ZaneDylan

Welcome mate, don't see many clean verts around look forward to seeing what you do with it First step should be some nice wheels I'd imagine, your welcome to use my build thread as inspo on what not to do aha

Looks class, big fan of keeping the boot useable, like you've done here

There are aftermarket immobilisers as an option too (if you were to go with the hdev option), or just "forget" to inform them that it isn't there anymore... There are locksmiths in the UK that do work with the JDM frequencies that I've ran into at carshows

Shared between me and my mates, and still far from finished

Nürburgring The car held up amazingly - all the issues I had prior to the trip were gone and had an absolute blast driving around the ring and doing some legal motorway pulls in the car, couldn't of gone any smoother in all honestly and such a breath of fresh air after the painful ownership I've had of the car leading up to this. It definitely punched above its weight keeping up with more modern and more expensive cars, unfortunately still couldn't hold a candle to my friends built evo 8 aha Here's some pics

Late update: circa august Added hoodpins - went for the QuikLatch ones as I didn't really think it needed them but would rather have them and not need them than need them and not have them

To continue in preparation for the road trip I did a full brake fluid flush with Motul RBF660. I didn't have a pressure bleeder so I had to do it with the car on to get everything out. Attached a pic of some of the old fluid - should've taken one off of the first bit as that was worse than this

Front hubs changed, really easy to do if you use a solid punch to work them off slowly. Cleaned up the surface with a wire brush and put on some copper grease.

Did a big service prior to the Nürburgring trip, this included removing the supercharger to do a belt and fluid change, doing an oil and oil filter change on the car (including draining the oil coolers to get everything out) and changing the alternator and serpentine belt.

Small break from working on the car to show that me and my friends installed a lift for the group in one of our garages Took a lot of work and long days and nights but here's the finished results:

The cars been having starting trouble for a while so I ordered an OEM starter from hitachi and fitted it. Luckily due to it being RHD I didn't have to jack up the engine to get around anything and it was able to come straight out. After that I fitted a Z1 Motorsports Undertray - I've used the other aluminium undertrays on the market and I've got to say this one is far better build quality

Time for some maintenance prior to my trip to the Nürburgring, especially since I've owned it for nearly a year now and after a long road trip. First up is cleaning the MAFs and Throttle bodies and doing an idle reset.

Yep had them made to my specifications and even received videos of them being made, they're forged and are surprisingly light considering how massive the rear ones are at 11j

Following on from the last post I was finally able to dial in my alignment. I've gone for: Front: -3 camber 8 caster 0 toe Rear: -2 camber 0 toe I want to see how the car handles on this set up first before dialling in anymore camber, caster or toe From a quick drive around local country lanes this has really brought the car to life and I wish I did it sooner.