My Blackgold 182 Road & Occasional Track Car Diary Thread

[Chris205]

Yesterday I sorted a deal for a pair of Willwood 4 pots, new brembo discs and ferodo ds2500 pads, braided lines, they should stop the beast easily enough on track days without over working the brakes too much.

After the news about the willwoods I thought it best to do some other jobs on the car.

As you may have read above, I've sold the bucket seats, coilovers and wheels. so I got the car jacked up and set about removing everything. I was greeted by lots of mud so I swept the arches out and tried to clean most of it off the coilovers. I'll be doing a full arch detail when the suspension is removed, maybe with a bit of underseal here and there.

Also whilst I was on I remembered about the boss on my steering wheel not having a gaitor. My mates Dad had one lying around he said I could have so

before:

Pics of it without the seats in

Ali-gaitor fitted

One annoying thing I hated about the interior was the rusty bolt heads for my steering wheel/boss

So they were removed and balanced on my temporary spray booth (lol)

A tad bit of satin black later

Put back together, a big improvement IMO

The whole thing looking a lot tidier, bolts painted, gaiter fitted and all put back together to finish the dash side of things off.

Next on the list is to sort my dash strips and gearknob insert, along with fixing my gear gaitor down

 

[WILLYx]

Looks like a lot of weight going in here :dapprove:

Less is more!

 

[Chris205]

Looks like a lot of weight going in here :dapprove:

Less is more!

I bet when it's back on the road it will have around 10-20kg's more in it, with around 15bhp more .

Just wait and see

 

[Chris205]

Will grab some pics of this at the weekend with the trophy turini's on.

Just bought a litre of Iron X so going to use that with a few brushes and get the wheels cleaned up, then bought some JetSeal to give the wheels a couple of coats of sealent.

Not much else happening with this at the moment as I'm a bit bored of clio's

 

[WILLYx]

Should look nice! Won't lie!

Pick up my new car on Saturday... Went for reliability again... 231ps RX8 haha!

 

[Chris205]

Should look nice! Won't lie!

Pick up my new car on Saturday... Went for reliability again... 231ps RX8 haha!

I've never sean reliability and RX8 in the same sentance before mate watch that rear end...you've got previous!!! lol

 

[WILLYx]

Haha if i get 6 months fun out of it, it'll do me!!

Rear end hasnt even twitched yet!

 

[Chris205]

Thought I'd update this: Today I've been cleaning up my trophy turini's, they were pitted with brake dust and tar, so I used some IRON-X and Tardis which removed 95% of the crap, they need to be refurbed at some point but thought for now it would atleast make them look better. I've sealed them with some Jet seal. No pics but will get some at the weekend

 

[Wayne-G]

Just seen this thread mate, plans sound good. Its looking good up to now

 

[Chris205]

Had some spare time tonight so thought I'd get cracked on with cleaning my arch's.

Only had time to do the rear one tonight

Before:

Some afters

Still not 100% dirt free but around 90%...less weight etc

As mentioned in my last update, I'd given the turini's some love, still need to do the insides however I needed to get wheels on the car so I can roll it outside to do some other jobs on it

Heres a few pics, I'm sure fellow turini owners will be aware how shitty these parts of the wheels get

Will be doing the other 3 arch's over the next few nights, then I will be pulling the car outside for a full snow foaming, going to get some cotton buds and do inbetween the panels i.e between bumper and rear quarter, side mouldings, front bumper to wings etc, basically anywhere normal cleaning doesn't cover.

 

[Stefan.]

Maybe just me, i can't see the pics :dapprove:

 

[Chris205]

they should work, they work on my laptop and on my phone

 

[Kitson93]

Attention to detail on this is unreal! Those arches look like new. Very impressed mate, keep it up :approve:

 

[SharkyUK]

Good update, mate - cheers.

 

[micheal leck]

Gd work fella :clap:
lecky

 

[Chris205]

Just bought a little brother for the 182 in the shape of my girlfriends black dci. Should be getting a few little problems sorted on it, back on coilovers and may well use my trophy turini's for the time being

 

[Chris205]

Engine going in this week, however I no longer own it....instead I've got a trophy

 

[WILLYx]

Whattttt, you sold it back to me without telling me!!?

 

[mitch1503]

Engine going in this week, however I no longer own it....instead I've got a trophy

dealt with your kid?