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  1. Cut up some thicccc expanded mesh(this shit is about 10x6mm thick and expensive as shit. We use it for guarding heavy machinery, luckily we had some left over for the coal rack and also for the grille. And here's the upper vent mocked up. These are called butterfly vents and are used for marine purposes. Took me bloody ages to find something like this
  2. Gas cut some damper vent holes. Cut and welded some 50x3 angle for side handles. Also cut and welded some flat bar for lid handle mounts.
  3. Cut some 25x5 flat bar and 50x5 angle for a grill mount and act as a bit of a riser. Welded it up then mocked it up and did some mad gap filler welding onto the bottom half to try get it levelish... Gas cut some ends from 3mm plate, welded them on. And here's a shot of the grill mount.
  4. Welded up the fitting holes, ground back the lid side ones flat and just gave the bottom ones a quick blat. Cut some 50x5 flat bar legs, bent them up and welded them on. Here it is mocked up, a mix between my crooked cutting and warping from the heat has twisted it quite a bit.
  5. Chopped this nugget in half to try and split it, not knowing that there were separate chambers/baffles (which made this more of a prick which added an extra hour or 2 of stuffing around). Used a cutting disc to cut around the diameter then gassed out the ends to access the middle chambers. Also gassed off the fittings to save some time on the grinder.
  6. Ok so I'm going camping with some mates in a few days and had been planning on making a small smoker for a while so decided, fuck it lets get this done! I have a very short timeline to build this as I've been up north at Mangawhai for Xmas then back home for a day to build this then back up north for new years before heading to hot water beach. So basically I had 1 day to get the bulk of it sorted. I started off with sourcing a cooking chamber. I managed to procure a truck air tank for free about a month ago so that was sorted. First things first, remove all the unnecessary fittings.
  7. Time for a small update... As most of you have probably seen, I now have this up for sale as I need to sell one of my cars for money towards the house. In the meantime though I have been dailying the shit out of this and it has been awesome. I've been fixing little bits and pieces here and there, sorting out little interior rattles as they become more apparent, tighten the sunvisors as they kept dropping etc. The other day however I also noticed that there was a strong smell of fuel so had a look and saw the fuel pump was leaking. Have since replaced that today and now she's all good. I also had seen a few small drips under the heater assembly so tightened up the hose clamps and it seems ok so far. Had some fender mirrors lined up but that hasn't come to fruition so will probably roll as is for the time being. And here's some pics from today after I gave it a wash. Time for a break and festivities. Chur
  8. I finished work at 11pm last night. No chance when I have breakdowns to go to...
  9. Hah, makes sense I suppose. Bloody mitsi's...
  10. No idea, maybe the likes of a cordia or sigma or something maybe. If anyone has knowledge or spares to measure it please let me know haha.
  11. That's a good idea. I'll probably still need to take a small chunt out of the wheel though. I'll see what I can grab from the shop.
  12. Picked up some wheels for a pretty sharp price today. Hayashi Racing Street Fins in 13x6 +13. These have always been one of my favourite wheels and had the privilege to visit their shop in Osaka a couple years ago which was awesome. I brought these knowing that they probably wouldn't work on the front due to these cars having a shit hub mount setup as per below. The wheels have cutouts in between the pcd holes but they only just foul on the bolts by a couple mm. I had initially planned on counter sinking the hubs but I don't think they have enough meat, otherwise milling them to suit tapered cap screws but doing this would require cert. Alternatively I'm looking to swap out the hub bolts for as small and shallow cap screws as I can, then milling out small notches on the wheels and rebalancing them. If anyone has any other ideas let me know haha. They sit just outside the guard, but once modified and fitted up properly they'll be just inside. The current ride height is actually lower than this pic shows but I'll definitely need to lower this when I have some spare sheckles. Beside that I took for a burn up the road and it went mint! Mrs was pretty impressed with how peppy it is for a little 1200! Chur, Tai
  13. Figure I'd throw one of these up finally. Throw shade at me for making terrible life decisions buying and fixing an old mitsi...
  14. Next I threw the hoses on with new clamps, filled it up with about 5.5L of coolant and also made a new overflow line. Rechecked everything, connected up the battery then went to fire it up. Few turns of the key and a few pumps of the pedal, choke fully open and it roared into life. Pretty stoked to be honest, no leaks, sounds like it's running well and ticking over smoothly (the valve tappets are maybe slightly louder than I'd like, me being picky I might re adjust them). Bled out the cooling system and it came up to temp well and held mint. Will throw the pressure tester on it sometime next week. Was gonna take it for a drive but it started pouring down so might leave that til tomorrow haha. Also I didn't take any pics but I had ripped the belly plate off from underneath and gave it a good waterblast. It's not mint as some of the grime was baked on heavy but it's alot more cleaner now. Pretty happy with where it's at now, just need to take it for a good drive tomorrow then give it a crack at daily duties. I have a few other minor plans for it in the pipeline but we'll wait and see how it goes. And feel free to tell me how I fail with old mitsi's here. Cheers, Tai.
  15. Got a few moments the last few days to spend a bit off time on this. Firstly I took the radiator in to work, ground off a couple bits to help with clearance and then took it home, slotted the mount holes and got it to fit up mint. Took it back off, scuffed it back and threw some paint on it so it's less of an eyesore in the old engine bay. It was supposed to be hammered black, but it ended up as more of a cast iron type colour so I'm not sure if it was labelled incorrectly. Not super happy about that but it looks heaps better. Re mounted the fan and did its final fitment with new fasteners. I then mocked up the hoses and started cutting away to make them work with the new inlet/outlet positions.
  16. Time for another update. Shot off down to Queenstown for a quick holiday and on my way back from the airport I grabbed the radiator from Chris. He's done an awesome job sussing out the mounts for me. Did a quick mock-up and it looks like it will work well, I just need to slot the mount holes and remove the original Honda spigot mounts off the bottom which I'll sus tomorrow. Also need to get some paint to black it out so it's not so much of an eyesore and keep it a bit more stock looking. I also shot down to Repco to try get some hoses to suit the new inlet/outlet positions. Will need to cut these ones down obviously but they should work fine. And some part numbers for reference. Hopefully have this thing together and running this weekend and start dailying it from there. Cheers, Tai.
  17. Realised I will be in Queenstown sorry team. Also mirage won't be mobile in time unfortunately...
  18. Spent a little bit of time on this thing today. Brought my feeler gauge home so I could adjust the valve clearances and set the points gap, have also picked up random length leads from bnt to replace the old ones. So.. valve clearances set, ignition setup sorted, rocker cover on with new gasket, oil pressure and oil temp senders replaced, new leads and plugs set, air filter replaced and airbox on (just needs a repaint). Another issue I found is that the passenger door wouldn't lock from the lever on the inside. I carefully removed the door card, adjusted the linkage and now it's working mint. All we're waiting on now is the radiator. Chris got a little held up last week, so he didn't get a chance to have it sorted which is all good! Might have it in the next few days but I'm off to Queenstown on Wednesday so it probably won't be going in for a few weeks anyway. Was thinking about ripping the front hubs off to counter sink the mount bolts so I can fit capscrews (if anyone knows about these, they have hub mounting bolts that protrude on the mounting surface so rims that don't have cutouts on the backside foul making it so the rim won't sit flush on the hub). It's a pain in the ass but if I can get away with countersinking the it will make things a bit easier for wheel choice. Chur, Tai
  19. I've also used gearbox international in New Lynn for synchros on a few different vehicles before so might be worth giving them a call.
  20. Got some more bits and did some stuff this weekend. Got the correct waterpump (take note of how oldschool the packaging is haha), the right dissy rotor and thermostat. Also picked up some parts ignition leads which didn't fit, so they're now returned. I've fitted up the timing belt, water pump, tensioner, drive belt and cleaned up the covers while I was at it. I've also fitted the dissy condenser, cap, rotor and points (just need to bring my feeler gauge home from work to set the points gap, set the valves and also the new plugs). I've also done the filters and put some fresh oil through it (I don't think it's had a service in a very long time, the fuel filter looked like it was 20 years old!). Have also picked up some 80w for the transmission. With the coolant system I've cleaned up the thermostat housing and fit the new thermostat. The radiator hoses felt super crunchy when I was moving them around so I ended up rolling then out and running the tap through them and so much corroded shit came out haha. In other news I've had issues trying to source a second hand radiator and the cost to recore was ridiculous so I've picked up an el cheapo chinesium alloy Honda Civic radiator from redline and having Euron8 Chris weld on some mounts and a boss so I can fit it up with the original fan and sensor. Hopefully the legend will have it sussed out this week for me :). Will have some more boring maintenance updates soon. Chur, Tai
  21. Take the bearings to ABD in wairau, they're likely able to have some stocked or be able to get them in. Should also be able to get seals through them or Advance seals in Rosedale.
  22. Cheapest recore I could find was $680. I can find the alloy rads at sub $200. Factory fan is switched from the sensor/switch mounted in the radiator. The vehicle is carb so no ecu. I appreciate that Chris but trying to sort this across the weekend/within the week. Looks like I have everything lined up for this so should be sorted shortly. Cheers.
  23. I can possibly make this in the new, old mirage. Depending on what time I finish work that is..
  24. That link actually shows the inline hose sensor adaptor as an option haha. This is a great idea, had never thought about that. I've just been having a look at the old radiator. I reckon I can bend up some mounts to fit the new radiator to the factory mounts and have our engineer at work weld them on and also weld on a boss. Then I can chop off the original fan mounts and weld on some new ones to suit the new rad and run all the original bits. I'll just need to adapt some hoses to suit. I reckon I can sort all of this for sub $300 haha. Here's hoping. Cheers for the help. Will see how I get on haha.
  25. Hey guys, looking for some advice. I'm now looking to retro fit an aftermarket Civic radiator into my mirage as I'm struggling to find a second hand unit and recore looks to be a hefty cost now (no way near as cheap as it used to be). I'm a bit of a tight ass at times and only want to spend half of what a recore will cost if I can so I'm working out a plan. The idea is to get a cheap aftermarket alloy Civic radiator 'half rad', make some mounts to fit and make up some new hoses. The main issue I'm running into is how to go about setting up a thermo fan. The Civic radiator doesn't include a thermo switch mount so I was thinking to use one of the hose inline switch/sensor mounts but I'm struggling to find one locally. Another thing is would I need to run a new circuit/relay for the fan or would I be sweet to just tap into the existing circuit and get away with it? If need be I can follow the wires and see the relay setup that they run through from factory. If anyone has any suggestions on the best and easiest way to do this then please let me know. Cheers, Tai
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