Raebird's Waste of Time

Raebird

Just thought I’d share a couple of photos of the car taken at events I’ve had it at recently.

And one I took.

ljk346

Wheel specs?

Raebird

ljk346;c-148407 wroteWheel specs?

Something like 18x8 +45 (ish) with 35mm spacer adaptors, effectively making it +10 (ish) corrected offset.

They are only temporary...

ljk346

Flush fit tho ????

Raebird

Looks like my diff has called it quits, will hopefully pull it apart this weekend and figure out what happened, need to save my pennies as money is tight currently and I want to only have it apart once.

Raebird

So I had a proper look at the diff again and it seems fine, I may have gotten carried away with the diagnosis... I did however work out that all the bushes in the rear were kaput, so I replaced the torque rod bushes and front and rear lower trailing arm bushes with superpro items. I took zero photos of this process, hope this helps...

Raebird

Put the bucket seats out of the 360 in the 240 this weekend, I was planning to upgrade them in the 360 anyway, so figured I might as well put the old ones in this. They are a marked improvement over the standard lounge chairs.

Raebird

Decided to swap the clutch for an exedy (I think, it’s pink) one I had on the shelf today as the one in the car was slipping at the drag strip.

Probably should’ve changed it when I put the M47 in looking at this...

Changed the rear main while I was in there because it looked like it was leaking and I had one in my stash.

Once I got the box back on I thought I should test it before completely reassembling it, clutch pedal won’t budge, not sure why everything bolted up properly and looked the same as what came out, will pull it back out in the next couple of days to see what the problem is...

14JEZ

Ohhh pink bits...

Raebird

Clutch works now, after pulling it all apart again and measuring everything, I realised that the clutch slave rod just needed to be adjusted, idiot!

Also replaced the drivers headlight lense, as it got smashed at my last Tävlings drag racing event at Willowbank Raceway, by getting too close to a car doing a burnout with very large slicks on and it flicking a rock/chunk of rubber up into it.

ljk346

How’s the excedy feel compared to stock? P/n? Is this danger to M47 zone with a hard launch?

Raebird

ljk346;c-152126 wroteHow’s the excedy feel compared to stock? P/n? Is this danger to M47 zone with a hard launch?

Feels just like a stock one, bites much harder though with the paddle friction plate, probably is putting the gearbox at risk but I will be running fairly narrow tyres for drifting (probably 195/60R15) which should hopefully minimise the load on the gearbox...

Photo for part number, pressure plate doesn’t actually have exedy on it, so could be another brand but I know exedy ones are pink.

ljk346

Focus you fark!!

Only hit I got on google was an old post on a prerunner off-road for sale forum from 2016.

Raebird

Well hello...

Raebird

Went and did some happy laps at lakeside raceway for euro day, car behaved it self all day, pretty happy really.

Have been driving it daily this week, all was going well until Wednesday morning on my way to work managed to run over a giant lump of concrete, which bent the k-frame slightly at the rack mount and crushed one of the rack hardlines ?

Raebird

carnut222

Looking great on the track. Bummer about the concrete lump damage. :(

ljk346

The Gaz coilovers do make you quite low ayy even at max height.

Raebird

ljk346;c-157663 wroteThe Gaz coilovers do make you quite low ayy even at max height.

That they do, they are at full height currently.

ljk346

Mine also, exhaust still scrapes XD

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