ballistic

Gotta say you do a great job looking after your Zed. Keep up the great work!!

Im planning to do rust proofing on mine soon too. Kinda.dreading it but also really want to do it

Front splitter for Nismo V1 bumper. Fancied having a splitter but never found one designed for my bumper. Once i finally happened across one i snapped it up and fitted it. I propped it up on some cardboard to see how far i wanted it sticking out etc Once i decided on that i cut off the excess Then it was a tricky part of drilling holes through the splitter and bumper for lots of nuts and bolts to clamp it in place. Took a while but its been on a year and still holding fine. I wasnt sure at first but its grown on me and now i cant see it without.

Wheel colour change and refurb. Had gloss black wheels for years and was tired of it. After visiting a few places and looking at various options i decided on this bronze. So it was goodbye to the black Hello to the bronze Very pleased with the way these turned out. Love the new colour and the service from First Aid Wheels in Finchley was excellent.

Black roof Always fancied this one and someone i know is handy with wrapping and offered to do my roof wrapped in black to see if i like it before committing to spraying it. Was pretty difficult doing it outdoors in poor conditions but he made a good job of it imo Little before and after Really like it. Will have it sprayed one day as the finish of vinyl wrap has just too much orange peel for my taste and lacks the depth of paint. Feb/mar 2023

Also bought some dress up bolts. Before on left, after right. Heres a before and after of all the work And some final shots as it sits after all that Open to any suggestions. Especially for ideas of what to do with the reservoirs.

More engine bay dress up. I decided to ditch the plastic engine cover. But the timing chain cover was very oxidized. So i used a product called alubrite to get rid of it. Worked it in and washed away. Repeated a couple times on trouble spots. Came up nice and clean. Then came a very very laborious process of sanding the aluminium from 180 grit. All the way up to 1500 Then i polished it with some compound which also took ages. Came out pretty decent. Did the little covers too Then i also sprayed the reservoir caps to match the other orange bits Tbh i want a better solution to these. Something billet or such. Jazzed up.my battery covers and sprayed my strut brace black All in all its somewhat presentable now (Early part of 2023)

Yea i dont wanna do a seat dyno but it felt more responsive, first thing i noticed. and stronger top end. W brace went back on after the pic. Was giving it a paint. I will upload to youtube as suggested

Pic from a photoshoot last summer

Forgot i didnt add this. Bit of an odd one but i have a true dual APS 3" exhaust. It was extremely loud as it basically only had the rear silencers. I used to daily the Zed and was too much. So years ago i had the diameter reduced and extra silencers added Fast forward to Feb 2022 and it hasnt been my daily for a while so decided to open it back up. Full 3" again with a high quality profusion silencer on each bank so its not as raspy as it was originally. Heres how it looked when we removed it. Just before the mid boxes it drops to 2.5" and has two silencers. Heres a look at the new 3" profusions. Really nice quality. I wanted one good mid silencer so it wasnt overly loud. Needed to weld a pie cut section to get around the rear ARB as its not designed for two pipes back there ofc My fabricator Ben at work New high grade 3" stainless welded in to replace the 2.5 section Here they are all back to their former glory. 3" all the way. Shot of it on the car Old one again for comparison Very pleased with this one. Love the sound . Now that its mainly used as a weekend car and fun drives its perfect. Very deep and a great rumble. Will try to upload a couple vids from google drive (anyone know how?) 😁

Ty mate. Its coming along. I havnt noticed any oil in the intake or plenum so i probably wont get a catch can yet.

Spoiler time. Finally decided on a spoiler i like after ages deliberating. Its a Strosek style one without the metal brackets which are not my cuppa. (June 22) Very happy with it Also poly bushed my worn inner control arm bushes with Superpro.

Sorry Coz 😢

Havnt updated for ages out of laziness and forgetfulness so i will start to catch the thread up. Cam cover gasket was leaking so while i had it apart started on some engine bay dress up. VHT paint. Looks more presentable. This was done is May 2022

Thanks for the shoutout bro. We need to do a full refurb sometime!

u have a PM

I've been to other meets there. They tend to leave you alone if you 'behave'

That's about 2.5 hours from us unfortunately

Like i say. Im happy to be flexible for the meet. Just be nice to get it going if theres interested people

Almost an hour. Im coming from near Wanstead.

Wow, Not bad at all eh? I would be happy for us to resurrect this with something convenient with those interested. I have a few zeds in my group that would attend.

Alfa 4c

As above. Fitted new belts last year without any subsequent problems, but about a month ago i noticed the AC belt missing, installed a new one and it snapped within a few days. Did the same again this weekend. I have this rubber deposit where the belt seems to be rubbing against the bracket that holds the tensioner pulley, But when inspecting the belt it does not seem to be touching at all? I inspected the tensioner pulley at is seems ok, but i will replace it if that's what causes the problem? They are installed and tensioned correctly. Any ideas what would cause this?

i want these on my 350 but ofc that means i will have 2 indicators on each wing

its on my calendar