******Motors Chat - Round 6******

Voodoomelon

Super thin 3M strips and it won't budge.

GvidoR

Focus badge, I assume.

Noccy_Mondy

Focus badge aye, should be on the left hand side, don't know why it's there.....

colm_mcm

Be careful the paint doesn't come off when you take the badge off. Boot door was almost certainly resprayed.

Cleveland Hot Pocket

Big Nasty wrote: »

Used to go to Cork regular in the T/A for the GAScc car show. Would use 3/4's a tank going down alone. Worked out at about 15mpg at a steady 80mph.

Driving down and back for this year's gasCC I calculated 21 mpg... Not bad, although I had cruised at 65 most of the way!

toastedpickles

Chris_Heilong wrote: »

So who do we ask to make a Midway meet thread?

Sooooo mods who do we ask? :P

Mycroft H

For the first time I've gotten my insurance below 500 quid. Yay.

GvidoR

My mission is to get it under 950 now.

Foxhole Norman

My mission is to get a quote on a 525 :pac:

Chris_Heilong

picked this up today. Much better than the 4 spoke that came with the car.


It needs a refurb, Anyone know where I can purchase a repair kit or a leather dye kit?

joujoujou

Steering wheel cover on it?

And fake TRD badge on top of original logo, I guess.

(not my photo)

http://img9.imageshack.us/img9/7583/imag0191tn.jpg

Mycroft H

The Suzuki steering wheel doesn't have a name one it.

EazyD

Chris_Heilong wrote: »

picked this up today. Much better than the 4 spoke that came with the car.


It needs a refurb, Anyone know where I can purchase a repair kit or a leather dye kit?

There's a guy on long mile road who refurbs old seats, steering wheels etc. Can't think of the name but I have a Nardi wheel to be done myself and will probably get it done there.

Chris_Heilong

The cover is on because it needs a refurb badly. I was a bit worried it the TRD badge would just be a sticker but its on a plastic cover that fits over the horn so not bad. It is a Gen 7 Celica wheel.

Here is what my normal wheel looks like.

quadrifoglio verde

I think alan got his steering wheel done a few months ago

Cleveland Hot Pocket

The same wheel as on my carina!
Hahahah that's hilarious. Yeah the new one will look much better!
IMO

Although, can you be sure of the build quality of the spurious part?

Alanstrainor

quadrifoglio verde wrote: »

I think alan got his steering wheel done a few months ago

That was me. Got it done by this fella:

http://royalsteeringwheels.com/

Top class work, and reasonable money too.

MetzgerMeister

So here's what had to be put into the ECU:




Here's what has yet to go in (yes, they are massive!):



Uploading firmware:

Alanstrainor

And now I want an intake again! MM...you'll have to take us for a spin in that monster when it's all done.

MetzgerMeister

I increased the PSI per turbo from stock 8.5 up to 13 and moved the wastegates a lot closer to their seals and it's fooken immense!!!!

These are only adjustments, not mapping. I'll be datalogging and sending the logs to BMS for their tuners to write up the maps.

Also, here's what the engine bay will look like once those intakes are in

Chris_Heilong

MetzgerMeister wrote: »

I increased the PSI per turbo from stock 8.5 up to 13 and moved the wastegates a lot closer to their seals and it's fooken immense!!!!

These are only adjustments, not mapping. I'll be datalogging and sending the logs to BMS for their tuners to write up the maps.

Also, here's what the engine bay will look like once those intakes are in

That looks epic.

GvidoR

Those filters look awesome. Are they K&N?

toastedpickles

LIGHTNING wrote: »

Jaysus that's over a 50% increase in Boost pressure! I`m hoping a rod doesn't decide to leave the engine compartment any time soon :pac:

Send it a holiday brochure as to why it shouldnt :pac:

MetzgerMeister

GvidoR wrote: »

Those filters look awesome. Are they K&N?

Probably but they're branded by the company who made the software.

LIGHTNING wrote: »

Jaysus that's over a 50% increase in Boost pressure! I`m hoping a rod doesn't decide to leave the engine compartment any time soon :pac:

Nope, there's 335s in the US running 500bhp+ with stock internals without any problems at all. There's even an option to increase PSI to 17 per turbo but you need =/>100 RON fuel.

MetzgerMeister

toastedpickles wrote: »

Send it a holiday brochure as to why it shouldnt :pac:

LOL, just like father Faye doesn't know he's a priest, rods don't know they're in Ireland :pac:

toastedpickles

MetzgerMeister wrote: »

LOL, just like father Faye doesn't know he's a priest, rods don't know they're in Ireland :pac:

Exactly :P
So on a more serious topic MM......whats your favourite humming noise? :pac:

ba_barabus

House hunting at the minute in Dublin and I've gotten to my 5th viewing that was advertised as having parking (and confirmed over the phone) to find that the spaces either don't exist or are in use already. FFS owning a car can be a pain at times.

Toyotafanboi

Chris_Heilong wrote: »

picked this up today. Much better than the 4 spoke that came with the car.


It needs a refurb, Anyone know where I can purchase a repair kit or a leather dye kit?

joujoujou wrote: »

Steering wheel cover on it?

And fake TRD badge on top of original logo, I guess.

(not my photo)

http://img9.imageshack.us/img9/7583/imag0191tn.jpg

was just going to say, don't want to be a bubble burster but that wheel is in loads of stuff and it looks like a stuck on badge.

you'd get that wheel in every gen 7 celica, most 01 onwards rav 4's, high spec e11 corollas, yaris sports and some other cars too. might be worth considering if the refurb cost is a lot.

they are a nice wheel with the perforated leather though, certainly nicer than the very plastic offerings in most 90's toyotas.

quadrifoglio verde

ba_barabus wrote: »

House hunting at the minute in Dublin and I've gotten to my 5th viewing that was advertised as having parking (and confirmed over the phone) to find that the spaces either don't exist or are in use already. FFS owning a car can be a pain at times.

If it's apartments you're looking at most landlords rent out the car parking space for 100 or so a month. Bit cheaper if it isn't in the city centre though.
Car parking spaces were an optional purchase with boom time apartments. Anyone who bought a space would want to get their heads examined, they were going for 50 feckin k in some places

MetzgerMeister

toastedpickles wrote: »

Exactly :P
So on a more serious topic MM......whats your favourite humming noise? :pac:

It would have to be a humming noise run off the electricity as the gas one can often come out as a fart!