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Rufus ''The Red'' (THE DUKE) improvement thread.

No holes for the back of the air dam thing?
 

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looks to me like a replacement that has a hard life! Hopefully it was replaced because of too much stone damage for a bumper of the right colour (cheaper option) as against front end collision damage. You could replace the centre blank with mesh,personally I think it looks better, but each to their own. I fell into the extra cooling trap and fitted the third radiator and mesh only to be advised that the third rad actually makes the engine hotter! Search posts by Baz to explain why/how. :oops:
 
I'll check in the morning for metal damage but I didn't see anything obvious tonight.
Had the wheels aligned today, the back ones were quite out!

Cheers,


Stoddy :thumbs:
 

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Suns out bumpers off?

Just finished my DIY grill kit. Blimey, no one said it'd be easy!
To be fair, the hardest part was making the template for the mesh to be cut round. I used some Gorilla adhesive to blob the tabs down on the grills. Also cut the bottom corners out of the rad cowls.
All went back together easily as I labelled everything that came off!


Stoddy.
 

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Looking good Stoddy I just done the same with my turbo in regards the mesh all these you tube vids saying its an hours work are having a laugh,car coming along nicely :thumb:
 
Gazc2 said:
Looking good Stoddy I just done the same with my turbo in regards the mesh all these you tube vids saying its an hours work are having a laugh,car coming along nicely :thumb:
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Ha! They also seem to never have seized bolts or rounded nuts!
To be honest, it was quite straight forward, if not a little fiddly. The YouTube community is just awesome for information like this forum.

Still, saved myself way over a hundred quid, so that can go towards a car cover me thinks!



:thumbs: :thumbs:
 
THE DUKE Update.

Centre Gravity are awesome. Car feels 100% planted now.
The guys there are super friendly and enthusiastic, but above all, their knowledge is unbelievable.
The car felt a bit twitchy when I got it, under steering and a couple of intermittent rattles, nothing that made it bad to drive, but lacked something that my 996 had.
After Pete at CG got his hands on it, the car was transformed in to a weapon!

New Eibach Lowering Springs, new lower ball joint, new top mounts, bearings and stoppers, toe arm, and a pair of front discs ( the car came with skimmed discs which were below the minimum thickness recommended but looked new to me!) Bit naughty of the garage that one.

Anyway, I've done a couple of runs up my favourite road, ie, driven from South Wales to Manchester via the A470 a couple of times and it's just amazing!

Can't wait for my sports exhaust, new speakers and Red centre console now!

I can't recommend CG enough.
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A470
 

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Good to hear... booked in with CG next Friday for a geo. :Dance-Tap:
 
Get them wheels spacered out stoddy to finish the look.

15mm rear 7mm front. :thumb:
 
I've got the 7's on the front now, but 15's on the back!!!???
It'll look like a funny car then won't it!? Won't I be rubbing the rim? 😐 :floor:
 
Stoddy said:
Suns out bumpers off?

Just finished my DIY grill kit. Blimey, no one said it'd be easy!
To be fair, the hardest part was making the template for the mesh to be cut round. I used some Gorilla adhesive to blob the tabs down on the grills. Also cut the bottom corners out of the rad cowls.
All went back together easily as I labelled everything that came off!


Stoddy.
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Looks great. Nice job!
 
Stoddy said:
I've got the 7's on the front now, but 15's on the back!!!???
It'll look like a funny car then won't it!? Won't I be rubbing the rim? 😐 :floor:
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Its quite common to put 15mm spacers on the rear , it looks like it will rub but infact due to the arch being already rolled at the top and the camber pulling the top in it doesn't actually rub. :thumb: :thumb:
 
Does it not need re aligning or anything then?
I don't really want to do another alignment. 🤔

Cheers.
 
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