CG's daily fun ride

[CanadianGuy]

I'm digging the orange/black scheme, I'm shooting for something similar. Is the Rally Armor mud flap text also orange?

Yes the are MO lettering. They were exclusive to CJ Pony parts.

 

[letitreign]

I'll look into that...looks so good.

 

[JDL]

Was so fun to read your build thread! I just picked up my 2016 FiST. I'm just east of the gta in durham region! Hope to see you around some time

 

[CanadianGuy]

Was so fun to read your build thread! I just picked up my 2016 FiST. I'm just east of the gta in durham region! Hope to see you around some time

Thanks. Look north. Uxbridge area here.

 

[CanadianGuy]

June 11th 2017 Hot day meant staying in the shade Tire Lettering

They are not perfect. Will require a few more coats to make it even but I and happy with how they turned out. Used Sharpie oil pen, cleaned the area well with a rubber safe degreaser and alcohol, applied light coats and used a heat gun in between coats.

 

[letitreign]

Damn that looks good! Hate to say it but I'm gonna have to steal this idea. The sharpie you used, fine or medium tip? Did you find that the paint bleeds at all?

 

[CanadianGuy]

Damn that looks good! Hate to say it but I'm gonna have to steal this idea. The sharpie you used, fine or medium tip? Did you find that the paint bleeds at all?

Medium tip. Fine could be used if you want small lines instead of filling an area. Make sure to prime pen on a peice or cardboard or rag not on the tyre. Also for additional coats treat the pen like a paint brush moving the paint without touching the actual surface. There was not much in terms of bleed so as long as the Peter is raised or lowered it work well.

 

[M-Sport fan]

They are not perfect. Will require a few more coats to make it even but I and happy with how they turned out. Used Sharpie oil pen, cleaned the area well with a rubber safe degreaser and alcohol, applied light coats and used a heat gun in between coats.

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That looks SHARP!!

But my RS-RR's side walls turn brown so quickly (and they've NEVER even had any 'dressing' of ANY sort on them at all since new!), that I must use a brush aggressively on them at washing time, so this lettering would probably get rubbed off.

 

[CanadianGuy]

That looks SHARP!!

But my RS-RR's side walls turn brown so quickly (and they've NEVER even had any 'dressing' of ANY sort on them at all since new!), that I must use a brush aggressively on them at washing time, so this lettering would probably get rubbed off.

Possibly if the brown is from the tyre. If the brown is from the brake dust it should be fine. To remove the mistakes I did I needed to remove rubber. Mine have been cleaned for a few months now and tyre shine applied.

 

[CanadianGuy]

July 1st 2017.

Finally got around to installing some oil monitoring gauges. I had many false starts with this as I wanted the gauges in the small cubby hole. I tried 2" ones but they were too deep. The equus 1 1/2" fit perfectly. I cute the cubby out and installed the bracket from the back with liberal use of JB weld. I replaced the incandescent light with LED back light (much bright and nicer, picture does not do them justice). I fished the hose through the sound symposer tube (pretty easy). The kit have just enough tubing, the water temp sensor was too big for the sandwich plate so I will order their electric version. Don't really need the volt but meh why not. The main goal is to have a true oil temp and pressure monitor, especially in winter. Over all I am happy.

 

[M-Sport fan]

SWEET!!

Do they (Equus) even offer an oil TEMP gauge to replace the volt gauge?

 

[deadlast]

Does AP not offer the oil temp/pressure accurately your is it computed?

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[CanadianGuy]

Does AP not offer the oil temp/pressure accurately your is it computed?

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It's computed plus not available via the mtune.

 

[CanadianGuy]

SWEET!!


Do they (Equus) even offer an oil TEMP gauge to replace the volt gauge?

Not in the 1 1/2" but I will use the water gauge in the oil sandwich. Will work fine. I'm not to finicky.

 

[TrickSTer]

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Nice install! looks really good!

I don't understand the cutout; is there a pocket behind the pocket? (I obviously haven't had my dash apart!)

 

[CanadianGuy]

Nice install! looks really good!

I don't understand the cutout; is there a pocket behind the pocket? (I obviously haven't had my dash apart!)

It's actually two pieces they have hot glued (plastic melted) together at rivet points. I undid the rivets and cut the pocket out to fit the 3 hole bracket from the rear. There is not much more space behind but this made for a very clean look once reassembled.

 

[Nightcrew13]

Gauges remind me of the old Golf MK1 lower setup, very nice good work!

 

[CanadianGuy]

Gauges remind me of the old Golf MK1 lower setup, very nice good work!

Thanks. Not much selection at the 38mm size. But these don't look too bad.

 

[shouldbeasy]

Time for some OMP Pedals!

I can't think of anything else you can do to this thing!

 

[CanadianGuy]

Time for some OMP Pedals!

I can't think of anything else you can do to this thing!

Oh I have some ideas, suspension other performance parts.