Tom B

Coilovers all fitted! Set them to the settings Tein have in the instructions, so it's only dropped about 10mm from my rough measurements. Been on a quick test run and nothing's fell off so that's a positive!  Will give them a proper test once I've checked everything over again in a couple of days. 
 
Two concerns though;
- It's says 16 levels of adjustment on the dampers, yet there's no discernible 'stop' when turning the adjuster. I've not been been tweeking willynilly, I've taken that they were at full stiff when they came in the box, but I can turn them down at least 20 clicks with no difference in feeling of the dial?! Am I doing something wrong?
- I've no idea how to set the correct length of the ARB drop links, I've set them equal, and they don't seem to be fouling on anything, but not sure that's the right way to do it?
Help/advice welcome! 

So after weeks and weeks of deciding what my next big purchase would be and changing my mind multiple times a day!! - I've ended up jumping on the band wagon and bought a set of these beauty's;

Going to attempt to fit them tomorrow, my experience on working on cars is minimal, but I'm pretty handy so looking forward to getting having a go myself!
Picked up some new Whiteline front drop links as I've read they are a pain to get off in one piece, but I'm unsure how to set them to the right length of them once I've set the ride height? 
Will update once they're on!
Cheers to @James@Amber for superb service too, only ordered them yesterday afternoon and they're here this morning!

So after weeks and weeks of deciding what my next big purchase would be and changing my mind multiple times a day!! - I've ended up jumping on the band wagon and bought a set of these beauty's;

Going to attempt to fit them tomorrow, my experience on working on cars is minimal, but I'm pretty handy so looking forward to getting having a go myself!
Picked up some new Whiteline front drop links as I've read they are a pain to get off in one piece, but I'm unsure how to set them to the right length of them once I've set the ride height? 
Will update once they're on!
Cheers to @James@Amber for superb service too, only ordered them yesterday afternoon and they're here this morning!

So after weeks and weeks of deciding what my next big purchase would be and changing my mind multiple times a day!! - I've ended up jumping on the band wagon and bought a set of these beauty's;

Going to attempt to fit them tomorrow, my experience on working on cars is minimal, but I'm pretty handy so looking forward to getting having a go myself!
Picked up some new Whiteline front drop links as I've read they are a pain to get off in one piece, but I'm unsure how to set them to the right length of them once I've set the ride height? 
Will update once they're on!
Cheers to @James@Amber for superb service too, only ordered them yesterday afternoon and they're here this morning!

So after weeks and weeks of deciding what my next big purchase would be and changing my mind multiple times a day!! - I've ended up jumping on the band wagon and bought a set of these beauty's;

Going to attempt to fit them tomorrow, my experience on working on cars is minimal, but I'm pretty handy so looking forward to getting having a go myself!
Picked up some new Whiteline front drop links as I've read they are a pain to get off in one piece, but I'm unsure how to set them to the right length of them once I've set the ride height? 
Will update once they're on!
Cheers to @James@Amber for superb service too, only ordered them yesterday afternoon and they're here this morning!

Good to know, I may follow suit and get some for mine! 

@Tom B Yeah, the stock wheels aren't too bad when on a lowered car and in combo with some spacers  Mine used to be 20mm (so 40mm on the axle) in the front, and 25mm (50 total) in the rear  But now i've sold my front ones and gotten 25mm for there too, although i haven't test fitted them yet... Soon, when winter hits  

Nice write up! Car looks spot on! 

Welcome! Love the car, Wheels really suit it! 

The last few weeks have been extremely frustrating. Numerous parts have either been delayed or arrived faulty/damaged - our luck is just so bad at the moment it's unbelievable
However, we are still making slow and steady progress. A sneaky picture I was sent earlier today of the finished exhaust system

Nev is doing everything he can as quickly as he can. He's just as frustrated as me at the delays which have been out of our control and wants to get this finished before end of August. Finger's crossed no more delays!

Am I doing this gym thing right?

Two main advantages of adjustable ones are it allows you to set the arb preload fully and, the main one, it saves the battle to remove the stock ones! 

Just found a wild vaporeon 

Hey @Mark@Abbey M/S any update on when these will be tested/approved/ready for sale etc?

Stop making my wind-ups so easy guys.......
Yup age deffo, I had a hoop with a stick (look it up)
If it gets you out of the house that's great.
What the feck is a meme???
Have a great Sunday out there

People aren't going to respond if they don't know the answer but if you like i'll just guess at 45w 8ohm with a 45w output from the HU. 

Happy birthday to me!
Won't be fitted until Mid-August though.

Bit of an update from my end.
Managed to get the 1320 manifold swapped yesterday to a Borla UEL. No more whistle. Surprisingly, the Borla didn't seem quite as "pretty" as the 1320. Welds were a bit more untidy, finish was a bit dull, but none of that matters as clearly the build quality is far better.
I also got the impression that my 1320 manifold was causing some ECU issues. It felt like the car was being strangled a little bit at the upper RPM range, almost as if the small leak was sending some false reading to the ECU and causing it to hold the car back a little bit. With the Borla, the car feels really strong again. Mid range is back to how it was when the 1320 was first installed and mapped, but the whistle being gone is the biggest relief. 
I would also say that the Borla has a slightly nicer sound than the 1320. Perhaps the whistle blurred my perception slightly, but the Borla seems quite a bit deeper and more throaty, and with the pops and bangs it really sounds the business. 
Time to sort something out with the 1320 manifold now.

So as above, we've been really unfortunate with some parts recently. Just seems that everything we order, either is out of stock, turns up broken or faulty...not fun!
On a more positive note, there really isn't a lot left to do. It's a case now of:
Finishing the pipework for the supercharger Finishing off exhaust manifolds Fitting and configuring ECU Not a lot in terms of a list but fairly time consuming jobs nonetheless
I've had to put off various shows throughout the year which is slowly killing me, so I made the decision to go all out for a really promising show called "Gravity" based at Stoneleigh Park near Coventry. It's organised by Slammed UK and was basically a selection of hand picked cars for the show, so the standards were high. With the hotel being booked months ago, we got the engine and gearbox mounted so I wasn't going to miss this one!



This meant an EXTREMELY long weekend consisting of hiring a transporter from near Gatwick and collecting the car from Brands Hatch


Taking it over to my friend near Heathrow for good clean


And then back to mine near Croydon. Saturday was then spent failing to fit some new parts due to the battery finally giving up after 9 months of no charge, changing the wheels over and driving up to the show Saturday night to drop the car off in the main event hall




Adam was at the same hotel as me so with the girls we had a great evening over some good food and many many many many beers.
The show itself was fantastic. So well organised and the standard of cars was amazing. Needless to say I got some attention by arriving on the back of a transporter and everyone commended me for the determination to get my car there which made it even more worth while
The best part of the whole show was just seeing people's confused faces as they looked in the engine bay. The V8, particularly with it's new colourful rocker covers, is very striking and gets people asking sorts of questions. I just can't wait to finally get her up and running!

Ah that's a shame! Looking forward to seeing this all come together!

One of my quicker runs at the excellent Curborough sprint day on 30/6/16. The 4.67 final drive worked against me in a couple of places but I had a blast nonetheless
 

Just to add to this the winter tyres performed way beyond expectations and handled everything that was thrown at them apart from the final gymkhana when they, in f1 speak, fell off a cliff and became the slippiest thing ever leading to me gaining the award for most sliddy. 
However, this was after a day of extreme use (speeds in excess of 120mph, emergency stops from 90mph, a handling circuit session, etc) and in a temperature of 28 degrees c. 
For normal road use and spirited driving there would be absolutely no issue running the Nokian WRA3's all year round and it really showed why they make such excellent winter tyres. 

Snow foamed with bilt hamber foam. Washed with autoglym conditioning shampoo and then waxed with mcguires carnauba (deep crystal I think) wax. Basically what was lying around in the shed, lol!

Yeah what sort of knob would put a V8 into a GT86!