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  1. Here is a wee update. The fist job was to sort out a couple of issues on the hydraulic clutch setup. I realized that the slave cylinder I had that came with the bellhousing fowls on the headers. After a bit of head scratching and hunting I found another slave cylinder that just fits. I heated the headers then tweaked them out about 15mm to give a bit more clearance, it is still very tight. I still only have about 10mm of clearance. I'll make a heat shield I think. That is the new one, only problem is that the bolt holes don't line up with the holes on the bellhousing. So I milled slots in it. I was going to TIG the bellhousing holes and tap them but I decided not to just incase this new slave cylinder doesn't end up working out. For the master cylinder I welded a backing plate to the fire wall and mounted it in the engine bay between the booster and the header. Tight fit but it works. That picture makes it look much closer to the header than it is. I couldn't have it directly behind the clutch pedal unfortunately, so it's off set from the pedal. I used some steel rod linking them all together and threaded the ends. It's nice and smooth, I'm hopeful it will work well. Engine in for hopefully the final time. I couldn't mount the gearbox as when I went to fit the fly wheel I realized I don't have any flywheel bolts. Doh. ARP ones are on the way. Next I'll start wiring her up and put the dash back together. Cheers guys. P.S. Pro tip... Don't spray a car in jandals. That was taken after 2 showers.
  2. JR

    JRs MK2 Capri

    Cheers, yeah upgraded valve springs are in. When I was in my teens I cooked one of these engines not long after a rebuild. Oil pump drive had worn out, was a very expensive and time consuming lesson. I've replaced the drive on this one and bought a spare while I was at it haha. Cheers.
  3. I've been chipping away a fair bit lately. I managed to find some radiator suport panels. This was my first time doing any sort of panel work, after a fair bit of tweeking I managed to get them good enough to where I was happy. I also filled in the 2 big holes in the engine bay. Years ago I hacked off the washer bottle mount to make room, luckily I kept the remains of it. I made new ends for it to replace the bits I hacked away. Replaced the battery tray. I did a test fit of the engine to sort a few things out. The main things were the gearbox cross member and where to fit a clutch master cylinder and sorting the exhaust. Not a hell of a lot of room, but it worked out OK. The wee fella helped modify a toyota gearbox cross member. I've just finished painting the engine bay today. It's not going to win any awards, but I'm happy enough with it. I'll start the final reassembly now. I sorted out the flywheel/clutch issue too. The guys who did the engine work (Kennally Cams) did some magic to the fly wheel and machined it to accept shouldered bolts to locate the pressure plate as it's being torqued down. Hopefully this week I'll get the engine in for the last time.
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    JRs MK2 Capri

    Hmmm, shit that's a worry. To me the bellhousing looks fine. Sounds like you have had a bad experience with them? What happened? Mk2 and 3 are the same but MK1 are a fair bit different. I might have to try and find someone locally with a MK2 or 3 and just try to copy theirs. Does anyone have one in Christchurch they wouldn't mind me making some cardboard templates of? A box of beers in it. Cheers, yeah pretty happy with how the engine is looking.
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    JRs MK2 Capri

    Ohh legend, I've just messaged him. He's basically my neighbor, I'm In Lyttelton. Cheers for that!
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    JRs MK2 Capri

    Cheers dude. I bought one of these guys panels through palmside a while ago (battery tray). Unfortunately Palmside don't stock the radiator panels. I did look into buying the radiator panel direct from steelpanels.co.uk but it's over 1k nzd and a 3 month wait list. Does anyone know of a front cut? Or a wrecking Capri?
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    JRs MK2 Capri

    Don't hold back, tell me what you really think haha. Ok, yeah that really sucks as the clutch kit they supplied wasn't exactly cheap. I'm looking into using the clutch plate they supplied that fits the gearbox with the ford pressure plate... Wish me luck.
  8. She goes 100mph just sitting there. Pretty stoked. I picked the engine up a few days ago, the guys at Kennally Cams did a brilliant job. I've just been putting the shiny parts on. The bellhousing and clutch kit arrived from Dellow Conversions. On the whole I'm happy with it. The bellhousing is perfect, but I'm a bit worried about the clutch assembly they supplied and would appreciate any input. They supplied a kit to mate the engine to a w57. Pressure plate, clutch, slave cylinder, bellhousing etc. They modified the pressure plate that they supplied. The original ford pressure plate has 6 bolt holes plus 3 holes for dowels that are on the fly wheel. The one they supplied has 6 holes total. 3 line up with bolt holes and the other 3 have been drilled out by them where the dowels go.. But over sized so the dowels no longer locate the pressure plate. That is one of the holes they drilled out. This is it sitting on the fly wheel. I have just had the engine balanced. My concern is that without the locating dowels (they are useless as the holes are now too big) the 3 bolts alone won't locate the pressure plate exactly in the center necessarily. They guys that built the engine don't think it's a good idea to run as is. What are your guys thoughts? I queried Dellow, and they said yeah, nah, it's sweet. Also, the front cut for the radiator suport panels seems to have fallen through. I think the dude literally died. No answer to calls, txt or email. And the shop (kiwi auto) is chained closed. Cheers for any input! John.
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    JRs MK2 Capri

    My aliexpress knock off short shifter just arrived today. So far I'm happy with it. Seems well made. The best part is the price $38 plus shipping. I will buy the cube steel bush though. I'm trying to find a housing and shifter shaft part for a rear position shifter like this. If anyone wants to swap, or is selling one hit me up.
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    JRs MK2 Capri

    Cheers, yeah I think I'll give that a go. Yeah when I saw how flogged out it was I thought it could be a real mission to sort. But I've looked into it and it's actually just a bushing that's fucked. The bushing has an outer steel holder. So the plastic part is gone and it's also then flogged out the outer steel holder, which comes out and is replaceable. There is an outfit (Cube) that sells a different design, it does away with the plastic so its solid steel. I'm assuming it's quite common issue then.
  11. Progress is slowly happening. I managed to find a front cut to get the radiator suports at Kiwi Auto Spares here in CH. I had no idea that they actually have a heap of old cars there. They said it will take them about a month to get around to cutting it up though. In the meantime the guys at Kennally Cams have been getting to working on the engine. It's been balanced, the new pistons and cam are in and just the last of the head work to go. Sorting out a gearbox has been a lot trickier than I thought, I just couldn't find a bellhousing to mate a type 9 up. I had a heap of help from some oldschool G.C.s who offered me a 4speed ford box for free until I could sort a 5 speed out eventually Cheers @dmulally and @Adoom But then I realized I have a W57 thats been sitting in the garage for almost 20 years, in the end thought if I have to get a bellhousing made to suit the type 9 I might as well get one made for the better Toyota box. So, long story short I have a Dellow bellhousing being made to suit the W57 to the V6. I started having a closer look at the Toyota box that's been sitting for decades in my garage, I had never really had a proper look at it. It was sold to me as a good box way back when. Now that I've taken a look, the gear selector bushings are completely worn away... like non existent. I managed to scoop out the remnants of them from under the gear shifter, it seems like it all got caught in the rear of the housing that's separated from the main part of the box (that's what I'm hoping for). The white plastic bushing on the bottom end of the gear stick was non existent too. This is the crap I scooped out. I've opened up the drain plug and as far as I can see there doesn't seem to be any rubbish floating around inside the box. What are everyone's thoughts? Get the box rebuilt to make sure there is no rubbish floating around or go new bushes, a flush and hope for the best? My wallet say hope for the best. Cheers.
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    JRs MK2 Capri

    Cheers man, a cut would be great. Where is old skool auto, I couldn't find them on Google. Cheers for the help.
  13. Nah not very efficiently. If you go over a part very very slowly it will. I've found it best to paint strip beforehand. Although really shitty paint it blasts off really quickly.
  14. I need some advice. How do I un fuck this.. When I put the V8 in I was very short of realestate and cut out the radiator mounts. Ideally I would like some factory looking mounts to go back in. Something like this. Problem is, I'm a shit fabricator. If I could find replacement panels I'd happily do that but I can't find any. Any ideas? Cheers.
  15. Some guys were asking about a vapor blaster I made so thought I'd share how to make one and the results. Its was a bog standard sand blasting cabinet. I'll give a brief rundown on how I did it. Every single idea was stolen straight from YouTube. Basically vapor blasting fires a slury of water and very fine glass beads (must be round beads for a polished finish, not crushed glass) out of a slightly modified nozzle with compressed air. It can be used for cleaning all sorts but is exceptional at polishing aluminum. It's non abrasive so can be used on machined surfaces. When I assembled the cabinet I used a heap of sealant on all the joins. Worked well, it's water tight. It's just your standard garden variety submersible pump. I got the pump from a random tool shop nearby (just googled the cheapest) it was about $60-$70 from memory. The outlet from the pump needs a tee. One of the tees needs to point back into the bucket. This is to make a slury, mixing the glass bead and water. The other part of the tee goes to the gun. I got my gun from NZVBS. The dude was really helpful matching gun to my needs. Then you just need a foot pedal to operate the air, a window wiper is a good add on and away you go. They say about 5 parts to 1 of water to glass bead. It's closed loop, so recycles the slury. To clean the mixture just carefully pour the dirty water out and the glass beads stay at the bottom of the bucket. A+, would trade again.
  16. Hey. I believe the bellhousing that mates a type e to an essex is exactly what I'm after! Do you happen have one that you are willing to sell? I'll message you, cheers.
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    JRs MK2 Capri

    Cheers guys. I'll do that, just heading away for work for a few days. When I get back I'll make a post showing exactly what I did.
  18. I better start a chat, because had an alterior motive for starting the build thread.... I have a lot of questions I need to run by the hive mind. Cheers dudes.
  19. I managed to track down a V6 rear end, some idiot got rid of mine when I was going down the V8 route. I gave it a good freshen up with new bearings, shoes, piston, an LSD from Palmside and a lick of paint. Finding the engine was a lot harder than it used to be. I managed to find this one quite far from where I lived. I bought it sight unseen had it shipped and hoped for the best. I stripped it down and there was good news and bad news. The bad news was that it was a bit fucked and needed a bore and new pistons. The good news was that it was a bit fucked, and needed a bore and new pistons. So I did a quite a large order from Burtons in the U.K. I got some 60 tho over high compression forged pistons, bigger valves and various other goodies oil pump, alternator, gaskets, cast alloy rocker covers etc. The engine is currently in the loving hands of Kennally Cams here in Christchurch. They seem really great there. I also treated her to a badly needed brake upgrade. She now has some 285mm discs up front, and new calipers.
  20. So, I've had this Capri for 23 years now (shit that makes me feel old). She was my very first car. I took it off the road few years ago... The last rego still sitting on the windscreen says otherwise, 2006! I seriously can't believe it's been that long. So years ago I took it off the road with big plans of an engine swap. I put a 1uzfe in her, ran out of money and never got her going. A few months ago I decided I was going to get her going again but with a change of direction for the build. The plan now, is to make it how I really wanted when I was 17 years old but couldn't afford. Nothing too crazy, just a reasonably hot Essex V6, good brakes and an LSD. About 3 months ago it started, my son and I uncovered her, gave her a clean and took stock. She didn't store quite as well as the pictures suggest, there are quite a few spots of surface rust poking through the chrome on the wheels, bumper and on a lower rear arch there is a small bubble under the paint... The first step was to undo all the Mc fuckery I did a few years ago when installing the V8. This time I had some cheap labor to help. He is only 11 but he's all over it. He managed to drop the box. I managed to find a set of these bad boys. Tripe DCNF Webers on an original Ford manifold. I found a dude in South Africa selling them via face book. It was pretty sketchy, even my bank called me up and asked me a heap of questions like "how do you know this person" I was like, nah it's all good, I met him on the internets... So, after sending a fair chunk of change to some random bank account in a very foreign country I wasn't quite sure they were actually going to arrive. I want them to look nice and purty, so I got a few quotes to get them vapor blasted and the cheapest was $250 bucks! So I decided to make a vapor blaster (basically a sand blaster with a slightly different gun that shoots tiny glass beads, water and compressed air). Best move ever! I clean all sorts of shit in it now.
  21. Thanks for replying. Unfortunately the German engine has a different bolt pattern to the Essex. The type 9 was developed from the 2000e 4 speed. They basically just added another gear. So I thought it would be easier to find a bellhousing to fit the type 9. Only problem is, they vary rarely used that 4 speed box on the Essex, it was mostly used on pintos. So, turns out the type 9 is easy to mate to a pinto, just not as easy as I first thought for the V6. I have got an original V6 bellhousing, I guess I'll start looking into making an adapter/re drilling. I'll have a look at Retro Rides now thanks. Cheers.
  22. Hey guys, I've got a Capri project that I'm putting an Essex V6 in. I have got a type 9 gearbox that I would like to mate to it but finding a suitable bellhousing is proving quite difficult. Has anyone been through this and has an idea to help? Or made an adapter plate or has a suitable bellhousing hiding somewhere? Cheers.
  23. Last week I gave the garage a good tidy up, an unintended consequence was sudden burst of motivation to pull this thing out and get stuck in. The shifter will go here with the hydraulic clutch attached. I have been working on the interior. I was given some aluminium sheet a while ago and used it for the floor. I need to get some more aluminium sheet to make the tunnel and dash... I’ll have a hunt on Monday. Hopefully this motivation lasts and I finish it off! Iv had to change the pedal position significantly as he is 7 now... She wasn’t even born when I started it!
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