My Daily Hooptieeee

Persuaded myself I needed coilovers for this car and finally bit the bullet. Eddie (on the AOC) come to my help saying that he had a set of BC Racing coilovers for sale which were in pretty good condition, albeit one corner was very slightly worn a bit but hopefully wouldn't really affect my "daily" driving.

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Anyway, he's local to me so a 30min drive and I arrived and we cracked on with doing the rear's first at about 9am.

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By about 11am both rears were done, we lowered it off the axle stands and went for a quick drive. Car felt good even on the coilovers softest settings, much better.

Got back and go on with the fronts. These went smoothly as well and I zinc primer'd as I went on the inner strut's on both the rear and fronts. Couple hours later and they were also done, all bolts greased up and torqued.

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Drove home happy as larry, chuffed with how the car handles and looks now. I stiffened up the shocks a little and it feels so planted now, even if I'm not going round corners, just on the motorway it feels much more confident.

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Think I'm going to tweak the ride-height a bit. After a couple of days of getting used to it and driving my local area I will get a feel for how much clearance I still have left. I think I could safely do about 20-25mm more on the back, and maybe 10-15mm front. But that'll come later :)
 
Anyway, more pics. Got some LED 501 bulbs though to replace the OEM orange look of normal bulbs. Don't hate the chavness, they are white but pics look a little blue.
Before,
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After,
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And rear plate lights before,
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After, (with cool effect with the car running & long exposure on my camera)
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Was just about to head home and noticed a train coming. Jumped out the car verrrry quickly and snapped this. Happy with this photo so I've done a "cinematic" effect on it.
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So, weekend updates! :)
Bought myself a couple of red GTi badges and one arrived. Fitted it to the grille in roughly the same place as the Ph1 car's have them. I know it * shouldn't* have one (being a Ph3 car), but it does look better I think.
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Today I went round a mates house to help him with his drift car. Got a bit bored so thought I'd have a go at cleaning up my plenum. I didn't get any before photos, but after about 30 mins of scrubbing, I got to this which I'm happy with.
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And finally, evidence of lowness is showing on my driveway. I think I could go another inch lower all round, but I'd have to park elsewhere if I did that. It doesn't really touch anywhere other than my driveway lol! Time to move!!
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Tiny update today but a package arrived from the USA from G-Spec. A new sump & genuine Nissan thermostat. Current sump is beginning to leak a tiny bit due to rust which sucks, but so I've read this is pretty common with a FWD car. Might look into making some kind of plastic/alu thin guard to cover it and help protect it.
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Another small update, bought a couple of GTI badges and (long story short) got 1 extra which just to happen to be attached to a Ph1 black grille. For a laugh I thought I'd see what it would look like fitted.
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After,
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Not really that much different tbh, but I quite like it. Looks a little more grown up and fits a bit better with the lines I think?
I'll leave it a few days and see how it grows on me, but a 30sec job to change back again :)
 
Some more updates and pic whoring. Yesterday I spent a couple hours cleaning the car and gave it a bit of a polish too. Found out how difficult it is to clean a black car and to actually keep it clean as well, so I kinda gave up after a bit since it was becoming OCD-spec!
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Today at work came some more parcels through the post for me, service items :) 10w40 Titan Semi-Syth, NGK's, fuel & oil filter. I thought I may as well get all that done at the same time as changing the sump over.
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And this will be it for a couple weeks now since I am off away on holiday to New York as of later this week!
The car will be treated when I get back to all these goodies being fitted :)
 
Had a bit of a rusty sump so ordered one up from America. Thought its an obvious time to do an oil change & filter change at the same time, durrh.

Crappy old sump,
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Pickup looking good, gave the surface a goooood clean.
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New sump, new oil in, new filter.
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Also changed sparkies & fuel filter
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All done :) good as new, bit more go and a bit quieter with the new sparks & oil!
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great work, though all that copper grease on the threads of the coilovers is just going to attract all kinds of shite, put a light smear on and wrap the threads with electrical tape :)
 
Sam said:
great work, though all that copper grease on the threads of the coilovers is just going to attract all kinds of shite, put a light smear on and wrap the threads with electrical tape :)
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Yea? fair point. I read about a while ago putting cling film around the threads, but as same with wrapping with tape is that it'll trap in water/crap.
 
once the threads are greased and the tape wrapped round its fine.

Mine still look brand new under the tape 2 years on
 
Weird your sump seems different then mine, the round bump/sump plug are on the other side on mine! Unless im going crazy

Your old sump.. erm can I have it please? I have you BC racing coilovers original box you need to collect too!
 
Your going to love them mate...just get a medium tint on those windows and you'll be loving the look!

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Thanks guys, yeah real pleased with them. Just fitted them, all went smoothly only took about 45 mins in total.

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Need to wire up the inside lights too, should take a couple mins in daylight :)

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