areas since having these mods fitted (with map) almost a year ago.

 

Much better with the Weds wheels, suits the era & style of the JDM Bug Sti more IMO.

 

Speak to Maggy about powder coating if Mantas' pipes won't fit, as long as you can live without the car for a week or so while it's being done the work is top notch

Very nice, completely agree with you about 17's - gonna keep my white 18s for show and I'm after some 8 or 8.5 x 17 for hooning around on, preferably BBS style

 

Looking of other improvements i could do , i was scratching my head on the air feed to the filter mod, as ive got this fancy grille with a little gap straight into the air duct/pipe on the current setup i was very doubtful that is enough.. So ive bought 1 meter of neoprene air duct hose and the trumpet cone fitting....

Not a difficult job , but was lack of some tools so will have to see Ricky for some adjustments...




It should definitely help to feed a bit more air... Another thing i'll make is a heat shield for the filter, have seen a couple and its a good fun to do one... Also the wing tray where the hose comes out to the filter , Frayz has his own engineering one , but its a bit costly to me...

 

Nearly forgot about this one.... As it's been laying around in some box i did forgot i had it, it will be fitted before a track day. Been advised to try it and if my oil pressure gauge shows me positive i shouldn't be worried going for a baffled sump.

KillerB baffled plate...

 

I picked up a great one off eBay that had finishers either end which made it much easier.

I've also sorted these out from the garage if you still want them

 

Yes Jon i'll have them, have you got the Rad ones as well ?

 

The rad ones have gone mate, I thought you already had those ones anyway

 

I do but their slightly lighter color...never mind ...

As the nature of my work has changed and i'm doing night shifts , i have an opportunity to do some decent reading, and i have discovered some good ol' threads regards mapping OS vs EcuTek some handling modding etc., also i met some interesting people , tuners, enthusiasts who opened my eyes on things how they should be done...Not only buying mods what i think is right then fitting/tweaking the car.... I've been told few things regards oil and marketing and what is what basically which will save me a bit . As i understand a lot of things is hyped up to get attention, and actual normal mechanical work hyped up into "tuning magic"..... I'll keep my reading and chose what and how to do in the different way from now on... NASIOC and US tuning industry ...is a fekin million years in front of UK , all i can say