jakesae101

Have a look at motives videos on youtube they did a massive set of RB videos looking at lots of stuff inc oil pumps.

Bosch make one similar not quite as large however.

 

https://www.mitre10.co.nz/shop/bosch-250w-sanding-roller-400-x-70-x-60mm-green/p/231985

On 22/07/2019 at 18:52, xsinclairx said:

Had to consult google. Touch pricey for me! 

You can normally pick up a Warren and Brown second hand pretty cheap as people prefer the micrometer adjustable ones now , I have a full set of them they are great i still have a couple of cheaper click types for wheel nuts ect.

14 hours ago, kicker said:

There is Absolute Upholstery on Home St in town. They recovered the seat on an old metal chair for me and did a good job. I saw a Porsche 356 and a bagged Chev C10 in there once, they may be pricier being in town.

A friends dad has been there for years (they used to be in newtown) they do really good work the other guy to talk to is Jimi at Revamp Upholstery in kilbirnie he is really good also.

Good to see Leons Pris living on through another friend 

Pretty cool and its being made in NZ!

Yea Vt was the crossover from the 5L holden 304 to LS1 I think, You can get plenty for a LS if you do down that route be pretty easy to jam a LSA in one with a blower on it out of the box or you can run the LSA blower setup but need to change heads or some such as the ports are different.

Tried Suspension Tech? he's usually pretty quick to get back 

1 minute ago, Mrs 64valiant said:

Okay. I'm with K2 Environmental. Working with some of the ATL guys in New Plymouth at the moment.

 

^This is one of the things people don't get. Far too many cases of asbestos related disease in people who haven't had any direct exposure. 

Ahh yes I know who you are now haha yea those are my boys we look after Taranaki I talked to you on the phone about the removal in the cool store.

On 12/10/2018 at 21:21, smokin'joe said:

i know it's a blaise attitude, but why is it now such a bloody issue, when it's been a known documented problem for 40+ years ?

i know i have ingested an amount of it, but PPE was a dirty word, and i was onsite with hardened / half emphysemic/ half-dead cunts...

they all still alive 3o years later.......... but them climbing trees and a whack on the arse with a belt didn't kill us either

Probably because its the biggest occupational related killer in nz, We are miles behind the uk in terms of risk mitigation. Why is it a issue now ? because we want to stop killing people its not just the people that are exposed but if you get exposed at work and have it in your clothes you will take it home too the wife and kids or ya mates. 

On 12/10/2018 at 19:52, Mrs 64valiant said:

Who do you work for @jakesae101?

 

I work for ATL Group as their branch HSE person but I do a bit of everything really

Aint just joe blogs get a phone call a week from a builder, flooring company or demo contractor ect that has found some because they haven't done the legally mandated survey and smashed some up or uncovered some and we have to clean it up.

12 hours ago, Mrs 64valiant said:

Yeah for factories, workshops etc our company normally puts in a blanket statement about gaskets. It's not always practical to sample them in working machinery so always recommend when gaskets get replaced they get replaced with tested and certified non asbestos gaskets. Not just gaskets that have no asbestos on the packaging.

 

If I got paid for every time I get told 'oh you won't find any asbestos here' by someone on site and then I walk through a point there, there and there I would be soooo rich.

Yea I think i be really well paid too if i got a dollar for every time ive heard that, Be interesting to see the revisions to the ACOP that are in the plans at the moment hopefully will bring it more inline with the UK regs and clarify some of the grey areas.

18 hours ago, Mrs 64valiant said:

Depends aswell where the parts are from. Quite often China will say somethings asbestos free when it's got 10% or less in it.

My boss analysed brand new gaskets and brake pads straight off the shelf in 2014 which ended up being positive for asbestos.

Only banned import of asbestos containing products in october 2016 so hardly surprising that there are new ish products that possibly contain it. Surveyor at work found ACM gaskets in a building that was only a few years old as the maintenance staff had been using old stock because they were "better", Makes a bit of a mockery of only buildings pre 2000 requiring surveying.

So small updates been hoarding wheels and tyres after my holiday ill get the semi slicks and rally tyres put on them.

 

 

 

Done some small things like a check valve in the booster line to help now that im not making so much vacuum 

I took out the Lambdalink gauge and fitted a proper wideband gauge 

 

I ordered a bunch of jets and air correctors from the uk to try refine the tuning as its running rich on the mains 

 

 

here is that seat that i put in too 

 

Today i dropped down ne main jet size and up one air corrector size its better and here is a video 

 

 

 

 

right Lets try this again after loosing all my post.

 

Right long time between updates got a new job , Married my partner of 7 years and had a 3 week honeymoon in Hawaii all of this meant that there wasnt alot of free coin for the racecar however shit has been getting done albeit slowly .

 

There has been quite a bit of redos along the way but its really close to finished now and im happy with 99% of it anyway 

 

Sump Guard in retrospect id mount it slightly differently and chances are ill make some different mounts at some stage but im happy as it is  for now 

Also mounted up some bright as spotties I had lying around 

It also had a corroded hardline that was really easy to get and was only about 15$ to I replaced that 

There also happened to be a ka laser at pickapart so i got a couple of bits off 

That small tab is actually a support for the water hard line mine was missing, the shifter i cut up and made into a short shifter that shortened things up massively as i was having clearance issues going into reverse once i installed different seats and a spare thermostat housing as it was way better than mine and you will see later on I was glad I got it.

 

Anyway there were a few things i wasnt happy with and wanted to tidy up my mate who is a MSNZ scrutineer and i chatted for ages and nutted some stuff out.

 

Seats , I was never happy with the drivers side mounting and my mate confirmed it wasnt up to msnz standard so out with the old in with the new.

As it turned out this was part of a batch from autosport of kevlar seats that goot the FIA rating pulled as they reduced its strength in production leading to them having a tendency to snap in high impact obviously not ideal.... I scored a brand new racetech 4000W of the tard really really cheap so that's in it now i just cant find a photo.

 

Fuel Pump, It was sealed in a plastic container this was less than ideal it needed to be in a sealed metal one finding one at first that would fit was a challenge so i got creative.

 

Turns out the old Facet wasnt much longer for this world so i was donated a much better, quieter and newer pump

I also did a bunch of service and upgrade stuff in the engine bay.

 

New dizzy cap and rotor as mine were looking pretty sad 

Installed a new OBP catch can and Holley FPR with a gauge .

 

 

 

Fitted Dual return springs to the carb 

 

 

Next was onto the Battery i never liked the position of the old one as it was in the way for everything and i had no fusing at the battery end. I picked up a JMMS battery holder for a small battery and welded some 20x20 box to the body and high tensile nuts ect ect . Still needs some terminal protectors but its much better.

 The beefier ground and cables also helped with my slow starter id get from time to time 

 

 

Right onto this last month or so's project, I got my spare cam regrind by Franklin Cams after this I discovered to change said cam the head had to come off as they share bolts here is a photo montage of this, I got new gaskets and waterpump plus some hoses ect that were looking a bit rough and swapped it all out along with my spare thermostat housing as mine had gone porus and was seeping coolant.

 

 

 

 

Overall things were really clean and tidy and can definitely say its been rebuilt and the bottom end is 020 oversize and it hasn't done a lot of work and everything i was told when I brought it seems true. At this point I put the rocker assembly on to find things didn't fit the arms were not lining up with the lobes, After looking at my manual turns out they had put a B5 camshaft and rockers in ( this is a E5) as one is camchain and one is belt driven I didn't even know it would work now cue trying desperately to find the bits I need. A guy on facebook said he had a complete head from a turbo one but the head was cracked really bad the turbo heads are different but the rocker train is the same. Cam helped me out as i was a bit scetched out by the dude initially as you do on facebook saying he has the obscure bits you need. Cam got the bits paid the dude for me and sent it down, I swapped my cam caps and pedestals over and all was good again aside from having to tap all the jam nuts as they had been way over tightened and didn't move free on the adjuster.

 

Went to drain my oil to run the full zinc oil Franklin recommends for cam break in and find this !

 

Down to supercheap for a replacement! 

 

All went fine il pressure came up and we ran it up and reset the valve clearances ( ill put a video up) it sounds much snappier now than before. I need to put proper coolant back in and swap my old rad fan switch back in as the one in my spare housing isnt working.

 

Lastly I finally got a proper mount and cabled up my launch control button so its in a usable place.

 

 

 

Really needs to go on the dyno now so thats what im saving for.

 

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What else has been done to your engine ?