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Yorindesarin wrote:
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Living in the North East of Scotland its a 60 mile commute to any decent city. Which isn't too bad.. If you work in some very specific fields. Which I unfortunately don't. Currently I just work the job I do whilst I'm trying to figure out what I actually want to do. I studied computer games software development at uni but failing hit hard and my love of games and programming has died overtime. I'll get there eventually considering a career in IT since I'm tech savvy and it's something that I can do on the daily.
Mate, you're describing my life about 4/5 years ago, except you've now got a better car than I did :)

Feel free to completely disregard my advice here, but find something you like about computers, if thats what you want to get back into, and work at it until you're an expert- hell, start running your own little IT business self-employed (and then you can claim back on fuel and car related bits as business expenses from the taxman! :lol: ). Its such a huge field, and literally everyone needs IT, particularly as there are too many people on £100k+ salaries who need their hand holding to open PDF's ;)
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Ahah yeah its just figuring out how to get into it. I kind of slacked hard in school so my grades were ehhh. I liked playing games and programming a bit so I was like "Ah thats a good idea lets do that." to discover academia just wasn't for me at that point in my life. Lesson learned! Probably going to have to work at the bottom of the ladder for a bit, which I'm fine with because got to start somewhere. Starting a business here wouldn't be a great idea. Low populace and a very low market demand for a good IT shop just means it'd go busto pretty quickly. I need to look at college courses or the ilk and consider part time study whilst working the job I'm doing some how I think. We shall see!

Oh also today I checked my air filter which was changed 1.5k~ miles ago to discover its quite filthy already. As well as checking the meshes before the MAF and making sure the VFAD hadn't gotten messed up when the airbox was reinstalled at servicing in an effort to figure out my still occuring rev issues.
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Got the first teasing audio clip through from The Audio Guys :P

It's a real rough edit of some of the pop and crackle over-run with a simple intake on right channel and exhaust on left channel mix. Through a decent speaker with the volume up I think it sounds delicious. Can't wait to hear the full power runs as these were only run up to about 7k rpm and at ~50% throttle.

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Picked up some headlights in very slightly better condition than my own. Now I have two sets I can clean one up nicely without worrying! :D

Any suggestions for products for cleaning them up? Did have a read on the forums about it. Was thinking Megauires 2 stage one.
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Yorindesarin wrote:Picked up some headlights in very slightly better condition than my own. Now I have two sets I can clean one up nicely without worrying! :D

Any suggestions for products for cleaning them up? Did have a read on the forums about it. Was thinking Megauires 2 stage one.
I have the meguiars one works well car has been over a year now and not got yellow again etc

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Awesome I had seen good things about it as well as good things about similar kits for around the same price. Im hoping to find someone to restore and black out the plastics in one set of lights at some point...
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If you check out my build thread you can see how well the turtle wax headlight restoration kit did mine. The only thing it's lacking in my opinion is more than one UV protector wipe to finish the job.
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"Packaging" is the problem that most people overlook when considering FI installations.
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Yep good luck Chris..good to hear pip back up n running

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warpc0il wrote:
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"Packaging" is the problem that most people overlook when considering FI installations.
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Talked to a friend whose a mechanic about my rev issue and he says it sounds clutchy. Which is a relieve and not a relieve! Guess it's sort some coils and save for a clutch in one shot! Hefty bills incoming oh dear... On the upside I think my throwout bearing is also at the end of its life anyway so I'll service the forks etc whilst I can! In a month or so hopefully.
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Or what I haven't done to my RX8 today...
It rained so hard last night it washed the car for me!
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Devon_Fourie wrote:
Fri Aug 02, 2019 2:42 pm
Yorindesarin wrote:One thing about those LED projectors I don't particularly like is how bulbuous they might look in the door when fitted... I wonder as to why they're designed this specific way and if it would be possible to make them look a bit... Neater maybe?
Due to the lens that has to point down and inside they have a heatsink as well for the cree led used in the projection. They are a bit bulky but it’s kind of ok.

My next step will be to replace the actual white lights in that holding to red ones to match my colour scheme. So it will be red door lights with white projection.

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Got mine today and thought they look nice and easy to fit.
Lunch time comes...
Step 1 - Manged to get old lens off with a bit of persuasion (Narrow edge is the easiest to pry).
Step 2 - Got bulb out with plenty of burnt finger tips (after messing around in step 1)
Step 3 - insert wire tail / board into bulb receptor
step 4 - Remove door trim to retrieve bulb holder from wherever it pushed into (that will be tonight/ this weekend)
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bigpete8 wrote:
Fri Aug 09, 2019 12:24 pm
Devon_Fourie wrote:
Fri Aug 02, 2019 2:42 pm
Yorindesarin wrote:One thing about those LED projectors I don't particularly like is how bulbuous they might look in the door when fitted... I wonder as to why they're designed this specific way and if it would be possible to make them look a bit... Neater maybe?
Due to the lens that has to point down and inside they have a heatsink as well for the cree led used in the projection. They are a bit bulky but it’s kind of ok.

My next step will be to replace the actual white lights in that holding to red ones to match my colour scheme. So it will be red door lights with white projection.

Image
Got mine today and thought they look nice and easy to fit.
Lunch time comes...
Step 1 - Manged to get old lens off with a bit of persuasion (Narrow edge is the easiest to pry).
Step 2 - Got bulb out with plenty of burnt finger tips (after messing around in step 1)
Step 3 - insert wire tail / board into bulb receptor
step 4 - Remove door trim to retrieve bulb holder from wherever it pushed into (that will be tonight/ this weekend)
Pro tip for those looking to do this themselves - one edge of the existing bulb cover has a little cutout for you to get a small flat head screwdriver in. I believe it's the bottom long edge. Saves the faff that bigpete8 just went through :lol:

Also, take the covers off and then close the doors for a few mins... Saves the burnt fingers.

Both of the above tips come Dr.FrankenRex tried and tested :D
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Dr. FrankenRex wrote:
Fri Aug 09, 2019 2:45 pm
bigpete8 wrote:
Fri Aug 09, 2019 12:24 pm
Devon_Fourie wrote:
Fri Aug 02, 2019 2:42 pm


Due to the lens that has to point down and inside they have a heatsink as well for the cree led used in the projection. They are a bit bulky but it’s kind of ok.

My next step will be to replace the actual white lights in that holding to red ones to match my colour scheme. So it will be red door lights with white projection.

Image
Got mine today and thought they look nice and easy to fit.
Lunch time comes...
Step 1 - Manged to get old lens off with a bit of persuasion (Narrow edge is the easiest to pry).
Step 2 - Got bulb out with plenty of burnt finger tips (after messing around in step 1)
Step 3 - insert wire tail / board into bulb receptor
step 4 - Remove door trim to retrieve bulb holder from wherever it pushed into (that will be tonight/ this weekend)
Pro tip for those looking to do this themselves - one edge of the existing bulb cover has a little cutout for you to get a small flat head screwdriver in. I believe it's the bottom long edge. Saves the faff that bigpete8 just went through :lol:

Also, take the covers off and then close the doors for a few mins... Saves the burnt fingers.

Both of the above tips come Dr.FrankenRex tried and tested :D
Retrieved bulb holder and found lense covers aren't a good fit.
Filed them but still not happy 🙄
Will take attempt no 3

On plus side lights look cool and not as bulky as they appear..
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bigpete8 wrote:
Dr. FrankenRex wrote:
Fri Aug 09, 2019 2:45 pm
bigpete8 wrote:
Fri Aug 09, 2019 12:24 pm
Got mine today and thought they look nice and easy to fit.
Lunch time comes...
Step 1 - Manged to get old lens off with a bit of persuasion (Narrow edge is the easiest to pry).
Step 2 - Got bulb out with plenty of burnt finger tips (after messing around in step 1)
Step 3 - insert wire tail / board into bulb receptor
step 4 - Remove door trim to retrieve bulb holder from wherever it pushed into (that will be tonight/ this weekend)
Pro tip for those looking to do this themselves - one edge of the existing bulb cover has a little cutout for you to get a small flat head screwdriver in. I believe it's the bottom long edge. Saves the faff that bigpete8 just went through Image

Also, take the covers off and then close the doors for a few mins... Saves the burnt fingers.

Both of the above tips come Dr.FrankenRex tried and tested :D
Retrieved bulb holder and found lense covers aren't a good fit.
Filed them but still not happy Image
Will take attempt no 3

On plus side lights look cool and not as bulky as they appear..
Put mine in yesterday and they don't clip in very well for that sort of money lol

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I had to use a glue gun to put a small amount on the clips then put them in, what I did find out was when lining them up with the original lens covers, the clip is about 1mm short which is why they will not clip in, this could be filed out a little to make it fit or just use a glue gun like me.
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See when looking into things like this a bit more I discovered a youtube install video for these:

http://buy4car.com/products/led-welcome ... -1803.html

Which to me seems like it'd give a slightly better result. Just for more effort though and a higher price.
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Not quite done to my car but to my keys.
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