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Took it out for first run in today, face is sore from smiling.

A few more pics Visiting Vauxhalls And a sweet wagon Madbuz and I were outnumbered by GMs!

big block 5e, cut and weld bell housing - W box, kp60

They stopped counting today after 500+ cars arrived. Massive turn out with lots if freebies which is always cool. Heaps of everything on display and was nice to see a good amount of Euro and Jappas on show. See you all next month!

You'll need a site induction, hazard awareness and correct PPE.

Post up your pictures of things you have made with your bare hands I'll start with the pieces I machine up to make my ex manifold collectors

cant see a problem with that. What sort of car is it?

New wheels are gonna look awesome! Nice that you can bypass the 4x114 tax

Time for an update. Less than two weeks out from Nats and a trip to the South Island I thought I should do some prep on the car. Nothing like a deadline to makes things happen. Haven't done much on this for ages, nor a big one for updating a project thread. Today this happened. Issue 1: Gearbox. The car had a sweet running gearbox, no crunches, but it would jump out of gear which was dumb. I have many spares, so found what seemed to be the best one and the last owner said it was sweet. In it goes - has been about 10 years since I last changed a gearbox in the car, on a garage floor. Went well and all done by lunchtime. They're tiny, crappy gearboxes (4L oil pack for size reference) Issue 2: Diff. So the standard diff is really badly worn and was leaking, so I assumed it had insufficient oil in it. Yep, and it had the constitution of bad gravy. Teaspooned out the swarf from the bottom of the housing. This will need replacement one day if I can find a good one (have some spares somewhere). Issue 3: Cooling. It was getting hot at idle and on a decent climb up a hill, not so good for the trip ahead so popped out the radiator and took it to the rad man. Also gathered up some new cooling bits, hoses, thermostat, etc. Will reassemble when the radiator comes back. Also have a larger mechanical fan off a later model 1256 engine. Issue 4: Music. When I got this it had a single speaker, AM only radio that worked intermittently. When buying gear oil today, Supercheap had headunits for $65 on sale, and so a purchase happened, fitted it up to the original single speaker. Will try to get some boxed 6x9s for the rear footwell as there isn't really anywhere to put speakers, and I don't want to cut up the rear parcel tray. Yay! music can now come from discs, iDevices or the FM band. High tech. Thought about doing a discreet install, but looks okay under the dash. I put some new carpet in the boot because it was old and rank, when using it as a template on the new carpet the wind caught it and wrapped a 40 year old shity, mouldy carpet around my face. So foul. Next tasks, get the radiator back and into the car, sort out the cooling system, give it a tune up, test drive and hope the gearbox is a good one, then get a wheel alignment. Off to the shower with a bar of Solvol soap to get all the British-ness off me... Nats ahoy!

Its a work in progress but getting there slowly.

haha.. bring on Marahau

Dort

My first attempt at a manifold last year.. they sure do take some time if you are a novice like me, and pairing the ports for twin scroll doesn't make it any easier.

Yep same venu if raining.

No wood. Interior was grey. I dont miss that car at all haha

Will do my best to make it, would be awesome to get some decent pictures of my car. If raining, still show up to Hilton street?

My pick would be silverdale, there's a few sheds up there that are a lot cheaper than albany ways. Not sure who to talk to, maybe just have a drive around and look at some for lease signs or browse trademe. [unrelated]Chris is the man[/unrelated]

So close to being finished though man! Haven't considered just getting an auto sparky to finish it off for you? I doubt there would be more than a couple of hours labour. Probably easier to sell running and complete too?

A great meet ! Good food and yarns ! Weather but held out for us

oh man I want to come to a meet now, maybe next month

Sure does. BTW, cheers for the sausages, Pete.

Datsun looks soooooooooooooooo cute and tiny......

Oh well what do we have here...She went straight through a WOF!!! So now is WOF'd and reged. However drove it for half hour on Friday which is the furtherest iv driven it since getting it going and its got a keeping cool problem.. Maaayyy have done a head gasket potentially.

Managed to get some good used coupe rear quarter and door glass sorted so that's all good. I swapped a spare set of tail garnish off an rx2 for a genuine Italian 48 Ida from USA so that's a mini result. I need to change the chokes and tubes but that's no issue. I gave it a tear down and clean so it's looking nice and I even plonked my K&N filter in top. Also I bought new rx4 13b old school housings that have been polished and have had some exhaust port work done already. I. On the hunt for 12a tall port plates now and 13b rotors etc. I've been looking for a set of rx2 steelies and have had sets offered to me for $400. I'm it too keen to pay that much so I Sussed a set of 2 off a trademe advert $60 and as luck would have it my mate has 2 on his mazda 1000 so that's me sorted. Hoping to get stuck into the left to right conversion over Easter. Pics will be taken and beers will be had.

Done //oldschool.co.nz/index.php?/topic/42499-random-fabrication-thread/

since we are on inlet manifolds. this has come back to haunt me. new owner is going rwd chassis, so needed to be cut up (again) for rwd format. shortened runners to work better with his cams and turbo /because drag car was going to go in another direction with this. but seemed like a good opportunity for more dual plenum testing. (v2) cone is made from a peice of 2" tube. ps: i cnc'd this with my hands. was there not a fabrication thread somewhere? if not there should be

A SR20det inlet manifold in the build

Went in this last night, what a super choice car. It just feels right.

IMG_9048 by SnoozinRichy, on Flickr Latest.

Live feed of MS Paint sketches I'm guessing we won't be allowed to pose under the suspended container and pretend like we are lifting it?

keen to build a 9M extension ladder with only two rungs at the top.

Doubt it or why would they have them there? Just make the ladder 2 rungs shorter... A heu heu heu heu

Soooo top of the page! So back to pictureless ranting about tech related gibberish. There's been a lot of speculation about what the factory Toyota ECUs can or cannot do, in terms of being self learning etc. Since I've had the OBD diagnostic program hooked up, and then using the program called 'Torque' on Android, I've had access to an unparalled WEALTH of nerdy information about the engine. You can set up virtual gauges, or datalog ANY engine parameters you can think of. So something I've just found it useful for just today, is testing an injector size swap. The standard injector size for the Redtop 3SGE engine is 315cc. The standard injector size for the Altezza 3SGE is 340cc. One of my redtop injectors busted itself, and they are difficult to find. So I thought I would swap in a set of Altezza injectors and see what happens. Being a larger injector, you would obviously expect it to cause the engine to run rich. I set up two gauges on my tablet, one which monitors the short term fuel trim (this is like real time adjustments via the oxy sensor) and the long term fuel trim (This is where if something is lean or rich often enough at a particular load/rpm, it will adjust the actual value on the map) I fitted the new injectors, and took the car for a drive. After a while it showed that the engine sensed it was running too rich, so was incrementally reducing the amount of fuel going in. -1%.... -2.4% .....-5% etc and then eventually settled on -7.8% and didnt budge from there. Which is interesting, because.... 340cc * 7.8% = 26.5cc 340cc - 26.5cc = 313.5cc The ECU successfully guessed the size of the new injectors, to within 1.5cc and compensated perfectly for it, within an hour of driving the car. Mind blown!

Surprisingly economical! On a trip to Thames im averaging 9.0 litres and 0.5 police stops per 100km. I went through my wof and reg yesterday (and have the stickers, receipts, wof sheets etc in the car) However it hasnt gone through on the system that the cops look at yet apparently. So the guy was like "Wait a minute, this says it was last wof/reg in 2007, and the car is white. Can you open the bonnet please" He had bit of a look around under the bonnet etc, and goes "Are you sure this car used to be white, I dont see any white bits" And I was all like "I know, right?!" *smugface* He was also asking me questions about why the zeros on the numberplate didnt have a strikethrough thing, but the ones on the reg sticker did. Honestly how do you answer such a dumb question? It's a different font because it's one of the older plates, I'm sorry if that breaks your brain officer. lol.

Take a good look at that concrete - that's the last time that shit is ever going to NOT be stained by British or Italian oil leaks. Goood jerb tho son.

Just take it away piece by piece shawshank style. Handful in the sock each day and deposit it on the ground at work.

Friday after work i set off for Auckland. Everything was fine until the Karangahake Gorge. On right hand turns, I could feel a little vibration in the floor which progressed to vibration in the steering wheel. A few kilometers later, i figured it would be best to "check engine" and discovered steam coming from that damned CV boot i never got round to fixing. There was nothing to be done, so i continued driving. The vibration was getting pretty bad by Ngatea, part of me wanted to pull over and investigate the problem, but a larger part of me knew it would be wasted time that i should spend heading north. So i continued driving, perservered with the vibration which was getting far more serious. I stopped for gas and the car slowly groaned to a halt with a squeeking screech coming from the drivers front axle. At this point, the outer CV was too hot to touch...so i decided not to touch it, filled up with fuel and continued driving. By this point it was picking with rain and starting to get dark. Coming up the Bombays, the front CV was getting REEALLY hot. The vibration had progressed to a violent banging by this point. Backing off the throttle as i crested the hill, the car tried to change lanes by itself and the violent banging turned into a big shuddering rattling the dashboard into a blur. I was applying about quarter of a left turn on the wheel just to keep the car tracking straight. It was getting to be brown pants time. I worried about the axle coming through the floor and amputating my legs, i worried about crashing, i worried about how much longer the aged front tires could survive this punishment, i worried about being stranded on the motorway in the dark. Luckily traffic was very light, so i slowed the pace and after coasting down the other side of the bombays, the joint cooled enough to be safely drivable again. I limped into Papakura at about 9:30pm, into a friends garage and began work. I popped the inner DOJ off the gearbox, cut the last shreds of the outer CV boot away and saw the joint was very stiff to move and blackened with burned grease. The plan was to remove the axle and run in rear wheel drive (locked center diff). A quick call to J5 and he informed me that the axles on these brumbys dont like to come out without a fight. I wasnt equipped for much of a fight so decided to try and smash it out by reinstalling, shifting into 4wd and doing donuts at full lock. That didnt work and i discovered my rear diff makes one hell of a racket, so off to bed and I figured i would see what happened in the morning. The next day I had an excellent idea. The entire problem was caused by bad lubrication to the CV joint...so why dont i lubricate it. I didnt bring any CV grease, but CRC is just as good right? So before leaving in the morning, i doused the outer CV in CRC and headed off down the road. To my amazement, the noise was getting better and the steering was much nicer. By the time i got to Neds house, I had run on the motorway for 10kms and the car was driving a lot better. I sprayed on another load of CRC and continued north to the starting point for the cannonball. The car drove fine and i shifted it into 4wd regularly to relieve pressure on the front axles. The rear diff sounded so awful, i didnt want to run in 4wd for too long lest it shit itself also. By mid morning, with regular applications of CRC every 20-30km, the driving situation was back to a very usable car. By mid afternoon, i was lubricating the joint every 50-100km and it had taken on a shiny polished appearance with a slick coating of oil (albeit very thin oil). The car drove great and whenever i felt the shuddering coming on, a few miles in 4wd cooled the axle off enough to re-lubricate and carry on driving. At around lunchtime, the engine developed a slightly feral misfire. I suspected the alternator i had swapped in a month ago wasnt much good. So at the next stop, i got the multimeter out and found 14v at idle, raising to around 16.8 at 3000rpm. Good thing i packed the old/spare alt! I slammed it in at the Dotcom mansion and SUCCESS, it sat on a nice stable 13.8-14.2v through most of the rev range. The misfire was gone and later in the day, I trusted the car enough to hit Pukekohe racetrack. I think Ned turned a bit green on the track, but it was an absolutely intense experience racing down the back straight trying to catch a GSA full of GC's, a Patrol full of guys in camo suits with a gun turret on the roof whilst getting passed by Ferraris and Aston Martins. By Sunday afternoon when i was headed home, i managed a 200km stretch before needing another dose of CRC on the axle. I made it home and am super thankful to Jesus and the CRC company for another fantastic product. Ive got a few more things to do on the Brumby, but it can all wait because I've achieved the big goal. I did the Cannonball run! Now i can let the bank balance recover and think about what i want to do next.

bulkhead plug arrived and got a couple of bulkhead brake fittings so got a bit high tech with a cnc and a custom made o-ring courtesy of sentra dave. The brake fittings are for the pressure lines from the new pedal box, a separate unit will be made to mount the reservoirs with lines dropping down from above. Unfortunatetly the pedal box doesnt quite fit up so a it of cutting, folding and welding will be required, but thats next weeks job

So have been bevering away at this in the spare moments. Have had it on the hoist and checked it over, essentially no major rust under the car has never had a patch in its life by the looks!! Benefit of being in a shed its whole life i guess. Underside was pretty filthy and surface rustyish so stripped it but was nothing major thankfully, couple of coats of underseal and its good to go. Have got new tyres coming so am getting the rims sandblasted and painted before they go on, Getting closer to a wof now! List of shit left to do: -New tyres/paint rims -Wire up fuel pump properly -Refit exhaust -Road test -Pump up suspension Then its good to go! http://oldschool.co....rwest-bmc-1300/ to talk smack! Few pics for you ! Mid strip Finished product How it sits at the moment!

Pic for fred, I cleaned the container that day, don't judge me.

So cleaned all the birds nests out of the engine bay last night. Checked all the vitals and chucked a new fuel pump and some gas in. and Wallaahhh started like a dream. Engine runs sweet as the day it was last run so thats good. Drove it out of the shed and cleaned 10 years of grime and dust off and had a closer look over it...Not in too bad a nick for its age!

Already using them on the front but the back has special tophats to keep the spring captive, otherwise I have to use a longer spring and it jacks it up heaps. Found these. http://www.flyinmiata.com/index.php?deptid=4537&parentid=0&stocknumber=13-59000