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  1. Well, this was never part of the plan. Mate gave me a message one morning linking a TM auction "This will fit in your shed right" Well yeah...... Cool, I hit buy now. Umm, what? I was now obligated to arrange the pick up of a 3.5t Morbidelli cnc router, condition unknown. Much to my surprise, after arranging an inspection, the staff fired it up and gave me a quick demo, the nightmare of owning more scrap metal was diluted with hope, this may not be a terrible idea. Key issues at this point 1) Power, I live in the central city on 1ph power, I need to get 3ph 2)Transport, my truck has a 3.5t tow rating, that doesn't include the trailer right? 3) Shed space, currently the shed has a divider which was half knocked down to fit the Datsun 4) Sneak past her indoors..... First off, Power The same mate that dumped this on me also offered the loan of a 3ph rotary converter, this coupled with a tame sparky resulted in a trip to the wholesalers, cables, switchboards and various tidbits were stacked up and brought home, I dug a hole and laid a hefty cable. Issue 2 Transport Realising that shifting such a machine from the other side of the city was well outside Bunning's trailer abilities I gave up any thought of 'doin it cheap' and dialled for a HIAB, best move, the truck even managed to trim a few trees I had neglected... Issue 3 Shedspace With a router now sitting outside, multiple trips to the dump were made and the remains of the partition removed, shifting the router in was and interesting task, I had envisaged using dynabolts, 4wd winch and pulleys to get it in, thankfully the loadskates were efficient enough that a ratchet strap was plenty to move it in a more controlled fashion. I now have a very large hunk of steel sitting in the way, at least it makes a good table! Now all this did not take 'a few days' the router sat outside the workshop for at least a week as I toiled away, any hope of sliding it by without the girlfriend noticing was well lost, I may still be in debt a cake or 7. Just needing power hooked up and sign off by the sparky everything was go, until it wasn't. -Sparky had legit delays -Reality of the machine sprung a good deal of remorse. You see, the manufacturer Morbidelli are the type that decide to swim upstream and do thing just different enough that its recognisable but still not quite friendly, while this machine will do cabinet production well, it can't be tricked into making car bits, nor will it accept anything programmed by not their software. Once the sparky had called by and we fired it up, multiple air leaks meant nothing could be run as my small compressor couldn't get the pressure up. Crap. A shining light of the deal is a full folder of schematics, spending far too many weekends reading, I narrowed down the electrical faults, cleared one by one and isolated unrequired solenoid banks, after further poking through manuals it became very clear, this machine was here to make shelves, all else can go to hell. With various tricks and rewiring of circuits, we managed to function test the 3 different spindle drives, all three axes and the vacuum pump, with proof the mechanics are fine, round two can begin. I have ordered the hardware to hand over the controls to Linuxcnc, along with prioritising of the pneumatic controls, this should simplify the machine to something which is far more flexible than the standard function it has run. I also have some plans for the table and work fixtures, this machine is so heavy and rigid, I see no reason it can't mill aluminium and plastics which along with timbers, will be a pretty handy toy to have (well better be for the space it takes up) Stay tuned, as the parts arrive i'll document the conversion from Italian to LinuxCNC
    23 points
  2. Have just had Kaz at KP Upholstery retrim the factory seats i had that had been covered in some sort of velvet material in a past life ha. Picked them up today along with the doorcards. Vast improvement! Very happy how they have turned out, He has recreated the factory interior style which will look the part im sure!
    19 points
  3. Installing the new gear change cable. In my discussions with Melbar some bits were able to be made to match but some of their standard bits were not exactly the same dimensions as the Fiat original so i asked that they be left oversized and i could smoothing things down as needed, and also accounting for possible wear in the original. This was the tips of both ends Old and bung on the left, new on the right, with the original adjustment nut installed. The tip on this end is the crimp and lives in the hollow end of the gear shift column, i filed that down a wee bit (basically the ridges from crimping) to fit and allow the cable to rotate smoothly with just the right amount of length (rounded the tip a bit more) so that the nut can tighten and the cable can still swivel. That then gets installed in the lock nut and the brass screw and crimp installed in the column change shaft, along with a dampening spring and etc and then that whole lot is attached to the steering column. The Melbar guy said hes never seen such over complicated nonsense. The other (gearbox) end is a bit simpler with a clevis end which they didn't have in a size that suited every dimension required, so went with the one that was right except for didnt fit the 6mm thick stamped pivot arm. I ended up filing the arm down which also lost a fair bit of slop from the slightly rounded top of the arm. I also cut down the boot a bit as it was restricting the throw (as Melbar barry said it would) Thats all back on the van and after a fair bit of adjusting it goes into all the gears again */*/*/*/*/* Next job is to sort out the cooling scenario. Original water pump had fixed fan on its nose, but the Cheap replacement water pump is from a 1500 car that runs an electric fan and a different pulley mounting pattern, so i need to put in an electric fan as well. A 12" pusher is the biggest that i could be sure will fit which isnt that big, but the OEM fan is 10" and doesnt have a shroud so i think it will be OK. Sussing out a layout and attachment Been watching too much Puddin's Fab Shop so had to bust out the 'dimple die' Much better strength and possibly airflow Backside, try to seal off the fan like a reverse shroud so most of teh fans push will go through the rad instead of across it Youmay recognise the alloy sheet from other projects like the sign of the year and the shroud on the 125P ute This is the engine side, with the shroud wrapped around, no screws needed. Had the Radiator shop install a bung for a standard FIAT rad fan temp switch so set up will be the same as the ute (this is the factory set up on it) and as ive retrofitted on the 125 sedan,wagon. Just need to wire it in in yet. Had an overflow knocking around for a while and it will work nicely to replace the factory 'full loss' system (as per pic above) And view from the tunnel - this also has a 'floor' i need to install that basically makes an air ram to the rad and the little carb air box thing as well NOMNOMNOM like a Basking Shark. Will be test driving sooooon and turn it around to make a start on some rust (sliding door to start with) Picked these up from @nzstato (i already have his folder, chur bro!) and ill start making some repair panels like a friken boss while im waiting for paper work etc
    16 points
  4. Uh yeah, gidday. Much interest in going for a wee trip around the cape again this year? By this point most of you know what you're in for. Refer years 1-5 Eastcapescapade 1 Eastcapescapade 2 Te Urewera Undertaking 1 Te Urewera Undertaking 2 Eastcapescapade 3 November 11, 12 & 13, 2022 Friday 11th GOOGLE MAPS LINK DAY ONE Start same as years prior, head east onto SH35 via SH2. Accommodation available at TeAraroa Holiday Park and Hicks Bay Motel Lodge. Easy day, mostly tarmac, with option of late afternoon/evening excursion to East Cape Lighthouse. eastcape22 day 1 including lighthouse by John Bell, on Flickr Saturday 12th GOOGLE MAPS LINK DAY TWO Depart TeAraroa region and continue on SH35 inland to Ruatoria, soon after heading along a higher altitude inland route to Gisborne, through forestry and hilly farmland. Very little fuel availability on this day. Fine dining available. Many will stay at the Waikanae Beach Motel. eastcape22 day 2 by John Bell, on Flickr Sunday 13th GOOGLE MAPS LINK DAY THREE Leave Gisborne and head inland to Rere Falls and Rockslide. Windy gravel climb up to Matawai. Onto Motu Rd through village, gravel climb and descent back to SH35 on coast. Leisurely tarmac return to starting point via Opotiki. eastcape22 day 3 by John Bell, on Flickr Might have to up the support vehicle koha to something like $30, I dunno, everything got dear. ENTRY FORM PLEASE AND THANK YOU https://www.emailmeform.com/builder/form/6fba8404a7ut4E4fLd Feel free to fizz away and share some pictures etc till I get the rest figured out. Entrants - as of 11:21pm 10-11-22 @johnnyfive @Hemi @anglia4 @bucket barry @Itchybear @WankBankA100 @Duke Blackwood @64valiant withdrawn @Truenotch @iwanttobeamole @NZDMAE86 withdrawn @Johno s Daniel W Greg H Connor D James F withdrawn @sentra @peteretep @Tumeke @Tumeke 's bro withdrawn Chris R (different to @chris r ) @TimShadboltfan27 @slacker.cam Darren P withdrawn Matt N Brian S Dallas S withdrawn Alan H-R @tortron @Beaver Shaun M Keithy Rob F @EEL BIRD @Pee Dubs @BLIZZO @Archetype
    5 points
  5. It's bloody cold across here in Queensland at the moment, so we decided to leave the Mustang languishing in the booth for another day. Can't wait to get it out into the sunlight. Not that easy to take decent pics in the booth, but here are a few to give you a taste of what is to come. Rear quarter vertical panel has the fresh paint and everything above including the small horizontal panel under the window is the old paintwork. Absolutely seamless transition. Grant is a bloody legend.
    5 points
  6. If I can get my bike up and back I could wrangle this I reckon. Pellets looked like a good option from the Auckland crew. I wonder if @ThePog will be ready by then. Front end disc conversion started yesterday on the NBC110...
    5 points
  7. I started building the wiring harness this thing actually needs! Sooooo, let me immediately pivot and tell you a story of ECU's and their mounts. I've got 3 ECU's planned for this thing. To get the thing fired up, leak checked, heat cycled, maybe a couple of drives around I've got a stock super early S6 8bit POS ECU. I've actually got a couple, once with a case and one without. To drive the thing a little longer term, and maybe get a little more jam out of it I've got a Power FC. yes, I can *hear* the eye-rolls, they're antiquated, old, past their used-by, and all that... But, TBH, that still work just fine in a pretty mild setup. Add to this that I've got (borrowed, as they seem to be genuinely hard to buy?) a datalogit to go with it, and there is still pretty active development around tuning these, I should be able to get the thing going pretty well on this :-). In its final form though, I want an e-throttle on it, and I've had a Link Fury kicking around on the shelf for a couple of years, so this will find its way in here. This also has the benefit of a built in wideband controller. I don't really like external wideband controllers that rely on analogue voltages :-/.\ I only want to build one wiring harness for the thing though, so it has to cater for all three conditions. This has driven the design of a harness that uses the original style of connectors at the ECU end, but also quite a few 'auxiliary' connectors in the cabin to cater for mods and the different installations. When I stated building the harness, it was pretty clear that I really, really needed to know where these connectors were going to be mounted. I contemplated just eyeballing it, but know I'd be annoyed later... So, needed to mount all this crap, for all the configurations! Obviously the stock ECU is easy, it just bolts in. Its mounts are actually a little hacked up, but as I'm not going to keep it in there long, eeeeehhhh, its fine. Having this is pretty crucial though, as it let me see how much space is under the passengers kick panel there for mounting all sort of crap. Pleasingly, and quite uncommonly IME, there is actually a heap of space! I scanned the OEM ECU, got a decent mesh out, aligned it in CAD and used it to get the mount point locations. This let me CAD up mounting plates for both the Power FC and the Link Fury. I went a little ham-spec on the Link Fury mount, as its the final one the car will end up with, so should be a nice piece of kit. The Power FC one is a little more 'thrown together', but still tidy enough. Low res version of the scan of the original ECU. Combined with a 2D scan of the power FC backing plate, and a sheet metal replacement modelled up. Quick and dirty. It *just* fit within the work area of the water jet at work (its a baby). Cut it out, folded it up, and screwed it in place of the original ECU cover. After a quick test fit, its a go-er. There is heaps of space on the other side of the new mount for other items too, like the datalogit, and wideband controller. Bit of jiggery-pokery to get everything lined up, drill a few holes... Waiting on the molex connectors for the wideband (14point7 SLC Free 2) to show up so I can finish the wiring. Not worried about the display on it being totally hidden as it'll send its linear output to the datalogit where I can view it on the laptop, and its simulated narrowband output back to the OEM ecu or Power FC via their main connectors. The trim even still fits! Score! ;-). 100% going to have to get/make a torch to go in the holder that looks like an original flare. Right.... One aftermarket ECU down, the other one to go! Little bit more thought involved for this, I wanted to integrate an OEM connector body onto the ECU mount, along with all the auxiliary connections for additional sensors, e throttle, accel pedal, CAN, and the rest. It's kind of a plug-in adaptor and mount all rolled in together. This is what I came up with. I bought an OEM connector housing, and have trimmed the pins (they're only available in a PCB mount version). Have designed and 3d-printed a backshell, and after the wires are soldered to the pins the whole thing will be potted with RT125 or similar. This one actually too two tries, ECU wasn't high enough to clear that plastic wiring channel the first time. Second time was a charm though, and the trim still fits! Have done the wiring design on this... Actually doing the physical wiring on it will be kind of a chore, there is quite a bit too it. Worth it for a nice solid solution though :-). Will start of the wiring of that tomorrow I think, atleast do all the power supply, CAN and any shielded stuff on it what requires annoying splices. Soooooo, I can get to building the actual harness... ummm, soon? Honestly, excited about it :-).
    4 points
  8. Used my 12T press to install the new gear on old shaft Popped it back in and went for a quick hoon up to 50km/h using GPS app on phone and it is spot on 50km/h on the dash. Pretty chuffed with that for the correct speedo but more importantly the correct reading on odometer as this has just clicked over 170,000kms which is a rare find for a 80s vehicle these days!
    4 points
  9. Hey yeah tentatively registering my cheese for the greatest event ever. May even dust off the two stroke for old times sake. Can i be that hardout adventure bro that suggests why not Waikaremoana AND East Cape ?
    3 points
  10. Oh yeah, plenty of time to procrastinate Ken
    2 points
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  12. Can you believe it though, I can imagine doing this by mistake once, but 6 years running? You animals.
    2 points
  13. I still haven't touched the my CRM, durp.
    1 point
  14. Registering a tentative solid "Fuck yeah". I loaded my new bike up onto the work table last night to start into the prep. I am fizzing to get it running.
    1 point
  15. ExPrEsSiNg InTeReSt from the Red* Flaggotz MC *flag collour may vary from pictured product. Batteries and Ken Doll sold separately.
    1 point
  16. Keen to get dirty again. Also wouldn't mind getting some mud and dust from the road. Gigidy.
    1 point
  17. Thanks for hosting my ass and the help on the day @Flauski I'm stoked we got to go for a drive together and can't wait for the next hoon
    1 point
  18. Ah dammit, I knew there was something I was supposed to be doing. Give me a moment.
    1 point
  19. How good! So stoked for you it's getting closer to being fully complete. Cheers for the hoons. Wish I could afford the bags, ride comfort was unreal and unexpected (never been in a car with modern bags and its awesome.) All the: Comfort of standard height with no body roll Ride height of cut springs without the spine jarring over bumps. Shout out to Ace Auto Wreckers for hooking us up that alternator. Legends.
    1 point
  20. Fitted up a few of the 14 n 1 system. oil pressure, water temp, boost hooked up. Volts is picked up via power hook up. waiting for my fuel T adaptor to arrive for the fuel pressure sensor. dropped the oil, cut the filter open. there are a few tiny specks in there, but no flakes. running around mid to high 40psi oil pressure at idle. need to get hold of a timing light to check the timing.
    1 point
  21. So I got to do hoons around manfeild with the Circle Jerk Crew a week back. I expressed some interest, they said sweet so I wrote a list and got into getting it ready. I drove it heaps leading up to the event (not legal and seen lots of cops with no issues) and on the day the alternator frizzed itself and i thought we were done. Thankfully @Flauski made some calls and we found a replacement and got it sorted and back out. Car went well with speedo touching 170kph (how accurate this is I don't know) and eventually the brakes got spongy and power steering squirted under the bonnet. Drove it to and from the track and even got a lap in around feilding. Was good seeing familiar faces and meeting others from here and else where.
    1 point
  22. Took this out to the south coast to go see some seals. Saw seals: Found a water fall: Nice.
    1 point
  23. Tided up this rusty piece of junk that had been sitting in the woodshed for years
    1 point
  24. Sent the gear shift cable off to http://www.melbarcables.co.nz/, and have had a couple of chats to Dave already about it along the lines of "so im going to have to use a #4 cable and crimps, so can the diameter of the outer cable be larger?", and "i have these clevis pin mounts, will that work?" so im happy its in good hands and all will eventually be well. Once its back that will mean the mechanicals are as good as they will probably ever be, so get on to applying to reuse the plates, take it down for a VIN check etc, and try jack up some joker to agree to look at/sign off the rust repairs. I also poked around on the internet for a 12" fan and ended up getting a Davies Craig (actually a Panasonic, but not complaining) from https://nzairfilter.co.nz/ and also an K&N filter as the factory one is missing, for all of the HPs. Very happy with their prices and service too. Factory filter housing is MIA but should be able to make some sort of can to give it cold air from the intake on the otherside. Good view of the aliex water temp sender pipe thing for the aliex gauge set I Would have preferred a larger puller set up, but there's just not enough clearance between the rad and the engine (water pump pulley bolts) on that side. 12" was the biggest i could be sure would fit on the front of the rad too, and glad i erred on the smaller side as its pretty tight! Check out that cold air intake for the carb. Ordered in a set of finest chinese gauges, to try triangulate whats going on, i think the oil pressure gauge is DOA, so will steal the one from the ute which doesnt have a sender hooked up yet... Volt meter reads 1v high according to my voltmeter, lol also did some upholstery, and 'fixed' the big hole in the drivers seat Getting there...
    1 point
  25. Pretty upsetting to find in my driveway this afternoon. Must have happened last night as it was normal when i used it yesterday Bloody lucky they didn't get in as I had more stuff than usual in there. Given me a bit of a wakeup call to keep shit hidden ( I'm usually a lot more careful) I'm guessing something spooked them as there was about 15k worth of building equipment sitting there. They didn't even damage the lock enough for it not to work Tools have been put away like they should have and looks like the van is narrow enough to tuck inside the gates with some creativity.
    0 points
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