Nathan's Road-Legal/Track BB4

[NafemanNathan]

those wheels look sexual cant wait to see them fitted

[NafemanNathan]

Me neither Mart

Oh, and the decals I just got from a nice lady on ebay Rob for a very reasonable £4.36

[NafemanNathan]

Popped down to Plymouth yesterday to get a spankers set of Toyo T1-Rs fitted to my newly refurbed OZ rims So I thought I'd post up some muchly awaited pics just before I bugger off on holiday to Italy for a week

NOTE: The newly painted two tone boot, with fresh colour co-ordinated badges And I also thought my calipers needed a bit of prucing up being they were now going to be on show now to ...





























And before any one says anything, I've got some centre caps I'm yet to spray and the boot still needs a bit of polishing

[NafemanNathan]

its getting there !

Looking great mate but not too keen on the colour of the calipers. Just my 2p though

Let us know when you are next down South mate, would be good to meet up.

Looking good now. Never mind Mr Blobby, I like the calipers! Reminds me I need to get a new alloy and swap the steels again.

Best wishes, Colin

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Got a few things done on Sunday. Firstly I removed another redundant part ...





Also, as some of you may be aware, I'm having a few irregular performance issues at the moment. So before I set off to make a few car part deliveries/collections slightly further up the country, I thought I'd clean out my IACV (Idle Air Control Valve) to see if that made any difference...

So it went from looking like this (And this picture doesn't do its sootiness justice)...



To this!...



Much better! ...



Still did **** all towards sorting my problem though

Anyway, my first delivery was up in Bath, where I dropped off a few parts and a fiver in exchange for this little puppy ...



Tis a P28, which was labeled as a P13 in rob394's lude Under inspection, it's been socketed which is good





And obviously chipped, but as for what car I do not know. Anyway the plan eventually is to get it mapped to my lude (obviously) with the IAB components installed

Next stop was to a guy with a black bonnet. We did a swap over, and although alignment isn't perfect yet, it's a big improvement over my red bonnet which flapped to buggery! The front edge needs touching up, but I actually plan to be a little creative and mask off exposing the front 4-5 inches of the bonnet and painting with matt stone chip resistant paint.

After that I went and visited our very own Colin! Dropped off a few aircon bits, and in return he's lent me some HT leads for me to have a play with, to see if they'll narrow down the possibilities of what my problem is.

Again Colin, it was great to meet you finally.

I can't stress enough to everyone how friendly and helpful this guy is! Even his miniature daughter was eager to lend a hand

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Had time to take some pics of the new bonnet this morning (I say that... It did make me late for work ) ... Anyway, the patchwork is almost complete

[NafemanNathan]

Good work bud.

I can't see the pics of the bonnet in work today but caught the post before it yesterday.

You finally hunted down a P28 then and already socketed which is nice. It's not just the socket that need adding though, a couple of other components. Not sure of the specifics but I can see yours doesn't have a datalogging port like mine has so that will need to be added. So I'm sure that chip will be a generic basemap without the datalogging.

See my man Craig at GotBoost he'll sort you out.

I'm actually booked in at the end of October to fit the IAB components and tune, by which time I should have my decat and AEM fuel filter fitted. So fingers crossed all goes well.

Go look in the meets section as I'm organising a dyno day there. Would be ideal to get your P13 base power as a good comparison and you can bring the P28 up to see what needs doing. Plus there's of course the meeting of your fellow club members too.

I'll check the bonnet in a bit.

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That meet would be ideal Colin mentioned it when I went up to his place on Sunday, so I definitely think I'll be tagging along to that one Just hope I can sort this issue I'm having out by then

Yeah, the ECU came from rob394's lude. He didn't know what it was until I told him, and we don't really understand why it was in his car anyway (Unless it had had a fair amount of upgrades that have since been removed).

So yeah, I'm not even that sure it's been mapped to a Prelude being it's only been chipped, tho other Rob said his lude seemed to run smooth enough, and I think he even said Vtec kicked in at 5000. But still, I planned to visit your friend Craig to get the various IAB components and what not installed anyway

Have you got a rough idea of how much your tune/mapping etc is costing you yet? Just to give me an idea

[NafemanNathan]

Ok catch up time! ...

Just seems like a thing of the past now, but fitting a replacement dizzy has completely cured my powerloss It finally got bad enough to flip a code which diagnosed the sensor in the dizzy as being the problem (See here for symptoms).

Next, my N/S cv boot split and being my only car I ended up running the joint with the knackered boot for a good week or so gradually knackering the joint. I also had a good amount of play coming from both inboard joints, but fortunately I was able to get hold of both drive shafts and intermediate shaft from a 2.0l with all good joints and boots for a very reasonable £50 They look in worse condition than my originals, but once I've replaced the O/S as well (Only had time to replace the crucial N/S) I'm going to overhaul both the originals and put them back

Then I thought it was about time to treat the interior of my car. I'd literally not hoovered it out once since I got her Decided to do away with the nasty old universal mats, hoover and replace with some nice awesome conditioned oem mats that my sister will eventually reimburse me for for my birthday

I managed to pick them up on ebay for an amazing £16 delivered (£11 of that was for delivery ). Anyway, they needed a bit of a clean when I got them, but with my concoction of Cillit Bang, Cif Creme surface cleaner, a bit of house hold bleach and hot water, they went from looking like this...



to looking like this ...



Check out that pile ...



So, the shocking inside of my car went from looking like this ...





To looking like this ...





You may have also noticed two other additions ... The Mugen (copy) gearknob, and the switch... Which does nothing



Just need to get the old toothbrush out to clean the fiddly bits before I go off to Got Boost for the dyno run this weekend now

Also fingers crossed, I should be receiving some new grooved rear discs before then. I've managed to warp my currrent ones

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Fitted new rear discs saturday Driver's side was warped and slightly rubbing, then once the passenger's side was removed it was blatently obviously I hadn't been using it quite to it full potential ...



I'd only recently fitted new pads as well. Anyway, nice shiney groovey MTEC discs were fitted, car washed, and really blurry picture taken ...



Then sunday came! And our first ever dyno run was taking place at Got Boost near Cardiff. I left at a ridiculous 7.10am and was in a Welsh services waiting for Rob (Nucleustylz-lude) and Liam (Dreadi) by 8.20 I wasn't even plebbing it. The roads were just that clear (I realise that only means something if you know that I live in Yeovil in Somerset and it normally takes me an hour and a half just to get to Bristol from mine )

Anyway, a long story short, I pulled on to the dyno... stalled , got a big cheer and then got these results...





So I was pretty chuffed

Then left after a while to go home. 2-3 minutes from my house, 5000rpm up the last hill climb and she decided to cut out on me I had enough momentum to cruise up to the top of the hill, take the last exit and roll on up outside some really nice peoples house, who were more than happy for me to remain broken down there til I could get her recovered. Got her recovered by my neighbour's neighbour this evening, whipped the rocker cover off, and.....


































Could this be the end? ...........