I wanted to board in the roof of the garage for a couple of reasons. Firstly so I could make good use of the roof space for storage and secondly to allow me to insulate the garage. Insulating the roof space would obviously go a little way towards keeping the garage a more comfortable temperature […]
(First posted on MLR forum in April 2014) Thought it’d be a good plan to do a boost leak check. So I machined up a bung to fit in the turbo inlet that would allow me to connect the compressor via a tyre valve. using some washing liquid in water i put it everywhere to […]
(First posted on MLR forum in September 2013) I’ve never been that keen on the standard wheel on my VI as it’s a bit big and ‘spindly’ and they don’t look that great. So, as many others have, I searched to see if the later VII/VIII/IX wheels could be fitted. After a lot of searching […]
Having white walls really helps spread light around so it’s well worth doing. We thought it was a bit of a shame to completely cover the nice bricks though. So we didn’t paint the pillars we just PVA’d them to keep them from being dusty, while the rest was given 2 coats of masonry paint. […]
(First posted on MLR forum in September 2013) It’s been a while, I’ve been busy getting married and house hunting but I’ve still found time to play with the Evo I’ve done various things and I’ll slowly catch up with pictures just in case anyone’s interested but mainly it’s a nice diary for myself and […]
It’s windy round here and big wooden doors flailing around in the wind next to the precious cars is not good! So I had drilled a couple of holes in the concrete drive to stick the doors drop bolts in when I open them and keep them from swinging into things. The problem with a […]
(First posted on MLR forum in March 2013) A mate and I made a short film over xmas to kill the boredom. It took ages to film and edit but we’re really happy with the result for our first attempt. A few snaps of us filming it
(First posted on MLR forum in February 2013) Overall the bodywork is very tidy but as with most cars it had swirls from washing and had picked up one or two scratches but nothing too bad really it’s just that I notice these things. So I thought I’d tidy it up. I use a random […]
(First posted on MLR forum in January 2013) some friends were getting married and hadn’t got a car planned as they were having a small do (the way they should be in my opinion 😀 ) so i offered to be chauffeur which my mate was well happy with so the evo got a quick […]
(First posted on MLR forum in February 2013) been playing with other cars, mainly my girlfriends Mini, but got some stuff done to the evo too….. hated the look and mostly feel of the original gear knob so got a new one. wish i’d done it ages ago! Decembers 6 month 3k service. this is […]