pistonbroke

Bit off topic, but my god..................those wheels..........

Dude, you need to go to specsavers.......they look nothing like the pic you posted above

They're not sparco. Sparco wheels in the design have spokes all the way to the edge. I can't find any BBS that they could be. I thought they could be old TSW Hockenheims, but they don't look the same either. Sorry bud, no idea.

I'll wager there's more to this story. I'll not comment further unless furnished with all the facts.

Hello matey, sorry for not getting back to you yesterday. There's a girl at the reception of the garage who I was chatting to. She told me she wants a white integra with red interior and I thought of you. My car was ready before I had a chance to show her the pic. The garage is the Old Forge in Orpington High Street. Take the Teg down there and ask for Carly. She seemed really interested mate.

You bastards.......I'm off to Asda at midnight to pick up a copy Is that really sad?

I must admit, that while fighting with the white plastic from the clip, when it dropped into number 3, I could do nothing but laugh, it was like something out of a carry on film. When I heard myself sniggering, I thought to myself, 'this is worth posting about' . I've not got any pictures I'm afraid Geo, though tune in next week, I'm gonna spray the dash

The wife would kill me if I got oil on the dyson

Well done mate, awesome result

And oh what fun it was. I planned on getting it done by my trusted indy mechanic, but a financial thrashing from the wife this month has forced my hand it dusting off the spanners. So, car jacked up and on stands, drain the oil, remove oil filter, drop oil filter as it comes off last thread, oil all over face . Check bag of goodies from whifbitz......no sump plug washer. So I leave the oil draining and take a walk down to the local spares place, get washer and walk back again. I then decided to leave the oil draining for as long as possible to get the most out. So I move onto spark plug change. I remove the cover, and proceed to turn every single coil pack connector into dust as soon as I look at it . How the hell the car wasn't missfiring is a mystery, luckily, I planned for this and bought 6 new connectors in case of such eventuality. So, I get on here and found the IanC instructions for replacing them, to Ian, top work. The pictures in your thread make it look simple, but when you actually do the job, you realise how tiny and fiddly everything is. However, I persevered and managed to replace all of them. So, onto the spark plugs, I remove the coil packs and notice that the white plastic from one of the old coil pack clips has fallen into No'1 plug recess. I think to myself, I better get that out, I don't want it falling in when I remove the plug. I fought with the plastic piece for what seemed like an eternity with some stiff needle nose pliers, but to no avail. So, I hold my head over the hole and blow. The plastic bastard shoots up and hits me in the eye........then landed in No.2 recess , again I do the blow trick, this time with my eyes closed, I feel it ping off my forehead.........and I shit you not, I open my eyes and there he is, the little bastard is in No.3. I decided to change tactics and used some long precision screw drivers to chopstick the bugger out.....hurrahh . So, onto the plugs, I managed them without calamity. I wanted to do my cam cover gaskets as well, but noticed how much of a bugger the rear bolts are to get too. I decided to put everything back together while I still had light to work with. So, wack in the motul chrono v300 and start her up, praying that all 6 cylinders fire, she fires instantly and purrs to a sedate 700rpm, almost like a subliminal thankyou for new coil clips, iridiums and oil. Job done, when I walked back into the house, I glimpsed in the mirror and saw the state of my face, I forgot about the oil filter incident, and I'd walked down the high street for the sump washer looking like I'd been run over by a bus.

How did you get it already?

Blimey Chris, you get spotted a lot don't ya

Well, she went back in yesterday, got the second CAT fitted, and stuck on the front plate with some double sided tape. 5 mins on the machine to warm the CAT and hey presto, within legal limit emmisions Get my certificate printed and promptly have the Decat pipe put back on. The guy who did the MOT was the fella that I bought my first red supra from ( see garage, now Mark Newmans car), so he's well into them. I had to explain to him the reasoning for decatting the car as he'd not heard of BPU before , then he asks "does it really make that much difference?"......"er, yeah" I replied. So, I stuck the boost controller on B setting for 0.9 bar boost (it was wet and I didn't want him bending it) and let him take it out. When we got back, he's decided to seriously consider another supra, he bought a Caterham 7 after selling his supe to me but after feeling BPU, he wants back in the game Good times

I'm in for the GTR bread shot.

Awesome New challenge please.!

Place a brick in front of the front wheels, jack the car up at the rear, release the handbrake. Now grab the offending wheel on either side and shake it, see if there is any play. Spin the wheel and listen for worn bearing noises, also see if the wheel spins freely to verify whether the handbrake is binding on. Shake the wheel from top to bottom the same way as you did the sides, again to check for play. If you have any play, you need a new bearing.

If you're talking about the red supra in your garage, they're not the same.

Happy Birthday mate

Are you guys still on it?

Please don't say you have a 50k budget for a uber cool single build for a car you bought in Australia with a parts list lifted from another site...........Sorry. Welcome

whats the next challenge then?

Best thing about that film is the music they used in the trailer.

I don't suppose you want to sell the wheels seperately. My dad wants a set for his 350z. His has the standard 8 spoke 18's which you could have in return.? As seen here

I thought the kid was actually quite restrained (in comparison to what I've seen other kids act like on that show). He was articulate, and managed to be funny, without seeming too bratish. I think he'll be famous one day.