What Did You Do To Your Car Today?

[Puffwagon]

So the fuel was fine from what I did last night but I switched off a few temp adders today so it didn't go as rich, the final timing didn't really change much from last night and the cam timing ended up slightly modified. Overall I give it a solid meh/10

[k31th]

sounds like typical tuning stuff

[Puffwagon]

Pretty much.

[bupalooga]

First propper clean since christmas.
Clay bar, decontamination, paint cleanse, wax, sealant, interior detail. New headlights.
She's lookin pretty again!

Thinking I'll dig up some old threads on blacking out the beige trims soon. Headliner has started delaminating.

[biddie_fiddler]

What are you going to do to your car... Sometime

 

Started buying some stuff to get the battery relocated to the boot. Bought some "Spec 55" raychem 12 gauge from Mouser - aka tefzel - that I will use to redo my fuel pump wiring. Will need to redo it to run the wire to the boot. Got 11ft of red and black (about 3.3m) which should hopefully be enough, and also the correct size pins for the connector. 

Will order the connector kit from aliexpress I used last time because depinning the existing one will be a pita.

 

Two main reasons I want to relocate the battery

1. I'm sick and tired of the got awful smell from my catch can and I want to move it to the front of the engine bay - where the battery would go (after doing a 4" intake and battery relocation)
2. My amps are in the boot and I want to run power to them using shorter cables.

I'll remove the 1 awg that currently goes from the battery to the boot, and replace it with 2awg. This should be more than enough for the cars electrical system and should have little voltage drop across the length. Some napkin math shows that using 6m of 2awg and if the car is drawing 100A, I'd be losing about 0.029V across the length of the cable.

 

 

This will be part of the long term changes in the boot, starting with the battery relo, then will be redoing the false floor, sub box, and amp rack. All in a bid to neaten it up and reduce weight. Will be going from dual 12" subs to a single 12" in a smaller box. Should hopefully take out a tonne of weight in the back  

[k31th]

Or you could just move the catch can to the front between the battery and the front bar etc...?

[biddie_fiddler]

I spent a long time trying to find a place at the front where the catch can would fit, and I can't find any 😂

[Tom Tucker]

I think I posted pics of mine. In front of passenger side strut tower. Same reason as you

[Puffwagon]

Weld a -12 fitting to the top of the catch can and the turbo intake pipe. Plumb it in and not only will you not smell it, you'll kill less polar bears

[biddie_fiddler]

Its not a good catch can unfortunately, if I do that I'm just gonna put sh*t back in the intake. If it was a proper setup, oil air separator type deal and baffled, I'd do that 100000%. But this just chucks the breathers into a pot with a vent on it. 😂

 

Ngl too, don't like the look of a recirc'd catch can either lol