New red V5

by parthiban, 14-01-2020, 08:00 AM

Received my new V5 a few days ago, anyone else received theirs yet?

Hi there !

by avi_444, 12-01-2020, 08:09 PM

Hi ladies and gents !
Havent got a car now for few months so far sold my last one a 03 Toyota Corolla 1.4 but going to get my dads IS200 SE anytime soon as he got another car a 08 Accord, been following up few things of what to do on the car from the net anyway!! currently its standard nothing done to IS200 as my dad isnt into all that hopefully that change with my ownership

Calling All Welders!!

by Voodoo Vix, 12-01-2020, 10:52 AM

Some of you may know I have aftermarket alloy power steering and coolant tanks in the Zed as below



My problem is with the power steering tank (the smaller one). The OEM ones don't have a breather hole but these do and no matter what level I have the fluid at it sprays out of the hole when it gets hot, inside (about half way down) there is a plate but it doesn't matter whether the fluid is above it or below it still sprays everywhere (in fact its worse when its below the plate).

Basically what I want to do is spot weld a small curved alloy plate to the lid of the tank so that it can breath but hopefully not make a mess of my bay (diagram below, although please ignore the poor artistry :blushing



My question is, is there anyone out there who can do it for me as neither me or Mike know anyone who can weld, particularly alloy. I need to sort this out as soon as I can as its making a mess and is pointless putting my new hoses on if they're going to get covered in fluid.

Photoshoot proposal !?

by Hami, 12-01-2020, 10:28 AM

Trying to organise a shoot with Infinity Mods and Emz said to see if anyone from here would be interested in joining the shoot?

http://www.infinitymods.co.uk/forum/view...?f=7&t=650

That's the link to the thread on Infinity Mods,

Quick Brief - There is no set date or location yet, although it will be in the Harlow area, as we are waiting to see what Cars/people/Promo Girls etc we can get involved, although it is after Fast Show.
We are looking at meeting up and either before or after the shoot we get a munch and chill out, bit of team bonding shall we say.

Would be good to get both clubs involved in this shoot and a NICE vast range of Cars :thumbup:

Either post up here or on the link above if anyone is interested please.

hi :)

by Jen, 12-01-2020, 05:22 AM

hi everyone,

Im Jen, live in cambridge, drive a blue skyline, r33 gtst. looking forward to attending some meets! x

Happy birthday marsdendean

by purplewitch, 12-01-2020, 05:20 AM

Happy birthday

200SX S14a

by CarbonRick, 12-01-2020, 12:40 AM

Right, here goes..
The hunt for a 200 began when the renewal for the crappy temporary 206
GTi I was running was MORE than a 200SX! So, I set about looking in the
usual places, PistonHeads, SXOC, Auto Trader and eBay.. I never even went
to look at one for 2-3 months. Then I found one that caught my eye, but
asking price was nearly twice the budget I was considering. I watched it be
relisted about 4 times before I finally contacted the seller, asked a few
questions, and made a cheeky offer, which the nice chap accepted -
although I wasn't able to fetch for 7 weeks!

Anyhoo, on the 20th May 2011, one of the local lads, Adi, offered to run me
down to Southampton to take a look and hopefully buy it. We also collected
my SX Guru Ryan from Bedford.

We got down there, spoke to the chap, poked around the car, took a few
minutes (about an hour) deciding if I should buy it and what offer to make.
Now considering he'd kept the car for 7 weeks, I felt obliged to stick to the
agreed price - again, nearly halfwhat he'd been asking.

Anyway, long story short, lol, I bought it, got it insured and brought it home
via Bedford (a la Photos 1&2) and we lived happily ever after.

The rather nosey looking chap is my Guru Ryan!





After finally getting home, and a ****** long day, I slept somewhat...
...and when I woke up, I went and washed the car and took a load
of photos. (Nothing different overnight, so just a few interior shots here.)





Since I didn't attempt to barter him down further, the seller included the
Alpine USB Head Unit, Bailey Dump Valve & Kit and various other spares
and consumables. Nice guy.



Within a few days I was itching to change something on the car so I decided
to de-brick the front end. Or remove the number plate plinth as others may
call it lol.



Whilst visiting a friend in Sleaford a little while later we got chatting about
exhausts, and he liked mine, and I liked his spare that he was going to cut up!

It also turned out that the one he had was originally custom-made for a
friends old 200, so we swapped and I also fitted a decat pipe.
A cheeky shot of new exhaust whilst in Towcester.



It was around this time I started utilising the Sales section of SXOC.
Firstly I got hold of an Apexi filter and adaptor plate...



...and a 6000k HID Kit.



It was around this time, July '11, that I ordered my wheels, fully
aware that it'd be a 10-12 weeks wait. Hey-ho, that allowed time
and money for other bits to be ordered and paid for.

Another cheeky shot featuring some home-tinted indicators.



In early Sept '11 I attended a RR Day organised by one of the local
lads and despite worrying that mine would be down on power, it was
quite the opposite! Even the operator asked if anything else had been
done! To say I was happy was an understatement!



About a week later, I ordered my suspension. HSD HR's were chosen
for their reputation and price, and I'm very happy.



Tyres were ordered the same day, in readiness for the soon-expected
wheels...



A cheeky shot in Sleaford, just after the coilies were fitted - Oct '11.



Finally, after 16 weeks, and sailing several thousand miles my
XXR 522's turned up. 18" all round 8.5" Fronts and 9.5" Rears.



On said vehicle - Nov '11.



Finally with the front dropped a little more, and clear lenses
side and front - Jan '12.

http://thrll.com

by CarbonRick, 11-01-2020, 11:30 PM

A new social network for cars, pretty **** good actually! :thumbup:

http://thrll.com

Does anyone know electronics/ PCB's etc?

by northernmonkey, 11-01-2020, 09:00 PM

I'm in the middle of fitting a android tab to my lexus is200 (in the oem flip up bit)

All is going well so far, screen is mounted, I've got most of it worked out except i've hit a small snag. The board pictured is the volume and power button board, which fitted quite nicely in the case, but i need it smaller.

Now to me, it looks as though, as there are no tracks, i can just cut this and relocate (or dismiss!) the earthing wire that just goes to an aluminum foam pad anyway that squeezes to the frame of the lcd.

Would i be right in this, I obviously want to get it right before just cutting it, but I can't see anything to give me a reason not to so far. Just so you know, if possible, i'd like to cut it just by the groove, the holes are locating holes, and although not a good pic, that is just writing on the other side.

Then it's just a case of installing some new switches (and extending the wires from the board (Hmmm, might need help here!)) for the power and volume buttons.

Any help gratefully received!

Home multi room speaker setup

by Sparkystav, 11-01-2020, 08:50 PM

Right can anyone help.

I'm thinking of installing speakers in Most of the rooms in my house. But I want to be able to link them to a single source.

Then ideally this source can select between my hdd, my tv, the other tv, or an aux in, etc.
And obviously select what rooms it goes to,


Anyone any knowledge or ideas?


So far I'm thinking hard wired speakers in the room/top corners (were still decorating upstairs so I can come in from above), a simple source selection box with an input from the as yet unidentified control hub that can take a signal from the inputs but also read MP3's from my HDD
Or am I in the futuristic/massively expensive area?

The streaming mp3's not hugely important as I could run it through apple tv.