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Sheeit I've found some bulllllllshit under my car. I got a shudder recently that wasn't gear/rev dependent after hearing 2x suspicious clunks under the ol' beast (oh shit feels like driveshaft!) I limped home and jacked it up... Sure enough I found 3x(!) bolts total missing from the front and mid flanges on my driveshaft The two bolts left in the middle flange were very waisted from banging back and forth. I didn't really notice as my diff seems to be clunking all the time locking up or just from my twin plate driving. I replaced the bolts and used nordlock washers on there - those bastards ain't falling out this time!! While under there I also discovered my diff leaking oil. Goddammit!! I whipped out the axles then went to remove the pumpkin and found 90% of the nuts/bolts to be finger tight! WTF is going on with dodgy shit plaguing me, I can't believe it hasn't caused a prob in the ~5000km I've driven it since buying. Axles and diff look pretty damn good I'm happy to see: Thought I'd do wheel bearings while I'm at it. Not sure about the pinion etc - any advice out there for measuring backlash(?) or whatever? I reckon getting the collar and bearing off will be easy but how about the new collar - is this usually heated to get it on??

Facebook: with one hand it giveth, while with the other it taketh away... I thought facebook was cool for a sec when I saw 86 people reached. Then I realised it has been taking the piss out of me - I KNOW boost is unavailable right now, no need to rub salt in the wound!

Done! I'll get a couple more vids uploaded soon of it's NA dort and 'tanging exhaust...

So will you be driving Maisy? I couldn't believe it when I found out my wife's Austin 1300 was 4x114 stud pattern!! I certainly tried on some of my AE86 wheels with similar huge poke to your pics. Worth mucking about with flares I reckon but she didn't want it looking "gangster" - too bad... Sold now after rebuilding the steering rack and brakes.

And one more shot from the day, detail just because... I do love me a bit of shiny anodised goodness

Here's a nicer pic (even with the shitty weather) I'm not such a fan of 'bright' photos, generally preferring a darker exposure By the way if any Oldschoolers in the AKL region want photos taken of their pride & joy we can talk

I attended the LACNZ event @ Hampton Downs last weekend. Sadly I missed out on the chance to hack around on the skid pan in the wet but had fun none the less. I managed to park up next to other old school deliciousness too

Far out what a beauty! I quite like the brown Momo seat, never seen one before... I'm very jealous of your engine!!! Great build!

Not an original pic as my starter is covered in heat shield again but here is what I did to my starter motor: My starter is a recon unit so shouldn't have given grief. I did notice the power feed lug connection wasn't as tight as it should have been but for safety (and guarantee of not having to pull the bastard out again) I added a relay between the ignition wire and the solenoid with a fat power feed direct from the starter power feed. It sounds a bit mental now when starting, kinda has a continual 'clicking' noise (relay??) - unexpected noises in our cars are almost always a bad thing. I don't care though as it works without hesitation and hasn't missed a beat (and no more stranding me in awkward places) Oh and I think it is telling that when you Google Image search "4AGE starter solenoid" the above image is prominent! The OEM starter wire is perhaps a bit on the small side, no doubt deteriorated slightly with (4)age and gained resistance maybe? Or maybe my new solenoid on my recon starter is hungrier for juice than OEM?

Thanks bro, currently running Vertex (knock off I'm sure, the one with the cable tie stitching) but I prefer my Goodline bumper - it matches the rest of the aero but also looks more like the OEM bumper front lip just bigger. Loving your pics by Nero Photography too, looking mighty fine! I need to post a pic of my starter mod...

Finally got a video up of my IHI blower running - you'll see why I can't really get away with dailying it like this!!! Poor neighbours... I really should have given it a rev while filming as this is just the idle, suffice to say it was ridiculous and I thought it was broken, my 40mm HTD belt is obviously making it a bit more raucous too! Here's a video of an AE92 in West Akl (Cam) running a similar Twinscrew (Lysholm 1200AX I believe) **Sigh** I miss seeing my supercharger when I open my bonnet

Before my police run in I bumped into Lewis Huysmans of Motoshots International. He asked if he could take some pics and we had a chat. Hot damn they came out awesome! Filling up with the good stuff!! More pics:

Went out for a cruise tonight with a view of taking some nice photos, attracted some undesirable attention: Rego expires tomorrow (oooh actually today now!) so SAFE! Thanks for the additional lighting for my shoot officer

There was simply too much old school awesome so here's a few more pics

Aaaand a couple more of my Levin My young fella coping with a flat Ipad, chatting to his uncle

Actually there was so much awesome old school all over the show so here's a few more pics from the day

Now the Levin is proving to be "reliable" I felt confident taking it up to Whangarei for my mate Brad's Show n Shine at his biz The Tint Shop - coinciding with the Whangarei Festival of Motorsport. The only incidents were a big touch down on SH16 resulting in a broken exhaust mount and my starter motor failing on my way home. Sadly this happened on the busy St Lukes offramp with me stranded in the merging lane blocking Sunday arvo traffic, what a CU#T!! After 5 mins of bashing the starter with my powerbar while my bro tried to start it she fired up, just as a cop pulled up behind me. "Thanks for blocking the traffic officer, yeah mate just stalled it (fugn twin plate) and she wouldn't start but good as gold now, yep on me way THANKS!!!" and out... Phew! I mean I have a WOF but you know... Nice wee line up of Brad's B1600 (w/12A) & his FC3S, Kurt's Skyline, my Levin and Gus's Rotor Starlet

So I had an amateur moment - pulling plug boots off but being too nancy to hack the heat of jamming my hand all the way down between the cams, sooo I pulled the wire out of the terminal I am going to go right ahead and blame the crappy pliers crimp job of the anonymous vendor of my leads though... So luckily I was able to do exactly that with my own pliers on the side of the road which got me home (then work, then home, then work again when my new leads showed up, then home to fit them, don't let that shit hold you back from enjoying your car!!) Turns out there's lots of V8 lead kits around but bugger all 4cyl (I run straight plug boots V8/13B style to 90deg boots on my 4G63 coils) Anyway I found ProParts Palmy online and ordered MSD lead, plugs, boots and a CRIMPER (yessss!) Nifty wee thing the crimper, just bung it in the vice (or G Clamp as I did) and viola! Not a bad bit of kit for $18 Overall I am super happy with the MSD straight boots even though they were a bastard to get the lead in there. I reckon they will be a lot more pull-out resistant. The crimp terminals are superior also! I let my mild OCD run rife to the fore and made sure to line up the writing on the leads. No time to test it late at night (I'm so considerate of my neighbours) so I left the old leads in the back and caned it to work in the morning. Bugger all chance to open her up, just the motorway offramp to work but I swear it goes better! (Going at all is a bonus really)

Love your build dude! I live in Blockhouse bay, keen as to help with rolling filming or whatever. You can txt me on 022 012 9633, I have Saturday free but doing the LACNZ thing at Hampton Downs on Sunday. Cheers Jordan

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Phew been a while!! I am happy to admit I've been too busy driving to post here!! (Stop skiting.. ) I decided to take the "easy" option to "reliably" daily my Levin. So sadly I removed the Twinscrew and wrapped it up nice for future use. Reasons: * Cost to complete * Too noisy for neighbours and Wife (sellout I know) * Dubious blower condition - play/gear lash, need to get my original blower back from Rob as this is just my spare Anyways I threw a pod filter at it, tweaked the Master Fuel trim up 15% so it's not too lean and viola! Had several dodgy moments (as you do with first drives of a longtime project) with main issue being cooling. Sorted this now with another fan and 71deg thermostat. Aaaaand wedding car! My wife even suggested doing some skids with me after the ceremony(!) Thanks to my Bro in Law Sam for the second wedding car, keeping it classy with an all Toyota affair... Barely made it up to Whangarei and fouling plugs like a SOB but all GOOD!!! I then celebrated by taking it to the 4 & Rotary Birthday Bash Holy crap twin plate clutches are hard to drive, especially when you have no power! makes me look like a hoon/amateur (not completely inaccurate)

Fukn A your Levin is far too tidy... I wish I had a TE27 Levin in my shed too!

Hah! Thanks for finding me Sam, cheers for the appreciation!! I am hanging out to fit my 8j Equips which I'm still painting at the mo then need to lip my rear guards. It was damn good to bump into you and I'm sure we'll catch up in future

I was sorely tempted to abandon the Twinscrew path of enlightenment once I stumbled on these in UpGarage Gifu I do want to retain my idle pulse however which I understand is caused by the factory intake mani with big (but not too big!) cams I took a heap of photos after asking the chap at the counter if it was cool. After taking my time (and photos of most things) some workshop looking guy comes rushing up to me "no photo, no photo!!" Oh man but that guy... Shit!! He's gone from the counter Apologies and awkwardness later this guy was still good enough to give me a discount on the tsurikawa rings and wheel nuts I bought