Ed's Dead Diablo Ph3 GTi6

[Ed Doe]

Soo, not many updates for a little while, not much has changed really;

I Fitted an undisclosed modification to the inlet manifold along with a phat cone, and after much f*ck-on and swearing.... It sounds PORNO :p

I had a proper game fitting it though; inlet manifold off, and me being a tool, I thought I'd need to take the fuel rail out. Un bolted it, decided after some gentle persuasion that I didn't want to accidentally break anything, so gave up. Managed to sort everythign without tkaing the injectors/fuel rail out anyway, but forgot to do them up. Cue much swearing when the thing wouldn't idle, and i could smell fuel HEAVILY. Bolted the fuel rail back down, and managed to nick 2 o-rings badly on the injectors, causeing still more precious 99-ron to piss down the front of my engine bay. After frantic calls to motor factors, I dispatched woman to go get them, and fixed it all up. until I realised I'd not put a plug on properly on the injector. Miss-fire and down on power I was shitting it, but then saw the unplugged injector, and since then *touches wood* all has been epic!

I also just got a set of 4300k hids, which are a nice upgrade but not too obviously wrong for the car which is nice.

Being french, it's not without its problems; an abs sensor has just decided to give up the ghost which is a pain, but it could be worse I spose!

I alo went down west-country, and popped into the veritable gold-mine that is Trago Mills Here I found a DIABLO RED aerial! Spotting immediately the scope for winding Fooby up, I bought it and fitted it I'm still a little in 2minds about it, but it's staying for the time-being as my old aerial never worked properly cause some tool had screwed the thread into the aerial so much it was hanging onto the car by barely a thread...

After coming back from Devon, I gave the car a quick clean. Too bright for any wax/polish, but a quick shampoo never went amiss :p and ANY excuse to sniff megs tyre gel

The pics are on my photobucket, I cba to post them all up, especially with the ones below! :p


I have come to a decision regarding the car's immediate future; I'm going to take it off the road to spend a silly quantity of money on refreshing every bush on the car.

I'm also planning a nice set of KW V2's, and a 2nd set of alloys for track use D Looking forward to it already!!!

By chance as it turns out, my uncle called me up the other day to say my 1st car (I was the 3rd owner, sold it to my dad who sold it to an employee of his who sold it back to him who sold it to my uncle!) had spectacularly failed its mot and I could have it for nothing! Considering it's a 106 1.5nad and to my trained eye all it needs is the rear drums sorting out as well as a new rad and wheel bearing, It'd be rude not to, so I've now got that sat on my gran's drive fr the timebeing until I can spare some time to take a look at it.

So It's all coming together rather well; I'll be taking the '6 off the road when my renewale is due in November, and running round in the 106 doing silly mpg whilst saving for shiny go-faster bits for the 6 DD

Pics of the 106 to follow when I eventually start work on it!

Anyway, the main premise to this update is the epic clean/detail I did on the exterior of the car today

It's goodwood Revival this weekend, and my parents got me and the woman tickets for Sunday, so I used the excuse to spend around 5hours cleaning the car.

1.Pressure Washed
2.Dried with leather chammy
3.Towel-dried alloys& tyres
4. Srp'd any light scratches. then got bored, as there were so many fecking stone-chips/gravel-rash on the front end, so gave up
5. Megs Liquid Carnuba Wax (cant for the life of me remember which one, but it's in a red bottle, and it smells of bananas (ie. AMAZING)
6. Megs tyre gel
7. Autoglym window polish inside & out

didn't have time and the weather was a bit iffy to start with so I skipped claying it, but managed to get some srp on some scratches that I'd picked up.

Anyway, enough waffle, pics below!



















and then, just to spite me, it rained. B*llocks.

Stay tuned for many more sexy photos of the 106 :p Got a BARGAIN pattern rad, I reckon only a few thousand miles on it for £15 at the scrappers today for it. REsult :p