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Old 18-02-11, 12:01 PM   #1
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Here's my ZS 180

Here are the pics of my car again.

I bought it standard looking like this:




and now it looks like this:




Side CAI:




Splitter (not to everyones taste I know)




Dials:




Peco Exhaust:



Rear upper strut brace (havent photographed the lower one yet)



oil catch tank:



Motobodge short shifter:



Couple from last summer:





Mods since I got the car (apart from the obvious white decals and wheels):

Superchip
Janspeed Decat and Peco stainless backbox
Rear upper and lower strut braces (waiting to get a front lower, got a honda item but kv6 sits too low)
Drilled and grooved disks all round, Redstuff all round.
Oil catch tank
Electroluminescent dials
Short Shifter
Xenon headlight bulbs
Also had cambelts, water pump and stat done.
I think thats about everything.

Planned mods:

Small things first like remove orange filter from lights, and fit MGF steering wheel (soooooo much nicer) then
Manifolds (next)
Coilovers
Cams
Supercharger would be nice but availability and reliability is an issue
and am also tempted by a T16 turbo conversion.

Well thats it. Hopefully some of you like it.


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Old 18-02-11, 12:14 PM   #2
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The only thing I'm not too keen on is the huge hole in the bumper for the cold air feed Other than that though looks good!

I'll have to post some pictures of my Trophy Blue 180 at some point... will finish the body work and clean it first though! lol
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Old 18-02-11, 12:21 PM   #3
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Looks good to me

Just think you need to change your licence plates! Lol
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Old 18-02-11, 12:25 PM   #4
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Nice enough car, but the air intake is a fail lol
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Old 18-02-11, 12:31 PM   #5
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The only thing I'm not too keen on is the huge hole in the bumper for the cold air feed Other than that though looks good!

I'll have to post some pictures of my Trophy Blue 180 at some point... will finish the body work and clean it first though! lol
I know the hole looks a bit odd but the throttle response is much better since adding the feed. Functional rather than cosmetic

It's been hard to clean cars properly. So damn cold. What you got loft to do on bodywork then?

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Just think you need to change your licence plates! Lol
Next thing. They look so bad!

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Nice enough car, but the air intake is a fail lol
Functional. That hot engine was sapping power when the car warmed up!
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Not very functional when it's positioned at right angles to the direction of airflow, unless you spend a lot of time sideways, or is it extracting hot air.
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I know the hole looks a bit odd but the throttle response is much better since adding the feed. Functional rather than cosmetic

It's been hard to clean cars properly. So damn cold. What you got loft to do on bodywork then?
Oh, Need new badges, need new rear bumper (some arse hit me in a car park and ran off) and need to fit the body kit!

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Not very functional when it's positioned at right angles to the direction of airflow, unless you spend a lot of time sideways, or is it extracting hot air.
IIRC it doesn't matter and it looks fairly functional to me, its not a ram air, but the engine will suck in as much cold air as it wants\needs
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Not very functional when it's positioned at right angles to the direction of airflow, unless you spend a lot of time sideways, or is it extracting hot air.
So by that reckoning then no air comes into the car when you open the windows??

Yes a lot of air will blow past but it isnt at a right angle, and your theory would make the side vents on an MGF useless too!
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Yeah, lots of air comes in through open side windows, remove the windscreen and see the difference, mgf intakes have scoops iirc to help direct the air.
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Yeah, lots of air comes in through open side windows, remove the windscreen and see the difference, mgf intakes have scoops iirc to help direct the air.
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