All Things Mk5 > Members Rides
LC5F's Graphite Blue GTI - Pilgrimage to Caffeine & Machine
LC5F:
--- Quote from: Kebab Spider on July 21, 2020, 11:29:24 pm ---How long did your coilovers take to arrive from Italy btw?
--- End quote ---
Considering what was going on in Italy at the time - delivery was really quick
I ordered on 8th of March & it arrived on 17th
Seems they aren't dropshippers, it was a stock item shipped from Palma.
Tracking was good, they got it from Palma to Milan in a day or 2, then sat a few days, suddenly it was at my door in Scotland - its a great deal
LC5F:
Finally got round to sorting out my off side flexi pipe holder, the old one sheared off with rust -I submitting the temporary fix below as part of my cable-tio-logy:
Doing an engine bay check topping up fluids, oil was yet again off the dip stick -I still cant understand why my Mk4 would tell me its low and the Mk5 doesn't? - I spotted these:
Seems a rodent found some pistachios and decided to carry them all the way up to the valve cover to dine, hope they didn't try cable insulation for desert:
terrier:
"P" clips are ideal for the brake lines :happy2:
LC5F:
--- Quote from: terrier on July 29, 2020, 07:06:31 pm ---"P" clips are ideal for the brake lines :happy2:
--- End quote ---
good suggestion - even more annoying is there are about 6 of those sat in my bit pile... I was just thinking temporary fix, and find a replacement bracket, forgot to look for one for 2 scrap yard trips.
Bit of an odd day, 2 bits for the Golf showed up at the same time, but they both have problems-
I spotted a Wagner clone intercooler on Aliexpress for a very cheap price, took 3 months to get to me only for it to be damaged in transit:
I have gone back to the seller asking for some money back, don't want to wait another 3 months for replacement, it seems to be Wagner end tanks with divider on the inlet, the only departure is a thicker core size.
And to recapturing my youth - my stealth sub enclosure arrived, to fit a 10" sub - I have had the sub and amp for about 4 years, never got round to installing it in my old Mk4, so kind-of keen to get into the Mk5.
I trial fitted it and it didn't seem to sit right, but ploughed on regardless.
Fitting it highlighted something has gone wrong during the build - maybe warped from heat:
Too much space under the parcel shelf and it wobbles, I have gone back to the seller and see what he says.
Weather was good, so to cheer myself and keep the amp install rolling, I built my 0 awg power and earth cables:
for big cables a soldering iron wont cut it - blow torch for the win
The terminals had hole in the end, the foil blocks that off and the solder got cut into short lengths - the terminal ends up being a crucible
Once the solder is melted you just shove the cable in
Previously I had added the signal and RCA, installed the earth to day, all that's left to get the amp up and running is to run the power from the battery and I missed a detail in the instructions, I need a 1 to 2 RCA to allow the amp to be bridged... I already ran a 1 to 1 and cut my hands to ribbons, not looking forward to doing that all again!
LC5F:
Got busy with the Amp power cable from the battery, battery out, no wire coat hanger to hand - so used brake pipe and it threaded through the big cable gland:
I used OEM busbar/fuse, the width of opening was 6mm narrower than the terminal, so I filed it down to fit.
Earth in the boot, I located it under the middle hinge, just Dremmelled the paint off and used a self tapper -if it comes loose I know I can replace this with a nut and bolt:
Till I get the new RCA, I have changed the speaker cable to non-bridged - after adjusting the sensitivity to get rid of the doof-doofs it sounds good with 110 watts - 360 bridged will be interesting.
Navigation
[0] Message Index
[#] Next page
[*] Previous page
Go to full version