Category Archives: DIY

Replacing S2000 Front Brake Pads

Posted by dave on April 14, 2013 No comments

A little while back I wrote a post on replacing the rear pads on an S2000, now the snow has all but gone, it was time to do the front pads. The job is very similar, so I won’t go …

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S2000 DIY Replacement Headlight Range Adjustment Sensor

Posted by dave on August 6, 2012 2 comments

Whilst replacing the drop links the other day on my S2000, I noticed that something wasn’t quite right: This, as it turns out, is the Headlight range adjustment sensor (on the rear left, near, side suspension of the car), it controls …

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Gas Meter Monitoring Project – Part 2

Posted by dave on July 7, 2012 No comments

Ok, so in my previous post I talked about the hardware used to read the pulses from our gas meter, connected to an old pedometer this was recording each time the right most dial completed a full revolution. Next was …

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Replacing an S2000 Fan Belt/Serpentine Belt/Auxiliary Belt

Posted by dave on July 6, 2012 No comments

This job was dead easy, but I’ve been documenting everything else so it made sense to do this too. Tools required: New Serpentine Belt (GSF Car parts, £12, Part Number: 134VG0030) 14mm Socket I have a K&N induction kit in there and …

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Gas Usage Monitoring Project

Posted by dave on July 2, 2012 No comments

A while back I wrote about using The Owl electricity monitor and pulling out information from it’s SQLite database and graphing it using PHP. That’s working fine still and providing very useful information. But, it’s only half the story, well, a third …

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Virgin Media Superhub 60Mbps Review

Posted by dave on June 28, 2012 No comments

I recieved an email from Virgin offering me the new SuperHub and 60Mbps (from my previous 20Mbps), for free, and so I thought to myself “that sounds tidy, let’s go”. I booked in the VM man for a Saturday, over …

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Replacing S2000 Rear Brake Pads

Posted by dave on June 25, 2012 3 comments

Now that my S2000 is  little older, and so am I, oh, and Honda wanted £90 to replace the rear pads, it got me thinking “It can’t be that hard, can it?” It’s not, so long as you you have …

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Saving electricity, saving money, saving the planet?

Posted by dave on June 14, 2012 No comments

Another project that I’ve been putting off for a while, but with the wedding out of the way I finally had some free time, so off we go. Electricity is quite expensive these days, so it makes sense to try …

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Windows 7 Media Center & Multiple TV Tuners

Posted by dave on May 23, 2012 1 comment

I hadn’t planned on writing a post about this but after all the trouble I ran into, I figured it might help others. Ok, the story: I had Windows Vista running on a P4 3.0GHz 3.5GB RAM Dell PC, with …

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