jakesae101

On 2/28/2017 at 14:52, igor said:

Are fwd slippery diffs even a thing? Would be handy sometimes for off-road use.

you serious ? lots of toyota 4age and 3s powered had them both oem viscous and trd plate kazz plate ect plenty of fwds makes a massive difference 

I saw that I dont really understand people who do that it didn't sell so ill offer it to them for more !!

I have a first gen fwd 323 that I got in a rather sad state to get going again as a gravel car that's pretty much ready to rock now  , I also autox and track raced my ae92 gtz for a few years and did the odd gravel event in it easy platform lots of parts crossover ect relatively fast too with minimal modifications.

Holy fuck KK this thing is lush as, love the xe,xd coons 

Mate of mine had a lada sedan with a highly strung 2tg that he built as a club car was quite a weapon by all accounts.

So had a hankering lately of buying another bike as now they have put a time limit on licenses I thought I should look at getting my full. Anyway mostly uninspiring bikes turned up and they fetch quite good money still, always wanted a LS650 or S40 but you have to pay the high rego costs and its still slow for a 650. cue this thing popping up on the tard it's a bit rough around the edges but is a strong runner and has been repainted at some point.

The day before I was heading up to test ride and purchase I noticed a cycleworks pipe that would fit and asked the seller if he would do a buy now and he agreed , I went there first he was a bit of a LS barry and had seen the bike and exclaimed it was the worst that he has seen! Overall the bike isnt too bad but it needs alot of polishing of the brightwork and a few bits tidied up one thing that happened on the ride home was one of the forks seals started leaking but they pumped out quite a bit of dirt so im going to clean the seals out and see how it goes.

Also the speedo is hilariously out its at 85 on the speedo its doing 100 so might need to look at that but for now i'm unsure what im going to do with it other than ride it , The seat is quite uncomfortable and slopes down at the front too far this is a common complaint and most people fit the later S40 one piece seat or space up the front of the riders seat so im going to space it up and see how I go. 

be pretty sketchy to have them on a road car you would loose alot of protection from memory even race cars to run composite doors had to have a cage with side protection.

Not much else has been happening really purchased another better A frame from Crustywhip have been trying to get it ready for the first round of the sprint series next week but have fallen short with the car being ready but me not so much with $$$ a bit short currently i need to get new overalls and resit my license as I let it lapse a couple of years ago 

semi sorted my roof with some plastidip untill I can afford to get it properly done still a bit rough but it will do for now 

Got the missus to give it a good scrub up whilst I was repairing her new mazdas broken window motor gear came up looking semi respectable if you dont look too hard.

basically ready to run now probably needs a jam on a dyno at some point to fine tune and I need to make up a bashplate / underbody protection it came with some thin as alloy plate so hopefully iI can use that for a template.

I love my klien ones that i use for small stuff most electrical wholesalers sell them , Used and abused daily when I was on the tools  they are the smaller sized ones with blue handles.

let me know if you want a hand I can spare a few nights 

Right much like last year at christmas/ new years im getting stuck in after 4 days away over christmas i had to work 2 days before a 10 day holiday so.....

Thursday night i started to remove the box and swap over flywheel and jam a new clutch kit and rear main seal in whilst I had it all out to my surprise it has a puk clutch in it with a standard pressure plate the plates a worn ish so i chucked my new HD exedy clutch kit in.

all relatively painless turned a bit of 20x20 box into a flywheel holding tool a mate gave me a hand and all up it probably was abut 5-6 hours work , Certainly much easier than my ae92 

revs up pretty fast the new flywheel is less than half the weight of the old one bum dyno suggests its a bit faster and now the brakes work its less sketchy 

anywho todays job was tackling the last bit of known rust i cut it all out and patched it with the patch panel i had including patching up the chassis rail as it had rusted through both skins , all relatively painless skim coat of filler and some rust kill and underseal looks mint , with a authority card ect it would pass a wof now I hope.

from this 

to this 

truck bed liner stuff ive used looks shiny but will go matte when dry its a bit harder wearing than underseal  on gravel ive found and here's a short vid its quite revy now 

sooo stuff has been happening I moved out from UJs place into a place about 5 mins from home that I can have both cars in so cue moving cars and putting in storage ect.

so basically that has sapped alot of $$ however I did sell off a bunch of bits that allowed me to buy some stuff 

Randomly found this on yahoo Japan ummed and arrred about getting it then it became favorable $$ wise to bring it in its a 2.9kg chromoly flywheel (factory is 6.6kg im told) , And seeing as my clutch was almost at the end of its adjustment and the uptake was quite high I also purchased a new clutch kit and rear main seal.

Now last weekend when moving the car i noticed that the right rear drum was binding , now i never touched the rears because I didnt really want to mess with the drums but now had no choice i had suspected one wheel cyl was leaking anyway so I ordered new wheel cyls and had a set of new shoes in stock after buying them supercheap off trademe at the beginning of the year all up im about 45$ in as parts are super cheap.

Passengers side wheel cyl was stuck and not working at all and when I pulled the drivers side off the linings fell out they had come away from the shoes erm yea that will be that binding oh and the wheel cyl  was a bit stuck and leaking. Didnt get snap a photo stupidly of new gears in and just after I finished bleeding them the Coastguard pager went off so I haven't had a chance to road test it yet put pedal feel is much better.

Ive signed up for the gravel sprint series next year so just need to do the following over christmas

Patch rust in passengers side inner guard 

Replace flywheel , clutch and rear main seal

Replace torn outer cv boot 

weld in o2 bung into exhaust and check afrs 

waterblast the massive amounts of dirt out of the wheel arches and rear suspension

probably wont be road legal for the first round but wont be far off 

Ah yes of course

 

Captain always blown motor.

captan way too much boost on a unknown factory motor he had a good motor that lasted years then broke so hes been jamming a few stockers of poor ish quality , he has a really nice engine that hes building thats forged, stroked and dry sumped that should do the job nicely when he finaly puts it in. Hes too busy building the twin engined turbo starlet lately.

nope webster.

One of those would be a handful with a ca18det underhood. Unhuman has one I beleive. They reckon those turbo starlets are a deathtrap. A turbo pulsar would be worse

 

 Guy in the car club here has a turbo starlet putting out just over 200kw its fairly scary to sit in the passengers seat from first hand experience he pedals its quite well however.

It's possible they do not have them but you can get kits with a selection for a set of twins from other places

You can also buy sets there im fairly sure that give you a good selection to play with

I used dellorto.co.uk for mine half the price i could get them here and were here in less than a week top service

I think i have a manual for one of these somewhere for when i had my 250n if i find it you can have it if you want.

saw a old dennis here used as a work truck for some road works shit it looks sweet, Love the old bricks they had a mitsi at the brigade here as a relief truck an old mitsi foiled a few with that extra pedal. still better than the fire service LRV it was place holding whilst it was being repaired.

voldo are you making the cams for yourself these days? might hit you up at the beginning of next year for a custom rally cam for my mazda.

Ive used autometer ultralite for years and put then in the rally car nothing bad to say about them

isnt gt refinishers supposed to be quite good in akl?

13s are probably no go now running bigger brakes 14s just fit now i have some 14 inch tyres but dont know how good they will be now