kp60nick

I can't thank @chris r enough. Hes worked his wiring wizardry which is way over my head. i MąKë ŧiɲGs §Hinie 🤪. Things have definitely snowballed and have potentially gone ott but thats always the way it goes with me. Still pushing hard to get to os drags but Im feeling confident.

Bump this Fred. Did any one get back to about this? Just got my te37 anodising removed was going to paint them white but look great silver can only imagine how great they would look polished.

@RUNAMUCK just platz

Haha I feel bin shame now! I promise I will clean it.

Im missing heaps of detailed stuff. Its been a crazy few months taking everything apart cleaning, painting rebuilding. So many hurdles along the way lots of things I haven't photographed. One major part has been steering rack rebuild, it had play in the center and once it was tightened to take the play out the outer ends would bind. So it needed a new shaft but there's no replacement parts for them. After trying one of the power steering shops in Auckland they couldn't help me. Strangely they kept asking about the value of the car weather it was worth my time to continuing with it because the parts and labor would be more than the price of the car. Got a second option from Porana power steering. He came up with a solution that didn't involve a new shaft and while he was at it he removed power steering for me to tidy up the bay. Next part was camber tops. Went down to my favorite suspension shop in town Race shock specialists. I should have done this when he built my struts originally but oh well. Because of the extra height added from. The camber plate and bearing he had to shorten the body to keep it all the same height. Super happy with the results looks like it will have around 2.1⁰ negative. End of part 4.

Time to assemble engine and bring it home to put it the hole. As normal Denis from Terei brothers in kelston sorted me out with my gold addiction. Purchased a new clutch and light flywheel. Bolted gearbox to block and slid the engine under and engine craned it up to the mounts. everything got a coat of black or silver reassembled rear suspension. Repainted the panhard bar Cusco blue. Ended up repainting front sway bar Cusco blue as well, had heaps left over Still yet to paint rocker cover. Need the temperature to be above 16⁰ End of part 3.

Time for engine out. When I was doing the tear down. I noticed the tyres had hit the corner of the front tubs potentially with old suspension but if there was a time to sort it out it would be now. I had no intention of repainting the engine bay but when pulling engine out some of the spider rust on front crossmember had started to pox out again. Plus with the tubs needing some attention a quick flick of paint over the whole bay didnt seem to bad. So another garage paint job. Ended up painting the whole underside of the car again. End of part 2

June 2026 Sooooo started the engine swap. With a deadline of being finished before os drags. Nothing special just a low kms d16 non vtech. Not going to open it up just do timing belt, water pump, gaskets and seals. It started with just a normal tidy up engine block and all engine accessories. I prefer to paint the block if you get a good adhesion it doesn't flake and you dont get the oxidation of the aluminum. Ive found a good basecoat colour that looks fairly close to vapor blasted aluminum. Before I pulled the d13 engine there was a few things that needed attention. First was the back half of the body hadn't been painted on the underside. Jacked it up as high as I could Removed the axle rear suspension and fuel tank Masked up the car in the garage prepped and painted the floor. While the rear end was out it all got a tidy up of satin black. End of part 1.

Did you end up removing any metal from the firewall? Always excited when I see updates from you. Hi im Nick. Im addicted to taking photos of platz.

@bigfoot I can highly recommend this.

Im panicking a little bit.

So keen! Started prepping the logo start of June.

Man I should be getting motivated by you! Haha In saying that I've actually made a small amount of progress. I Will need to update build thread. I bet you're looking forward to those one year wofs?

So good!

It's been a long time between posts. at the end of last year I thought it was time to do something about the sponge suspension. I went to see Anthony at race shocks specialist in penrose and let them work their magic on some new struts. The logo is a super unique strut design. So it had to be custom made. (BC do sell coilovers but very expensive just for fronts when you include shipping from the uk.) We came up with a plan to make bilstein body's fit the logo knuckles. I've decided to drop it a further 20mm at the moment to try 5kg front springs and got some cobra springs made for the rear also in 5kg. I can't recommend cobra springs in chch anymore. Their service is exceptional and super fast turn around for a custom part. Subaru legacy rear shocks I'll start at the os drags. Car obviously ran fine as it's basically the same as hoping on a motorway on ramp. Last minute decision. I decided to run the new wheels I purchased, the aero disc with a a539 175/60r14. One thing I noticed on the drive to the track was that when de accelerating at motorway speed the car felt really twitchy but when accelerating was fine. Ended up going a tiny a bit faster than last year with a blistering 18.1. Did well in the dyo but played it too safe and lost out to Simon in the Cortina. The following weekend was the last hd auto day for the year. Didn't do much more prep other than adding a bit more stiffness to my adjustable sway bar mount, cleaned it again and put gas in it. I decided to take a van load of spare wheels because I wasn't feeling super confident in the new setup. First time out was crazy. The lift off over steer with the narrow 175 on the rear and maybe a combination of new stiffness basically a completely new car. I was trying to work through it driving wise picking up my balls and no lift but boy that got me into trouble. I had a big oh shit moment on turn 5. That was enough to make me re think and change set up before going back out again. The decision was made to put 20mm spacers on and the 185 nevovas on the gram lights. Which made a world of difference back to more controlled. After that I had parked it up over summer, hit a few coffee and car meets and that was it. Until just recently it had been living outside I finally got the ute out of the garage and gave the logo some time in Dry storage. It had always had a soft brake pedal. Eventually it worked but always once you where at the bottom of the pedal. with 13/16 master I can only assume it was soft for the old nanas that drove them. Honda hrv came with a larger 15/16 master cylinder that bolts directly in. So down to my local friendly pick a part and pulled a master and got a rebuild kit from repco bolted it up and tested it. Big difference, feels great. a lot firmer and more up top. So last minute decision to go to the track and test it out. Once again needed to gain confidence in the car so didn't push it super hard. Didnt even check lap times just went and had fun. Ended up having a great day with an awesome set up with Rhys and the family. For me growing up as a track kid watching my dad race, its cool now seeing the circle of life repeating. Now it's at the stage where it feels like it needs more power. Ive got a few months till os drags so a re power is on the cards. To be continued...