Over the last month I've been tidying and cleaning things, mainly the engine bay, but I did spend a couple of hours washing the body as it had been about 5 months since I last did it. What's ridiculous is that since then theres been zero bird crap on it, then within 24 hours of cleaning it, some birdy landed a massive one on the bonnet, happens every###in'time.
Anyway, there was a post not too long ago, but I can't find it now, about the carbon canister and how it's fairly unimportant, and with it in its original position it forces the ga16 airbox to one side. So I've removed its bracket and it's now hanging a little further down, it's still quite secure though as it can't go anywhere, but I may bend a piece of metal to be able to mount it before the MOT just in case, unless there's a way to remove it completely, only a couple of vacume pipes from the t/b to worry about by the looks of it.
carbon canister:
before:
after:
Also started some work on the ga16 airbox itself, as you can see it can't be a very effecient design at the minute especially as I snapped that curved ring that held the mesh on:
So I've dremeled it and smoothed it out, have also bored out the intake hole, filled in that small unused hole, removed the fins from the lid, I kept most of the baffle as that was too difficult to get rid of, trimmed down the pcb filter so it doesn't restrict flow through the air filter and removed the mounting hole which I may reposition to fit the stock mounting bracket.
after:
sanded off oxide crust from clips:
Result isn't bad, more responsive than before. But one problem I noticed with the ga16 box over cg10 box is that there feels like there's no overlap between torque and power, with the stock cg10 box I had on you could accelerate smoothly through the rev range, but with the ga16 box there feels like a reduction in power around 4-5krpm. I'm hoping it can be remedied with the use of a thinner and longer air feed or a stock ga16 pipe. But don't want to sacrifice too much high end power as an 8krpm limit is fun :wasntme:
Have also tidyed up the power cables for the amp & central locking so it's just one insulated, covered and sleeved cable to a distribution box under the dash. Also wired up a couple of grounding cables attached from the battery to the dizzy and throttle body. All for no reason other than I was bored, had some extra wire, and was interested in if they'd be any affects with the better grounding.
Results weren't really noticeable.
Also wire brushed and cleaned the grubby-looking head cover and exhaust mani cover plate, oven cleaner worked well. Will polish them up a bit if I get time.
