Jekyll's RB182 Progress Thread

[dann2707]

Love your updates mark. Always so fresh!

What ducting did you go for for the brake ducts? I need to feed some into mine now and trying to fabricate something so it properly points to the brakes.

 

[Jekyll]

I haven't done the ducting yet Dan. I have some thick flexible pipe at work which looks like extraction pipe. It'll work fine but it's grey so I'm unsure it'll look good.

I'll take a pic of what it is anyway.

I might make a curved deflector plate out of aluminium and rivet it to the outside of the of the ducts so it faces towards the inner wall, if that makes sense?

 

[RMDavis]

Love your updates mark. Always so fresh!

What ducting did you go for for the brake ducts? I need to feed some into mine now and trying to fabricate something so it properly points to the brakes.

Bare in mind I'm using a similar bass port to Mark bud. I went for some of this to use as my ducting.

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/370782118423

Hopefully it should do the job!

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[Jekyll]

Going lower time....

 

[Jekyll]

Cooksports are off....

@OssPoop

 

[Clio_fool]

[emoji106] [emoji6] £[emoji780]

 

[Akay]

@Dr Jekyll are the brake ducts a tight fit? Found some 95mm ones cheaper but worried they wont fit without copious amounts of adhesive!

 

[Jekyll]

They are a tight fit yes. I'd recommend taking the surrounds out and sanding down the parts on the outside and then fitting them off the bumper.

95mm will be too loose I'd say, plus this way you know they won't be coming out!

 

[Chris_Beer]

How have I missed this whole thread!

Nice to see a progress thread that's not page after page of talking non-sense

Love a decent RB, and with white wheels, a real favourite for me! Nice one dude!

 

[Mr Plums]

How much were the coilovers mate?

I need some lows!

 

[Jekyll]

£500 delivered Tom

 

[Mr Plums]

£500 delivered Tom :smile:

Thanks mate, do you rate them more than the Billy's? Do they go low? I hate the nose down stance mine has.

 

[Jekyll]

How have I missed this whole thread!

Nice to see a progress thread that's not page after page of talking non-sense

Love a decent RB, and with white wheels, a real favourite for me! Nice one dude!

Cheers Chris. Its more page after page of pictures instead!

Thanks mate, do you rate them more than the Billy's? Do they go low? I hate the nose down stance mine has.

Bilsteins are great, no two ways about it. Gaz used to have a 50/50 name so that puts a lot of people off. After fitting these, they still need some adjustment on the height as it rubs a bit, but i kid you not, it doesn't feel like your on coilovers at all. That could be due to the 275lbs fronts that i asked for. I haven't even touched the damping yet as its perfect.

Im very impressed, and certainly for the money they cost. I believe that the b14's have gone up in price (from the german site) and still a good few weeks waiting time.

 

[imprezaworks]

How's the car handle? As 500 seems a very good price

 

[Jekyll]

Fog light wires removed as they are no longer needed

I think i'll need to take more out of the front crossmember if i want to add some air feed or an actual duct

Decided to relocate the horn and make a bracket so its not directly on the chassis

I am going to redo the bracket better/make another one as im not overly happy with this, although it does work perfectly and is out of the way of the bass port.

Went to Alex's yesterday (If you've read my previous threads you will know im good friends with Alex and he helps out on my cars loads!) to get him to look at my EML light as it hasn't gone off since ive removed the carbon cannister. He was also doing some work on missus car. Ive been telling her for years that her micra is actually french, to which her response has always been "french cars are s**t, jap cars are well built." Well this is picture proof after she saw the rear wiper motor had RENAULT written on it! 😂:tongueclosed:

While i was there we got speaking about spacers and alex has a set spare of 16mm spacers...

Trial fitted

Decided i wanted them so i will fit these fully at a later date. Alex looked at the car with hes clip and it turned out after all my efforts that it was the air temp sensor not fully plugged in!

All wiped out so he was cleaning hes bike while i took a picture then took the spacer off

Alex's driveway just before i left

Took the spacers to work as i wanted to clean them up and paint them fully black.

Then the coilovers turned up so i fitted them. Decided to take the day off and have a tinker day instead. Pics to come...

 

[imprezaworks]

Your updates are way better than mine are lol

 

[Jekyll]

Im still going!

 

[Jekyll]

Started fitting the coilovers

Fronts done so stopped off for coffee and toast! Even Beamish had some!

Then onto the rears

Touring car style!! Obviously it needed major adjustment!

While the rear was up in the air my new genuine center exhaust mount came so i fitted that and removed the "modified" one!









All adjusted and done



I also have been thinking of getting 5mm spacers for the rear but ive decided to make my own as ive found some 4mm steel at work.









It looks pissed in that pic but its not. Anyway, s'all good here as you can see. Bolt holes line up perfect.



Then off for a few quick pics!









Love this pic! Dont know why

 

[imprezaworks]

Winning

 

[Chris_Beer]

Love the low shot of the rears wound down!

The exhaust mount is disgusting lol

As for the Micra, what about the mirrors and side repeaters, shameful similarities

 

[RMDavis]

Looking good dude!

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[Jekyll]

Haha, not sure on that but thank you regardless! :smile:

@imprezaworks

 

[Jekyll]

Tell me about it Chris! Pretty sure the pads are the same too as well as the battery clamps.

Obviously she's living in denial!

Tbf I've spent more on mine this month than she has on the micra in 4yrs/35k!

 

[Jekyll]

Thanks Rob!

I also bought some new studs for the stud conversion. After some thinking, I've gone with 75mm rears and 82mm fronts. This will compensate the front spacers and the studs should sill have plenty of threads and still look the same after the wheels, front and rear.

They are high tensile 10.9 grade with allen key heads. Will order some nice wheel nuts for them. Probably get the same as my old BG ones as they looked quite smart I thought.

 

[massiveCoRbyn]

Love this, looks spot on.

 

[182_steve]

This looks more amazing with every update, I know it's been said a lot but the attention to detail to not only the work but the updates on here really make for a great read bud! The coilovers are just what the car needed imo, now you have the lows to cope with the smaller 15's to finish the look :up:

Oh and I'm guessing it handles alright too :wink:

Your updates are way better than mine are lol

That goes for me too 😂

 

[leedsboy]

That goes for me too 😂

At least you two have got a thread, I've had my car for about a year and I've still not got round to starting one!

What's planned after the spacers @Dr Jekyll? Looks pretty much perfect now.

 

[Stefan.]

Looks awesome mate

 

[Clio_fool]

Looking good. Is that full low or have you settled on a low/handling compromise?

 

[Jekyll]

Love your updates mark. Always so fresh!

What ducting did you go for for the brake ducts? I need to feed some into mine now and trying to fabricate something so it properly points to the brakes.

This is the stuff I currently have. It is big though!

 

[Djw John]

S'alright, I suppose

 

[Jekyll]

Love this, looks spot on.

Thank you wangers! :smile:

This looks more amazing with every update, I know it's been said a lot but the attention to detail to not only the work but the updates on here really make for a great read bud! The coilovers are just what the car needed imo, now you have the lows to cope with the smaller 15's to finish the look :up:

Oh and I'm guessing it handles alright too :wink:



That goes for me too 😂

Thank you. I just can't help but tinker but I still try and make it look good with the things I do too. Old habits die hard I guess.

Yeah, I do think you need lows to pull off 15" but tbf it didn't look as bad as I though on the cooksports, but that was probably due to having slightly wider wheels.

Handling wise, I haven't really given it anything as I still need to adjust it more. It rubs on left hand cornering.

At least you two have got a thread, I've had my car for about a year and I've still not got round to starting one!

What's planned after the spacers @Dr Jekyll? Looks pretty much perfect now.

Get yourself a thread made mate, it's never too late :wink:

After the spacers and stud/nut kit it'll be steering wheel retrim, dash strips and clock surround sprayed anthracite, sublet cruise control brackets, brake paint, inner aches cleaned front and rear, few other things. Need to fix this knocking noise I still have, fix powers steering leak, 501 bulb holder and clutch change.

Looks awesome mate

Thanks buddy :smile:

Looking good. Is that full low or have you settled on a low/handling compromise?

It still has loads more if you want low! I want it lower than the cooksports but not much more. I still want it to handle well but ride comfy. So far it's set to ride perfect, I just need to raise it a tad before it goes in for alignment.

 

[Jekyll]

Studs came today! Great service and delivery and i even asked for 2 different sizes and was much cheaper than anywhere else! All high tensile 10.9 grade with allen key ends.

Spacers painted

Trial fitted them all. Fronts:

Rears:

The rears "may" be a tad long but the next size down was 68mm which i thought was too small. Once i get some nice wheel nuts/lugs, they'll look fine.

Little more playing with the height all round.

Here's how it currently sits. No rubbing now, but i want to do a few more turns down all round then I'll be happy.

 

[imprezaworks]

A m a z i n G

Top work mate

 

[Jekyll]

With a capital A and G?!

You must really mean it! :tonguewink:

 

[imprezaworks]

Car looks great

 

[Jekyll]

I'll probably get something like these.

http://m.ebay.co.uk/itm/BLOX-BLACK-...DA-TOYOTA-MAZDA-FORD-/252501336754?nav=SEARCH

Had them on my BG with no issues.

 

[leedsboy]

Perfect, absolutely perfect.

 

[Martin.]

Car looks bloody great!! Makes me want one so badly! Lovely OEM+ tidy up mods you've done too!

 

[Martin.]

he was cleaning hes bike while i took a picture

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@AlexW cleaning!!????? He doesn't do cleaning!

@GrahamS