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    Car looks good dude, hows the saab anti roll bar ive just ordered one of these also?

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    Quote Originally Posted by Gav View Post
    Car looks good dude, hows the saab anti roll bar ive just ordered one of these also?
    Yeah seems alright! I'm waiting for a dry day to do back to back session tests with no arb, astra one and the saab one to check the difference though! Been raining since I fitted it but it hasn't made it tail happy in the wet

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    Well, this car is still being worked on and improved.

    The engine has gradually been burning more and more oil. The bullet was my mate saying actual pieces of oil were hitting his windscreen behind me. Suspicion was stem seals so off comes the head:



    Definite signs of oil burning:



    16 Elring stem seals fitted, and a bit of valve lapping while there:



    ARP head studs so I felt like there was a point to yet another engine strip down:



    Fitting them. SBD instructions say you need 5mm spacers on a late head which is 74mm deep. With the provided washer it's pretty close to the end of the threads, so I fitted the ARP washer, OE washer and ARP nut to ensure I was in the middle of the thread:



    Done, never to be seen again:



    Test drive seems pretty good, it definitely smells less so fingers crossed.

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    Bit of preventitive maintenance for once, Wilwood caliper rebuild.

    Technique was get a piece of wood and pressurise the caliper with an airline to get the pistons out most of the way:



    Seals pretty good, pistons very bad. Caught it in time.



    New pistons from RallyDesign are a way nicer design - cast then machined OD. Look way better made than the old ones:



    8 new seals and pistons fitted, bolted back on and bled with Motul 660 fluid.

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    Also rocking a single carbon kevlar Cobeau now:



    Car weighs in at 820kg with over 20L of fuel.


    Trackdays are running again so booked onto Mallory at August.
    Last edited by Iain; 06-07-20 at 02:00 PM.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Iain View Post
    my mate
    You have friends??

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    One.

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    Nice update. Hopefully the engine can stay together now until the end of the season!

    Loving a bit of carbon/kevlar Was gutted to have to sell the corb rev ones I had, but just don't fit with the red tunnel

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    Quote Originally Posted by The Simps View Post
    Nice update. Hopefully the engine can stay together now until the end of the season!

    Loving a bit of carbon/kevlar Was gutted to have to sell the corb rev ones I had, but just don't fit with the red tunnel
    I bullied him into getting it, along with removing his passenger seat for added race car ed ness.

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    I'm playing with this bumper idea, I'm 50/50 whether to carry on or scrap it.

    Proper ropey, basically scrap GSi bumper



    The edges were cut off for wheel clearance, which just looked terrible once fitted:



    I was torn between a few ideas, but the top is basically the same between povo and GSi, so I thought I'd try making a GSi "Alpina style bolt on valance" from it:



    This is it bolted to a spare povo mk2 bumper which is pretty much cut away to just be the upper part and sides:



    Quite happy with the fit into the existing swage line:



    Not 100% sure on the lip it's left here, but I guess that was inevitable:



    Hmmmm.

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