dmulally

This is the grill that came with it. Looks like shit to me but would be perfect for a front rad. Lucky I gave it away. Can anybody think of any ideas of what I can put on that is subtle? I'm thinking five 2" holes punched inwards with some mesh behind it. 

11 minutes ago, Adoom said:

I've got most of a full sheet of 0.8 cold rolled, but seems more like 0.7 to me. If that's a suitable thickness, let me know and I'll give you some.

Adam

That could be a goer! I wont be seam welding it (ie: blowing holes in 0.8) so it would work. I'll send you a flirty PM 

17 minutes ago, JustHarry said:

Is it an iwata w400?

A normal size gun if fine for doing shuts . Narrow the fan up and lower the pressure and lower the product feed . There are knobs for doing that.  If your unsure chuck a pic up and I'll point them out 

Indeed it is the w400.  

I didnt think of lowering the nozzle/pressure. Normally when I do I get runs but I dont really care about that as much as it's all out of sight stuff. 

Thanks! 

Has anybody had any joy with small touch up spray guns? I only have a primer gun and a top coat one. But I have to do some small spaces like door jams and some parts and my top coat iwata gun will just blast overspray everywhere. 

15 hours ago, Snoozin said:

gets high 5s per 100 around town but is a manual. 

I was patting myself on the back for getting my 66 C20 from 30l/100 to a consistent 25l/100 with a change of carb. 

1 minute ago, yoeddynz said:

I'll be interested to see what he says because I'm planning on doing similar between my scooby and imp shafts. 

 

Yeah will pass it on. 

If it has be done by a certified machine shop I'll give you a yell and we can perhaps sort something out. Especially if it has to be splined. 

On 05/06/2023 at 18:30, HumberSS said:

3/4/5k Toyota?

Lovely little motor (especially with sidedrafts) but would require cutting the bulkhead. 

I popped over the LVV cert guys place for a gasbag yesterday and he said if I can avoid as much cutting of the firewall as possible that would be good. I think the only part I'll have to cut is the snout area for the VW box. But that is technically the gearbox tunnel so not a big a deal. 

The only question mark he has for me which he'll look into are the half shafts. I was going to cut the Imp and VW ones and weld them together with a collar over it. He said he'll let me know the best way I should do that.  

So the subie EA18 fits nicely. Only mods required looks to be the air filter/carb arrangement and the oil filler tube. Thankfully the tube is mild steel so I can shorten it and face the correct direction rather easily.

That inlet manifold needs a bit of a trim with all the extra lumps and bumps sticking out of it as well as I don't need all the vacuum ports and whatnot. Interestingly the original heater pipes on the EA18 are a similar diameter to the Imp front radiator tubing so I can still use that. But the diameter for the original outlets for the radiator are far larger. I'll have a think about it but perhaps having a radiator front and rear could be handy. I could also gut the subie water pump and just use the davies craig one I'll be installing shortly for the Imp engine. See how I go I guess. 

Gearbox will be a VW freeway flyer IRS box (3.8/0.82). I've already ordered that as well as an adapter for the subie to VW. I think the one main thing I'll need is a starter but I'll wait until I have the ring gear in hand to check what I have. 

15 hours ago, Alfashark said:

Nah, he's throwing a radiator up the front.

Correct. 

Installing the front mounted radiator with twin thermo fans and a davies craig water pump which deletes the thermostat. I have to convert to an alternator at the same time however to keep up with the new power demands.

It's time to banish this green stuff for good. 

On 13/03/2022 at 14:44, dmulally said:

Right. This engine is already getting on my tits. Open to engine swap ideas. 

50-100hp, reliable, and carb. Ideas so far are EA81, Suzuki Carry, 1600 cortina. 

I don't care about handling. 99% of my driving is in 100kph zones with long lazy corners. 

@cubastreet

Google suggests this:

Those instructions are pretty good. As long as it didnt throw an error code or you could pull the little globe you could ignore most of C1. 

Dashes are always fiddly to wire anyway. At least yours has great instructions.

Does the digital dash all work?

If it works and you like it just terminate it at the fuse box and try and refresh individual wires to the right places.  

If it doesnt you could always change to a custom analog dash. Would be loads out there to choose from and you'd only ever do it once. 

The digital dash was prob why it was so hard to find an off the shelf loom. 

Thankfully being a small block chev you only need three wires or so to run it. 

4 hours ago, Tiger Tamer said:

Nissan leaf battery on trade me. 

I could park two imps on that! 

More if they would start to be able to drive onto it. 

Oh yeah Id gut that entire loom and start from scratch. With a loom that big I assumed efi/tbi or something.

Take one day to gut it entirely. Then a full weekend running each one out one at a time. I prefer American Auto Wire as the wires are a lot softer than your typical Narva branded ones from Repco so you get them out of the way easier. Then you'd never have to worry about it again. 

I cant seem to find a specific one for 1983 so Id get something generic like this. 

I was able to cut off the under-bonnet bracing which made it a little floppy but after the stamping is done I can weld in some box tubing to help out. I've coated it in acid to help keep it from rusting in the meantime. Sadly there was a thick layer of bog on it so it will need a bit of mucking around when it comes back to blend it back in.

Dropping it off this weekend so I'll report back when done. 

Being an electric motor I assume you could just flip a switch and make it go the other way. With the Thunderstruck control unit that is possible. 

I think the bigger issue would be battery physical storage. Unless the Leaf batteries can be pulled apart and repackaged or it could take aftermarket batteries it would be hard to fit. 

Blimey that is tiny. Who's is that?