Recent content by Jay_Kay

Next up is something special. With the k24 the engine was now taller and as such the manifold was hard up against the underside of the car. So I took the car to kis Motorsport for them to make a new exhaust manifold. I'll let the pictures do the talking. The quality on this...

So bought some new wheels. Konig ultragrams 8j front 7j rear. As cool as it looks I couldn't actually move the car 😂. The wheel would smash the front bumper and arch near the front and rear. Somehow the tyres which were fine on a 7j alloy are now bigger or more square on a 8j. So I bought...

Bit of an update. Tore the old engine down and its in a sorry state. Bearing material everywhere 😬. Number 1 Conrod has let go. I think the engine was just tired. Seems to be the case of a lot of k20's. Most are over 100k miles and revving them to 8.8k just takes it toll eventually...

Nah it revs bad enough on the motorway. Tbh a JDM 4th and 5th would fix that as it packs the gears closer together.

It was an ex race engine so I think it's just worn out. I had oil pressure issues last year with a knackered pump and I think the mains have taken the brunt of it. With the mains so loose on clearance I think the bigends were just starved.

Here's a flying lap around castle combe. Feel if I chuck a k24 in I'll miss the high revs. The more torque lower down will help out especially in corners like tower corner where 3rd is too high and 4th a tad too low.

After the trackday had the car alignment sorted by cooksport. Good bunch of guys will definitely be having my suspension setups sorted by them from now on. After that it was the spa trackday I had booked...... Nice picture of the morning of the trackday. So was doing my sighting laps all...

After going on track it seems a lot better on the rear, doesn't sit on the back wheels anymore. The angle of the coilovers just wasn't right, I'd have to weld in upright turrets to make it work. Soo ended up cocking up my alignment the day before the track day. I have something like 3mm toe...

Few more updates. Decided rear didn't look good with the massive tuck so changed to a 10mm camber shim. I've also taken a leaf out of a few lads books on here and have sound insulated the inside using dynomat and a sound absorber. All the panels definitely have a nice sound when giving them...

Been a bit quiet updating. As previously said didn't like the rear end so had some 24.7mm torsion bars made to try and stiffen it up. Same bars as the R5 extra vans. And have also added another degree of camber. (-2 total now) and made the toe parallel to hopefully liven up the rear end to...

Update time Chucked some sound deadening in the boot to try and tame some of the sound as old car problems. Not sure if it's made any difference but every little helps I guess. Bought some different side mounts for the seat and managed to get it sat in the right position finally! The...

Haven't updated this in a while. Started noticing the oil pressure gauge wasn't doing a lot so sent it off for repair. It kind of now reads some pressure, still ain't a lot but I'm just going to send it till the oil light comes on 😂 Heres a before and after of the sensor being repaired. Also...

Cheers man! Im trying to make a mould to make a carbon roof. Being a bit of a mong with the fibreglass but hopefully it comes off the car soon and see what it looks like. If it works I'll make more for other people as the Achilles heel of any mk1 is a leaking sunroof. I used buzzweld PIO...

Line up of me and my mates cars after a successful trackday with everyone driving home for once! Getting it sideways down the corkscrew Made a start on the roof too so hopefully I can get that fitted soon as the sunroof was pissing me off during the trackday 😂