- Tue Apr 12, 2016 1:12 pm
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A few small updates.
Still got some little issues to resolve before getting the car tip top but since I last posted I pulled the sump and knocked the dent. I also look into fitting some gauges for Oil Temp and Pressure etc, but kept getting s small oil leak from the sandwich plate and after just fixing the leak from the VTEC solenoid I got pretty annoyed and abandoned that plan for now.
I also looked into sorting a new battery as the one in the car was about 11 years old and had been forgot about during the build so was only holding charge for a few days. So decided to go a little special and save some more weight and picked up one of these.
Since fitting this battery though a few new issues have appeared and I don't know if it just coincidence or not. One of which is sometimes the car just won't crank at all, I don't even get a clunk from the solenoid, but when it does crank after a few turns of the key it cranks fine and fire straight up. If it is just a coincident that would lead me toward either the ignition switch or the starter solenoid being the problem. As is always the case with intermittent faults though every time I have went to try and diagnose it, it works fine.
Finally, after getting a lot of complaints about how hard it is to get in and our of my car, I decided to make things a little easier and picked up some different seats. So pick up these which I am super impressed with, as they don't come with FIA approval, they are sold for a much more reasonable price. They still feel really good when driving the car, pretty much as good as my old one but now with some added benefits like not having to empty my pockets of my wallet and phone to get in the car, so makes it a little better to DD.