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New stereo. 

Factory system was OK but no Bluetooth no hands free etc.

So I replaced everything. 

Had to re route some of the factory loom and patch in a couple of wires but it was pretty easy. Running the power feeds under the car was the hardest bit,  fuck I can't wait until I get a shed with a hoist. 

So anyway head unit is a kenwood one.  It's got buttons and shit. There's a 100x4 amp under the drivers seat and a 600w amp running the sub.

Front doors for a pair of boston 6.5LF pros that I've had for a while. Had to cut the hole or a bit to get them in but the rest was easy. 

Rear doors got some 5" alpine things that work great. 

Sub is a zero flex 10" which absolutely cranks.

I'm still fucking with the steering wheel controls to see if I can get some basic functions working off the steering wheel, time will tell in that one. 

I had to go up to whangarei today. 

6 hours there and back. 

I gotta hand it to the jokers at yellow speed, the spring rates are 20kg front and 8kg rear and I thought the 20 kg springs were a bit much but it's actually perfect.  The coilovers came with recommended settings for the shock rebound which was also right on the money.  

The car drives so nicely,  it's not stiff or bouncy it actually feels like slightly firmer stock suspension.

Anyone who's after coilovers for a 400, get the yellow speed ones. 

Also this thing is pretty good on gas for a two ton V8.

fucking 10 years latter....

we were trying to sell our house and that fucked up many things including any progress on this engine.

anywho,

here we are. ive been doing many measuring and many modeling of things and i am 99% sure i have a piston shape that clears the bigger valves and the increased lift but yields 11.5 to 1.

i figure if the CR is too high i can remove material but if its too low that's a bit harder to fix...

so yea now i need to do a final check of piston clearance and then find someone to make a set of them to my drawing.

ill start the ball rolling with getting the head work done too.

with the head sorted and the pistons under control the rest of the project seems like its achievable.

however we shall see. 

still got a whole ITB system to craft for this as well as many other things.  

With the ride height sorted it was time to get the bump stops in the front exactly right so the upper control arm won't hit the body.

@cletus told me what the requirements are for minimum wheel travel before contacting the bump stop (40mm) so I set about making this all happen.

I had to make some spaces to limit shock travel,  then I made some more bump stops they have a conical end so they're progressive.

I wasn't able to make it all work and still have 40mm before the Bump stop but it does have 35mm so fucking deal with it. 

Also @cletusdon't read that last bit. 

I was a dick and didn't take a photo of the actual spacers and bumps I made but they look a bunch like this, 

I dunno what the fuck goes on at scarles and I'm sure they don't either but for wherever reason my coilovers turned up. 

So I put them in. I made new bump stops because @cletus told me the yellow speed ones would be garbage, and they were,  so I made some new ones. 

I am ecstatic with the result.  The ride is still comfortable and smooth and the lowness is perfect. 

Tomorrow I've got to fine tune the Bump stops in the front to get everything happy and that's it. 

Super premo.

So is all installed and is fucking perfect. 

Nice v8 burble at idle,  makes awesome V8 noises when you give it the jandles but silent when just cruzing. 

Stoked. 

Get ready for a surprise, 

Scarles are a useless pack of cunts. 

My coilovers which were supposed to be here last Wednesday didn't actually get ordered by the great folks at scarles so I've got to wait another 4 weeks. I'm fucking stoked as you could Imagine.

So I moved on to doing something else. 

I made a new zorst for it. 

Stock zorst is pretty restrictive and super quiet, and we can't have that. 

So is now 63mm from the cats back where if goes into a single 75mm hotdog, then splits back into twin 63mm pipes all the way to the back with two 63mm offset straight through glass pack SS mufflers.

I started it with just the 75mm hotdog and nothing behind it and it wasn't actually that loud. 

Should sound good.  I'll let the print dry tonight then I'll chuck it back in the car tomorrow. 

Richie is a good cunt. 

Not only did he find me a good set of wheels on marketplace,  he went to Wellington and checked them out for me,  then he bought them for me. 

Then he bought them to auckland for me. 

I take back some of the things I said about him. 

SSR MS1s.

19x 8.5 +25 front

19x 9.5 +22 rear.

Fucking stoked. 

Now it really really needs to come down. 

Did some more. 

Progress. 

Not finished yet but getting there. 

Interestingly enough the one with the biggest bend in it,  third from the right,  is the one I didn't cut. 

I'll make an exhaust for it if you want.