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Brought a BiggRed service kit on ebay for rebuilding the rear calipers with fresh rubber & pistons for £37 :cool:

My Consult diagnostic cable made by old Blazt tends to annoyingly freeze the laptop at random whilst datalogging with NissanDataScan 😤 I thought it was electrical interference but I noticed that simply nudging the cable will disrupt the signal & freeze the screen, so there must be a loose/bad...

2024-11-16 Micra Cooling System Warm Up Sequence Jack was having issues with his micra taking forever to warm up whereas mine heats up in few mins. So I measured some temps to show how the system normally heats up. Labelled some of the essential hoses I'll be feeling for. Heater dial is...

Covered the front of the panel shield with black vinyl to stop the bare aluminium shining through the grills 🙈 & form a protective layer from incoming debris & weather Some stainless O2 sensor nuts also arrived for when I make the turbo downpipe

Fitted the repainted manifold. Made this shield for the front panel out of spare aluminium (similar to factory panel) to protect the engine/manifold/turbo from being blasted with weather (reduce rust), debris, cold air (keep exhaust hot for turbo) & help divert air through the radiator instead...

2024-11-15 Repainted New Manifold It seems the grey acrylic primer I applied by mistake (thinking it would've helped adhesion) turned to dust from being cooked by the heat therefore the hard cured VHT paint had nothing to cling onto and all peeled off 😅 (well it did say on the spraycan no...

2024-11-15 Print Stronger Gear Stick Mount After snapping the gearstick mount & ditching the rubber dust boot, I designed a much beefier mount Uses the same ball socket insert sized to fit snug without binding The green plate is pushed over the hex screws to lock & prevent them loosening...

This morning I saw the VHT paint over the grey primer has began to all crack/peel off 😬🙈 Almost all peeled off from the heat tonight. Guess I'll have to wirebrush it all off and spray the silver paint directly onto steel this time as mentioned on the spray can 😅 Recorded a cheeky little...

Tday removed the current standard cast manifold Old vs new manifold This catch can / shield plate was in the way so needs removing. I'll make a new shield & relocate the catch cans at some point :unsure: Fitted the new header Refined the downpipe to include a V-band join & position...

drilled & tapped new holes for the wastegate actuator looking good :cool: can't wait to fit this new manifold 😁

Sanded the flange flat Till it covers the exhaust gasket The completed manifold wirebrushed clean :cool: A look inside each port & inside the merge collector Primered Painted with silver VHT Shweet

Ideally I wanted a long bench sander to flatten the whole flange evenly but they cost over £200! Next choice is the old portable belt sander, some of them range from £50-180 fancy features (which I dont care about) but for this one-off task I managed to find a cheapo sander in argos for £33 😁...

I may have cut too much material off the complex join and manually filing/grinding it to fit wasn't working, so thought fookit lets join it & deal with the slightly wrong angles. Tacked the merge collector together, runner #1 & 4 are pointing up too much, they should be pointing flat With...

2024-11-01 Fabricate New Turbo Manifold Cleaned up these 38mm steel U-bends I had in storage Marked out the 70/90/180deg bends required I'll need to adapt this band saw to hold & cut the precise bends Printed these jigs Added an extra screw hole to the band saw Now I can cut...

2024-10-30 Equal Length 4-1 Turbo Exhaust Header This was the latest chosen design #97 which closely met my design goals. Has equal length runners, compact, doesn't require many U-bends to make, simple angle cuts, few welds to do compared to joining hundreds of pie-cuts The turbo...

2020-2024 Redesign Exhaust Manifold From 2011-2019 my old turbo setup had this crude layout with lots of tight bends & factory unequal length manifold, not great for flow or efficiency Since the turbo setup last blew up in 2018 I've been running this factory NA manifold that's been opened up...

2024-11-02 Radiator Fin Straightening Comb The old radiator fins are slightly covered in bugs & some on the back are bent, not good for efficiency especially once it's turboed so I printed this precise 1.4mm teethed mini comb 🤏 works great at straightening each fin

2024-10-27 Replace Peugeot Silencer The old silencer on the peugeot rusted off again so I brought another cheap box off ebay. It looked slightly different to the photo, useing the usual cheap hanger strapped in the middle (rather than welded on shown in the photo), & the diesel exhaust is...

2024-10-26 North East Autoshow Darlington Washed the car ready for the last show of the year Met up with TeamWhiteCustoms group in Darlington Arrived at the darlington football stadium During the show I changed the flavour of the Pringles intake 😅 Spotted the only K10 in the show...

The alternator wiring seemed too tight after moving the alternator lower & closer I simply moved it lower down Noticed the screenwash tube tends to shake at certain rpm & the wideband controller has been roughly ziptied onto it for yrs 🙈 Printed a new mount for the wideband & a little...