Picked up a new near side wishbone today and fitted it, what a difference its so responsive on turn in again now and obvs no more nocking ball joint.

a crappy iphone pic i took when i went shopping last night:



edit- thats not a dent in the door its just the lighting lol.

Looking nice in that pic matey. Pop over and let's see how it goes with the s box on.

Im over your neck of the woods tomorrow matey, so ill pop by.

Update

Had this week off and was ment to do a full service, timing belt, water pump, obv coolant change, gearbox oil change, heater control bulb and prepair it for winter, but typically ive been in bed half the week with food poisoning. I managed everything but the timing belt, water pump an coolant change.a few pictures:







A few weeks ago a mate told me of a set of good condition 106 half leathers in a scrappy so i popped round to have a look an there were a good clean set apart from the drivers seat that has a small hole in the alcantar but i used it as bartering point an got them for a good price as for the hole nothing a seat cover cant fix.





Also fixed the carpet on the passenger side as once again it had moved.



I did clean it aswell but no pics as i started feeling crap.

Hope you enjoy

Come and do a service on my bm mate ;-)
Have you cleaned and fed the leather??

Haha im always avalible mate, not yet mate not had the money with getting a new dog an all the service parts, also done the same jobs on my dads calibra and kims vtr so did alot of work for a short period of time. Gonna do the timing belt next weekend

Did you use 75w90?

Yes mate its done wonders tbh the box started whining abit but now its silent an so much smoother. I see your from penn I think i see your clio most mornings on the stafford road?

A picture from y-day and the beading when i came out to it this morning.

Not updated in a while, so ill start with a few snowy pics. Bare in mind i didn't say good pics haha.




Now i recently changed my top gearbox mount ive had it lying around for ages so finally sorted it. I cleaned all the crap off aswell after i took the pic dont worry.



Last sat i changed my drivers wishbone then tuesday night it felt weird on the way home from work so when I got home i jacked it up an to my horror this, suprised i got it home tbh.



So a trip to my local breakers later



Not all bad news though new leg had a gmax shock i can sell on, couldnt belive the size diff compared to my Billys. Billy's on the right



Then today i got bored so i tried one of the spare wheels that came with my mrs new car.



Then thought its got better weather wise an i hate my black wheels so i fitted my silver s wheels again so much better. Excuse the dirty car it really needs a clean and i need to pull my finger out and do it.

looking good there mate. saw it earlier on as you passed my house. need to catch up again soon.

Ye deff mate i did wonder if you were in haha ill have to pop up one of the days can show you kims gti aswell.

awsome mate love the car :)

Well ive finally took the plunge, i was browsing on the for sale threads on here and a vts popped up for £300 with a dodgy gearbox, leaking exhaust and running on 3 cylinders. I went and had a look handed over £300 and drove it to my mates unit, bodged the coilpack and got it running on 4 to get me the 20 miles home.




I set about stripping the car last weekend.





Fast forward to Saturday just gone (4/5/13) 10am i started ripping the vtr out, it was out by 1:30pm. The vts engine was in and running by 10:20pm which im quite pleased about tbh but as it was dark i took a picture sunday morning, anyway some pictures.

looking good!

Fuckkkk. Asif the strut snapped off like that!

And asif it didn't all collaspe! Lucky :y:

Nice work mate (y) glad to see my S being used for summat more usefull than being weighed in for cash

Small update:
Got married recently so been on my honeymoon to Wales, went on whats becoming a yearly drive with vtcarl and a few others. All in all the car has done close to 1000 miles this week trouble free might i add but was filthy. Pic doesn't show just how bad it was.



Then i thought ive had my wishbone polybushes for almost 7 months so its about time i fit them, so popped to a garage to get them to take the old bushes out an hour later i had this ready to fit.



What a difference really please with them, also by the time i had finished my big driving week my exhaust had given up and was blowing like a trooper, popped to the local exhaust place and once again 15 min later i had a new one of these fitted.



Then it brings me to the last bit last night i popped out to be greated by a metal twang when i went over a bump, got home to check and the 13mm in the rear arb end plate had snapped clean off. Today i popped to wickes in the mrs car to get a decent 7mm drill bit as the shite one i had slipped and started to oval the hole out so i drilled a new hole in the end plate and trailing arm, tapped an m8 thread out and sorted like new, no more noises.



Thats it tbh car is running sweet as a nut and im loving it tbh.

Cheers dan

good to hear mate, used to look after that engine so should see you sound

Looking good dan can't wait for fcs to go round track and I bet you will be the same haha