chris r

thats what I have being investigating, however the v8 input shaft is now moonbeams too and I'm not 100% sure they are compatible with the m22 tonner gearbag. Edit - just had another look on ebay and they are around 350 aud for the shaft. less than the last time I looked The 253 doesnt owe me much so I might just hoard for another project one day. Will see how it goes.

I've been keeping a eye out for v8 bits and it's getting more spenny than I want so I'm thinking I'll flick off the v8 stuff and give the 202 turd a polish. Thinking a rings and bearings rebuild and possibly a mild cam. The exhaust is leaking a bit and hits the floor after we chopped and re welded it it when we did the clutch. So to fix that I've ordered a set of extractors from aus (cheaper to my door than I could get a set here). I'll hold off figuring out and ordering pipes and bends until after I get my hands on it again

So the valve springs and retainers have arrived. I'll whip the head off when they arrive and swap everything over. while its off I'll give the bore a check for rust. So I've been doing some thinking. The manifold setup I've currently got sits stuff pretty low and the new churbo doesn't sit or clear things the way I would like it to. I'm too tight to buy a off the shelf one, and I wouldn't be happy where it sat anyway I've decided to make my own. I've ordered this sinco kit and will figure out how stuff wants to sit when I dig the shuttle out of the lockup. Also Mike from sinco is a GC answered some questions and was extremely helpful

hmm, I'll have to have a measure of what switches I have and see if any are long enough to reach through. The clock is smarter than me and will remember the settings/time after its set so I only really need one switch somewhere which makes it easier

I'm torn between mounting the switches for setting the time on the top plate or if I chuck them on the back. Back is easier as it's thin steel and my chinesium drill bits don't like the thick plate, being on the back will be a pain to set the time though. I'll reread the destructions and see what I need to do wiring wise

A few essential aliexpress parcels arrived today. Most importantly my rivnuts and fasteners. Primed the rear plate and put some holes then rivnuts in it Made a new bracket as the other one was too small Wanged some holes and rivnuts in. Also ckraranced it for the copper mounting bolts Sat the top plate on so I could mark out the holes for the screws.

Dunno why but I really like hex head fasteners Gave the top plate a wire brush, degrease and a squirt of clear and sat it on the box for visual motivation And sat the tubes in for the same reason I'll need to re make the mounting bracket for the plate and drill and mount the switches and power socket. Then I can wire it all up

@Raizer had the brilliant idea of chopping screws and sharpening them into a point and using that to mark out the holes. So simple and easy. I chopped the heads off and wangled them in the drill for a turn on the sander Funnily enough that works and shit lines up and can be bolted up. M3 suff is tiny and fiddly to use but it's what I had in stock. My aliexpress package hasn't arrived yet with my other fasteners I was thinking about a dose of clear coat on the face plate, but the shiny weld and grind marks would show up. I don't have any black paint in stock. I had a quick search and found one video about finishing steel with oil. I have a mapp torch and some used engine oil so figured I'd give it a try. From what little info I found it's similar to seasoning a cast iron pan

finished off the holes today and didn't ruin the holesaw Did some 202 spec porting (Made the holes too big as I was having fun with the die grinder) couple of welds filled in the air where I needed to put the mounting bolt holes All bolted up. This took way longer than it should have but thats barry life I'll probably spend all of tomorrow getting mad and trying to drill the mounting holes for the copper. Hindsight says I should have clamped the copper on and drilled the holes through the plate and copper at the same time but I cant turn back time so I'll figure something else out tomorrow

I attempted to drill the mounting holes and fucked them up, rage quit and put the plate in the bin. Re cut one today. Got confused af working stuff out but got there in the end. I messed up my maths on a couple of holes but found out after a triple check and measure. Couple of tacks and a bit of a grind and that fixed that up Got a bit worried about the overlapping holes Turned out okay, evenly drilling the holes mixed with the wood pilot hole worked out well I'll finish off the holes tomorrow

I remembered to clamp the thin metal before welding this time so I didn't warp it Found some mystery stain in shed so shook and stirred the lumps around a bit and chucked some on.

Cut and clued three pieces of wood and five bits of metal today

So I was wandering how to mount the copper gubbins without it being seen, Then I remembered I had some rivnunts. Tried some maths to figure out how strong m3 are, gave up pretty quickly and just put 8 in. Had a essential delivery the other day of some brunox and clear coat Gave the thing a few coats, its brought up the bits I didn't polish properly but that's fine

Cool tip re the silicon thanks! I'll need to make better forms if I'm going to use the fiber reinforced stuff, good point with the polishing/grinding and the fibers. I am aware I'm trying to do stuff with concrete that probably shouldn't be done so I'm expecting a lot more lessons along the way

That's not the os way! Why but ready made when you can spend way more time effort and money for a shitter result

I tapped the fuck out of it and had a stick stirring it, problem was I made the first bit of the mix top dry which is what caused the gaps etc

Next time I will get fibers and cement that hasn't sat in a damp shed for fuck knows how long

More reading suggests fiberglass insulation just gets owned by the rocks and mixing the cement. I've got some old exhaust wrap I can shred and I'll try that in a mix

Thanks! Yeah I've seen fiber reinforced Concrete mentioned a fair bit in my researching/trawling and want to try it. I'll have a dig through the hoard and see what I've got. I wonder if shredded insulation would work

Strapped it up Got everything as square as I could Mixed up some concrete Filled it all up. Now I just need to wait for it to set and hope it releases nicely and stays together

So those brackets ended up too thick so I made up a mk2 design And I actually got all the holes in the right place first attempt And bolted up. My (barry) theory is I can undo the bolts and slide the inner form out and the brackets with rivnuts will stay behind and I can use them to mount stuff. Hopefully the 10 ish mm of concrete either side will be enough. I'll find out tomorrow New! Used castrol Edge Wood stain and concrete release agent. I've embraced barry life and am soaking the ply in oil in the hope that the concrete won't stick to it

So I fucked around most of today making a metal box with the intention of welding tabs onto it and bondong it to the concrete Started off well Welded the brackets in and forgot that thin metal shrinks when you weld it and it turned to shit at that point I got it less bent but I'm still unhappy with it, and I don't have any more metal to start again I've screwed it down onto some timber and I've put down a barry release agent for the mould So instead of making the metal stay in the concrete I thought about trying to bond a bolt in or something. I remembered I had some rivnuts so rangid up these. The idea is they will stick in the concrete and I can bolt stuff to that And in continuation of my durping today I drilled the rivnut hole too big and it spun so I ended up welding it In. I'll make two more brackets and mix up a bit of concrete and see how well everything goes tomorrow

Sanded and re polished the copper pipe work today. About 4 hours work there. I was lazy and only did the visible side too

propane works better for soldering than mapp does, I sucked less today at joining the last piece together. I will file and sand the lumps off and dive it a polish again I'm going to attempt to make a concrete box or surround for this so started on a mould today Did some barry maths in the back of a invoice which seemed to work out (my phone camera has gone to shit since its latest update which is annoying). I'll finish it off tomorrow and see if a grease/old engine oil mix will work as a release agent or at-least stop the concrete sticking. I'l also attempt to insert some steel angle into it so I have something to mount the face and backing plate to

Fuck those snow mobiles are fast! Almost scary. 700cc 2t cvt so all the nangs