Blu's Suzuki Ignis Sport

[blu73]

I'm still sad I never got to see your Beetle!

green one first car, and then the mini in background, then the blue beetle. After that i had a vauxhall nova and after that i got a cinq and joined the forum

 

[blu73]

Well it's been a while again. Nothing much happened for ages with the car really. When the green cube was written off last year it became the car we have so it did all the driving over winter. It had the wheels off the cube on for winter but I've just put the summer wheels/tyres back on.
The MOT ran out couple of months ago and I decided to just sorn it for a few months and so some bits.
Namely a good scrub clean underneath, decided to try some ACF50 fluid film stuff, so the whole back end underneath has had a coat of that to see.
Also the rear ARB was fitted at the same time, finally. It now has a carbon rear view mirror cover (don't think I've got a pic of that yet).
Gave the top side a wash down this weekend just gone and plan to clean inside this weekend coming. With view to MOT and re-tax at very start of the month.

Whiteline ARB

I recently got a JDM dash which moves some stuff around inside, will post pics when done.

Also, not sure I've ever mentioned it in here or not, but after almost a year of waiting I have a "plug and play" Link standalone ECU which a chap in Australia made. Yet to test but essentially the idea is it slots in an OEM ECU case and plugs in and I should just need a wideband sensor and controller to replace OEM narrow and it should just work and have all the functionality of a link G4+ and the factory dash all still work. I hope it does work

That's all I can think of atm.

 

[blu73]

Clean bill of health acquired that rear ARB really changes how it drives!!

And here is some of my testers cars, German but quite cool nonetheless lol

 

[blu73]

update: car felt weird, on inspection one end of the panhard (which has rose joints) is seized. Slapped the rusty ugly oem bar back on and it feels like my car again - that must've seized whilst it was sitting for few months..

new cusco panhard enroute from japan.. and then i did a classic blu thing and was massively irresponsible and ordered new coilovers from japan at same time lol.

 

[blu73]

Well as usual i didnt update for ages...

Eventually this arrived

So whipped the BC stuff and T&S panhard off - this was all sold to another lad with an Ignis. The panhard just needs a replacement rose-joint, I let him have it with the coilovers.

At this point I was quite nervous, the fear I wouldnt like this new suspension as much was great lol. But i set about putting them on, setting it all up and in end needed some helpers to have it just how i wanted it, also new rear bumpstops required and so more waiting for the postman.

And here is the fronts all set, took them back off to coat them in fluid film before final install and torqueing everything down.

I didn't take any photos at all of the new panhard or how i set the rears, i was clearly getting tired by then, but its a bar, its blue like the coilovers. Had a kinda half alignment (as in the local places don't want to touch it and will only do the toe) so it still needs to go somewhere to be redone how I want. But this is how it is sitting, seems okay so far but will have to see how it all settles. May make final height adjustment before proper proper alignment.

And i can report, no regrets, it drives lovely and if anything is less harsh on the road than before. Its fixed dampening so I was a bit nervous about losing adjustability but so far so good.

Other random stuff thats happened along the way.. the intake pipe split, my silly homebrew intake clearly was pushing on it more than i thought. Hey-ho, 21 years isnt too bad for a rubber pipe i don't suppose.

Fixed with a reducing silicone elbow - the sensor is air intake temp sensor for anyone wondering. And it did seal with the sealant but why not smidge of silicon'carne as well, tis post filter afterall - yes on reflection i should have grabbed the tube of black stuff, nevermind lol.

Cube ate another top mount so cars been doing the daily school run, its gross and needs a wash but this is as of today

Next, once cube is fixed its just wash & general service time.

 

[blu73]

just looked back at that and i didnt mention the alternator... I did attach a pic lol... The alternator seized, upside is my starter is clearly strong cause it started car still, then i thought it was on fire as smoke bloomed out the front as the belt started melting on the pulley .
Tricky little swap until you work out the technique to get it out and in the gap lol.

 

[Didge3]

just looked back at that and i didnt mention the alternator... I did attach a pic lol... The alternator seized, upside is my starter is clearly strong cause it started car still, then i thought it was on fire as smoke bloomed out the front as the belt started melting on the pulley .
Tricky little swap until you work out the technique to get it out and in the gap lol.

Wonder how it compares to changing the alternator on a Copen, that took me about 3 months
Finally sold it yesterday... sad times

 

[blu73]

Well on the ignis its either inlet manifold off and out the top, or driveshaft off and out the bottom but its still a fiddle either way lol.. I figured after scratching my head a while if I just jacked the rear of the engine a couple of mm it just fell out lol. Also saying this reminds me, I went this way cause I had just had all this apart, so all new clean anti-seized bolts going in this way that just come off.. I think I forgot to mention that I have also had the driveshafts out recently to inspect the cv's and replace boots before they split (they looked really close to doing so) so all this really really had been off just before. And that inlet manifold looks awkward and has never been off once lol - was an easy choice it was which way to go lol.

Sad to hear the Copen is gone, that was cool little thing @Didge3 - have you replaced it with anything or you down to just a sensible daily now? lol

 

[Didge3]

Sad to hear the Copen is gone, that was cool little thing @Didge3 - have you replaced it with anything or you down to just a sensible daily now? lol

Not been replaced but I had ended up with 3 cars so it had to go, now got the Abarth 500 and a ropey 320i which also needs to go once I've sorted out its long list of issues

..... I do really fancy a Cinq though, finding a good one is not easy now though