ThePog
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I have another box sitting there if the problematic 3rd gear syncho is being a shit
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2 minutes ago, GregT said:
If you're limited for space and a better pressure plate, what about twin-plating it ? Same pressure more torque capacity.
How does that work?
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I haven't found anything with anyone using that sort of thing but i will look.
All i need is another 20 or 25% clutch and it will be mint tho. The box has synchromesh weaknesses but is basically fit for purpose..
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Unfortunately no lego
Some boys have grafted a Fiat 500 6 speed box on to get a nicer box and better power handling, but it needs the chassis rail cut for clearance and quite a lot of gear selector fuckery.
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1 minute ago, Alfashark said:
What flavour box is it? Would a clutch from something like a Punto turbo work? I imagine that'd be a bit higher rated than one from an NA combo.
I have had a look and its pretty specific to 1500cc fiats. The Uno Turbo 1300 ones are the same but possibly higher rated, but not enough to worry.
Midwest Bayless do staged kits but they are proper money...
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Mostly finished up the tail light wiring tonight, brake lights and everything work, yay!
Also I pulled the gearbox to inspect the clutch, it still looks brand new apart from surface rust. I will take it to the clutch man tomorrow to see if it cant be tweaked for a bit more clamping force.
If anyone has a suggestion to improve this then let me know
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Did a chunk of the back end wiring today, not much to see as I have tried to keep things tidy so it pretty much blends in.
I tried to fit a new power plant, amazing that for the size this unit only makes one pogpower.
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49 minutes ago, Early jap nuter said:
I’ve used it for that but kinda peels off where it gets real hot.best I’ve used aeroflow ali embossed stuff over the top and made less noise and stoped my wife’s shoes melting to the floor
Man I might just go for it, it wont get that hot. I have enough to double layer it.
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I need to put something on the engine bay bulkhead of the Fiat, there was some shitty felt stuff with an aluminium top layer that basically disintegrated when I pulled it off so I could finish the wiring.
I have a stack of Mongoose sound mat left over from another project;
Do you reckon this will be ok in the engine bay bulkhead? They do say it is for heat as well but as it isnt a dedicated heat shield material. The exhaust is on the other side of the engine so wont be subject to heaps of temp.
What you reckon?
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Well its a month later and I am getting back on form, hence this effort today;
Plenty of room to finish off the wiring now.
There was a minor mishap during engagements, now I need to figure out which Fiat Uno that distributor is off.
I'll give the donk a clean up, new oils and filter, new plugs etc.
Might drop the sump to see the state of play. For some reason it has way more oil than it actually needs, not sure why.
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18 minutes ago, thegreatestben said:
I just want to make sure I'm not signing up to get stabbed
I lived there for a while and I only got slightly stabbed a couple of times.
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23 minutes ago, thegreatestben said:
Where in Lower Hutt
Dont know yet, still in discussions.
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9 minutes ago, AllTorque said:
Can do.
I’m a not super close to the Hutt, if someone else volunteers.
Cheers, I will let you know...
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This just came up on FB, assuming its the right size for my arse, its the perfect style and colour for the X1/9
Assuming I can get it and its the right size, can someone pick it up and store it for a couple of weeks?
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My sisters 4x4 Isuzu with a brand new deck, available for carting jobs around Taranaki.
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Yea I had a Fiat 124 sport with hotwires drilled in the italian 4x98.
I didnt like them on it but other options got expensive real quick.
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18 minutes ago, flyingbrick said:
no theres nothing in it, just plain water.
Ba dum tish
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Aquajets are the shittiest tyre I have ever used.
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^ I can vouch for the level of retardation, I bet he couldn't breathe while he typed that.
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When I put the rebuilt engine into the Dynafari the engine builder said to run plain water for 500km or so, must be something in it.
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Yea so this got the backburner big time as the next day from that ^ I wound up in hospital and spent 8 days there. This is a tedious story where my partially removed gall bladder decided to spontaneously weld itself back together, make gallstones that happily blocked my bile duct, which basically meant my liver was pumping bile into the wrong bit of my insides. I turned very yellow until they flew me to chch on the flying doctor plane (this was actually pretty awesome) and reamed me out. I still have a drain in and hopefully will be getting surgery mid Feb to sort the rest of it. This is all very very boring, I would not recommend in any way. -43/10
So many wasted shed hours.
But in the meantime I have been slowly picking away at things, nothing too serious tho.
Splashed out on some new hoops, Goodride something's at $80 a corner fitted. They may not stay but will be an improvement on the tyres that were there, these were the same ones it had when I sold it.
Then I installed the heater and dash, this hurt me and I probably shouldn't have done it. @HumberSS has found a heater mech out of an NA MX5 for me so I should be able to hack that in there.
There is a wrecker in chch who quoted $260 plus shipping for an original heater mech, which is more than a 1/3rd the cost of the entire car so they can get fucked.
I had to draw up and print a vent that was missing, some previous owner decided to bin all the heater gubbins and had weirdly blocked off the screen vents which wasnt particularly solid thinking.
I also spent a bit of time rerouting and extending the control cables as the heater is out of an earlier car.
I bought a cheap AFR off AliX a while ago so I mounted this while I was at it.
The seatbelts were pretty toast and of different makes. I had bought some cheap seatbelts off FB, but when I picked them up the tags were unconvincing;
So when I got flown to Christchurch to talk to the surgeon last Wednesday I (again probably stupidly given my state of health) grabbed a lime scooter over lunch and made my way to NZ Seatbelts and picked up some proper ones. These got fitted up;
Now I just have to look wistfully at this and hope that in a month or so I will be fit enough be able to drop it so I can finally sort the wiring;
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That wont fit