chris r

Dropped it off to compliance, I should have a result by the end of the week. Place your bets on what it'll fail on now

No idea really the figures for other modded B18cr seems to be around 140kw. this apparently has skunk 2 cams, not sure which model though. I'll find out tomorrow. As long as it makes more power than my c10 (not too hard) I'll be happy

Ready for the dyno. The barry in me hates the exposed timing belt but I'll deal with it

I needed a rocker cover that had been cut out so that we could adjust the cam gears on the dyno. I found one cheap that had been sitting. Our resident vapor blaster worked his magic. I stupidly didn't order spark plug seals do that's tomorrows mission

Yes, I got a new set of air shocks for the van ex USA

Dyno is booked for Tuesday so that'll be a nice birthday present to myself. It'll be good to have vtec so I can rice around and be a pest. I take back what I said about the exhaust volume. It's too loud for me, on the motorway it's good but anywhere else it's pretty loud. I'll splash out on a adrenalinr muffler a bit later and hopefully that sorts it. I should have just gone for one in the first place. I've gone through three cheaper mufflers on various cars all for which were too loud. The speedo stopped the other day on the way home, just replaced the sensor and it's all good

I had a look at the windscreen washers. The hides has broken off the connectors at the wiper base, and the pump was buggered. Luckily the hoses fit into the normal size stuff so I've run some new stuff. I've got a universal bottle/pump assembly which I'll chuck In for now to get it going. I've ordered a new pump from rock along with a new drive belt, fingers crossed it's the correct length. I noticed the battery tray had some surface rust so out it came. Gave it a wire weel and a coat of hammerite. It say on the tin direct to rust, that's all the barry in me wanted to see. And back in. I just need to extend the washer pump wires and it's good to go

Did a couple of small jobs today. @piazzanoob aligned the headlights and we chucked some fresh wiper blades on. Tomorrow I'll sort out the washers and hopefully that's all we need to do

What a annoying design of high beam switch. Bloody fiddly thingm I tested the switch and that now works. All the trim is ready installed. I'll drop it off to compliance Tuesday and we'll see what it needs. Fingers crossed it's nothing bit who knows.

I typed up many words and lost them and cbf retyping them. short of it is I got some carpet, mudflaps and a guard liner. rear mudflaps fit and so does guard liner. Bucket seat is in too no more mud in the door/everywhere

So with recent developments I'll be moving out and loosing the storage. Chucked it up on book face for what it owes me and someone paid a deposit 2 hours later. I'll probably regret selling it but I've got to de clutter

I dropped it off to the mechanic this morning to get the ball joint boots sorted. If I want to get it complied this year I need to give stuff done ASAP. Realistically I have 2 weeks. If it fails compliance I don't want to be the annoying person who needs shit fixed just before Christmas. It has started surging a tad so should fit the pump and fuel filter it came with. Or put some fuel in

If you need any auto electrical stuff done in Auckland I'll sort you out

Does anyone have a recommendation for a cheap shaft mount radio? I had a quick look on aliexpress/ebay and didn't have much luck. I really DON'T want to chop the dash and put a din sized hole in it. I'll use the stock one for now but id'd be nice to have aux/bluetooth

from the quick play I had today it looks good, Nice quick refresh speed. I;ll let you know how I go with it

Its not too hard hah. Iwas going to get some carpet form zebra out of a civc but thought i should fix the water leaks first. I might go get it next week

It is good, only issue is them rusting hah. They will probably rattle horribly but I can always put some sound deadening on

All quality speaker Installations start with horrible holes in door cards. You can make them even better with a angle grinder. Yes the window winder is close but the holes were already there. I went to open the passenger door and it wouldn't unlock. I thought it'd need more engouragememt then this happened. I managed to get it unlocked and it can stay that way until I get a new latch. The speaker is mounted on the passenger side but I ran out of fucks and didn't get any pictures

Jono the tuner popped over and gave everything a once over and chucked in a Bluetooth data logger so I'll keep a eye on everything and with a few more drives it'll be dyno time

I got a bit distracted and took out some shelves, it feels even bigger inside now.

I replaced the oil pressure sensor which has also fixed a oil leak I'll align the headlights and mount the speakers then it's time to book it in for compliance. It might need a ball joint boot but I'll see how it goes

I got some bumper clips spare rails and dash trim. I saw there was a ef at zebra so grabbed the steering wheel so I have the correct wheel for max foamer points. I also got a replacement seat belt which retracts all the time instead of most of the time. Replaced the bumper brackets so there Isn't a screw holding the bumper level. While the bumper was off I went to replace the radius rod bushes but apparently the ef8 ones are different. One of the previous owners just replaced the outer two. While I had everything apart I put the better ones on the inside so it'd be easier to replace. I also figured out the fuel smell. My initial guess was the vent was leaking. It was a loose hose clamp. I initially tightened it with a screwdriver bhut clearly didn't get it. It didn't leak when I was level, only when I had it jacked up. Glad I only did a few km

Alexpress? I'm also interested as I love cheap stuff

Just drive it until it starts surging then put some fuel in

Can confirm despite the mdf carb spacer it goes hard for what it is