January 29, 2012 0

Shop coming soon!

By in Uncategorized

We’re currently in the middle of populating our own online shop, if you can’t find what you want on the shop drop us a line via phone or email and we’ll sort you out :) details on our main site.

 

GI Motorsport shop

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January 16, 2012 0

Now Advanced Clutch Technology (ACT) dealers

By in Modifications, Upgrades

That’s right, we’re now ACT dealers and have been flat out filling the clear hole in the suppy and demand chain, with 5 Subaru Impreza’s and a 180SX we’ve been pretty busy the last while.  These clutches are from the same manufacturer as the twin plate clutch that we fitted to the SilV8, 180SX/V8, car that we built.  Every customer has been happy that it can handle the power and pedal feel is not heavy, infact it barely feels like it’s uprated, that is until it bites whilst enguaging and the power is delivered.

 

 

there are varying specifications of these clutches available from plain organic upgrades for fast road and track to 4 and 6 puk clutches for full on racing, also available are flywheels, here’s on of the street lite flywheels we fitted:

 

and here’s a couple of the clutches:

Impreza ‘pull type’ Clutch:

 here’s a 180sx ACT, this was matched to a Nismo Flywheel:

 

 

 

 

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December 7, 2011 0

the next stage…

By in exhausts, Modifications, Remaps

Everyone will remember the old jokes about Skoda’s and how they were nicknamed ‘slowda’s’ for years, least this was the case untill they brought out the Fabia vRS.  Although it was a diesel it was the home to one of the new generation of VAG ‘PD’ engine, these engines a relively bomb proof and can be highly modified for relitively little cost.

This car was relatively standard when it first arrived, it was only lowered on a set of ‘coilovers’. We first built a turbo-back exhaust system, this paired with a home brew front mounted intercooler and a Jabba Sport remap, performed in-house, gave healthy power gains, unfortunately the turbo wasn’t up to the task and failed.  This was decision time for the customer, he could put on another standard turbo or upgrade.  This is the state of the origional turbo:

 

The old intercooler vs. the new:

 

With his mind made up it was upgrade time, the old home brew front mounted intercooler was ditched in favour of a Forge Motorsport Front mounted intercooler kit and PD150 Hybrid from AET Turbo’s.  An EGR delete kit and cone-in-box filter were also fitted and another Jabba Sport remap to suit the new modifications. 

 Cone in box filter fitted:

All together now:

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November 19, 2011 0

FREE winter health check and new offers

By in sevicing

With winter closing in fast and Xmas round the corner we know that budgets become tight and cars start to break. That’s why we’re offering free winter health checks, by appointment, as well as discounts on all products and labor.

We’ll also beat any genuine ‘like for like’ quote on all of our services, including our custom stainless steel exhausts!!

Looking for a Xmas present for a petrolhead? Pop in and we’ll happily sort you out, if it’s not in stock most of our suppliers offer a next day delivery service so will be here in plenty of time. To make things even easier we’ll even provide a fitting service at half price for all products bought from ourselves, with vouchers available with each purchase.

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November 4, 2011 0

Defi gauges instal

By in Modifications

As we’re newly appointed Tein and Defi dealers it’s only fair that we show whats on offer, here’s a set of Defi gauged installed to a new-age Subaru Impreza. Here we’ve installed an oil temperature, oil pressure and a boost pressure gauge from the Defi Racer range, these are independent gauges unlike the normal range where they would run through a controller which would allow data logging and playback, these ones just display the information at the time.

here’s a before picture:

 

Here we’ve paired up the oil temperature and oil pressure sensor looms and added some extra shielding to give the looms some extra protection from the heat that they’ll be exposed to under the bonnet of the Subaru:

and here’s what they look like once installed:

and a little close up:

 

 

 

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October 11, 2011 0

Custom Stainless Exhausts

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Our custom exhaust fabricator has been kept busy too with a lot of people wanting everything from back boxes to turbo-back systems.

Here’s some pictures of his work:

 

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October 11, 2011 0

Subaru ACT Clutch

By in Modifications

After much thought and decision making one of our customers decided against trading in his limited edition WRX Subaru Impreza (GB270) and continue his modification. 

This car is already highly modified and we had it in a while back for a new gearbox after the power the engine was delivering destroyed the old one, at the time he was considering trading it in so the standard clutch was left in.  Now since he’s keeping it it came into our care for a full timing belt service and uprated ACT clutch.  As the car is pushing way beyond the factory power we chose a 6 paddle friction plate, this allows the clutch temperature to be kept down without the bite being too, abrupt making the car possibly difficult to drive in traffic.

As you can see from the pictures the pressure plate was in a sorry state:

 

The friction plate has a purple tinge to it due to the heat it had suffered from fast road and track driving.

And here’s the clutch in it’s new home:

this one should last longer than his gearbox, it’s a goodthing we can now get PPG (Pfitzner Performance Gearboxes) and Quaife Engineering products :)

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October 11, 2011 0

New products

By in Modifications, Suspension

We expanding our product listing and are now dealers for Powerflex polly bushes, Tein suspension, Defi Gauges, ACT (Advanced Clutch Technology) clutches, K-sport Brakes, BC racing coilovers,  and Hybrid Development International (HDi, Hybrid Power) products including their intercooler kitswhich are pretty awesome even if I do say so myself

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October 11, 2011 0

TVR Camshaft

By in Modifications, Repairs

well it’s been a long time since we’ve had the chance to update this, again it’s purely down to our workload in the workshop.

As usual we’ve had some big and lengthy jobs in the first for the blog is a camshaft in a TVR Chimera.

This is no small job as the engine is a V8 and the camshaft lies in the bottom of the ‘V’ right above the crankshaft, so a major strip down is required to get to it.  Since we would be having the engine apart there’s no point in replacing it with standard parts so we got a Kent Cams fast road cam and vernier pulley to allow us to ’dial in’ the cam to achieve optimum performance.

here’s some pictures from the job:  

Here’s Gaz checking out the job in hand:

 

 

With all the push rods removed the cam shaft is now ready for removal:

 

 

When we stripped the oil pump for inspection we found that it was badly damaged and in need of replacement.  This is likely the cause of the premature cam shaft wear as it had already had a camshaft replacement prior to the current owner buying it. 

With the new camshaft installed and dialed in the rest of the engine was put back together and left with another happy customer.

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July 21, 2011 0

Rear wishbone bushes, Fabia VRs

By in Modifications, Repairs

there comes a time in all cars lives when their bushes start to fail and become soft. When this happens you have 2 choices for replacement, OE parts which will fail again or complete solid polyurethane replacements from companies such as Whiteline.

This customer didn’t wait for his rear inner wishbone bushes to fail as we had some Whiteline replacements in stock

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