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That's alright @S124AB... I don't know who L Gooding is.

50 minutes ago, kiwi808 said:

Imagine if someone had a lush white Series 3 turbo sitting in a big shed somewhere.....

Where?

Pics?

puehuehuhu.

If any piners are in fact keen for Gary's/Tim's old S3 turbo the reserve has now been met at $16,500.

Worth it for the spares and original books/catalogues. The spare rear spoiler alone cost Tim an eye-watering amount.

Not sure if it comes on the XR-4s but that would be super lush.

@Scrubb can you please PM me your number and I'll get Ant from BNT New Lynn to phone you back directly.

The staff there are in the middle of stocktake and probably didn't have a chance to even pass the message on to him (branch manager). They have a few different sensors available.

Failing that Rockauto may also have what you need, I recently bought an OEM Denso O2 sensor and a coil unit for an early '80s Mazda turbo engine for a fifth of the quoted price from Petroject.

Do it, Brent.

I didn't realize you were after a Series 3 turbo. I could possibly be persuaded to sell mine if I knew it was going to a good home.

10 minutes ago, S124AB said:

Has manuals, records, provenance etc, so this will add value.  Largely unmolested as well.

Funny you mention that John - I sold my stock standard BFMR Familia back in 2013 with all of the manuals, catalogues and some of the Japanese service history included, and there was a whole lot more interest around those than there was about the car, hah.

Will definitely be watching the auction (if only out of selfish curiosity).

Hard to tell if this is now a reasonable sum to ask for a Series 3 turbo, or still a pipe dream...

http://www.trademe.co.nz/motors/used-cars/mazda/auction-1314675062.htm

Piners may recognize it as Gary's old car, then Tim's, and now someone else owns it. My importer friend originally brought this into NZ back in 2008 and offered me a choice between it and the white one I now own.

Notwithstanding the fact it's a limited version (I've never seen that catalogue before, but need to get my hands on a copy) - I don't think even the importer knew at the time.

Definitely. But I've been accused of needlessly prioritizing one car over another before. This seems like the perfect opportunity to take a step back, hide the AW away for a while and focus on one of the other vehicles languishing in the garage.

There's also a more selfish reason - I don't want to spend a large sum of money on it right now Having to replace the cambelt and drive belts 80,000km earlier than I'd envisaged was already starting to put it firmly into mothball territory. Then the clutch, now the bearings, etc, tipped it over the threshold.

Shit me dead, what have I got myself into... remember when I jokingly said "what you find next will shock you" and only half meant it? Well, it's not that funny anymore.

For starters, this is the old cambelt. Looks perfectly fine from a distance. It's even TGP, which is great.

But on closer inspection... this is what freaked Karl out enough to decide the engine was getting pulled.

And that squealing accessory belt? This is why.

Actually... make that TWO accessory belts both on the verge of crapping themselves.

Anyway, here are the two new TGP accessory belts, ribbed for her pleasure. But I'm probably going to have to send them back, read on to find out why.

Pulled into the workshop on Saturday morning to drop off a couple spare bottles of supercharger oil, in case the guys needed to top it up before reinstallation. "Guess what?" Karl said when I walked in the door. "Your clutch is fucked as well!"

Again it was a case of thinking, "shit me dead, it was going to have to be done eventually but I didn't think it would need to be done this soon..." Then I saw the horrendous scorch marks on the pressure plate and flywheel and it made me cringe, just a little.

And the clutch itself? Yeah, there's not much meat left.

Even the release bearing has seen better days.

With a quickly mounting repair bill looming, I mentioned that I'd noticed the engine had been doing a bit of the old knocky-knocky rattle-rattle on startup, and could sometimes hear a faint rattle at highway speeds in top gear under very light load. Sure, it could have been that release bearing, but being a 4A-G that's done just over 100,000kms I figured that with the engine out of the hole we may as well pull the sump and check the bearings, perhaps whack some new shells in if needed. Cue the next clickbait, shock news moment...

Fast forward to this morning and I'm sitting at my desk at work, wishing I'd taken the day off like everyone else, when I get a cheerful call from Karl asking if I'd had a good weekend. Immediately I knew something was up; sure enough his next sentence was "I'm here to ruin your week, we pulled the sump off and you won't believe what happened next!"

Yeah, so the number 4 big-end is spun right round like a record, baby. No idea how long it's been that way but I suspect a long time before I even got the car, and now I realize that all of the weird rattling sounds weren't just a screwed release bearing. The only saving grace in all of this is I'm very glad the engine didn't fall to pieces on, say, the Desert Road, the Gentle Annie, or any one of the multitude of back roads I've driven in the last 18 months.

Needless to say I can't blame anyone but myself for 1. buying an old car, 2. buying an old car sight unseen out of Japan, 3. trusting the word of the dealer that the cambelt had been done, because clearly it hasn't been done and a whole host of other problems are now making themselves known, and 4. not waiting a little bit longer and buying a different one without all these hidden problems.

Huge sigh!

In light of all this I've made a decision to park the car up long-term and chip away at it when I feel that the funds deserve to be spent. For now though, I have the fun task of organizing to transport one immobile car and a whole host of parts somewhere safe, and because my brother's TX3 is now occupying the space in the garage that's usually reserved for the AW11 (since he's gone overseas for work) I'll need to find an alternative home for it.

And to think this all happened because I failed a WOF.

Discuss the colossal fail here: //oldschool.co.nz/index.php?/topic/49412-80s-kid-part-ii-eds-aw11-sc-chit-chat/

On 20/04/2017 at 20:12, HR30liner said:

Love seeing your car. Its how I want to get my one, one day. I bought the $600 supercharged aw11 with auto trans from that Ohaupo a couple of years ago. I had to do the cambelt and water pump, but stupidly id it without dropping the lot. Was a big job in the end. I've got  a full mk1a interior I'm putting in mine. I too like the earlier steering wheel. The earlier interior looks more sporty in my opinion.

Nice score! I did wonder where the supercharged one from Ohaupo ended up, have you put it back on the road? Sounds like it didn't need all that much to get running again. I actually prefer the less garish and more streamlined interior of the later (Mk1a) AW11, but the extremely brash looking Recaros were too good not to install, because, hey, '80s car

Unfortunately I received a bit more bad news about the AW this morning, and a project thread update will be along in due course to elaborate.

In the meantime however - does anyone know how much work a SC14 upgrade would entail, and how well would the factory ECU cope with it? How about a SC12 from the later 4A-GZE with the smaller pulley?

On 18/04/2017 at 12:16, Threeonthetree said:

Want a passenger or two?

Sure. PM me your address etc as I can't quite recall where to go (it was dark last time, and I was still half asleep).

Killjoy workmate reminded me that it's my on-call weekend, hopefully I don't get paged while enroute or in Hamilton proper.

Also @Truenotch what's the address of this new Burgerfuel? It's too new for Google. Is it in the same shopping complex as the BP and New World on Thomas Rd?

Valve stem seals and rings should be fine as the engine isn't smoking or eating more than its fair share of oil (4A-G lyfe, haha).

However now that the engine's out of the hole, I am definitely going to pull the sump and see what condition the big end bearings are in. The last few times I've started the car from bone cold it's made some noises that sound suspiciously like knock knock, who's there?

The car's also done 108,000km so I wouldn't be surprised if they needed refreshing.

I'm okay with 8am.

However I was discussing it with Ant the V3000 Man, and he's currently torn between not meeting up with OS and getting there super early to sift through the bargains, or cruising with OS and potentially getting there too late to score anything cool.

That reminds me I should enter it in my phone as a reminder. Thankyou kind sir!

Along with a reminder to bring that speedo and that book for my brotha Neal.

That reminds me, I need to bring those reyums for @Mr Vapour to blast. Last month I had to leave the meet early and didn't even get a chance to offload them.

Want a Skyline?

No worries, I'm fairly sure Ant can help you source those bits - he should be able to look everything up without needing the part numbers, but there might be several types listed so you may have to guess or provide the old one as a sample.

You could also possibly make some inquiries at Auckland Motors Mitsubishi.

Mine's a facelift 2.0 with the non-tophat intake manifold, but I think it still has the same ISC. Haven't had any trouble with it (yet - touch wood) but it's possible that Fuelmiser or someone similar makes aftermarket ones, you might even find they are shared between various models and not just restricted to the turbo ECI ones.

Oh yes, knock sensor - forgot about that. The dreaded E-101, haha. If you need to go down that route I can possibly lend you one of my good ones, as  I stockpiled a few just in case mine shits itself.

The sensors are available aftermarket. I recently bought coolant temp and O2 sensors brand new from BNT for the Starion. Phone Ant the Mitsi Whisperer at BNT New Lynn and say you are from Oldschool.

Note that exhaust temp readings should only really affect things if the catalytic converter is present, and not completely choked up.

The Starion seems to be very sensitive to running the correct plug gap - I'm assuming the G62B is similar - have you made sure you're running the correct ones for the engine?

Also, I know I've already said it, but have you considered the fuel pump?

On 5/04/2017 at 10:53, Threeonthetree said:

- Turning off SH1 at Pokeno, heading South through Pukekawa on SH22 but continuing even further South through Naike, crossing the border into the Waikato shortly after and then turning East onto Hetherington road and joining SH1 back at Huntly

This route takes you through the least amount of roadworks.

Another option is to stay on the western side of the river as far as Whatawhata.

Could the fuel pump be failing?

Speaking of G62BT fueling issues I recently picked up a Cordia turbo for someone that seems to only randomly die around left hand corners, and when coming to a stop after cruising for a while. Initial diagnoses indicated either a bung fuel pump, or crap in the tank interfering with fuel flow.

First.

Neal I shall bring along the speedo cluster from Bart for you. Also a book from Hogan that needs to go to ClosedMondaysGreg since I figure you'll see him well before I do.

Hmmm, keen. Are any of my cars worthy?

I have to come to Hamilton to visit @Archetype one of these weekends anyway.

All sorted. @427carguy to the rescue! Cheers Hogan.

I believe we're bussing into Timaru early Friday morning, collecting the car and then it'll be a mad dash back up the country from there. See what happens, cheers for the offer anyway!

Apologies for the mega short notice but I just found out that accommodation was not booked for my impending mission to pick up a car from Timaru this Friday

Before I scramble for an alternative, does anyone in Christchurch have a couple of couches for two people (myself and the car's new owner) to catch some Zs on Thursday night? We will be landing around 10:45pm and will then be on our way around 6 the next morning. I will need to liaise with the owner of the car as well to see if he's organized transport or anything like that.

Happy to reimburse for the trouble as well.

Cheers
Ed