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  1. Keep sensor wiring away from coils/leads/plugs as they give off interference. Braided sheathing and heat shrink looks a million times better than tape. Keep solder to a minimum if possible. Use shielded wire where needed (tps etc)
  2. Originated with the garage dori crew from memory? They did the 1ggze swap and it also went through Spencer who I bought it off. God knows who else in between lol.
  3. Unsure of the legalities for fires, but it is an RD address, yes.
  4. I've just got a heat pump going in for the living quaters, but I may eventually bang a fire in the workshop so I can play with cars in the winter time Seriously thinking of batting the workshop too tbh
  5. Septic guys came at the worst time possible. Mid winter mud pit Water tank in place Fast forward a few months and I had finally finished the outside, winter definitely killed my motivation so I did minor things inside while the weather was shit. Short days also killed any after work progress. Few inside bits while it was wet Attempting my own plastering.. Had to fix up a few bits lol And a shot of the outside now. Mum offered to buy some trees for my birthday, so I decided on some cherry blossoms for the driveway. Should look good in a few years. Currently laying flooring & painting so will get some pics up nearer christmas when that's all starting to take shape.
  6. Been meaning to take pics lol (no point updating without pics, right?). I have been slowly chipping away at it when the weather is good. I'll try get some pics up in the next couple of weeks
  7. The flange that bolts to that housing has a v-band on it. Just use one of them?
  8. I've heard of a few similar stories about young engineers and also some council inspectors around town having had some pretty big threats against them for annoying builders over the years! The Carterton council have been pretty damn good though, I must say and luckily I don't have to deal with any engineers I've only ever used steel mesh before, so I was very dubious about the hairy bog (it was stated in my plans to be used) but I'm more than happy so far. There are actually a few neighbours around but the closest two are probably 200-300m away so that's good. They all have covenants stating that they can't subdivide etc so it should stay as a "small lifestyle block" I'll probably just use the land for a few beefies/homekill etc. I also want to develop the natural spring near the back into a wetland, incorporating that into my backyard when I one day build an actual house.
  9. Long time no update! Had a bit of balls up with the council/plumbing plan change which took about 5 weeks to get sorted and stopped me from pouring the slab, so I went about doing other menial tasks. First up, I spread 70 tonne of 65mm then 20 tonne of 20mm basecourse with the tractor, hand raking much more than I wanted to! Getting it any where near flat with a tractor is a lot harder than you'd think, especially with the middle poles in the way. Compacted with a 500kg compactor in multiple stages then put 6 tonne of sand over top and compacted again. The plumber popped in one arvo and put some pipes in. I borrowed my old boss Mark's 1.6 tonne digger and went to town, digging 120m of trench for the power cable and an extra 20m or so for the phone. Dug under the creek by hand later on and also through the gardens at the front of the section. Fun times! Driveway dug out and 60 tonne of 40mm basecourse spread out Up at 5am to lay out some polythene over the sand. Then four lads and a concrete truck turned up at 7. Home by 10. Mist didn't clear til about 1pm. I left them to powerfloat it and do the roller door rebates. There is no steel mesh in the slab hence laying the polythene the same morning. We used fiber mesh mixed into the concrete itself. Basically the newtech/hairy bog version of concrete! Once again borrowing Marks tools. I pumped water from the creek about 60m away to cut the concrete into 4x4m squares. Quite impressed with the fiber mesh tbh. Started the rest of the framing this week, just as the weather has turned to custard. Wind and rain ftl Couple random pics. Danger tape and trench back filled
  10. I can't help with much else but don't even some 90s coil packs still have condensers? I had 4g93 coil packs on my gemini and I'm positive it had a condenser (or atleast something that looked like one) on it
  11. Going to wire them to 14awg with a relay just to be sure, as I can't find any info on coil amp draw =\ Cheers Ned
  12. I just thought that because they were all firing individually they might only draw a small amount at a time, but I'm not that flash with electronics lol
  13. That's exactly what had crossed my mind, Ned. So I think I'll just go that route to be safe. I have no idea what they draw tbh. Dwell is about 3ms, fully sequential setup
  14. Wiring up a COP setup at the moment for 2jzge. Now the factory body loom has a relatively small 18ga? wire (12v) to feed the factory igniter and single coil. Will this wire still be big enough to feed 12v to 6 individual coils?
  15. Got a little tipsy tonight.. May need a new boot floor! This and the A pillars are the worst bits, the rest is pretty solid thankfully.
  16. Awesome! Not this one by any chance? It was previously gloss black. I remember it swinging Os across the road from maccas 5-8 odd years ago. They're definitely loads of fun to drive http://www.trademe.co.nz/motors/used-cars/isuzu/auction-1052410754.htm
  17. My other coupes boot floor is immaculate from memory. Funny how the exact same car can rust in different spots. I find the inner front guards are almost always rusty except on later model ones where they have plastic to protect them. Unsure about Chevettes as I've only owned 2 and never bothered to do them up. Standard isn't in my vocabulary Unsure of plans yet but it'll be Isuzu powered.
  18. Hah! I seen you guys go past and thought "that looks like Steelies' Coon" Gemini's and chromes are an Aussie dream mayte!
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