Defblade

Big and small cables turning up every day at the moment

Install (or not install, yet!) going on here:

ICE install... umm... rapidly... approaching. Got the main boxes together now and the appropriate patch lead; put it all very crudely together on a breadboard this weekend using a mash-up of odd wires and chocolate blocks, to check that it's all working as expected... ... and yes, it is just fine There will be loads of setting up to do once it's all in, but I'm looking forward to ripping out half the interior now! Although the next job is to make a false floor for the boot, as most of this will be living under there. Just trying to decide where to mount the sub at the moment - - it could possibly go under false floor, pointing up (acoustic carpet over... I've done similar before, you have to hoover bits out of the come every so often, and carrying stuff muffles it quite a lot - in the classic against-the seat backs... in which case, it might also be possible to cut it into and drop it through the false floor, so it takes up a little less space - in the rear seat driver's side footwell... I hardly ever carry more than 3 people plus the dog, and the dog goes behind me and doesn't need the legroom (I can run a second set of wires to the boot to put it in there if I do carry more people). I quite like the last one as it's not the loudest sub ever; and it would take less boot space as I'll lose some volume with the false floor, also it'll already be out of the way when I drop the rear seats for tip runs etc.

I came to my Rapid sport from a JDM Subaru Legacy GT Spec-B (which means Bilstein suspension) on 18s.... believe you me, the Rapid on 17s is a lovely cossetting, smooth, quiet* ride *The "quiet" part may have had something to do with the big Genome exhaust boxes that were on the Scoobie, rather than the wheels and tyres

Just bought myself this car a week ago; it's supposed to be sensible and to last me a few years, but I'm sure I will have a little play with it as time goes on - some styling and probably some ICE upgrades. But I have already done the first, subtle, mod.... when I realised that the Rapid and Fabia badges shared the same font Apologies for it being filthy, I have driven it nearly 500 miles in the week I've had it, in filthy weather, but I've had no time to give it it's first big clean/wax yet... the only clean bit currently is this corner of the glass!