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Tday straightened the alignment & swapped back to the new manifold The mapping needs more refining cos it keeps leaning out it certain spots or requires lots of fuel trim cos of the better flowing manifold

2025-01-06 Passed MOT Booked a new MOT for the afternoon. Cleaned the dizzy cap, Recalibrated the wideband sensor incase it was reading slightly off. To warm up the whole exhaust, especially boiling away any condensation trapped in the colder backbox to reduce any steam & have better chance...

2025-01-05 Ultrasonic Clean Fuel Injectors So last night after swapping the exhaust & mapping over, I noticed during idle the fuel trim was adding upto 8-15% extra fuel just to keep it at 14.7afr, suspecting the injectors are slightly clogged at low-duty. Guides online suggest few methods to...

2025-01-04 Failed MOT Drive her up down the road to warm her up before going to the local test centre on a chilly morning. The guy did a quick check over & hooked up the emissions test. She struggled with the first fast-idle test for 30sec, reading 0.54% CO (limit 0.30%) but a good 61ppm HC...

Replaced both worn/rusty tie-rod ends with new dust boots Reinstalled the power steering rack. Instead of having a power steering cooler, I simply plumbed the return hose straight back to the reservoir to simplify and I doubt it gets that hot anyway Replaced both worn out lower ball...

Epoxy primer & grey topcoat applied Chopping the rot off the drivers wing Welded Painted Also reinforced this corner which holds the front bumper end Painted black & reassembled. Went to fill the empty tank, fuel nozzle was able to be inserted ALL the way into the filler pipe...

Chopped the rust out Some of my worst welding with paper thin rusty steel and a very cramped dark garage ?? Patched the drivers side too After grinding the welds mostly flat, it's time to mixed the epoxy primer & polyurethane top coat. They are certainly beyond their best-use-by date...

Dismantling the front end was getting extensive as I removed the LED underglow, removed PAS cooler, front wings & reroute the loom ? Drivers sill ain't too bad, simple patch up Passenger side requires a more extensive patch ?

2024-12-26 Repair Rear Left Damper Turret Time to assess this rusty left turret mount Ah, wirebrushing the rust off reveal it's worse than I thought ? Gonna have to rebuild this section Chopped the rotten section out Grinded clean the thick CO2 canister cup which I'll re-use...

For the upcoming MOT I needed to reinstall the secondary cat but first I had to cut the old flange off (was for the janspeed exhaust) Cut the spare V-band off the old manifold, which I won't be using anymore Welded the V-band onto both ends

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Welded brackets onto the pipe Recreating the cowel with a stainless lid Trimmed the edges Trimming the cowel to match the angle of the opening Old pipe vs new stainless pipe fits perfectly Old fuel filler vs new filler Hopefully I won't ever have to worry about it rotting...

Hey Beth Thanks for sharing this great find What a great review & a really mint preface-lift K11 ? Enjoyed watching that

Drained approx 1L out the tank from when the light comes on till the pump runs dry :unsure: Removed the old filler pipe since it was fitted in 2017, still intact & not rust The epoxy primer & hard coated wheel well paint keeping rust away :cool: Will restore the sills with the same...

Tacked the pipes together. It roughly matches the old one but I'll need to verify fitment on the car before fully welding it up For the funnel opening, the only 2" stainless pipe available that fits the screw fitting had a slot cut along it, so I began welding it together To taper the...

2024-12-20 Stainless Fuel Filler Pipe Been wanting to replace the factory mild-steel fuel filler pipe with a stainless version cos they all eventually rust from being exposed in the wheel arch, leading to rust in the fuel tank, clogging the filters & pump, & leaking fuel. Began stripping apart...

Marked where to cut the pipe Made an end cap Welded The droning is not as severe as before but there's still a little hint of that 208hz resonance, maybe cos the end-cap wasn't cut perfectly square (affecting how the sound reflects back) or maybe it was slightly off the optimum...

2024-12-16 Fitting & Tuning Adjustable J-Pipe Marked & cut the hole on the de-cat pipe J-pipe welded on Just enough weld penetration so that the bends are still smooth inside Installed ready to tune Marked the plunger positions so it's easier to measure length To tune the...

2024-12-15 Making an Adjustable Exhaust J-Pipe Refined the design to fit within the existing de-cat pipe with a support bar & clear the large mid-pipe resonator Cut afew pie-cuts to make the 1.75" 1.25D smooth bend Welded the bend & trimmed the end to fit the 2.25" exhaust pipe...

2024-12-13 Fix Exhaust Drone with J-Pipe My custom 2.25" exhaust system was often quite loud & boomy for years but ever since I fitted the new equal-length manifold the exhaust had a very noticeable, loud & annoying drone when cruising at 3.1k rpm :unsure: ? I read this page about calculating...