sheepers

but actually ill PM you or something and figure out a beer and a yarn.

righto, see you at the pub.

ill be in Cromwell on the 12th and 13th if anyone want to stop by for a beer.

So yea amayama are a bunch of fucking liars and don't have any genuine rockers. Cool. Anywho, trans fluid and filter change. Nothing in the pan to be concerned about but the fluid did smell a bit gross. While I had the pan off i welded a bit of steel to the front edge because it had a few dings in it. Then I painted it red because they makes it go faster. Also I plan on driving this car around the south island next month so yea, come say hi or something.

its worth it though. when all the painting is finished and you can stand back and admire. then you get to take all the masking off and see all the places where you missed and there's overspray all over everything. ahhh, happy days.

the tiny weeny little difference that might be a deal breaker is that the 5M is a 2 valve motor.

How much?

Not sure how good a 7m valve would work in a 5m head....

Richie found me some genuine rockers on Amayama so i bought them. anyone what a set of new hand polished ITM rockers......

So the journey begins. I've started amassing the parts I can buy for this turd because why not. The only problem so far seems to be a complete lack of quality parts available. The only things I've been able to buy for it are pretty average TBH. I got a set of pistons for it made by ITM. They're all the same size except for the ones that aren't. ITM made lifters, surface finish is rubbish And will need polishing thus reducing the OD and allowing a drop in oil pressure in the lifter. Rockers, again, only made by one company. They're rubbish. I have to hand stone polish the cam follower face because the surface finish is so bad. In the picture the top one is as they were delivered, middle is mid polishing and bottom has all the score marks polished out

So. Having already built a 5MG in the late 90s I already know how fucking garbage they are. What the hell am I doing? The engine gearbox combo in this car is pretty rubbish. A stock 4M coupled with a slush box is pretty awful at the best of times. However this trans has really tall gearing which is great for crusing on the motorway but it's literally dangerously slow when you're trying to pull out of a side road or something. I was thinking about engines for this car and hadn't really come up with anything that I liked, then Brendan told me about a bunch of 7M turbo motor stuff he was getting rid of. Around about the same time I went down to Yowzer's place to get something and we got yarning about a 5MG that he was going to chuck out. So Brendan dumped his 7M garbage in my shed and I bought the 5MG head off Yowzer. My plan is to build what is effectively a 6M. 3 litre bottom with a 5M head. I'm going with bigger cams, bigger valves and high compression. It'll have ITBs and a cool looking exhaust. Don't get me wrong, I am well aware that this turd won't make any power but I've resigned myself to the fact that if I can't make it go fast at least I'll make it look cool. So, I have cobbled together a bunch of new parts for this thing. Major thing in missing is high compression pistons. Can't find anything as yet. I do have a new set of stock pistons which would run about 9.5 to 1 but I want to go much higher than that. So yea, this will happen over the next few months, or however long it takes. Oh, also the car will be manual with this engine.

It gets worse,

Waikumete auto upholstery. Can't recommend them highly enough. They did the carpets in richies starlet too.

What the fuck is wrong with me.

This is fucking ace. So stoked for you guys having a fucking brilliant time! Good work team.

please put your shed build into the shed building thread, i for one would be keen to see what/how you built it.

i got one of those for Christmas when i was 7 years old. used to hoon it everywhere until i got told off by the local cop (officer Mallard caught me in his grey mark 3 Cortina with a single blue light on the roof, remember it like it was yesterday) then i was a bit more cautious of hooning it around the foot paths.

yea right so i took this out for a good 5 hour long back road thrash. i dunno how to convey to you just how good this car is at hooning back roads, its fucking EPIC. fuck its amazing. i lose track of what this car is capable of when im just driving it to work and back every day, yea its fast and pulls like a fucking space rocket but thats only half the story. i suppose the best way to put it is that its got brakes, grip and stability to match every one of the 460kws the engine is making. and as a plus its now got better low end torque so you can just leave it in a higher gear and it will still come out of a corner like its been fired from a gun. im definitely in love with it all over again. 2021-12-11_03-04-09 by sheepers, on Flickr

i really need to paint the intercooler......

yea i never have in the past but im about to start. im fucked if i know why that hose let go. when i pulled it off the car and looked at what had happened the hose was like the next size up? like it just slid on and off the fitting like it wasn't supposed to be for that size fitting? it was the fucking hose that had been there for years and all of a sudden it grew by like 3mm in dia. fucked if i know? i did arsehole any other of the same type of hose that i had on the car and replace it.

Oh yea shit I forgot to tell you why everything got covered in oil. So right after I moved the oil cooler I took it for a drive round the block to check shit out. As I pulled away from the kerb I heard a weird sound and it continued as I got to the end of the road and round the corner. I was coasting along watching the gauges and trying to figure out what they noise was when the oil light came on. I shut er down quick smart and got out to have a look. It had inexplicably pushed one of the oil houses off the push lock fitting (that it had been on with no issue for about 3 years) and sprayed all 5 litres of oil all over the entire engine bay. And all over the road. Richie just happened to turn up at the right time and with his help, and the help of Nick the sparky (who, despite being forewarned of the ground being covered in oil stood straight in it and fell over) we pushed it back up the hill and into the garage. There is still oil on everything despite emptying can after can of degreaser all over it.

back on the dyno today and all was well. the car took yet another beating and was fine. no fuel issues, no anything issues which was a relief tbh. made 460 KW again on slightly less boost but call it the same. fuck, like it matters at this point, its undrivable at that level anyway so what difference does it make. oil stayed cool and the oil cooler fans seem to work good too which is great. i do need to replace the heat shielding on the exhaust that goes under the floor. that last lot got oil all over it so i removed it and man can you feel the heat coming up through the floor now.... 2021-11-30_10-20-12 by sheepers, on Flickr

the injectors i got for it are those ones with a cap on the top and a cap on the bottom to adapt them to different types of fuel rail and different lengths. dont get them. i fought the fucking o rings in the caps leaking for days. if the injector has even a tiny bit of angle to it as you ty and install it they leak. fucking piles of shit. managed to ruin a base seal and i dint have any spares so i had to improvise. i had a larger and thicker ones from a nissan so i set about making them smaller on the od and thinner. 2021-11-21_04-17-12 by sheepers, on Flickr 2021-11-21_04-17-04 by sheepers, on Flickr 2021-11-21_04-16-48 by sheepers, on Flickr 2021-11-21_04-16-33 by sheepers, on Flickr 2021-11-21_04-16-26 by sheepers, on Flickr with that done the only thing left to do was relocate the oil cooler and fit some fans to it. the only fans i could find that were small enough but still waterproof came from the states, they weren't expensive but they took a bit to get here. the oil cooler is now mounted on the side of the chassis rail between the engine and the rail, behind the steering rack. ive been driving it around with a thermocouple in the oil cooler just keeping an eye on the temps. its pretty good and drops fairly quickly as soon as your driving as there's a bit of air flow. so anyway i made a bracket type setup and mounted the fans onto the oil cooler. all i need to do now is wire in the relay and they should work. im back on the dyno on Tuesday so yea, lets see what happens. 2021-11-28_05-10-37 by sheepers, on Flickr 2021-11-28_05-10-31 by sheepers, on Flickr 2021-11-28_05-10-22 by sheepers, on Flickr 2021-11-28_05-10-14 by sheepers, on Flickr

i loled tbh.

shit i forgot to post the pics of the seats and carpets all done. lol, that was ages ago. 2021-08-12_06-31-20 by sheepers, on Flickr 2021-08-12_06-31-12 by sheepers, on Flickr 2021-08-12_06-31-02 by sheepers, on Flickr 2021-08-12_06-30-52 by sheepers, on Flickr