ThePog

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.

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;

I can enquire, that would be appreciated.

Ah so this is proving difficult somehow. The wreckers want gold for the d21 stuff cos they break, I have marketplaced a few people but no replies. So I looked for more possibles and an NA MX-5 unit looks bang on. I am trying to join the NZ mx5 page so I can ask there but nothing yet. There is one on TM but its $50 plus 20 shipping and that just feels excessive. Has anyone got any dead MX-5's lying around?

Its not super shabby

Unfortunately it is a serious question, I just bought these boys of fb marketplace to chuck into the fiat but I am pretty unconvinced they are legit ..

Is this shit legal?

On the other hand, I wondered about just having 3 unlabelled control wires poking out the dash.

Someone near me is wrecking a Navara and has that mech so I will see how that works out. Failing that I may go to the wreckers in Motueka on the weekend, he is happy for me to have a scrounge around. Cheers for all the suggestions...

Dunno about your amateur efforts but I am just used to a 3 way

I also asked about the gearbox in one and it was like $1500. Dude I just bought an entire live reg car for half of that, go get fucked.

Only 2 levers and some scodie ozzy shite anyway. But thank you

Yea na, I already talked to them and they quoted $240 + shipping. Just no cunt.

Whereabouts was that?

I mean there will be hackery

This shot kindof shows what is supposed to be there;

They changed it a couple of times, I think the heater I have is an earlier one so the control cables probably wont work with the correct control panel for my car. However i have ordered a 3m bonnet release cable so I can make new cables. And I know I can probably get everything i need from Midwest Bayless, but think of the shipping Also; D21 terrano?

Im sure there are thousands of suitable jap shitter ones lying around.

I have thought about it but it would just take time to resolve it all nice, I also quite like dirty hacks in old cars. Maybe I will do that later when I get annoyed with marginally functioning dirty hacks. Or maybe convince one of the Fiat hoarder barrys to actually sell me an original...

Sweet as thanks

Hey so the 3 lever heater control mech is missing from my Fiat, I have the actual heater and 3x control cables coming out of it but nothing to actuate it. This is what it looks like, the bit on the left is a fan switch which I do not necessarily need; Can anyone suggest something that looks vaguely like that that I can hack in there? I have a heap of potential places to mount it so can print mounts and surrounds etc, I just need something with 3 levers really. Cheers in advance.

Ld28t obviously.

Cheers man. Things will slow down a bit now that it's time to get back to work, but shouldnt be to far away from done.

Yea so I did a bit of head scratching and asked the internet, this rather unusually resulted in an actually useful answer from a proper barry. It turns out that what I took to be an earth wire on the motor that didnt appear to be connected to anything was a signal return from the switching/diode setup on the back of the pod motor. With some extra direction from Barry and setting up a test rig on the bench I soon got the result I was after. I then had to ransack the old loom for some relay plugs to make up a little sub loom that sits in the headlight pocket, there is heaps of room so should be fine. And with some hours tidying and wrapping the front loom we have this sequence of exciting light based goodness; Next is looking at why the washer isnt pumping. Then maybe tomorrow I'll drop the engine....

Na i have solved it. I misunderstood that what appeared to be an earth wire was actually a signal return from the diode/switching gubbins. I need an extra relay for each side and a bit of loom jiggery pokery, but its all sorted.