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I identified that neither of the accelerator pump jets on one of the carbs were going. So I settled in for a long night disassembling and reassembling Dellorto carburatori, witha the screws anda the springs anda the smelloda petrol. For hours (hadn't done this before!) it was just me and the crickets and the ultrasonic pulsing of the rust chaneller, this relative silence punctuated now and then by the suksuksuksukVLROMMM!suksuksuk of the open twin carbies being tested. Then I found it - a little bloody piece of debris shown here next to the eye of a needle for size comparison. =\ It was stuck in the ball valve thingy above, meaning the valve wouldn't seal against backpressure from the accelerator pump diaphragm. This valve lives in the bottom of the fuel/float bowl and it was the last place I looked. Took the car for a decent test drive - much improved. AFR gauge no longer spikes into the lean region when I get on the gas. Party on, Garth! =D

put a rotor in it

Shot down to Oamaru after work on Saturday night & finally collected the blue hatch. Changed out all the fluids, charged up the battery, then took her for a hack around Ruapuna this afternoon.

Wow the response from you lot has been amazing. Read the replies to Hannah and she too is touched. The engine noise was very hard to define. Not a oiling issue as its got a better baffled pick up plus the car has been accelerated much harder up a steep hill and this was on the flat. Anyway- I'll build up a really good tight motor over next few months. As for getting the Viva to the Nats.. we can only try our best but its cutting it a bit short....

The fact he isn't online fills me with hope! GO ALEX GO!

not much been going on here plan is to get this going on the rd again in time for beach hop 2014 and os nats 2014 in the mean time i found some old shirts and the owners papers for it TALK HERE

To be honest I'm not even really sure why your posting in this thread. being at the opposite end of the island etc

these photos aren't very good but you get the idea. the guards are being soda blasted and painted and ill have them back in a couple of weeks. soooooooo happy that this milestone is passed.

Far out Dave, you have the raddest drugs.

Diesel.

man i love the hole saw got 3 sizes now

shit yarn update, stole one of dan / nothingsfree longchamps 15x9 -20 with 196 45 15 to see how it fits, verdict is will be able to fit a 15x9 -30 with a 205-50 and have it completely perfect. mad score excust the shitty gopro pics, i dont have a lcd on it yet so didnt know what i was taking pics of lol will be getting my wanky hubs all sorted hopefully before nats, and fuel system before the end of the month fingers crossed chur

see above^^

and thanks mike, im pretty keen to get a gold star on my chart.

scrape, scrape, scrape, scrape, scrape, scrape etc repeat for many days.

Golly, what a hassle for something so modern. I hate taking a car somewhere and them being unable to fix or even guess at what's wrong. Best you gift it to me. Swaps for R30.

NOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!! was so looking forward to seeing this.

Just go to a motorbike shop, they have all the ferrels and shit. get a butane torch and some plumbing solder and you will be sweet.

to which VG said Oh My Then we proceeded to drive around and get lost trying to follow the train of cars through busy summertimes mt. traffic and ended up and a typically dodgy location

That is such a sweet stash! You should frame them in your garage.

Judging by the speed that thing popped out he probably has another one in by now/lunch

Ive had my Starlet for 10+ years now and there are already 2 evolutions behind me. EVO1 covers the 4age20v I put in it years ago. EVO2 covers me turning it into a track car. Both these builds and the 3rd (below) can be found on my personal build page located at http://homepages.ihug.co.nz/~quibel/ This thread here will cover the EVO3 build only - This is where I cover the things I did to put in a 3sge BEAMS engine, box, loom, ecu, dash etc etc etc. you can discuss at this link http://oldschool.co....s-kp61-starlet/ This is the start point for EVO 3

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hey hey whats this lol im still on the fence here

Deffo. After all, how long can it take to clean a house?

just stop being a dick? solved. We all know who he is. All the best man

Loading a video onto Youtube now but its taking ages. In the mean time I bring happy news. It sounds wicked and is pretty bloody nippy. Best of all it looks like its gonna make the Nats! First thing after coffee this morning was remove and test the thermostat. It was stuck but a good boiling had it open. Still too slow so I bought a new one as cheap. I decided a race was on the cards. I put them both in the pan, watched the temp and the new one won. It also opened much further. It didn't have the little holes with joggle pins but I drilled some in. Then back in the car and all good. Started it up this arvo and reset the required fuel value back too what it should be, played around with the idle VE points and slowly opened out the idle bleed screw (with my made in a rush cut off 1" long Philips head screw driver and tigged on bit of steel so I could reach the screw on my upside down TB) and got a much better idle. It got better very quickly and is really fun tweaking it. Also disconnected the idle control valve after the first start and it wouldn't start without it. So I guess its doing something.. We both sat there happy and thought better go for a drive. I put the gearstick back in (is always in the way when wiring) and Hannah cleaned the three months worth of shit off the windows. I also cut a new hole for the wiring into the tunnel carpet and adjusted it for the new gear stick position. Into reverse and first thing I noticed was that the heavier clutch with the very lightweight flywheel turned out to be better to use than I was expecting. Clutch certainly grips hard but the Mazda TB with my random sized pulley on the side matches the Viva HC pedal really well- maybe ever so slightly fast in the first 1/4. It revs up so quickly too. And it sounds simply so delicious. Next thing was the speed- even just leaving the campground. Had not yet fitted a servo hose- the vac point on the plenum I have just bunged over. So the first time I used them, especially with all the rust on the discs, was a bit of a push. ooops. Straight away we realised that the fuel table was very rich in most places when cruising. So within about a minute we devised a plan to change it easily. I would just drive, find a rich point and sit on it, say "now" and Hannah would drop the reading in that box by so many points. Very quickly we had a table that was already much better for general shopping car duties. It was obviously a very safe over rich default map supplied with the MSextra code. The original plan was to just drive it to the petrol station then head back home and check things over back at home but we didn't expect it to tune so easily and we were having fun pulling little mini skids in town and revving the engine etc etc general bogan stuff. So lets go for a drive while tuning. After about 15 minutes I thought we could try the Autotune but didn't expect much. That shit is whack (by that I mean "by joves - its good") It works very quickly and over the space of about 10 minutes driving all the majorly rich spots were gone, nice lean areas when off the throttle, just right when we headed up over princess drive hill climb the second time. Its was fair too say I was stoked. The sound. Ohhhh the sound. I love it. So I have taken several little videos and mashed them together but its taking ages to load onto U toobe. Might get Hannah to load it from work. Little jobs to complete tomorrow. there is a vibration, almost in the gear box under load at low revs say 3rd gear exiting a corner. This engine pulss soooo much better down low too. and the sound.... But yeah.. must seal the tunnel up where the wires enter ( I wrote wores..ha ha sounds like whores..he he that would be funny.. "hey there's my Viva and its filled with whores") Also had another small leak after first run up to temp before the drive. In the bottom of the V appeared a tiny puddle. I mopped it up and kept checking and it hasn't returned. Maybe the hoses (ha ha I wrote hose...its like a whore but not quite) self-sealed as some of the hard to get to ones I have refitted the original springee type remove with pliers type ones Looking forwards to driving it again tomorrow. Hopefully its a nice day. It will be. Oh the noise... EDIT: here's the Vid...

I have got my Viva running this afternoon- started on 4th turn of key after constantly bumping the required fuel value up till it would fire. Very relieved and pretty bloody stoked as its my first ever build of an ECU and foray into fuel infection. So earlier today Hannah was filling the rad up with nice new coolant and it started leaking out of the rear hose fitting that goes into the thermostat housing. Bugger! So we drained the rad (bloody happy I added a drain to it as the bottom hose is awkward to remove- its a really tight fit onto the rad). Once drained I removed the fitting and checked the O ring. While off we bled the clutch as better access. Came up good and new uprated clutch is quite a bit heavier than the stock RX7 item I previously had. Re-assembled the pipes, filled the system and this time a small leak from the thermostat housing itself! Bugger!!! Off with the hoses again took off the 'stat housing. The 'stat seals with a rubber ring attached to its perimeter. I refitted it with some sealant. All good now and no leaks. Time to try starting it.. And it started- yes!! It wont idle without ever so slightly pressing down the pedal and yet the afr was very lean at 18-19. So we spent the next 1/2 hour or so playing with the required fuel amount and checking things while being really happy that it started and runs but also aware and slightly daunted at the newness of all this tuning via laptop.. but fuck I should just be happy it works. Quite cool really. Checked the timing and I think its spot on 10 btdc, hard to tell exactly as the idle is off, but yeah my trigger wheel works. Happy about that. Oh, plus the $3 worth of diodes I bought from Jaycar that I added to the coil grounds have given a sweet signal for my old Trisco rev counter and its bang on with the laptop. Didn't know how well this would work. But problems.. After not long the temp crept up and fans came on (sweet as I wasn't sure if I had done the right jumpers inside the ECU. Temp climbed too 90 and fans were not cooling it. then almost 100. Oh. I started to worry that I had got the pipe routing wrong but have checked it and its fine. So I suspect that the thermostat might be faulty. or I have not entered the right values for the temp sensor and its not actually at 90? In the morning I will pull the 'stat out and test it. Should have tested it when it was out damn it!!! Just presumed it was fine. I need to find out what is the normal running temp of these engines too so I can set my fans right. Once its running I can verify the temp with a digital gauge I have. Anyway... The engine sounds awesome!!! even when running out of tune. I have yet to take a video as I was far to concerned with tuning, temps etc. Its quieter exhaust then I thought it might be which is good- sort of a lower burble. And the induction sound will be wicked I think. I have much tuning to do yet and have not found solid info on how to setup the pwm idle control valve anywhere- like what settings should it be for a KL V6 and how does it actually work? Here are some photos I took just before as it stands... Very happy!!! Still much to learn.

Oh right had to spend a bit more time on the exhasut, fiited rubbers and cut it off just after the muffler for a reweld as i wasnt happy with how close it was to the fllor Its all now bolted on and rubberised. Feels pretty solid, hope it dones rattle, but i guess this will never be the final exhaust on it being side piped. So now I need to get on finishing the cooling lines etc. Might go get some gas, and maybe see if its going to fire up i am so fucken scared it wont tho. if it doesnt I dont know what i will do Mounted Exit And one massive fuck off fan

Update time since its cold outside and warm in the truck. I'm tired after a bad nights sleep from worrying about why my brakes wouldn't work. But now I have brakes and all is good. I also have oil pressure on an engine that turns over very nicely indeedy. Hopefully tomorrow morning I'll know whether its a quiet exhaust or not, I have a feeling its gonna have pretty awesome induction sound as the plenum lid might add to the resonance and only has a short tube to a fairly big pod filter. So today after mucking about getting the brakes to work I had to pop into town and get more oil. The engine sits at an angle- the rear an inch or so lower than the front so the sump oil level shown on the front mounted dippy stick isn't accurate. I have calculated through my best guess work and jacking the car up till the engine is about level that low means full. After sorting that out, adding an earth wire for engine I then removed the oil pressure switch and squirted oil in the hole till it ran out- this meant oil made its way back to the oil pump and helped prime it. Then removed the plugs and turned it over. It spins quick and smooth- in fact so smooth and quiet I first thought that the starter hadn't engaged and was just spinning it self over! watched the oil light....watching watching - poof. Out it went. Yes! Fitted plugs and tested it- still a nice quiet fast turn over. Good. A friend turned up in the late afternoon while I was fitting the earth wiring for the ECU to the block. After he left I tried the ECU and no signal? weird?.. I checked everything. Then thought I'd check the earth wires were grounding well. Turns out I had undone the bolt, NOT fitted the wires eyelet and then just refitted the bolt. Facepalm. Earthed it this time and all good. This evening Hannah and I have been reading through the MSextra guides to checks and base settings. All the pins work as should. The temp sensors work, the TPS works etc. Then we went through and calibrated all the calibratable bits. Then it got dark and am tired. I will try starting it in the morning after a few little loose ends to tie. Some photos.. As it is but now with body coloured cam covers (most important) they look lush. The alternator tensioner I made... Exhaust wrapping time = itchy and finally playing with laptops inside a Viva. Note my kitchen drawer runner equipped pull out ECU tray. I did that.. very proud. Me likey

hey....ive done way rougher things without issue......the pulley wasnt cast iron right? (i ask, because all the ones ive machined have been crust iron, the steel ones are usually two pressed steel plates swaged togther, and fall apart when you bore them) unsure if this is telling you how to lick eggs, but you can tell by putting it against a grinder, crudely short red sparks are castiron..so dont weld that with your mig..., massive yellow forking sparks are plain low carbon steel (i.e....weld that shit), stainless is short yellow non forking, weld that shit too you crazy dutchman, it will stick togther if you just want a rough job.

This thing is badass. Only one problem, you misspelled 2J, its not "RB" lols.

This made me lol as the reason I get NOTHING done any of projects is due to mygirlfriend requiring constant attention/time for no apparent reason

How well does these belt tensionery clutch work? like can you leave it idling for ages without it jumping off or wearing it out or anything? also can you do burnouts?

At the Waitakere dump there is a HUGE pallet box overflowing with old mower motors! Surely someone here can make atleast a couple work.