My WIP

[GoLfMan]

love both the cars

[peedman]

Who owns that rx7? Nobody from our highschool is rich enough for that lol.

[rayray086]

Haha true. You know Raam right?

[peedman]

Yeah i think ive met him but dont know him that well. Does his car go? This week ive had small day dreams about buying a proper 2 door jap car after seeing a nice s7 rx7 at work lol.

When u gonna pick the waterpump up? I can help u out on the weekend if need be

[bboyskidz]

isn't RAAM the final boss on Gears of War?

[Mrk_Mickey]

isn't RAAM the final boss on Gears of War?

lol yeah he and Ray go way back.

[VR6child]

two beautiful cars, those rx7's go crazy hard

[rayray086]

Not much of an update but just wanted to post some recent piccies.

I was getting bored of my steelies so I tried to "spice" it up a little with some Mk3 steelie centre covers. Sounds easy but Mk3 steelies are 4x100 whereas my steelies were 5x100... so off I go experimenting again:



Did a dummy fit, using blu-tac to hold on to the spoke-holder parts that I cut off:





Doesn't fit on flush so it will need a bit more work...



... but it's gonna get a lot more harder making them sit flush... and I don't know if it's really worth it. What do you guys think? Reckon it looks OK?

Trying to retrofit those centre covers wasn't the only thing I did when I sorta got bored with my steelies:







Plan was to polish the face and black out the accents and run them for a while, but that also means buying new tyres AGAIN which I'm not prepared to go through... plus I have another wheel project that I'm barely finished with.

Also finally completed a thorough service, including changing the waterpump + thermostat + coolant (mmm, clear bottle and pink G12 coolant!), engine and gear oil change, and also cleaned and re-oiled my K&N. Car feels a lot better now and I can feel the 8V pull nicely again at 3-4k RPM! I've also lost the chatter sound I got when the car was cold

I love my car again!

Edit: Also, a pic of the rear-right wheel when the front-left wheel was on ramps:





That tyre was leaning against the rear bumper! I cannot imagine daily-driving that... yet you see so many American Mk3-ers roll around exactly like that!

[Golf Houso]

Did you buy those from Tempe for $200 Ray ... ?

[Pullstarter]

Look like Kubelwagen wheels with those MK3 caps! WOOHOO!! LOL

[peedman]

Dude those are 16" right?? U can have ur nankangs back!!!!

[rayray086]

They're 17's And that's right Branko

[Golf Houso]

They're 17's And that's right Branko

Nice pick up, I had them on my watch list ... doesn't necessarily mean I had any to pay for them! They should look good on your car, and are they really completely new?

[Soundofav6]

Nice pick up dude !!
Why do tyres need to be so expensive

[Pullstarter]

Nice pick up dude !!
Why do tyres need to be so expensive

I blame the French!