more cleaning

I was spontaneously up in the unit again and decided to do more cleaning.
Just felt like it, must be the sun and spring feelings ha!

I cleaned all of the intercooler pipes so now there is only the intercooler left.
I'm thinking about getting a new one to be honest, but i'll see :)

My drift-baby is actually still very dirty from the last track day, it really bothers me...
As I cant move her outside for a wash now, I decided to clean and polish her bit for bit.
I'm not a patient person, especially if it comes to detailing or polishing a car.
But I kinda liked the thought to only do a bit of it and another bit the next time, so I started off with the left wing :) I also removed a few scratches.

Look how it turned out!

bit of a polish anyone?

Haven't had too much time the last few days, so I only did a bit of a cleaning.
I gave the stud brace a bit of a polish and removed rust:

 

I also tried to give one of the intercooler pipes a good clean but I'm not too happy with the result. I guess it needs a proper polishing :(

Thats it so far :)

 

What happened in February

Right, so now the most recent updates.
I have many plans and I basically just started to take everything in the engine bay appart.
I wanna know my car 100%, so I just take stuff apart and put it back together.
Its kinda fun and I really like doing it ha.

As I now have the intercooler, intercooler-pipes, stud brace and the slam panel off, I started working on these parts. Its just small stuff but I love doing it and hopefully it will be worth it.

The slam panel looked pretty bad, so with the help of my boyfriend, it looks like this and is ready to get sprayed:

I'm also after cleaning and polishing the pipes and stud brace.
I haven't had much time, so thats just a little part I tried polishing.
Looks way better in real, kinda hard to take the pics with only a phone cam:

I also got a turbo timer and new blow off valve. The side skirts were sent off to get repaired and ready for paint.



My next plans are:

- ) Getting bumper, side skirts and slam panel resprayed
- ) finish cleaning the pars
- ) replace all nuts and bolts i took off
- ) having a look for new Samco hose parts

What happened 2012

2012 was a special year for me.
I decided to turn my car into a track-car so that I can legally drift her.
To be honest...as many do...I also risked it and did rings or a few slides on the road.

As drifting is FUN for me, and not being stressed out because I dont wanna get caught....I decided to end this and go only drifting on tracks.


Of course motorsport can be a bit expensive, but I told myself: In case the world really ends 2012, I dont wanna die with money in my pocket ha.
Decision made so: 2012 is going to be MY drift year!

I set myself a few goals towards the end of the year, and I reached them all. I'm very happy and my passion for drifting and my own drift car just became bigger and bigger.

Here is a few pictures from almost everytrack-day I did.
It was always in Watergrasshill, Cork or Tynagh, Galway.

Enjoy :)

 Decoration for Halloween ha