superls
K10 Tuner
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as some of you may know the K10 'SuperLS' is soon to be no more, a combination of needs tonnes of work doing, getting a bit bored and a mint bodywise K11 1.3 SR coming available for £250 requiring a new x-member, tipped the scales.
anyway, not got no real pics of the car, just a bit of a hello to the K11 crew, a bit of an update and my future plans.
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got the car tuesday the 27th april 2009, debated with my brother who was going to have it, i won that on, haha.
The car bodywise is mint, only 1 small bubble of rust on the rear drivers arch and a stone chip thats gone rusty on the bonnet,
however the car needed work, it was last servived mid 2009, so its due, the front x-member and both sills at the rear had, had advisaries on the current mot, the mot runs out at the end of august with the tax, but i thought id get the work done sooner rather than later.
The car has the original SR alloys on with the standard 175/60/13 tyres, all in good nich with only 1 being kirb'd.
Its done a genuine 75k miles
The car is also a real nice dark metalic green, sort of like british racing green, not seen many like it.
anyways, i got the car late tuesday, stripped the front bumper and lights etc wednesday after work, called at the local motor factors after work for a front x-member thursday, i was surprised at it only being £21.39, had friday off of work and fited it then.
not got any in progress pics im afraid, just a couple of the car with no member on and a couple of the rusy member
as you can see it was a little past it.
after that was done i proceeded to look at the sills, id looked at them when i went to buy the car, and there were no holes but they were all bubbled up under the paint, i was keeping my fingeres crossed that i could flappy disk the paint off, rust treat and repaint, but as it turned out i couldnt, both had rotted through from about 6 inches from the end for about 12 inches, so i cut all the badness out, surprising to me was the sill lip was still intact and was not rottern at all, replaced the rot with a repair patch, made it look tidy, masked just inder the radius and painted in smooth hammerite black, should be good for the rest of the cars life.
again no in progress pics or even any pics but ill be sure to grab a few at some point.
once i had finished the welding, i wire brushed and undersealed under all the arches and behind all the sills and anywhere rust might want to appear in the future, i then put the car back together, bumper back on etc.
whilst it was raining and i couldnt be outside, i decided to 'chuck' a spare cg13 flywheel i had and see about lightening it, below are a couple of pics of just how heave it WAS,
neadless to say it wasnt that heavy for long, ive still not finished it yet but will let you know how heavy it is after, im just going to turn it down parallel to the ring gear, but not drill any holes in it like my cg10 one as there isnt much room as the clutch is bigger.
future plans are:
finish the light fly and fit it, along with a brand new luk clutch, the old ones is still ok, but at 75k id guess at it being the original as theres no sign of the gearbox being taken off, also while the gearbox is off the replace the fly it would be rude not to treat it to a new clutch kit.
finish the banded steelies i was going to fit to the k10 and fit them to the k11, but int he mean time i want to space the 13" alloys out by around 25mm.
fit the lowering springs and shocks i bought off here.
have the rear 3 windows tinted
remove the centre cat, the one on theres knackered and blowing, im going to replace it with a silancer.
fit a 'fatneck' ( (c) frank, lol ) manifold
replace the rear section of the exhaust as its blowing
fit a pices of 3 inch stainless pipe to the backbox to make it look better from the back.
give it a service
degrease the engine bay to spruce it up a bit.
give it a good wash and polish as its been parked under a tree.
think thats about it for now.
cheers scott
as some of you may know the K10 'SuperLS' is soon to be no more, a combination of needs tonnes of work doing, getting a bit bored and a mint bodywise K11 1.3 SR coming available for £250 requiring a new x-member, tipped the scales.
anyway, not got no real pics of the car, just a bit of a hello to the K11 crew, a bit of an update and my future plans.
starts>
got the car tuesday the 27th april 2009, debated with my brother who was going to have it, i won that on, haha.
The car bodywise is mint, only 1 small bubble of rust on the rear drivers arch and a stone chip thats gone rusty on the bonnet,
however the car needed work, it was last servived mid 2009, so its due, the front x-member and both sills at the rear had, had advisaries on the current mot, the mot runs out at the end of august with the tax, but i thought id get the work done sooner rather than later.
The car has the original SR alloys on with the standard 175/60/13 tyres, all in good nich with only 1 being kirb'd.
Its done a genuine 75k miles
The car is also a real nice dark metalic green, sort of like british racing green, not seen many like it.
anyways, i got the car late tuesday, stripped the front bumper and lights etc wednesday after work, called at the local motor factors after work for a front x-member thursday, i was surprised at it only being £21.39, had friday off of work and fited it then.
not got any in progress pics im afraid, just a couple of the car with no member on and a couple of the rusy member
as you can see it was a little past it.
after that was done i proceeded to look at the sills, id looked at them when i went to buy the car, and there were no holes but they were all bubbled up under the paint, i was keeping my fingeres crossed that i could flappy disk the paint off, rust treat and repaint, but as it turned out i couldnt, both had rotted through from about 6 inches from the end for about 12 inches, so i cut all the badness out, surprising to me was the sill lip was still intact and was not rottern at all, replaced the rot with a repair patch, made it look tidy, masked just inder the radius and painted in smooth hammerite black, should be good for the rest of the cars life.
again no in progress pics or even any pics but ill be sure to grab a few at some point.
once i had finished the welding, i wire brushed and undersealed under all the arches and behind all the sills and anywhere rust might want to appear in the future, i then put the car back together, bumper back on etc.
whilst it was raining and i couldnt be outside, i decided to 'chuck' a spare cg13 flywheel i had and see about lightening it, below are a couple of pics of just how heave it WAS,
neadless to say it wasnt that heavy for long, ive still not finished it yet but will let you know how heavy it is after, im just going to turn it down parallel to the ring gear, but not drill any holes in it like my cg10 one as there isnt much room as the clutch is bigger.
future plans are:
finish the light fly and fit it, along with a brand new luk clutch, the old ones is still ok, but at 75k id guess at it being the original as theres no sign of the gearbox being taken off, also while the gearbox is off the replace the fly it would be rude not to treat it to a new clutch kit.
finish the banded steelies i was going to fit to the k10 and fit them to the k11, but int he mean time i want to space the 13" alloys out by around 25mm.
fit the lowering springs and shocks i bought off here.
have the rear 3 windows tinted
remove the centre cat, the one on theres knackered and blowing, im going to replace it with a silancer.
fit a 'fatneck' ( (c) frank, lol ) manifold
replace the rear section of the exhaust as its blowing
fit a pices of 3 inch stainless pipe to the backbox to make it look better from the back.
give it a service
degrease the engine bay to spruce it up a bit.
give it a good wash and polish as its been parked under a tree.
think thats about it for now.
cheers scott
