Passed its mot
 

My MK1 s12 has passed its Mot after being buggered snce November 25th last year.

It had a retsest this morning after it failed on headlight alighnment and a mislocated rear spring. i have no idea how the spring managed to jump out its housing at the top and wedge itself between that and the shock :confused: lol.

Its now full time back on the road and the Engine Run-in countdown is well underway with me doing 80 miles a day in work commuting.

Im very happy to say the least :D

I hope to take it to Ace Cafe on the first Tuesday of January with the runin complete.
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hey dude well chuffed to hear that!

you must be feeling good about it all :)

uploaded a few vids. this was running just up to 2psi opposed to 19-22 psi as im still running the car in. but was still fun making them. it was so hard not to full throttle it


http://media.putfile.com/pukkasilvia

http://media.putfile.com/s12ocpukka

i cant get the vids to work, both crash internet explorer and crash firefox, i tested a few other vids on there and they work fine, so im guessing theres a prob with your clips, they work for anyone else????

Quicktime plays them http://www.apple.com/quicktime/download/win.html :tu

i have Quick time :( i shall try again

You may need to update it.. i'm using version 7.0.3

it came with iTunes also which is a bit of a pain but if you listen to music on ur pc its worth a try:)

Jon, is your car lowered? my rear springs fall out ever time it gets jacked up :eek:

MOT for my Silvia very soon, i think that it might fail on headlight alignment too :rolleyes: its a pain enough to change the bulbs :D

T

Yes its lowered 40mm. On 'recoil' custom wound springs. They sit really tight in the cups when its jacked up so that is why i havent a clue how they had mislocated.

You have 3 options. you can use a strap that bolts to your subframe and then to the floor plan above it, ie a length of seat belt. this will then stop the subframe from dropping to far once jacked up. This is a common thing done to lowered cars.

Other options include new custom wound springs or getting metal p clips and screwing the tops and bottoms of the springs to there cups.

The headlight alighnment is easy, it is just 2 screw adjusters on the light fronts that you can adjust once the lights are up.

I put my car next to Dr silvias s12 infront of a wall at night and matched the headlight heights to his on the wall ;)

Now thats a bloody good idea! :)
And thats another good one! thank you Jon :D