The Red Devil

[ZaneDylan]

On to prettier things, the carbon hatch I had bought had a lot of scratches and defects, I wet sanded and used several grades of polish to bring the carbon back to life and take out the majority of scratches. I then gave it a healthy coat of Bilt Hamber Double Speed wax. I also took to widening some of the clip holes which allowed me to finally put the interior plastics back in - this reduced a lot of rattle and cabin noise and made everything feel a lot more OE and complete.

[ZaneDylan]

Keeping with the theme of improving the interior, I wanted to tie in the head unit with some more modern touches, I know Ambient lighting isn't to everyone's taste and it can easily be overdone. I removed the door cards, separated the suede part from the rest of the door and laid in my LED strips, then I removed the glovebox and used superglue to stick the glovebox section down as 3M tape wasn't strong enough.

[ZaneDylan]

This is a job I've been putting off... The intake pipe has been covered in gold heat tape - its peeling and it has been applied terribly, is bunched up in many places. I personally don't believe gold tape makes enough of a difference to intake temps to make it even remotely worth it for how bad it looks.

 

So I first struggled with peeling it off and using a heat gun with plastic razors but that genuinely only made it worse.

 

Then I used a chemical sticky stuff remover (goo gone wasn't strong enough)

 

I then gave it a bath in some washing liquid and water before hitting it with a generous amount of metal polish on a drill attachment, I'm happy with the results

[ZaneDylan]

As shown in the last update the timing chain cover is also pretty dull, so I gave it two passes with alubright and tried to polish everything I could reach

[ZaneDylan]

Around febuary is when I started to get frustrated with all of the little issues and decided to tackle all of them - first was the intake pipe and polishing in the last two posts. In this post is where I finally attempted to fix my squeaking chair, I removed it from the car, disassembled it and coated everything in spray on silicone. I destroyed the air quality in my house (because UK weather) but I could finally drive my 70 in peace

[ZaneDylan]

Part 3 of the little things, the side skirt extensions 1) aren't to my taste 2) make it harder to jack up the car 3) were battered and loose in places

 

So with a variety of 10, 8 and 7mm self tappers being removed, I took those extensions off and sold them for dirt cheap on market place

[ZaneDylan]

To show off the 2nd coolest mod on the car (boost), I decided to put my genuine Nismo V2 front bumper under the knife. I cut out the grill section and gave my charge cooler a clean and a coat of VHT silver.

 

I used a multitool and a Dremel to perform the surgery and in all honestly its way cooler to see the cooler. I need to cover up those old license plate holes too.

[ZaneDylan]

I swapped out my spark plugs for some GTR plugs (one step colder) then went off the PetrolHeadism and took plenty of pictures that weekend, had a great time with great people

 

Edited yesterday at 12:21 by ZaneDylan

[ZaneDylan]

The car from the beginning was giving me an intermittent limp mode issue, it wasn't very often in the beginning, but became more and more frequent, all 4 fault codes it was throwing was pointing towards one thing and unfortunately it is a fault with the stillen supercharger kit. Luckily for me Horsham Developments make a replacement loom for the throttle body and they fixed the issue quickly, as well as my exhaust leaks. I do have the say the new loom not only fixed the issue but also looks a lot nicer, so massive shout out to them.

 

While I was there and now the car was running better than ever we decided to do a dyno run to see if the 530hp I was told when I bought the car was a fib like I thought it was...

 

 

[ShortPaul]

Great work mate,the car is looking much better now 😁