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Old 12-06-2016, 10:08 AM
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Well, what a November it was, at the start of November I bought a kraftwerks supercharger kit.

Within one Saturday at the garage it was installed, yes we did it all in a day thanks to the lads at the garage. There were a few frustrating parts of the install and I mean frustrating, but with Ray's vast knowledge it was sorted and things were back on track.















I then had a week to run on a base map sent to me by another one of the lads and then it was off for tuning at EFI.
Now everything is tuned the car is a monster now.
When it comes to my car, the only place I would trust to work on it is Daytona Autos. I've learned so much from the garage lads and Ray has helped me out immensely along with so many others.
Again a huge thanks for Ray, Ron, Lee, Tom, Andy for the help with the install and all the other lads too for help along the way.

Time to install my newly painted Rocker cover now

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Old 12-06-2016, 10:31 AM
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Happy days! good bunch of lads, top work!

Ha thats probably the worse rocker cover I've seen haha.

Enjoy!
Old 12-08-2016, 01:10 AM
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that rocker cover does look shit. did you blur it out of embarrasment?

you'll have some fun with that
Old 12-09-2016, 02:16 PM
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Originally Posted by Nottm_S2
that rocker cover does look shit. did you blur it out of embarrasment?

you'll have some fun with that

Photos are curtesy of Lee but he did blur it for my benefit.
Old 12-09-2016, 10:39 PM
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Good team work. A day's effort is impressive but surely it would have been quicker if you didn't do it in the dark with torches?!
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Nah that's Lee's instagram style photos with massive negative vignetting :P
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Big thanks to Ray for use of the ramps today and to Graeme and Craig for repairing my undertray

New brakes are brilliant - the rear ones were completely trashed.

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Old 12-10-2016, 08:11 AM
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Be interesting to see how that kraftwerks supercharger kit gets on as i read they have had alot of issues with belt failures across the pond.
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Tom doesn't seem to be having any trouble with his charger and mine is running lovely (i'm still smiling because of it), we started everything between 9-10 but had a few frustrating moments and an hour for lunch, although it was dark by 3pm ish and we had the doors shut also.

Today at the garage Ray was sorting out the bearings on his engine and Ron was sorting out his brakes, Mike was there in his S and showed us a nifty gadget that he had to use to jump start his car (i had bought one myself by the end of the day) and myself and Craig fixed the flappy under tray on Rons new Nissan 350Z and i also needed to check my speaker wires but that didn't take long.










At the end of the day i took the 350Z out to try the new brakes and Ron went out with Craig to check out a rattle noise. Thanks to Ray for the butties also.
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Originally Posted by markforrester99
Be interesting to see how that kraftwerks supercharger kit gets on as i read they have had alot of issues with belt failures across the pond.
Most of the time is down to poor fitment and people smashing the shit out of the limiter, on a setup with a manual tensioner that's inevitably going to happen, irrespective whether its Kraftwerks or not. Theres several hundred owners over in the US on a KW owners Facebook group, seldom do people have belt issues.

Nearly 7K miles on mine and shes running sweet as a nut still ( albeit with minor Grams fuel pump issues )



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