taylerreed94

Tidying up little bits while we wait for Distributor and Ignition Components to come back. Fingers crossed they are here before Christmas so I can work on it over the holiday period. 

Shortened the Dipstick, made a more rigid mount, and replaced the O-Ringed it. 

Finally mounted the Intake for the last time with the gaskets. Didn't Anti Seize them which I'm now thinking I should have. 

Replaced all the Hose Clamps on the motor with the same to make servicing easier in the future, still looking for a tidier way to do the fuel lines on the carbs but I think I have that sorted. It's pretty low priority at the moment so it'll come later. 

Throttle cable has been run, P-Clipped and terminated. I had a mount built for it to allow me adjustment of the lateral position of the cable end. This lets me adjust the pedal feel if I ever need to by moving the position at which the cable is pulling the throttle shaft from. Also has cable tension adjustment. 

Gotta scrape that old gasket off, but the new MLS will be worth it. 

Trumpets are perfection. Faster and cheaper than I could have got anywhere else and made to order. Highly recommend Spun by Hutty (Phil)

Head gasket was absolutely clogged, which explains the lack of water flow around the motor. I've known for a long time that the motor has been un happy and it looks like this was why. It would run un predictably hot, but on a infrared thermometer it was only 2 cylinders that were hot hot. 

Cylinder bore is pretty clean, a little carbon deposit but nothing bad. In all honesty it'll go back together as is. 

Old head is off, New head will be on before the weekend along with the manifolds and fuel system. Progress! 

Fuel Pump and Reg are here. Collecting last bits this week. Soft mounts are on too. 

Small updates.

ARP Head Studs (actually 2JZ main studs but they work for the head on a 1gge too) showed up last week. Expecting the fuel pump and reg tomorrow. 

"Spun by Hutty" are making my trumpets this weekend hopefully.

Carb tuner is pencilled in for later in the month and all the mechanical stuff is booked in to be done next week. (Head on, timing done, cams timed, head studs, manifolds, fuel system etc) 

Ignition is the last item on the list, 1gge dizzys are rubbish and we are struggling to figure out what signal it produces (magnetic, hall effect or points). Might get the dizzy mocked onto a Oscilloscope to see what it produces. They are a weird dizzy so I guess we will find out. 

Stay tuned 

Wowee, Nick at MFS nailed the manifold. It'll eventually get blasted and tidied up a little but it's spot on. Test fitted carbs and some other small wee bits. Will order trumpets and soft mounts etc this week. 

More bits shown up. Hoping to get intake manifold this week. Then we can crack on with assembly. 

Struggling a little with sorting the ignition system, if anyone had a recommendation to someone that'll modify distributors let me know. 

Picked up the MLS Headgasket that was finally delivered. Looks like a quality unit, so pretty excited to fit it up! 

Dropped the flanges off Nick at MFS to weld up. I've had a few bits done through him before and the work is always top notch. Can't wait to see how this turns out! 

Some other little bits being sorted out at the moment as well. Have a MLS head gasket coming in for it, doing a little work on the distributor and prepping up some other bits. Want the car going and tuned for summer! 

Small update: 

Carbs arrived! They took a while to get here thanks to old mate Covid but they are ready to go. 
 

Head has been at Kennely Cams here in Christchurch for a couple weeks. Ended up commiting to some custom cams, a skim, some springs and a couple other wee bits too. Will post cam specs when I pick the head up! 
 

Nick from MFS has been given the green light on the manifold. That’s hopefully 2-3 weeks away. 
 

Starting to come together! Got a lot of bits still to sort out, ignition being the main one, but fuel and wiring will also need attention too. 
 

Will post more pics when I get my good camera back! 

Not much to report, Carbs are ordered, hopefully only a couple weeks away but you never know with shipping at the moment. 

Been busy getting the manifold design closer and closer to be able to be CNCd. More on that later. 

If anyone has recommendations on who to get the head checked, ported and rebuilt by locally, shoot those suggestions my way. 

Previous owners thread from well before i brought the car if anyone is interested. 

1 minute ago, taylerreed94 said:

Monthly January meet up to kick 2020 off? 

Got my car certified to late for the December meet and super keen to get along to one again! 

Monthly January meet up to kick 2020 off? 

Justin Neil is out to 3 weeks. Suggested a guy Colin Gray? Anyone know of him or used him before