piazzanoob

If neal cant do it for you i could possibly pop down for you 

im only walking distance away from it anyway

Cant make this one. Have to be a parent apparently.

 

 

 

Kids.......Who'd have em

start em young 

bring them along 

Lucas Coil mayte.

 

V can looks okay but something different would be better. Find some obscure can that nobody has.

 

you got any of thooose hiding in one of your dairy's 

son?

i'd go for a floppy gym sock over the V can, it's unique, flea from the chillipeppers would roll it as a costume, and you can use it to clean the dipstick.

 

cool starlet. yeah forget the shiny bolt-on bits and throw your money at making the car sweet to use. trust me, it'll make sense in a couple years.

great idea!

buuuut

i think the only thing i would end up seeing is it going up in flames 

remember there's heat electricity and fuel vapour's in my engine bay 

very valid point 

but generally making bits shiny etc doesnt cost me much 

mostly 0$$ as i get stuff from work bolt's paint etc 

but im all go for Function over show 

(V)omit can, needs an MSD blaster coil

yeah 

but i cant justify them for that price

over 100$ just for very little performance gain and for something that looks good  

So plan is

Get bits and bobs off over a long course of time and paint or clean them up

Decided I would do the water pump pulley

So removed it gave it a clean up with a wire brush

Then applied some satin black with a couple of coats

And left overnight

Then fitted the next day with some new shiny bolts

And bam!

Was going to do the crank pulley and alternator but

Didn't have my rattle gun handy to remove them so

Will do them some other time.

Decided I would do the Ol

Can over the coil trick ow

With a classic v can

I was going to use a L&P can but didn't have a mint one at disposal

So

L&P can or keep v can?

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That coon wagon 

the owner of it works next door to my work at the panel beaters

he reckons its starting to get a bit of rust in it 

great work 

loving the little detailed engine bits 

what radiator are you using?

p10 primera?

how well with fitting loactions etc 

cheers

personally i wouldnt get the vehicle taken into a workshop etc

saves yourself alot of coin 

unless getting something done requires the vehicle there 

i would get hold of driveshaft nz they are in church st in penrose and sunnybrae road in hillcrest north shore

see what measurements they require etc give them it and take in old driveshaft and they could modified it perharps 

then put your new one in yourself would probly save about $200-$300

with your engine mounts i would talk to someone like TTT Automotive engineering or strange workshop see weather yours are a good design etc

can make you new ones of same thing otherwise they make you different ones

Spotted this old corona today

On old great south road right near dury diff specs

Has no plates last Wof 2013

So I ended up getting my new exhaust gasket just after Christmas

And just ended up removing some of the exhaust studs that were too

Short and put them back in the opposite side as someone had put them

In on the long thread side.

Got inlet and exhaust fitted up all sweet with some new washers

And nuts

Then I thought I would get some new studs for the inlet/carb

Side along with some new nuts while waiting for Webber

Specs to open up again for my new carb gasket as mine

Had a torn in it and was missing the correct washers for it

So I started with shortening up my new studs so they would

Look nice and fit flush with the nuts etc

Then February came around and I received my

New gasket and then realised that I had not remembered

That the new gasket came with some rubber washers and

I had not allowed room on the studs for them so

I fucked up

And had to buy new studs again!

Then this happened

Now she's going and making

Dort noises as it should!

Also removed the rocker cover and

Gave it a bit of a polish up

managed to get this 0do reading on my street i use to live on 

nice work on making the bracket for the pedal box 

but when all the dash is in how are you going to be able to bleed/topup the reservoir's 

as the dash will be inclosing that?

could always remote locate them etc 

nice score 

was this the one for sale in the RWD toyota page on facebook?

good project to start from 

looking forward to the updates

I thought i better stop being a slacker and update this thread

It was only feb last year that i did some major work on it 

It needed the headgasket replaced as it was using and leaking coolent and general tidy up in the engine bay  

i had been putting back doing the head gasket for long enough as work etc

untill my boss told me to take some time off as i had a few holiday days owing

so why not do my headgasket right? 

then my boss offered for me to chuck it on the hoist and do it 

so deal was done 

basic headgasket to do and a week to do it easy job right

nah bro!

started off with just removing the head etc

then thought why dont i do the noisy gearbox and leaking steering rack and rack bushes while im at it 

so i did that too 

then i had a closer look at the block and thought ahh it needs a good lick of paint but do i really need to do it 

fuck it lets make this a big job 

Everyone says they wear out the alternator bearings quick but 

they always say they had the belt overadjusted too

And the ol 4K's dont seem to handle much boost just destroys them haha 

just get it for the noise!

Have also been thinking about chucking some Gilmore pulleys on this as well just for the noise

http://www.endevourengineering.co.nz/4k-toyota-gilmer-drive-pulley-kit.6061-cnc-machined-billett-aluminiumthese-xidp223883.html

Bit pricey but good quality so yeah

Yeah nah ?

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I had also started on repairing some of the rust in one one of the doors as they were a bit rusty

Ended up with a couple of patches but had to stop as I couldn't figure out what was metal and what was bog

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As you can see in the photos these starlet doors contain 2 metal skins and from the factory they were not rust proofed between the two skins which when moisture attacks them it leaves a ugly mess like this

So what I've done to fix this issue is to use only one skin of metal through the repairs to reduce the comeback of rust but using thicker panel steel to still keep the strength.

So with those bits done I ended up sending my doors away to be sand blasted as my one at home couldn't remove the bog

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I got both right hand doors done

And they ended up with less rust/holes that I thought they would have which is sweet

So now there just sitting there waiting for me to finish the rest of the cutting and patching

Thanks for reading

Chuck some ideas and tips through here chaps

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Update time

Gave my headers a bit of a clean up not that you see them but they were rusty so why not

Pulled out the grinder and chucked the wire wheel on it and gave it a wiz

Gave the headers a lick of VHT black in the best conditions the back of the can could tell me 10pm at night in the cold starting to drizzle and using a torch to see what the hell I was painting

And I'll keep thinking they turned out mint

Seriously bro they ended up mint

See mate there mint

+1 for airflow hydraulics 

there in a one way street in newmarket 

they offer a exchange service if they have one in stock for your car

deal with them through work and always been good to deal with 

highly recomend

+1 for weber specs 

have spoken to him over the phone and has been a gc 

my Piazza also gets this on the hatch glass very often 

Right lads in the know.

 

Henkel Emer-Tan..... I have all the Rx2 panels stirpped to bare and now sitting covered in this product. Im ready in the next few weeks to epoxy prime. Have read data sheet but not clear on if I completely remove it or not. I was thinking rubbing panels down with prepsol as normal prior to paint but perhaps not with this stuff?

 

Anyone got exp?

 

Gaz

ive got no exp with that stuff but just wondering where did u get it from? im looking for some appears to good shit but apparently you can only get in 20L but idk