So winter is arriving - what are your planned winter upgrades for your Se7en?

[KiwiBirkin]

Croc tick it all you know you want too

 

Winters a long time off for me but already planning some jobs on my Birkin

 

1: Rear disk brakes conversion for the live axel.

2: Get the inside side panels re upholstered and the dash too.

3: New rear guards and repaint

4: Skid plate

[Croc]

Croc tick it all you know you want too

 

3: New rear guards and repaint

4: Skid plate

 

 

Kiwi - Did I miss something but I thought you had a repaint recently to that really nice deep blue/purple?

[Kitcat]

Add Stabil to gas tank, run it a few miles, hook it up to a trickle charger, put the car cover on and tuck it in for the next 4 months.

[Sean]

Clearly no Californian or Florida resident needs to chime in here - they have no winter that the rest of us have to deal with! I am just a jealous north easter...

 

1) Rent U-Haul or equivalent

2) Move to California or Florida.

[DeanG]

Depends on what parts I can wrangle. I hope a full dashboard restoration.

[MightyMike]

I plan on upgrading my dash to CF along with billet switches and a Stack dash; similar to the R500. Will probably throw in a set of Tillets. Also plan on installing ITBs and a new ECU if time and cash permits.

[Hank]

Paddleshift? What kit did you get?

 

I built a website for Graham at Flatshifter (QuickShifters.com) and he gave me the FlatShifter Max + Pro paddle shift system. -pic-

[MHKflyer52]

I built a website for Graham at Flatshifter (QuickShifters.com) and he gave me the FlatShifter Max + Pro paddle shift system. -pic-

 

Hank,

 

Looks like you got a very good deal their.

[75TwinCam]

New 5 or 6 point harness.

Find or have made a roll bar for early s3 "short cockpit" chassis.

Simpson Bandit hat - white.

[Mondo]

Look forward to hearing about the paddle shifters Hank

[S1Steve]

New tires in the spring and change the oil. Mike ( Croc) Monday is order the new 7 day,Congrats !!!

Edited November 28, 2010 by S1Steve

[11Budlite]

New seats, harnesses, and hopefully lowered floors as well. I'm also working on hooking up a Thule fork-mount bike rack to the rollbar. We'll see how that goes....

[jimrankin]

Invistigate the lack of low and mid range power and late V-tec onset / or replace the ECU if I have to but would rather stay stock Honda if I can make it work.

Recarpet the floor as my heels have created a hole. Add a leather /rubber "heel pad" at the wear point.

Reinforce the front and fab a center mount brace for the dif. Replace the grade 5 bolts with grade 8's.

Relocate the fuel cell all the way to the passenger side and add an access port to the rear cover so you can re-fuel without unsnapping the whole thing.

QUIET the harness mounting points. Sounds like Santa is coming with all that jingeling.

Maybe even put an inch more lift under the passenger seat so my wife can actually see whats ahead of us.

Bigger better center mirror or just better mirrors all around.

About a dozen minor tweaks I won't bother to bore everyone with.

Happy Holidays to everyone and I hope Santa brings you all the parts you want, or at least the ones you need.

[KiwiBirkin]

Kiwi - Did I miss something but I thought you had a repaint recently to that really nice deep blue/purple?

 

No Croc you didnt miss anything but since the paint job I have covered about 15000km and by the time it gets too winter the car will have another 10000km's on it and those KMs will have taken there toll on the paint job as we get a lot of stones on our NZ roads because they use chip seal and not tarmac as a road surface. It will be redone in the same colours though.

[Croc]

....since the paint job I have covered about 15000km and by the time it gets too winter the car will have another 10000km's on it and those KMs will have taken there toll on the paint job as we get a lot of stones on our NZ roads because they use chip seal and not tarmac as a road surface.

 

 

I am in awe...given it is like dog years, that mileage in a Seven is extraordinary.

 

As for the chip seal, I remember that road "surfacing" growing up in Australia. It was like having a gravel road for months until all the chips had worn away. Noisy stuff too.

[MHKflyer52]

No Croc you didnt miss anything but since the paint job I have covered about 15000km and by the time it gets too winter the car will have another 10000km's on it and those KMs will have taken there toll on the paint job as we get a lot of stones on our NZ roads because they use chip seal and not tarmac as a road surface. It will be redone in the same colours though.

 

KiwiBirkin,

That is like 9321 miles for 15000km. :driving:

You must be driving all over the South Island in your 7. :auto:

That is more seat time than I have put in my car in the last 5 years.

 

Way to go.

[supersportsp]

I have a number of smaller projects to do.

 

1. FIA roll-bar. I have this in already, did it a couple of weeks ago.

2. Third brake light for said roll-bar

3. Wide-track kit installation (already have parts)

4. Head rests that work with the FIA bar in an S3 chassis

5. New shock/spring set

6. Possible power boost for my Zetec (convert to fuel injection?)

7. Locate 13" wheels for track days.

[m wirth]

Just finished one of the winter projects, skid plate for my Ultralite, thought I'd share my farmer welding and plate steel 15.5 lb concoction. I have all of 3.5 inches clearance with me in it.

[Kitcat]

Looks great! It is skid plate so sheer beauty isn't essential tho I'd say your workmanship was stellar.

 

Show us another picture in a year and well see if it has acquired any "patina".

 

FWIW, my se7en has abt 3 1/2" clearance too. Never had a problem running w/o a skid plate in 26K miles, tho do have a haunting vision of Martin's badly damaged oil pan in the back of my mind.

[jlumba81]

Looks like you used stick welding. How thick is the steel in the skid plate?