What'd you do to your car this week/weekend?

Furai · Post by **Furai** » Fri Jan 18, 2013 9:13 pm

siren676 wrote:Got a windscreen mount for my dslr and took it for a test drive to see how still it held the camera.
Result was not very still. This is the youtube stabilised video.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q-JhNd9r6zQ

Have you seen my camera mount? Works great, I think your main issue is the weight of the camera.

siren676 · Post by **siren676** » Fri Jan 18, 2013 9:29 pm

Nope haven't seen your setup, I want to use my dslr as my other cameras crap at filming at night.

This is the mount i got.

Snapfrozen · Post by **Snapfrozen** » Fri Jan 18, 2013 9:52 pm

Too many points it can swivel from. Try and get one that locks firmly and is designed to hold approx 3kg. 1 swivel point if possible

siren676 · Post by **siren676** » Fri Jan 18, 2013 10:39 pm

I bought the mount for the cruise on sunday. I'll have a play around with the positioning of the mount and see if i can get it any better.

Ideally i would have got a rollbar mount but im missing 1 key necessity for that

SLYDIT · Post by **SLYDIT** » Fri Jan 18, 2013 11:17 pm

siren676 wrote: Ideally i would have got a rollbar mount but im missing 1 key necessity for that

Velcro?

Mr. Shine · Post by **Mr. Shine** » Fri Jan 18, 2013 11:59 pm

Bwarp wrote:excellent choice. OEM+ for the win. especially on a honda

Yeah, it's nice I can get away with doing so and still end up with forged, lightweight wheels! And despite the offsets being 55 and 65 front and rear respectively they still fill out the guards well enough for my tastes.

siren676 · Post by **siren676** » Tue Jan 22, 2013 5:53 pm

SLYDIT wrote:
siren676 wrote: Ideally i would have got a rollbar mount but im missing 1 key necessity for that
Velcro?

Nah a rollbar.
Remedied this issue today by picking myself up Born_disturbed's old rollbar

Furai · Post by **Furai** » Tue Jan 22, 2013 6:56 pm

Picked up my now painted spoiler and saw a nice looking/sounding NC with Aston style grill.

Bwarp · Post by **Bwarp** » Wed Jan 23, 2013 11:20 am

Im still well keen on a tidy NC with power HT. Mmmm maybe my new year resolution?

chris · Post by **chris** » Wed Jan 23, 2013 11:22 am

Bwarp wrote:Im still well keen on a tidy NC with power HT. Mmmm maybe my new year resolution?

Auto one on TM 14k.

Furai · Post by **Furai** » Wed Jan 23, 2013 11:36 am

You could import a manual one for less.

Mr. Shine · Post by **Mr. Shine** » Wed Jan 23, 2013 11:42 am

I was certainly considering an NC when I was looking for my NA's replacement. I'm not going to go into comparisons with what I ended up with, as I spent far more than I would have on an NC, but certainly with some of the prices people are asking on Trade Me I'd rather get an S2000 for comparable money locally, or as Furai says, import one for far less!

punkoutnz · Post by **punkoutnz** » Wed Jan 23, 2013 12:25 pm

Those NCs are balla, but I dunno. Those S2ks are also a pretty epic piece of kit.

Furai · Post by **Furai** » Wed Jan 23, 2013 1:56 pm

Got Ducktail fitted and then spent the next hour with a bowl of Cheesecake, Mudcake and Ice cream admiring.

Will get pics up tomorrow. Or for those coming to Oldschool will get to see it tonight.

Kieran · Post by **Kieran** » Wed Jan 23, 2013 2:32 pm

what times the oldschool meet?

punkoutnz · Post by **punkoutnz** » Wed Jan 23, 2013 2:51 pm

7.30pm onwards at the carpark behind Burgerfuel in Ellerslie. You've been there once before KJ.

chris · Post by **chris** » Wed Jan 23, 2013 4:58 pm

KJ has very short term memory..

Sorry guys, would join. But the squats call!

Bwarp · Post by **Bwarp** » Wed Jan 23, 2013 6:06 pm

chris wrote:
Bwarp wrote:Im still well keen on a tidy NC with power HT. Mmmm maybe my new year resolution?
Auto one on TM 14k.

Autos are for virgins.

There's a manual one (non hardtop for like 15k) on there somewhere.

Would prefer an NZ new one to be honest though. Imports are sketchy.

SkilletKid · Post by **SkilletKid** » Wed Jan 23, 2013 7:51 pm

Hey all, kinda new to the forum. Long time listener, first time caller type thing.

Changed diff fluid yesterday on my 91 NA6 =]
Started spraying CRC on to the bottom shock bolts in prep of replacing the shocks with some HSD coilovers.

Mr. Shine · Post by **Mr. Shine** » Wed Jan 23, 2013 9:20 pm

SkilletKid wrote:Hey all, kinda new to the forum. Long time listener, first time caller type thing.

Changed diff fluid yesterday on my 91 NA6 =]
Started spraying CRC on to the bottom shock bolts in prep of replacing the shocks with some HSD coilovers.

Hardest bit to remove I found was the long bolts for the upper wishbone, I'd definitely give them a good pre-soaking!

SkilletKid · Post by **SkilletKid** » Wed Jan 23, 2013 10:19 pm

Mr. Shine wrote: Hardest bit to remove I found was the long bolts for the upper wishbone, I'd definitely give them a good pre-soaking!

Didn't think I'd need to remove the upper wishbone? Thought I could get away with just unbolting the swaybar link and levering the whole lower wishbone down.

Do need to get some spring compressors for this I think

siren676 · Post by **siren676** » Wed Jan 23, 2013 10:27 pm

You'd need a lot of leverage to remove the front shocks like that. Easiest method is to remove the long bolts as long as you have a big enough socket or spanner

Furai · Post by **Furai** » Wed Jan 23, 2013 11:05 pm

Nah thats way hard, I can swap mine out super fast.

There is a hole in the bottom arm, slide a big bar(1M is enough) or rod/tube into that and get one to stand on it while you remove the shock. I usually find standing on it first with all your weight and then bouncing a little.

Getting them back in is super easy. If you need any help I certainly can.

Kieran · Post by **Kieran** » Thu Jan 24, 2013 10:00 am

chris wrote:KJ has very short term memory..

Sorry guys, would join. But the squats call!

Im not even going to argue this I was going to go...
But I forgot it was on as soon as I got home last night

Mr. Shine · Post by **Mr. Shine** » Thu Jan 24, 2013 12:37 pm

SkilletKid wrote:
Mr. Shine wrote: Hardest bit to remove I found was the long bolts for the upper wishbone, I'd definitely give them a good pre-soaking!
Didn't think I'd need to remove the upper wishbone? Thought I could get away with just unbolting the swaybar link and levering the whole lower wishbone down.

Do need to get some spring compressors for this I think

You don't need spring compressors using the long bolt removal method, and you only need to remove the long bolt for getting the front shocks out; rears pop out nice and easy without!

Furai wrote:Nah thats way hard, I can swap mine out super fast.

There is a hole in the bottom arm, slide a big bar(1M is enough) or rod/tube into that and get one to stand on it while you remove the shock. I usually find standing on it first with all your weight and then bouncing a little.

Does that not require spring compressors? I know I certainly find them a pain in the ass to use!

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