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Oh yeah! that'll do it Yeah those latest pics above loaded straight away no hassle.

What are these 'G's you speak of? They sound like something you get in a town? I'll usually try to keep my photos down to around 1280 x 1000 etc which seems fine, though a bit grainy. then save the mega sized pics for the fancy photos.. like photos of cats, sunsets. anyway- enough country valley copper line life grumbles.. For my pcv setup I deleted the holes on the drivers side cam cover then added a new inlet pipe on the very side of the cover by the servo. I attached a small rubber hose to that pipe which ran down the firewall and had a bit of mesh over the end. I still sucked the crank vapours out via the pcv on the passenger side cover, through a catch can I made, filled with stainless wool and then to the inlet manifold. This seemed to work fine. Catch can not pictured here but that's the pcv location outlet...

How big are your photos file sizes? They must be huge? When I try to load your thread it crashes the entire Internet in the top of the South! Looking forward to seeing the update... In about 3 weeks once my steam powered internet has loaded the pics.....

Wow- those wheels. Swoon They look sweet!

Cool to see an update! Am I the only one to think they were picturing a yummy sponge cake when it was actually your volcano mixture ratio thing going wrong?

Update time. Considering we've had several weeks of enforced lockdown we've not done as much on the property as expected. I blame quiet roads and bicycles. But yesterday afternoon we actually started on one of the most important things we've wanted to do which is build a cabin up on the ridge. We had been given loads of old decking from a house not far from us. It was left for us in the yard while we were out on holiday and it got rained on. When the sun came out and it started to dry it started to bow. We promptly stacked it inside with flitches to let it dry slower. There it sat for way too bloody long!!! Its been a pain in the arse moving cars about it and having lost that space but was a daunting thought of moving it again, up to the ridge! But we've done it! Our shoulders and legs are shattered but it was such a satisfying job to get done. Now we are really enthused about building the verandah up there, and want to crack on with it. We have a huge pile of treated pine 12 x 2 and 8 x 2 that we can use for the build so will order the posts next week and get them up there (in the quad for those!) Photos ... I did took the little mower up in the quad first and gave the lawn a tickle. Its coming up really nice considering what it was like up there when we bought the land! We first looked at the ridge 6 years ago, when first viewing the property - well excluding that miserable day we had gone up there for a first look via the main gully in winter and had been totally put off the place until the summer following when this pic was taken. The gorse was already quite rife... a couple of years later we got stuck in- the gorse now even worse.. Now a completely different place that even has a nice lawn to mow... Here's the pile of wet decking complete with nails being removed... Then it was about 20 ten minute walks uphill through the bush with decking starting with the first few on Thursday night... The last drag up what we call the ridgetop runway... not an easy gradiant... each time on the way back down we would grab a log each for splitting later on... Yesterday we finished taking the rest of the long lengths up. I filled the quad for one run with all these short bits and some beers!... Pile shifted. Shoulders battered. Beers consumed in the evening sunshine... Today is a chill out day where we get to shuffle stuff about in the workshop and celebrate all the reclaimed space (until @Tumeke Triumph wagon goes back in that is..)

Pm sending...

So stoked for ya. Gonna be fun! Now get it on the road and some petrol while it's cheap!

Bugger.. I just threw out a 1.8 and a 2.0 k series v6 engines. Kept a few bits and wished the rest in. The k8 are a sweet wee motor. Strong understressed 140 bhp and high rev limit with a fantastic sound track. The complete manual car (eunos 500) id bought was $200. Even had a brand new clutch fitted. Pretty much a standalone ecu as well so am easy swap if you use the engine as it comes from the mazda.

yeah slightly annoyingly speeduino wont run full sequential on more than 4. I'm hoping that with the power from teensy cpu that can now plug in with the adaptor someone (nerdy) might use the proto area on the board and add an extra couple of injectors along with relevant updated firmware. That's beyond me though... I'll still go down the speeduino route with a few others because semi sequential on a 6 is still pretty fucking good especially if its just a NA street car. Worked fine on the Viva v6 but I just always liked the idea of a potentially even better idle and slow speed economy full sequential could deliver (with the extra time spent to tune it thus) @fuel you could build an MS2 and use the daughter board to run full sequential. But e throttle wouldnt be a thing.

Yeah that's the one I'm now watching after you'd messaged me about it. I just hope they will release a board that has at least 6 injector drivers for my next project!...

Good on you. You can do it! That's the spirit

For me there's no satisfaction in paying heaps for something that I can build for much cheaper. Even if its takes me a long time and sure, I could just work more hours and earn that difference and buy a link. But that is buying, not building. I'm personally not turned on by opening my wallet and taking the 'easy route' when I can instead join other like minded folk on platforms like speeduino and have some fun making things. It's one reason I like to press about with old cars Who buys new sensors and injectors? Just a rob a jappa car of its bits and go for it. Even basic efi, done correctly is going to be better than a worn out shitty dizzy and an old carb. Advising people to stump up and just buy a link is not what I created this thread for. It's in the name.... 'DIY fuel injection'

is there a ems forum you can ask questions at? Me and a few others on here are thinking of doing a few speeduinos together- buy all the parts together and bring the cost right down (like around $100-$150) and they'll be more than enough to run a mazda k series sweet as. Tune on tunerstudio too which works very nicely.

oh fuck. The fuel economy nerd in me covets that! But wouldnt work on a fuel injected car, or a carb with return circuit? Pleased to see updates too !

The money you'd spend on buying all the panels would buy one a very nice low mileage imp. I know there's one guy in the imp club who's spending thousands on panels and getting everything just perfect. He totally realises its money into a hole but just can't help himself. But hey... That's often the case with old cars eh. We don't get into these things expecting to make money (ignoring all the fuckers who still have an Rx3 etc etc they bought for peanuts many minds ago...)

That's odd because when I watched it for the first time there wasn't a single advert at all? I wonder if it's due to the traffic flow its getting now?

yeah its quite a good watch. Entertaining enough. I met that Fuzz guy years ago at a retro-rides gathering when I had my rotary chevette. He's a sound fella- really into modifications and also a bit of a bus barry.

Some of the UK readers of this forum may have already see this episode of car SOS- its a goody. The Imp they restore is like Hannah's first classic car , a 1974 Imp super painted in Prairie wind. A little car we enjoyed immensely and what made me always want another... The episode can be watched here.... https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x7t30c3

Ha yeah.. I've had plenty of work already from locals with rust. On top of the various old rusty classics it also seems that more modern vans and salty kayaks don't mix...

I spoke to Barry dowler not that long ago and he was still doing certs.

Cheers man- its been fun doing the work and posting up progress !

Yeah it was possibly one of the best shows I have been to. Best thing was that it had a nice spread of cars and wasn't all just hotrods, american cars and Holdens/fords Lots of Japanese, english and european cars- which are more my thing Not sure on dash yet. I was planning to do something similar to the viva instruments and make my own but the cost of alloy and all the pissing about exceeds my hassle factor ratio when compared to just buying some aftermarket gauges. The Viva ones worked well but never did looking completly right with their very Japanese 80's/90's car font.

Yeah you drove it well too. Really interesting seeing how people cope driving old unfamiliar cars. Often I find it's the folk who talk about driving fast cars, or seem to have given the illusion that they can drive quickly etc that are actually the worst drivers. Driving smoothly is a virtue that many wannabe 'fast' drivers seem to lack. Their cars must suffer too! Yeah you know the engine but it's hush hush OK....