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Now i can ruin my rear hatch by drilling holes in it. 
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All fitted and bolted in place.
I'm pleased with it; the MS Design stuff fits really well (same German company that made my sideskirts).
So i just need to remove it and paint the holes to stop rust forming. Once the PU adhesive arrives i'll refit it all back permanently.
That is one heavy rear hatch now. It still stays up though due to the angle when it's fully opened so that's a bonus, i thought it wouldn't.
I'm pleased with it; the MS Design stuff fits really well (same German company that made my sideskirts).
So i just need to remove it and paint the holes to stop rust forming. Once the PU adhesive arrives i'll refit it all back permanently.
That is one heavy rear hatch now. It still stays up though due to the angle when it's fully opened so that's a bonus, i thought it wouldn't.
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New winter tyres just arrived. these are for the other Micra though. All the way from Germany and still cheaper than the UK?
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New winter tyres just arrived. these are for the other Micra though. All the way from Germany and still cheaper than the UK?
How much were they?
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That's pretty good is that for 4? Or a pair, I got mine via Amazon and those were conti eco contact 5 at £44 each give or take and were by far the cheapest for them ,and were only a month or two old
Are they recent dates as well?
Are they recent dates as well?
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Week 34/18 is the date. The price is for a pair.
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So I got bored with my black clocks and thought I'll swap them over for my green ones with blue lighting.
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I've had a spare wraparound spoiler for a while now that got damaged in the post. Thought I better fix it and get it sorted.
3-4in break.
A bit of fibreglass required. I also injected some resin into the break.
All done. Just needs a tiny bit of filler, sanding then I'll primer it. Good as new.
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3-4in break.
A bit of fibreglass required. I also injected some resin into the break.
All done. Just needs a tiny bit of filler, sanding then I'll primer it. Good as new.
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Love the rear mid spoiler, where'd you find it? been hunting for one forever!
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A guy was selling it on Facebook, and as with most Micra owners, no one wanted to pay anything for it. Think I payed £80 for it.
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Is that wire also related to the speed limiter? and there is another feed from speed sensor to speedo so you don't lose the speedometer if you do disconnect the former? The Haynes manual isn't good enough for me to work it out (well not for me at least) ta
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No. It's solely for the idle increase. The limiter will be taken from the crank sensor.
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Thanks, ah I'm forgetting yours is a coil-pack and I'm on a dizzy.
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It's the same idea with yours, just substitute my crank sensor for your dizzy.
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Is there a way of using this to make the engine idle at this higher speed all the time? I have tried forcing the speedo to stay at 20mph or above but the idle stays the same.
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First of all you're trying to trick Nissans ecu and it's quite clever. It's PID closed loop settings will always try to reach a set rpm at idle. Even if you introduce a small air leak it'll compensate to a degree. You need to go standalone really so then you've got full control over your engine.
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Maybe you could use the aircon input into your ecu to give you an increased idle. Just a thought.
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Won't that be the rev limiter rather than the speedometer triggered 120 mph limiter?
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Sorry had rev limiter in my head. Just disconnect the wire from the instrument cluster to the ecu for the speed sense and see if you can go over 120.
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Ours is an early non-NATs car which didn't have A/C do all ECU's have A/C control?
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I don't know whether they all had them and it was left redundant. I'll have a look through some of my wiring diagrams when I get chance. Can you not just adjust it with the throttle stop as a temporary measure.
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How come you don't go standalone ecu seeing as your racing it?
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I don't suppose you know the colour do you? and I ask more for those with the Micra set-up in a Mini or Midas in my case (if I ever manage the conversion that is) running smaller wheels and an uncorrected speed signal. Although correcting the speed signal would still give a true top speed of a limited 120 mph I guess.
So there is a separate wire from from the speed sensor to speedo, and another back to the ECU? in other words can you disconnect one and still retain a working speedo? thanks
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Yes there is a separate wire. Pin18 of the instrument cluster is the signal from the gbox speed sensor. Pin16, a purple wire is the one back to the ecu. If you disconnect this purple wire either at the ecu or the instrument cluster you'll still have a working speedometer.
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We run Nistune piggy back, I have tried altering the idle point in the software but it makes no difference.
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So I've removed the Megasquirt ecu to do some additional modifications to it.
Internal clock, and knock sensors to be fitted.
Internal clock, and knock sensors to be fitted.
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The car is going into storage at the beginning of next year due to work commitments.
It'll be back in 2020 though.
It'll be back in 2020 though.
Any tips for disassembling the mirrors? I'm wanting to paint mine now, but I'm concerned about breaking something.Stripped them down to work out which wires go where.
Connector wiring. Without the power fold wires.
Also easier to have painted if I don't think they look OK against my black car.
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These ones aren't from a Micra so they come apart slightly differently. I can't remember exactly other than the Micra ones pull off from the outside edge and these I think unclipped from the top edge. The car is in storage now so I can't check.
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Got it. Will have a go.
Mine are the same, they're those chrome ones. They've also got another layer of casing around the outside with an indicator lens.
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Hi @Agent_Sm1th, just had a read though your blog and I got to say, your micra is incredible. Just wondering if there has been any updates with the turbo setup.
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I'm afraid there are no updates on the turbo setup or anything else with regards the car, as I'm currently living/working abroad. It is still very much alive and running fine. When I return full-time to the UK I'll start working on it again.
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Time to start work on her again.
Off with the old dampers and lowering spring assembly.
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Off with the old dampers and lowering spring assembly.
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Time to start work on her again.
Off with the old dampers and lowering spring assembly.
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Nice to see you working on the car again, what setup you going to run?
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On with the new BC Coilovers.
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On with the new BC Coilovers.
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Damn, that's going to be a massive upgrade mate
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The new coilovers are superb. I have got them set full soft though.
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Time for a couple of rear tyres. Hadn't realised mine were barely legal. 
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Time for a couple of rear tyres. Hadn't realised mine were barely legal.
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Nice, which tyres you getting?
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Toyo Proxes that I had spare on a couple of steelies for now.
Nice, I'm thinking about getting toyo proxes cf2's for mine as they are apparently decent both in the wet and dry
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Wheel alignment after fitting the BC Coilovers.
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Now that the black car is on coilovers. I might as well put the old lowering springs on the spare car.
Off to the alignment centre again.
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Off to the alignment centre again.
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Added some connectors from the wideband to the Megasquirt ecu. Something I'd been meaning to do for ages but never got round to.
Also needed to fix the rear wiper as the rains have now arrived.
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Also needed to fix the rear wiper as the rains have now arrived.
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