Kawa's Lude

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Random piccys of exhaust .... Tsumi or some other random make...bit too loud

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[Kawa]

after some problems getting the right one, I new have a new radiator fitted! turns out my old one was off a 1.6 accord or simular!

Ended up getting it from "Nottingham Radiators" - top blokes - swopped the wrong one, no quibble - even though it had been fitted

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Lude had been running like a dog all day with it being sooooo hot. Not sure how I acheived this towards the end of today (starting to cool down thankfully)

210 was my previous best.

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Cleaned the air filter and fitted some samco hosing around the joins of my CAI pipe.

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Before



After - still got a little more polishing to do yet - but it's getting there - need to paint the plug cover too

[Kawa]

Ordered these from Invotec - great service as always





FITTING TEINS

Stripped the boot interior - which meant removing the aux battery, amp and about 300 cables before Ammo turned up with his many usefull tools.

The rear shocks came out easily enough, once we figured out how to maneuver them out the way - it's very tight for space under the rear arches.

Scratched our heads for a bit during re-assembly of the rear shocks as it doesn't go back together quite the same as the OEM shocks. I lost a small amount of skin removing the top mount from the old spring

There was absolutely no need to use the spring compressors for re-assembly, which was probably a good thing as the spring compressors were very nearly catching on the coils inside the spring.

The rear passenger side went in straight away, but the rear drivers side was a PITA as the hub would not drop down far enough, even after removing the silencer, but in the end, we got it in.

Once everything was in position and Nm'd up, we tighted the coils up by .8 of an inch. 1 inch is recommended, but I don't it slammed to the ground just yet

The front took longer to do as we had to the remove the drive shafts for application of new CV joints. The actaully removal of the shocks was tricky due to space limitations, but the rebuild was simple enough.

Disassembly of the front shocks was quit funny - one the bump stops was mashed up on the drivers side and passenger side had totally disintegrated - leaving only bump stop coloured powedery stuff down one side of the shock

My only concern was the height of the front adjusters, as they seem a little too close to the bonnet when it is closed.

Just waitng for a new inner and outer CV joint for the passenger side and a CV boot for the drivers side then I can get the geometry checked out, once satisfied with the ride height, which I'm aiming to be around 30 to 35 mm drop. 40mm is just not very speed bump friendly.

Big thanks to Ammo for his help fitting the shocks - Cheer matey

[Kawa]

Today I replaced drivers side CV boot and replaced the whole passenger side driveshaft (Thanks big poppa - it fitted fine - ta for the part )

After removing and replacing driveshafts on 2 different ludes, over 2 days, I've kinda got the hang of it now

Put it all back together today - back on the road - it's dropped about 25mm meaning I can actually go over speed bumps at a respectable speed

Will let it all settle for a week or so, have a play with the settings etc, then drop it to maybe 30 or 35mm, we'll see.

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tonights project.....

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Centre Console not quite dry enough to install yet - should be hardened by tomorrow night






Some poor quality pics of center consoles - will get some better ones up soon





APRIL 2007

I'm not so sure now, what have i done

After re-assembling the center vents......i never knew you could adjust the left, right direction of the center air vents - only had ludes for the past 3 years








MAY 2007



New interior pics

After waiting nearly 5 weeks for a few bits to be painted

Although now I'm not sure i like it all