Nathan's Road-Legal/Track BB4

[NafemanNathan]

FM Short Shifter... Check!

Makes all the difference I also de-chromed my knob and went for a brushed look instead



Complete spruce up of engine bay before I fit my newly acquired Tein Super Streets that came today along with my also recently acquired new Megan racing braces ... Check!







She's so pretty

[NafemanNathan]

Very nice!

mate, i dont know much about these much praised short shifters?? could you shed some light?
sounds like i might want to do it

[NafemanNathan]

mate, i dont know much about these much praised short shifters?? could you shed some light?
sounds like i might want to do it

Here you go mate... Here's a link to Forbidden Motorsports... "a link to Forbidden Motorsports"
What it doesn't tell you is that if you select the upper most hole it'll reduce the throw by 40% i think it was

It's really solid, makes shifting a lot quicker, and just feels gooooooood

[NafemanNathan]

I take it the shocks are from a guy called Deano? He's been trying to shift them for a while, problems between him and Carl at Invotec over these, so yeah chapter and verse. Make sure you get what you pay for though, I remember he was a pain in the arse when he bought his lude off a friend of mine. Don't know him, he's probably genuine, just be wary.

And sorry if your reading this, just an opinion.

But, ooh Teins, nice and green, and lowery and stuff.
Need my suspension sorting out bad. Good luck with it all.

You were right dude. Dean's a gentleman's sausage!

Got the Teins a week or so ago. The fronts are fine... never been used, but the one of the bumper stops from the rears somehow has split. So obviously I got back on to Dean and on to Carl at Invo-Tec (who is really nice and helpful) for a price. I think I was more than in my right to ask Dean to forfeit the cost of £34.50 being he told me the rears were as good as new and only been on his car for a week or so.

So would he?... Of course not! He even blaitently accused me of splitting it! Said he checked them before he sent them out. It was even a few texts in before he even knew what part I was talking about!

So although it's still not going to break the bank for me to get the thing replaced, you were right to be skeptical Rob. I wouldn't recommend anyone else buying anything from Deano269 on PUK.

[NafemanNathan]

i will have a word with a mod on puk about this for you

[NafemanNathan]

Can you do that? Cheers dude. Though I don't expect you or they will have much joy. I was more than reasonable with him about it... Didn't lose my cool at all until he told me "last text now mate"

He really messed Carl at Invo-Tec about as well I found out having spoken to Carl last night. Who by the way is more than helpful looking on the bright side of things

[NafemanNathan]

Sorry to hear that mate.

Well it reiterates my experience of the guy. Yeah Carl had trouble with him as well. Just seems like a complete tw@ TBH.

Well Carl will sort you out.

You can have a word on PUK but think most are aware of him. Plus those coilovers were the last thing he was trying to shift, think he sold my mates old lude a while back. Good riddance I say.

as i am the one of the club founders on LB I would not have someone messing around my members so i am sure puk will do something

[NafemanNathan]

Good riddance I say.

I second that.

It's more of a shame than anything. From all the experience I've had before dealing with him, Prelude owners seemed to be some of the most honest people to deal with when it comes to cars and parts. (of course yourself included in that Rob )

Cheers for your help Drew Don't bust a gut tho, cos I also got the impression he's knocked preludes on the head for now as well.

[NafemanNathan]

Had a bit of a busy day today. First job was to finally get my hands on the appropriate tools to finally follow Drew's tip and clean out the EGR valve. So from this....



I managed to simply scrape out the majority of the carbon... Which was S##t loads!....



And after using the carb cleaner as well, it end up looking like this....



Much better. So that was the first job.

Second job was to pick up my winnings from Ebay last night



They should look pretty sweet once I've cleaned them up and got some new rubber bits






But my main task of the day was to fit these lovelies ....



So from this...





Followed this ...



I popped my Tar Ox discs in there for good measure to

Just fitting the fronts today. I've still not finished at 7.45pm tonight... I need my dad to return home so I can borrow his weight

I've had a very subtle knocky type noise going on when pulling away slowly recently (slow enough to hear anyway) And as I suspected, my OS CV joint has a fair amount of play in it. So I'm happy that I've found out for sure what it is, but that's another on the "to do" list.

[NafemanNathan]

you do realise there is a part missing in this pic, right?



and on a non-jesting note... did your coilovers come with top mounts? cos they are the style i need and cant find! ive got some on order, but im not convinced they are going to be right, and they are taking forever. if you new ones came with... fancy selling me your old ones? lol