My Evo 9 :D

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Take it you have entered the gadget show comp in that case if you like tech lol

Yep, weekly occurrence in our house! lol

Lee - i tried to play with the loud pedal to adjust the boost, but the spool is so damn quick after 3k that its near on impossible :sad: I'm removing all the old boost capillary lines over the winter to replace with braided ones :) and hopefully work out a shorter route too! At the moment i'm just trying to stay warm!
 
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Its taken me 10 hours of work, but i've stripped this crap underseal off the car, there is NO rust on those arches at all :D WIN! covered it with stone chip protector, let it dry over night and went to town with the underseal. The stuff gets everywhere! I've done the rear right, rear underside and some of the rear right arch but i'm running out of daylight and its BLOODY cold outside lol. Will get some pics up, but the arches look a million times better, and it will protect the underside of the car of the UK's road crap - As even when its dry, there is still crap on the roads that the standard underseal on even UK evo's won't stop :( I've also found little nooks and cranny's where i found dust/sand/mud that most wouldn't even know were there!! No wonder the 7's are rotting in the arches now :(
 
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get some pics up steve. ive done both my evos now. went to town on my VII and removed and painted the diff and all suspension arms :) didnt get quite so carried away with my mak but i did do the whole floor pan, front chassis legs the lot :) :)
 
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I'll get some pics once it gets on the 4 poster at the car club :) the rear diff just needs degreasing and it'll come up like new :)
 
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Well the weekends have been cold and i've had relatively no time to work on the car, but i had a chance last week whilst the other half was on a course :)

So here's how it began - the car's been off the road on axle stands whilst i've undersealed the rear of the car and started the re-conditioning of the callipers. The mud flaps came off and i measured up the nuts and bolts needed, went down my local Stainless suppliers and got me some new fasteners :D



And after some cleaning with TFR and APC on the mud flaps, they came out like new :D Gave the 'ironwork' a good clean too and re-assembled :D





They now fit perfectly and square :)
Next job is to install the new door cards - yes i know, some people were fans of my carbon door cards but they were causing the interior of the car to be really loud and i wanted door pockets damn it! Now, some of you will know i've got the window switches in the centre console, and as they're supposed to be in the door cards...yes... more wiring



All done in about 20 minutes with my trusty soldering iron and heat shrink :) It took a while longer to pull the wiring back through the cabin as it was cable tied to everything lol. oh yeh....and nearly completed my callipers :)





The car also since being up in scotland hasn't had the interior properly cleaned, so decided to get the apc and other cleaning products out, give it the once over and properly clean the mats with a carpet cleaner - they water was almost black when i'd finished!!



I wasn't sure about doing the seats, so gave them a damp cloth clean and a brush. I'm happy with the way its turned out, but i've decided i now need a new/custom gear shift gaiter as mine's too short after modifying and it keeps coming out the recess :(
 
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Right, a little further on with the undersealing and cleaning up of the arches. The fronts were VERY clean, but still i went ahead to seal them up for the northern roads.

So Wheel off, out comes the arch liner



The brake disk was removed - i must add this thing was on TIGHT, it took a good beat with the wooden hammer to get it to shift. Then gave the hub a going over with the wire brush and painted in smooth hammerite (same stuff i used on the engine for those of you who remember the colour),also the flange front was given a light covering in copper grease, which in this pic makes it look like rust :(



Then a full degrease and steam clean of the arch. This was the time



coilover removed



Slap on the under seal, strip down the calliper and paint it up!





Then put it all back together :) all parts cleaned up and the base of the shock painted to prevent corrosion.





And finally got the door cards in and gave the interior a clean.

 
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Excellent work Steve !
The cabin now looks more homely :):)
 
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Cheers Lee. It feels that way too :) My speakers arrive this week hopefully, so will be able to listen to some music whilst travelling to my favourite B roads :D
 
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Cheers Lee. It feels that way too :) My speakers arrive this week hopefully, so will be able to listen to some music whilst travelling to my favourite B roads :D

That's a novelty is it lol :):)
 
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It is after owning a car with no stereo for just under a year! lol

When I had my VII it had some high quality alpine components up front and 3 ways at the rear. Awesome sound quality it really was.
Then moved to my mak which had a pair of 4" kenwood 2 ways and that was it. Shocking it was !!!
Got some 6" speakers all round now :)
 
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Words Fail Me...

... yes. quite.


Moving on :wtf: i've started the front N/S wheel arch and made some discoveries, again, more loom and a little bit of surface rust that went away with the wire brush on the drill :D (treated then rust bullet).
Callipers stripped down and cleaned up - for those of you who don't know K-sport calliper design at all, the slide rails that are bolted to the housing can gum up, i've taken them off each calliper and polished them up to aid movement in the pads :) Will get pics up tonight.
 
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... yes. quite.


Moving on :wtf: i've started the front N/S wheel arch and made some discoveries, again, more loom and a little bit of surface rust that went away with the wire brush on the drill :D (treated then rust bullet).
Callipers stripped down and cleaned up - for those of you who don't know K-sport calliper design at all, the slide rails that are bolted to the housing can gum up, i've taken them off each calliper and polished them up to aid movement in the pads :) Will get pics up tonight.

well too bad u are 440 miles away , would really like to see this stunning car face to face, looks QUITE nice mate ...:D
 
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