Hoodedreeper's K11 RELOADED!!

[hoodedreeper]

Tbh i done the bonnet raisers for the look,rather than the cooling side of things,every night i get atleast 10+ people come upto me and say my bonnet is open! So i tell them if i bonnet is open it'd be open from the other end!

RS Turbos originally had them on so i got told,thats where the idea came from.I bought these off my friend who had them on his Escort,so he probs got the idea from the Ford club or something. Cost me 10 quid.

@Antony: It was seeing pictures of Your car that inspired me to have them! The Black,Silver & White stripes really gets the red off and they're not OTT. Plus...its not as if we live near each other anyway

 

[squarepants]

lol ive been out side doing my bonnet just got 2 quite thick washers and 2 diffrent new bolts with a longer thraed, works fine...tbh ive done it because of the look, but if anyone asks its for cooling performance what does your bonnet rasier kit consit of?

 

[hoodedreeper]

It consisted of 2 polished blocks (not sure what they're made from) with 2 oval holes both ends (where the bolts go through) and 4 bolts. But the bolts were too small for my bonnet so bought some M8x40 and M8x70 bolts.The rear bolts are too long so need to get some M8x60

 

[Anto Modded]

Car is looking great, where did you get the 3 point harness's and how much if you dont mind me asking, ive a set of sparco recliners. They have the holes behind the head but not in the sides, wonder would the type of harness's you have still work.

 

[hoodedreeper]

Probs still work but would go over the sides rather than through the holes. They dont have a company/make/brand on them which is good cos i prefer them plain. Believe they cost me about 38quid each from a local tuning company

 

[Anto Modded]

Sounds like a good price

 

[hoodedreeper]

Mine are 3 point harnesses as they fitted easier rather than trying to sort out bolt holes for 4 point harnesses or more

 

[squarepants]

4-points just bolt down in the same places, ive bolted mine to the rear wheel arch where the rear seat belt bolted to and one to the rear floor where the buckle bolted to... before i just had my 3-point bolted at ither postion, when i had my interior in i had it on teh wheel arch as it was easier...

 

[Nis]

We had the bonnet on the turbo washered up at the back. It wasn't for cooling but because the front of the bonnet was rubbing in the oil feed pipe to the turbo. Think we used about half a dozen standard flat washers each side. We still had to remove the strenghner and smack the bonnet with a lump hammer for it to clear!!!

Ivan

 

[joesouthgate]

nice vid on youtube hoody btw : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-jHL1IpsAxo

 

[hoodedreeper]

Got my exhaust fitted,massive thanks goes to Fast Eddy for supplying it!

Ashley De-Cat system (from manifold all the way back )

And as moddedmicra kindly beaten me to it,i've also done a new video!

Heres abit of an update that has been deleted due to the hack (before the exhaust got fitted)

9th July 08
Had my Rolling Road today at Clive Atthowe,heres some pics of it on the rollers:

Heres what your eager to see:

76.2bhp @ Engine
73.3 Lbft Torque

So for a 9 year old car to loose 2.8bhp is pretty damn good IMO,guys at Clive Atthowes were impressed with the figures though it was running standard.

20th July 08

Heres an update,had my alloys refurbed & resprayed,grille painted gloss black,colour coded door handles

27th July 08

New LED Rear Lights

3rd August 08

Painted calipers

Tidied up the engine bay & fitted hoses and painted rocker cover

16th August 08

Lowering springs (P.I -35mm springs) fitted and settled

BEFORE

AFTER

 

[hoodedreeper]

Not much of an update just some recent pics:

 

[joesouthgate]

so are ye keeping the bonnet spacers on now, i prefer it without i think.

 

[hoodedreeper]

I only put them on for Trax and havent had time to take them off yet. I'm still in 2 minds whether or not i should keep them on. Only takes 5 mins to put them on/take off anyway

Next thing on my to-do list is:

Colour Code bumpers
de-bump strip
false rear floor

 

[joesouthgate]

sounds like a plan, i'm doing a false floor soon aswell.

 

[b47to]

when i put my raisers on when i open the bonnet it rubs on the wing and scraps the paint off do you have any probably with this ?

n i personally like the raisers how big are they and do you only need 2 ?

 

[squarepants]

i had the problem of it rubbing on the wing aswell!

 

[Lucky_Nava]

RS Turbos originally had them on so i got told,thats where the idea came from.

Originally came from the air cooled VW scene. People used to fit longer hingebolts and spacer washers to the engine lid on the back of VW Beetles to allow extra airflow and keep things cool. A lot of jap tuners do the same thing on Evo and Skyline bonnets now for pretty much the same reasons

 

[hoodedreeper]

Nope no scrubbing/rubbing on mine Think mine are about 1inch high? Aint really measured them tbh!

 

[b47to]

when you bought your speedo bulbs how many did you need to buy ?

 

[hoodedreeper]

False floor is now carpetted (if thats a word? lol) Will fix to the car tomorrow and get some pics up

With Regards to the dial bulbs i only needed 4 but had to buy 10,but always good to keep spares cos in my Green K11 i managed to drop a couple down behind the dash....oops!

 

[Optispart]

The car looks awesome what happened to the induction kit?

 

[hoodedreeper]

I got a replacement performance panel filter from work and the car performs alot better with that than the cone filter.I've got a cold air feed running from the bottom of the car (about a foot from the front splitter) directly to the air box.

Rear floor is now done,sorry for the crap pics i used my phone:

 

[Robb]

That false floor looks ace! lol is that a brass hinge? Looks very good like it.

 

[Optispart]

where did u get your front splitter from or the rear for that matter lol
looks awesome

 

[hoodedreeper]

thanks Yeah thats a hinge in the middle to help attach both pieces (only thing i could really think of that made it quick and easy to remove both pieces)

The front splitter is from a Renault Laguna (about 15 quid from the Main Dealer) and the rear splitter is from a Seat Ibiza

 

[jim_bling]

im liking it fella looks smart as

 

[hoodedreeper]

i'll get some better pics of the floor this weekend when i'm at the Donny Show

 

[joesouthgate]

looks tidy mate, should be soing mine soon.

 

[Simonh]

mate im so jealous this car is coming on nicely =]

 

[b47to]

i like the false floor did you diy it your self ?

 

[pjg1979]

Good Job on the False floor Hoods, How's the car coming along since the micra skipping across the lake incident?

Might have to do the splitter idea myself as I don't want to lower my Micra but I want to stiffer the suspension.

 

[hoodedreeper]

The Micra is back! Whoop!

False floor was completely DIY with the help from my Dad Took abit of time to do but results are deff worth it!

 

[frank]

hoodedreeper

nice one
have you done a post mortem on the old one ? , bent conrod ?

 

[hoodedreeper]

Nah i havent but i'm 85% sure the conrods are bent

Infact i was gonna post up a For Sale topic to see if anyone wanted anything from it i.e rocker cover etc etc

 

[joesouthgate]

Good stuff Hoody!

 

[hoodedreeper]

I was hoping the Air Con would have been removed (like i asked) but it got left in. No biggy,just need to work around getting a strut brace on. (I know MPH sells one that fits )

 

[hoodedreeper]

Done some photo whoring yesterday:

 

[Clairemad]

very.nice.Chris

 

[squarepants]

erm, why the standard seats seats back in? lol

 

[Optispart]

looks hot!

 

[hoodedreeper]

Where the side bit of the seat is,its wearing reaaaaaaally badly and theres a big hole starting to appear where the fabric and padding has worn away. I removed them and put my standard seats in for 'winter seats' so i can keep the buckets in decent condition for next year's shows

 

[Tom Messy]

Have you got any pics of making the floor? It looks really good and I want to do that once I have tints to hide my audio etc.

Tom

 

[Stani1029]

if you were a budding joiner like me then you could have hidden that hinge

 

[hoodedreeper]

I could have but never mind!

Nah i dont have any pics of the progress of building the floor sorry!

 

[squarepants]

Where the side bit of the seat is,its wearing reaaaaaaally badly and theres a big hole starting to appear where the fabric and padding has worn away.

lol my seat is the same, its worn through in places. doesnt bother me really tho, i want it re-trimmed all in black instead of grey and black they look so much better... bit of a pointless slightley of topic rant lol...

ermmmm...

car looks good

 

[hoodedreeper]

The cost of getting them re-fabricated is probs about the same to buy a new set!

 

[hoodedreeper]

Had her Dyno'd at Clive Atthowes again today to see what gains i've got with the panel filter and de-cat exhaust system:

Standard (previous) : 76.2bhp
NOW : 83.4bhp

Standard (previous) : 73.3ftlb
NOW : 75.9ftlb

And heres the graph comparing both dynos:

 

[Optispart]

nice car looks sweet aswell!

 

[b47to]

nice result

i also think painting ur front lights black would finish the front end off but thats just me sticking my nose in

where did you get your front fogs from ?