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I love how stubby this car is.
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Tomble's adorable go cart / distraction / Alto Works
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Yeah they should sit a lot higher. The witness marks don't lie. I haven't done anything yet - I'm quite lazy and have enough of a backlog as it is. The spacing washers also are rusting pretty bad (I didn't protect the ground edge but the whole thing's rusting equally, just aliexpress things) so I've got to rethink things. Decent 3M adhesives might work. Sounds so sketch trusting that though... -
Tomble's adorable go cart / distraction / Alto Works
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Well that jinxed it. The consensus was an exhaust leak, so the poor neglected starion got wheeled out once again and I went hunting. It didn't take long to find the culprit; the cat was loose. There's a pun there somewhere. But, that meant taking off the bumper for proper access. After wrangling the heat shielding off (literally have to deform it to get it out of there), a bolt fell onto the floor... :D... All three other bolts/nuts were loose as well. As much of a bitch as that heat shielding is to work with, I'm glad it functioned as a bolt bucket. I went around everything else and fortunately there were no other loose bolts. I think one of us just finger-tightened the cat and forgot to torque it down during all the chaos of putting things back together again. It's now secured with red locktite because fuck future Tom, and all the noises and power are back to normal. -
Tomble's adorable go cart / distraction / Alto Works
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Surely did, she's our daily . Currently on 10,922 km since rebuild. -
Tomble's adorable go cart / distraction / Alto Works
tomble replied to tomble's topic in Other Projects
A lil bit back I was ordering some audio stuff and a mate wanted an amp tacked on to my shipping, so what else was I to do but tack my own impulse buy onto my own shipping? I wanted to get back there anyway to tidy up my temporary twisties from hardwiring my dash cam. So once again the stereo comes out... Ugh I agonised about what constant +12v to splice into, but all of my candidate wires just gave me a bit of pause either because the wire seemed a bit thin or it was a critical circuit. So in the end decided to just use a fuse tap. Reliable, reversible, and a lot less stress about choosing the right circuit. I think I went with the horn one in the end. Have to do a quick test before final install of course... And once again the front seat makes it way into the back I was originally going to run the wires along the sill, but after laying everything out I would have been just barely too short. If I'd spliced into something on the driver's side I'd be fine, but in the end I'm happy with the route I chose - it just involved getting more of my arm blind feeling under the carpet. The wires won't rub or catch on anything. The bum sub is secured using hook tape - it isn't going anywhere! I'm no car sparky, but I'm not really happy with the job the electrical place did installing my stereo last year. I think now days I'd have given it a go myself and done a better job. But it's not egregious and I'm probably just hyping my own non-abilities up. At any rate, I soldered my twisties; first soldering since I was in high school, but it's done. So okay fine I'm almost certainly hyping my own abilities up. But they're solid and won't go anywhere. I taped them up with fresh electrical tape to blend in with the rest of the work I also tidied up the routing of many of the wires and also added some labelling. The new sub goes pretty hard. I had the equaliser a little too bass heavy... .... Crazy how much just a little bum sub can change the listening experience in a car. --- I was ordering some amayama stuff for the MIL and decided hey might as well put some cheeky other stuff in the basket... As is tradition, I copied KWS' mirror mod. Basically I'm swapping the mirror out with a different but similar OEM model that has a dipper switch (84703-81A14-6GS + 84782-76G00). I also splashed a bit and got a new wiper stalk from a Jimny with adjustable intermittent wiper speed (37310-74P20). KWS already detailed the mirror swapping process and all you need is a screwdriver. The wiper stalk is also pretty easy. First, the steering column bottom cover comes off with one screw and a light pull. Of course there's tape on it. The stalk is held in with one screw that is obscured by the steering wheel; fortunately, turning the wheel 90 degrees gives access to it. There's also a clip holding it in. The top column cover is very flappy at this point and you can easily get at the clip with a flat head. So strange that they wouldn't just ship this variant on the alto. How many cents did they save not doing so?? Installation is the reverse, clip and screw it in... replace the column covers... Not much movement otherwise. She's still our daily driver and is doing great, trying to spread the gospel of the tiny 660 car wherever it goes.- 87 replies
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Love it, I'll live through you and Zac for the time being. What's with Starion people migrating to FD's?
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Tomble's adorable go cart / distraction / Alto Works
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We went to the MG club's driver training event again (same one from Feb) at Manfield. Most of the same crew turned up and we nabbed the first four bays. I brought tools this time I had been feeling run down so wasn't super looking forward to it, but I knew I should come and would enjoy myself in the end, so I pushed to. I just told myself that I'd take it easy for both myself and the car's sake. The day of the event I woke up with a solid headache which didn't bode well, however it slowly resolved itself over the day. Girlface went out first and had some fun, just in case I broke the car again. Then I went out, with my Ek9 mate in the passenger seat, who I'm very glad who was there - he's a great track buddy and a good teacher. By the end of the first session I was feeling more confident and much better at hitting lines. He then had a go with me as a passenger which was tons of fun and great to see how hard the car can really be pushed, also great to see that my lines were getting pretty close to his. Girlface also got a run with him and did great. I was terrible at capturing any video or photos so this is pretty much all I have. :\ https://i.imgur.com/XHakpcy.mp4 We definitely took the day easy and I'm glad we did. The weather was great, the car was great, we had awesome runs and a bunch of people from Feb wandered over and congratulated us on getting the car up and running again. It was the most ideal way to validate our work returning the car back to health, and to overwrite our previous track day's experience with nice new happy memories. It turns out we had also won car of the day thanks to the combination of our car and story (though we had left by 4pm and missed the organiser by like 30 minutes). He mailed us some swag. He had no Alto stickers but I forgive him for that. Next time we'll can get some lap timing going and go a little harder. edit: more pix from group- 87 replies
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Tomble's adorable go cart / distraction / Alto Works
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Every fuse in my car is individually wrapped in copper tape.- 87 replies
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My leaf made me an absolute menace. If there's a gap in traffic, you know you'll make it. But not everybody else involved does...
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Tomble's adorable go cart / distraction / Alto Works
tomble replied to tomble's topic in Other Projects
5,384km since rebuild. Only a couple of the tiniest sparklies in the oil that I really had to hunt down to see, and the filter was almost entirely clean as well. Thanks @cletus that oil filter method works a charm Kelv was parting with his GReddy intercooler so I scooped that up. It's a true bolt-on replacement to the OEM intercooler; all the pipes, the air scoop and the rubber isolated bolt holes swap over with no problems. It's a much bigger sandwich. While my butt dyno is pretty questionable, I think I feel the car pull a bit harder as the turbo kicks in. But its main value will be in the future when I get my larger turbo setup The car's been running perfectly. We've been on a few road trips now and she gets driven almost daily without any issues. The number of thumbs ups and neck-craning we experience really helps us appreciate her that much more. It's such a stupid cute cool car that is impossible to hate.- 87 replies
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Tomble's adorable go cart / distraction / Alto Works
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So it turns out when I ordered my $1 crank shaft key, it gummed the works up for all my other parts and my order sat in limbo for almost 2 months before someone figured it out. The way they fixed it was to remove the key order so... I guess that hand-crafted key is the end of that story. I was really annoyed with the export broker but after hearing it explained, I have way too much empathy and understanding for that kind of delay and how easily that can happen when you're understaffed. So whatever. I'll be avoiding small orders from them in the future, or at least being static in what I order and not trying to tack things on. Anyway - this is what I got :). The recent sunny days have made installing these possible. First the accessory belt. Our old belt was sad and had a notch. We'd also gotten a bit splashy with the turbo oil while re-assembling, and the A/C pump had a hell of a squeal at times. I got the old one off okay - access isn't amazing - and eventually figured out the mechanism for adjusting the belt, which I'd still not entirely grasped even though I put the damn thing back on the engine when rebuilding it. I also gave every pulley a thorough spray and wipe down with brake cleaner to get rid of any oil residue. Now, this guy. This guy's the adjustment bolt for the belt. The idler pulley assembly's two bolts are un-torqued, then the adjustment bolt can be used to move the idler pulley assembly to make the belt taught before the bolts are re-torqued to actually hold it in that position. In my infinite wisdom I removed the adjustment bolt entirely to help remove the belt, not realising that instead of fighting just the new belt, I now had to fight the belt and thread a bolt that really doesn't want to be threaded in an extremely tight space. When I eventually managed to get it to grab, it became obvious quickly that I'd cross threaded it. I tried a bunch of stuff to salvage the situation but eventually resigned myself to the fact that I'd have to start over. I took the belt off, took the adjustment bracket off and thread repaired them, then re-attached the bracket and bolt with no belt on. Then I put the mahi into getting that thing onto the idler with the help of a Girlface and a trim tool, and finally it was on. The car is turned on for a hot couple of seconds to distribute the tension, then the adjustment screw is tightened until tension is all happy. The idler bracket bolts are re-torqued to hold it all where it should be. Finally, the wheel well trim goes back on to prevent it from getting splashed with road shite. The belt has a minor amount of deflection when pressed until fingies hurt and the shortest run isn't quite able to turn 45 degrees with fingie pressure alone. There's no squealing anymore and everything seems to be running happily. Job done! The stereo surround. As a reminder, the previous owner got happy with a craft knife to make their previous system fit, and to hide the damage our stereo sits proud. Suzuki OEM parts are cheap as chips so I got a new surround. Of course, the previous owner has copper tape on the inside of this thing... The old vents are popped out and swapped into the new surround with just a little elbow grease and some care taken with where the rotating tab is aligned. The stereo's mounting bolts can then be moved in a notch. And now I saw why the previous owner hacked theirs up. The surround didn't clear the stereo at all, and the walls are quite stiff with backing structure. I thought about how to rectify this. A cleaner cut using a dremel or just being careful with a scoring knife? Corner relief cuts? Remove the backing structure to make it more pliable? Before I made any permanent changes, I first simply tackled it with a trim tool and patience - and fortunately, this worked. The sides had just enough give (with a lot of pressure) to be forced around the facia of the stereo. Now it sits nice and recessed like it should. This also makes it easier to steady your hand on the trim while you use the touch screen. Yup, it's meant to be two different colours of trim. I think. The mirror covers and escutcheons (new word of the day) help tie the black in with the rest of the car as accents. The window covers do too, though I would like it if they were tinted a little darker. But they should still help. The mirror covers come off much easier than you'd think fortunately; simply jab a trim tool between the indicator light and the lower trim, and that gives access to get a trim tool up into the clips for the covers. Yup - copper tape. How fucking deep did this last owner go??? Assembly is just as easy as it sounds. Here's a before and after of the other side. Next is the escutcheons. I wasn't expecting them to be quite so glossy / carbonfibrey. They're simple to install, but the element of positioning them with extremely sticky glue tape makes it a bit stressful. Annoyingly, I got given four of them - aftermarket escutcheons include one for the boot. I think the look is okay, but I would have preferred if they weren't so glossy. They don't have as much of the desired effect of bringing the black accents across the car. Here's some good angles. I might follow these up with some kind of black vinyl covers or something, and DIY the boot escutcheon at the same time. Penultimate job is to install the window covers. Fortunately we found some guy online who had some reference photos to go along with our shitty translated printouts of the installation manual. First, remove the rubber door seals from the top and thoroughly clean the areas and polish the ceramic coating away before isoproping it to total cleanliness. They went on without a hitch, but as with all things of this nature, sticky glue + positioning is stressful. But we absolutely nailed it first try for all four windows. Finally, I wanted to install a foot rest. Kelvinator has one in his Alto and I never knew I needed it. My foot barely fits between the pedal and the tunnel and I often find myself flicking the clutch pedal when I go to rest my foot. Amazon JP delivered the same model to me in two fucking days. First we start with a nice vacuumed carpet sans-mat. The foot rest uses one factory nut and requires two holes to be drilled. The carpet is peeled back to find the factory nut so that I can poke a hole through it. Then the pedal is temporarily installed using this hole to locate it. It's pretty fiddly with an allen key here. Wish I had those round-ended ones. It's very red. The other two holes are hole-punched through to locate them through the carpet, then the carpet is peeled back. It turns out that this sound deadening and white padding is not typical, and is likely from the batshit insane previous owner. A quick drill, debur and a dab of rust converter to oxidise and protect the bare metal and we're ready for my first ever rivnutting. Yes, I'm just going to go through the sound deadening. A follow-up re-drill, re-debur and re-schmoo after I realise that the M6 rivnuts require larger holes than M6 bolts do, and I nut into my car. These things are so cool! I cut some of the padded cloth away, refit the carpet and stabbed two new holes through it to install the final two bolts. Et viola! It's well designed, and allows for the mat to be tucked in under it. Did I mention how red it is? Monster also make a clutch pedal kit which moves it over a tad to make for a better position in terms of tunnel clearance, but it's a bit spenny so I'll leave it alone for now. So yeah, that's where we're at! Aesthetically I think the only big thing left is that I'd like to replace the rims but that'll have to wait.- 87 replies
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Tomble's adorable go cart / distraction / Alto Works
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Man I've left this too long. Back when we bought the car, one of the first things we did was order a wang we saw while in Japan that we loved. We joogled around and just... couldn't find anything that was as cool. To us. Mileage might vary. It arrived as unpainted FRP and so needed some paint. It also had a lot of rough-finished edges and pin holes that needed sealing. Sanding them flat also reveals more holes the more you sand... :X So, let's see how well I can putty. ... not very well. Or maybe it's normal to miss a bunch of holes / create more while sanding the putty flat. More putty, more sanding, more holes... The rest of it gets sanded too to get nice and flat for paint. At some point I had enough pinhole-chasing / was happy I'd gotten them all and went in for the primer, some durepox, which should work happily with fibreglass etc. This disabused me of my belief I'd gotten all the holes. More putty, more sanding, more paint... More holes... And one of the sheets got free in the breeze and landed on the part... But eventually, I arrived at a nice primed and hole-less piece. I was originally suspending it from the ceiling but I think that made me a bit less likely to get enough on the trailing edge of the wing, so I instead constructed an internal mount using bunched up cardboard. I opted for 1K base and 2K clear, apparently there's no issue with this set-up. No issues at all. It came out alright, but very orange peely. I'd also slightly under-done one corner because of how I'd mounted it; I guess I just suck at mentally mapping where to spray from lower angles. Next up: wet sanding while the 2K was not fully cured. Holy shit I'm glad I didn't wait any longer because this stuff is hard to sand. I started with high grits but moved down eventually to 1500 then 1000 just to be able to make progress on the large sections. However, disaster struck on the edges: I blasted through to the basecoat, and even the primer in a couple of areas. I think I didn't apply enough clear coat to the edges, even though it felt like I'd over-done it on the clear at the time. Additionally, even with buttloads of effort, I really struggled to get down to the deepest valleys in the clear. I didn't want to go too hard seeing how easy it was to blast through the edges, yet somehow the main faces took low grits like an absolute champ without getting totally flat. The wet sanding process sucks as well as it has to be totally dried off with towels and an air gun to be able to see how I was progressing. And because it's so easy to go overboard, it has to be done often. As my results unfurled, that just made me more and more paranoid (and upset). It might be hard to see in these pics. Then my car blew up. I decided I'd get back into it eventually and either try and touch up the exposed base/primer and see how it looked, and if it looked really bad, just re-do it all again. But for the time being, the engine rebuild occupied my brain space. ~~~ Fast forward to a working car and I'd internalised the value of "just because I can do it with lots of effort, doesn't mean I should always do it". I really didn't enjoy the process on this wing, and I was dreading what the vortex generators would be like to wet sand with all their hard edges. I also wanted to broaden my horizons re: paint people, so I took the lot to a local shop and agreed on a reasonable price. They ran into trouble re-spraying it: apparently, the base's 1K solvents reacted with the previously-applied 2K clear and made it all bubbly and strange. In the end they used their own 2K base and got it looking hot, though the vortex generators have some texture to them if you look close enough. No pic of that so here's one with the old spoiler. They also told me that it all looked pretty good prep-wise, and that the orange peel was likely because I didn't use enough thinner. I'd used the lower end of what the tin recommended, so I guess that's a lesson, experiment before committing. The old spoiler had two bolts plus a lot of very strong glue keeping it on, and this glue gave us a hell of a workout getting rid of it. But eventually we had dry-fitted the spoiler enough times to be mentally psyched enough to apply tape and get it on for-realsies. The kit came with a bunch of double-sided glue tape and two bolts to fasten to the captive nuts set inside the spoiler. This was teeth-gritting. Then the vortex generators.... We did pretty well. A couple of corners on the spoiler weren't perfectly seated against the body likely due to miniscule misalignment while positioning, but some gentle clamping overnight sorted that out. It makes us laugh every time we see it. It's so stupid and cool.- 87 replies
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Tomble's adorable go cart / distraction / Alto Works
tomble replied to tomble's topic in Other Projects
1000km oil change is up! .. plus a few. No surprise, there's still some flakes. This oil has been in the engine for 80%~ of its rebuilt life. Ignore the water droplets - some dribbled in from the wet engine bay. We went to town and bought a reasonable hacksaw, then we went to town on the old filters. The first filter, filtering the first 20km of break-in oil, was kind of surprisingly the cleanest? Some spots here and there but nothing crazy. The 235km filter had much more easy to find bits, it was the most populated. And this latest filter was somewhere in-between. The alto club reckons that the material doesn't look like bearing material. And if it is bearing material, then the engine is eating them much slower - all three filters combined would only have a small fraction of the material we found in the pre-explosion filters. The main thing is that the amount of material is decreasing. I think with 1,100km on the rebuilt engine, the next oil change should have less again, hopefully nothing at all but I'm sure something somewhere will be floating about. At any rate things look and feel healthy and she's back to regular service intervals now. Comparison between aftermarket (top) and OEM filters. The OEM one is slightly larger in diameter as well, there's a lot more surface area available. My broker in Japan has suddenly almost totally broken down with an insane backlog all of a sudden somehow, so I'm still waiting on the new accessory belt and some other frivolous things... -
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We buttoned up the final bits left to put on... The edges of the cowling, pre- and post-zhuzhed up with meguiar's: (edit: Yes, those grates are custom. Yes, they look like shit. Yes, I'll do something about them some time) The rear camera made a break for it at the track so I scored the mounting adhesive and surface with a craft knife and superglued them back together: The bonnet wasn't quite aligned properly so we had a go at it. It's better, but annoyingly it seems like it simply won't quite line up perfectly no matter what. The fenders simply have more edge than the bonnet does, so either it looks bad at the cowling or bad at the lights. We opted to get the cowling right as it seems like it'd be the most obvious. She survived the trek into work no problems the next day to break her first 100km <3 The final piece to go on is the crank access cover, which poetically was the first piece to come off at the track... A couple nights prior I'd really sent one of those clips in (with a hammer) because I was getting fed up with it. Future Tom paid the price, but a batch of new clips reduced the annoyance of the job. Said new clips replaced the broken ones in the cowling (we'd snaffled them for the liners) and one in the bumper edge. I also combined some with some random clip padding stuff from an aliexpress order of clips (literally none of them suitable for this car) to finally replace the zip ties holding the intercooler cowling down, as well as take the play out of the clips holding the intake cowling. For some reason they were super loose and the manual doesn't appear to have mention of any washers or whatever to take out that slack? And now that the head gasket had been heat cycled a few times, I drained and replaced the coolant with the good stuff. 200KM raced up on us and I wanted to do an oil change. I'd been largely following HPA's advice on breaking the engine in (though we hard deviated by breaking her in on the street) and they'd wait for 200KM to switch to synthetic. I cleaned out brendan foot upper hutt's stash of OEM filters (and they loaded my open palm up with new sump washers). The oil change was about what I expected: still lots of glitter from the rings. There was one worryingly "large" red flake of material about the size of 1/3 of a grain of rice, zoomed in very far here to show it, not gonna lie that makes me nervous not knowing what it is or how normal that is but... what else is there to do but stay the course... It was only after the change was done that the rest of the Wellington Kei Club responded to my DMs with some squinty eyes, reckoning I should have just kept going with mineral oil. Honestly if I had it on hand I would have, and after the squinty eyes I would have gone and gotten some, but I'd already changed it and my gut said it'd be okay. To be on the safe side I made a post on the HPA forums and got an internet barry who, while definitely gave off strong "I reckon" internet dweller vibes, made it clear regardless that waiting 200KM for synthetic oil was actually probably erring on the safe side. OEMs apparently often send it straight from the factory with synthetic off the bat, or don't even bother to change the original break-in oil at all. There's no smoke, I think 99% of the ring break in is done at this point, and she's running great so I think all is well. But we'll see at 1000KM. I asked Josh if I could borrow his DA and he said "come by Sunday and allocate 5 hours". Alrighty! First we gave her a proper clean and clay barring the day before. We hadn't clay barred her at all until now, oops. The clay bar did little for the water spots on the windows...but the DA did an excellent job The roof and bonnet must have had acid rain on them or just never cleaned or something because the clearcoat is impregnated with water spots that have etched into it. The heaviest cutting compound we had and a solid amount of time on them with the DA improved the situation somewhat. There are still tiny defects but it's 50x better than it was. Josh got me started on the DA then largely left me to my devices as he had family commitments. The rest of the car polished up perfectly. The paint isn't actually in very bad condition, so the before and after isn't quite as breathtaking as with more neglected/older cars. After left, before right. After an interruption to have a quick feed (mmm cheesy oven bake) Josh rejoined me and ceramic'd everything. And dressed the tyres because that's the kind of creature he is. The entire car's paint is now immaculate - except for the roof but I don't think we can solve that without wet sanding and you really have to be looking for it + get the right light to notice it. I am surrounded by truly selfless creatures who inspire me to be better. Anyway. A few days later and conditions were okay (except for me having covid :\) to proceed with the next item: Restoring the decals that the Japanese owner had removed. Firstly we got Lemmy back in the garage and gave the area a good clean and polish to remove the ceramic coating. Then we lined everything up as best as we could. Each decal conveniently had a small throw-away piece of the next decal next to it to make lining things up a lot easier. We positioned the decals and measured everything 16 times to make sure everything was okay. The stickers sit surprisingly high on the doors, if you applied them blind you might assume they're hard against the bottom edge, which would be a mistake. We started with the smaller one first and decided to work lengthwise from the centre, as lining the decals up where they meet is the most important to get right. We peeled a small amount back at the edge we started at, cut the backing away to provide an immediately accessible sticky surface, placed it as accurately we possibly could against the paint, then peeled and pressed. Tip for anyone else applying long decals: get a second person to pull the decal taut where it's meant to go, as otherwise it'll wander. There's also a surprising amount of flexibility in terms of positioning these things, they can handle being moved back on track without too much drama, andwrinkles and air bubbles wipe right out or can be popped with tiny pins. We fortunately didn't get any major bubbles. Then we peeled the application layer off... hell yeah.... The other side went a little easier, bar us having to reposition the start of the second decal slightly ...! It looks slightly misaligned from this shot angle but it looks great in person. I also bought something... dumb. But cool. Our wide NZ plates don't quite gel nicely with the taller skinner japanese plates that are meant to grace the bumpers of this little kei car, but buying full-on personalised plates is just a little too extra even for me, so I settled for our existing govt rego on japanese plates which is just within dumb-purchase-but-i'll-allow-it territory. For the money you'd expect higher quality plates, but the black edges were flaking/flaked leaving a harsh silver edge that was noticable when mounted on the front against the black backing plastic. We sorted that out with some CRC black zinc. I was afraid the texture would be noticeably different but it seems good. Josh also gave us some Show Washers plus countersunk flat head bolts, which of course he polished up for me lol. ... though they overlapped the raise edge which prevented them seating properly and looking a bit meh. We notched some washers to pad them out. In that shot you can see where the old Japanese plate lived. Why the fuck advertise Japan-style plates in NZ and then not even punch the holes in the right place to mount them??? Ugh. I'll have to solve that somehow - the brackets behind are as high up as they can be. Anyway she's looking really mint now. <3 Aside from the wheels (though they also have Enkei wheels from factory), and the installation of some wire mesh behind the front grates (and some newly made holes in those little cowl side pieces) she's pretty much at factory now.- 87 replies
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Tomble's adorable go cart / distraction / Alto Works
tomble replied to tomble's topic in Other Projects
No worries at all, I welcome feedback and questions and double checkings. Yeah, fresh mineral oil and filter for the break in, then fresh mineral oil and filter after the 20km. We'll go back to the regular stuff after 200km. We turned it "a few times" on the stand by hand just as a part of assembling and validating, then built oil pressure once it was all back together via the starter (spark and fuel unplugged). Great idea with the boost. We did have good access to it. That'll be useful knowledge for the starion