A Productive 2 Weekends

[Rabster]

Ok we start last weekend

Spent the Saturday trying to find my new brakes, eventually went to Lexus Woodford top service as usual items in stock even a discount for being part of LOC

fitted the brakes, now don’t bite my head of guys but this was the ummmm bake brake pad honestly it went so quick I had no idea there was still about 5mm left on the other side I don’t have pic of the disc as I forgot

Sunday I washed, SRP, Paint renovator, EGP

Finished article

Now the fun begins

I had the following jobs to be done

• New intercooler
  New intercooler Lights
  Old exhaust off
  New exhaust on
  Reposition front camera, de mist, re seal
  Move horns
  

Here is the new intercooler Lexus key shows the size

Fitted to the car old intercooler below it to show size

Finished article

It looks like is fallen slightly on one side will rectify this next weekend when I put some nice shiny Jubilee clips on

Also shown are the repositioned horns

Hidden front camera

Looks great from inside the car

So now the exhaust what can I say was a pain for the past few weekends so I had a chat with the local kwick fit and they kindly agreed to cut the bolts of and put new bolts on for me at no charge great guys down thee and they loved the car

So anyway new exhaust going on it arrived like this

After a short while with some tender TLC

Rabs

[Rabster]

So now onto fitting

Car jacked up

Cat - centre section ready to be undone thanks to Kwick Fit

All polished ready to go on

Old exhaust off

When I fitted the new one I went to helfrauds and got some loctite exhaust gasket squeegee tube thing worked great no mess squirted around the seals and bolted it back together

Now on the car awaiting alignment

It’s on the car I know it’s not fully straight yet but I will worry about that next weekend, I believe its jut the brackets that need bending

Here is the finished article from last night

Now this next pic just imagine your driving down the road at night well dusk and you see this

Speeding up in your rear view mirror what would you think..................................................

Cheers all

Rabs

[redz_UK]

lol..

i like the 'angry face' lighting effect!

[Steviewevie]

Love the lights !

Car looks lovely.

That brake pad though

[Saraj]

i like the look of the new intercooler from the front, and the last pic just looks fab

[dazz32]

Nice one Rabster looks ace...loving the lights,would creep someone right out when you drive behind them..

[Patch234]

That all looks great mate. Fantastic job. out of interest, how long did it take to remove the front bumper?

Nice one,

Phil

[Rabster]

That all looks great mate. Fantastic job. out of interest, how long did it take to remove the front bumper?

Nice one,

Phil

Bumper came off in under 15minutes just make sure your carefull i have it on and off a fewtimes now so got it down to an art especially single handed lol

i think its 6 bolts on underneath tray (only have 2 now due to intercooler)

2 poppers in either wheel arch

1 bolt in either wheel arch

remove poppers in engine pay from grill 2 either side

lower onto a cardboard box or blanket remove all connections for fogs

headlight washers etc may need a bottle for this one i had a 2ltr on standbye

basicly it i have the walthrough that some one else has done somewhere but not needed it since middle of last year lol

Rabs

[Parthiban]

Nice work mate, the lights look awesome, even angrier than wozza's angry lights!

Crazy what happened to that brake pad, how did it wear so much on one side and not the other? Problem with the caliper?

[Rabster]

Nice work mate, the lights look awesome, even angrier than wozza's angry lights!

Crazy what happened to that brake pad, how did it wear so much on one side and not the other? Problem with the caliper?

Well wozza's was only a tester

i dont know about the brake and the rac man couldnt answer either it was strange the front of the drivers brake pad was fine as was the disc but the rear buggered with no explanation

All i can think is that it it got stuck but surely it would have worn both sides afterall would be clamping down you would think....

the only other thought is maybe the 2 V clips that sit on top of the brake pads between the pads and the calliper dissintegrated and made the pads wear more (still missing for now)

Rabs

[Asi]

looking spot on mate

[Gord]

Nice work Rab, well done :D

[sparkystav]

Good work mate

stav

[reganlives]

u sure u aint got a seized caliper mate?

[KnightUnit]

u sure u aint got a seized caliper mate?

I had the same thing, one pad was worn badly, the others at the front looked on. Wasnt a seized pot but one of the slides the caliper is bolted on by.

[DJ Wozza]

They do say replication is another version of flattery :D

Nice work pal as always, paintwork looking good too

[Saraj]

i must admit i do love the color, nice work