Philthy's Berlina

[Philthy]

I haven't had much of a chance to do anything lately as I have hardly been home the last few weeks. This weekend is free at the moment so I will try to get a bit done then

[Jo3_Blo]

Looks good man, good job on the dash/screen install, too bad you cracked it though. Good luck fixing it.

[Philthy]

Thanks mate. The screen is fixed, but still un-painted. I get my license back soon so I'll probably be finishing it this weekend.

Got a clubsport interior for it, and everything is finished except for carpeting the boot install and finishing those few plastics in the dash.
Will post pics this weekend when I do a bit more work

[Philthy]

Well I've had to throw the car back together for this weekend, so here's a pic of the screen for those who were waiting. It isn't quite perfect yet so don't look too close

[LightningVP]

Looks good, with its position, does the steering wheel block it out?

And if possible could you point me to a good thread of how to fiber glass? or where you learnt from...

Won't be able to do it the same way with mine, but could mould my dash to put one in...Only reason for the idea of it sliding out was so noone knew it was there

[Philthy]

That's just a hole cut into the dash facia to fit the screen's mounting cradle, then fibreglass re-inforced bog crap to build up the edges and make it smooth. I'm sure it isn't the best way, as demonstrated by the fact that i keep cracking it. I had never done it before either, just ran with an idea and followed the instructions, or made it up as I went along.
I wouldn't be the best person to do a write-up about it as I really had no idea what I was doing, but have a look around on google and I'm sure you will find something.

As far as the steering wheel blocking it, I haven't really watched it while driving but I haven't noticed it getting in the way yet. I'm pretty tall so the seat is a long way back so that might help the angle as well. A smaller screen might be able to go further to the left

[DannyboyDS]

your interior inspires me to finish mine, good work.

[rch-13z]

very nice with the screen install matey... keep it up!

[NickVR]

That screen looks pretty sweet in there mate. You've done well.

[Philthy]

Finally got the carpet today to finish the boot install. It all has to be taken out fairly regularly, so I went with the 2 seperate boxes so that I can leave at least one in there most of the time. Sorry for the camera phone picture

[LightningVP]

Finally got the carpet today to finish the boot install. It all has to be taken out fairly regularly, so I went with the 2 seperate boxes so that I can leave at least one in there most of the time. Sorry for the camera phone picture

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Looks good I will be doing mine soon (Have now got the Civic so I can work on my car a bit more )

Any tips?

[Philthy]

Not really, just take your time measuring everything up, and if you are using sealed boxes, make sure they are nice and airtight

[LightningVP]

I found your number plate, except it's missing the last "y"

Number Plate FYLTH Black & White Stand out in the crowd - eBay Australian, Number Plates, Car Parts, Accessories, Cars, Bikes, Boats. (end time 05-Dec-08 19:50:51 AEDST)

-Merry Christmas-

[Philthy]

I found your number plate, except it's missing the last "y"

Number Plate FYLTH Black & White Stand out in the crowd - eBay Australian, Number Plates, Car Parts, Accessories, Cars, Bikes, Boats. (end time 05-Dec-08 19:50:51 AEDST)

-Merry Christmas-

Haha, thats awesome!
Moar pics!

[LightningVP]

Was looking at plates for sale, and came across them, and was like OMG there someone on JC thats filthy or something like that, endless searches lead me to nowhere, then today you made a post in a thread i looked and and worked ot how it was spelt lol

-Merry Christmas-

[dbarnes]

****... nice work mate looks good

[<RaBBiT>]

love the colour and that a dif idea with the screen well done mate

[Philthy]

Not a lot has been done lately, mostly just fixing up little problems.
Got a new battery I haven't mentioned here yet, some new front end bushes and things like that.

Got a memcal off foamy yesterday that I installed today. Went out to the local airstrip for some 0-100 before/afters.
I only did a couple runs before putting the new memcal in, but the best I managed was a very dissapointing 8.96s, with a 3.4s 60ft time. Since I don't really drive it that hard very often I still don't have a great launch technique and I felt it could have been better.

Whacked in the new memcal and did a few more. Managed an 8.4 0-100 with a 2.xx 60ft time, but accidentally deleted the data just before so can't remember the exact values.

Used racechrono on my phone for the recording - quite a handy little tool!

[<RaBBiT>]

kool man made a difference:P

[Philthy]

Sure did, and it feels heaps better in mid-range revs driving around town.
According to the speed vs time graphs on racechrono, it made a massive difference from about 50+kph, and i didn't quite get as good of a launch on the 8.4 as i did the 8.9.

It is a lot of fun playing with that little program though, and seeing where I can make up time etc. I can see how this time-chasing could get quite addictive and expensive

[<RaBBiT>]

yes i bet hey:P

[Pimpt6]

Been a while since u updated . . How is every thing coming along mate?

[Philthy]

I've been house hunting the past couple months, and being a group of uni students that has kept us rediculously busy, so I haven't had a lot of time for my car.

Since the new memcal I haven't done much but fix up a couple things in the interior I wasn't happy with. I am building a new shifter surround with a holder for my iriver, but I can't spend much time on it.

Once I find a place and have a decent shed to work in I should be able to make some more progress.

The only thing that *might* happen in the next week of so if I find the time is a quieter exhaust, but last time I went to the exhaust place they were shut for the holidays

[Pimpt6]

Looking for a house to buy or rent ? Quieter exhaust? Really ? Is it that loud?

[Philthy]

Looking for a house to buy or rent ? Quieter exhaust? Really ? Is it that loud?

Looking to rent. The problem is that there are 5 of us, 4 guys and a girl. It was hard enough last year to find one with 3 girls and me, but noone wants to rent to uni students, especially not a group of guys.

My exhaust isn't really loud, but it is a little droney and I really don't like loud 'look at me' exhausts, so I'm going back to a similar system I had on my old car.
2.5in redback with the twin exit rear muffler, or maybe mandrel bent if they don't want to charge me an arm and a leg for it