tool man

nice shot of tool man Martin

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Installing HID Kit

Standard Lights

HID Kit from EBAY, Martin recommended them and the kit looks good as well as the price was just over $60

Had to work a few things out fitting the kit, the first was modifying the back of my lights so the larger HID globe would fit through. Second was neatly fitting the wiring through the seal.

One light in and working

Comparing the std lights to the HID, you can see the colour difference and the increase in brightness. These are the 4300k lights.

This is cutting the back of the light seal to fit the HID kit wiring through

Comes with a nice little seal that fits in and seals it all up

All wired up, just need to tidy things up a little.

Both lights in and working, you can see the difference.

Replacement Headlights and Parker Lights

Finally got around to installing my lights i have had for a few years now. 

Picked them up whilst in Japan in 2009 at Vertex, some shots of the Car Make T&E shop are below as well.

This guy actually spent some time in Australia and drove us around about 15min to the workshop after we got chatting.

 Not much room in Japan.

 New Lights :)

 Front of the shop

 Workshop about 15min away from the shop, Michele bottom right hand corner.

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Nice Looking Charade @ Unigroup

The Dax "caterham type car" Andrew has been working on

On the rollers at Unigroup, he was having a miss fire issue.

Dump pipe fail

Some quality work found at whilst visiting Unique autosports from a customers car (not done by Unique)

QUEEN ST AUTOSPORTS RACING

Getting worried that john is turning his shop into a sex spec shop. Photos like these today are not helping his cause.

Dinner steak

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Testing email update via mobile on blog

cool :)

Sr20 Box Sold

Picked up last night and hopefully going to a good home.

Diff Cooler Set Up

Some photos of a cool differ cooler with small oil pump installed.

Hankook WRX Underbody Aero

visited a workshop during the week and took some happy snaps of the Hankook WRX underbody aero

Photos from my phone so sorry for the quality

Rear Diffuser

Front spliter

 Rear diffuser

Video - Valve Spring and Cam Removal - How To - SR20Det

Removing Valve Springs

Bleeding Lifters

Installing Cams

Installing Cam Caps

Installing Squirters

Tightening Cam Caps

Changing Valve Springs

Turning the crank to TDC, 

Removing chain guide

Chain Guide

Marking chain and cam

removing chain tensioner

chain tensioner

removing cam caps, note 1/2 turn each cap bolt evenly removing pressure on cam

inlet cam removed

parts laid out in order of what was taken out

removing chain and so exhaust cam can be removed

exhaust cam being removed

removing rocker arms

removing shims with magnetic tool for ease of use

notice shims set in order of removal and on correct size to avoid confusion when re-installing

removing spark plug

screwing in pressure line, this is simply a compression tester line with a fitting on the end to connect the air hose to

around 40psi pressure

Valve spring compressor ready and pressure hose ready to be connected to avoid dropping valves into the engine. The engine pistons are also as a safety precaution at the top and rotated after we do number 1 and 4 cyl.

engage 4th gear as sometimes the pressure can turn the engine, this is a pre-caution

Air hose connected,

1st valve spring removed

compressing the new spring to install the collets

installing the collets

new valve springs lined up

old valve springs

collets

wear on rocker arms, very small but could hint to some valve float as suggested. Picture of each 8 rocker arms.