Administrators hughezee Posted May 12, 2019 Administrators Report Share Posted May 12, 2019 9 minutes ago, Randell said: I promised a photo of my refurbed wheels and new centre hub caps Great job on the wheels, and even better job on the waxing the car looks amazing 👍 3 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Randell Posted May 12, 2019 Report Share Posted May 12, 2019 I ordered a bottle of the 3M quick polish. Got to agree it's really fast and easy to use. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Site Subscriber’s Kelvin Posted May 13, 2019 Site Subscriber’s Report Share Posted May 13, 2019 10 hours ago, Randell said: I promised a photo of my refurbed wheels and new centre hub caps. https://www.randelljohnphotography.com/Commercial-Products/Honda-V6/i-xHj9tk2/A Gave her a quick polish for the photo below. Managed to find a supplier in the US for a new drivers window regulator, (4 Pin Plug variety), so that's on order and should be with me by the end of the month. Just hope it's the correct regulator. Gotta say, it's worth doing the wheels properly - it's such a small amount of money for something that lifts the whole car. They look fab. After I had mine refurbed, I had to get 68mm centre caps, as the 69s wouldn't sit properly and I lost a few. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Randell Posted May 13, 2019 Report Share Posted May 13, 2019 I'm not sure what size the centre caps are Kelvin. The previous owner had already bought them and he gave them to me with the car. He was about to get the wheels refurbed himself, but decided to sell the car as it was. I paid £300 for the wheel refurb. I suppose I could have spent a couple of weekends sanding, filling, painting and applying lacquer, but at the end of the day I don't think I could have got a finish like this. The company did a great job, especially as they were pretty badly pitted. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Site Subscriber’s Kelvin Posted May 14, 2019 Site Subscriber’s Report Share Posted May 14, 2019 Agreed - I also paid £300. I'm a painter and I know I couldn't have done anything like as good a job in just two days. Mine are holding up well. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moderators Laird_Scooby Posted May 14, 2019 Moderators Report Share Posted May 14, 2019 25 minutes ago, Kelvin said: I'm a painter As in house painting etc? The reason i ask is powder coating is a very different technique, even to spray painting and a lot depends on the oven temperature and the quality of the powder coat compound. Or am i missing something here and they spray painted them? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Site Subscriber’s Kelvin Posted May 14, 2019 Site Subscriber’s Report Share Posted May 14, 2019 No, mine were powder coated but I've hung around a factory watching it done often enough when I used booths regularly to spray work stuff. I've personally restored wheels before, sprayed with decent kit obviously and there's not a chance I could get them like my refurbs. Not for £300, which was my point. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Site Subscriber’s Kelvin Posted May 16, 2019 Site Subscriber’s Report Share Posted May 16, 2019 Had a lovely drive across the county this morning. 20 miles of back roads, mostly great tarmac and perfect early morning weather. The lowered suspension and the new front tyres were superb. I was getting a little tired of the jiggling, crashing and banging on the potholes of town roads and this morning was a reminder of why I sorted the suspension. Roll on tomorrow morning and another 20 mile dash. I even get a parking space. 4 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moderators Laird_Scooby Posted May 16, 2019 Moderators Report Share Posted May 16, 2019 Nice! 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Administrators hughezee Posted May 17, 2019 Administrators Report Share Posted May 17, 2019 What Dave Said 👍 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Administrators hughezee Posted May 28, 2019 Administrators Report Share Posted May 28, 2019 First time I've ever purchased something off the Lings website 😆 few UK only parts for the coupe as the fuel system is different to USDM cars... 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Site Subscriber’s Kelvin Posted May 28, 2019 Site Subscriber’s Report Share Posted May 28, 2019 I recently whizzed past 20,000 miles of motoring in the coupe since I've owned it 😎 2 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Randell Posted June 1, 2019 Report Share Posted June 1, 2019 My new replacement window regulator and motor eventually turned up from the other side of the pond. I was faithfully promised a 4 Pin motor to enable the 'Auto Open/Close' function, so I was a tad grumpy when I opened the box to find a 2 pin plug and cables fitted. Never to be put off by such things I decided to swap the motors over. (I tell you now this isn't a job for the faint hearted). Recoiling the spring and getting it to relocate, took a fair amount of messing around. I photographed the mechanism first, measured the outside diameter of the tensioned spring, and with a fair bit of jiggling and sweating managed to get everything back together again. I used a three sets 'Mole Grips', clamped one in a vice and managed recoil the spring and clamp it with the other pair of grips, and very carefully latch it into place. If I have to do this job again I think I'll just forsake the auto window switch. It was a Royal pain in the arse to be quite honest. Anyway it's all done now, but this job could have so easily been avoided. The regulator was damaged by a stray strip of plastic, which someone at sometime, had left inside the door. It had wrapped itself around the teeth on the regulator, and caused it to bind, and eventually chipped a couple of teeth on the gearing. In all the job took me about 3 hours. So I saved myself a fair bit of cash doing it myself, so I'm chuffed. Here's a picture of old and new regulator on top of each other, and the mess, when the regulator sprung apart when I unbolted the old motor. My heart sunk a little bit. 2 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Administrators hughezee Posted June 1, 2019 Administrators Report Share Posted June 1, 2019 Sounds like you had fun fella 😃 good to hear you persevered and sorted it, a couple of rep points winging there way to you too 👍 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moderators PTR200S Posted June 7, 2019 Moderators Report Share Posted June 7, 2019 Not much to report on Greenie at the moment. Currently working on the spoiler preparation ready for spraying but taking my time on other projects isn't helping! There is a new , "rare" part headed my way to enhance Greenie a little bit more....and the two guys that know about this take note...any leaks of what it is and I will send the boys round !!! Suffice to say the part is the sort of thing you could stroke its so nice !! Update soon !!! 1 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moderators Laird_Scooby Posted June 7, 2019 Moderators Report Share Posted June 7, 2019 1 hour ago, PTR200S said: Suffice to say the part is the sort of thing you could stroke its so nice !! Inflatable life-like Pamela Anderson doll? (or similar) 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moderators PTR200S Posted June 7, 2019 Moderators Report Share Posted June 7, 2019 You wish !! 😍 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KingK0ng Posted June 7, 2019 Report Share Posted June 7, 2019 Just received another part today, still few parts left to order before replacing everything on the car. Unfortunately some of those parts left aren't available at Honda for the moment so there is some delay before i got them. Otherwise i have to swap my spoiler trunk for my spoilerless trunk and installing other goodies i have. Actually i'll make a thread for my car and its progress. And i know..i still need to upload some pictures of her arghh... 2 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Administrators hughezee Posted June 7, 2019 Administrators Report Share Posted June 7, 2019 5 minutes ago, KingK0ng said: And i know..i still need to upload some pictures of her arghh... Looking forward to the pictures 👍👍👍 1 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Administrators hughezee Posted June 8, 2019 Administrators Report Share Posted June 8, 2019 Finally got around to sorting my audio niggles in the coupe and after removing a supposedly reputable ISO adaptor and replacing it with 20-year old Japanese made loom (a little bit of modification) the sound quality is transformed and no intermittent speaker fading in an out going over bumps. 3 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moderators Laird_Scooby Posted June 8, 2019 Moderators Report Share Posted June 8, 2019 Great work and diagnosis Stu! 2 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Founding Member PaulS Posted June 8, 2019 Founding Member Report Share Posted June 8, 2019 Congrats from me too!. I wonder if it was a dodgy soldered / crimped joint somewhere on the ISO connector....? Just sorted a dodgy crimped joint on a friend's MG Midget which caused intermittent ignition loss. 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moderators Laird_Scooby Posted June 8, 2019 Moderators Report Share Posted June 8, 2019 1 hour ago, PaulS said: ust sorted a dodgy crimped joint on a friend's MG Midget which caused intermittent ignition loss. Only one???? http://mez.co.uk/lucas.html 1 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Administrators hughezee Posted June 8, 2019 Administrators Report Share Posted June 8, 2019 Before putting everything back I replaced some illumination bulbs on the fog, headlight washer buttons (recycled spares from another job I did years ago) with some Maplin jobbies as I was feeling a little impatient just wanted it all finished, all working a treat. 👍 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moderators Laird_Scooby Posted June 8, 2019 Moderators Report Share Posted June 8, 2019 28 minutes ago, hughezee said: some Maplin jobbies Should have kept them intact in the original packaging Stu - they might become collectors items in years to come! 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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