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The carb clean method will still be valid as long as you dont get any down the TBI throat, wont it?

Your new HG definately sounds blown, thats the cause of your water shooting out in time with the cranking, cylinder pressure blasting out into your cooling system. Not to argue with fuel, cos he's a smart dude, but the water pump doesnt really pressurise the system, its there to circulate the coolant... The heat from the motor is what causes the pressure. I'd say something went wrong during installation and the head clamping pressure isnt what its meant to be, coupled with a sick cooling system, and the new HG just didnt last long. I had very similar problems in one of my starions, overheated, blew HG, changed it, did it again, turned out it was a blocked radiator... Should have gotten that simple shit checked but i was young and in a hurry. Not to expensive to get fxed... These motors are famous for cracking heads when they overheat... I hope yours is okay :/.

I sprayed some suspension arms with por15, didnt use any of the prep products, and it worked brilliantly. Have the metal prep stuff for the next job though, so will be interesting to compare.

That is pretty ridiculous, I'd be calling the SPCA on her ass. Irresponsible pet owners really give me the shits....

x2. Fuck man, beating cats? thats just plain stoooopid. Secure your garage man, cats arent *that* small, its not hard to stop them getting in. If you catch them in there, sure scare the shit out of them, but dont beat them. Anyone that can beat or generally be cruel to *any* helpless animal is a fucking waste of space. If i ever dicovered anyone undertaking thaty sort of shit with my dog/cat... Well, humans arent as helpless, so beating them is just fine and dandy. Ultrasonic scarer sounds like a bloody good idea, will save your car, and the cats. lub your car and the work thats gone into it though .

Does windlace = door seal?

is it a bit rank underneath?

That the one thats parked at the paint shop on waltham road? If it is that car rocks my world! What did you do to it?

WTF? Might just be crazy enough to work!

Been pottering away on this, most of the running gear is all refurb'd and ready. after hot-tanking, as i just didnt want to deal with cleaning the grease out the second arm. Will install bush and bearing today and give a quick spray. The cleaned prats being stored in my study, so they dont get knocked about to much. Looks like the worlds most fun jigsaw puzzle at the moment. Everything there is either new or reconditioned, new bearings, seals, pistons, everything else. Should bo nice and reliable once all assembled. They weren't listed in the catalogue, but i got talking to the supplier of our race rotors at work, and turns out they do have them. Got him to machine me up a set of slotted and dimpled ones, should resist fade quite nicely... However, this setup will be for sale in a couple of months, due to... aquiring a set of metro turbo calipers and drive flanges. Money's a bit tight atm with christmas and it being drinking season, so this will wait till next year as they need new pistons and seals. All the main bits are there to do the conversion. Can also get nice rotors through work... Not overly cheap though, but totally worth it for the track time this car will be seeing. Will need a dual pipe kit and the right bolts to mount them to the mini front uprights, but its all available from the uk pretty cheaply. Score. One thing that bugged me about the switchgear was the way the hazard, brake warning and demister switches faded, but the headlight one didnt... So they're all dismantled at the moment and have just been sanded down (oh what a fun job) ready for a coat of paint to even things up. Polished the aluminium ring that surrounds the switchgear face and repainted the face itself aswell, came up mint. sandblasted and painted both the rear drum backing plates, as they were all rusty. Looking good now. Havent been able to get the body itself back into town, and probably wont before the new year now. Will just focus on getting all the accessories and running gear back to as new condition for the moment. Also bought another gearbox for cheaps on trademe to have a play with, opefully will be able to make a decent one out of the two i've got. They have different case numbers, but both have the larger idler bearing, so most parts should hopefully be interchangeable. Will use the existing A+ gearbox as the base, and just replace with the best bits from both boxes. Really hope i dont have to buy to much for them, as gearbox bits can be expensive...

Pretty certain i can monster that price, swing me a text tomorrow and i'll let you know.

Joe, I can get you the tubing pretty cheap, need to buy some for my mini anyway.

Exams are over, and I've finally had a couple of full days to get some stuff done. New adjustable lower front suspension arms are all sorted, as are the adjustable tie rods it came with. Got a new passengers upper arm as the one i had was rooted, is now stripped and cleaned awaiting the next batch of painting. Rear subframe mounts are all cleaned up and painted with new urethane bushes. Tower bolts cleaned and sorted with solid front subframe mount kit. Brake calipers are fully back together. Fitted 3 out of the 4 front wheel bearings, doing the last, dilligently tapping away and it went thunk, the shell slipped straight into position, where it was just fractionally loose, and would spin. Had to lateral movement, so only a couple of thou clearance, but enough to be a problem... Got some loctite primer from work and borrow some retaining compound from Dad and now its all locking into place, wont be moving in a hurry! So thats all the front wheel bearings done. Front balljoints lapped in and greased up good to go also. Have cleaned up one of the rear radius arms and brake componentry, and fitted new bearings there also. Will attack the other one next week. Here is a hilarious picture of whal happens to mini rear suspension arms... They eventually get completely filled with grease! I pressed the axle out, so the grease had somewhere to go, then CAREFULLY applied some aiur pressure, the results were down disgusting and hilarious... Had to go get camera for a picture and video to document the hilarity. Basically my car decided to lay a big fat stinky cable.

Minty minty mint calipers, new SS pistons, seals, pads, and paint. Will hopefully look less silly when they're on a red car. My bits came from the UK. Obviously the caliper pistons above, but also all new wheel bearings, front arm rebuild kits (have the rear arm kits at work), new speedo cable, throttle spindles for the twin SU's, solid front subframe mount kit, camber adjustable lower arms, and new taillight lenses. Is kinda underwhelming when you consider that there was very little change from a grand, but will totally be worth it! Once i've bought home the bits i've got stashed for it at work, all the suspension and running gear will be brand spankers better than new. Better be bloody reliable! Also lapped in the front balljoints, re-cleaned them, and shimmed them up correctly. Will grab some new grease nipples and that'll be another job ticked off .

There goes $850 to minispares in the UK, got some sweet shit though .

Lame, rack conversion was gonna be sweet!

Cheers man, would appreciate it. Will give them a ring anyways... If BNT have em, i can probably get em thru work also. Will be pulling the rear subframe out this friday, will have a look to see what bearings are in it atm, if their tapered ones i'll try and go by the numbers.

Tapered seat, or ball bearing type? Can get Ballbearing type cheap as chips, but more keen on tapered type.

Yeah, cheers man. I work at repco, and we do get heaps of bits in for them that you wouldn't expect, but finding wheelbearings for less than $50 per bearing is proving difficult... Brother is coming back from the UK for xmas, so will save on shipping that way, and our dollar's pretty good atm .

Hmmm, blow through turbo carby... hmmmm.... Nah, just a nice everyday drive i rekon, girlfriend has to be able to jump in it and go whenever aswell, so has to be reliable.

Have been cleaning up bits here and there. Have put together an order from the UK for basically all the bits to rebuild front suspension. Front hubs, after cleaning. Front upper arms. Bearings are epically stuffed... Had to muck around for an hour or so making a tool to drift them out, as my longest punch just slipped off the side of the bearing cage.worked sweet as in the end though. Car came fitted with the Hi-Lo's, which look pretty new. All cleaned up, primed and painted. New balljoint kits (Any car where you have to assemble your own ball joints is hardcore awesome IMO), knuckle joints, pads and brake hoses. Rest of rebuild parts (wheel bearings, upper arm bearings and seals, etc) will be coming from the UK just before new-years. Will probably re-blast (oh, yeah, sand blasting cabinet works a-treat, for those that were following that thread) the calipers and paint them red, as now its decided that the car will be red (ladies choice, after some subtle hinting... Now i just need to convince her to go with silver for strips and roof, not white).

91, 95, 98, whatever you get out of a normal service station pump is unleaded now, so you need to use valvemaster/mooreys if you are riding oldschool and dont have hardened valve seats.

Ive seen decent quality turbochargers withstand years of surge on closing the throttle, and have seen cheap chinese ones barely withstand weeks... That may have just been because they're cheap chinese turbochargers though, and were going to fuck-out anyway. Have also seen a mismatched turbo on a small capacity engine surge on full throttle... that'll just kill everything pretty quickly.

Starion or similar i assume.... Check Triggers thread, some good info in there about it.

Will work, but you'll need to trim the shifter hole in the gearbox tunnel a little, a couple of inches in the rear ought to do it. Might need to play with the trim inside aswell. Good thing about using this gearbox is that your prop shaft should fit it, the L200 boxes i've seen have the bigger output spline.