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  • Well seeing as the car has been locked away in the garage since Croft back in June, I thought I would treat her to a full service (oil chance /...

    Preparing for Scooby Shootout 2010

    Well seeing as the car has been locked away in the garage since Croft back in June, I thought I would treat her to a full service (oil chance /...

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  • Well the car was not running right still on the Saturday session at Croft. The car wasn’t boosting right, as it was only producing 0.50-0.60 bar of boost, but I...

    Car Finally Fixed

    Well the car was not running right still on the Saturday session at Croft. The car wasn’t boosting right, as it was only producing 0.50-0.60 bar of boost, but I...

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  • Right I’m sick of revising for this exam on Tuesday, so I’ll post the report from the weekend. So, Friday, early morning wake up call, collected van, came back home,...

    Japfest = More Problems

    Right I’m sick of revising for this exam on Tuesday, so I’ll post the report from the weekend. So, Friday, early morning wake up call, collected van, came back home,...

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  • Talk about leaving everything till last min… just been finishing off the little bits and bobs i needed to do before we go down to Japfest on Friday…. had the...

    Baffled Sump – Finishing Touches

    Talk about leaving everything till last min… just been finishing off the little bits and bobs i needed to do before we go down to Japfest on Friday…. had the...

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  • Wow what a day… 9am start on the car, and got everything pretty much finished now (well mechanically, and a litte cosmetic) Started off getting the bucket seats mounted in...

    Seats In, Wash and Polish – Final Stages for Japfest

    Wow what a day… 9am start on the car, and got everything pretty much finished now (well mechanically, and a litte cosmetic) Started off getting the bucket seats mounted in...

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  • As my new gearbox oil arrived from OpieOils (cheers oilman) – I went for Castrol Syntrax Universal 75w-90, which will hopefully sort out the problems i found at the last...

    Oil and Oil Cooler Arrives

    As my new gearbox oil arrived from OpieOils (cheers oilman) – I went for Castrol Syntrax Universal 75w-90, which will hopefully sort out the problems i found at the last...

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  • Disaster today… one of the things i needed to do was tighten up the oil cooler pipe at the bottom as I saw it was leaking ever so slightly, but...

    Oil Cooler Disaster

    Disaster today… one of the things i needed to do was tighten up the oil cooler pipe at the bottom as I saw it was leaking ever so slightly, but...

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  • Well I now have power once again in the car, but not much to cross off my “to do list”. And only 3 more weeks till the car has to...

    Impreza Dry Cell Battery Fitting

    Well I now have power once again in the car, but not much to cross off my “to do list”. And only 3 more weeks till the car has to...

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  • I created a small distribution box for the gauges from the radio ignition power/earth, and stripped back all the old speaker cables and bits that were not needed here. Found...

    Gauges Wired In + Little Bits

    I created a small distribution box for the gauges from the radio ignition power/earth, and stripped back all the old speaker cables and bits that were not needed here. Found...

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  • To try and keep temperatures down under the bonnet (and also stopping the headers from heating up the oil filter, which in-turn ups the temperature of the oil through the...

    Exhaust Wrapping + More

    To try and keep temperatures down under the bonnet (and also stopping the headers from heating up the oil filter, which in-turn ups the temperature of the oil through the...

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