Marco's Black Beast aka 'Sooty'
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One of the most interesting threads here… :) I really like your "super style" spoiler. Shall u keep it or is it for sale?
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Nice engine detail 8)
You must be proud indeed. :)
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welcome to the world of klze now get it road legal and start making hondas cry its hours of fun :D
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lol cannot wait to get it on the road! Something to look forward to after the holiday :)
Yea Greg keeping the spoiler, planning to transfer to the black car, sorry :P
And steven, I'm damn proud, well more relieved it works!
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cant wait to see pics of the supra soiler on it then ity will probs make my mind up what spoiler to get or whether to not get one at all! looks smart on utr red one :D
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here's some pics I forgot about! Nothing majorly exciting :lol:
Damaged valve, boohoo, with nice new one in background:
Halfway through removing cast lines and knife edging intake for optimum airflow:
On the way to a light polish, tedious work doing 12 ports. Only exhaust was polished this helps get air out faster with less turbulence, polishing intake would of course detract from the desired swirling of fuel/air mix.
All done :)
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Do you know the website where you got your rocker cover paint?
i wanna pimp my bay!!
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Cool mod.. Get some turbo's!
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well my stupid ABS light means that my car isn't road legal SO…
I spent ages trying to find a guide to pull ABS code which I have now posted in the brakes forum. My codes were clear as mud really, but seemed kind of like a messed up sequence spelling out 53 - ABS motor, motor relay. I knew my relay was good as I swapped it from my red car which works, and still ABS light.
So today I finally pinned it down to the worst part of all- the ABS motor :( I got stuck straight in and got the bandit out, it was MESSY!
This is how I capped the lines, but make no mistake it will need a full bleed - 4 brakes and clutch :(
The offender!:
Rusted POS :evil: :evil: :evil: Now I play the waiting game… trying to get a second hand one of german ebay, seems the best place to get them!
After this is fixed it will be time to hit the roads wooooooo :D
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So last thing to fix before she's roadworthy = ABS.
Installed it after work in an hours :D And BAM no more ghey light. Round the block and still no light, time to tax and insure this beast! No wait a minute….
Well my dad kindly reminded me that one of my cam sprockets was running wonky, which is visable as I removed the circular rubbers from the covers. SO I tore the engine apart, this thing hasn't even made it out of my street yet!
Turns out my 'key' had ovaled the hole in the cam AND made a hairline crack! So the poor old K8 was further robbed of another sprocket and bolt. Thankfully just a few weeks before I pointlessly bidded on some kl31 cams, with no real intention of ever bothering to swap them with my installed kl01s... a sign??!!
Cam Party! ( and crackhead kl01s aren't invited :evil: )
'DIY Rebalanced' kl31 cams :lol: so far so good! I mean c'mon with all those caps, I don't think I'm going to have a gram of trouble ;)
All in, no more kl01s :o
First time it started :D Getting good at this…I hope.
Hopefully I'm due some carefree running now, REALLY wasn't wanting to be tearing it all apart so soon! On the upside I'm running the faster cams :)
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good news marco, i was following it on the "other site".
well done, glad to hear she'll be eating Vtecs for breakfast
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thanks mate! Still feel like something might go wrong, it's made me paranoid!
On other news some wee scrote trashed my red cars wing mirror :evil: I hope they get hit by a car, and not mine, 'cause they've done enough damage to mine.
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i bumped my front bumper the other day so ill gladly knock them down! dunno how welcome the southern reg would be though :wink:
any fresh arty pics?
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cleanest klze engine bay ive seen, and i love the purply rocker cover :D
good work!
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why thank you welly :D You have the cleanest gt4 engine on the site :lol:
No fresh arty pics Stephen, been to busy taking apart my ZE 3 times :lol: So far so good this time…
This time I Fixed:
-my kl31 cam which was scored in transit, metal sprayed and grinded to spec
-head and cam cap smoothed off where metal had welded due to previous owner running it with a cracked sump
-cam seal replaced (scored cam shredded it!)
-managed to remove a bolt which sheared off. It was the bottom bolt of timing tensioner, with just enough length to hold it steady. It made it hard to sleep at night :lol: Got some reverse thread bolt extractors and got the bandit out :D
-soldered my knock sensor wire which brokeMy deadline is October 28th - when my insurance runs out. Hope there's no more BS!
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and thus the beast hit the roads… :D ZE is so much fun, was spinning up to 60mph then thankfully my new alloys and tyres arrived. Now it's pulling great! Can't wait to get to a 1/4 mile strip.
Here's a photo I grabbed at lunchtime.
Bigger and Flickr:http://www.flickr.com/photos/marcography/3020250080/Loving my new Rotas and Toyo Proxes T1Rs which are mega grippy so far. I smoothed in my front lip to the bumper too. My CF bonnet needs pins to even the front out. I also passed annual inspection /MOT first time :D Let the good times roll…
Next is finish wiring megasquirt and possibly move over my supra style spoiler, I miss it...
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beautiful absolutely beautiful
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speechless marco. its absolutely incredible. truely is a credit to the site.
gonna have to arrange a feature!!
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oh and if anyone wants to see some amazing pics, check out his flickr!!
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toooooo kind gentlemen :D HDR photos make cars look sexy!
Sounds awesome Stephen, few things to take care of… theres quite a few dents and scratches need sorted... though theres always photoshop for that :idea:
