Haha! I did as a consolation find a coil pack bolt that slipped out of my hands the week before though. That subframe gobbles up all kinds of good things.

 

love how you made the best out of it and did all the fixer upper stuff and brought her back

 

There is another "black hole" in the ISF for the push pins on the LHD driver's side engine bay cover. The two right by the brake fluid reservoir love to pop up and fall down into a dark region. While doing my valve lash adjustment, I notice they were gathering in a single spot underneath the brake booster where the wire loom forms a "small but accessible to push pin" area. I used a vacuum cleaner with a small - I mean tiny - adapter to fit in this spot and managed to extract not one, not two, but three of these errant little mugs. I forgot how many I'd lost over the years because I buy them in a bag of 25 for less than $10 and replace them all the time.

Those engine bay covers do not exist on the GSF. They spent the weight in other places...

 

It has been a good for the car. I finally got around to having the windows tinted again, but at 35% this time. For me it is much better than the previous tint that measured at 11%. Rafi also had some time to look over my logs for the issues I have had with the tuned intake and got me a revised map. It is pretty close. At this point I don't have any CELs, but I am having a higher than normal idle and some a couple of other small things. So, I will make a couple of more logs and see if we can smooth things out a little bit. But, overall I consider this progress.

 

Today is the day my car stops sounding like a city bus approaching its next stop. New rotors specifically were due. I get the impression that the previous owner changed the pads, but not the rotors in the past. The front rotors had quite a bit of grooving and the rear rotors were very worn on the hub side. I replaced them with Brembo rotors and Project Mu NS400 pads. I also cleaned up the fender wells and suspension a bit as well as molded the top portion of the venting in the front passenger wheel well to keep from making annoying noises while turning in reverse. If you have a lower offset you know what I am talking about. Here are a few pics:

Front Rotor


Rear Rotor


Rotor hats were given a quick coat of Powerlock to aide in cleaning.


Finished product turned out great.


I also expect to have my wheels back from powder soon. I received this pic from the powdercoater today.

 

Looks amazing! Very clean

 

looking good Nick. nice to see the wheels being done.

 

Looks great Nick.

Bet you can't wait to get those wheels back!

Keep up the great work mate.

Cheers.


Peter

 

Wheels are back from powder and new Contis are going on today.

 

Nick. The wheels look great gloss black! Been toying with the idea of doing something custom with my 818s

 

It appears with the fatter and more square sidewall that I am going to need to perform a little more massaging.

 

The wheels were on for our Cars and Coffee event yesterday, but they are back off today with salty roads in the forecast.

 

How much did it run to powdercoat the wheels?! Approximately how long did it take them?
have a pic of the wheels from the side?! Looks good from what I can tell! Those wheels are sooo close toy stock '12 wheels, I'm wondering if I should just powdercoat them or buy these, lol.

V.

 

I paid $100 per wheel for double polish gloss black. The spoke design is similar to the 12' BBSs, but they are probably 10x more concave. The down side is that they are cast wheels and not the quality of BBS.

 

In today's news, after further discussion with Rafi I am sending back the RR tuned intake. Rafi was gracious enough to take the time to change several calibrations in the tune so that the fuel trims would be within spec. But, the car still did not drive well under low throttle and rather than him spending all sorts of time trying to figure it out half way across the country we figured it was best to throw in the towel. So, I am going back to the stock airbox and RR tune which the car likes much better.