Sambo

I'll keep that in mind, thanks mate.

Hi all, I've got a my car stored at a family friend's place in Whangarei while I'm overseas. Unfortunately (for me) her situation has changed and she's had to sell the house. I need to move my car out by the 12/5 at the latest. Has anyone got a lead or suggestion on affordable, covered storage options between Auckland and Whangarei? It doesn't need to be workshop space or anything, but it would be great if a mate could check on it every few months. It wouldn't need to be moved (doesn't really run, anyway). It's insured, incase that matters. Cheers, Sam

Okay, sorry.

Sorry if I'm telling you how to suck eggs, but definitely don't try and drain the oil out of the sump. Cleaning oil out of the bilge isn't fun. You want an oil extractor pump.

Small update. There's been lots of life stuff between the last post and now, but not much car stuff. Got married two months after that post, then broke up 3 months after that. Now I'm 2 weeks out from moving to the UK nd have been slaving away on finishing and clearing out my house. Last weekend I got the box back in the car after taking it out at the start of 2022 to unblock the fuel return line. This weekend, I started it (running like a bag of dicks on 3 or 4 year old fuel) and drove it onto a trailer. Drove it up to Whangarei with a mate, took his RX7 out of his mum's garage and slotted my car in. Then we brought his car back down to Auckland. Oh, I also locked the doors while it was on the trailer and left the keys in Auckland, Dad drove them up to me in Wellsford. Whoops. The rust is now at the point that I'd never consider buying it in this state. Should be fun when I get back. Potato spec video courtesy of Dad. See ya circa 2025.

Yeah, I didn't even know mine had an ecu haha. I can't imagine the ECU is really doing anything for the solenoid, on the Nissan it'll just be a way of switching the 12V signal.

Looking good! My favourite E7 shape. I just fixed a similar carb issue on my D21, the idle shut off/anti-dieseling solenoid wasn't working. It wasn't working because the ECU fuse had blown, but apparently it's not uncommon for them to fail. Assuming yours has one and it runs off the key like a Nissan, you can test it by having someone turn the key from ACC to ON and see if you can hear the carb clicking. You can remove the plunger that turns off the idle fuel circuit as a temp fix, but it'll run on even worse. Mine was running on a bit, stalling at idle, backfired heaps on deceleration, but ran fine once it had some throttle.

I'm running mine at around 10-12* and it runs pretty happily on 91. It'll ping a little bit if I give it full jandal at low RPM, but otherwise fine.

Thanks team, that's the info I needed. The clutch that's in it is a new standard item, so I might just run that with the lighter flywheel for now.

I don't mind buying a new friction plate, if required.

What are some things I should be looking at before throwing this in my car? I've got no basis for comparison to look at the condition/wear on the friction plate or pressure plate. Would it also be an idea to get a workshop to check for runout or something on the flywheel, or is that a small risk?

Cool, that's good to know. I wasn't sure if there was actually a difference between fwd/rwd, bigport/smallport etc. I've also read a few snippets from 10 year old forum posts etc that 7m alternators will fit with a few more amps, but I really want something concrete that I can buy and sort the problem this week.

Oooh, that would be great! I'll pm you. Still after any advice.

Hi Team, I just went to fit an aftermarket alternator pulley to the alternator that's on the smallport in my AE85. The shaft on the alternator is a fair bit larger than the hole available in the pulley, and I'm guessing that it's had some other alternator put in. The shaft diameter on the alt is roughly 16.8mm, the factory style pulley I have is ~14.8mm. The alt I have has slotted into the factory AE86 brackets, but may be slightly larger diameter overall, as the top fouls on the top water neck. Interestingly/annoyingly, the pulley set I was sold second hand as an AE86 set (I have less faith in this than Flos.ie) fitted this alt, but with a different outer diameter. Does anyone know what other alternators are likely to fit in? Looking to expand the search to try and find something second hand and/or quickly. I'd prefer a factory type solution for part finding in the future. Fucking over this, and it's preventing me solving another problem. I'm reluctant to try making the hole in the pulley bigger, I don't want to make it off centre or on the piss on a part doing thousands of RPMs.

Aloha gentlemen, if one were to blow down a 1/4" fuel return line, how much resistance ought one expect to encounter? I've just dropped the gearbox out of my car to swap over the "semi blocked" fuel return line in the car, then I went to test the spare and found it completely blocked. I put some compressed air down the one in the car again and it seems to have improved, but I'm hesitant to put the box back in unless I'm sure it'll work. Edit: Follow up question, is it feasible to bend ali bundy tube by running it under the car, or does it really need to be bent up then installed?