Jays MK2 180.

[Supercharged_Z]

Originally Posted by Jay-ZS+

Lol may want to edit your post if trying to sell them!! The brembos certainly seem well made and it's a great kit the RT lads have put together. Yet to get the best out of them but they feel as if they will be great

no i dont mind, i have them sold already lol, if not then ebay will do

[daytona365]

Love the engine cover, how did you paint that? Looks like its green plastic...

[Ritchy]

looks really really good mate, the reen is a good colour perfect match for xpg, that should have been standard fit tbh!

[Jay-ZS+]

Originally Posted by daytona365

Love the engine cover, how did you paint that? Looks like its green plastic...

Just painted it with the left over caliper paint. It's not spot on tbh.

Originally Posted by ritchyp

looks really really good mate, the reen is a good colour perfect match for xpg, that should have been standard fit tbh!

Cheers mate very happy with them

[Ritchy]

should be there brilliant!

[p_b82]

Looking good there Jay, i am still half kicking myself for not getting in for the group buy. but i really dont want to fit spacer's and i like my OE look too much....

Ah well, maybe i will get overmyself at some point and get a set made up - but cripple me with the non group buy prices i expect!

[petet16]

Did you keep the standard length studs Jay?.

I used ARP Civic ones cut down to length, I was concerned that with spacers the standard studs would be too short, the job turned into a bit of pita, ended up replacing both the front bearings, and drive flanges.

[Jay-ZS+]

Originally Posted by petet16

Did you keep the standard length studs Jay?.

I used ARP Civic ones cut down to length, I was concerned that with spacers the standard studs would be too short, the job turned into a bit of pita, ended up replacing both the front bearings, and drive flanges.

Didnt need the spacers in the end had loads of clearance in the end. Used 3 shims between the disc and hub but the pro race alloys had loads of room for the calipers

What alloys are you using?

[petet16]

mk2 11 spokes for me, probably one of the wheels with the least clearance

[Jay-ZS+]

Bit of an update:

Well its back on the road again After the release bearing failed, George offered to replace it but considering how far away he is and that the bearing was only ?30 though there was no real point.

With the help of Dave got the gearbox off and replaced the release bearing, which was no longer recognisable!! Between us managed to get the box off on my drive in the dark within an hour which I was amazed at!! The clutch itself looked good, there were a few burn marks on the new fly but didnt look too bad (pic makes it look worse) and now its back together runs perfectly again.


I few weeks before had picked up some steelcaged bearing off ebay for ?15!!! Steal!
So whilst the box was off decided to fit a brand new torsen type B and the bearings. I looked at rebuilding the box but after looking into it decided as Dave offered it was prob best I let him do it otherwise I may have ended up with 4 reverse gears or something similar


Got it all back together and went to fire it up only to find the starter had now gone! So go a starter off Ross only to find a bloke round the corner from me had one so gonna have two now! Always handy to have spares I guess

Cant wait to get all the bodywork of my mates bike the im spraying up out the car so I can give it a real drive!

Also had it MOT'd today as that had run out whilst it was off the road and it sailed through that just need to look at a very slight blow on the exhaust by the flange for the manifolds. If I hadnt just paid out for the diff i'd be using it as an excuse to have the janspeed ones off Ross!!

Anyway going to run it for a while and then give it a good service with new plugs, oil and put new gearbox oil in,waxoyll the whole of the underneath and tidy up the induction setup. Then afraid its not having anymore spent on it for a while as im almost broke! One day it will get manifolds but cant justify them right now.

Tell you what though if it wasnt for the help of various members on this forum it would be being broken for spares as id almost had enough. Although now Im convienced im gonna have a great car thats going to reliable

Least no more busses to uni, cant stand public transport!!