FrankenZteins back!

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DriftZ
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took my front D2 coilover out and apart ... found the problem to be nothing major at all / easy fix... super stocked.
then I moved onto my interior... using the inside of a "Lady of the Night's" handbag as inspiration I whent to work..!

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took the panels to three auto trimmers.. all gave me story's about how difficult it is to cover the door cards because of the groove area.. so I decided to do it myself... and not to stroke my own goat.. but it came out Ace. .. close up of groove work...

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perfecto!
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currently im busy installing an original center console to make the interior look more streety... having to use a heat gun to make things work... getting there...

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Nice dude good to see some effort and giving the car some much needed tlc

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LOL, I know the cobwebs and flat tyre scene all to well...
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Enzio wrote:LOL, I know the cobwebs and flat tyre scene all to well...
ja .. well not anymore :)
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some new bits .. for this the 'year of grip'

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Awesome man! Want to recover my door cards too

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moulded some headlight lenses

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New Seats and interior for 'street mode' .. :P

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Fabricated a rear Gurney Wing.. loosely based on the Rocket Bunny Duck wing idea but this one is adjustable. + My first bit of carbon work.. pretty stoked with the outcome.. although at its current setting it feels like im towing a car at freeway speed. To celebrate I gave the car a wash and took some pix :)

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Brend, looking awesome here bud. See you bought Charles`s wheels...good choice.
You still in the same house ?? We stayed up the road there on our shortened trip..
next year...next year... 8)
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BigKriss wrote:Brend, looking awesome here bud. See you bought Charles`s wheels...good choice.
You still in the same house ?? We stayed up the road there on our shortened trip..
next year...next year... 8)
Yes Sir... stop by and say hi next time!
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We wanted to. Arrived Sunday afternoon, spent the day at Aberlito Hospital Monday and then drove back on Tuesday !!
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Ah so you visited my wife at work instead of me .. how rude :P !
But seriously.. Sorry to hear that ... hope all is well now.
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done a fair amount of changes .. new suspension arms ( nothing really wrong with old ... just wanted to give it all a freshen up.

Been tuning the suspension towards a grip setting moving towards a grip setting incrementally rather than one shot, so far im enjoying ... front - 10seconds toe out / 8.5 caster / -4.2 camber / 25mm sway bar and Rear -2.5 camber / stock sway / neutral everything else.
New rear exit exhaust with Jap fart cannon
new rear undertray spoiler
Removed Sponsorship decals
been driving it daily a lot more

took it to Roy Hesketh this last weekend just to test settings / changes .. not to do times... so I ran low boost and just had fun. with new rear aero changes ive found I can get into 5th gear on the main straight now, and the car seems to feel more stable at speed. Hesketh has some steep corners.. I found my front end washing out a touch when I started pushing it a bit.. so im very keen to start the next phase in aero work on the front end. Undertray and canards.

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and a vid from a ST
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QXMNO0VaNvw
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