Sil80 Drift Project - Rising Out of the Ashes

[Magicmat]

so i now have two weeks to get the car through its:

- MOT
- Vic check
- insured and taxed !!

A lot to do.. but i really want to get to mallory. Sadly im going to be driving the car there and back but i'll take it steady-ish and i should make it back in one piece

[Pablo13]

Good work! Nice to see it on the move once more, well done

[Magicmat]

Good work! Nice to see it on the move once more, well done

Thanks fella, its taken a lot of work but the car is really solid and handles really well. So im really glad that i had it properly jigged.

Been chatting to TheChin and he's happy its running again.

it really does drive like its been stolen tho !

[Magicmat]

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[Dare]

I can't really comprehend all the work that went into you getting her ready for Sunday with my limited knowledge but can tell that it was a big effort! Happy for you now you have those pics and videos that should justify all the work you put in, some really nice shots there.
If you give me a bit of notice and there's some money in my bank at the time i'll definitely be following you and watching at some future drift days, need to get some experience from a safe distance

[Magicmat]

if you come along fella i'll give you some passenger rides and also whore you about on some of the other cars

better to do it in my car than your nice 14a !

This is where we was at this weekend, a bit of a trek for you, but would be cool if you came.

http://maps.google.co.uk/maps?hl=en&...ed=0CBYQ8gEwAA

next event is Mallory 24th August (on a tuesday, near leicester) and that will be an epic day.

[MEL]

Yay, being used an anger

Good to see the progress is still going in the right direction

[Magicmat]

cheers buddy.

... my old man was looking at the car yesterday and said,

"well i thought this would never get to the track" ... little faith !

[TheChin]

The person who styled that. KNEW it would look win going sideways. Shame the previous owner never bothered...

[Magicmat]

going to get a few more drift days under my belt and then will invest in a vertex front bumper and get the kit back on ..

... it really does look win going sideways tho !

[TheChin]

I want a passenger ride and a drive of it again

[Magicmat]

i'll see what i can do next event im trying to get to is mallory (as i keep banging on about )

But after that blyton, mallory and pod are my usual hideouts

[TheChin]

Next time after next your at Mallory, let me know

[Magicmat]

will do fella

Im hoping this isnt the last Mallory day !

[Magicmat]

Been sorting the headlights out today.

i've wired up the indicators for the front bumper and the sidelight-headlight thing...triangle

do i really need a sidelight in the bumper and headlight triangle???

[Pete C]

do i really need a sidelight in the bumper and headlight triangle???

No. On Silvias the bumper lights are just indicators.

[Magicmat]

cheers for that fella !

I'll just extend the bumper sidelight wire up to the triangle headlight

[Pete C]

cheers for that fella !

I'll just extend the bumper sidelight wire up to the triangle headlight

That's what I did

I guess if the tester was feeling particularly annoying, he might fail you because the bumper sidelights were fitted but not working?

I didn't change mine until I got hold of the Silvia indicators...

[Magicmat]

ah i see what your saying Pete,

I have pre facelift S13 ones.. and rather than chop up cables im going to just extend the wires and have a sidelight in the bumper and headlights .. abit mad but hey.

Right update time.. just got on my lunch at 4pm ! so i'll write a quick update

[Magicmat]

Right update time.

In my rush to get the car mot'd, VIC checked, insured and Taxed..within a week ! i had to get the welding done and also sort the lower ball point on the passenger side. If you remember the passenger side had the impact and the guy who did the jigging said it was knackered !

So the quest to get a ball joint ! ...my local place couldn't get one, neither could 'ASK' in kippax (near leeds) they are awesome but no joy. GSF said i could have one for £9,50 ! bargin as they are £40 on camskill. However the one from GSF is from an almera and it didn't F**king fit ! ..still got to get a refund on that

so the suspension was in bits and i decided to tackle the new hole at the back of the car (sadly i dont have a pic) the hole is pretty bad and it needs welding on three panels against the petrol tank. After much thought i decided that i'd get my dad to do it in a few weeks (he's a fabricator by trade)...but this meant not doing the MOT. I'm now going to tow the car to Mallory, however trying to get a tow car has been a nightmere because my old man is taking his landy to cornwall and my brother in law (kinda) has a towing licence but i dont and he would drive the tow car. But because he's under 23 hiring a van has been a no go !

I've now sorted it by giving my dad my car for his hols and i'll keep the landy ! ...so now im off to Mallory, as long as my car (golf) can hold all his shit for the holiday. Add this to the fact that I only just managed to get the last ticket for Mallory cos of a cancellation, Arranging to go has been more stressful than getting the car ready !

Right onto the car.

There's a few things going on but i'll just talk about the bits with photos

I've been fettling my passenger side PS13 light this week. I got this for £5 because i was told it was fooked. Turned out a bracket was broken and it had a small hole in the lens which had chipped off inside. As a result of the hole there was lots of gunk and rubbish inside the headlight which made it all yellow.







you can see a bug inside and also lots of muck on the actual lens's themselves. I'd like this headlight to get through the MOT and because the chip is over the fog it should pass as it wont affect the beam pattern.

So i decided to take the lens off the headlight and clean it out inside. After some research i learnt that the oven is good place to soften the sealant and then pull off the lens. Turned the oven on and went back into the garage to prepare the headlight.

Cue girlfriend

GF - matt why is the oven on
Mat...errr no reason darling.
GF - its 9pm and we had tea two hours ago..why's it on.
mat ... i just stuck it on for something.

GF then looks at the headlight in my hand and says "hold on" .... "are you putting that thing in the oven!!!"

Mat .. err maybe.

GF - your bloody not ! ... is it toxic ? will it smell ? you do know we've got guests around tomo that were cooking for ! i dont want the oven/house smelling of plastic and rubber...yada yada...bla bla

Mat - I duno... it will be fine, everyone does it !

needless to say i lost that argument and had to borrow a heat gun over the weekend altho i did keep threatening to use the oven for other stuff

So after some work with a heatgun and softening the lens i got it to come off.







you can see that the outer cover and internal lens is very mucky and have lots of crap on them