Jeffs_Emporium

Have been burning around in this a bit recently, fixing small issues as they come up.

The Carter fuel pump has a knurled fitting that the leads slip onto. These keep jumping off resulting in pulling to side of the road and lying down and reaching up under to put back on. Probably need a better solution before I get snagged on motorway. I can't seem to get the heater to blow hot, think there might be air trapped in it. Need a tall ass funnel to be higher than the top of the core to bleed it. 

Orderd a 21/5 speedometer driven gear to replace the 19/5 just waiting on that to arrive to hopefully get me in the ballpark. 

Couple of photos from the Trademe listing.

1981 Toyota Cressida RX60 

It's had a full panel and paint with all the door jambs and everything done as well as underside. 

JZX81 steering rack mounts and engine mount towers have been grafted onto GX60 engine crossmember and 81 rack fitted.

S13 front coilovers, hubs and castor rods have been fitted up front, I'm just having some brackets made up to locate castor rods onto factory cressida body mounts

Ae86 coilovers have been fitted to the rear with the E series solid rear still there. 

It's had a late model chaser sedan front installed and late model mark II tail lights have been grafted on. 

There's a 2JZGE VVTI with the gte covers fitted, W55 and a flywheel has been located to manual convert the motor. 

We have a new project! We won't share too many details until we have made some progress of our own but we have secured a project that a friend was not able to see through. Looking forward to finishing it with some of our own touches.  

A real credit to the hard work he has already done

New muffler and rest of the exhaust in 2.25" and driveshaft hoop fitted 

Idle problem was seat pushing front carb down and creating vacuum leak at the soft gasket. I have used a big hammer to fix that. 

Things I need to still address:

Speedo out by 10% so need to see if I can get a cog with extra teeth for the speedo drive or increase rear tyre size by 10% (5% to get within the threshold)

See if I can get a legal sized tyre for the brx rear wheels (13x7j) that fits in guards and doesn't further mess with speedo. 

Pcv from cam cover to a non vented catch can returning to fittings pressed into all 4 trumpets with a gauze filter on face of trumpets like so 

There's a bit of renewed enthusiasm from hooning around in it, it goes pretty good even with 3.9 diff and 165/80/13. From memory ae86 diff ratio is a 4.3 

Tune went alright. Definitely blew the budget. 

And the muffler...about 200 meters down the road from webers specs into my 30km journey on the motorway back across the Harbour Bridge. 

It definitely has a decent pull to it but is horrible to drive due to the engine touching the seat, the obvious noise and the poorly set up linkage. 

It also isn't idling by itself after that backfire, the idle is so low that the oil pressure safety switch kicks fuelpump on and off. Hopefully it's just a small adjustment needed. 

I've got about 4 weeks to sort driveshaft hoop, legal size tyre for the rear wheels that corrects speedo, big hammer the seat cover, new muffler and definitely hone the suspension.

There's a definite temptation to track down the rest of the floor shift shit tbh. 

I had this thing running and warmed up until thermostat opened and tried my best to bleed air out of the system. Carbs definitely need tuning so it's booked in to get taken to weber specs to sort it out. They advised against running the engine at all until they've rejetted carbs. 

I've also booked in for driveshaft hoop to be made the following week and a certification check for early may. 

Hoping it all pans out 

Enjoy this photo from facebook i found a while back on the NZ car relates scenes 1950s-1980s page  

Today might be the day.

Once the battery is charged 

A fella from the nz Datsun parts Facebook page was kind enough to post some b310 engine mounts up which have worked perfectly.

They are bout 12mm thicker with an offset pin.

All of this time under there ive noticed the gearbox rear seal needs replacing. 

I'd drained the Gearbox oil incase I needed to remove driveshaft when doing that release bearing so its no bother to swap a new seal in while I'm here. 

Those mounts have given me a good amount of lift on the box, pretty chuffed.

I'm awaiting a bung for the sq engineering rear water outlet since I'm not running ecu or cold start sensors. That rear seal and an inline fuel filter.

Radiator is mounted for good, fan clears engine by 5mm. 

Nearly ready to fill with water and bring up to temp and watch all the leaks =/

2.5m of heater hose and 10 clamps later 

Puts heater pipes at rear of engine bay pointing directly at head and Intake side is extended pointing same direction

need to find some blank plugs where ecu temp and other sensor would go in rear water outlet on head. 

Some tom cat spam for your viewing pleasure 

December 1982 wheel that up until yesterday hadn't been on a vehicle as far as I can tell. This brings the collection to three wheels, the other two are with Aidan at Pine engineering currently.