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Gonna take it off right now. Just made a new pump out of the 4m and 5m one I had lying around. The 4m pickup wouldnt fit on the 5m pump due to the longer pump shaft, but the 4m shaft fit in the 5m pump housing. THe 5m pump gears are a good 1/3rd bigger than the 4m ones, so it probably has a bit more oil flow to it. This pump should be fucking sweet if the current one's the problem. I didn't take photos

Never blew a head gasket. The head cracked due to the water galleries being blocked up and causing it to overheat. Not sure on how you could blame the oil pressure problem on me considering I've had the car running for a grand total of 2 days, 1 of which only drove to exhaust shop and back.

10-5 brought his gauge over, and it is reading a definite zilch. Off comes the sump.

Gauge has the wrong thread so did not fit, but a spare sender I stuck on gives the same results... Just when I thought everything was sorted

Last one was also a repco one. Ended up with a screwdriver in it Will try it though.

I think it wants 10-40 but I went with 20-50. Has a repco jobbie filter. Maybe I'll chuck some flush through it and another new filter and see what happens. I don't know how the old owner treated the engine but it ran mint up till today. Seems a bit odd that it was fine yesterday (although that could just mean the oil was only a bit higher than the pressure sender... )

Yeah its new filter and fresh oil.

Yep will do once it cools down a bit and hopefully stops raining. No oil leaks that I know of and is still full

Yeah did think that. Somewhere about the 200k mark. Thicker oil maybe? Not that keen on a cheap fix though / engine overhaul in a can

So I was goin for a drive today, and the oil light started coming on at low rpm. This is kinda strange as it was completely fine yesterday. The engine is a 5mge with a 4m oil pressure sender, pickup and sump. Oil is brand new 20W50. As I said, it was mint yesterday and not so mint today. Not keen on running a bearing just after I get the car going again.. Throw me some ideas on what could be causing this. The pickup didn't look like it was worn out or anything Cheers

Has anyone got a spare thermostat housing for a 5mge? I will pay good money / beer for one. Need it asap

Have a gas mig, but it ain't working as good as it should. Regulator seems to be rooted. S'pose a mig set up for gasless is better than a gas mig with no gas. I'll see if I can get anything good from it, if not I'll PM ya. I only need it for a 5cm blat, if that.

Yeah I've been constantly rechecking all the electrics and fuel system, making sure everything is secure and not in the way of something that could potentially destroy it. Not keen on a high pressure fuel leak in my boot.. I did invest in a fire extinguisher just in case though.

It's so close to completed I can smell it! The fuel system is done, the tank is back in, headlights are on, the last of the electrics are sorted and the car is 99.6% complete. Unfortunally, the last 0.4 % consists of a cracked thermostat housing and a cable mount. Oh well, there's still tomorrow. Still a few bits of trim / bumper that needs attaching too. Cheap surge tank. Yep, it's screwed to wood. Lushtastic MDF. There it is, all piped up and ready to go. Just need fuel. I decided to upgrade the lights as well, so got some Narva high/low beam semi sealed jobbies. 100W of light up in yo grill!! Still need to upgrade the wiring for the lights though, as the factory shit was never designed for that wattage. And the shitty tstat house. It took me ages to figure out why the fucker was leaking. Coulda had the car fired up tonight otherwise. (Except it still had no fuel) Tomorrow is the day. Hope Repco has a housing in stock, and I need to find someone with a welder that I can borrow for 5 seconds to weld up my cable mount. Then I can go for an exhaustless blat!

Shroud DOES affect it. Use a shroud! It forces the air through the exchanger. If possible block other free/empty space on the sides etc. as well. It won't adversely affect your open road driving, at least not to a point of concern. If you were really worried about drag co-efficient you'd not have started with a Lancer. Ha yeah thats what I was going for. What I meant is it doesn't affect open road driving. Didn't realize you quoted me before I edited it

Shroud shouldn't affect it negatively as cars tend to have them stock anyway. It should improve the cooling a bit while stationary as the fan will draw the air over the whole radiator. Is your fan electric or belt? Generally the belt fans are better as they are a lot beefier and can push more air.

I vote sidevalve. Not everythings about power for dollar.

Progress is progressing. I've been saying this every week for the past month, but the car should be up and running by the end of the week. Various bits I've had to do is modify the alternator pulley to fit my Bosch alternator on, hunt down a longer fan belt to fit it (why the the fuck does it need a 7 ribbed belt???), sus out the shitload of wires and narrow it down to the ones I need, find places to mount all the electrics and so on and so forth (too hot to type, get off my back!) Got a new accelerator cable made up, ideally it could have been a few cm longer but too bad Surge tank and fuel pump (yet to be installed) And I got this... Yep, a 6 pack of Brakleen and 8 cokes. Hows that for a wacked out pack? Back to the car The heater hose was a bit of a bastard to pipe up, so I had to find some elbow bends (took me ages to find a place that sold them). This is the result. 8 more places to leak from! Woohoo! My rangitastic electrics mounted to the guard. I'm pretty confident I did it correctly, I'm just hoping the ECU agrees and doesn't mind that it's missing a few things. The remains of my battery stand. It's kinda fucked, but it still supports the battery. For now anyway So there it is so far. The engine and all its components are all together and wired / piped up. All that is needed now is a mount of the firewall for the accelerator cable and the rest of the fuel system piped up. The tank is in getting a return pipe welded in so hopefully I get that back soon. As I said, she should be running by the weekend. Heres hoping nothing fucks up at the last minute

^^ This man speaks the truth. Stock hunter valves ain't that strong and snapping them isn't uncommon. If I remember correctly some sort of masda valve can be fitted. 323 I think.

There's chicks there this time eh? How long are they staying for?

Depending on how aggressive the cam is it is possible that you will lose power in a factory engine. Low end torque will fly out the window, and because the intake/exhaust is too restrictive it won't breath at the top end where the cam makes the power. Chuck it in anyway. Valve springs are a biggie, get some double valve springs if ya can. Bigger / twin carbs, ya may have to upgrade the fuel pump as the mechanical one might not keep up (avengers have this problem), and port the head to get the most out of the cam.

Yeah I've been on the lookout for a better condition shell, but everyone who is selling them asks for a million dollars coz they "wil maek a g00d rota projekt" etc.

Yeah, will probably need to replace half the metal in the car it's that fucked. Makes for some good welding practice at least

Nah, Mark 10-5 stripped the paint off ages ago, and then it's been sitting in my back yard since then. Bare metal + elements = bad. Keegan wasn't keen to let it rust any further. Fuck it's gonna be a shitload of work

Another fuel pump + injector? hooked up to a pushbutton