The "Today I did something to my car" thread

MetzgerMeister

Not today but on Saturday I stripped most of my engine, removed my EGR valve and the EGR pipe to decarbonise both. It was a lot of work but the car now runs smoother, is more responsive and feels a lot better

cena

MCMLXXV wrote: »

The Firebird?

It's in the country many years now.

There's a couple for sale here at the moment for small money but both need work and paint.

Ya the firebird.

wesf

MetzgerMeister wrote: »

Not today but on Saturday I stripped most of my engine, removed my EGR valve and the EGR pipe to decarbonise both. It was a lot of work but the car now runs smoother, is more responsive and feels a lot better

i did the same on sunday
although i removed the egr valve and pipe and left them off, blanking off the holes. car definitely seems more free flowing and a bit livlier on acceleration

MetzgerMeister

wesf wrote: »

i did the same on sunday
although i removed the egr valve and pipe and left them off, blanking off the holes. car definitely seems more free flowing and a bit livlier on acceleration

What car have you got? A lot of the time this can cause a CEL to come on.

Daniel S

GalwayKiefer wrote: »

Ya, V6 Landcruiser. 4.5ltr engine with an after market 60ltr LPG tank.

Is tax cheaper with LPG?

ongarite

Dropped my E60 Spyder alloys into Wheel Wizards for a refurb.
If they come back anything like Voodoomelon's alloys for his E38, I'll be thrilled.
Find out on Friday...

eringobragh

ongarite wrote: »

Dropped my E60 Spyder alloys into Wheel Wizards for a refurb.
If they come back anything like Voodoomelon's alloys for his E38, I'll be thrilled.
Find out on Friday...

Let me know how you get on need to get mine done soon.

What's the damage price wise?

kuro2k

Not today but I removed the hardtop on Friday

GalwayKiefer

Daniel S wrote: »

Is tax cheaper with LPG?

Sorry I misread the question. I don't think so in Ireland and it makes no difference over here - they're only interested in the engine size/cylinders.

ongarite

eringobragh wrote: »

Let me know how you get on need to get mine done soon.

What's the damage price wise?

I'll post a pic when I get them back.
Costing around €95/rim for 19".

randylonghorn

MetzgerMeister wrote: »

Not today but on Saturday I stripped most of my engine, removed my EGR valve and the EGR pipe to decarbonise both. It was a lot of work but the car now runs smoother, is more responsive and feels a lot better

And on Sunday you tightened your jubilee clip ... :pac:

L-M

i was going to service my car with my two days off. Poxy rain!

60 odd euro for the service kit, and €50 euro for an airflow that still doesn't work

Needs to be reset, i'd imagine.

andyseadog

so while i had the manky boot carpet out washing it (last update)

heres a quick before



i decided to give the wheelwell and spare a clean out, getting all the gravel and usual ****e out of the wheelwell, washed the spare and washed and polished the wheelwell inside too. its quite scuffed and scratched so i was going to give it a coat of matte black but thought it might take away from the originality somewhat...





found "the Travelling Wilburys" on CD while i had the back seat out cleaning under it :pac: .



the boot carpet laid back down and the plastics polished, still one or two greasy stains on the carpet but compared to its pre-clean state its way better, and i never use the boot so feck it :P



gave the cabin filter a clean out, heres a before shot (may have mentioned that in a previous update)



painted my horn red, a bit boy racer but hey!



had some mats from my old SR corolla that i kept, they were only in the car around a month, fit the glanza rather well

andyseadog

then got a new set of front wipers today, €13.50 for an 18" and 20" bosch blade, how could you be without!



then a pic of it the other evening after a long days polishing



then driving home from my girlfriends the following morning, i had to pull in to admire and snap a pic of the beading before the car got filthy on the country roads



and lastly, on the cars advert it said "just recently taxed", great i said and never questioned it, and when i met the owner and bought the car he told me again it had just been taxed... great i thought, a little deal sweetner, 3 months tax so imagine my surprise when this arrived in the post, 6 months tax :cool: i know its only like €150 quids worth or something but still!

andyseadog

**** it anyway, first half of the update is on the previous page :mad:

gollywog

andyseadog wrote: »

**** it anyway, first half of the update is on the previous page :mad:

You have her looking great man, well wear!

Hal1

Nice clean chariot there.

BUBBLE WRAP

andyseadog wrote: »

**** it anyway, first half of the update is on the previous page :mad:

Class, Your keeping her spotless.

andyseadog

BUBBLE WRAP wrote: »

Class, Your keeping her spotless.

thanks must admit the weather is against me though :mad: its undergoing a prolonged de-ionised water rinse at the moment... aka getting rained on like ****.

and before its said, yup i do go a lot of places with my front fogs on, too bad :pac:

franksm

Nice bit of water beading there ^^

BUBBLE WRAP

andyseadog wrote: »

thanks must admit the weather is against me though :mad: its undergoing a prolonged de-ionised water rinse at the moment... aka getting rained on like ****.

and before its said, yup i do go a lot of places with my front fogs on, too bad :pac:

Keep her JDM...

Alanstrainor

andyseadog wrote: »

**** it anyway, first half of the update is on the previous page :mad:

Fixed;)

Savage looking motor. Looks really clean.

eringobragh

Rustproofed the sills today - Bilt Hamber Dynamax S50 arrived from cleancar.ie, already treated with Hammerite Kurust last week.



BEFORE:



AFTER (Still wet in Pic!):




Will check the driver side sill when I get a chance and add some for good measure, but the foam was clear on drivers side so it'll keep!

Jimdagym

Glanza looks great Andy.
Whats the craic with blanking the reg on your tax disc, when the photo directly above it clearly shows your reg though? :pac:

dgt

Put standard springs and dampers back on the, er, new car :pac:

For obvious reasons!




And another post in a few days when they're swapped onto the blue machine :cool: I don't know how but I managed to get all 4 Bravos in the pics :pac:

Voodoomelon

Experimented with some coding today, inside away from the rain.



Great fun playing around with the coding options, I set the doors to lock after moving off, activated DRLs, memory seats and mirrors move on opening the door and decreased the volume of the rear park distance speaker.


ABS lights are on, so need to pull codes for that tomorrow.

JerCotter7

Voodoomelon wrote: »

Experimented with some coding today, inside away from the rain.


Great fun playing around with the coding options, I set the doors to lock after moving off, activated DRLs, memory seats and mirrors move on opening the door and decreased the volume of the rear park distance speaker.

ABS lights are on, so need to pull codes for that tomorrow.

What program are you using?

Voodoomelon

BMW's SSS/Progman.

Sobanek

Voodoomelon wrote: »

Experimented with some coding today, inside away from the rain.



Great fun playing around with the coding options, I set the doors to lock after moving off, activated DRLs, memory seats and mirrors move on opening the door and decreased the volume of the rear park distance speaker.


ABS lights are on, so need to pull codes for that tomorrow.

Tell me, is it possible to enable the seatbelt / lights on when no key in ignition gong with this?
And also, can the EU BMW Alarm have the same "beep-beep" when unlocking the car that the US spec has?

Just see the video to see what I mean:
0:17
0:30
0:37

BUBBLE WRAP

Voodoomelon wrote: »

Experimented with some coding today, inside away from the rain.



Great fun playing around with the coding options, I set the doors to lock after moving off, activated DRLs, memory seats and mirrors move on opening the door and decreased the volume of the rear park distance speaker.


ABS lights are on, so need to pull codes for that tomorrow.

Thats class, Never seen that before, Is that the same way you map/remap a car? I presume you need some software for the remap though?