Fully awesomeness. I've never owned a new car. 2 in the hand = 1 in the bush apparently! It needs a 3" exhaust a hi-flow cat a lift kit. Bollocks just leave it stock. The engineers at Toyota are way smarter than us! Hmm maybe xcept kizza and trevs! Well done mate should be years of trouble free motoring. Got a d-max as work car. 50'000 so far bullet proof. Turbo diesel power. Maybe a fmic? Haha
Yeah could have taken the inverter from work but no need. My pop bought it in 1970 along with a pool table, brand spanker mission brown hq 202 3 on the tree and a massive shed. She runs fully sweet;-) pop and uncle Alf were both boilermakers at the midland workshops and nanna machiened shells there during ww2. Not a single stick or mrrmp just tacked it straight up upside down under the Nissan. Piece of piss with 308 14# rods:-)
Loaded up a stock transfer sheet from epe warehouse to workshop boss screwed it up and turfed it in the bin:-) my favourite price tag. Free! Forgot to bring nickel anti-seize and deep sockets home from work. Bummer. Left 1/2" and 3/8" air ratchet at work as well. Bummer. Will be tweaking and twiddling manually.
Picked up a new cat today. Went for the oval as opposed to the round for ground and body clearance issues. The 5" substrate copped a few knocks and was only floating in the spun s/s body. The oval is held into place by 2 swages plus has heat shielding so should do the trick. The 6 heat range on the plugs has been fine so far at 340rwhp. Only 10 though on them but clean as a whistle so far. Got all the parts sorted for some Saturday morning fun, yeah.
Or bourbon or whiskey:-) I replaced all the valley cover bolts (it only had 2 in it) with 5mm s/s Allen heads with anti seize and s/s flat washers when I done the coil packs and tarted up the wiring so thought it would save me from pulling and checking it for a while.
Replaced the cords on 2 roller shutters on the w/end and have 3 new weather proof fluros coming for the patio and car port this w/end. Re done all my home tools last w/end and make up 3 new tool boxes one for mechanical one for electrical and one for marking and measuring. Been in the office at work so canning the weekends!
Had the car off the road for a bit when I bought it and just tidied stuff up. Not a daily so will do stuff a bit better with some cash and time up my sleeve?
Just a refit on some stuff that was pissing me off everytime I opened the hood. Got a Cusco rear brace on the way to match the front and will get rid of the poxy 12" sub taking up the boot space and replace with a piano hinge properly fitting to swing up and down for battery and amp spare wheel access etc. Etc.
Just tidying up a few things. Pulled the intercooler flushed and cleaned. Pulled all the pipe work and swaged all the piping. It had poxy welds on it for the hose clamps. went over the Ali welds and s/s welds on the boost and intake side re-welded and pressure tested because it was messy welding. The exhaust leak on the cat flanges was because the ceramic substrate had come loose and was rattling. (like you said for lifter rattle/check for exhaust leak) redone all the tubing got a new viscous coupling and fan coming (Nissan oem) because the fan had some cracking. all new clamps from work and get rid of the black silicone hoses and replace with all Blue silicone to match the engine bay. I had re-worked the tubes before but still had clashing issues but done properly now. New tomei shifter to replace gay sparco one and venom 100cell cat with 3" in/out and 5" metal substrate to replace the ceramic. I've put new coil packs in aswell and iridium plugs gapped to 0.8. Just done a oil change plus gearbox and diff oil l.s.d. Paste not long ago. Wouldn't mid a tune to see how it's running. Probably won't make much difference to power as is running pretty sweet.
Menu looks pretty delicious and reasonably priced for skylines in the city? Ferris buleah and Carrie Bradshaw can't come. But I'm all for Samantha, Charlotte, Miranda and Mr big. They didn't crash their dad's Ferrari?