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I've decided the set the bar high for myself and am buying myself a ticket for a track day at my local track in a couple weeks. I've looked at the list of mods that are unfinished and have all of the necessary parts for these mods in the mail. Having fitted the new exhaust and painted and fitted...

Is that because they reprofile the cams by cutting away part of the rounded base of each cam lobe?

They already do performance camshafts for K12's and so will just copy over the dimensions to the new cams if that's what you're asking? They already have predetermined figures for increasing duration times and clearances from what I can see and so it's a case of just installing the reprofiled...

I have an induction kit that runs right in front of the heatshield .... :eek: should probably consider taking the heatshield off and polishing it at some point. Shiny surfaces have a lower emisivity coefficient and all that

Im really just trying to get to the camshafts ..... Pipercams said they'd do a reprofiling job for me if I sent them in :D but I know the timing chain will need to be at least partially removed to get the cams out

Whilst pelting around on a 'race track' in excess of 100 mph, the steering wheel shakes and moves a little. This also happens when braking at high speeds but is much more noticeable. I am aware that the surface of the 'race track' is not entirely flat and so the wobble may come from that and...

There's a thread about this on this forum. Check there :)

I did footwell lights with some blue LEDs with wires I bought at Walmart whilst I was in the US and then got power from one of the fuses in the cabin on the drivers' side, attached the negative to a grounding screw under the dash, ran the wires up behind the dashboard to a super stealthy switch...

Oh boy, I can finally consider those new performance cams I've always wanted .... :rolleyes: was the timing chain replaced with the engine "in-situ" (not removed from the engine bay)?

Cripes sorry for the painfully late reply on my behalf ...... :( it sounds like you had a hell of a car!! Jealous I don't have more money I can throw at my own Micra, but anyways. Generally speaking I am pretty sure you would have to buy a turbo that didn't have an internal wastegate. If you...

You take off the front bumper which is a big job in itself (remove the headlights which have a few screws and some clips, then undo all the bolts holding the front bumper on at the top, underneath the bumper and then either side there is a screw behind the splash-guard in the wheel arch) and...

Just changed the exhaust on my Micra as the current setup with a Greggson exhaust meant that instead of the exhaust gasses going straight out through where the backbox would be, they came back through the backbox through another pipe in the same direction as the exhaust inlet, then did a u-turn...

Or an exhaust leak ...?

Latest Micra photos will be posted soon. A lot has changed so far! Roof scoop is in the mail and the ABS killswitch is being built.

And its a set of Dunlop fast response tyres so the slip limit should be pretty good i reckon ..... i'll go find a straight road somewhere, put my foot down and get a rough idea of what the stopping distance is and how hard i can push. Im working on an ABS killswitch at the moment so once ive got...

Assuming that stock rotors are 260mm (they're definitely vented) then yes, with a set of EBC greenstuff pads they are. But I'm getting going a decent pace on a slight downhill :p it was coming down a hill and coming up to an 's' bend and i was going 70 or 80 and I reckon the braking distance was...

So you would recommend bigger calipers or rotors? Braking power is barely sufficient and its getting to the point where it seems like I am braking right on the edge of the tyre's slip limit, but then again I don't know for a fact what the slip limit is. I'm holding my breath and crossing my...

Ive invested in a set of EBC greenstuff brakepads and they've been biting well so far, but they're still lacking much real stopping power ... I've had them in about a year so they have had plenty of time to break-in (excuse the pun). Thinking about getting drilled and slotted rotors and seeing...