Ohi syyskuun, läpi repaleisen lokakuun, kaipuun kaljakori kilisee

Rakkaat ihmiset! Jos teillä on autotalli, edes pieni sellainen, olkaa onnellisia! Koska joillekin muille viime syyskuu oli virallinen Auton huoltaminen erinäisillä parkkipaikoilla -kuukausi. :D

Kun vaihdat autoosi hilpettä anoppisi takapihalla ja vain on näpit jäässä niin ei se haittaa. Mutta sitten kun alkaa satamaan vettä ja rakeita ja naapurin juhasipilä tulee v*ttuilemaan nurkalle niin tiedät viimeistään, että edes jonkunlainen parakkirakennus ois enemmän ku ookoo.

// People! If you have an garage, even a small one, be happy! Because for some else the last September was the official Maintenance on Several Parking Lots Month. :D 

You're doing stuff to your car on your mother in law's backyard and your fingers start freezing, it doesn't really matter. But when it starts raining water and hails and the donaldtrump next door comes to f*ck around, you finally realize that some kind of a barrack would be more than just ok.

Kumminkin. Tuloksena SiRissä on nyt uudet laturin- ja ohjaustehostimen hihnat. Nämä on nyt purettu ja säädetty ainakin kolmesti, mutta vieläkin huutaa ja vinkuu ku syötävä. Vastustaako? Kyllä. Kärsivällisyyttä ja kaljaa siis.

// The result is, that SiR has now new alternator and power steering belts but still has some problems of getting into the right tightness. Does it contest? Yes. So, some beer and patience.

Saanan äitin 5gen Ludeen tehtiin kans vähän huollon tapaista. Auto on ollut aina melko meluisa ajaa, kilisee ja kolisee sen minkä ehtii. Ei oltu aiemmin löydetty tähän syytä, tosin joitain epäilyksiä on ollut matkan varrella.

Yksi viikko tämä keksi jälleen uuden aktiviteetin, kun vänkärin puolen etuosasta alkoi tuntumaan ja kuulostamaan siltä, että pienimmästäkin töyssystä hakkaa iskarit pohjaan. Siitä sitten paniikkia itselleen tekemään, että kaikki alustasta pitää uusia.

// We also did some replacement to Saana's mom's 5ft gen Lude. The car has always been very loud while driven and we haven't had figured out a reason for this. 

Suddenly the car started to clatter more and more and first we started worrying, if the passenger's side shock absorber was damaged. Well, let's panic a bit that everything has to be replaced.

Päätettiin kuitenkin olla hättäilemäti ja käytettiin riisikuppi tutulla katsastajalla arvioitavana. Hätädiagnostiikka sanoi koiranluut tai iskari, joten ensialkuun tilattiinkin koiranluut molemmille puolille eteen. Osat tuli ihan suhteellisen nopeasti, eli kolmessa viikossa. Eikun vaihtoon ja parasta toivomaan!

// The rice cup was taken to a familiar car inspector who thought that the cause could be either the chock absorber or the antiroll bar links. We decided to order new antiroll bar links to the front and then worry about the rest. The parts were delivered pretty quickly, in 3 weeks. So first this (bull)shit and then let's hope for the best!

No, kuva kertoo kaiken, entiset koiranluut oli vaan vähän käytetyt:
// Well, the picture tells it all, the old ones looked just a little bit used:

Rempan jälkeen kolisevasta autosta tuli kummallisesti erityisen hiljainen ja ainoa alustasta lähtevä ääni on enää normaali iskareiden ominaisääni. Oli kyllä sen arvosta että taivasalla piti vaihtaa! Tämä remontti ei edes vastustanut yhtään ja jo parin tunnin kiroilun jälkeen homma valmis. Ei yhtään normaalia. Mutta ehkä se paras osa, hinta tälle vain 30 euroa. Ei paha Preludelle! :D

// Suddenly after the change a very loudly clattering car became a very quiet one. The only sound now coming from the suspension is the normal sound of the shock absorbers. So worth it, even though doing it on a parkin lot! This time the process did not contest at all (wohoo!) and after two hours of cursing the job was done. Not normal. But maybe the the best part, total costs were only 30 euros. Not bad for a Prelude! :D

Lopuksi kaikki sympatiat meiltä kohtalotovereille, jotka joutuu tekemään hommansa säiden armoilla. <3

// Also, all of our sympathies go to people who have to do their things at the mercy of weather. <3

And thanks Jalmari and Mika for the help!

- Saana & Allu

Summer update part 2: Put some paint on it!

HAI THERE!

So the huge summer update continues and...yes. :D

During the summer some cosmetic stuff was also done to SiR by painting brake calibers and valve cover black. Also the window trims were retouched with some plastic paint.

So, for all the people out there thinking that Saana does not do anything in the garage and just posts photos, here is some stuff she has done so you can stop the nagging. ;)

Brake calibers before the paint:

And after:

So much better now! Must be because the woman's touch!

The window trims before:

And after (also you can see the repainted brake calibers here):

We do not really recommend doing the window trims with plastic paint, because the paint comes off in the first wash and it really sticks all kinds of shit into itself (like for example, sawdust from the roof renovation). Gotta fix it later... :D

Saana also ground the valve cover to a plain aluminium and for your information, this took 3 days. Later Allu painted it and it and it didn't come out as good as it should've (Saana thinks that it's not that bad...).

Before:

While grinding:

And a bad after photo, just that you can't spot any flaws :D

Gotta also fix this one later, like at 2018 after we've fixed the window trims, or something hahaa :D

Then Allu went crazy (again) and bought a used light metal exhaust manifold for SiR from a H22A7 (220hp). Saana shined this one also, even tough that it probably will not stay shiny... :) This also took 3 days and lots of beer to finish. :D

Before:

And after:

So get yourself a partner and your life will be so much easier! :)

Translation:

Summer update part 1: Put some ponies on it

Hello everyone!

For your information, WE ARE ON FACEBOOK! Jeee! Go like our page for more crap like this. :D

And back to this post...
First of all, the rumours that we are too lazy to update the blog are true!
So, now it's time for a huge summer update!

Allu had a summer vacation part 1 in June and that meant two full week with Preludes.
SiR had a huge to-do list including some maintenance so this blog text is pretty much only about that.

We took off the seats from SiR and scraped off the rust under the drivers seat (again).
We also took off the floor mat and cleaned it properly with a textile cleaner. This is actually becoming a tradition to us. :D
Later Allu installed new fm-antenna but the reception is still no good, guess it must be because of the radio.

The timing belt and its tensioners had to be replaced because of five years periodic maintenance schedule. JDM H22A engine is pretty rare in Finland so we ordered all of the parts from AKR-Performance where they were available.

Some time after the order was set, we got an e-mail from AKR that the delivery will be a month late and the parts won't arrive in time for the vacation. After few e-mails back and forth with AKR we managed to rush the delivery a little bit. And luckily, the package did come in time!

This is so crazy, because the place where our project is located is seriously in the middle of nowhere. One morning, when Saana was still sleeping, a HUGE truck had delivered the parts right to the backyard.

In the end, the delivery wasn't even late at all and we even managed to change the delivery address in the middle of a process. This is what we call customer service!

The water pump was also replaced to SiR and mostly the reason was that water pump from Saana's mother's Prelude wasn't changed while timing part renewal and it broke down few months after... Lesson learned. :D

Also some more improvements were made by replacing the automatic timing belt tensioner with KS-Tuned manual one. This part took six weeks to arrive from US, but we believe that the wait will show its worth in the future.

We built the timing belt setup without a balance shaft belt in hope of some extra ponies.
Well, engines' sound is better and tested with our butt measurement we think that the engine has improved its response and has some more torque, but that could also be just our imagination. :D

Translation: Mitähän kuttua? Kohta alkaa kalijat loppua.