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Can do these for $70 inc grab steal and take(gst) and delivered to you, they come in 3 sizes for each of the DTM DT and DTP terminals 

Just now, spiderwebfx said:

TBH most of Jaycar's products are China spec items that have been branded.  I've compared a few things from them and Aliexpress/Wish and they're identical but cost about 10x as much.
If you want Deutsch connectors, Repco can do the Narva ones, and can also get Hella ones. They're great but expensive.

Jaycars auto electrical stuff can take a flying leap into the bin, genuine deutsch  connectors are actually  quite reasonably priced (given i do have wholesale prices from non retail suppliers) ,  just dont buy them from retail outlets like repco , for anyone interested I  can price them up  along with the budget home level proper 4 indent crimp tools

@Taistorm if you go the painless or similar route and need  connectors & other bits for wiring,  flick me a message,  happy to help out OS guys with  good prices for auto elect. parts 

beware of chinese junk knock offs, they  look similar but they cheap out on the terminals and end up with fuse holders & terminals melting from poor connection, stick  to  something known like the painless or the kruzin ones 

On 25/03/2020 at 12:28, spanners said:

Been keeping busy while under the weather with the Coronavirus

Finally my summit order showed up. I’m a bit embarrassed that I didn’t realise Japrace in Chch sells the AN fittings for pretty much the same price. Won’t be shopping American again, especially with the exchange rate as it is. Had to go into japrace to do my panic shopping. Got a fuel pressure gauge and some hose and fittings. 
 

Fuel line looks pretty tidy now. It’s -8 between the rails but only -6 from the pump. Just trying to save on fittings, the rails were -8 female.

for anyone doing an engine swap (with EFI) the Corvette FPR/filter is a great little number! Mine fits in place of original massive filter under the bmw. Cheap too. Saves running a return from the rails. 

Started pulling bmw loom apart to see what I can biff. I want to retain a few sensors I think, so that dash works normally. Shouldn’t actually be too much of a mare. Will get commodore loom modified by someone way more special than me. 

 

Stocked up on piss for the apocalypse. I got fucking smashed last night on red wine and working from home today is not great. 

I reckon this lockdown is going to be one of the best things ever for productivity on oldschool. Will certainly be helpful for me. Sadly I’m still working full time (we build/fix hydro power stations) but I’m sure I’ll manage to sneak out to the garage every now and then!

Stay safe out there cunts!

@spanners BMW wiring is so fun isin't it haha, iv got to  do  an e30 with an m54 swap soon,  back to the topic of LS tho,  Im assuming your using the factory LS ecu to run it, give me a shout if you want to get your ls loom sorted to  standalone and ecu setup, its what I do as a sparetime job. 

the 4l60e and vt ecu requires the speedo input to control the transmission shift points and also idle control on deceleration, without it you'll be stuck in limp mode, the sensor is a hall effect to the ecu, the ecu outputs a scaled pulse to drive the speedo,  the 2 common ones iv used for conversions are the dakota unit and, the speedhut speed box (alternately could go speedhut electronic speedo or similar

brown wire is the alternator light. wire from ignition feed thru a diode thru a light and to  the brown wire.

white is the alternator voltage sense, ideally wired to  the battery + terminal (can be looped to  the alternator + stud)

let me know if ya have any problems getting your standalone setup  going, been a while since i done that one.

another option is something like this kit

https://www.efihardware.com/products/2500/Fuel-Tank-EFI-Conversion-Kit-For-Steel-Tank-255-to-310mm-High-With-Return-System

use a sender and pickup unit fro a TB48 petrol safari / patrol,  fit something like a walbro 255 or 465 depending on how much fuel you need

edit:  may be easier to  get a whole petrol tank  and filler,  the tank prob has a swirl pot for efi pump and petrol filler is different to diesel one

vn/vp auto & manual ecus are the same,  just memcal programming varied,  they are even the same between v6 and v8  trusty old delco 808. I do heaps of them for engine swap setup. VR series 1 loom and ecu will also run the vn engine.

On 01/12/2019 at 11:30, Ashkellybarr said:

Hoist question, I’m wanting to put one at mine but would need to be outdoor on slab like yours.

 

what did it cost you? You get a company to do all of it and sign it off?

dose the hoist need a cover or is it fine outside?

 

cheers

I done the concrete myself, im on swampy ground so has 5x 3.6m piles concreted in under the center area with a 200mm thickening and 200 thick ring beam footing around the edge of the pad, was almost 4 cube of concrete which worked out about $900, hoist is a motorex base model $2100 delivered, 

So far been mint just keep it lubed well with spray grease, made a weather cover for the hydraulic pack and is all good 

no idea on 1/4 time but will be interesting to  see, just needa get the oil leak sorted and should be good to go

Well back on the dyno at protune yesterday, made some good power (175rwkw 445nm at 11psi) but found an oil leak, seems like this car just dont like dynos haha, at least i was only cleaning up an oil puddle on the dyno and not engine pieces 

Got home and checked it out, pulled the clutch dust cover...bonus its not the rear main rope seal.

Waiting on an engine support bar to arrive and il drop the sump clean it up Gonna weld in a couple of sump breathers and go to town with the rtv 

Oh and all before drag day...

volts sound a bit high, will start to boil the battery at  15v, overcharging is just as bad if not worse than under charging (acid boils off hydrogen gas)  should be around 13.8-14.2v  sounds like the regulator on the alternator is failing 

@Truenotch Im keen for caffeine & gasoline, gonna be heading up there anyway in the kingswood for hq muster 

nov 24th  is also  the HQ holden muster at hampton downs,  will be a busy day up there with caffeine & Gasoline on as well

VDO pump specs

 VDO Universal Engine and Transmission, Differential Oil Pump

This small 12 volt pump is designed for pumping gearbox and/or differential oil.
It has also been used for pumping oil to motorcycles fitted with Turbos. Can be
used as an oil cooler circulation pump. Can also be used as a Turbo scavenge pump
for low mounted Turbos to better drain oil and avoid oil blowing through seals.

Features & Sizes
- Voltage 12V ONLY
- 160 Litres Per Hour
- 4 Bar Pressure (58 PSI)
- 100 to 150 Degrees Celcius working Temperature
- 16.0mm Diameter Inlet
- 7.8mm Diameter Outlet (Straight) - 9.0mm Lip
- 127.0mm Overall Length

VDO do a nice electric scavenge pump,  will find the details and post it up

assuming its got the standard 25d4 lucas dizzy (like my old 73 had),  you  can buy off the shelf electronic conversions for the factory dizzy  as they are the same internally as every other mini blmc etc 25d4 dizzy, nice and easy swap to ditch the points 

Thanks, already got that one it dont show detailed enough assembly of the throttle valve and valve body, all the pieces fell out when we pulled it apart.

Hey  All 

got a broken 83 corona decorating my lawn at the moment,  my mate brought it with a blown auto (previous owner rotated the rear tyres too rapidly).

we have replaced the burnt up clutch packs and steels in the trans, now have somehow stuffed up the valve body/ throttle valve and it drives but wont shift out of 1st. (it shifted before we took it apart)

anyone know their way around these transmissions or have a decent schematic of the valve body  transmission is an Aisin warner 03-50   A40D 3 speed  + O/D 

pic of actual car,  (may be for sale soon) 

Cheers,  was super happy with how it went, I had only driven it about 400km and dyno time (and about 10km on the replacement gearbox)  before doing gumboot.  will  be good to  see what it can do once i sort the wastegate out, the valiant do the whole run no problems?

@Shakotom And to  think i had started work on a particular HZ ute... its a good thing I returned the HZ back  to Chris and done this one instead