Looking good!

RDA front and rear dimpled and grooved rotors came in today. G
For reference part #s
Front #RDA582D
Rear ##RDA583D
 

Harmless photos :)
 

IMG_9161 by rico.vision, on Flickr

IMG_9171 by rico.vision, on Flickr

Nice car - how is it running?

Went to my first trackday at Marulan Driver Training Centre. Its a great first trackday experience. Being a friday there was only 3 cars there. And i learnt alot about MR cars and getting the right lines. I had my gopro recording but im going to keep that to myself hahah :P.
 
Definately a great day and getting ready for the 23rd Sept at a private trackday at wakefield :)
 
Yesterday replaced my rear rotor as they were near EOL and had scoring. Replaced with RDA grooved and dimpled.
 
Followed this article, http://cobaltuniverse.net/topic/9014360/1/
To spray the hub from rusting :)
Installed them and bedded them in as well.
 
Brake cleaner

 
Chose silver high temp paint

 
Masking off the face.


Backside

 
Finished product.
 

 
Old vs new

 
Installed.

 
Pads are intima SR if anyones interested 

 
Bedded them in.

Thanks Rico,I'm about to do something very similar with RDA Products.

First trackday at Wakefield hosted by Tristan and his friends. Plenty of tracktime as it was capped at 25 cars. It was an amazing day and definitely learnt alot. I was disappointed as im not able to judge how the car behaves, i think im still dont understand mid rear engine layout yet but i plan to watch over my videos and see how i could improve and watch other some drivers on youtube and also better lines. Need to learn heel toe as that will shave off a few seconds.
 
It was hot that day and definately the re002s were not up to the task. My rear re002s totally lost grip after 4 laps and needed to cool them down. And i just dont think they were grippy enough, i just didnt have enough confidence in the tyres. But that being said let my friend drive my car and he got a 1:15... so its all driver then....
 
I wasnt happy at all with my time even if it is my first time out at Wakefield. The fiskhook was tricky but i think i could some good lines. Just too much braking at times.
 
But at the end of the day i had great fun. And the car is still in one piece. On the drive home a fapping noise started coming from the engine bay. Sounded like a wire hitting a fan, intercooler fan? Pulled over and it was the AC belt broke. At first i shat myself as i didnt know what belt it was. Was it important? Can i still drive? I thought it was the AC but just wasnt sure. Just started driving slowly and monitored the temps and everything seemed okay.
 
I hope to get out there again at the end of the year or early next month. With some sticker tyres and see how i go.
 
Heres a pic of the front re002. Hard to tell but hot rubber coming right off... The back was much worse.

 
Here are some pics of the day

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

One of my headlights (h4) high beams blew. And looking for a replacement. I was ebaying and found MANY H4s rated for 90/100W, they are brighter but ive read stories where it burns out the wiring from drawing too much power. Im not a electrician, but decides to stay with 55w headlights.
 
So i came across with the bulbs i was running originally and have been happy it so went with them again. They were some "china" stuff and been perfect 5500K 55W bulbs, and was running them 2 years with no issues and costs around $30 shipped.
 

 
At the same time polished up the headlight shroud :)
 

 
The RXT helmet i picked up from "The Helmet Warehouse" for $140. Matte and Gloss Black was so played out, so i went with white.
 

A few weeks back picked up a staggered set of SA3R 17x8/9 to wrap the AD08. (my current set is 16 7/8) I love trispokes :P Abit of gutter rash, but easy to fix up.
 

 

 
Been thinking about getting a dremel kit for my polishing addiction. Doing abit of research and went for the cheaper option "ozito" rather than dremel. Has 183 pieces and 3 years warranty. For $50? Why not. This can be bought from Bunnings.
 

 
Polishing the exhaust tip

 
The lips of the rims, which were them ruined on the trackday haha. Good fun.

 

Alright so i have been having thought about tidying up the engine bay a little bit. Making it neater and bringing it up to life. Im all about OEM feels. So using the same can of high temp silver paint i got to work on the heatshield and hotpipe of the car. I had to take off the hotpipe anyways to change out the SSQV to a SSQV4, as i believed it was leaking.
 
Im extremely happy with the result. And brings up the engine bay alot. 
 
Here are the pics of the process.
 
Here what i started with (hotpipe)


 
Need a c clip piler to remove the SSQV from the flange. Lucky me my neighbour had one


 
My SSQV was plumpback, the way i like it. Nice and quiet. Had to take it apart to get the inlet out.

 
The infamous SSQV fins

 
Swapped it out for the plumpback action

 
Removed the heatshield afterwards. Extremely unappealing and needed to be restored!


 
What hides underneath the CT20B :P

 
I could of used higher gritt sandpaper. But it was okay just to roughen it up and clean it up.



 
Forgot to mention. I dont have pics but i wiped it up with Wax and Grease Remover just to prep it before the spraying process. That was it for the night, and the next morning was the painting. Had some unexpected rain in after the first coat and had to take it off the clothes line for a few hours.
 
Masking






 
I sanded the back the old finish on the screws with the dremel and gave it a few coats of silver too to make it fit in. Here is the finish product.