Author Topic: Slotato's wagon: For Sale (Read 17812 times)

YvanF · « **Reply #25 on:** October 01, 2011, 11:13:58 am »

Awesome. Glad to hear you have the car up and running. Enjoy it! Keep us posted!

Slotato · « **Reply #26 on:** October 10, 2011, 06:44:14 pm »

Supertones are in and awesomely loud!! Had to use them within hours of being put in (guy was drifting into my lane)

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thought · « **Reply #27 on:** October 10, 2011, 09:04:57 pm »

Looking good. Now for some snow, I want to see some wagon cyclones!

Slotato · « **Reply #28 on:** October 26, 2011, 12:42:43 pm »

Well I've got about 1750km on the new engine!! And it's running like a dream! But it gets a two week break now as I am in maui with my family for a vacation! It's super nice here and if I'm super lucky when I get back there'll be some snow to have some fun in.

Slotato · « **Reply #29 on:** November 07, 2011, 08:35:42 pm »

So I got home on Sunday morning and this is what I saw!

So the first thing I did was put my winters on

I'm loving the awd, last winter with my protege was terrible, and this year I can get around so easily

My boost gauge acted up again, it doesn't read boost or vacuum properly and and the gauge sometimes changes colour and my oil pressure gauge reads 15psi low (which I was happy to discover cause 5psi oil pressure wasn't sounding too good haha).
So the awesome people at AEM took care of the problem and sent me a boost and oil pressure gauge free, instead of me sending in my gauges again for warranty! They were super easy to deal with.

Anyway, I'm most likely not going to do much this winter, since I really just want to get the car paid off and start saving for a house. But I will be doing some things here and there. A group n tranny mount for sure and I am always trying to find something cheap to do that will change my car. I want to get my I interior all black instead of half grey, but I don't want to paint the plastic just to have it get scratched up so I'll see what I can come up with.
If anyone has any ideas for cheap fun mods feel free to share them!

But since people love pics I'll put up some random ones.

Photoshop I had done of what What I'd like my car too look like

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thought · « **Reply #30 on:** November 07, 2011, 09:52:14 pm »

Looking good bud. If you ever need any decals, let me know haha

Slotato · « **Reply #31 on:** November 07, 2011, 10:06:14 pm »

will do, I'm still trying to decide if i want any / what i would want

YvanF · « **Reply #32 on:** November 08, 2011, 09:07:03 am »

Love those ultralegerra's. Looking good

Slotato · « **Reply #33 on:** November 13, 2011, 10:44:53 pm »

^Thanks!

Got my new boost and oil pressure gauges in, I actually like the digital ones way better than the analog, and there is no calibration to wait for like on the analog boost gauge.

Ignore the silver bezel on the egt gauge, still need to swap it to black and I need to do a little dusting, haha.

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Slotato · « **Reply #34 on:** November 23, 2011, 08:43:11 pm »

Little Update

I put in a Group N tranny mount and the TIC tranny crossmember bushings. WOW! what a difference. so much of the slop in the drivetrain is gone. i was getting crazy chatter before when taking off especially in reverse but it is completely gone now!

The stock mount is way to soft and lets the tranny to much. I should have done this a long time ago.

Here you can see a mark where that triangle of rubber has been hitting the part of the mount above it, thats how much the tranny moved.

booSTIn · « **Reply #35 on:** November 23, 2011, 11:13:33 pm »

Solid build going on mang.

Slotato · « **Reply #36 on:** November 24, 2011, 06:41:41 am »

Thanks!

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Slotato · « **Reply #37 on:** December 09, 2011, 08:27:19 pm »

Well there won't be much happening through the winter, as I need to save up some money for some new suspension components.
My car goes clunk clunk thunk at the moment, haha.

So my plans are
Koni inserts with strut extenders on the front
Group n strut mounts
RCE wagon springs
Kartboy endlinks
25mm adjustable front sway bar (wagon)
24mm adjustable rear sway bar

Should go through the turns quite well after that and it'll get rid of the lovely wheel gap in the front.

If anyone has any suggestions feel free to say, I'll be doing this in spring so I can still change my mind if there is a better setup.

And a random pic from my phone for the pic lovers

Apparently my driver rear door can't get dirty. I haven't done anything before this that's actually how it looked

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deedz · « **Reply #38 on:** December 09, 2011, 09:28:26 pm »

Just so you know I heard RCE Springs have been discontinued, check into it I guess I could be wrong. Just thought I would give you a heads up so you can check other options!

Slotato · « **Reply #39 on:** December 09, 2011, 09:41:37 pm »

Unless they recently discontinued them they should still be available. They were discontinued but they brought them back a little while ago.

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deedz · « **Reply #40 on:** December 10, 2011, 11:36:48 am »

Quote from: Saskatchatoon on December 09, 2011, 09:41:37 pm

Unless they recently discontinued them they should still be available. They were discontinued but they brought them back a little while ago.

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Well that's good news for ya!

Slotato · « **Reply #41 on:** December 25, 2011, 11:01:12 pm »

Cleared my headlights and painted the bezels satin black today, also did a restore kit on the headlights, not perfect but they look a lot better.

before the restore kit

after the restore kit

YvanF · « **Reply #42 on:** December 27, 2011, 11:00:48 am »

Unreal. I need to do this on my car.

booSTIn · « **Reply #43 on:** December 27, 2011, 11:45:21 am »

Quote from: YvanF on December 27, 2011, 11:00:48 am

Unreal. I need to do this on my car.

+1

Headlights look great man, looks real clean on the car!

Slotato · « **Reply #44 on:** December 27, 2011, 02:35:59 pm »

It's super easy to do yvan, go for it. It really cleans up the front of the car.

urabus · « **Reply #45 on:** December 28, 2011, 05:21:31 am »

Nice work, looks super clean. Better then factory.

YvanF · « **Reply #46 on:** December 28, 2011, 08:28:34 am »

Quote from: Saskatchatoon on December 27, 2011, 02:35:59 pm

It's super easy to do yvan, go for it. It really cleans up the front of the car.

Did you use the Meguiars kit?

Yeah, planning on doing it in the spring.

Slotato · « **Reply #47 on:** December 28, 2011, 11:17:51 am »

I used the 3m kit, got it from napa, I got some extra 400grit sandpaper because the sandpaper can clog up pretty fast and it makes it easier to have extra.

I wanna go over them again, the edges of the curved parts take some patience to get, and I didn't quite get them completely.

urabus · « **Reply #48 on:** December 28, 2011, 11:55:20 am »

Does 400 require water? Ive used 2000-3000 wetsand for paint, but it takes some serious sanding. The 3M stone chip came with 3000 i believe and needed to be wetsand. Took me 6 hours to fill and paint/clear 5 stone chips last year. I have another 3 to do soon and probably buff head lights as well. They seem to blur easy.

Slotato · « **Reply #49 on:** December 28, 2011, 05:22:29 pm »

You can wet sand 400 but with this you dont. You get 500, 800 and 3000 in the kit. I got the 400 cause that was the closest napa had that had the Velcro type back to stick to the part that goes on the drill.
I did 400,500 then 800 all dry then the 3000 is wet. Then there's a rubbing compound and then wax.