Summer update part 1: Put some ponies on it

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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.