Long time without updates

Every blog must have this post :)

My K11 had some serious problems for quite long time so I didn't really feel like I had nothing to say about the car.

Now, however, it' seems that it's is fixed so I thought to blog again a bit :) Stay tuned!

Finally, there is light ahead.

Service car got a trophy?

Damn... We were racing around and suddenly Widric announced, your March got a trophy!

WTF?

I must say, I was kinda amazed as the car was hiding behind all the racers, was, and still is, multi filthy, and was loaded with tools and our personal belongings. All the flashy tuning cars with shining paint work, bikini babes, loud ICE's etc, were elsewhere. How did... why did... Hell! I wasn't there for show! I was there for go! :D

Best Of Finland :D Thanks for the picture Widric :D

M

Animal Of the Month

Inspired by C-Rock, I thought to paste this picture of a creature to here :) Why? Just for fun of course!

M

ps. It is cute...

Away for few days

Finally... It's been way too long since I've been away from this country. At least 8 months or so...

I'll be heading to Estonia for drifting competition. We were supposed to have S14 racing there (not the one we are racing USA though ;D ), but the tuning of EMS was not possible to finish in time. So, we head there with the spare vehicle, BNR32 :D Remove the fuse and let the rear wheels spin!

Nissan Power!

I try to find WLAN to update some pics. If I can't you'll get them in next week :)

M

Photos lost...

Don't know what happened. I happily surfed to the blog pages, and half of the photos are missing!

WTF?

If they are not gonna start working within reasonable time, I'm gonna call to the bloggers union and demand our rights!

M

Checkings

As the K11 was lifted, I did some checking to it again.

My toe angle is still wrong and it eats the inner section of the front tires badly. I should fix this asap and I do hope I am able to it within few weeks. I'm not so pleased for this especially when this tire size (195/45R15) is not easily available from this backwater called Finland.

My brakes shake a bit so I checked the disk surface. There are a lot of visible hints of stuck particles on the disk, thus explaining the phenomena. I'll try to arrange brake service day asap too. The pedal feels soft and weak anyway, indicating for bad fluids.

Bad Picture. I try to get another one.

The Cusco suspension kit is still kinda fresh :) That is nice to know, especially when the cops in Turku had something to say about my rides height XD I'll explain it latter in separate entry.

Otherwise, the car seems to be in mint condition. Especially after changing the timing chain tensioner. The entry of it is under construction and will be published soon. Stay tuned :)

Looks like my laptop is ready from the self tests. I'll shut it down and wish good night for all the internetz in sleeping time zones. :)

おやすみなさい！

M

Yet another annoying rattle

Even though the heat shields are very useful, they can also be a pain in the butt for an owner of a fairly old vehicle.

I guess my March's heat shield did not like all that heat I managed to produce on my trips to Turku. The engine was running way too hot all the time, I can tell this from the spark plugs [which are white] and from the performance which was simply non-existing.

So, I lifted the FWD-March up to see the damage.

And what did I find this time - the rear end of the heat shield had totally failed from the attachments and cracked after vibrating wildly of the fierce velocity of Mach 2 [see the older posts].

Heat shield has been attached, but is not any longer.

The cracking. Right in front of the Lambda probe.

The tools, and Sandels, to the rescue! Hose clamp, heavy duty version, can do the job as I want. Securing the heat shield where it belongs!

Tools and essentials.

The result from this view point

The result from this view point

As a result, I did not hear any side noises anymore. Thus, I was successful!

M