daveo132

Well, I'm out here and it's been faultless all the way. Also, it's very wet for any watching the run up the Spa 24hr...

I thought at seems I am wrong that the rear ignition coils were different from the front 4 on the DE. Had a look and doesn't seem that way. Those starline ones, even though they are cheap look the right fit and I can get them today. Going to get 1. Would be 2 but they don't have 2. Cars eh........

ok, on second look, it seems I can get a Starline Coil today. https://www.eurocarparts.com/p/starline-ignition-coil-41370020s

I'd love to but I can't see to find any that won't take at least a few days to arrive (either to me or to a local store). Most seem to be sold out. Also the prices seem to range from £20 to £80 a coil pack...?

Well I took it for a bit of a blast. Loaded it up and made it work for a bit. Faultless. Hopefully it was just a blip.

So back off to Belgium on Wednesday for the 24hrs of Spa. Guess what, the car started misfiring. Seems to have cleared itself up again so I'm hoping its just because I've hardly be using the car and let it get low on fuel etc. Though it did get a good run on the weekend and was faultless. Don't suppose anyone know of options for same day coil packs if I need one? Just my luck.... Going to take it on a run later and see how it acts. Needed to share the pain.

So no new updates, just driving the car, and not even doing a lot of that. Cost of living sucks! Anyway, I'm getting noise from the AC unit. ie, when I turn off the AC the noise goes away. I'm suspecting it's the compressor, anyone know what sort of cost I might be looking at? Maybe I'll get lucky and it'll be the tensioner... Also, it's going back to Belgium in June. Not so much a road trip this time. Going for the Spa 24hr. EDIT: It won't be the tensioner come to think of it. Goes away when the AC Clutch disengages but that tensioner will always be moving.

haha, I kept myself outta trouble. Saw plenty of Belgian police but they weren't for me.

Shameless self plug, few from my road trip all round Belgium last week.

I didn't take too many "proper" pics. Too busy enjoying the driving. But I just sorted some of the few I did take on the proper camera. Enjoy

Yep, got back this afternoon. 1200 miles done. Car was faultless and I'd say the new clutch and lightened flywheel are fully bedded in now too.

Few more from the road trip today. Car's been faultless. Every single image I've uploaded is sideways. Sorry, but blame the forum as they're fine on my PC Also have a time-lapse of today drive, though the first render didn't come out well.

Now all sorted by a very nice garage who didn't even charge me for it.

Well I've made it to Belgium with only one casualty. Looks like the cover from under the gearbox has dropped (from when the clutch ans fly where changed) and I ended up dragging it from Calais to Ghent. Nothing I could do about it last night. Looks like there is a garage just up the road from the hotel so I'm going to pop there to just get it taken off. It can always be replaced later. Not sure why it came off. Either it wasn't fitted back properly, it broke, or I caught it on a nasty pothole at one of the service stations. Is what it is though, only some plastic.

What @davey_83 said. All custom work.

Bit of a knock on the front ARB now. When it rains it pours lol Thankfully it's before the clutch work so they'll get changed then.

Bit more work done today. New Y-Pipe installed by my local longlife. Great work again by them. In the second picture you can see they had to remove the flange on the end of the cats. They called me over to take a look and the flanges were pretty much dust. I poked the one and it started to fall apart. So they cut them off, welded some short pipe on so then the new Y-Pipe would slip on. When / if I go for Hi-flow cats, they've already said they'll help me out with that. Sorry, I don't know why it's uploading sideways. It's not like that on my PC.

New clutch kit and lightened flywheel arrived today from @Tarmac@TarmacSportz along with the upgraded Slave, Braided line and fluid. What a lovely bit of kit. Also some new rear number plate LED units, and enough stickers to start my own Tarmac Sportz brand I'm not planning on taking pics at the moment as it's all boxed up. But let me know if anyone does want pics of the kit.

So some overdue pics now that I think I'm over my food poisoning this week. Some pics here of the dress up that I've started. Red anodised washers, new bolts etc. I replaced the carbon engine cover with an Evo-R Harness cover from @Coz@TORQEN. However, I'm pretty dissapointed with the fitment. I think it must be built for a HR bonnet as it's rubbing on mine quite badly (you can see the shining on it). I may end up going back to the carbon cover. Vacuum line can also be seen for the new gauge but this will be tided at a later date. New Pillar pod installed from South Coast Flocking. Top is Fuel pressure Bottom is vacuum. Why? Because more gauges = more better. I just felt like it. New clutch kit from @Tarmac@TarmacSportz was sent out today, so that should be on in the next week or so.

There a plans for the rear spoiler but I'm going to keep that under my hat for now

So, new diffuser fitted today. I'm in a hotel at the moment so upload any pics will be a pain but maybe @buster can upload some that he took Also, after talking with Bob, it's seems that the noise is most likely the clutch so the Stage 1 kit was ordered today. link

I've been doing some of this. I've just been buying bolts and washers as and when from ebay. I came across this list (i think buried on this forum) which contained a lot of sizes. DE Engine Plenum 9 m6x25mm 3 m6x40mm 4 m6x60mm 2 m6 nuts 6? m6x16mm Headlights (2) M6x1.00x20mm flat head allen bolts (2) M6 countersunk washers Strut Bar (6) M10x1.25x25mm flanged hex bolts (use 30mm if you have a DE with a plenum spacer) (2) M10x1.25 flanged nuts (normal hex nuts work too but require washers) (8) M10 flat washers (these are only needed if you don't use flanged bolts/nuts above) Shock Towers (6) M8 flanged nuts (normal hex nuts work too but require washers) (6) M8 flat washers (these are only needed if you don't use flanged nuts above) Power Steering Bolts (3) M6x1.00x25mm flat head allen bolts (3) M6 countersunk washers Radiator Support (4) M8x1.25x16mm flat head allen bolts (4) M8 countersunk washers Hood (4) M8 flanged nuts (normal hex nuts work too but require washers) (4) M8 flat washers (these are only needed if you don't use flanged nuts above) Throttle Body (4) m6x1.00x60mm metric allen bolts (4) m6 flat washers (the smaller the outside diameter the better) Fender (6) M6x1.00x20mm flat head allen bolts (6) M6 countersunk washers (4) M8x1.25x16mm flat head allen bolts (4) M8 countersunk washers

Booked in next week for the work. Lets see what if anything they find. It's very odd, but might just be a noise and nothing more. Nothing seems untoward other than the noise.