The Farrow's Nimbus F1 #472 and Ultra Red 197 *pic heavy*
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It's been a few weeks since a proper update, Work and life for you... :thumbdown:
And due to the weather, I still can't do a few things I've been wanting to do since I got the car. Anyways, I ordered a new steering wheel ages ago, but things kept coming up so I could never get the time to go and get it fitted!
Until today
Out with the tatty old...
And In with the nice and new! Also added the steering wheel insert.
(taken with new 20MP phone camera)
(taken with Cannon 60D)
I drove up to Jack from www.RoyalSteeringWheels.com, Who I must admit did a fantastic Job! It's Alcantara Top and bottom, perforated leather on the sides, Silver stitching and a red marker. I definitely recommend him over a new factory one if your's is looking rough!
Since it was a fairly long drive, Me and my mate who lives around that area we headed to some roads near stow... It was the first time I managed to give the car a decent "spirited" drive down some B roads, and i must admit... I loved every second of it. Also getting much better at heel/toe, really allows you to keep the momentum and power out of corners! The car was spotless yesterday when I washed it, Not so much now... Utter FILTH.
Lastly, My older brother drives a saxo 1.1... And since being in my car and me letting him have a small go... Well let's just say I converted him into a proper car guy! See more of that on Tuesday
And due to the weather, I still can't do a few things I've been wanting to do since I got the car. Anyways, I ordered a new steering wheel ages ago, but things kept coming up so I could never get the time to go and get it fitted!
Until today
Out with the tatty old...
And In with the nice and new! Also added the steering wheel insert.
(taken with new 20MP phone camera)
(taken with Cannon 60D)
I drove up to Jack from www.RoyalSteeringWheels.com, Who I must admit did a fantastic Job! It's Alcantara Top and bottom, perforated leather on the sides, Silver stitching and a red marker. I definitely recommend him over a new factory one if your's is looking rough!
Since it was a fairly long drive, Me and my mate who lives around that area we headed to some roads near stow... It was the first time I managed to give the car a decent "spirited" drive down some B roads, and i must admit... I loved every second of it. Also getting much better at heel/toe, really allows you to keep the momentum and power out of corners! The car was spotless yesterday when I washed it, Not so much now... Utter FILTH.
Lastly, My older brother drives a saxo 1.1... And since being in my car and me letting him have a small go... Well let's just say I converted him into a proper car guy! See more of that on Tuesday
So finally an update, Haven't really done anything to my car apart from keeping it clean. But my brother picked up his car the other week, it was a long drive from the west Midlands to Brighton, all motorway. :thumb1:
Anyways it's a Red 197, around the 40k miles mark, the red paint looks amazing in the sun. We've already bebadged it fully and added White Interior LED's. It came with a black front badge (he's adding a back one soon) and pressed plates but with reg holders which we're getting rid of and finally exhaust tips which the clips are rusted on... It's a great clean car and i'm sure he's loving it over his 1.1 saxo. I've noticed his brakes bite a lot harder than mine, so i'm going to upgrading mine soon!
When we got it back we gave a good proper clean, cause it looked clean, till we started at the alloys, the amount of crap behind was staggering, after one alloy... The dirty bucket.
- ALL PHOTOS TAKEN WITH PHONE -
Anyways, her she is...
Cleannnnn
Thought why not clean my car while we're at it! Used that new MER shampoo, bubbles up nicely.
And finally most of the products we used
Anyways it's a Red 197, around the 40k miles mark, the red paint looks amazing in the sun. We've already bebadged it fully and added White Interior LED's. It came with a black front badge (he's adding a back one soon) and pressed plates but with reg holders which we're getting rid of and finally exhaust tips which the clips are rusted on... It's a great clean car and i'm sure he's loving it over his 1.1 saxo. I've noticed his brakes bite a lot harder than mine, so i'm going to upgrading mine soon!
When we got it back we gave a good proper clean, cause it looked clean, till we started at the alloys, the amount of crap behind was staggering, after one alloy... The dirty bucket.
- ALL PHOTOS TAKEN WITH PHONE -
Anyways, her she is...
Cleannnnn
Thought why not clean my car while we're at it! Used that new MER shampoo, bubbles up nicely.
And finally most of the products we used
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if his brakes bite harder than yours, yours probably just need a clean and a bit of grease, and they will be like new. especialy the front ones. it isnt worth throwing money away, maybe you should just try with cleaning them for a start, and the you can still upgrade if you wont be satisfied. great cars, both of them btw.
It's been a while! Thought i'd add some life to this thread. I've done a few things to the R27 since the last update.
Firstly I took the car for it's MOT in November, that was rather expensive to say the least. Both front lower ball joints where shot, so had them replaced. The rear pads where gone so I bought Ferodo Racing DS2500 pads paired with KTEC grooved disc's, with the help from my friend we got them fitted, but both rear calipers where seized, so two new ones where ordered and bolted on. While getting that done, I bought HEL red braided lines and Motul DOT 4 fluid. Front tyres where also due, I changed out the terrible cheap tyres it came with for Good year Eagle F1's, they make such a difference! Still need to get the rear tyres changed, the new Asymmetric 3's are out, so will go for those.
I didn't really do much to the car for while, over winter It kinda just got neglected. Now it's coming up to summer season, I wanted to give it some love. The rear diffuser was looking drab to say the least, the grey tatty plastic looked rather sh*t. Also with having new calipers, the hangers where tatty. So I decided to jack up the entire car and do it all in one go.
Hovercraft mode. (was planning to paint the front brembo's but ran out of time.)
When taking off the diffuser, one of the bolts was completely rusted and fell off with the slightest turn.
Obligatory f*ck you photo.
I then had the job of removing the rest of the thread which was welded to the bracket.
I had no tool for this, so bought a new Dremmel, what was supposed to be a easy take off and spray costed me £70. Least i have a new tool to add to the collection.
Right, with that all done out the way, now for what I came to do... With the diffuser off the car, I cleaned it with iron X and then gave it a sand.
I sanded down the hangers using the dremmel, it made short work of it!
While that had been painted and waiting to dry I thought the bullets could do with a refresh, so they came off aswell!
The finished results!
They are red! Just look orange :')
So that's it for now! But there's still a bunch I still want to do with it! Gearbox has decided it wants some attention and the dreaded 4th gear crunch has came about, car is just under 70k miles. So it's probably due. I also want to get DS2500 front pads and new disc's. New alloys are on the list, found the ones i'm going for... But you'll just have to wait for them
*All photo's where taken with my OnePlus 2 phone, chuffed to bits with it.*
Firstly I took the car for it's MOT in November, that was rather expensive to say the least. Both front lower ball joints where shot, so had them replaced. The rear pads where gone so I bought Ferodo Racing DS2500 pads paired with KTEC grooved disc's, with the help from my friend we got them fitted, but both rear calipers where seized, so two new ones where ordered and bolted on. While getting that done, I bought HEL red braided lines and Motul DOT 4 fluid. Front tyres where also due, I changed out the terrible cheap tyres it came with for Good year Eagle F1's, they make such a difference! Still need to get the rear tyres changed, the new Asymmetric 3's are out, so will go for those.
I didn't really do much to the car for while, over winter It kinda just got neglected. Now it's coming up to summer season, I wanted to give it some love. The rear diffuser was looking drab to say the least, the grey tatty plastic looked rather sh*t. Also with having new calipers, the hangers where tatty. So I decided to jack up the entire car and do it all in one go.
Hovercraft mode. (was planning to paint the front brembo's but ran out of time.)
When taking off the diffuser, one of the bolts was completely rusted and fell off with the slightest turn.
Obligatory f*ck you photo.
I then had the job of removing the rest of the thread which was welded to the bracket.
I had no tool for this, so bought a new Dremmel, what was supposed to be a easy take off and spray costed me £70. Least i have a new tool to add to the collection.
Right, with that all done out the way, now for what I came to do... With the diffuser off the car, I cleaned it with iron X and then gave it a sand.
I sanded down the hangers using the dremmel, it made short work of it!
While that had been painted and waiting to dry I thought the bullets could do with a refresh, so they came off aswell!
The finished results!
They are red! Just look orange :')
So that's it for now! But there's still a bunch I still want to do with it! Gearbox has decided it wants some attention and the dreaded 4th gear crunch has came about, car is just under 70k miles. So it's probably due. I also want to get DS2500 front pads and new disc's. New alloys are on the list, found the ones i'm going for... But you'll just have to wait for them
*All photo's where taken with my OnePlus 2 phone, chuffed to bits with it.*
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