RIP 2011-2014 Skymera's K11

[skymera]

(thread title fail)

Hi all

Here's my K11. Bought for £575. Covered 76k miles and it's a tidy 1.0

So far:

- Corsa C front coilovers (£50)
- Polo 6n rear coilovers (£0 )
- Lowered approx 140mm
- GA16 Airbox and CAI pipe.
- De-stickered
- Pressed metal plates
- Tinted all round
- Coilpack centre pipe, standard back box
- Full decat
- Euro rear light
- Adjustable rear panhard rod, cheers Noddie !
- Tinted front lights
- EBC GreenStuff brake pads
- 4-2-1 Manifold
- 13x7.5J and 13x8.5J banded steels

To do:

- Some other niggles like dents and scratches.

First 2 pics are kinda old hence the stickers and stuff. Wheels are obv standard 13's

I'm currently studying Cisco CCNA at Open University and am also a part time pizza delivery driver!

 

[r-reg-sr]

tidy look n color

 

[Delboy84]

clean a simple looks are always the best.i like it

 

[euro_micra]

Looks very good! I especially like the look of the smooth grill combined with the black bumpers.
Banded steels, and demudflaped would make it perfect and complete imo. 2nd best blue micra in the uk with the removal of the sunstrip and toe-eye-toy of course

 

[markbognor]

Love the smoothed front panel - are you going to take it all the way? Please do!


I've just got so excited about your car - It's probably not your style at all but I'm imagining a met blue K11 super smoothed, with white scallops and moon discs and white band tyres.

Please make it so........

 

[skymera]

Thanks for replies

Trying to keep it simple. I love clean looking cars so trying to get this as clean as possible!

- Smooth bumpers (But i'd love to keep the basic plastic look rather than car paint coloured)
- Wheels (humm, 13x7 and 13x8 banded steels?) Though slot mags look quite nice and are very reasonably priced.

Moon discs? I have those small nissan centre caps, I'd love for those to be 13" rim size and totally smooth!
I'll get some more pics today

 

[europug]

Looks nice , you can smooth your bumpers and still have a plastic look . There are plastic coloured paints that are designed to repair plastic bumpers .
2 stage kit , first stage is a texture paint that matches the existing bumpers texture , 2nd is the colour coat.
Would need to go to either a bodyshop or paint suppliers to get the right texture and colour required .

 

[autotest]

looking good.....

 

[skymera]

Looks like i'm gonna get some mini lites

13x7 with rubber! Hoping to get the cash saved sharpish

also some more pics up, nothing spesh

 

[skymera]

Valeted in and out for £15

 

[johnbr6]

You gonna de-bump strip it?

 

[SK193]

Looks really nice how dark is the tint on your front windows?

 

[skymera]

Bump strips are next to do

Gonna set aside a nice sunny day to do them.

@SK193 - They're not that dark, just look darker in the picture :/

 

[skymera]

Got a Zafira splitter fitted today

Bit of a pig to fit, but looks ok

 

[davey1991]

Zafira splitter suits it alot.

 

[skymera]

Got a bit bored today. Ignore dirty car

 

[r-reg-sr]

cutting edge mate,,,,,,,,,,,,,,got any pics of your rear coilies set up

 

[skymera]

Aye I've got some but i'll take a photo of the bottom mount so you can see it's cut offset

 

[skymera]

Ok here is the right and left, you can see how it's cut offset, but not cut down into the weld, just cut down to the weld. The weld isn't modified.
Big pics so you can see R-REG-SR

Nothing is bent, it's just a funny angle where I was lying on the ground

 

[r-reg-sr]

look straight ,taa

 

[skymera]

So my diff finally caked it. Reversing it was like someone yanked the handbrake up... and driving forwards gave an awful noise

Fitted the gearbox yesterday, bit of a pig. Took me and 1 other friend 6 hours to do! Thrust bearing kept popping out of place as we were trying to wiggle the new box onto the splines. A nut for the lower arm ball joint also got stuck which took a long time to free.

Some downsides to it, seems a complete twonk removed the box from another Micra. 1 rear box mount has a bolt snapped in it so I only have 2 bolts holding it in and a the gear receiver fork thing was badly bent and required a hammer to straighten it...seems they dropped it. Though could have been damaged in transit.

But the trickiest bit was getting the oil back into this box. Gearbox oil smells and we had to get it down into the speedo hole. hmmm, this required some creativity!
As you can see below we made a DIY drip for the oil Mess free and about 2.5L took 10mins or so to drip through

So next on my list is to get my water pump replaced and the belt replaced. Seems the bearing or something is making a noise on every rotation, not loud but sounds crap.
My timing chain is also very rattly when starting the car and for 5 seconds or so when engine is running, any chance of the chain slipping? Hoping it's just noise.

 

[frank]

those 3 rearmount bolts are critcal, ask davey (and others)

 

[skymera]

oh shhhhh sugar! We've got 2 in nice and tight. I have 30days to get it swapped. But it's a PITA. Off to work now but i'll keep and eye on this!

 

[skymera]

Horizontal panhard rod...

 

[Dougyledds]

Horizontal panhard rod...

Join the crew brother!

 

[skymera]

So i've had cherrybomb on a day. Oh yeah, boss mounting. Not the final product.
Cherrybomb will replace centre cat then it'll be a straight 2" pipe out the side.

 

[Jay101]

Haha dont worry mate mines held on with photoframe wire

 

[skymera]

New tensioner fitted, here's the old one

 

[Harlen]

New tensioner fitted, here's the old one

Glad you got it sorted dude, can see why you had a problem

 

[frank]

wow ! twas bad eh

 

[skymera]

wow ! twas bad eh

Yeah cheers for sorting that one out.

No more engine rattle and much quieter

 

[markbognor]

Think its fair to say that one was worn out!

 

[templar2k5]

Is it hard to fit a new tensioner? I think that is what's packing up on my mate's Micra.

 

[skymera]

Simple to fit.

Jack under the engine, remove engine mount. Undo the dozen or so 10mm bolts and prise the side panel off.

Undo the 2 10mm bolts holding the tensioner in and carefully remove. Fit new tensioner carefully. Will need you pressing down on the tensioner for it to slide in place. replace both bolts and tighten to secure the tensioner.

Apply some sealant to the side panel, fit back on and replace all the bolts. Reattach engine mount and job done

 

[templar2k5]

Simple to fit.

Jack under the engine, remove engine mount. Undo the dozen or so 10mm bolts and prise the side panel off.

Undo the 2 10mm bolts holding the tensioner in and carefully remove. Fit new tensioner carefully. Will need you pressing down on the tensioner for it to slide in place. replace both bolts and tighten to secure the tensioner.

Apply some sealant to the side panel, fit back on and replace all the bolts. Reattach engine mount and job done

Er, I'll get a proper "grease monkey" to do it, I think!

EDIT: I wouldn't even know what to undo! (Even though you've told me as well, doh!)

 

[skymera]

Er, I'll get a proper "grease monkey" to do it, I think!

EDIT: I wouldn't even know what to undo! (Even though you've told me as well, doh!)

ah ok, if you pop the bonnet and look on the left hand side of the engine you'll see a black flat plate with a dozen bolts. It's that
Hope you get it sorted

Anyway gave the rocker cover bit of a sanding the other day, hoping to get it ready for paint pretty soon but now has a much nicer look.
Was thinking TJ4 blue, same as the car and the Nissan Twin Cam text sanded down to metal? Or perhaps the opposite.

 

[skymera]

So the tensioner is sorted but I'm still concerned over the noise it's making.

Here's a quick vid, the noise sounds a LOT worse on the vid than in real life.

http://db.tt/1hFza0hm

Gonna lift the cam cover tomorrow just to check everything is ok with that new tensioner. I remember it was dead silent when I fitted it, hmmm.

 

[skymera]

Got the horn button on the dash...

 

[skymera]

Some more self whoring pics. Lights tinted, grille removed to be redone with fibreglass

 

[skymera]

New adjustable panhard rod fitted, cheers Noddie!

Bit of a pig to remove!

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[Dougyledds]

Nice one mate, noticeable difference? you need to get a vid up of how that side 'zost sounds!

 

[skymera]

Haven't driven it since, I'll let you know. Still needs a little adjusting, clever bit of kit and very well made.

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[skymera]

Video here, recorded on my phone. Quality is pretty poor and sounds pretty awful tbh

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[skymera]

So my rear number plate boot plastic fell off again, this time pulling away one of the two screws actually holding it on.

Time to bust out the zippy tie. Oh yes, man's best friend is not the dog, it's the zip tie.
Used a heated screwdriver to make holes where the bolts should be on the boot trim, then I fed an intricate
series of zip ties through and pulled them tight and voila!
Isn't perfect, but it's on there pretty sturdy and will do so long as no one opens the boot with it!

Also done my bi-monthly flax oiling.

 

[Dougyledds]

Nice one mate, seems that exhaust sounds like its blowing abit? or is it just the vid? no rasp?

 

[skymera]

New pads arrived and fitted from Henryb102 cheers dude! Being easy on them to bed them in. About 300miles to bed them in fully?
Also tried to fabricate an exhaust hanger, once again busted out the zip ties.

 

[r-reg-sr]

wow cars really heading in the right direction (for a while now)
some on here wanna live and die by the zip tie

 

[Jay101]

I've been told 500miles for bedding in . But hey ho...just brake softly

 

[r-reg-sr]

yeh i heard use em normal

 

[Jay101]

Where did u stick ur horn? I didn't realise they were flippin huge!! Lol I have a habit for mistaken sizes (ie my exhaust)