My EK4

Good to hear you're keeping this man

Lots more potential for cool shit imo.

skyrocket wrote:

oh and btw cus...would neva of guessed that was ur dad...he said hi in the shop

o i know ye he said sumat about that haha

so glad this is staying ezz, although the line would of been cool, i sort of think of this as the TOA rep car lol.
Think you should do me a finance deal on the old RS's as im due new tyres anyway

still tryin to get an application form for you btw, its like finding a needle in a haystack in this place

cheers everyone!

@ sky, theres a HELLA long build thread on here somewhere, i WILL finish it one day, lol

@ whitty, No rush, im just SKINT, lol, jks

haha sound.

so yeah hows £50 a month sound? 0%apr right? sorted lol

lols

shweeeeet build.

Got a small update/story;

Drove the car (for the first time in aaaages) to merry hill, on the way there it started to shake really badly, felt like the engine was resting on the chasis rails or it was starting to seeze up again. Limped it to merry hill and parked it up, thought id let it cool down and then check the oil after a walk around. Oil was fine, mounts were fine, so im like wtf? I limp it home, i get on to my estate and by this point i am soooo pissed off that everytime i drive the fucking thing something breaks I slam it in 1st and floor it so whatever is going to break just breaks. After a horrible sound and a bump i end up running over my accessory pulley (pas, alt). once it fell off the engine was fine and not wobbling atall! i was so pleased thats all it was (i thought it was something major) like an idiot im revving it and thraping it around my estate now it had stopped shaking, but unknown to me the timing belt was starting to come off now the pulley wasnt there, luckily when i parked up and had a look it was just about on, so.....
bad luck: 4
good luck: 10

Then with the help of cus, toajay, tesh and markyboi we pulled the crank pulley off the dc2 (i hate taking stuff off this car) and threw it on the EK, also managed to change the broken ARB drop link, took her for a spin and im sooooo happy with it, it feels like a solid car again, feels like i can drive it witout worrying about every smell, noise and vibration (thats probably just in my head, lol), also with the straight thru cat combined with the oem back box it fully sounds like a ferrari!

still smoking on startup tho : (

but another day and more stuff sorted so im happy (and acheing)

Glad it was a minor thing yo.

Try lucas oil stabilizer for the smoking thing, but if its just smoking on start up, cant be too bad.

Just spent a couple of hours and about a tenna in fuel getting to know my car again, so if anyone heard screaming vtec echoing in the distance that was me :p

btw thanks again tesh for the gearknob, feels a bit weird tho, i had fully got used to just using the stick alone lol

ez if i was you just keep you eye on how much your car is puttin out smoke... maybe it might fix itself being as its a fresh build it might need bedding in lol

I will do, tbf though the oil hasnt gone down atall since its been back on road

I need to hear the crossover again, long over due! lol
now its back on the road, as cus said monitor if its getting better, or worse. may cure itself fingers crossed

I herd that crossover last night was the only car on the road and as it pulled away i just stood an smiled vtec =

Washed and waxed it a couple of days ago, the wax has worked wonders, i washed it again today and gave it a good detailing.
I took a few pics but i dont want to post them up because the spoilers still not back, il get some more when its back.

Oh yeah, i got my new RS's on too, just a teaser for now:

yesssss! still think you should mop it! where you go to get the tyres done?

yeehhhhh boi thats looking good to me. god i want some wheels lol

thanks lads

cus it REALLY doesnt need a mop, its like a black mirror atm!

i know it is proper shiny at the min but i looked at the paintwork close and there's swirls in it etc trust me it would come up loads bettter if it i swear!

You havnt seen it since i washed it twice and then waxed it, shits blangin.

On a different note i think it i the rings that are playing up, i booted it from some lights a min ago and could see some blue smoke pooffing out, thats kind of good news because atleast i now know what it is, fark knows what i did wrong installing them then? :s

The guys at willenhall engine centre have been very friendly and helpfull (dispite me being pissy with them when i thought it was still the head) so hopefully when i get round to doing it il take a piston and a set of rings so they can show me what im doing wrong...

LOL's at the last pic...

I dropped by earlier...

Oh wow, that shit's perfect.

see you next tuesday

Oh, is that why you rang, soz, i was on the way to grab my spoiler, exitedly

Thanks micheal, im sure yours will be sicker when its done