Gunmetal S - Car's back from the bodyshop!!! - Page 36 - Saxperience

AlexR · 25th June 2008, 21:27

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Originally Posted by bullit

yeah not bad

sounded on bodies lol

his car sounds nothing like it's on bodies

seriously! it just has a loud exhaust...

were you driving around on two wheel bolts red? you homo!

bullit · 25th June 2008, 22:06

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Originally Posted by AlexR

his car sounds nothing like it's on bodies

seriously! it just has a loud exhaust...

were you driving around on two wheel bolts red? you homo!

i know.maybe exage. but where i was standing watching it did sound, okay

grantlowery · 25th June 2008, 21:22

Get some blue or metal center caps for those comp mo's, they will look the dogs!

Yates · 25th June 2008, 21:44

i think alex left wheels the way they were, cowboy fag fo sho

AlexR · 25th June 2008, 21:56

I was hoping the wheels would fall off, and he'd crash and die, then i could go scavenge the wheels from the wreckage and use them on my car

on a serious note, i do wheel bolts up VERY tight, much tighter than torque wrench recommends, and always make sure people are happy with how tight wheel bolts are before they leave, cos almost anything else can fall apart and you can recover, but if a wheel falls off you're fucked

Yates · 25th June 2008, 21:59

cowboy alex yeeehhhhhhhaaaaaaaaaaa

on serious note, alex is a fag

on a more serious note, if i take wheels off when putting them on i go around the car twice at least checking all, and again i do them as tight as i can, which is tight when you see my guns. pow pow

AlexR · 25th June 2008, 22:02

aii

Adam_Q · 26th June 2008, 10:13

Hope you guys know you shouldn't over tighten the wheel nuts, if you have guns like the above, you will crack the wheels

Very strange for wheel nuts to just fall off.... but i've been in a land rover, which went around a roundabout and with a bang, we stopped to see one of our wheels roll down the road.... luckly the old rover managed to keep rolling on 3 wheels lol!

-Richard- · 26th June 2008, 12:01

looking good at FCS mate

AlexR · 26th June 2008, 20:51

I did used to use the torque wrench but then it got broken in rain damage from my shed roof fucking up

I am 100% sure i won't have left the wheel bolts too loose, i'm sure red must have had the wheel off, for cleaning arches and underside of car i guess?!

Cos i've worked on 50+ peoples cars, probably taking other peoples wheels off over 200 times. i used to work on my vts on a weekly basis and must have had the wheels off several hundred times seeing as i had it for 4 years, and had them off several times per weekend sometimes for various jobs. And never once has anyone complained about loose wheel bolts, it's the one thing that i don't like about working on other peoples cars, is that if anything goes wrong you can't tell who's to blame, and i always make sure people are happy with how tight their wheel bolts are.

I'm disappointed that red has named me as the last person to touch them, as i'm sure i wasn't.

That is all.

jaybiss · 26th June 2008, 21:00

you go on track with two wheel bolts?

it doesnt matter who was last to do them, its upto the driver to make sure everything is ok

glad you survived red and your clutch when you reverse park into a bay you noisy fucker

RedB · 27th June 2008, 08:53

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Originally Posted by bullit

yeah not bad

sounded on bodies lol

Not yet

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Originally Posted by grantlowery

Get some blue or metal center caps for those comp mo's, they will look the dogs!

Thanks man, not keen on blue but im thinking a different colour for the refurb atm. Ideas?

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Originally Posted by Yates

cowboy alex yeeehhhhhhhaaaaaaaaaaa

on serious note, alex is a fag

on a more serious note, if i take wheels off when putting them on i go around the car twice at least checking all, and again i do them as tight as i can, which is tight when you see my guns. pow pow

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Originally Posted by AlexR

aii

Hahaha 2 inch-wonder.
aii

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Originally Posted by bullit

i know.maybe exage. but where i was standing watching it did sound, okay

Cheers lol.

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Originally Posted by adz21

Hope you guys know you shouldn't over tighten the wheel nuts, if you have guns like the above, you will crack the wheels

Very strange for wheel nuts to just fall off.... but i've been in a land rover, which went around a roundabout and with a bang, we stopped to see one of our wheels roll down the road.... luckly the old rover managed to keep rolling on 3 wheels lol!

Crazy mo' fo'!!!

Luckily haha!?
Legging it down the road after a wheel FTL.

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Originally Posted by R1CHO

looking good at FCS mate

Thankyou mate

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Originally Posted by AlexR

I did used to use the torque wrench but then it got broken in rain damage from my shed roof fucking up

I am 100% sure i won't have left the wheel bolts too loose, i'm sure red must have had the wheel off, for cleaning arches and underside of car i guess?!

Cos i've worked on 50+ peoples cars, probably taking other peoples wheels off over 200 times. i used to work on my vts on a weekly basis and must have had the wheels off several hundred times seeing as i had it for 4 years, and had them off several times per weekend sometimes for various jobs. And never once has anyone complained about loose wheel bolts, it's the one thing that i don't like about working on other peoples cars, is that if anything goes wrong you can't tell who's to blame, and i always make sure people are happy with how tight their wheel bolts are.

I'm disappointed that red has named me as the last person to touch them, as i'm sure i wasn't.

That is all.

Sand in the vagine...
Jokes.

As said everything is the drivers responsibility tbh.
Wheels havnt been touched apart from cleaning whilst still on since Ferodo's went on but im not blaiming anyone man and everyone should know how much of a meticulous whore Alex is lol

On a serious note. i've never doubted your work mate and still need to catch up over a BBQ and a few beers before the Ring. Really appreciate all the shit you've sorted on mine

Only the front left wheel bolts were loose which is weird.
Everything was double or triple-checked before leaving for the hotel so i dont have the foggiest tbh just glad everything and everyone was ok!

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Originally Posted by jaybiss

you go on track with two wheel bolts?

it doesnt matter who was last to do them, its upto the driver to make sure everything is ok

glad you survived red and your clutch when you reverse park into a bay you noisy fucker

Not that die hard mate haha

Lost a wheel nut around wellingbrough somewhere tho

Got to the hotel and sorted the wheel then went for a gentle drive to test everything and make sure the car would make it to the show, unlike poor Alex-VTS's shed

Checked everything again early doors before we set off then again at the show and before the track sesh. Tbh i didnt think id make it on but glad everything was ok and the car ran well

Cheers Jay lol, few clutches and driveshafts took a battering there from people lol.

-Not as much of a battering as Amiee tbh...

RedB · 27th June 2008, 09:19

Moving on to a little bit of progress.

Decieded im taking a MIG welder to the Supersprint fanifold to stop any blowing then adding some more (yes more!) heat-wrap and that is the system finally finished

Just ordered a lovely catch tank...

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/D1-Spec-15mm-R...ayphotohosting

Some tasty hoses to go with aswell yum yum.

After chatting with a mate im convinced i need to relocate the battery in't boot so thats gonna have to be done and a nice custom box fabricated and powder-coated before its slotted into place.

This would be easier with pictures but iv re-wired the front components so that no wiring is on display and everything is neatly hidden and run through the doors.

Gearstick needs to be cut down by a couple of inches before i get a new gearknob on there to spruce things up.

Car needs a polish with the UDM sometime in the next 2 weeks and i'll grab some pics of the underside next week when the manifold is back on.

2 weeks to go until some Ring action

-Richard- · 27th June 2008, 10:36

go for it mate

Adam_Q · 28th June 2008, 14:43

Red, you've got more money than sense lol!

Why's your supersprint blowing? I'd send it back if I were you!

Catch tank looks lush! So why do you need to put the battery in the boot? Can't see the point tbh!

dannygti · 28th June 2008, 14:48

catch tank looks great buddy and re-locate batrery into boot is such a good idea lol

RedB · 28th June 2008, 16:39

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Originally Posted by adz21

Red, you've got more money than sense lol!

Why's your supersprint blowing? I'd send it back if I were you!

Catch tank looks lush! So why do you need to put the battery in the boot? Can't see the point tbh!

I wish that were true at the moment mate!
Bodies, cams and a remap would already be sorted by now just in time for the Ring lol!

Catch tank is needed i realised at Rockingham, like Rushy did aswell lol!

SuperSprint's all have a generic problem...where the Y-piece (2-1 bit) joins to the cat, its bolted on seperately and usually blows after a while which is gash but its gonna be sorted in a few days.

Taking a MIG to it and then heat-wrapping over it will sort the blow and make the system look/sound better so not a problemo really!

Battery in the boot for better weigh distribution?

Just looks better to be honest and the makes the bay look cleaner/less cluttered.

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Originally Posted by dannygti

catch tank looks great buddy and re-locate batrery into boot is such a good idea lol

Sooo necessary lol

Danny's looks mint Adz and a great example (hope you dont mind bud)....

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Seats looked mint at FCS btw mate! Miss 'em now lol

Think i know what the new ones are hehe

10kg weight saving on yours with the new battery wasnt it?

dannygti · 28th June 2008, 17:39

yes mate it was around 10kgs as the new battery weighs 5kgs. the seats are great red thanks again for those lol.ive got some new ones on the cards anyway soon so they will be up for sale.

saxoaee · 28th June 2008, 21:09

nice car one question im doing a wiper conversion with an ax motor, what arm you got on your car mate did you buy it?

RedB · 30th June 2008, 23:43

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Originally Posted by dannygti

yes mate it was around 10kgs as the new battery weighs 5kgs. the seats are great red thanks again for those lol.ive got some new ones on the cards anyway soon so they will be up for sale.

Tempted to buy 'em back now you bastard lol! Maybe get the back's resprayed or have a carbon like shell moulded for them

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Originally Posted by saxoaee

nice car one question im doing a wiper conversion with an ax motor, what arm you got on your car mate did you buy it?

Cheers buddy

Arm came with the storm conversion iirc. that was on there from the previous owner. Think its a black pro-arm with a smooth cover on

Didnt realise how much the conversion costs!

but found this for ya which might help dude....

http://www.larkspeed.com/index.pl?c=...PER&s=category

Updates coming tomo and wed