MESDUP

the 58

2days purchase

Davies craig electric water pump

engine bay all stripped to get ready for the new coat

Gilmers and bellhousing back from Bop pollishers

haha yeah i mean for the drags, had heapsa fun when raced the van at summerdrags so decided i wanted something lighter with more go, hoping to do some low 13's maybe even a 12, tho am keen to have a crack around a track and maybe some hill climbs or whatever

pulled old struts out and put new ones in, heres a photo to compare the 2

Had to buy this rx3 box just to get the bellhousing, $400 later

So it turns out my rx3 bellhousing is a bottom mount starter twin dizzy item so to me it means its useless as it wont bolt up to back of my motor.

Anyways picked up my gearbox from TGA and its been fitted with its steel selectors and dropped my gilmers and chrome end caps off to get polished

this things looking real nice where did you get the gilmer drive kit ?

Gilmers were made by a friend of mine who is an engineer

Cut them tail lights out and put some escort ones in please

Whos paintin it?

escort ones? nah 2 pairs of mk1 tina lights would look good

Picked up my gilmer belt drive tonight, off to tauranga tomorrow to pick up my gbox as its had steel selectors fitted, turns out my W58 is a rare high strength model with a heat treated main shaft .

While im over there i will be dropping my rx3 bellhousing and gilmers off to get polished

And one of the housings! ported by RX7 heaven

ITG filter

New RX8 rotors

Plates

ok so dont all screw your noses up about the tail lights at once , this was/is a pretty notorious hatchy so still gona keep them on as it wont be the same car without them, if you get what i mean.

anyways got my camera so now have better pics, heres my new rear bumper

the custom 2x series 4 7 oil coolers welded one on top of the other should keep it cool

got brand new, NOS bumper 2day and also my 2nd hand endcaps turned up so will use this on the front

My EFI hardware 50 mm throttle bodies, the intake manifold give away what i will be running so will post a pic up of housings

hmm, need to find my proper camera.

anyways heres my new rear bumper, won some chrome end caps for a front bumper on trade me the other day so waiting on them to show up, also have a brand new(still in original mazda box) front chrome bumper, so just need to put new end caps on

picked up my new adjustables today

custom made surge tank, 16mm to main pump, 10mm from carter lift pump, 8mm rail return and 12mm return to tank

From L to R:

Fuel filter ($70) bosch 910 rated at $350hp 130 litres per hour (at 5bar) and Carter 4070 to be used as a lift pump

B&M line locker installed with new lines (is not really a line locker when used in this application, but just to shut off rear brakes)

New Racepro Rp2 driver seat, Racepro Arrow 101 passenger

And the paint:

Peugot Gris chateau aka dark gun metal grey

Haha my flatmate was telling me bout going to a party where same van was cutting O's also, legend.

Looks like a tough little project

ah yes, that woulda been on the main highway from Rotorua to taupo

haha ..... dont tell the 5-0!

engine bay shot, new colour going to be quite a bit darker than this

hey yeah, this will be the 4th hatch and the 6th old school 323.

got lots on the go so should hopefully have alot of progress pics, gona start pulling it to pieces hopefully next weekend.

Have already got paint sorted, went with a factory peugot colour called "gris chateux" its a dark gun metal grey variant.

enjoy the build!

ok so i thought i should start a project thread as it keeps a good timeline of your build etc

Anyways i parted with my bongo on the 21st of june and recieved a 1979 323 4 door hatchback rolling body.

As i plan to have this on the track i will be keeping it all fairly basic in the looks department and focus on the go.

What it has:

Hilux 4:4 LSD, Bluebird discs

2 series 4 oilcoolers welded on top of each other with 3 motor bike fans

3 core radiator with 2 therma fans on the front

What i have bought for it so far:

10ib billet flywheel

5 puk clutch

1 ton billet pressure plate

W58 supra box, adapter to rx3 bellhousing

steel selectors

Bosch 910 fuel pump, carter 4070 lift pump, custom made alluminium surge tank

1/2" fuel lines

efi hardware 50mm ida style throttle bodies, 4 550cc injectors, microtec ltx8

will be running a 13b with rx8 rotors.

will have more pics later

More Simmons mags than Aussie Summernats

More flairs than a seventies disco

i only saw one set in those photos wtf

duno if any one has stumbled accross this but it seems like a pretty well put together site

http://www.imcdb.org/

show us what you can find!

hmm cant remember if they campaigned that here or not.

noticed this sticker while cropping photo, mite go back and see what it says, also take more photos of stickers that i didnt see

Bolt a first gen RX7 bellhousing onto the MX5 box, you will need to dismantle the box tho to shorten the input shaft 11mm.

if its anything like a bongo gearbox you can just cut it off yourself without dismantling the gearbox itself

Damn that's awesome. What's the place called?

i forgot the name, but its on riri st in rotorua, been there for years

Hey mesdup do you work for telecom?

nope, that pic in my sig is just a piss take

sorry for the use of the words "random shit" , the pics got automaticaly saved to that folder