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You would have to look into the laws in your area, ie here in Brisbane the law is vauge and some spray painting at home is allowed as long as it is not commercial. You have to look it up, It was legal to spray my car in the driveway and I asked/told the neighbours about it.

I mean guys reseal roofs with spray in open atmosphere, I have seen the exterior of homes spray painted. Case by case for your council.

Bling phosphoric acid is not hard core, I buy the bunnings shit and dilute it a little further depending on the job. It doesn't sting the skin and fuck all fumes unless you boxed yourself in with a bath of it working. You can do the same thing with citric acid or vinegar for sure but the phosphoric seems to be just the right zing for panels where it takes 15-30min instead of 4 hours, when I was soaking shit in citric acid baths it takes 24-48h to work. Unsure about anything else as using acid is the gold standard as far as I have learned.

As for spraying safety I had looked it up a millon times but looked again. Modern 2 part epoxy primers are only considered mild irritants and only fuck you up over long term exposure without correct PPE which can give you allergic type reactions, they do not cure with isocyanates. They are just as shitty as exposure to single stage solvent curing paints basically so wear a mask and its all good. Its the polyurethane ( urethane primer, single stage top coats,clears etc) that cure with isocyantate and are considered extra death spec which gets absorbed through the skin and can build up toxicity.

Yeah have to be careful. If you look into it most epoxy primer isn't too bad, its the urethane top coats that have max isocyanate and will murder you. 3M face mask with the correct filters and some eye protection and you will live, its only primer so do it outside in the driveway for extra safe points.

In straya you can buy phosphoric acid at Bunnings in the paint thinners section under the name ranex, its expensive but convenient.

Problem with single stage solvent cured paint is its million years old technology. Nothing beats a good 2 part epoxy primer for adhesion to metal, same for top coats urethane lasts for a zillion years and is low upkeep.

What, no way. Single stage paint products go in the rubbish bin.

Hard to tell but looks like you let it dry on there, gotta keep it wet. I use the acid to convert surface rust but don’t bother leaving the acid finish for paint. Once you do the acid I usually sand/scotch brite the fuck out of it until it’s white and then wax and grease. Go get some 2 part epoxy primer, etch primer is shit.

On 01/08/2019 at 13:39, yetchh said:

 

 

Had the same with the roof of the zephyr. Multiple passes with phosphoric acid/scotch bright/prepsol and had pitting.. Was black from the acid so I made sure it was very dry and epoxied it... Hasn't come back yet. 

 

This is the method, phosphoric acid and scotch brite, then epoxy. Don’t use single stage rust treatment paints they don’t have very good adhesion compared to acid wash then 2 part epoxy primer.

Yeah put a timing light on it if you can.

Also old unused injectors love to be blocked up so could be a problem, I have had this a few times they were dumping fuel but just so shit that it wouldn't fire.

Maybe triple check cam timing since the head came off.

Lush whip also, Z10's are great

Just a opinion but the 5MGE with the lock-up auto go sweet as, wouldn't look past it to just get this thing lush as fuck and rolling around. Easier to slam dunk a auto 5MG and build a simple skid plate than manualise this thing tidily.

What is the suspension setup? hopefully wishbone front and coils on rear axle? if its leaves then its gay.

Epoxy primer the whole world, then some kind of cavity wax stz for all the cunty bits and internals.

Get it legal as is then send the kent to the bottom of the ocean?

Or consider a 4age/2zz

They sure do. But as said above they all have slightly different mounts as the suspension in the rear slightly changed over the models. Different part numbers also. So if you want more ae92 calipers order some on rockauto while they exist (stock rolls over on there and can be gone for good). NZ got lots of FX-GT's but they still will be getting thin on the ground.

From Rockauto (they don't list 101's they only got poverty pack ones)

AE92

ae82

Pretty much on AE92's only and only 4age and a few other good spec ones. The ae82 and ae101 are similar but not the same.

Pretty sure rockauto has reman ones available.

The usual with cleaning its' move up the scale from least aggressive to max as needed. Assuming they are painted start with soap and a brush, if that fails move up to more powerful detergent and elbow grease, I'm all in on using a claybar and strong detergent when trying to bring back painted wheels, after that many times I have had to max out and carefully use paint thinners, if they are beyond that then you are fucked. If bare alloy its abit different you can use the same as before but also mild acid spec wheel cleaner, then different grades of abrasives to polish it up.

Without googling too far into it what can you still buy for a 18RG?

They are basically a tractor engine so I doubt it needs much to take 8psi, fresh stock rebuild  would probably do that for 300,000km no prob. Just gap rings for boost/heat I think. If you need to go oversize and can get nice pistons then do that if you have the $$. Even then stock cast ones would probably survive ages on 8 pound if you had to bet on it.

Bottom end is like no prob, oiling systems on these are good, any bearings will be sweet, just obviously get it all measured and machined to whatever is needed and build to factory spec.

If you can still buy a fancy head gasket then do that also over a shitty repco spec one for sure. But even then these things don't generally blow head gaskets unless you cook them and 8psi is pretty gentle.

Hey dude. I'm currently in Melbourne but moving back to Brisbane in a few months time, I has no old cars at the moment as Melbourne is expensive and shitty. Sam lives out in suburbia and has some old whips so I have to live through him.

Hemi is living in the land of red dust in WA fixing trucks, I think in like a year he's keen to take a pay cut and move to Brisbane so we can roll around in his C10.

Whats going on for you in Sydney? I lived there for 6 months. Has the many jobs/opportunity due to many large corporations HQ'd there, but its also the most hectic/shitty city life IMO.

I think @Honda Ass Dragger is the only Sydney cat I know of.

What kind of shit car you going to get?

I think those rear wheel cylinders are on there also. 

As Sheepers says those look like sumitomo calipers that are on many things. Under 70 crown on rock auto you could get new/recon calipers for like $20USd and a few pad options.

Yeah I have some boots and a chin up bar, 10min a day is about right. Combine with whatever exercises you have been given (some ab and glute stuff I would imagine) and get into as much pain free walking you can do. Should be a good start.

Also look up finnegans garage on YouTube, the roadkill guy. He chucked a 6Bt in their c10 ramp truck. Similar engine bay etc. Gives a idea on the conversion of Cummins into chev trucks, seems legit as if you cut the firewall.

Man put a factory quadrajet on this thing and wideband tune it. Cut your gas bill down like 1/3rd. 

Once you do that sit down in excel and work our projected fuel costs verses estimated conversion costs and diesel running costs. I’m sure for like 99.99% of conversions it takes like half your lifetime to get the saving back.

Unless you just want a turbo deez black smoke chooch machine, then do it.

Can you build a sweet carbon fibre air box and run a maf? Air box seems like the win on throttles anyway? Then run a proper outboard injector setup plz. Maybe some fancy/magic high pressure setup seems to be the good stuff.

Oh and I’m jelly of all your messing around with this car, A+ integration of cars/hobby/learning shit.

It’s how OS rolls, you get to see everyone’s bias and anecdotes.

Man our manual CL9 is constantly 10/100km around town. Hard pressed for even the fanciest turbo Subaru to do those figures? Guess it might slightly win if you never boost and drive open road?

Buy that 1jz crown on here boss. Then you’ll have a actual sweet car, probably has cruise control even.