Quick Update

[glblaze]

Thanks to everyone for all the advice and help sourcing parts, it was much easier being a part of such a great club:sxoc:. I managed to find a whole front end up in London and talked the guy who bumped mine in to getting some nice vented wings from SRB:D He's picking the front end up saturday so should have the car back on the road in a couple of weeks.

[GAV200]

Thanks to everyone for all the advice and help sourcing parts, it was much easier being a part of such a great club:sxoc:. I managed to find a whole front end up in London and talked the guy who bumped mine in to getting some nice vented wings from SRB:D He's picking the front end up saturday so should have the car back on the road in a couple of weeks.


Awsome stuff:clap:

[pdh 14a]

Excellent news! just hope he's better with a spraygun than he is with a steering wheel and accelerator pedal :nod: :thumbs:

[VIDAL BABBOON]

Mint :nod:

Hope it's back on the road soon :)

[glblaze]

Went round the other day to see how things were going with the front end, after talking to the guy who's doing the paint work the car is now getting virtually a complete spray job:D. He's got all the parts on and lined up now, now to take them off again for paint. Anyway here's a couple of grainy pics taken off a camera phone.
http://i596.photobucket.com/albums/tt42/glblaze/03042009022.jpg
http://i596.photobucket.com/albums/tt42/glblaze/03042009021.jpg
http://i596.photobucket.com/albums/tt42/glblaze/03042009020.jpg
Will get a couple more pictures up with a decent camera when it's done (not too long now hopefully)

[Jezz_S13]

Definitley a cloud with a silver lining. :thumbs:

[pdh 14a]

Nice to see someone actually owning up and sorting their mistake! Looks like he's doing a good job :thumbs:

[GAV200]

Looks , good:thumbs:

Got all the parts sorted then?

[glblaze]

Looks , good:thumbs:

Got all the parts sorted then?

Thanks! Talked him round to a set of vented wings and he got a complete front end. It's with a body shop now. Hope to have it back this week.

[VIDAL BABBOON]

Just let him know you have done him a favour buy allowing aftermarket parts to be used :nod:


And as a result he owes you a beer lol

One other thing though before accepting the car get a full suspension alignment check done (even if you have to pay for it) as this will ensure that the car will be perfect for her first outing and highlight any suspension damage as a result of the bump ;)

[glblaze]

Just let him know you have done him a favour buy allowing aftermarket parts to be used :nod:


And as a result he owes you a beer lol

One other thing though before accepting the car get a full suspension alignment check done (even if you have to pay for it) as this will ensure that the car will be perfect for her first outing and highlight any suspension damage as a result of the bump ;)

Was going to ask on here about somewhere in South Wales to take it for alignment. I heard someone talking about somewhere in Newport. I know the camber was set wrong before the accident as I have excessive wear on the inside of the N/S front wheel. I think he knows I did him a favour;) but as a result I managed to source parts that I wanted on the car not just replacement parts and quicker.

[VIDAL BABBOON]

Yeah the place in Newport seems to come highly recommended by the majority of the welsh lads :nod:

I believe it's called Orchard motors !

There was a contact name and number for them in a post on here somewhere, a search for the name may reveal all :)

[pdh 14a]

His name is John! and the no is 01633 216775 :thumbs:

[glblaze]

Thanks, will give him a call:thumbs: Do I need to tell him what settings the car should have or can he set it himself? I'm a bit clueless about this kind of stuff.

[JIMS14]

For Gods sake don't use Mototec in Pontllanfraith. They all need 10 gallon Hats and a set of Spurs to work in there. I will never take my car anywhere near them for alignment. If you search on Pistonheads in the Welsh section you will find many others have had similar experiences. Orchard motors are highly recomended. If that fussy git Paul takes his car there and is happy with them you can't say fairer than that.

[VIDAL BABBOON]

Thanks, will give him a call:thumbs: Do I need to tell him what settings the car should have or can he set it himself? I'm a bit clueless about this kind of stuff.

Take the whiteline settings with you ;) tell him how you want it not how he wants to do it ;)

Paul has the settings :nod:

[cardiff scum]

Orchard have a very good rep as stated,Pdh can give you the settings,in fact im surprised he hasnt been on yet:rolleyes:
Good job with the stupid git spunking for a nice bit of kit too:nod:

[Owen]

Get the settings up paul my man I am due there in the next couple of weeks!!!

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[Lum]

For Gods sake don't use Mototec in Pontllanfraith. They all need 10 gallon Hats and a set of Spurs to work in there. I will never take my car anywhere near them for alignment.

Quoted for truth.

Took mine in recently, when I went in all the wheels were running roughly -1°30' on the camber which was right on the edge of the spec.

They said the fronts wern't adjustable for camber but the rears were, adjusted one of the rears to -0°58' and then said the nut was too tight on the other rear and they couldn't get it off without damaging it. They'd been using a 12 sided socket to do this.

Those who've seen my other threads will know that my car has only been in the UK for about 3 weeks, and when it came over there wasn't a spec of rust anywhere so god help them if they ever have to do a UK S13 or something.

Anyway as a result of this the car actually drives worse than when it went in.

Going to try Orchard Motors after the bank holiday.

Edit: I can provide scans of the printouts from the alignment machine if you need proof of the accusations I'm making, however here's the numbers from it
Left Front Right |
Actual|Before| |Actual|Before| Specified Range
-1°34'|-1°40'| Camber |-1°24'|-1°16'| -1°40' - -0°10'
1°41'| 1°40'| Caster | 2°31'| 2°31'| 2°50' - 4°20'
0°04'|-0°07'| Toe | 0°02'|-0°05'| 0°00' - 0°05'

Rear
-1°31'|-1°39'| Camber |-0°58'|-1°23'| -1°40' - -0°10'
0°23'| 0°25'| Toe | 0°25'| 0°18'| 0°00' - 0°11'

[pdh 14a]

Get the settings up paul my man I am due there in the next couple of weeks!!!

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They are in the last page of this thread guys! http://www.sxoc.com/vbb/showthread.php?t=252252&highlight=alignment
lots of settings there from fast road to drift!
I'm still happy with my ones though
Front
1.3 degrees camber
0.0 toe

rear 1.2 degrees camber
0.5 Toe
:thumbs:

[glblaze]

Thanks for the settings! Sounds like this could be money very well spent! Should've done this years ago, I've never really been happy with the handling.

[pdh 14a]

No probs,mine was really skittish till i had it done,now putting the power down is very controlable! :thumbs: