My New Addition To The Family....

by Rabster, 26-03-2019, 02:03 PM

So today was the day i decided to go and have a look at a Nissan Stagea 4x4 NA

i wouldn't say i fell in love with it but i could see my self having alot of fun and a lot of potential for add-ons......

its had a few owners each of them have done a little bit more to the car and it kept going back to the same garage to be re sold

so enough waffle here are the pics

Cancer Research donations in memory of Lynn Bones

by E55EX_RACER, 25-03-2019, 03:41 PM

I'm sure most of you have heard the very sad news about Tony's wife, who passed away on the 1st May.

I have setup an in memory page so people who know Lynn, Tony and the family can donate. Even if it's just a pound, it can make all the difference, so if you would like to make a donation please click the link below.

Thanks

Rich

Donate to Cancer Research in memory of Lynn Bones

Been quoted £208 for ball joints + fitted

by D6NGR.., 25-03-2019, 02:03 PM

i've been quoted by equipe to change lower balljoints on both sides for £208 I just wanted to know if that was a good price or is,it a rip off because I haven't got ebay or paypal I carn't get hold of them balljoints of ebay for £50 or they would have been helpfull.

Might Car Mods Film

by Dan_Turism0, 25-03-2019, 06:18 AM

Friend of mine linked me this it's pretty long but well worth a watch with some awesome cars.....gotta love Japan

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Happy 40th Birthday Bandit

by purplewitch, 25-03-2019, 12:03 AM

Happy birthday, life begins now! So they say
Have a great day :drink:

Plastidip

by Lexusboy, 24-03-2019, 06:19 PM

I am thinking of using Plastidip on my rear badges.

Has anyone tried using this yet?

Click me

240V A/C to 12V D/C converter

by Tango, 24-03-2019, 04:07 PM

Do we have any electronics gurus in the club? I have a stairway in the garage that joins the 'attic' room to the bottom floor. I have made it retractable so it stows away between the joists and frees up more space in the garage. It's solid wood construction and fairly heavy so it's pulled up and let down with a 12V DC 1hp winch, currently connected to a heavy duty car battery.

Question: Is there a 240V to 12V adapter available that could replace the battery? I've been looking on the 'net but there doesn't appear to be anything available that would cope with the amperage.

Happy Birthday IS300_dino :)

by purplewitch, 23-03-2019, 11:47 PM

Happy birthday Dino, have a great day :drink::drink::drink::drink:

Sprinter's IS200 Sport...

by sprinter2012, 23-03-2019, 06:47 PM

We'll, I'm sure I'm thinking the exact same thing as everyone else was when starting their project thread..."I wish I'd started this when I got the car, not after 8months and a wallet full of mods" But then none of us start out planning to mod, but then you join a forum, and your done for! So here's what I've done to mine so far.

So here goes...

Picked up my 2003 IS200 Sport in Astral Black with 28k on the clock in August last year as a sort of birthday present to myself.

It started off life as most of them do looking like this



The first thing to do, was sort out the wheels. Which although they wern't too bad, couldn't be allowed to stay as they were. So 5 of these were ordered from Pristine Alloys on a wheel exchange program...



And while I was fitting them I decided the calipers could do with a touch up too...



As soon as I'd got the new wheels and tyres fitted, it went off to WIM for the special tyre saving geometry settings.

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Next lot of mods were all lighting related, I fitted 6000k HID main and dipped beams, and LED sidelight and foglight bulbs to match. This was then followed shortly by LED light panels for both the interior dome lights, and the boot light aswell. (I'll try to get pictures up of these soon) And after seeing a few of you who had changed your dash bulbs to blue I decided I liked the idea of doing it, but I went for white as I can't be bothered to change the heater console bulbs and the white doesn't look out of place with the orange.

After that I swapped the standard clear side repeater lenses for some smoked black ones (pictures to follow), and I put some chrome coated Silvatec bulbs in the rear indicators and also fitted some LED reversing bulbs too. I got some dual filament bulbs holders off eBay aswell, so I did the fog to side light mod while I was at it.





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Again no pictures for this but next was the GROM iPod gadget, with extra auxilary input which I thought would come in handy for my next mod...

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A fair bit more technical than the previous ones so I was a bit cautious about starting it, but very glad I did it. I managed to get hold of the 7" variant of the OEM Sat Nav housing, and went about fitting an aftermarket 7" LCD touchscreen inside it. And with a LOT of fiddling and removing connectors from the circuit board etc. I managed to get the screen running with 2 x Video inputs, 1 x VGA input, 1 x USB input (for touchscreen interface), 1 x Automatic video source switching input for reversing camera, and 1 x Audio Output. And linking in with my previous mod, the unit can now play its sound output through the GROM and into my factory stereo.

I wish I'd taken more pictures of the 'during' phase of this, but I was getting a bit pi$*£d off with it at times and wasn't really in the mood. lol But here's a picture of the unit in bits when I'd almost finished fitting the upgraded screen...



And here's one of it fully fitted and displaying a VGA feed from my 10" ASUS Netbook which now lives in the glovebox and acts as my Car PC/Media Centre...(I had my chrome heater dials and clock surround at this point too)



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I managed to find myself a set of 18" Aero alloys on eBay, which I quickly snapped up and got sent off to Pristine Alloys again...



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I also got myself a fantastic deal on a TTE bumper and rear lip from ACLex, so off to the sprayers they went. And when they came back my car looked like this...



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More to follow...

newbie scoobby

by SCBY H, 23-03-2019, 06:22 PM

Hia, we are H and Arron from Newquay and we have a wrx and sport, hope we will possibly get to meet some of you at the new Jap show hitting Newquay this year.