Mike's 182 FF

Jord 182 · Apr 10, 2011

How are finding the KTR kit compared the the cup sus? Is it firmer?

Love the car mate mine looks very similar. Need the carbon splitter though.

Sean6545 · Apr 10, 2011

Your abs wires are cable tied to the strut. On the old strut you can unbolt the piece that holds them and put in on the coilover.

mikes86 · Apr 10, 2011

hehe yeah i did see that, was a mixture of reasons why i haven't done it yet. Was late when fitting them/bolt was badly corroded/didn't have the right size bit to take the bolt out

mikes86 · Apr 10, 2011

Fixed another rattle today, one at a time, thats the french way. Few super sized washers later and job done.

Jord 182 · Apr 10, 2011

Nice work! How you finding the KTR sus? Firmer than the cup sus?

CJGREEN · Apr 10, 2011

Jord 182 said:
Nice work! How you finding the KTR sus? Firmer than the cup sus?

x2!

Jord 182 · Apr 11, 2011

Ok cheers, I was worried they would be softer!

mikes86 · Apr 12, 2011

Got the rear suspension on today, only ran into one problem where i thought you had to use the boot off the old shock, but a quick phone call to ktec cleared this up! Was pretty damn easy to do the back tbh, took about 25mins per side. Took the car down to the garage and got the tracking, camber, balancing and alignment setup, gone for as much negative camber on the front. Heres how it looks at the moment.

mikes86 · Apr 12, 2011

mikes86 · Apr 20, 2011

Thought i might aswell post these in here aswell, keep all the photos in one place

Jord 182 · Apr 20, 2011

AWESOME shots. is it a goodwood?

loving the Car mate and the stance. Titanium 182 FTW!!!

davo172 · Apr 20, 2011

Fantastic mate Looks perfect IMO . Needs a Si towing eye and footrest to finish it off thou . See groupbuy section

Great Pics !!!

mikes86 · Apr 25, 2011

Jord 182 said:
AWESOME shots. is it a goodwood?

loving the Car mate and the stance. Titanium 182 FTW!!!

Yeah, goodwood track and some surrounding roads

Jacko90 · Apr 25, 2011

How are you finding the Ktec coilovers matey?

mikes86 · Apr 26, 2011

Jacko90 said:
How are you finding the Ktec coilovers matey?

Absolutely loving them, i found the cup suspension quite crashy on bumpy roads, the ktecs give a much solid ride all round.

Got some more work done on the car today. Thought i was going to have to take off the whole front to do this, but figured out just before i could just remove the arch seel. Removed the acoustic valve unit and left fog light, 1. because it was smashed and 2. for the cold air feed.

I've just gone cotton gauze and am hoping to run a very large CAF setup to keep it all cool, so the acoustic valve had to go.

After removing the wheel and arch seel (few torx screws and plastic plugs) you can gain full access to the bottom of the car.

Unplug all the switches and then remove the large bolt on the bracket for the dual horns and acoustic valve. (don't worry they won't fall as they are hooked in too). Just let the horn dangle while you are working on the acoustic valve.

There will be a lot of wires cable tidied to the acoustic valve just pull this off and the acoustic valve should drop down. Then you need to unplug "green" from "red", and plug the hole of red with something (bung or screw). The unit will be free now, so just pull it down.

Quite a bit of space to play with now...

The actual acoustic valve...

Next up was the foglight.

Few screws holding in the light itself.

Taken the foglight surround out to modify for a larger CAF and then 3M it

Also last night i took off the TB and gave it a good clean inside. It was covered in black ****e so im glad i checked. Decided to really polish mine, and the difference in throttle response is actually quite impressive for a 15minute job.

mikes86 · May 8, 2011

Nice to meet gareth and amy today, picked up my new wheels, 2118's.

Just rushed to clean the car before sun went down, and it starts to **** it down AND my dslr wasn't charged. So heres a dull rainy shot taken on my phone. FAIL

Yummy PE2's

I think it might need lowering?

mikes86 · May 8, 2011

Some slightly better photos, still crappy though as its almost dark outside.

Trev. · May 8, 2011

where did you get your towing eye from?

i have a silver 182 aswell think there quality!

loving your new wheels!

DanielJames · May 8, 2011

Really like those wheels mate, how much do they fetch second hand?

Bubbles · May 9, 2011

wasted no time in fitting them

and definitely needs to go a little lower now

mikes86 · May 9, 2011

Bubbles said:
wasted no time in fitting them

and definitely needs to go a little lower now

hehe, thought it might be a good idea to get my bald tyres off asap, plus i was like a little kid at christmas. Went up the multistory this morning (were i park for work) for the first time with the 15's on....uh oh...it scrapped with 16's but now...not good :dead:

Whats even worse, the car needs to go lower :rasp:

mikes86 · May 12, 2011

Vesta said:
Really like those wheels mate, how much do they fetch second hand?

Too much!

mikes86 · Jun 14, 2011

I got bored today and decided to clean out the inlet and give it all a lick of paint.

Heres how it looked before, the oil cap cover broke, so thats missing, and the whole engine cover is also cracked so i've ditched it.

Once the throttle body and inlet was removed i was greeted with lots of grime

All that cleaned up

Used autoglym engine cleaner and a wire brush to clean the manifold and fuel rail cover.

Masked it all up

Painted

Finished result, camera has made the paint look really flat for some reason, its a sparkly aluminium finish in real life.

Sam · Jun 14, 2011

Really good read mate.

Some cracking pictures there to. What you taking them with ? What you editing them with ?

Thanks, Sam!

Joe R26 · Jun 14, 2011

I love your car. Some really nice mods there buddy.

Wick · Jun 14, 2011

Like the silver finish, very clean, very tidy, very OEM and no troubles when you come to sell!!

Big thumbs up from me!

Edit, had a read through... Lovely car and some really nice photos as well

mikes86 · Jun 17, 2011

Hehe thanks guys.

Photo wise, camera used was a nikon d80 with either my 28-70 2.8 or 50 1.8, editing software is corel XI.

Heres a few random photos taking on my phone/dslr after a machine polish and some de-stickering (the tow sticker is gone aswell now)

Why2 · Jun 17, 2011

Verrry nice.

mikes86 · Jun 17, 2011

I'll have some p**n for you guys soon, doing a shoot with mine and this soon

mikes86 · Jul 9, 2011

Random old photo taken on my phone, just liked it!

Joe R26 · Jul 10, 2011

Looks very nice. Where abouts were them countryside photos taken?.

ScarySquirrels motor is lovely!.

joe_2187 · Jul 12, 2011

Looks stunning, very clean.

Cookson · Jul 12, 2011

some of them pics make the front wings look a different colour. Weird

mikes86 · Jul 14, 2011

Just got one of these, bit tight, need to lose a bit of weight lol, but lovely seat. Just waiting for sidemounts to turn up and then its going in.

JRS182 said:
Looks very nice. Where abouts were them countryside photos taken?.

ScarySquirrels motor is lovely!.

In goodwood, my favourite place in west sussex!

joe_2187 said:
Looks stunning, very clean.

Thank you

Cookson said:
some of them pics make the front wings look a different colour. Weird

Its not, its just were the car is highly polished and the angle of light

MartinR · Jul 14, 2011

the best looking titainium 182 i have seen(sexy)

good job fella

mikes86 · Aug 30, 2011

Overdue update..

Most of the interior is stripped now, apart from the passenger seat (need to keep this in for now annoyingly), and some front carpet.

The sparco is in, at first it was bloody tight, but its loosened up over the last month or so, and im loving it. I really don't think i could go back to a normal seat now.

Decided to whip the paint brush out...

Black wing mirror covers

Yellow calipers

Treated the 2118's to a full wash, degrease, polish and wax

Discs and pads all needed replacing, and im fairly sure the master cylinder has just failed. So its going to be one expensive month.
On the way in the post to me is the following:

Brembo HC front discs
RS OEM rear discs + wheel bearings & ABS rings
Ferodo DS2500 pads all round
KTR SS braided lines
5.1dot racing fluid

Next month i'll get the new master cylinder and 4 x 595RS-R, then throw it all at a garage and say "DO IT". It already handles like a go-kart, so with the new discs, pads and sticky tyres it should be awesome.

All this means no trackdays though (maybe brands in december) which makes me sad, but as this is still my daily, this takes priority asap.

Heres how shes sitting at the moment, looking very sad:

Miss the car already and can't wait to get it back on the road, this is going to be a long month.

In the meantime hvae a random video from a sunday b road blast

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VNfTidE2KWw

edd1e · Aug 30, 2011

follow this on OcUK, looks fantastic mate

Joe R26 · Aug 30, 2011

Nice Mike.

What suspension you on again?.

Wick · Aug 30, 2011

Loving this more and more.... Quite some competition for nicest "silver" 1*2 I might add!

Edit... Harness going in at any point? I know it's daily but does a fixed back bucket with seatbelt work very well lol? Side bolsters much of an issue?

mikes86 · Aug 30, 2011

I'm on ktec coilies atm, great replacement for the road over cup suspension, but would like it a bit stiffer for track. Was hoping to get a nice 3" 4 point harness this month, but that will have to wait now, the sparco works fine with the standard seat any way. Lol I wish I was in the run for nicest silver 1*2, Oliver James has that covered

Mike's 182 FF

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