My S2 coupe

[terrybullwon]

You could fill up the oil and by pass the cooler this would let you run the engine to see if you have any further problems

[TimE-J]

Had to be recovered home last night in the early hours of the morning after my oil cooler giving up while under abit of stick and then proceeded to empty all the engine oil and then started rattling pritty quickly.

Ive stripped the front off quickly to see whats going on so Im in need of an oil cooler new or second hand so I can then get the engine running to see what other damage may have been caused, I'm sure I'll update in due time but if the outlook is bleak and there is damage to the engine then I'll more than likely look at braking for spares.

[quattrostyle]

nice upgrade!

[TimE-J]

Final Brake update... for now...

Fitted some new pads on saturday and straight away the brake pedal had a better feel and the brakes were much more responsive.
I've been bedding them in for the last few days now and I can now honestly say there is a vast improvement over standard brakes.

Heres a few photos of the swap last friday night. (Sorry about the awful quality photos, it was late and they're on my phone.)




Also a picture of the coupe and a friends s3 outside my unit after fitting the new pads.


And a few after a good clean!



If anyone knows of 2 mint or good condition front wings in Lazer red then please let me know, otherwise I'll have to steal the 2 of my old silver coupe and have them sprayed!

[TimE-J]

Well just got home from my unit after fitting the 996 calipers, think the pads have gone alittle hard, and the fact that there EBC red stuff pads so they really need bedding in as there isn't much improvement at the moment! Im going to let them bed in for a while but I think different pads are in order!

I've got a couple of bad quality pictures of the swap but I'll get some better ones tomorrow!

@ bambridge. Those washers did the trick perfectly in the end, thanks again!

[bambridge]

And i think the black surround grill is spot on


i Agree, mite have to get sum black paint

[TimE-J]

@Tony, It's all sorted now thanks, managed to get a set off aronmatic awhile back!

[TimE-J]

The brackets from Bambridge turned up today along with the discs from GSF.

I just quickly mocked everything up so now just to wait for saturday so I can get the s2 up to my unit to chance them over!

Just a quick picture of them together.

[Tony Stark]

Thats a nice coupe you have! Are you still after carbon trim? i did this to a spare set of the gay wood effect trims i had laying about...

http://www.s2forum.com/forum/showthread.php?t=50365&highlight=younger

And i think the black surround grill is spot on


cheers

[sidrick]

Those wheels suit the car perfectly.

[TimE-J]

@Bambridge,
Thanks very much, I'll let you know when they arrive!

@Lighthouse,
I took the wheels to a local wheel powder coaters and I saw some of there examples and picked a colour, the colour of my wheels is nothing like the example I saw so I couldn't tell you the colour code for them sorry.

[Lighthouse]

Really nice color to your RX wheels! I love it! Looks very good to your car! Would you reveal the color code?

[bambridge]

Brackets are in the post Tim

[TimE-J]

Time for some of the photos, didnt take many as the car was parked up for some time due to staying in the centre of Belfast for 2 days so was in a carpark!

The s2 hit 170k just as we were heading over the boarder so I had to take a photo to celebrate!


On the second day heading north, while on some rural roads near Cookstown we came across an old garage with a few classics parked outside and all forsale!
All had been restored at some point in time and most seemed to still be in very good condiiton.







As I said earlier, we stayed in Belfast for 2 days so only real picture I took was with the phone while having a walk about the first evening.


Few of the s2 parked outside my familys house the morning we were heading home!



A set of these also turned up in the post this morning so these shall be going on this weekend aslong as the other parts turn up by then!


Comments welcome!

[macspring]

Looking forward to the road trip photos. A week, not a bit jealous.

Kind regards.