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2024-06-20 Machining Gripper LSD Cover Plate With the old LSD modelled & machining process planned, it's time to go ahead and make the new cover The little mini lathe can only make 0.1mm cuts at a time (or else it'll keep chattering) so it took a looong time and lots of swarf to machine...

The cog on the lathe motor has rattled loose again I redesigned it to use a solid metal peg printed the cog and made a little metal peg fits more securely now

Ordered some fresh bearings for the belt tensioners Removed the tensioners. The belts are abit tired & need replacing too Auxilary belt has a groove worn from the tensioner wheel Pressed the old bearing out pressed the new ones on

2024-06-16 Yorkshire Modified Show Left house from 6am We gathered near Thirsk for 6:30 as I reverse parked, nathan following behind almost went into me 😬 It was a relatively quiet drive to the venue till we queued at the entrance it's been a wet few days so the grass entrance was...

2024-06-15 Compact Alternator Mounting Bracket I've been redesigning the turbo layout for the past few years and the standard alternator locations are causing some issues. The current layout from my previous turbo setup is a high mounted alternator using the air-con mounting brackets But...

swapped from a high mounted alternator to a regular low mounted alternator setup. wirebrushed all the rust off painted & fitted the old belt tensioner with extended adjuster had cracked, making extra rattles but easy enough to reattach Yorkshire modified show coming up so I polished...

spherical bearing on the BC BR coilovers are slightly crusty, so gave em a little clean up

Replaced them with Alu screws ;)

replaced the rusty steel rivnuts on the scuttle planel with aluminium rivnuts and had a nice car meet down Catterick tonight

added some draft excluder tape under the instrument cowl to reduce vibration brought another cordless grinder which was on sale visiting Jack for a catch up replaced the old gear stick cover which had a broken clip old socket tool holder was broke so I designed a better one

2024-05-31 Electric Window Motor Support Bracket The heavy electric motor hanging outside the window mechanism can be seen shaking around, which could've contributed to the annoying vibrations I designed a support brace to anchor the end of the motor onto the door frame Printed...

thank you ;)

2024-05-29 Fixed Door Rattle pt3 Had a nice weekly car meet. The passenger door was still buzzing annoyingly whilst driving over I even asked a friend to drive the car at 3k rpm whilst I try to locate the hidden buzzing but no luck But when looking further, I soon noticed the passenger...

2024-05-29 Weld Rigid Passenger Seat Support The passenger seat back rest shakes bit more than the drivers seat cos the upper bracket ain't joined directly to the subframe like the drivers side. So tday I removed the seat & added the extra bracket to join the two support brackets, making...

I do wear noise cancelling ear buds to help on long journeys but this buzzing door noise is more intrusively annoying. the stiff nismo engine mounts certainly doesn't help with shaking everything to bits lol. but later on the next post I finally discovered the cause 😁

passenger door is still rattling near the front @ 3k rpm 😤 I tried covering the back of the door card with soft felt but still buzzes. kinda stops if i push the handle, yet still buzz if I remove that handle? it's like the inner door frame is resonating louder than any other door...

2024-05-27 Adjustable Gear Stick Ball Joint Been noticing the gear stick tends to shake a lot whilst in 5th gear cos the ball joint was worn & too loose I tried to print a tighter fitting insert but getting the tolerances right was a PITA and doesn't compensate for wear So I...

The sump was getting abit rusty now so I removed the down pipe for better access Wirebrushed Painted Reinstalling the down pipe I noticed the rest of the exhaust sits 2mm too far for the V-band to clamp, especially with the firmer rubber bobbin mounts So I chopped the decat pipe &...

Both doors inside were filthy from yrs of dirt & moisture Gave it a good brushing & vacuum Removed the ducktape off the window clip holes Attached the clips on properly this time Reassembled both doors and now they no longer rattle (y):cool:

2024-05-23 Fixing Door Rattle pt2 There was still that annoying rattle hidden in the front corner of the passenger door 😤 So I stripped everything off the door Along the way I noticed the window glass lip was sitting loosely on the door frame & potentially rubbing against glass, cos ever...