Exhaust clean-up

I decided to post some pictures of my exhaust headers after giving them a bit of a polish. They had some minor blemishes from factory (oxidisation) After heating up the system up, they appeared more profoundly and allowed me to target them. It took very little time and effort as they are still new (it […]

Breathing work (T-VIS)

Didn’t manage to get my ITB setup working for now… decided to put the T-VIS unit back in for the time being… 🙂 I guess I needed to ensure all the assembled parts worked anyway… so I might be doing myself a favour by starting from a reliable base 🙂 For those curious about the […]

More suspension

Xmas holidays are fast approaching and finding time for garage work has been challenging. While DC2 was being engineered for inspection, I marched on with suspension work with Panda. First up was to finalise the rear end. The sway bar was not having any of it unless I removed its bushings first, aligned the rear […]

Exhaust System

(Updated 20th Oct 2019) In my earlier post, I spent most of my time working on the engine head. Since it involved breathing work, I decided to test fit the exhaust system. Everything installed fairly nicely and the only thing that was slightly different was the catalytic converter – which is surprisingly more heavier than […]

4AG Breathing Work

Picked up my cylinder head back from the shop 🙂 Several years of carbon build-up now gone, I was more than happy to torque it down with a new gasket: Having the opportunity to replace all the seals finally came. Over the past years I only upgraded the head with lighter internals and didn’t do […]

Braking System – Rear

In a previous post, I did an overhaul of my front hubs and brakes. The rears had to wait until the axle was put back into the chassis. Now I finally managed to get the rear brakes in 🙂 New rotors – along with rebuilt rear calipers: Just like the fronts, new brake pads went […]

Rear axle swap

Rear-axle swapMy rear axle was in desperate need of an overhaul – it was leaking from the differential, the axle bearings were shot, it made clunky noises and had sticky brake calipers… overall it was in a very sad state… Luckily, I managed to acquire a complete axle with my competition chassis. Since I parked […]

Braking System – Front

When I raised my car, I noticed the front hubs were not moving as smoothly. There was a fair bit of resistance and inconsistencies could be felt by hand. After prying things open to check, I realised the bearings were on their way… Front bearing install The front hubs were taken out and ready to […]