got up early thismorning when it was nice and cold and painted her for the nice flat white fininsh I wanted.
now just putting it together for the last time....haha yeah right
yep down through national park etc is the way to go, not only quicker than SH1 but better. then through the Paraparas, which is a good road if you have at least 200hp under your foot (no idea what an integra type r has), less than that forget it.
Took advantage of a day off and installed a set of genuine Hella FL LED tail lights that I picked up from Matt (Ahmedsinc). Followed the retrofit instructions to the letter but found the lights still didn't fit. The issue is the small amount of filing/grinding shown here (blue arrow) on bmwdiy.com:
I don't know whether the retrofit lights are different to the factory-fitted ones but this didn't work for me at all and I had to resort to a bit of good old fashioned hammering to get them to fit. No big drama though, it's out of sight and used some touch up paint to seal any bare metal against rust.
Before
Quick test fit
Stealth
Two new holes drilled and a bit of hammering
Old and new connectors
Testing out my rarely used soldering skills
My helpful assistant
Done and modernised. Just a bit of LCM coding to go. Even restored all the original badges and got rid of the black and white badboi emblems.
EDIT: Oh, and filmed a quick test (hard to test the brakes lights on your own!) with a couple of gratuitous revs at the end... The exhaust is sounding pretty adequate.
OK boys, this thread has run it's course. 3 pages to answer one question? At least we now know the way to get an answer around here.
Better warn admin that we'll be expecting an influx of new "female" members.