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your temp problem could be the sender unit. the resistance that the gauge need to see to read in the middle of the sweep is not a common value and getting a sender that reads the correct resistance value for a given temperature is pretty hard to find now. you may be chasing a problem that isnt there.

Feilding people, im planning on taking my fancy datsun to this event, we are staying at he fielding hotel which isnt the most secure of parking places. could i impose on someone to park my car in a secure location where it wont get stolen by the many and various fielding crackheads? thanks team.

Fuck did i have some issues getting it running. On the plus side I now know what every single wire on the ecu plug does, and that it's properly connected and working, as well as 90% of the entire cars looms. One i got the thing to actually run i thought the sensible thing to do would be take it for a drive. It's still running like a dog but I drove it anyway. Fuck it's choice, even though I've only driven it 10ks in a fucking cyclone I can already feel how amazing the thing is. I'M HAVING A BEER WHO'S WITH ME!!!!!!

look, this all theoretical, lets be honest.

yea na the turbos are not stock, fuck all in the motor is stock. the turbos are HKS, along with the oil pump, pistons, rods and possibly cams as well but i cant remember. it makes just over 400kw apparently which will do fine for now.

This is so fucking great.

The plan is to bolt it all back together and do a skid, yes.

Fuck I'm so stoked. This is so So Rad.

I'm trying to get the motor back in the car. Couple of mods that have been made to the engine that I need to unmod. There's no feed or return for the heater because racecar so I need to reinstate them. Block part was easy, I found a spigot off a 5M that I could make work by drilling and tapping the blanking plug. easy. The other bit was a bit more fucked so I ended up making a whole new one out of stainless. is made from the hot water feed pipe for a 1UZ idle speed controller that I managed to get out of the aluminium body, a bit of 19mm ss tube and a generic 16mm ss bend. added a bracket and Bob's your wombat.

It's starting to look like a complete dogs breakfast in here. That's how you know you're making progress.

Overnight parts from Japan. 5 days from place order to arrive rural delivery. Pretty fuckin good

Got the bush/balljoint kit delivered so I put all the suspension back together. Unfortunately the rear balljoints were the wrong ones so I couldn't finish the back. Should get replacement ones on Wednesday. The castor arm bushes were huge with flanges on each side and there is no way on the planet I could have pushed them through without a press. With a press however the job went really easily.

I painted some things. And I made the bracket for relocating the PS tank a bit better. Haven't finished painting that yet. In theory I'll get suspension bushes early this week then I can get it back on its wheels.

have ordered the last one. fingers crossed for overnight parts from Japan.

Help, I need a new windscreen wiper pivot bush mount thing. My one is fucked. If you know of anything please let me know. Thanks!

the cold start injector could be causing you issues. it could be hanging open or the thermal switch that turns it on and off might be buggered. worth a look.

I might just do that.

I have achieved things. Some of the things, in no particular order, are Add wires that hang down. Install axel shafts that stick out at forehead height. Paint two things silver. Fill the petrol tank with water. Put pipes near the floor of the car. Install the most convoluted clutch pipework weirdness I've ever seen

Plans changed a bit. I sprayed underseal everywhere and I was going to finish colour and clear yesterday but the underseal wasn't dry enough. so I stripped the suspension, sandblasted all the big bits then set about painting them, unfortunately the primer was still too soft to colour over so I had to call it a day. Probably blaze some colour and clear on it tomorrow night if it's not too cold. Also, my spray booth cupboard thing is pretty good at taking the overspray and putting it outside the environment.

here you go mate, https://www.etsy.com/nz/market/bathwater

Yea, I didn't come here to fuck spiders mate. Who says I'm not already selling bathwater? Tomorrow is seam sealer then underseal. Then Saturday will be colour and clear. Sunday will be cleaning and printing suspension parts

Tomorrow, paint.

damm straight, painted floors are for showrooms and areas where no one does any real work.