Nathan's Road-Legal/Track BB4

[NafemanNathan]

Lookin good mate. Its surprising how much of a difference removing the air con and relocating the battery has made to the engine bay

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All in the name of looookin goooood

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The time came on Saturday to install some Mugeness

The bay prior to the installation looked like this...



It wasn't an easy task to remove the various nuts and bolts. All 5 bolts/studs holding the oem manifold to the downpipe sheered . One stud had a spinny nut on it that just wouldn't come off!

Here's the new and old comparisons. Some what chunkier you might say ...





Old manifold removed, I decided the block was looking a little dry and in need of a make over...



There was a good amount of carbon build up as well...



So I had a bit of a clean Though the flash shows up the areas I found hard to reach ...





Then the new manifold and downpipe went on ...







Then I rolled her out the gargage before I doing an ecu reset before firing her up to let her steam away...



She had a bit of a smokey ass for a while to, but that disappeared in good time.



Anyway, I'm chuft with the result... She makes an awesomely deep purr at idle now I've done away with the cat But whilst doing the ecu reset and letting her warm up, I popped inside my parents house to wash my hands, only to find myself hunting around for an odd vibratory noise. I couldn't actually hear the car being it was parked a good 20 odd metres away and all doors and windows to the house where closed. But it turned out to be the front door!... The new exhaust note causes my parents front door to vibrate annoyingly and quite loudly within its frame! ... No need for me to ever knock on the door again



Oh... And she goes a bit quicker to

[NafemanNathan]

Very tidy job, Nathan. That's looking really =D>

I love your thread Nathan, you're really going for it!

How much heat wrap did you use to the the mani and downpipe?
Oh and keep it phantom grey, red carbon would just look like a colour mismatch IMO

Keep up the bloody good work!

(Oh, and how hard was it to remove the AC? Did you just buy an alternator belt for the non AC prelude, or was it another different sized belt?)

[NafemanNathan]

I love your thread Nathan, you're really going for it!

How much heat wrap did you use to the the mani and downpipe?
Oh and keep it phantom grey, red carbon would just look like a colour mismatch IMO

Keep up the bloody good work!

(Oh, and how hard was it to remove the AC? Did you just buy an alternator belt for the non AC prelude, or was it another different sized belt?)

Yeah, I'm addicted to giving my car way too much attention

I ended up buying a lot more heat wrap than I thought. I bought 10m of the silver stuff first, thinking I'd be able to do the manifold and downpipe. This would have been enough to just about do the manifold it turns out, but because the manifold is so chunky, the silver stuff at 3mm thick was just too thick to get in between the tubes. So I used the silver stuff to do all of the downpipe. Then bought another 10m (2x5m) of the white stuff, which was slightly thinner to do the manifold. I could have done with another 50cm to be honest, hence why I used a bit of the silver to finish it off tidally

Yeah, I think I'm going to go with the Phantom grey bonnet (If daiz still has it) If not, I'll have to get my hands on any colour bonnet and spray it the same pearlescent Honda Nighthawk black as I'm doing the boot top and wing mirrors

The Air-con removal was a doddle mate Check this thread out (It's got the belt make and code in it and everything )...

http://www.ludebehaviour.co.uk/forum/vi ... 14&t=10840

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God dammit im not allowed to view that thread - it must be for paid members only #-o

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PM'd ya Matt

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good work mate

Yes mate.

Not jealous at all!

Good choice to wrap it. But check this out (half way down the page): Click for Mugen Revivalness!

How good a job did he do.

Keep it up bud. Tempted to remove some bits in my engine bay now.
Will be starting with my EGR bit's now I have my P28 ECU installed and an EGR block off plate has just arrived. Was thinking of relocating the battery and then re-routing my cruise control (gotta keep it for the Mugen wheel controls! ) unit underneath the battery area recess??? :-k
Aircon and power steering may follow one day, perhaps with my rear interior! Mmm evil thoughts, but it appears less is more!

Still no progress on the side skirts yet. I'll let you know.

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Holy Bejesus! That's some seriously buffed tubes he's had done there! Maybe in time I'll get mine done, but the budget didn't allow it this time Instead I ended up spending about £60 on heat wrap #-o Still... It has it's purpose

I've currently got my eyes on a P28 on the old fleabay actually It's still something I've got to read up on. Marc Dino's mentioned IAB's to me before now, but I have no idea what that is (EDIT: I now know I did before... Just didn't know what they were called that ) and that a with a P28 you'll lose loads of low down torque if you haven't upgraded the intake manifold. But if I can get it for a bargain price, then I may as well go for it for the future Haven't you got Crome on yours or something? Is it Dino's old one?

I considered doing away with the power-steering as well, to lose yet more weight, but I know I'd miss it. It's all too easy to just use one hand parking and reversing and driving in general... Especially when my left hand is usually on the gear shifter And my car's never gonna be a pure down and out light weight... I'm always gonna keep the interior, so I may as well keep a small amount of luxury

Cool... No hurry with the skirts. Got me some refurbed rims and tyres to pay for this month. But I'll definately take them off your hands

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The engine bay is looking absolutely awesome mate. How much was the 10m of heatwrap and where did you get it just out of interest?

Haha, you, or should I say your lude, will be winding up the parents in no time. My parents have told me that when I go and visit them, they know that I will be knocking on the door in approximately two minutes cos they can hear me driving up the adjacent estate. And my lude is relatively quiet!

In terms of the performance, I guess you can feel an improvement low down the rev range right?