Mattt

I picked some new wheels. Might upset some purists but I needed the size to get the right look otherwise it was always going to be high rolling. At least they’re genuine Japanese rays wheels....
 

Right, babies 2 weeks old now so can continue playing with this thing.

Worked our I’m still not getting full throttle. It goes well but not as fast as it should. 
 

Had a look at the accelerator pedal, found the problem.

FUCK OFF, seriously?!

Never have I spoken a truer word.....

Made a nice new one and gave it more pedal travel. Guess what, full throttle now actually makes power, real power! Wheel spinning, ear grinning neck turning power. I’m a happy man.

This arrived today!

I always wanted a really nice wooden steering wheel for a classic and after uming and ahing over a nardi I decided to go with this momo Indy. I think it looks the part. A shame the rest of the interior doesn’t match yet.

also found some inspiration for what I would like to do with wheels and jdm lip.

Got my fender mirrors on today. Really happy with how they look. 
Spaced out the accelerator cable so that I actually get the carby to open up. Wasn’t even pulling secondaries on the way home. Now she goes pretty damn well. 
Will get onto gauges and tidying up some of the little odd jobs next.

The sparky attacked it today and tidied up spaghetti junction. Got everything sorted really nicely and I finished off the bits I needed to. 
with some fresh fuel and a hint of brake clean in the air filter she sparked into life with a fairly distinctive Bridgeport brap. 
Once I’ve fitted the gauges and run the wiring well wrap the wires nicely.

got to take it up the road very quickly, seemed to be running well.

will drive it home tomorrow night and take it for a wof check on Saturday. It currently has a green sticker so will have to go to somewhere like vtnz. Yay.

I managed to make some genuine progress on this thing today. I got about 3 doors worth of weather strips and bailey rubber in before getting a message the parts I had been waiting for we’re available for me to pick up. So I rushed over the other side of town and grabbed them. 
Fuck the weather strips, let’s get this bitch running!

well, that didn’t quite happen. But I made a lot of progress on it. 
engines in and bolted up, I haven’t got proper engine mounts yet so I used a couple of blocks of high wear plastic to solid mount for now. Wanted to make sure it all fits nicely before ordering rubber mounts. New plugs, leads on, coils in, fuel line on, found the fuel line I had from regulator to carb was too short so will have to get some more of that tomorrow. 
Fabricated the oil cooler mounts and bolted in the oil cooler. Found the fittings from the oil cooler are -8 and everything else is -10 so will have to order new ones tomorrow. Positioned radiator to drill the mounting tabs. Modified radiator hoses to fit. 
Still to do before trying to start up:

Fit starter

drill out water temp sender to actually fit a normal sized sender unit 

block off various heater hoses not currently used

bolt up driveshaft

bolt exhaust back together

fit fuel pump 

fit battery

wire up coils

fit radiator fan and wire up

source and fit -10 oil cooler fittings

Bolt up gearbox shifter

seems like a lot but shouldn’t really take that long. 

Once I’ve got her running and I’m happy with it I’ll start tidying up the engine bay and make it look like less of a mess

Right there’s a bit of a delay with getting the engine in as I’m waiting for the previous owner to supply the sump and custom breast plate to go in her. If that goes on too long I’ll just modify the existing one as it won’t take too much to make it fit and the customize the breast plate but it will save me a bunch of hassle if I can just get the bits that were in it before. In the mean time I have been collecting goodies. 
I have all new bailey channel rubber arriving tomorrow, front and rear window rubbers arriving, door rubbers and weather strips. The hardest thing for me to find atm is the chromed plastic window rubber insert. Working through that with basis in Blenheim at the moment. Great company for all this old window shit.

Fender mirrors arrive early next month. 
I have my eye on some advan a3a wheels but I need to try not to spend too much more for the next couple of months so may just keep an eye on them and see how they pan out. 
 

new oil cooler lines and fittings

new Ali radiator and fan

temporary gauges just to make sure engine has oil pressure etc. will replace with good ones when I redo dash completely in the future

as I plan to build a new Ali fuel tank I have a new fuel level sender and gauge

and various bits and pieces as required to make it all run like fuel pump and reg etc

none of this is very exciting for other people but I don’t have much else to report at this stage........

Man this things got a history. 
I’ve spoken to the owner that originally fitted it with a 12A in 2004 that sent me some photos of some actual photos. Then I found  a couple of market place listings with photos from 6 years ago complete and then 4 years ago  as a rolling body. Then a friend of mine who is close with the couple I bought it off sent me some “photo shoot” pics they did when they had it painted. I’m not sure whether to feel honored or humiliated haha

12A Bridgeport with mx5 gearbox. Complete, rebuilt then put into a project car that never got finished. Has been run but probably done 10km. Now to find a radiator, correct oil cooler to fill the hole the previous owner made in the valance, fuel pump, regulator and modify the front sump to a rear. Then just hope she starts.

First order of business today was to remove the stickers. 

next thing was to address the window they’ve “never been able to fix”.

Found that the rod from the external door lock barrel to the door lock mechanism had popped out. Go to put it back into the plastic and found that the plastic was worn. Added a bit of tape for now and pushed it back in and it’s not going anywhere atm. Window now goes up and down. Sweet.

found a few more things to add to my list of issues to sort. The felt tracks at the top of the doors are totally stuffed and the rear window has had something etched into the glass free hand. Not sure if you can polish scratches out of glass efficiently but when I go to do the rear rubber I may try find a new back window.

Also my old sun visor turned up from Wellington today. This was on my old crown. Thinking I may try and narrow it a bit and fit it. Not 100% sure though yet.