zenki 14 street car

[michealkirwan]

also new skirts on the way these arent low enough

 

[michealkirwan]

got the new skirts gone for painting as well as car will be going to get wings bumper smoothed and skirts all sprayed to match the car. these are the skirts

got car tracked too

 

[michealkirwan]

ordered driftworks solid steering bushing and the rack ones too hopefully sort out some of the sloppy steering.
also ordered extended wheelnuts for the front and rear.
also braided brakelines front and back also driftworks.
bumpers getting sorted wings stonechips new sideskirts and back bumper and pressed plates all this weekend.

 

[michealkirwan]

in for some work for japfest!
parts arrived

 

[michealkirwan]

 

[michealkirwan]

update.
new skirts painted front bumper smoothed and repaired also painted, turns out its a custom colour and matched as best as we could. 20mm spacers on back and driftworks brake lines fitted, superpro steering rack bushings fitted waiting on origin streamline back bumper to arrive.

 

[michealkirwan]

another present for the s14 she must think im santa!!

also bumper arrived bit tight but will fit so saturday morning car should be ready

 

[michealkirwan]

removed the old standard rad as it was a heap of shite. was driving through dublin for college and she would go red hot and in over the hot mark..so 50 mm j performance rad now in some difference so fairly happy. front bumper smoothed wings done compounded origin streamline back bumper and skirts from dori rory. car looks a lot better. still need to find a 4 work vskf as ive 3.

 

[Squire]

Coming along very nicely lad, fair play!!

 

[michealkirwan]

ok so car died in traffic started spluttering. no power. got it sorted at chamber performance in dublin. the altenator was fine. bad connections on the poles. simple fix. few brighter headlight bulbs and new filter replacement. had to get a recovery truck.

 

[michealkirwan]

 

[michealkirwan]

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Then Japfest 15!

 

[michealkirwan]

need a 4th vskf work 17 inch 8.5 j +28

need to fit new top mounts i got
also the extended wheel threads
also looking for a decent bride with rail
my hardrace engine mounts and all the fluids to do.

 

[michealkirwan]

make sure to change your powersteering fluid! my pump was wining so i drained it and it was this.

sludge so all new fluid. problem solved. also changed dash bulbs

simple things.

 

[michealkirwan]

just an update as ive been busy with college and women blah blah blah haha!!
got a new carbon chargespeed bootlid and vertex skirts to gain more jdm points!



having hardship finding a 4th work wheel
so much to do to the car!

 

[michealkirwan]

then this happened

had to take off the back passenger wheel for one fucking screw!


some vertex!

 

[michealkirwan]

been a while with college and placement and xmas and new years and getting a new partner haha! shes into cars and wants to learn so she will have her hands full! right properly fecked off over the car as ive no shed its outside dark cold and wet! shes on axlestands at the front so i wont put up pics as it might break hearts!
ive lights out bonnet off frontmount and piping battery afm and filter off and power steering resevoir done. hard to have motivation when your on your own at this i want to do the bay too so hence the strip so silver lining.
getting 1.6 mm cosworth head gasket and arp head bolts also finally fit my hardrace engine mounts and tidy the block by painting it just a matter of labelling and stripping back. all to have a summer car. rear works will be coming to the front so find wider for the rear also fit the new topmounts ive been meaning to for ages and spray the skirts and find the bn widebody front bumper!

 

[michealkirwan]

no units around lady89 trust me ive looked and im doing it all on my own so im doing what i can when i can so see areas for improvement so got more into this now and started removing easy bits and bobs. labelled the plugs with tippex to there connections so will know what goes where to remove and reconnect them. down pipe engine mounts and driveshaft by the diff to do but waiting on a crane still! not enough hours in the day. went to mondello for autoheroes three met david conlon and dave speers had a good time. serious motivation got! also finally tried the spacers on one side and i need a 50 mm!
ok some pics!



need to simplify this loom






the bumpers for sale


now this isint tight so will be in a small bit!

the works : )


peoples thoughts and opinions? wont see it till friday as im in college in dublin. will get poish coolant bottle etc, wiper bottle in boot if i can along with battery.
the end result will be yes i will be tracking it as is it as well as road will have bumpers on and skirts

 

[michealkirwan]

rocker stoppers arp headbolts and cosworth headgasket 1.6mm got, so depressed over no shed and every fecking bolt seems to be hardship.but good news regarding the car its a surprise so hopfully it works out!

 

[michealkirwan]

light bit of sanding and stripping done then went to town with a wire wheel so got a lot of the heavy stuff off. as you all can see its still in but working on it. the shite that sticks to the body is unreal. wrecked after the long weekend shifts at work as well as placement but fair proud of my progress and ive an idea of what goes where etc.