what did you do on your car today???

Dunno anything about it yet, gotta have a chat with my mates dad about it next week. Won't be getting it in anytime soon but sure will be nice to have some power :D
 
Dave said:
If you don't have washers, auto levellers and projectors (most headlight housings are reflector, not projector) they don't meet ADR and you can be defected for them.

They don't give you a proper cut off with reflectors so you might have really bright lights (not a good thing in bad weather either) but the light will be going all over the place, any dirt on the outside of the headlight will effect it more so than a regular light globe also.

TL;DR version: HID's are s*** unless they came with your car standard.
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^ What he said! As far I am aware for them to be ADR approved though they have to meet the above criteria and be factory fitted and not retro-fitted to the car after it was made...
 
Dave said:
If you don't have washers, auto levellers and projectors (most headlight housings are reflector, not projector) they don't meet ADR and you can be defected for them.

They don't give you a proper cut off with reflectors so you might have really bright lights (not a good thing in bad weather either) but the light will be going all over the place, any dirt on the outside of the headlight will effect it more so than a regular light globe also.

TL;DR version: HID's are s*** unless they came with your car standard.
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lucky mine are projectors that are stock..... well stock for another car :p
they have all the fancy *poo* like auto leveling and magnetic drives etc etc...

i recon HID's dont blind as much in projector lense setups
in reflectors they do the light just goes everywhere and they are *poo*
 
im not keen on massively advertising what evil things im gonna do to my car shortly, so i figure if i post it on a small forum like this, news may not travel fast :p

my pod filter ate itself the other day, may have seen a pic, but here it is anyway:



it broke away from the lower bracket of my CAI, bounced of the road, and wedged itself in between my tire/wheel arch/suspension/brake lines.
it was a very scary sound. lol thought i burst the tire, and was grinding down my wheel :O

but anyway, running a slightly modified stock intake now, only for 2 weeks.

on the 19th of feb, the car will be going down to 13k Customs, were it will undergo an engine transplant.

hoping soon after to run into the 15sec 1/4 mile times, hopefully even a 14.

:)
 
Hmmm no good on the pod....interesting to hear about the engine swap though :p
 
na dude, fender/under carriage etc. got *fudge*ed...

the whole underside of the fender got popped out, and was hanging outside the fender :/
 
CEduced said:
na dude, fender/under carriage etc. got ****...

the whole underside of the fender got popped out, and was hanging outside the fender :/
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left foot against fender, both hands on inner gaured and pull :lol:
 
ok re-phrase... the pod tryed beat the car up but the car had its revenge in the end :p
 
dawky101 said:
how did the engine cope whne you drove home with nothing on the plenum chamber?
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if just the pod came off theres not much differance, just could suck up some crap off the road, not a big issue aslong as its not a dirt road
 
i wouldn't exactly say i drove home. more stumbled.

it happened just like 2km away from home. so i limped it home at like 5km/h. hazard lights on, pod scraping against the fender :(
turned a corner in one of the local streets and it all just fell out of the wheel arch lol
luckily it was 11pm~ at night, so hardly any traffic.

also lucky it happened then, and not on the way to work or something.


so excited about the new motor. gonna be a NA monster hopefully. :)

i calculated out, that in a 900kg car, i need about 90kw atw to make a mid 14sec quarter mile.

ill be VERY happy with that. :) anything is better than the 18.1's im getting now :(
 
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