So, I'm not sure this being an adult is for me is there anywhere I can apply for a refund 
.. what with work, kids, adulting and general life I'm struggling to get much done. Oh and the weather.. only night I've had free it rained sideways for the whole night!!!? That an my youngest daughter now deciding she doesn't want to go to bed at night and my Mrs picking extra shifts up, I've barely time to do owt.
So with no time, quite a few stresses and generally being a bit meh.. best thing to do is add some more pressure. So I've insured it from the end of the month with a view to getting it on the road for August.
best stop being a flannel then..
First thing. The timing. Need to double check it with the new light. Mrs worked Tuesday night I got home from work Wednesday and managed to convince her to sit cranking it for 5 before I had to get kids from nursery.. sure enough it's out.. not miles but some. Not a problem il get laptop out, spend 15 min resetting it job done.. no I won't.. terrential end of the world rain spoiled that idea.. I did manage to make a start and with the ignition angle lock box checked it revs out much nicer leading me to think the base map has too much advance in it aswell.
My mate came up tonight to help with the timing (need another pair of hands to crank/watch laptop) and we ending up settling on 3 degrees out. Not bad considering i struggled on first time on my own. Then my daughter got back up an that was end of tonight's progress
Had some overnight parts from Japan (china definitely china) turn up since I need to be able to fasten bonnet down. Again not being able to fire the grinder up once kids are in bed has meant there still in top of my box.. they aren't the greatet quality. But there not aerocatch money either.
Had a go at fitting the original fans. No way on god's green earth are they fitting. Some idiot has filled the space the fans live with turbo and exhaust. So I've got a slimline Cheap jobby on way.. also realised id ran the exhaust through the space the washer bottle lived. So I've a little universal one of those on way too.
Now a few pages back (seems like years after having the Rona) I was refurbing the rx8 wheels. Now they were never my ideal wheel. They wouldn't fill the bodykit. I couldn't put the used tyres back on the refurbed wheels (that's just me there was not much up with em) and I was going to be in them for more than I'd liked by time I'd done.. so I blew some high build primer over them and popped em up for sale.. had people falling over themself for em and cleared a tidy profit. So I'm happy enough with that.
So now I'm wheeless again! But not for long
I've got a nice set in the pipeline. Staggered. Proper fitment proper tyre size and a proper brand 265 35 in back, 235 40 in front. And they "should" work with the btcc kit! I won't put a pic up til I have them. But there a "proper" wheel rather than a stancy boi Cheap special haha. Just means il have to make do with the awful standard wheels til the bodykit goes on.. oh a d there light too. And light is good in wheels Haha
I did sneak an hour at work one day while I was waiting on parts.. if you've ever noticed the sport is200 has a mesh style grill. The standard models have a horrible slatted affair (with a chrome trim, and chrome is banned on this car).. however sport grills sell for silly money, and I don't even think I've got the mounts to fit a standard grill anymore after all my choppy choppy on the front end.. so I thought I'd make my own version that I can glue into the front bumper (this grill had a broken mounting tab and came with the car)
Start with one standard grill
Do some choppy choppy
Bit of smoothing, coat of etch and a few coats of satin black. I give you a "sport" grill. Just need some mesh to finish it off. Best of all its cost me nothing, well nothing like the 100 quid sport grills fetch in lexus circles
There's a few bits that need calibration on the ECU front and like ive said from the start this is a steep learning curve to me. Rather than me struggle (and probably cock it up) Chris from phoenix is having a teamviewer session with me Monday afternoon to go through it all with me (going above and beyond again) so it should be running better by then all being well. (This is assuming I can make TeamViewer work haha)
So yeah. All that waffle for not a lot of doing.. did manage to get my dog for a haircut. So have a pic of my doggo looking fresh since I've no good pics of the car to look at
Cheers
.. what with work, kids, adulting and general life I'm struggling to get much done. Oh and the weather.. only night I've had free it rained sideways for the whole night!!!? That an my youngest daughter now deciding she doesn't want to go to bed at night and my Mrs picking extra shifts up, I've barely time to do owt. So with no time, quite a few stresses and generally being a bit meh.. best thing to do is add some more pressure. So I've insured it from the end of the month with a view to getting it on the road for August.
best stop being a flannel then.. First thing. The timing. Need to double check it with the new light. Mrs worked Tuesday night I got home from work Wednesday and managed to convince her to sit cranking it for 5 before I had to get kids from nursery.. sure enough it's out.. not miles but some. Not a problem il get laptop out, spend 15 min resetting it job done.. no I won't.. terrential end of the world rain spoiled that idea.. I did manage to make a start and with the ignition angle lock box checked it revs out much nicer leading me to think the base map has too much advance in it aswell.
My mate came up tonight to help with the timing (need another pair of hands to crank/watch laptop) and we ending up settling on 3 degrees out. Not bad considering i struggled on first time on my own. Then my daughter got back up an that was end of tonight's progress
Had some overnight parts from Japan (china definitely china) turn up since I need to be able to fasten bonnet down. Again not being able to fire the grinder up once kids are in bed has meant there still in top of my box.. they aren't the greatet quality. But there not aerocatch money either.
Had a go at fitting the original fans. No way on god's green earth are they fitting. Some idiot has filled the space the fans live with turbo and exhaust. So I've got a slimline Cheap jobby on way.. also realised id ran the exhaust through the space the washer bottle lived. So I've a little universal one of those on way too.
Now a few pages back (seems like years after having the Rona) I was refurbing the rx8 wheels. Now they were never my ideal wheel. They wouldn't fill the bodykit. I couldn't put the used tyres back on the refurbed wheels (that's just me there was not much up with em) and I was going to be in them for more than I'd liked by time I'd done.. so I blew some high build primer over them and popped em up for sale.. had people falling over themself for em and cleared a tidy profit. So I'm happy enough with that.
So now I'm wheeless again! But not for long
I've got a nice set in the pipeline. Staggered. Proper fitment proper tyre size and a proper brand 265 35 in back, 235 40 in front. And they "should" work with the btcc kit! I won't put a pic up til I have them. But there a "proper" wheel rather than a stancy boi Cheap special haha. Just means il have to make do with the awful standard wheels til the bodykit goes on.. oh a d there light too. And light is good in wheels HahaI did sneak an hour at work one day while I was waiting on parts.. if you've ever noticed the sport is200 has a mesh style grill. The standard models have a horrible slatted affair (with a chrome trim, and chrome is banned on this car).. however sport grills sell for silly money, and I don't even think I've got the mounts to fit a standard grill anymore after all my choppy choppy on the front end.. so I thought I'd make my own version that I can glue into the front bumper (this grill had a broken mounting tab and came with the car)
Start with one standard grill
Do some choppy choppy
Bit of smoothing, coat of etch and a few coats of satin black. I give you a "sport" grill. Just need some mesh to finish it off. Best of all its cost me nothing, well nothing like the 100 quid sport grills fetch in lexus circles
There's a few bits that need calibration on the ECU front and like ive said from the start this is a steep learning curve to me. Rather than me struggle (and probably cock it up) Chris from phoenix is having a teamviewer session with me Monday afternoon to go through it all with me (going above and beyond again) so it should be running better by then all being well. (This is assuming I can make TeamViewer work haha)
So yeah. All that waffle for not a lot of doing.. did manage to get my dog for a haircut. So have a pic of my doggo looking fresh since I've no good pics of the car to look at
Cheers
) once again he's proved its not just the product your buying it's the aftercare. A lot of people would have told me to go away a long time ago haha
I can't play with everything and tbh, with kids, work the lexarse and life, I probably won't use it any time soon.
and trust me. I'm single handedly keeping the chines economy going haha. 
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