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I tried all I could to get the superglue off, including some harsh chemicals. I even tried scraping it off. In the end, I decided to leave it like this. I think I've worn down the glue at least a bit. And it's not that noticable unless you get really close. So, there's the new badge! This time...

Yesterday, the oil catch can arrived! It's really nicely made despite being so cheap. The two screw-in hose attachments are plastic though. It came with two strange screws that had O-rings, I'm guessing to reduce vibrations or something. The can can be unscrewed and emptied, or a large hex grub...

Paint is looking good on the new boot handle. I'm going to go over it once more to cover over some patches where I slowed down and it looks a bit off. Painting with metallic paint is annoying. This time I'm going to put lots of lacquer on, and polish it down well. Might even get some sandpaper...

I'm not having any problems with cooling. The radiator is a preface one, they're a bit better made. The yellow fan ones.

The fan is looking great! And now I present to you: The most useless mod I've done. Actually, that may not be true. After all, we modify our cars because it's fun. I had fun doing this, and I like the look of it. It's kinda silly but kinda cool too. Actually, realistically, there is supposed to...

More screwing around with this spare AC fan I have. Now it's red. It's high temperature red, mostly because that's all I had. I sanded the boot handle until it was starting to shine a bit. I really need new sandpaper, this sheet was pretty ineffective. I last bought sandpaper like 4 years ago...

How's that for fitment then? While I was cleaning off the oil deposits, I found where the oil was coming from near the distributor! I mean, it was coming from the bad gasket too, but there's a crack here! I thought I saw it when I was making the last post on here last night. It was confirmed...

Unfortunately, the MOT test didn't go well. So, the same day, I bought some new disks, as one was bad. Got a discount of ~52% using Honey online! So these were £18 for the pair, win. Back to a graveyard of K11s (one more off-shot). Look at how good that looks! I can't get over how cool that...

I wish that could be said about my dissertation. If I didn't have to come up with 12k words on that I'd have ten times as much time to play around with my car right now.

Thanks. Looks like you and nissan boy both saw it before I was done writing the text in though!

Thanks, laptop, for going back and losing all of the text I just wrote! Because of this there may be less text than planned... Gave my car a quick rinse with some soap a few days ago. Another day, the new AC switch backlights arrived. Time to fit these chunky bois in. Had to sand it down...

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I finished work early today, and it was sunny! So I did some car stuff. I found out that the different bonnet release latch on the cabrio just turns out to be an extension on what we got in Europe. It could be removed and added to a normal car. Though, I'm not sure if there's much point...

That exhaust looks and sounds great.

A singular bulb arrived in the post. I was lucky enough to find this one and only bid £0.02 on it, with free postage. I ended up winning on that bid. This T5 has 3 SMD chips on the end as opposed to the usual one. The existing bulb in the LCD screen deteriorated as I pulled it out. That's...

So, whenever it's wet outside I get these big rainbow puddles when I stop. It's not a massvie leak but it's built up over the gearbox cross-brace and when it gets wet it all kinda deposits on the floor and makes it look like I've got a hole in my sump or something. Ignoring that for now though...

Extra photo from last night. The camera doesn't get the colour right. It's actually a really deep yellow. I kinda really like it. I wasn't sure if I would (in fact I thought I probably wouldn't). Today, I finally cracked out the old summer wheels. It was a really dry day today and was quite...

Yesterday I took some spare headlights with me to my friends. These lights are one of my 3 current sets, but the glass is a bit damaged and so is the plastic lip near the glass. There's a crack in the right one too, so I'm just using these temporarily. I had a little problem with the right...

Looks like I've run into a problem with the cam cover! I've lost coilpack 2! I'll have to occasionally poke this back down, then. I did a launch later that day and the coilpack actually split off leaving the coil itself bending down into the hole. The engine wasn't impressed. Got a slightly...

Recently I've been having a really really REALLY noisy rattle sound coming from inside the car behind the dash, somewhere in the middle. It's been so noisy I actually can't hear the radio or engine over it. Yesterday I pulled apart some interior and found the suspect. It was the ECU and/or the...