Bought some UK 98 spec wheels in 15s for my track rubber... They were silly cheap, but the paint was pretty bubbled, as they're just my track wheels, I decided to refurb myself to tidy them up a little..
paint stripping
went for bronze with satin laquer to keep them looking matte!
and put them on so I could take my oem wheel's off to clean up a bit
naturally had to get photos haha
oem's came off for a bit of love..
cleeeean!
Also I thought this was pretty interesting...after cadwell, I've had problems with my wheel nuts coming loose (I actually lost one or two) on my front wheels and have to keep re-torquing them. I'm guessing these have been powder coated at some point...
Wheel on the right is a front wheel, note all the whites gone from where it meets the hub compared to the rear wheel to the left!
And where the coatings all burnt off round the edge! Pretty hard to get a photo of, but this lips huge!
I dont really trust these wheels at all haha, so I'm pretty happy ive got different wheels for track now
Also did my centre caps as they were looking pretty sad!
Next up was my engine bay....!
I have a thing for dark/stealthy looking engine bays so the cam cover went off to my painter for smoothing and painting, along with my brake stopper as that was looking a bit tatty...
New stainless bolts for the stopper, skunk2 oil cap, passwordJDM carbon plug cover and black stainless dome nuts for the cover and I got these back!
Such a hard colour to photograph, but its a deep dark anthracite and I love it!
And one of my favourite purchases, my beautiful Carbing brace <3 I love it so much haha
Also relocated the throttle cable and rerouted the wiring that normally lies over the strut top/wing to the passenger side to tidy everything up a bit
Next was Mimms! I have to admit I was a little sad mine blends in quite a lot as shes totally OEM looking, but I do love it, and people who can appreciate a mint oem car gave me some lovely comments
Went for little photoshoots with peeps while I was there, would of been rude not to!
Finally...I've taken my whale ***** off. I love the noise, but I didn't feel like it was doing the car any good, she did feel really hesitant between gears, and as much as I miss the noise, I'm a lot happier with how she drives
Thought I'd hate the look of my bay without the carbon, but I really prefer it!
Not sure if this will work, but heres a quick last listen of the whale intake before I took it off...Did love it haha
nicoleharashima
Japfest on Saturday and have two track time sessons, one AM and PM...and Cadwell booked again for the 17th! Can't wait to get back out there!!