2 Comments Posted by BiG MiKE on March 4, 2011

So I had this funny feeling that there was some yen floating around the car… so I decided it was time to find it. First: I needed tools. After a fairly long round trip I got these:

A paving hammer and some dry ice. Now I was hot on the tail of those pesky coins. I decided to start from the rear:

Dangnabbit there was no yen to be seen. Yet. It had to be here! As the dry ice quickly lifted the pesky sound deadening I made quick progress searching the boot:

With nothing in the boot I was starting to become worried. Where was the yen? Surely I wasn’t mistaken; feeling the extra grams of the coins taking away seconds from my 0-100 time… After thinking about it over a beer, I realised that often it comes to hide underneath the seats. So the hunt was re-joined:

Alas! There was nothing but carpet under the seat… I needed to go deeper:

Success! I rounded up the culprits:

With wild abandon I celebrated lightening my car by about 10grams!

BiG MiKE, Weight Reduction, Z31

More Flare Than The 80s

Leave a comment Posted by BiG MiKE on March 2, 2011

So it seems work never ends. With barely 2 short drives with the rear end, Mona is coming apart again. This time to fit the wheels. Pulled the bog off, drilled the rivets and took the flare off. Then came the wheels… Check it:

Pulling the bog off… trusty screwdriver and hammer style: