Marco's Black Beast aka 'Sooty'
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Very good !
How's items change for put hub with 5 stud ? I want to do that since a long time.
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very very nice
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wow ! thats a light rim.
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@9bb44d3eec=youdirtyfox:
wow ! thats a light rim.
No lighter than my old Lorbers ;)
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Looking good :D :D
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looking good marco!, there are some very sexy rotas i like but only available in 5 stud!!. What are you doing with old wheels?
The rear brakes look larger ? or is it just the pic?.
Think you should change your username to the mad scientist !. :D
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Old wheels are on ebay now Garfy. Just the pic unfortunately! Mx3 calipers in the same position.
lol at the username idea…
So this project lives on for now. I had started transferring things out of this car - carpc, coilovers, 5stud, sub, sub wiring etc etc so had to put it all back in after finding out my new purchase was scrap.
Finally the SSR Type Cs are fitted. I need to roll my arches a little, I had to camber out the rear to tuck the tyres under as it is. Some pics from Japfest:
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would you put your car on my stand at heatwave? 21st of this month in swords
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Thats looking great Marco.
Hope ya take up Rob's offer, I'd love to see this in the metal.
Btw, any word on what you're doing with the other one?
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Ah bugger! It would be that date wouldn't it! I'm on a list to go to reallymeansounds.com 10th birthday that day… I would have happily done so. Slightly tempted to defect but RMS looks to be a good one :?
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ah go on man it'll be a bit of fun! plus i could get you a nice proper feature
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I'd love to Robbie but I'm actually too poor to drive that far atm. Seriously brrrroke. Have a great day though mate, I'll have to come down again soon. Anything else coming up?
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Doing a bit of rust attacking. I hate the stuff so much. Came out ok, paint match could be better, and so could my blending, but it beats bubbly rust :)
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looking good man.
how is it faring out with the turbo setup? any annoying things/fuel consumption?
oh what are you doing about the other one?
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Looking good. Lucky for DIY repairs that the black isn't a metallic & has no lacquer!
Did you rattlecan it?
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whats that goodyear tyre doing on that speed machine lol !!!.
looking good marco, and congrats on the A level result btw :D
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much better than my spray job pmsl looks good mate
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Thanks Robbie. Turbos doing fine, ebay turbo has shat itself a little, it doesn't like launch control much! It still boosts fine, just a bit smokey at times. Fuel consumption can be pretty bad if you're boosting alot, off boost though I'm sure I'll still get 33/34mpg maybe higher. The rust bucket has to be left untouched until the whole farce is resolved. Which is really frustrating.
Yep Ryan! Halfords "mix 'n' some what get near the general colour match". The black isn't too bad, but I found the red easier to blend and match. The black did have lacquer factory finish, though mine has seen much better days!
Thanks Garfy :) They're part worns too lol this buying rust heaps caper really cleaned me out! Some ae48s or 888s would be nice, but they are stupidly expensive.
Thanks Daniel, you're looks spot on in your photos! Mine's far from perfect but I prefer it to bubbling 3d orange colour
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yeah my camera isnt the best mate, but it looks good from a distance or in the dark haha. I had to superglue my numberplate light back on last night as the bracket has rotted to pieces and it just fell out :lol: just glued it to the bumper for now. the black beast is looking very well mate. nice work
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Well not a very exciting update but they can't all be!
I'm running about 9psi of boost now according to megasquirt. I was having alot of missfiring antagonising a skyline in 3rd and 4th gears. When full boost kicked in - about 3500rpm it would studder and splutter. AFRs were fine and spark seemed fine other than this area.
I put in new plugs, the old looked a bit glazed. Still no difference. Recalibrated the TPS as I noticed partial throttle was smoother. Finally I decided to take off some timing. I took off 5 degrees around the missfiring section of the map. Went for a 4th gear pull and it was MUCH better :D
So looks like I need to refine my spark maps. The extra few lbs of boost over my dyno tuned level seems to have pushed the ignition into detonation territory. Even with crudely whacking 5 degrees off the car pulls like a train :D
