[LoD]Miseryland
11-18-2008, 06:24 AM
Long story first
So i kinda reversed my car into a shipping container at 30- ish kph :Owned:
Naturally, go figure, slamming into a container seems to be the best thing ive done to my car, because i wouldnt have looked in the local buy sell and find a unregistered unwarrented 85 jdm sei available for $500 :)
I also got lucky in that between where i hit the container, the fact that i saw it at the last second and mashed the brakes, that the damage involved was only a half folded boot door, a bent boot door hinge that didnt damage where it meets with the frame, and about 10cm of drivers side rear panel getting mashed into the boot, carefully looking at it, none of the damage got transferred further up.
Also i found the tiny leak that lets the water in that fogs up my rear windows, so once ive fixed everything including that, hopefully i will see any future shipping containers sometime sooner than one second before i hit them :rofl:
So as the title says before that long piece of drama, whats involved in a sei brake swap?
i know theres already quite a bit of stuff available on how to do this, but ive noticed quite a few subtle things already while stripping down the sei, so i guess the important question is, whats the hidden snags that im sure exists when swapping the brakes from a 85 jdm sei to a 90 nzdm lx?
EDIT: Also, how do i test the ionising air cleaner? it didnt work before i removed it but i want to know if it was just a fault with a switch or wiring, all of which is now in a pile waiting to be put into my car once the rear ends sorted.
So i kinda reversed my car into a shipping container at 30- ish kph :Owned:
Naturally, go figure, slamming into a container seems to be the best thing ive done to my car, because i wouldnt have looked in the local buy sell and find a unregistered unwarrented 85 jdm sei available for $500 :)
I also got lucky in that between where i hit the container, the fact that i saw it at the last second and mashed the brakes, that the damage involved was only a half folded boot door, a bent boot door hinge that didnt damage where it meets with the frame, and about 10cm of drivers side rear panel getting mashed into the boot, carefully looking at it, none of the damage got transferred further up.
Also i found the tiny leak that lets the water in that fogs up my rear windows, so once ive fixed everything including that, hopefully i will see any future shipping containers sometime sooner than one second before i hit them :rofl:
So as the title says before that long piece of drama, whats involved in a sei brake swap?
i know theres already quite a bit of stuff available on how to do this, but ive noticed quite a few subtle things already while stripping down the sei, so i guess the important question is, whats the hidden snags that im sure exists when swapping the brakes from a 85 jdm sei to a 90 nzdm lx?
EDIT: Also, how do i test the ionising air cleaner? it didnt work before i removed it but i want to know if it was just a fault with a switch or wiring, all of which is now in a pile waiting to be put into my car once the rear ends sorted.