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Barry time Fill with jb weld And the cold idle valve port I'll let it cure overnight and carefully file/sand it down tomorrow and hope like fuck it stays and doesn't fall in and lunch the motor

Got a prelude throttle as its slightly bigger Made a cold idle valve block off plate Fitted it and had a 2k idle/vacuum leak That'll do it.

For once the Internet didn't lie. Orthia bar top and crv lower. And installed. I'm glad past me put the flange where I did as it made it easier to get swaybar in and out. Will have to go for a spirited drive somewhere to see if it feels any better

Pick a part mission was a success. Someone had mostly removed a crv swaybar so I pulled the last link off and nabbed it. The Internet says they are the same as the "type r" bars at 26mm thick. It's certainly thicker than the existing one, for $16 I figured I'd give it a shot. I'm hoping it'll make it a bit 'flatter' around the corners. A fiends in the states with a orthia has confirmed the rear trailing arms from the shittles are exactly the same as the orthia ones so that makes me thing the rear subframe will be the same too. So all going well if I came make a 'bolt in' bracket on the orthia/shuttle they should interchange Also nabbed some obd1 ecu plugs and bit of loom so I can get rid of the harness and speedo issues. I don't think I have any of the crimps to suit so will probably have to cut and solder everything

Finished off the heat shrinking and soldered the rtc module on with the nice 90 deg pins. Ran out of caring getting the shrink identical lengths Trimmed some bolts so the top plate fits. Screwed the back plate on so it's as done as it can be I'll order another tube when I have some spare project money and it'll actually display the time

And for shits and giggles I got all of the clocks in one place

Spend some time this morning. Turns out the rtc (timer/clock) module was faulty. Soldered another on and it's all good now. I had the anndoes the wrong way around so it was seconds minutes hours instead of the correct orientation. Quickly loomed and cable tied the wiring I need to finish up the heat shrinking and mounting stuff and then it should be pretty much finished

I still need to wire in the setting switch, power switch and socket, and the light sensing resistor. And figure out why it's counting like it is and not doing clock stuff

So in procrastinating cleaning the car/carport i found the other nixie clock I started/ put aside as I cbf with the wiring. Had some multicore scrap with numbered cores which made the process significantly easier Progressing All the cathodes soldered in Couple of anodes soldered in for testing and labled so I know/remember what's what next time I touch it And test is a partial success. I'll solder the rest in and double check no shorts as it should be 10s and 1s of seconds so more investigation needed

If on a budget Mx5 probably easiest/cheapist rwd setup imo. Honda K series are great motors with decent power potiental but quite tall and all the accessories add up quickly

So the intermettent speedo signal to the ecu finally became more permanent. Tested everything and found the adaptor harness had a shit connection. Wanged a wire across and taped it as a test and it has worked for a week now. When I have more energy and time I'll source some ecu plugs and repin/replace the connectors and put the harness in the bin

I've been dreaming up a rear swaybar mount for the shuttle for a while. Some high spec 2wd Facelift have a rear swaybar but they are rare as rocking horse shit and looking a factory diagrams will interfere with the diff and driveshaft The orthia subframe looks pretty close/almost identical to the shuttle one so I'll start on that and see how it goes The crv has(had) a rear swaybar with mounts welded onto the subframe from factory. He crv subframes do bolt into orthias but makes them crv height. I've got a couple of end links from a civic and one from the crv. Current imaginings are dummy them up and attempt to replicate the crv brackets and weld something onto the subframe

Had a grand plan of replacing the lower control arm bushes today. I ordered a kits while ago. I really rate the energy suspension stuff, got a lot of their bushes on the shuttle Noticed a split tiretod end boot and wrong nut while I was in there Ran out of fucks pretty quickly (and need the car back together to use for work) so just ended up replacing the main rear bushing Managed to cross thread on the the bolts fighting the arm back in so shot to pick a part to grab one. Got lucky and there was a civic with the bolt and a near new upper control arm so I grabbed that. (easier than replacing the bushes and ball joint boot) All back together with fresh split pins and a new tierod boot Also was a barry and gave the inner guards a jizzing of underseal

Both rear cv boots I replaced have split in the exact same place which is annoying. It'll wait until next year The rear exhaust flange was leaking and the multitude of 'lobster cuts' were annoying me. Grinder and paint make me the welder I ain't Leaky flange sorted now

Headers look great! If you want to go full dairy spec just splash some acid on the welds and hit it with scotchbrite and it'll look mint.

I've had the speaker box thingy on site for the last two days and it's been going for a 9 hr shift and not drained the battery. Wasn't mega loud but the sound traveled surprisingly far. I orderd another Bluetooth board off alix which has a different amp chip. It's the same Bluetooth receiver module/Id but doesn't have as loud of a Chinese voice saying Bluetooth has been activated. And more importantly its louder than the old one so I can win the site noise pissing contest. (I'm not that petty/a dick normally) Will mount it in and test it out next week. It also has a volume control and aux in if I want to use it. Had it cranked up high and hit some safety/cut offs so it'll be set to a safe level and left that way

Battery holder is on. Brackets are barry af but who cares Even closes with the battery fitted

Another year of oil burning ahead of me. I'll need to look at the speedo input into the ecu as it'll intermettently have no vtec as ecu won't see the signal. The speedo works 100% of the time so I'm guessing it's in the adapory harness. I checked continuity between the ecu and gearbox sensor and it was fine (and worked at the time). I'll have to spend more time on it

Alix battery adaptor arrived. I gave the box a quick sand and slapped the first cost of polyurethane sealer on

Lid handles sorted. I found a quick release bumper thingy in the shed which turned out to be just what I needed. Bit of careful holesaw and chisel action and it was in Hopefully that little bracket is strong enough It's as finished as it'll get for now. Need to varnish it and wait for the battery holder to arrive from aliexpress. I've got varnish at the lockup so will try and remember to grab it next time

Picture less update. Did the rest and drivers lower engine mounts today, old ones were pretty soft and I could rock the engine by hand. Threw another set of spark plugs at it, I'll clean this set and just rotate them if/when they get dirty again. I thought about getting another head gasket and pulling it all apart again but I think I'll just go grab another bottom end from pick a part and get that freshened up when money allows. For now it can keep eating oil. Also Wanged in some narva led H4 headlight bulbs which are lush.

Yes so glad to see you found a motor! Looking forward to seeing more updates

Top side bits on and everything just fits. I'll mount the battery slider to the lid so it's easy to use Found the hinges I knew I had hoarded when I was cleaning out the car Wanged one grill cover on. I'll find and fit the other one tomorrow I've found a quick release bumper faster thing I had hoarded which will work perfectly for the catch for the lid. I'll drill/mount that along with the handle tomorrow. Will also grind the screws down so they are less stabby. I had to going all day on the drill battery and no sign of it going flat yet which is good. I'm happy just to get a day out of it tbh

Vero board amp didn't go according to plan. Didn't let the magic smoke out but its not 100% either. I'll have another look at it when I've got more mental capacity. Doug was inspecting my progress I only had thinish mdf in stock and free hand cut it with a skilly so things aren't perfectly square and there were a few internal gaps. It's screwed and glued but not overkill it with some sound deadening I probably should have made box bigger but I'll somehow make everything fit One idea is I'll make a hinged lid and have battery socket/slider thing there so it's easy to access but I'll need to work out how to not have it rattle and be annoying

Thanks letterbox. Overnight parts from jaycar (caps and resistors) barry spec vero board and heat sink were in stock. Hopefully the heat sink is enough. If not ill raid a graphics card or something