Originally Posted by 30-11-2010

Right I've sat down and with a Budget of £200 decided what I'm doing in terms of Audio.
I have from my 406 a set of JBL GTO627 speakers, A Sony stereo, a Sub Zero SPLX Amp and an Infinity Sub.
Now the JBL speakjers are good, as are the stereo and the sub, but the Amp is abit of a paperweight but it'll do for running a sub.

I'm getting a sub box from Car Audio Direct, this is around 43cm long, my Amp is 39cm long so hopefully it will bolt onto the back of the sub box without much of an issue. But I've decided to tidy up the amp anyway...
This is how it looked before...

Now there are four screws on the top that were just there for show, I had to butcher one to get it out!

This was the amp with the cover taken off...

I rubbed the cover down with 180grit sandpaper...

Now these are the screws that were in the top 'for show'

I've fillered them in, plan is to sand them down, paint them mat black and just put them in hand tight...

There were a few dinks in the top of the amp...




Now take note! Last years student card is great for fillering...


Fillered...


I put it on the radiator for an hour, took uit back outside, rubbed it down and gave it a coat of primer...


That was yesterday, this morning it has dried and looked like this...


I rubbed the primer down with 2000grit and wiped iut down with a MF cloth and some methelated spirits...


And put down the basecoat ready for a few more layers of metropolis blue and then a laqure


I'm hoping to create a system thats easilly removeable, but more on that in the next week or two

Originally Posted by 3-12-2010

Right another pointless update...
Yesterday I give the amp cover a few more coats of colour...


Then today I gave it another coat of colour...


Then while waiting for that to dry I decided considering I can't shift the alloys I have, I'm goign to refurb them and stick them on the Focus...
Before...



Give them a quick clean and started putting some filler in the kerb marks...


Then by the time I did that the basecoat was tacky and I stuck a few coats of laqure on...



Also sanded down the screws that I filled and got them in primer...


Also the cover for the amp has to be slid back in through little gaps in the lid... it's going to be a tight squeeze I think...


Also I found a new lambda sensor with the plug on for £45 or without the plug for £35?? But they wanted to know the size of it... After jacking up the car... i realise dit was accessable from the top of the engine ...

Originally Posted by 3-12-2010

Didn't realise I was going to get much else done today... So for another update
After I primed the bolts I pushed them into the work bench and painted them matt black



Started sanding down the alloy...


Also decided to grind down the numbers on the alloy...



Anyway finished the amp, smeared some copper grease on the edges of the panel and slid it in with a little vibration...


Some of thescrews chipped which is annoying, so waiting until the Laquer has hardend and then going to remove them and maybe look at getting something else to replace them, or just paint them better

Originally Posted by 5-12-2010

Right feeling allot better about this engine now
Noticed this morning when you switch the car on it blows light blue smoke for about 5-10 seconds, after that it goes back to the grey smoke that it always chucks out!
This tells me that the valve stems are slightly worn and letting some oil in while the engines switched off This is pretty good news, aslong as I keep an eye on it, it should be alright! When it does get bad it's easier to find a new head and have it rebuilt and stick it on.
The grey smoke I think is somehow down to the fueling, there are no other headgasket signs! The water level stays the same and the theres no mayo in the oil!
The oil I THINK has a petrol smell to it, though I'm not 100% sure. This could be down to the start/stop driving the cars had most of it's life (Current oil is about 6months/6k old) or the overfueling could be washing the bores. If it is washing the bores then I need to be worried, this means the oil is being diluted with petrol, also means that the oil burning is worse than I think as the petrol would be topping it up.

Other than that the oil is a nice colour and it's used this much oil in 484miles...




Also this is the colour my calipers are going...

Originally Posted by 9-12-2010

Anyway I was getting fed up with having no CD player and really wanting my radio from the Pug... so I went to spares world and picked up a Sony stereo ont he cheap. It was an Ex Display refurbished model.
I brought it home and set about changing the radio over...



Love finding build dates


Put the blank in...


And put the new radio in which tunes straight to BBC Somerset?


Tha plan is to put this radio in the Peugeot and get my good sony radio back.

I then tested the sub box out for size...


I wanted to mount the amp straight on the back of the box but I had an issue...

If I mounted it straight on these it would short them out ??

So found some spacers


I put routed the cable nicley and put a hook on the box to hold it to the box...


Mounted the amp...



Fitted the sub...


And tried it out for size again


Chuffed to bits with it

Then brought it into the warm

Originally Posted by 13-12-2010

Pulled the sparkplugs out and on one of them got greeted with this...

I shit myself for a split second then realised when I filled up with oil I got some in the spark plug gutter after my Dad scared me
After some oil dripped in the cylinder while I had the plug out I had to take the car for a thrash to clear the blue smoke screen

And got this done today too


Still got a few things to do but it works