Dr_Jekyll & Mr_Hyde Estate Project

[dr_jekyll]

Haha i think some ones took a joke a little too seriously [emoji23] [emoji6]

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Anyway it wasnt that the bulbs incorrectly fitted its that i mixing lenses and back reflectors soooo... [emoji14]

[WiNgNuTz]

Yeah, piggy seems to lack a sense of humour sometimes. Love you really mate.

Personally, i'd rather just use a set of ph3 crystals than risk running potentially dangerous headlights.

[dr_jekyll]

Dont like the ph3 inners and the idea was my ph3 all the fixings were snapped [FACE WITH TEARS OF JOY] worrying thing is i genuienly have a better beam pattern now then my ph3 so must of been setup mega shit. Cant say ive ever fiddled wuth headlights before now.

Will have to run them and buy another set of ph3 and see if the 2 masks will fit in

[WiNgNuTz]

Fair enough, might pay you to swing past a friendly MOT centre or something, see if they can check the beam pattern properly for you though? Just to be on the safe side.

[dr_jekyll]

Yeah think im deffo gonna look into it. List just keeps getting longer atm [emoji20] got a beautiful ovaled hub, need two wishbones again, pas and abs delete im wanting to do and need two new tyres...... fml

[dr_jekyll]

Pretty happy, managed to solve my hub and wishbone problem last night thanks to a good mate. Bought a roller/sealed bearing converted pair of wishbones. Cant wait to see what these drive like. Dirty as hell so will give them a good de-coke and re-grease them up before putting them on. Least i'll never have bush issues again

[Piggy]

Nah, you'll just have roller bearing issues

Hehe...they do worry me though a bit for daily use...I will be curious to see how you get on

[dr_jekyll]

Can get roller bearings cheaper than bushes so not to phased im a lil concerned to but mates s16 handled like it was on rails with these.
Dunno if its gonna drop my car lower to as there will be no resistance from bushes aiding shocks and springs....

[Piggy]

Erm...no. It wont drop lower!

[dr_jekyll]

Good [FACE WITH TEARS OF JOY] much lower and i'll have no subframe left

[aggyj17]

They are fine in daily use didn'taoe it any harsher ride. Probably one of the best mods I done to mine :-)

[dr_jekyll]

Finally decided it was time to part with my beloved compomotives for somthing abit mad. Not knowing if i could get them under the arch i swapped them for for these steels (believe there modulars) rears are 8j et0 and fronts are 7j et15.

On test fit the fronts needed a 20mm spacer to clear the caliper and the rears a 5mm. The wheels came on non stretched tyres with a 55 profile meaning when the rear was dropped she sat on the arch.

Only solution i could see for the rears was to fit some mad stretch (165/50) in doingbso it has given me just enough clearance to fit the rears.... also making me look like a honda scene queen [FACE WITH TEARS OF JOY]
Im now waiting on a set of tyres to get the fronts fitted.

[1616six]

I absolutely adore this.

[dr_jekyll]

Thanks [emoji4] shes getting abit scruffy again but gotta repaint her when the weather clears anyway. Had to molest the arches so will be filling and smoothing them back down aswell

[Poodle]

Just to let you know those lights won't go through an MOT unless the tester is a completely useless lady garden. I'm sure you think they're fine and all, but as Ruan says the two phases use two completely different systems to create beam pattern, two incompatible systems. This will be as bad if not worse than HIDs in non-projector lights.

Rest of the car is coming on well mind, might even be road-worthy soon.

[dr_jekyll]

Cheeky git [FACE WITH TEARS OF JOY] kept the crystals back anyway incase but tempted to make the step to morettes instead. starting to get a collection of unfriendly mot tester mods lmao.

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Been meaning to ask someone. What would be the cause for "notchy" steering. Wheel no longer travels smoothly still or moving. Feels likes the steering wheel notches into each degree of lock. Dieing pump or maybe viscosity of oil way out? Only been a recent development

[Poodle]

Probably a dried out uj on your steering column mate, will need replacing sharpish. Worth checking the pas fluid level though.

[dr_jekyll]

Ohhhh dont sount to good. Comes and goes too :/ just got the wheels on and new bolts, badly needs a re-spray/graffati in nicer weather but got abit of stance now

[dr_jekyll]

So after some major wheel rumble i went and bought some spigot rings. On taking the rear 5mm slip ons off i found i hade managed to crack them
With this i was forced to refit the 20mm on the rear to clear the caliper.
With them fitted again i had some serious poke on the go so have gone pretty mad rolling the arch to sort it out.
With the arch rolled the tyre no longer catches the metal arch..... but is currently chewing into the rear bumper. The way i see it it'll fix itself [FACE WITH TEARS OF JOY]

[7057sam]

Wheels looks great

Nice to see another local ish person aswell

[dr_jekyll]

Cheers where abouts are you based? Im here there and everywhere latley

[7057sam]

Cheers where abouts are you based? Im here there and everywhere latley

Between bury st edmunds and stowmarket but work in stowmarket.Do most of my car work with mate at a garage in fressingfield.

[dr_jekyll]

Well looks like todays ended in alot of swear words. Managed to lose aload of brake fluid and sucked aload of air into the system. Assuming its a bust line but taking no chances. Gonna take advantage of the situation and and do my abs delete now. Just ordered aload of bits so now got 50ft of copper on the way aswell as new sliders, t-piece and bias valve for abs delete, drilled and grooved front disks, norm bendix rear, all new pads, 23mm gti6 master cylinder, braided lines plus all tools to fit this shiz up...... and thats an unhappy bank balance again.

[dr_jekyll]

Right well turns out brake problem was the master cylinder. Replaced just that tommorow and will be bleed ing the brakes up tommorow.
Will have to put off the brake mods untill better weather. Sucks arse

On a better note scored some baker bm engine mounts and powerflex balck lower proper cheap [SMILING FACE WITH OPEN MOUTH]

[zx_volcane]

Interesting to see you've also snapped a Meyle HD P-bush - did you ever inform them?

I'm just in the process of putting a claim i with them as they're covered by a 4 year guarantee...

[dr_jekyll]

The wishbones were given to me as the originals were naffed. They came with the hd pbush and powerflex front bush. Meaning cant really put in a claim as i cant prove when they were purchased.

Another new part for the brakes came this morning unsure wether to run standard pads on the disks and keep onto of replacing them frequently or run green stuff

[Poodle]

Or run decent pads? Just putting it out there.

There's not going to be much original car left by the time you're finished, excellent work!

[dr_jekyll]

Is that a good thing poodle? [FACE WITH TEARS OF JOY] just keep upgrading every time somthing wears out lol. Or i find some daft thing to change

[Poodle]

It better be else i'm a hypocrite, not even the shell on mine is original now. Best way to do it imo, at least if you plan on keeping the car long term - means nasty surprises are kept to a minimum.

[dr_jekyll]

Cheers i dont know what the long term plan with the car is :/ would love to take her stage 3 but cars 50mile off joining the 200k club. Shes been nothing but abised and just dunno how long its got left lol