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December shaping up to be Starion Month so far, loving it
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This doesn't really belong here but not worth starting a new thread over:
I was wondering what the weights listed on the dataplate relate to?
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Looks like the previous owners left you a fine trove of treasures under the seats
I would recommend getting internal access to the upper firewall box section and have a real good look for rust around the base of the windscreen and the back side of the bonnet hinges... hope your machine had been garaged!
All that gadgetry in your centre console I believe is the VELNAS computer which is pretty retro chic
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sort of an update, more to show that I'm still alive. Maybe not for long, having inhaled a few cubic meters of bog dust over the last couple of months.
Caught up with the panelbeater as he had to weld up my other car to get it's WOF. I asked if he knew any good painters "sure I do, remember that Escort that was in my workshop? they just painted it, it came out absolutely awesome.... cost the guy about 12k if i recall"
So yeah I'll be handling the paint job at home. So i've been bogging and sanding and bogging and sanding and bogging and sanding and bogging and sanding and bogging and sanding and bogging and sanding and boggind and sanging sag broggin snd srntibafhfsda;lkjdj,ngbdk;ljhfad;lkjs,k
learned a lot of dumb and obvious lessons with bog (which I somehow hadn't clicked on to in my youth);
1. every little bit you put on, that you don't actually need, is going to have to come off again
2. just because you have some left over, doesn't mean there's still somewhere that needs that little more more added to it.
3. no the paint won't hide that
I also chassis black'd all the sills, front quarters under the guards, and in around the rear light recesses. I haven't really looked at the bonnet, guards or donor RH door, just been concentrating on the shell. It's all there, it's all straight... just there sure are a lot of little nicks and scratches when you start hunting for every single one of them.
my favourite pastime recently has been obsessing over this section just in front of the passenger rear wheel. There was a little patch of rust here which had cracked the paint, and the more i picked, the more came off, including over the ridge of the body line. So when I sanded it all back, the radius of the ridge was sharp in some places, and smoother in others. Then of course I started looking around all the other ridge lines on the car and could suddenly see where they'd been sanded back over the years for various repairs. So I spent a considerable amount of time shaping tiny ridges of bog to try and sharpen up the lines in a number of places.
Meanwhile everything that's going under the bodykit got a shrug and a scuff. pick your battles.
a while back I picked up a sweet tubular exhaust manifold to suit a sohc 4g63 (maybe off someone here?). but the turbine inlet port was too big for the teeny weeny starion turbo. likewise the stock downpipe is horrific and I wanted to replace it with something nicer, which would require porting the turbine housing of said teeny weeny turbo in order to make it worthwhile. So i said bugger it and bought a small 16g subie TD05H and lucky dip chinese pot metal ebay 8cm turbine housing that at least will match the manifold and downpipe. likewise the subie compressor housing isn't really suited for starion duty so that's another thing to go hunting for
Then I cleaned up the garage a bit because I'm fucking sick of bogging and sanding and would rather do literally anything else. cleaned out a whole nest of tail lights which had been breeding up in the back of the garage, yuck
The boss reckons we'll knock off for the year at the end of this week, so then I should have some time to get some actual progress made
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On 10/12/2020 at 07:39, tomble said:
Thanks for pointing this out. It shows for me until I open it in an incognito tab / new browser. I'll just host everything on imgur from now on. Try now!
Working now mate. I use Brave browser so the government cant beam thoughts into my head or something, I'd say that's what was causing the pics to not load
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Am I the only one not seeing some (but not all) of the pics posted by Tomble? In both this thread and the build thread itself?
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For all you dreamers out there. Sorry if its already been posted
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Ok swing and a miss from me sorry, just realized that none of my distributors have a vacuum advance unit
God there must be a million of them sitting in the back of various sheds
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My boss swears by jiff as a prep solution, he reckons it cleans the surface, decreases, and scores the surface to help the paint stick
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Hey, I spoke to you on the Starquest forums, just popping my head in. As I mentioned I have a couple of distributor carcasses on the shelf but still trying to work out if I can make a complete one
Also try Gumtree in Australia, pretty much their Trademe
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On 04/12/2020 at 21:11, tortron said:
I think the 'electric revolution' will restart some classic styled cars
cheap fuel, dont worry about aero (except for noise i guess) Theres a few quirky little around town designs
I think its safety standards as much as aero that's gimping car design (pedestrian safety too)
That new honda sports ev looks pretty cool though, too bad it's in concept car limbo
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Just a question for fun, has anyone tried using a stack of wheels with tyres as a roller?
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I wonder if he got it running... IIRC OS giken did some dohc heads, and ran a gear train up to the cams, to get around the chain/belt issues he described
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Are you supposed to do any further prep between priming and topcoat? I hear it should be wet sanded but I hear it needs to be scuffed but I hear to get a topcoat on before the primer is even dried....
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French "cars"
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26 minutes ago, tortron said:
if its very thick
if you are not using enough hardener
if its very cold
some bogs have noticeable shrinkback tho
hmm, in this case it's only a mm or two thick, not sure about the hardener but it's generally getting difficult to work with after 5-10 minutes so I wouldn't say I'm being overly stingy with the hardener. It's mid winter, but northland mid winter, so it's note what I'd call 'very cold'... I'm always willing to blame the product so maybe it's my Repco bog. If shrinkback is a thing, do you think I'm best to just let it mature for a few days before smithing it?
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Does bog actually take a few days to cure properly? I fill a ding, block sand it flat, but come back a few days later and i swear its shrunk down into the depression
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On 12/08/2020 at 11:16, Spencer said:
Yup as above. Strip disk and wire wheels, makes a huge mess and noise but it works.
Big fan of paint stripper on paint and then mild acids on rust just because no noise and dust. Although if you have 2k paint or thick primer etc the paint stripper will struggle. If you are lucky and it’s factory laquer or enamel it will jump off the car with fuck all work.
Not too sure what the paint was on my old Triumph but rather than blistering and falling off, the paint stripper just made it really really soft, it sortof just smeared around and then I was eventually able to clean the remnants off with MEK.. never had paint do that before
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Been a slow couple of months, lighting in the garage is garbage so doesn't exactly lend itself to crawling around an interior or doing paint prep, which is exactly what needs to be done
got all the heater doodads installed (and replaced the dreaded tiny water pipe that lives on the heater box, thanks to starquest forums for pointing that one out)
dashboard back in... not gonna lie, not every single nut and bolt made it back in. I call it "interior by Lotus". Previous owner fitted some swank white faced gauges... however I also have a prized '83 digital dashboard in the cupboard which is kinda tempting.
Windscreen back in and the engine and turbo back together, just the airbox left to go. Had so much fun routing allll the wiring back around the engine bay, gosh
I've just started scuffing the body back for painting but unfortunately only have a half-hour attention span before I start half assing any given job (ESPECIALLY) panel stuff, so it's slow going. At this point I also heard my son sitting in the Triumph shouting "sticky! sticky!" so had to hurriedly drop tools and intervene
Bonus question: what on earth do the weight numbers mean on the dataplate?
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The ad where they dug up a voice over guy with the most preposterously over the top gravelly tough guy voice made me cringe forever
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I'm putting the inlet manifold project on hold for now. I looked at my ridiculous stack up, adaptor plate, ca lower manifold, another adapter plate, quad throttles, then giant 4age plenum and realised it wasn't likely to clear the strut tower. I could try to bolt up a fwd ca upper manifold, but the money and time I'd spend on an aftermarket ecu and tuning would probably be enough to get the paint job finished, which is a higher priority
The 35 year old mitsi electronics will do what they do eventually, maybe I'll look at an upgrade then...
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2 hours ago, NickJ said:
If the idle does not increase momentarily when you push the nipple up that indicates toward a vacuum leak no?
I hadn't heard that one... interesting because my triumph is like that, I just assumed that it was in the ballpark at that point... seems to idle down low enough
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On 20/07/2020 at 22:00, yoeddynz said:
Nice funny write up. Made me giggle.
When the panel beater returned the car did he appear to have more grey hair than when he had when he took it away? He's done a neat job. You should be proud (in selecting him)
He was pretty upbeat about it actually, but perhaps that was because it was leaving. I protected his hard work last night by blasting two litres of LPS3 into it via a fogger gun, followed by a can of fish oil. Now the car has corrosion protection to rival a seaplane and smells like the business end of a wharf, just how I like 'em. I'll start putting the interior back together once the fish stank subsides
On 23/07/2020 at 15:46, ProZac said:The missus will be even more on side when you tell her you're heading out to the garage for some Dual Action Super Head.
I was wondering who picked this up, looks like it's in good hands! I've been doing a little bit of work on my Starion recently while waiting for bits for my truck, I really should make a thread about it.
I wrecked my last starion by being a young idiot, I'm keen as to make amends with this one. Keen to see build threads from you other starion owners, sounds like theres a few still kicking around
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another quiet enough day at work to get some stazzin' done. paintstripped the donor door, not a single spot of bog to be found, she's honest as. very happy about that. ground off a little bit of surface rust and converted the dregs, then a coat of filler primer which came out pretty good considering the 20 knot crosswind. I will have to bog up a couple of shopping trolley dents but otherwise it's all on track
the next thing to look at is the area around the wraparound rear spoiler - it'd been originally faired into the body with some substance which is absolutely fucking rock hard, and I think protruded a little too much too. I'm currently looking at not fairing the kit into the body - it makes removing anything down the line a shit as obviously everything cracks. So I'll have to chisel off all the shit that's on there to allow a really clean looking joint. thought about smoothing the spoiler in and leaving the skirts looking distinct but I'd rather keep it consistent, I dunno