prblmslvrs
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So I Got home Friday night and unpacked the Advan RGII's. They're in cracking condition. Two have relatively chunky kerb marks on them but not that fussed as I'll probably do damage to em myself.
Since I picked up a new camera I had to grab a couple shots of the car on the VSXX before they’re gone forever.
As the VSXX are sold I had to whip them off before going to the tyre guys and got the lovely shot of my car sitting on the spare S14a wheels I have.
Got the towing yeti loaded up with 6 vsxx, two tyres and 4 Advans with a shit load of room left over… Towing to track days is going to be ace. Gone are the days of loading up my car to roof haha. My old boy got a detachable tow bar fitted to it and looks a good job.
Had fun with the tyre guys getting some 215/40.R17’s onto the 9.5 Advans. Ended up getting one on with the fire method but the second just wasn’t taking it so I ended up finding a tyre place in Inverness with a Bead blaster which was ideal to get it on.
Then the first test fit happened.
Could do with a couple 5 mm spacers on front and a bit less camber on rear but realistically i’ll just put 5mm spacers on the rear too.
Now with the Advans on I jumped onto the next issue thats been on the list for ages. My AFR has been reading a bit lean on idle and I knew I had a blow at the turbo gasket so bought a new nissan one. Pulled the old one.
Fucked. Put the new one on.
Pulled the car back with the intention of washing it but started chucking it down with hail/snow.
Ended up stopping for 15 minutes which was long enough to get a quick wash done on the car. The wheels have a bit of baked on brake dust I tried to pull off but was a bit stubborn and dragons breath didn't make a dent in it so I’ve ordered some Bilt Hamber to see if that helps.
I’m so happy with how these wheels look on the car. At first I was a bit unsure about running the Advan Gold on a red car and was worried I was going to have to fork out on a refurb to make them silver, but I’m actually so stoked on how this has turned out.
So with all that out the way the only thing I had on my list to do was set up the EBC now that the car is boosting properly… Took the car out the road and first thing I noticed is with the extra 0.5” stretch on the front I was bouncing the subframe down my road. (Honestly you should see the state of my driveway and the single track road to get into the city.)
Set up the EBC for a really conservative 0.9bar setup. Foot down and as soon as it hit boost the exhaust makes a fuck off fart and I get boost cut. Great. Drop the EBC to 0.8. Again. Down to 0.6. Same. Turn the EBC off completely and it sort of boosted.
Got a standard Asda celebratory beer collection picture as usual though.
So with the farty boost shit I got back after a drive and my AFR was still reading lean. Confused I speak to Freddie who says "Unplug AFM and check reading". Unplug the AFM and the AFR sorts itself right out. Great, so how long have I been driving with a fucked AFM for. Norfy had an idea last time we were talking AFM's that a 3 pin CA one has the same ranges as SR straightcam. I chopped it up for science. It worked and revved past 2.5k but just didn't idle right.
So I need to order up an AFM from Japan unless theres anyone in the UK that is holding one that doesn't want daft money for it.
And thats it. Car is SORN'ed. I expected a bit more driving etc of it but with the AFR playing up it wasn't to be. but I am fucking stoked on the wheels. The TD05H setup is still sitting in my shed for sale but no real interest in it yet so theres a strong likelihood of it ending up on the car...
Since I picked up a new camera I had to grab a couple shots of the car on the VSXX before they’re gone forever.
As the VSXX are sold I had to whip them off before going to the tyre guys and got the lovely shot of my car sitting on the spare S14a wheels I have.
Got the towing yeti loaded up with 6 vsxx, two tyres and 4 Advans with a shit load of room left over… Towing to track days is going to be ace. Gone are the days of loading up my car to roof haha. My old boy got a detachable tow bar fitted to it and looks a good job.
Had fun with the tyre guys getting some 215/40.R17’s onto the 9.5 Advans. Ended up getting one on with the fire method but the second just wasn’t taking it so I ended up finding a tyre place in Inverness with a Bead blaster which was ideal to get it on.
Then the first test fit happened.
Could do with a couple 5 mm spacers on front and a bit less camber on rear but realistically i’ll just put 5mm spacers on the rear too.
Now with the Advans on I jumped onto the next issue thats been on the list for ages. My AFR has been reading a bit lean on idle and I knew I had a blow at the turbo gasket so bought a new nissan one. Pulled the old one.
Fucked. Put the new one on.
Pulled the car back with the intention of washing it but started chucking it down with hail/snow.
Ended up stopping for 15 minutes which was long enough to get a quick wash done on the car. The wheels have a bit of baked on brake dust I tried to pull off but was a bit stubborn and dragons breath didn't make a dent in it so I’ve ordered some Bilt Hamber to see if that helps.
I’m so happy with how these wheels look on the car. At first I was a bit unsure about running the Advan Gold on a red car and was worried I was going to have to fork out on a refurb to make them silver, but I’m actually so stoked on how this has turned out.
So with all that out the way the only thing I had on my list to do was set up the EBC now that the car is boosting properly… Took the car out the road and first thing I noticed is with the extra 0.5” stretch on the front I was bouncing the subframe down my road. (Honestly you should see the state of my driveway and the single track road to get into the city.)
Set up the EBC for a really conservative 0.9bar setup. Foot down and as soon as it hit boost the exhaust makes a fuck off fart and I get boost cut. Great. Drop the EBC to 0.8. Again. Down to 0.6. Same. Turn the EBC off completely and it sort of boosted.
Got a standard Asda celebratory beer collection picture as usual though.
So with the farty boost shit I got back after a drive and my AFR was still reading lean. Confused I speak to Freddie who says "Unplug AFM and check reading". Unplug the AFM and the AFR sorts itself right out. Great, so how long have I been driving with a fucked AFM for. Norfy had an idea last time we were talking AFM's that a 3 pin CA one has the same ranges as SR straightcam. I chopped it up for science. It worked and revved past 2.5k but just didn't idle right.
So I need to order up an AFM from Japan unless theres anyone in the UK that is holding one that doesn't want daft money for it.
And thats it. Car is SORN'ed. I expected a bit more driving etc of it but with the AFR playing up it wasn't to be. but I am fucking stoked on the wheels. The TD05H setup is still sitting in my shed for sale but no real interest in it yet so theres a strong likelihood of it ending up on the car...
