The Whole 3.6 Yards, Suzuki Cappuccino

[Delboy]

Loving the carbon bits Nikki, car is really coming along

[nikki746]

Here are some more roof pictures.













As you can see I was down the garage the other day, but didn't do anything too exciting. The car wasn't accelerating very smoothly again, a bit like the coilpack issue from the other week. Checked the plugs and they had got caked up so gave them a quick clean and stuck them back in. That lasted 20 miles and it came back again, so I have taken the grade 9's out and replaced them with my old set of 8's. I think I will get myself a fresh set of 8's as they suit how the car gets driven better.

As well as that we noticed that my brakes had seized up again. two were just slight and freed off easy but the offside rear caliper was stuck solid and took a bit more work to free off. All are now spinning freely, but I should really think about a caliper upgrades as I have never been that impressed by them. Plus the car gets driven every day so they shouldn't really seize up like that.

[nikki746]

Little bits have been going on. I got myself a little Suzuki sock



One of my Christmas presents was an under seat 8" sub and I got it fitted a while back. Sadly even though its one of the thinnest of its kind it still didn't quite fit under the seat. It was fine at the front, but the back sat proud Cue Head scratching at it ended up at the bottom of the passenger footwell. It does cut into the passenger legroom by about 3" but I don't sit there



Its added a lovely low thump to the stereo now, but then the other day the fuse on it blew I think I need to make a better earth for it as its only temp fitted at the mo so we can access it and fine tune things. I will tidy the wires up a bit more once everything is working happily again.

I also got hold of some RX7 FC four pot calipers recently, My plan is to copy the Japs a make them fit, although I have no idea what discs will work just yet but I'm sure we will work it out. Sadly all the Minkara links have broken now, except one, so this picture is all I have to go on



And the calipers


I have bought a rebuild kit for them and have begun shaving off the Mazda sign on them. I will also give them a lick of paint so they match the rears.

[Pablo13]

A few goodies have turned up ready for this weekend



Turbo timer


Next are half an SFS hose kit


In the big box a nice fresh Monster Sport turbo


Still very dinky, but flows more than standard and is the correct turbo to go with the N2 ecu




No cracks here!


And some new gaskets to go with it

[MEL]

Tiny turbo Booooooost!

[gonzomagic]

Very sexy bits, saw the roof in the flesh, and it was lush.

[Pablo13]

Last few bits have come!

Ordered some new oil from Opie. Sensible to do with a new turbo going on. Final part of that puzzle.


Getting a decent tubular manifold for a Cappo is not too easy. Sure there are some available in Japan, but with prices starting from around £1000 and only heading up Luckily the local Cappuccino fabricator decided to do a short run of some Manifolds so Nikki Jumped in. Decent thickness high quality stainless was used and then its ceramic coated. Welds are not the prettiest on the outside, but the ports on the inside are matched very nicely indeed.

Six Sixty Engineering Manifold










We have all the major parts ready now

[anton]

nissan 200sx discs fit on the hubs

[nikki746]

Got access to better camera now. Have a random carbon shot


And inspected the damage from an oversized B&Q speedbump :


Bye Bye


DAL started the strip down and fitting the new hoses




I took some comparison shots of the old and new. Size size on the outside but a fair difference with impeller sizes




Also stuck the old turbo next to a skyline tubby to get a better idea of its tinyness




The refit




Hard intake pipe added to go with the new install


Also included while fitting was a new set of plugs, oil change and a new oxygen sensor for good measure


Snapped a few Vids of before and after quickly, excuse the dirty


This is after so it was a bit cold still


I set the boost controller to off and ran with actuator pressure on the way home, even still it felt great. As good as the old tubby did even set at over 20psi and a lot nicer and smoother with a more constant power delivery that no longer tails off. One very happy girly right here Can't wait to go for a spin later and start setting up the boost controller

[nikki746]

Well I haven't been around much lately, snowed under with work etc, but I finally managed to get out and fit my Carbon goodies

[nikki746]

Spent about 6 hours on the car, managed to get the doors and mirrors in White

Found that one of the wing mirror caps had been broken and mastic'd on

Among other things I put a new ashtray in and accelerator pedal rubber.

[nikki746]

Thought id post a pic of her at The Nationals the other week.* To be fair she still needs a lot of work but she actually looked good on this day

[nikki746]

Been very busy lately what with car shows, parties, work and helping my little bro decorate his new house, so not much has been happening other than completely knackering myself out ;(

I did manage to get to the garage a few weeks back as my arches needed a bit of help, well im so glad my mechanic has got patience with her as he ended up cutting out the rear arches and 'tubbing' them for me, sorry no after shots as it was late as per usual ;(



In the next few weeks the engine will be coming out so I can get the engine bay fixed and painted, and have a general tidy up with the engine etc, I WILL make sure I take pictures for this one

[MEL]

Stop hogging dal, i need him

[nikki746]

Actually I don't think I am hogging him for a change, im booked in next week and then in August

[nikki746]

Little update on the engine bay refurb we did last weekend, what a long weekend it was too



Stripping commences


























Engine out














This is what we had to fix, more filler in places than B&Q





























Grinded down and ready for repair

















Bits ready for sanding and painting

[nikki746]

The new Black Diamond clutch I bought, as you can see is too big, so we had to put the old one back in for now





All masked up and ready for some POR 15




Paint on











All back in with some new hoses etc

[gonzomagic]

Oooooohhhh, very nice.

[lewys14a]

Very nice project , my friend has one of these and there awesome little cars

[nassuer]

Love those cars man! So economical