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For that badge you repainted, was it possible to sand back the silver stars portion of it from the back aswell?

andy_mac wrote:For that badge you repainted, was it possible to sand back the silver stars portion of it from the back aswell?

I would say it would be. I painted mine as more of a tester as my rear badge was pretty stuffed as you can see. It would take some fair effort as it would be much hard to sand in that small area but would be interesting to see how it would come out.

July 2016: For properly the last two months my power steering pump has been so loud and angry plus it has been getting worse by the day. Lately it's been the usual case of either being too expensive or not having time.

Luckily Peter from CorgiWerx was there to save the day with a rebuilt Power Steering Pump.

Started bright and early. Finally it was a nice day to be working on the car, something that's been rare in NSW lately.



While we were at it we thought we might as well replace the pulley bearings and the belt as some preventative maintenance.

Before / After





Something interesting that we found that one of the idler pulleys was actually not a genuine item and ever so slightly bigger, Peter is guessing possibly from a Commodore. Nevertheless it can be reused.

Bearings in and with the size difference between the two.





After some elbow grease and many four letter words the bolts and pesky clips came off.





Man oh man so much fluid had leaked. One of the main issue was the worn o-ring on the feed hose.





It all got a good clean before everything went back together.

Time for the master to do his magic. Pump disassembled, so filthy.





Ah yes much cleaner, mostly back together.



Again as more of some preventative maintenance we changed to belt while we were there even though the one there was in decent condition. Its so cheap there's no reason not too.



The difference it truely night and day, which is really to be expected. Considering how little a rebuild costs from Peter compared to a new unit its a no brainer!

July 2016: I really didn't wake up this morning thinking yes today I'm going to buy some new seats. I've had my eye on these tbSTI front seats for awhile now. I was kinda tempted when they first came up for $550 but wasn't worried if they were sold. They ended up going done to $350 and I got really interested. Then yesterday the seller said $200 if picked up that day, so I basically had no choice. Despite the 2.5 hour each way drive I had to have them...

I would have barley made it on one tank, E85 life...



Anyway back to the seats. Due to the high k's on the car specially the drivers seat, there was much wear and ass juice, they weren't in direr need of replacement but I've also kept my options open.

The new seats. They need a bit of a clean and condition but should clean up nicely.



Out with the old.



After some seriously tough bolts the passenger seat was out, man that is a heavy bastard. The tbSTI passenger seat is much lighter not being electric. There is less bottom bolstering but I don't think it'll bother me if I really hate it I can also go back to the old seats. Plus I've always got my eye open for some Evo 9 Recaro’s.



The drivers seat has seen much better days…



After getting the drivers seat in I realised that the switch for the electric motor is actually different, 4 vs 2 wire plug. This is due to the memory function on FL seats. The solution looks like cutting the connector off the old seat is going to be the best option and adapting to the new seat, I'll likely loose the memory function but it's noting I've had before so I'm not fused.

The seats are in and I'm so happy with how they feel. Mainly because they came from a significantly lower KM car so overall they are in better condition. Loving the red stitch.

Wiring up the seats was easier then I thought. I was worried because the FL seat has memory control and I wasn't sure if that was going to be a big job to get working, I wasn't bothered if it wasn't going to be able because at the end of the day I wasn't loosing anything.

I decided the best way to try and adapt them was rather then cutting wires I'll pull the wires out of the connectors and see if they could be adapted first.



New FL connector, 4 wire.



Wires out.



I pushed the thick red and black wire into the original connector and to my surprise it all worked. What ever the smaller two wires were it didn't need them, both the electric motor and memory works flawlessly.

How much was the power steering pump?

slackboy72 wrote:How much was the power steering pump?

Contact CorgiWerx
They can do a PS Pump for your MY08 GT Spec.B
https://www.facebook.com/CorgiWerx/?ref ... ks&qsefr=1

BillyCorgi wrote:

slackboy72 wrote:How much was the power steering pump?

Contact CorgiWerx
They can do a PS Pump for your MY08 GT Spec.B
https://www.facebook.com/CorgiWerx/?ref ... ks&qsefr=1

Yep what he said

So this happened today...



More on this tomorrow though.

August 2016: Nigel has had these for sale for some time now so I've been eyeing them for awhile. Tax time arrived so it was time for some car goodies.

They are Enkei RS05 18x7.5+50

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It's a nice change to have centre caps.





They came with 235/45 tyres which have plenty of tread but are VERY interesting in the wet. My 225/40's will go back on the tyres at some point next week.

Great progress, thanks for clearing up the mystery of Postfl seats into Prefl cars.
I guess the extra wires are for a handbrake lock out function or similar
Do you find the Postfl seats to be lower?

bigBADbenny wrote:Great progress, thanks for clearing up the mystery of Postfl seats into Prefl cars.
I guess the extra wires are for a handbrake lock out function or similar
Do you find the Postfl seats to be lower?

After hearing on Suby club, it seems those wires are for handbrake if MT or gear select if AT and the other being for ignition which makes sense as mine can be changed at anytime.

As for the seats being lower I would say the drivers is the same but the passenger I would say is lower being the old passenger is electric and the new one not.

Yep makes sense

Happy to say I finally have a bumper on the way. It'll take some time but I can't wait to have it here. Once it's here the car will likely go in for a front end respray, time to start saving...

There's nothing like a clean car, first time in well over a month.

Before,



After, I forgot the exhaust tips were chrome.

August 2016: Finally after a huge wait its time for take two with the Redline Goods.



Things were looking good off the bat with the handbrake actually being RHD and the shifter being the correct length.

I started off with the handbrake.



It was a little tricky but eventually came off.



Started with test fitting the new one. Lots of pegs.



The leather is very thick and it ended up needs some cutting to make it fit properly. It was far from "bolt on". Time for the glue and even more pegs.



While that was drying it was onto the gear leather. So much shorter, much better.



This needed even more adjustments. Lots of cutting the make way for the clips. Maybe US ones of different to AUS ones but who knows, either way far from "bolt on".



On and looking good so far.



After getting the handbrake on this is where the trouble started. The leather was completely in the way of the clips and it didn't help it being so thick.



After lots of cutting I mostly got it sorted.



Anyway, time to fit. Shifter first. So much better then the last one.



Armrest.



Then the handbrake



Overall I'm pretty happy with the look of everything. Although after just one day of use, this has already happened.



I'm not going to bother sending back again, I'll see if I can fix it at some point. After all the bullshit with Redline Goods I honestly can't recommend them, I'm pretty sure the original order was made in early April, more then 4 months ago. After postage back and forth and the restocking fee that they forced us to pay it would've been better getting one custom made somewhere local and then the fit would've been perfect.

Oh well turned out ok I suppose.