Mr.Mk1

Clear powdercoat on top of polish? I don't know the tech behind it but might be an option

Had car back for a week now, lobbed the restrictor fully and haven't had any issues, going strong. Today I did this It's oddly smooth, must need some duct tape added for grip!

I think the science lies in LD having higher oil pressure than the petrol the turbo was designed for, hence had more volume through snail. So by restricting it I've raised engine oil pressure for operation but limited the oil through turbo. Oil dumps above pan level cause it's all whipped up and shit. We shall see

I got paranoid with the mrs driving it so opened up the restrictor a bit more. Since I added a new, twice as thick walled turbo drain pipe at least if there's too much it will drain well. The old one may have kinked with heat.. Will return to this trial phase once I can swap cars back with her!

Autodec is sweet, got a set for my ponty earlier this year.

Went to the dump, recorded Daily weight, lol. Also put the new turbo on this afternoon. SUCCESS! I'm getting 6lb boost under acceleration and 2 cruising. I discovered the feed pipe wasn't sealed in properly too so will get a proper reading tomorrow if any different. Turbo is nice and spooly, oil restrictor is working well and very little excess smoke. I think the turbo I was borrowing was just flooded with oil and may have also had a dicky actuator. It never registered any boost. I tested the flow of the unrestricted feed and filled a spray can lid in 10seconds. The dump pipe and tailpipe are laden with nasty oily deposits.

Haven't committed fully, but a ratty variant fastback, 65 bluebird and a super lush 60 impala hardtop. My brother is making good progress on 65 wildcat pillarless but probably won't be ready. I want a bunch of wagons but suck at organisation

Still truckin' along. Mrs has been dailying it as her 65 bird isn't charging. Lately I've added an oil pressure gauge, and brought a new turbo. I sent the original one to Turbocare and they pronounced it dead. The cleaned the carcass really really well though! Didn't want to upgrade or change much at the moment so managed to find another real good T3 from a guy who posted a pic of a sweet HR30 on Facebook. Cheekily asked if he had any spare and he bloody did! $200 for turb and down pipe was a fair price, I was stoked. Have cleaned it up and painted it, few new gaskets and shit. Blocked off the temp sensor hole ( mine and Scott's never had this) Bunged on the super clean inlet housing from RIP turbo and she's looking sharp. Was going to cost over 1100 for a new core and rebuild. Charged me just under 60 for strip, clean and assess. Also got talking to a piner who did some turbo LDs back in the day and he was schooling me on oil feed. Reckons they had pressure drop taking it from same place as me but with bigger feed line. Messed round with bronzing and drilling the feed to restrict it and got decent pressures and solid feed. I currently cheech a fair amount of oil smelling smoke between gears when driving it decently and couldn't attribute it to turbo seals, over oiling or just being the cost of boosting it. So I had what I though to be my only ever stroke of genius and came up with this Make a panel steel 'gasket' for between the turbo and feed banjo flange and that knocks down the size by a bit. Plus with it being at the top and easily accessable I can make new ones either bigger or smaller to suit, and swap between while test driving it. That hole is about 2.5mm. We shall see, not sure when I'll swap the turbos over..need to get the bluebird fixed so I can have my damn car back! I also re-re-redid the roof paint today. Where I did a rust hole from roof racks, I used zinc spray to prime it as I had nothing else, it softened the bog and peeled. Then I took it back to bare and used can primer, and it peeled. Last week I did it again but got some decent sandable etch and ran out of daylight so hit it again today and finished it. I got a 2nd hand stereo, it's a few series above the one I had but identical looking. Means I don't have to change wiring, know how it works. This one is lit blue so matches interior. I fucked the last one by watering my cactus on the dash and overflow trickling down the speaker vent. First the display died, then it wouldn't turn off with the car, then It got to a point where it was functioning but only the subs worked, hahaha. Mrs had an accident in it last week. The battery shucked the hold-down clamps on a bumpy street and bridged the terminals. She said the clutch disappeared and she pulled over then much smoke. A passer by jumped out, knew how to open the bonnet and extinguished it. I always have extinguishers in my old heaps. It burnt a mega hole in the side of the battery, melted very little wiring and the extinguisher blew acid and melted plastic all over the side of the engine/bay. Didn't even blow a fuse, so fucking lucky. So gutted, got another battery and clamps and back to where we started. Could have done without the expense, but that's life. Dunno how or why clutch disappeared. Was fine when I drove it home. Then I brought another bench seat! The one toddy mentioned in discussion, it should be here on Monday. It's pretty ugly, but it's miles ahead of mine currently. Will buy me some time to get one re-upholstered. After the wedding.

It's all uniform, just many generations of satin black. Some have aged better than others. I need some solar guard.

Shit that paint looks awful! May have to address that..

www.whitewalltyres.co.nz In Waller tce, Sydenham. Used him lots, good work.

I remember this from about 2009, was in hawea area?

That looks a million times better than mine. What sort of $ for purchase?

His was where I was at when I pulled the pin last nite. This morning I had to face the fact that I had no reducer for the turbo I let as its 10mm smaller. Walked to work to see if there was anything, na. Saw a roadcone, looked a good plan B.. Ended up scrounging round behind the shed and found some exhaust, an old factory intercooler pipe. Lopped the flanges off those and saw I was onto a winner, joining both bends had me where I needed to be to me the intercooler. I used the original joiner off the first incarnation. I then had to weld a bunch of pipes together to get it from the 50mm of inlet to the 62mm elbow. And finally Using the leftover pipe from the original cars air cleaner setup. I welded all these together and die ground it so the flow wasn't so heinous. Then cleaned it all up, painted and fitted it. As you see I had to tape up the accessable joiners and paint the rest because blue silicone is the scourge of the earth. I'm stoked with how it came up. Car feels good with it but haven't had a decent run yet.

Intercooler arrived the other day, stoked on it. Nice size, inlet/outlet pointing same way, has rubber mounts attached. Ordered a bunch of cheap straight and 90* joiners and 3m of plastic piping. I'm almost done and still have heaps left damnit. The radiator mounts on the alloy spacer, and there's a cavern of space between there and the grille. For ease of piping I've just mounted it low Infront of radiator. My bottom pipe runs alongside the bottom tank so hope it doesn't pick up too much heat, but probably not even worth factoring in. Lots of air moving around and it's a very basic setup. Lots and lots and lots and lots of test fitting with and without radiator and adding joiners and pipes each time. The two mounts I used lined up with steel but the thread wasn't long enough to straight bolt up, made some tabs, welded to rad support and bolted through them. The piping was a bit bigger than the joiners so had to radius off the edges, little bit of grease, soapy water and heat and got them on. With hose clamps too, Quite an undertaking. I highly doubt there will be enough pressure to pop them off on this setup. I still haven't had any life in the boost gauge, so have now drilled a hole through the bolt that is blocking off the plenum breather and sealed the vac tube into it. We shall see. If nothing happens, I'll thread tape the gauge end as well and try again. Dumped a holy shitload of oil on the way to work and throughout the car park the other day. When I changed the turbo return pipe I grabbed the first standard vacuum pump return hose I saw and biffed it in. Turns out that was a spare one and it cracked instantly. Trimmed it and managed to get home fine, owned my arm on the top arm when I tried to pull the old shitty one off and it snapped. Now have my original, supple one on again and a big bruised lump! Also replaced the copper washers on the oil feed banjo, the old ones were old. New carpets and rubber floor mats still make me happy every time I get into it.

It's 3/4 I think, I'll come visit this shop of yours next week, will text.

Fuckin oath!

Here's a flash-only shot in the dark of night! Mint huh Went quite well, ran out of mig gas instantly and had to flog the soda stream bottle. Then sealed it up with oil resistant RTV just in case of pinholes. The third hose clamp is to assist in not collapsing the hose as still haven't got nice thick trans hose yet. It drained the battery two nights in a row, emergency battery was shagged. Turns out I left the tailgate window switch on, on Monday night. Skills! At least it's an easy fix

I didn't think so, my feed is half the size of the factory line. Diesels surely don't have a lesser need for oil than petrol

$383 shipped. Nzd from Autodec, not bad I thought.

Got this XR6T intercooler for $40 delivered. The outlets pointing in the right direction for me non-cross flow is choice. Less piping, less clutter. Started smoking when changing gears so I guess I have to sort the oil return before I damage things. I think when it gets hot it's collapsing the hose (not using trans hose as don't have any at work) hahaha. EDIT I just went and made a return piece to weld into sump, busy tomorrow nite but try for Wednesday. Will put vacuum pump return as it was, lose the tee and seperate turbo drain Like I should have to start with

Sorry about potato photos, it came out really well in the end. Seats let it all down though. Also pulled my stereo apart as it stopped turning off with the key. Full of corrosion, seems watering my cactus on the dash and leaking through the speaker grate may have shorted it out. I'm ok with popping the faceplate to turn off anyway Also freed up the gate. See how tomorrow goes

Dan, it sounded so grouse, all spool and mild performance! Could keep it whistling through all gears if short shifting Mike, In true oldschool fashion, it will go through at least 5 members in its lifetime I'm sure!

Back on the road! GC Scott lent me his spare turbo that came with his R30. I also fixed the vacuum pump mount. It's always had a broken bolt in the front so I put decent one in rear and it snaps them. Was making a horrid noise the other day after initial start up, stoked to find it was the broken bolts.. It seems the waste gate is stuck open in the new turbo, I noticed it before fitting but didn't think much of it. I swapped back to my actuator after a lazy test drive and still lame.. Will try carefully free it from outside 2moro but this buys me time to fix or find a better turbo whilst still driving it. Then it was on to fitting new carpet! I pulled seat out, vacuumed the shit out and hit some bits with hammerite. Some random wee drilled holes filled at the same time. Laid down the under felt and sliced in places to get it sitting nice, happy with how that went. Then left the rear section of carpet in place with sandbags in the dips to help form it for finishing tomorrow. On removing the seat one mount had been tacked so got mangled while yanking. Then both front mounts fell off ( they were factory pop riveted to rails!) I cleaned them up, welded properly, oiled the sliders and painted my favourite, black zinc. Also the seat springs on drivers side are fucked to death so I made a lattice of cable ties to give it some support. I do want to find another cheap seat to have repaired and covered cause that seat is so smoked. Sorry about no pics, I'll do that tomorrow.

Haha wouldn't that be a notch in the belt! Just tore turbo off, could have been worse but had to sacrifice a spanner and customise