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Only had today to work on the car as new job looms tomorrow.

Order my new tyres at thr start of the week, went for yoko A539\'s a truely dangerous tyre in wet conditions, but in the dry on track they dont\' melt, which was top of my list for important quailties of the tyres, not bothered abotu wet handlign so much, £122 delivered to my door



Also picked up some other 15\" alloys from a friend as he didn\'t want them anymore. they are 5spoke tigra ones I think, 6\" wide, look the difference between these and my 7\" trackday wheel



With some clever birds eye veiw photgraphy I managed ot get an idea what they lookliek with rubber on them:





Tried the new ones on the car so get an idea of how they\'ll look and ot measure up for bigger discs too



Then thought\'d I\'ve finally get round to fitting the polybushed to the front tie bar mounts as the car has always been a little vauge under heavy right foot, pointing and worn tie bar bushes.



While I was under there I took a few pics of the sensors for my oil gauge as mentioned before.
Here\'s the oil pressure switched, I had the machien shop make up an elbow for me and it replaced the std pressure, and is tucked nicely otu the way



And the oil take off plate for the oil cooler was drill and tapped to take the temperature probe for after the cooler to I know what temp the oil is when it\'s fed back in to the engine, the gauge is set to go off at 115deg C
Still need to tighten up the pipes for it as you can see still a bit leaky, I\'m just being lazy about it cause I know it\'s a messy job





Also dropped the front drivers side engine mount 12mm as the engine didn\'t look level in the bay, but the pics aren\'t interesting enough to put up.

More to come in the week hopefully.

James

surely wider wheels aint the best option for handeling unlessy ou can change the geometery to compensate for them.... not to clued up on tyre widths but remember when speaking to some dude who made my cage about handeling and he pointed at my wheels and said \"them wide things wont help too well\"

Will haev fully adjustable geomatry on the car don\'t you worry

allll good! fancy helping with my adjustable top mounts?

Yeah sure, let me know a time and I\'ll be over.(provided I\'m not in work of course.)

looking good mate
let me know on the seats when you do them,
interested on how they fit etc

That\'s planned for week after next, abotu to go and borrow a friends mig welder, pics to follow.

Dropped off the wheels for refurb at 7.30am, post to follow next week when I collect them.

Big shout to BJV engineering for their work Brain and Andrew had several sets of weeks done by them, just off the hemel M25 junc.
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Just say James that does all the 2L corsa convs gave you the number.

Got my alloy back this morning from BJV (big thanks to Andrew and Brain again)



qwik 50:50


Also got my slicks fitted this morning aswell (again big thanks to the above)
All shinee

done any more yet
bit slow

new rotors and bells arrived today, 12\" rotors. off to weight them now

went down to remove the wilwoods this evening, as you can see new alloys lookgin tarty, but car looking a bit sorry for itself at the mo.

Pulled my finger out and got the new brakes down the machine shop early this week, and they were ready on firday mornign so I popped over before work to get them, then had to spend all day in work till I could go try them, but then I couldn\'t be bothered too cold and dark, but finaly got over to the car this morning to see what was what with them.

Here\'s a pick of the 256mm brakes you find on cav\'s, astra\'s and so on to compare:


Space behind the wheel:



Here\'s the new disk set up 300mm rotor on an alloy bell. I\'ve only had some priliminary work done on them so I can sort out the mounting brakets, good new is I can run the offset I wanted (25mm) which means I can have them turned down to be as light as possible, so they shoudl be sub 5kgs with bolts in (to compare a 288mm cast disk weighs 8kgs) And they will be anodised in electric blue too.



Space left behind wheel (1.5cm)


And these are the everyday wheels the car will wear note that they hide the brakes neaty adding to the subtleness of the car (hopefully)


and lastly a little profile shot of the car, I can\'t get the alloys on the back yet for two reasons A) I haven\'t taken a big hammer to the inner arch and B) i haven\'t had the arches rolled and flared the 1-1.5\" I need for space :bye: but I will get round to that sometime.



Next installment when I get my steerign wheel and move the steering coloumn down.

Had a big sesh this weekend as I had both saturday and sunday off!! (went too quick)

Firstly my steergin wheel arrived at the end of the week



So bung\'d it on to see how it lined up on the car, and it\'s shocking, so I\'ll have to move the whole column, so styarted removing the dash, which means the front section of the cage comes out too

Quick before shot


And after


I\'m going to run a EPAS column from a corsa B which has two U/J\'s on the end so hopefully I can place the steergin wheel where ever I want to, just need to find one.

Got to decide what Dash to run in the car, late lotus Exige dash it tempting but only rev\'s to 8k, so looking at custom options at the mo

I also pulled all the loom out the car, and seperated the engine loom from the car loom, and will get round to re-doing both of them as the ecu will mount in a different place and the car lom will only need to run a few things.


Hopefully be able to collect the new rotors and bells from the machine shop at the end of the week, so will be sorting the mounting brackets for the 2L calipers next weekend. although may have found some 4pots to jam under the wheels now so may be up for sale soonish.

top notch
love this thread, wish i had the ££ income to keep up lol

my car is a very slow progress and on a smaller budget